In personal brand news: Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch is trademarking his famous “I’m just here so I won’t get fined” phrase he repeatedly uttered to members of the media during this year’s Super Bowl. The sports star will make money off of the saying and according to ESPN’s Darren Rovell, “It will appear on…

There are only a few hours left to donate to the Exploding Kittens card game Kickstarter created by Elan Lee, Shane Small and Seattle cartoonist and founder of The Oatmeal comics Matthew Inman. The 56-card game is dubbed as a “highly strategic, kitty-powered version of Russian Roulette,” in which players try to avoid drawing an…

Did you feel the Earth move under your feet early this morning? A 4.3-magnitude earthquake shook central Washington at 1:04 a.m., “about 20 miles north of Ellensburg and 10 miles northeast of Cle Elum,” the Associated Press reports. There were no reports of damage or injuries. Now that real estate websites Zillow and Trulia have…

Why wasn’t I made aware of this “search for astronauts” that Dutch nonprofit Mars One began in 2013? One Seattle man was privy to it and so far he’s made the cut, topping the group’s list of 100 people (narrowed down from 200,000) who might one day leave Earth and head to Mars. King 5…

A Queen Anne apartment building has experienced a bit of mayhem throughout the last few months. A thief broke in Sunday morning after he pried the building’s front door open and stole tools from a storage closet and (ew) rummaged through people’s laundry in the laundry room. In late December, a woman was caught on…

Did you win the $564M Powerball jackpot? Of course you didn’t. If you’re scrolling through Twitter or checking your emails while driving right now in Washington, that’s not illegal. But recently a bill that was proposed would expand the existing law (texting while driving) to make surfing on the web while driving illegal and increase…

Stranger Than Fiction (2006) Will Ferrell stars as ordinary IRS agent Harold Crick who begins to hear a woman’s voice narrating the minutiae of his life. Upon hearing the narrator utter this gem of a soundbite, “Little did he know that events had been set in motion that would lead to his imminent death,” he seeks…

Rather than go under the knife, Seahawks’ cornerback Richard Sherman plans to let his elbow heal. The NFL star tore ligaments in his left elbow during the NFC Championship game against the Green Bay Packers. It was said he’d need Tommy John surgery, which is commonly associated with baseball pitchers. If you’re guilty of allowing…

Another day, another Fifty Shades of Grey-related story: This time, someone posted an Airbnb listing for a condo rental in the Escala, fictional home to none other than Christian Grey, the novel’s steamy hero. Curbed Seattle reports the listing offered up “the chance to live in a 1-BR condo in ‘the sexiest building in the…

Rain, rain go away. No really, go away. Today’s rain is just the initial blast of wet weather that we’ll be seeing over the next five days. Get ready for even more storms. According to King 5 meteorologist Rich Marriott, “the rain will be heavy Thursday morning,” and then after a midday reprieve, it will…