What comes in a box?
Dude! Fucking freaky. We gonna have to go reeeeal slow to make sure we don't miss even one of the many, many sinister and hilarious implications of this book.
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The worst waiter in Seattle
Customer: I know the owner. You're in big trouble.
Me: Fuck you.
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Which religion is best?
Let's put aside all those subtleties from our Comparative Religion program and settle this fucker once and for all.
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Book reviews in pairs for the Seattle Weekly:
Two conspiracy books
Two Iraq books
Two Antarctica books
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Our shit-list
Now that we've compiled it, will there peace in our hearts? Can we can now stop thinking about these nine items?
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When bad
haiku happens to bad people
Our man loses his composure in the face of poetry in public places.
The peanut gallery ponders his hidden motives. An apology in
the form of a diatribe.
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On O'Malley sucking
Turned out he was right: As we rode our bikes over the bridges of Hiroshima, it did indeed seem that everything had a ringing clarity unlike what you usually get with booze.
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Celebrities I have waited on
Kenny G was a poor lonely bastard trying to be a nice guy, Dave Grohl was a genuinely nice guy, and Dick Cavett was the biggest prick I ever met. |
300 dresses and parties every night
Even though Cinderella was rich, had a handsome husband, and could be as mean as she wanted to her step-sisters, she was starting to get bored.
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Ugly, drunken rants about various NPR programs
I do love Terry Gross though. Really.
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Is it okay to hate Dale Chihuly?
Members of Seattle's arts community have some bitchy things to say about the eye-patched one, and a former employee raises the curtain on Chihuly, Inc.
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Dread and whimsy: The drawings of Elizabeth Jameson
With a few deft gestures, this artist renders a dreamlike world of fashion and self-repression.
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The Onion observed
The Onion is funny, but how does it look from the point of view of a bitter freelance writer? Not that we know anyone like that. (See the real Onion here.)
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A new, impossible horizon: The art of Jon Meyer
Jon Meyer's doctored photos, poised between clarity and confusion, compel extended staring and a pleasing bafflement.
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McSweeneys.net: when good design goes bad
The layout of this well-known literary site goes for sheer simplicity. We have some problems with that. (Those unfamiliar with McSweeney's may wish to first
check it out.)
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Mt. Index Cafe pie story
By JIM HEARSEY
The story of an unlikely encounter in the backwoods of Washington state. With a great punch line.
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Fabulous book cover of the month