10 Illuminating Things from the Weekend (Post-Vacation Backlog Edition)

If this doesn't inspire you to read the magazine story, "Team Quileute" this month, I don't know what will.

1. Cape Disappointment lives up to its name.

2. Chaos theory strikes again: no matter how hard you work to play all hip music at your wedding, somehow the “Chicken Dance” will find a way.

More illumination after the jump.

3. Getting your picture taken in front of the “Welcome to Forks” sign feels less funny when you have to wait in line behind hoards of “tweens” who are all doing the same thing — with only a little less irony than you.

4. Similarly, a hoard of hungry ducks surrounding your canoe is more intimidating than you think.

5. The failsafe winning blow in movie-title charades is Philadelphia (use this wisdom sparingly).

6. Nobody in Ballard eats at Azteca, despite its sunny patio and all-day Sunday happy hour. What does everyone know that I don’t?

7. Being Texan does not make you impervious to heat stroke. Dang.

8. It is crucial to not mix up the word sequence in the title Eat Pray Love – otherwise, you’re talking about a horse of a completely different color.

9.  French manicures are a lot like the chewing gum wall in Post Alley: pretty from a far away glance, but kind of horrible up close...

10. Even Q13 news anchors need to “get down” Baranof-style sometimes. I won’t name names. But you know you who are. And my answer is “yes”: I’ll take your hand and we’ll make it, I swear.