Blog Profile / Slog
| URL : | http://slog.thestranger.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | United States / Seattle | |
| Posts on Regator: | 62209 | |
| Posts / Week: | 227.5 | |
| Archived Since: | March 23, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
The Sunday Morning News
Posted by news intern Callan Berry Pennsylvania's Priorities May Need Retooling: This week, after laying off thousands of Philadelphia teachers and other school employees (claiming budget concerns), the state of Pennsylvania has wrangled...Show More Summary
Slog Bible Study: Leviticus 20:9
Leviticus 20:9For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.Happy Goddamn Father's Day. And discuss. [ Comment on this story ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
Dispatch from Istanbul: What to Do Next?
(The author is a Seattle native who moved to Istanbul in January of 2006. This is his fifth posting; find all of his reports on his author page.)
Mid-day Wednesday, after Taksim was again inundated with gas Tuesday night, the remaining...Show More Summary
You Know It's Summer in Seattle When You See This Guy
Fedora el Morro Click the photo to see more from last weekend's Georgetown Carnival!
Today in the Surveillance State: The "War on Reality"
This NYT essay by Peter Ludlow—a professor of philosophy at Northwestern University and a specialist on ethics and hacktivism—is great stuff that goes a step beyond the NSA revelations and concentrates on private security companies and...Show More Summary
The Best of Slog: Maybe Don't Kill Anyone, Okay?
Things Seem to Be Getting Worse: Our Istanbul correspondent wrote two reports for Slog this week. The first one was about getting used to the new normal after the protesters took over Taksim Square, and the second was about what happened...Show More Summary
Science Friday with "Mayor McScwhinn"
So I downloaded this week's podcast of Science Friday (yes, I'm that kind of geek), and what did I find but an interview about climate change with "Mayor McSchwinn." Apparently, Ira Flatow broadcast live yesterday from the Pacific Science Center. Cool. Show More Summary
The Great 30-Year Story of a Great Seattle Artist Opens Today: JOIN ME
Courtesy the artist and the Frye Art Museum
That's the Seattle artist Buster Simpson back in the day, in 1970s Belltown. He was camping out in a crows' nest he made, trying to save a cherry tree from developers.
Simpson is the original environmental artist. Show More Summary
The Saturday Morning News
Posted by news intern Ansel Herz And So It Begins: Lawyers for Terrence Brown, accused of robbing a bank in South Florida, want the NSA to turn over mobile phone surveillance records to help them prove his innocence. Vladimir Putin Says...Show More Summary
Foie Gras Tastes Like Cat Food
Posted by news intern Callan Berry
Lemmie start off with a little preamble: Morality is a fucker.
This week, animal-rights group Mercy For Animals targeted Amazon for selling foie gras, the french dish of fattened duck or goose liver. Show More Summary
Closure, Celebration, Moving On: Café Racer’s Bat Country’s Last Hurrah
Courtesy Bat Country "This album has become something between a beautiful baby to deliver and a demon to exorcise."
Bat Country’s album-release/last hurrah is tomorrow at Columbia City Theater. With the Mongrel Jews, Hounds of the Wild Hunt, Bakelite 78, and Jason Webley. Show More Summary
Maybe the Mayoral Candidates Should Just Get Out of the Way and Let Their Consultants Duke It Out by Themselves?
I got into a little Twitter feud this morning with my friend, former Stranger writer and current Ed Murray campaign spokesman flack consultant Sandeep Kaushik. First Sandeep tweeted out the familiar Mike McGinn is an unlikable hothead...Show More Summary
Go Read This Loooong, Gooood Patton Oswalt Piece on Joke Theft, Rape Jokes, and Heckling
Patton Oswalt has written a very long, very measured, and very interesting thought piece that explores several very touchy aspects of comedy, including joke thievery among comedians, the public's dismissive attitude towards humor as intellectual property, the nature of rape jokes, and heckling. Show More Summary
Stuff Your Face and Get Pleasantly Addled All Weekend!
• Friday night, don your thrift-store finery and get silly at Seattle Greendrinks' 10th birthday party with a silent disco dance party and drinks (in your own reusable cup, of course). • On Saturday, it's the PROOF Washington Distillers...Show More Summary
Someone Is Selling Pork-Infused Bullets to "Deter Islamists from Martyrdom"
This is one of the more awful things I've read today: In a column at conspiracy website WND, gun activist Jeff Knox is promoting a company that sells bullets coated with "pork-infused paint" that are theoretically designed to "deterShow More Summary
Ye Olde Wordes
Ever wonder where the hell "short shrift" comes from? Or "just deserts"? Interesting stuff here: 12 Old Words That Survived by Getting Fossilized in Idioms [ Comment on this story ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
What Do You Think of Mega Tickets?
Paramount announced a test program for select theaters in Pennsylvania, California, Texas, and Georgia: For $50, you can buy a "mega ticket" to World War Z. According to JoBlo, a mega ticket involves: -One (1) adult admission ticketShow More Summary
Currently Hanging: Allyce Wood's Breakthrough Show
Courtesy of the artist Ornament, watercolor on paper, 2013, by Allyce Wood. She based the image on a "funghal harvest."
In Allyce Wood's new drawings, the world has run dry. Everything seems like a husk of itself. Harvests are fibrous and striated, like precise medical drawings of muscles, tendons, bones. Show More Summary
Council President Sally Clark Introduces an Emergency Half-Million-Dollar Bill to Move All of Nickelsville into Other Shelter or Housing
City council just released its calendar for Monday's meeting, and on it is this council bill, from Council President Clark: AN ORDINANCE authorizing the Human Services Department to enter into a contract with a non-profit organization...Show More Summary
Well, If Franzen Says So, It Must Be True
Hey everyone, chill out: Jonathan Franzen says sexism isn't really much of a problem in the publishing world anymore. Glad that's settled! [ Comment on this story ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]