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• Savage Love Letters of the Day: You've Got Hate Mail

  25-03-2015 23:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Can you PLEASE describe life with Terry? Because I want to hear from the gay horse's mouth directly that ingesting your "husband's" feces on a regular "monogamish" basis is really what you meant by "it gets better."
  The good news is that your pretend gay "marriage" has no legitimate legacy. Once you and Terry are gone who is going to care about remembering that two very damaged men played pretend house for a few decades and brought a child into the mix to make the adults feel more secure about t
  
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• Midday Veil Releasing New LP This Wilderness on Brooklyn Label Beyond Beyond Is Beyond

  25-03-2015 22:52 via thestranger.com
  
  Midday Veil's forthcoming album has found an apt home with psychedelically inclined Brooklyn indie Beyond Beyond Is Beyond.
  The prodigiously talented Seattle rock group Midday Veil will be releasing their third album proper, This Wilderness, on Brooklyn indie label Beyond Beyond Is Beyond this summer on LP/CD/MP3. Produced at Avast! Recording Co. by Randall Dunn—who also worked on Midday Veil's excellent 2013 LP The Current—This Wilderness includes an incredible cast of guest musicia
  
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• An I Love TV™ Classic™ Column™... About Nipples!

  25-03-2015 22:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Tom Welling is like 34 years old now (!!!), and his nips look like shit.
  Hey guys! I'm on vacation this week, so please enjoy this I Love Television™ classic from 2011, in which I talk waaaay too much about my nipples. Good luck! —Humpy
  In a week filled with crappy season finales, there's one TV show I hate—yet "hate" to see go. Yes, this week brings the final episode EVER of Smallville [which in 2015, you can watch on iTunes]. As a young TV columnist, I grew up with this hilar
  
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• Eight Photos from Yesterday's Port Meeting Protests

  25-03-2015 22:00 via thestranger.com
  
  You can listen to the full meeting here. (Click on the audio tab.) Alex Garland
  It began, as all port commission meetings do, with a pledge of allegiance. Alex Garland
  And proceeded to more public testimony against parking Shell's Arctic drilling fleet at the port's Terminal 5. Alex GarlandPlus some testimony in favor of the Shell deal. Alex Garland
  Olivia One Feather, a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and Hunkpapa Lakota, said she was speaking for Mother Earth. "It's time for you to sta
  
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• McEnroe guilty of murdering family of 6 on Christmas Eve

  25-03-2015 21:59
  
  Joseph McEnroe could face the death penalty after he was found guilty Wednesday of first-degree aggravated murder in the deaths of six members of a family in rural Carnation on Christmas Eve 2007.
  
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• Take Your Burning Rage from Yesterday's Traffic Mess and Fire It Toward Olympia

  25-03-2015 21:24 via thestranger.com
  
  This was Seattle traffic yesterday. The red equals stop-and-go misery. It was like this for hours.SDOT
  Well, that was fun, wasn't it? Here's the Seattle Times on yesterday's traffic clusterfishfuck:
  A semitruck carrying a load of salmon overturned and blocked all southbound lanes of the Alaskan Way Viaduct on Tuesday afternoon, causing rush-hour gridlock and hourslong commutes throughout the city.
  The traffic was terrifically, tragi-comically bad: People abandoned their cars for bike share and
  
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• March into APRIL: A User's Guide to the 2015 Authors, Publishers, and Readers of Independent Literature Festival

  25-03-2015 21:00 via thestranger.com
  
  This year's lineup for the APRIL (Authors, Publishers, and Readers of Independent Literature) Festival is enticing, and larded with local talent. But before we go any further, do yourself a favor: Find $30 and hide it from yourself. DO NOT TOUCH THIS MONEY.
  Wednesday, March 25
  Happy Hour: Vermillion, 5:30 pm
  Since Poetry Northwest is providing the evening's lineup, you can expect high-caliber poetry with a slightly scientific bent. Plan to lose your lonely in the wordplay of Thomas Walton and K
  
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• Seattle police reviewing response to overturned fish truck, gridlock

  25-03-2015 20:52
  
  An overturned semitruck on the Alaskan Way Viaduct blocked traffic for about nine hours and caused traffic delays throughout the Seattle area.
  
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• New Report Finds Slave-Caught Fish Permeate US Seafood Supply

  25-03-2015 20:40 via thestranger.com
  
  I haven't seen Thai prawns for sale at a QFC since the slavery story broke last June. But according to a new investigation, slavery isn't limited to prawns. Brendan Kiley
  Remember the Thai slavery story last June? A Guardian investigation found that ships used catch fish, which were then used to feed farmed prawns, were crewed by Burmese slaves who were sometimes beaten or killed and tossed overboard. (The boat captains, the story reported, were far more concerned about the wellbeing of the valu
  
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• Overturned fish truck on viaduct ‘ruined everyone’s day’

  25-03-2015 20:23
  
  An overturned semitruck on the Alaskan Way Viaduct blocked traffic for about nine hours and caused traffic delays throughout the Seattle area.
  
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• Legislature OKs bill paving way for WSU medical school

  25-03-2015 20:16
  The Legislature has passed a bill that opens the door for a new Washington State University medical school in Spokane, but the bill doesn’t appropriate any state funding for the school.
  
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• Senate Democrats seek tougher federal rules for oil trains

  25-03-2015 20:14
  Senate Democrats have proposed federal legislation to strengthen safety standards for trains that carry volatile shipments of crude oil.
  
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• Joe McEnroe convicted of murdering 6 in Carnation

  25-03-2015 19:32
  
  ury reaches verdict in Carnation murder trial
  
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• Cars damaged by plastic wrap stretched across I-90

  25-03-2015 18:56
  
  Cars damaged by plastic wrap stretched across I-90
  
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• Crappy Frats, Creepy Racial Outreach, and the Transformation of Suge Knight into a Collapsing Crybaby

  25-03-2015 18:00 via thestranger.com
  
  "Trust me. I'm almost as ethical as I am heterosexual."
  MONDAY, MARCH 16 This week of crappy frats, creepy racial outreach, and the wholesale transformation of Marion "Suge" Knight from a notoriously violent rap mogul into a continuously collapsing crybaby kicks off in the world of professional American football, which today was rocked by an abrupt resignation. The abrupt resigner: Chris Borland, a 24-year-old linebacker for the San Francisco 49ers, who announced he's leaving pro football—
  
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• What Do Plastic Bags Want to Tell Their Makers?

  25-03-2015 17:49 via thestranger.com
  
  This plastic bag wants to tell its maker, a New Yorker, something. Anna May Dutton
  A passage in Timothy Morton's Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology After the End of the World recently lead to my discovery of Ramin Bahrani's masterpiece "Plastic Bag," a short film that features a narration by what has to be Germany's greatest contribution to the resources of the English language, Werner Herzog's distinct voice and style.As a work of philosophy, I rate Hyperobjects as second in importance only t
  
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• Man who subdued gunman on SPU campus receiving national honor

  25-03-2015 17:31
  
  Man who subdued gunman on SPU campus receives honor
  
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• The Morning News: Protesters Pack the Port and Win Concessions on Shell Deal, Police Arrest Donut Shop Robbery Suspect

  25-03-2015 16:56 via thestranger.com
  
  The #IdleNoMore movement's Olivia One Feather confronts Port of Seattle commissioners during a hearing on Tuesday.Alex Garland
  Protesters Packed the Port Again Yesterday: After almost two hours of public testimony, port commissioners didn't cancel the lease to host Shell's Arctic oil-drilling rig, but they did "make it harder for Shell Oil to use the Port of Seattle's Terminal 5 beyond the two-year term of the lease the port approved in January," KUOW reports. "Under the measure approved Tuesda
  
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• Morning News: Protesters Pack the Port and Win Concessions on Shell Deal, Police Arrest Donut Shop Robbery Suspect

  25-03-2015 16:56 via thestranger.com
  
  The #IdleNoMore movement's Olivia One Feather confronts Port of Seattle commissioners during a hearing on Tuesday.Alex Garland
  Protesters Packed the Port Again Yesterday: After almost two hours of public testimony, Port commissioners didn't cancel the lease to host Shell's Arctic oil-drilling rig, but they did "make it harder for Shell Oil to use the Port of Seattle's Terminal 5 beyond the two-year term of the lease the port approved in January," KUOW reports. "Under the measure approved Tuesda
  
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• Washington Fire Chiefs Demand Transparency on Crude Oil Trains

  25-03-2015 16:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Wayne Senter, executive director of the group Washington Fire Chiefs, has asked that the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railway company reveal info about its crude oil routes by the end of next week.dragunov/Shutterstock
  Earlier this month, the head of a membership group representing firefighting agencies across the state wrote to the CEO of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railway company, demanding that it turn over information it has previously avoided sharing on crude oil shipments through the
  
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• Pizza deliveryman says he was assaulted with bear spray

  25-03-2015 15:39
  
  Pizza deliveryman says he was assaulted with bear spray
  
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• Community fighting crime, drugs in problem parks with yoga, activities

  25-03-2015 15:29
  
  Community fighting crime, drugs in problem parks with yoga, activities
  
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• After traffic nightmare, drivers fear same during planned Alaskan Way Viaduct closures

  25-03-2015 15:01
  
  After traffic nightmare, drivers fear same during planned Alaskan Way Viaduct closures
  
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• VOTE: What Should I Wear to Sakura-Con?

  25-03-2015 14:00 via thestranger.com
  
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• Video study shows distracted teenage drivers much worse than thought

  25-03-2015 13:57
  
  Video study shows distracted teen drivers much worse than thought
  
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• Video study shows distracted teen drivers much worse than thought

  25-03-2015 13:57
  
  Video study shows distracted teen drivers much worse than thought
  
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• Toppled fish truck makes a stinker of a commute Tuesday night

  25-03-2015 13:44
  
  When an overturned truck blocked Highway 99 southbound, the evening commute in downtown Seattle was gridlocked.
  
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• The worlds of J.D. Salinger or Jonathan Safran Foer Meet in Like Sunday, Like Rain

  25-03-2015 12:00 via thestranger.com
  
  The worlds of J.D. Salinger or Jonathan Safran Foer Meet in Like Sunday, Like Rainby Kathy FennessyActor-turned-director Frank Whaley’s fourth feature is one of those low-budget chamber pieces—the title comes from a composition for string quartet—that plays more like a short story than a film.Jonathan Nossiter made a virtue out of that brand of minimalism with 1997’s Sunday, in which David Suchet and Lisa Harrow match each other measure for measure. But Like Sunday, Like Rain centers on
  
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• The Worlds of J.D. Salinger and Jonathan Safran Foer Meet in Like Sunday, Like Rain

  25-03-2015 12:00 via thestranger.com
  
  The Worlds of J.D. Salinger and Jonathan Safran Foer Meet in Like Sunday, Like Rainby Kathy FennessyActor-turned-director Frank Whaley’s fourth feature is one of those low-budget chamber pieces—the title comes from a composition for string quartet—that plays more like a short story than a film.Jonathan Nossiter made a virtue out of that brand of minimalism with 1997’s Sunday, in which David Suchet and Lisa Harrow match each other measure for measure. But Like Sunday, Like Rain centers on
  
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• The Movie That Gave the Scottish Band Belle and Sebastian Its Name Has Dead Animals and Drunk Grandfathers

  25-03-2015 12:00 via thestranger.com
  
  The Movie That Gave the Scottish Band Belle and Sebastian Its Name Has Dead Animals and Drunk Grandfathersby Kathy FennessyThe Scottish pop band Belle and Sebastian took their name from the title characters of this film, the boy and his dog featured in Cécile Aubry’s 1965 book (which previously spawned a live-action movie and anime series).Much like Heidi, the chipper girl from the Swiss Alps, 6-year-old Sébastian (Félix Bossuet) lives with his grandfather (a very good Tchéky Karyo) in the
  
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• Sabbatical Is a Slow and Somber Feature Film That Has One Major Flaw

  25-03-2015 12:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Sabbatical Is a Slow and Somber Feature Film That Has One Major Flawby Charles MudedeSorry to be this picky, but my one and only gripe with Brandon Colvin’s slow and sparse feature Sabbatical is that the main character, Ben Hardin (Robert Longstreet), is a Kierkegaard scholar but in no way behaves like a Kierkegaardian.Hardin’s whole mood—his reticence, the way he sinks deep into thought anywhere (a hardware store or before a graveyard), his oracular inwardness—is much more in character
  
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• Merchants of Doubt Is an Anatomy Lesson in Uncertainty Campaigns

  25-03-2015 12:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Merchants of Doubt Is an Anatomy Lesson in Uncertainty Campaignsby Brendan KileyBack around 2003, three years before An Inconvenient Truth, Harvard geoscientist and historian of science Naomi Oreskes asked a question about climate change. Whenever it was publicly discussed, some politician or “expert” invariably materialized, claiming there was no “scientific consensus” on the subject—was that true? After reviewing 928 abstracts published in peer-reviewed journals between 1993 and 2003
  
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• Get Hard Feels Like an Instant Comedy

  25-03-2015 12:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Get Hard Feels Like an Instant Comedyby Robert HamWill Ferrell vehicles have become the most boring Choose Your Own Adventure stories ever. You're essentially given two options: Follow a bloviating egotist cut down to size via failure and physical abuse, or follow a nebbish gent forced to grow a sack via failure and physical abuse. Pick a path, throw in some gay panic and jokey cultural insensitivity, and voila: instant comedy.Ferrell opts for the second option in Get Hard, playing a nebbish fin
  
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• Everyone Sees Through You

  25-03-2015 06:34 via thestranger.com
  
  Everyone Sees Through You: A Movie-Star-Handsome Man in His 50s
  
  by Sheila Heti
  
  
  
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  Santiago is a movie-star-handsome man in his 50s. Women fall for him easily, want to be with him, sleep with him. Men, too. He has been offered money for sex (he has never taken it) and has had far more sexual partners than he can count. He was a drug addict for many years, and suicidal during the worst of it. Perhaps
  
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• Time to put brakes on car habit in South Lake Union

  25-03-2015 06:31
  Kicking cars out of some street lanes in Seattle’s boomiest neighborhood may seem radical. But working there is enough to convince you something’s got to give.
  
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• Spring cleaning at Safeco Field

  25-03-2015 06:16
  
  Before the Mariners take the field for Opening Day on April 6, the 1,000-bat chandelier/artwork at the stadium’s main entrance gets a sprucing up.
  
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• Arrest made in King Donuts attack

  25-03-2015 05:46
  
  Seattle police on Tuesday arrested a man they suspect was involved in the assault and robbery of the founders of a popular Rainier Beach restaurant and laundromat.
  
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• GOP renews calls for state auditor to take a leave

  25-03-2015 05:31
  Republican leaders in the Washington Legislature have called on state Auditor Troy Kelley, a Democrat, to take a leave of absence during a federal investigation that led to searches of his home and office.
  
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• About 20,000 sign in favor of teacher-evaluation bill

  25-03-2015 05:16
  
  Parents delivered a petition to legislative leaders in Olympia on Tuesday supporting a bill that would require student scores on state tests to be used in evaluating teachers.
  
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• ‘Angelina effect,’ again? Star’s candor boosts awareness, cancer experts say

  25-03-2015 05:01
  
  Actress Angelina Jolie’s willingness to talk about her preventive cancer surgeries raises awareness about genetic risk and options, Seattle medical experts say.
  
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• Lynn Shelton's New Project Is Set in Seattle. She Can't Shoot It Here.

  25-03-2015 04:46 via thestranger.com
  
  Lynn Shelton's New Project Is Set in Seattle, but She Can't Shoot It Here—How Olympia Is Killing the WA Film Industry
  
  by Charles Mudede
  
  
  
  It's Sunday and I'm sitting with the area's most prominent film director, Lynn Shelton, on the patio at the back of Saint John's Bar & Eatery. She has just returned from LA, where she and another prominent local director, Megan Griffiths, pitched a TV series idea to a
  
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• Former SPD assistant chiefs are reassigned

  25-03-2015 04:46
  After a recent shake-up in the Seattle Police Department’s top command, four recently demoted assistant chiefs have been handed other assignments.
  
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• Young Thug Is the Most Exciting New Voice in Hiphop

  25-03-2015 02:45 via thestranger.com
  
  Young Thug Is the Most Exciting New Voice in Hiphop, So Enough Hand-Wringing About His Dumb Name Already
  
  by Kyle Fleck
  
  
  
  Much has been made of Young Thug's chosen alias: Is the rapper's handle ironic, sincere, or simply the first face-palm-obvious thing that popped into 22-year-old Jeffrey Williams's head? The name is just one piece of the puzzle that makes up the breakout Atlanta star, whose off-the-wall squawk
  
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• What's Seattle's Spiciest Dish?

  25-03-2015 02:45 via thestranger.com
  
  In a City Full of Spice Wimps, Searching for Seattle's Spiciest Dish
  
  by Naomi Tomky
  
  
  
  For those who love spicy food, Seattle can be a tough place to live. Perhaps it's the city's Scandinavian roots, or maybe the lack of diversity, but for whatever reason, it's very difficult to find a truly spicy dish. Sure, there are plenty of places where one can administer tongue-searing condiments: the salsas at El Paisano Ro
  
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• Port Commissioner Bill Bryant's Mitt Romney Moment May Cost Him

  25-03-2015 02:45 via thestranger.com
  
  Port Commissioner Bill Bryant's Mitt Romney Moment May Cost Him
  
  by Sydney Brownstone
  
  
  
  On March 22, The Stranger posted leaked audio of a talk Port of Seattle commissioner Bill Bryant had given three days earlier at an Evergreen Republican Women's Club meeting in Everett. When one audience member asked Bryant about the port's controversial decision to host Shell's Arctic drilling fleet in Seattle, he mocked Seatt
  
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• March into APRIL

  25-03-2015 02:45 via thestranger.com
  
  March into APRIL: A User's Guide to the 2015 Authors, Publishers, and Readers of Independent Literature Festival
  
  by Rich Smith
  
  
  
  This year's lineup for the APRIL (Authors, Publishers, and Readers of Independent Literature) Festival is enticing, and larded with local talent. But before we go any further, do yourself a favor: Find $30 and hide it from yourself. DO NOT TOUCH THIS MONEY.
  
  Wednesday, March 25
  
  Happy H
  
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• Lynn Shelton's New HBO Series Is Set in Seattle. She Can't Shoot It Here.

  25-03-2015 02:45 via thestranger.com
  
  Lynn Shelton's New HBO Show Is Set in Seattle, but She Can't Shoot It Here—How Olympia Is Killing the WA Film Industry
  
  by Charles Mudede
  
  
  
  It's Sunday and I'm sitting with the area's most prominent film director, Lynn Shelton, on the patio at the back of Saint John's Bar & Eatery. She has just returned from LA, where she and another prominent local director, Megan Griffiths, pitched a TV series idea to
  
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• Is Seattle Ready to Enforce Its New Minimum-Wage Law?

  25-03-2015 02:45 via thestranger.com
  
  Is Seattle Ready to Enforce Its New Minimum-Wage Law?
  
  by Heidi Groover
  
  
  
  Depending on where you work, come Saturday, March 28, Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant and other labor activists might enter your workplace, hand you a flyer, and tell you that you deserve a raise. If you don't get a raise, they'll say something like "Call the number on this flyer."
  
  This is what the next phase of the campaign for S
  
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• Indie Rock, Superhero Comics, and Death Pave the Road to Lizard Boy

  25-03-2015 02:45 via thestranger.com
  
  Indie Rock, Superhero Comics, and Death Pave the Road to Lizard Boy, the Seattle Rep's New Musical-That's-Not-a-Musical
  
  by Brendan Kiley
  
  
  
  Lizard Boy, the new musical-that's-not-a-musical at Seattle Repertory Theatre, begins humbly, as all epic fables must. Luke Skywalker was a farm boy, Bilbo Baggins was a homebody, Jesus Christ was the son of a carpenter, and Trevor—"the Lizard Boy of Point Defiance"&mdas
  
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• Imagery in Three Dimensions—You Are Not Dead Author Wendy Xu on Visual Artists Transforming Her Poems into Objects

  25-03-2015 02:45 via thestranger.com
  
  Imagery in Three Dimensions—You Are Not Dead Author Wendy Xu on Artists Transforming Her Poems into Objects
  
  by Rich Smith
  
  
  
  Technically, no. You're not dead. But when the universe keeps singling you out for history's greatest disasters, it's nice to be reminded that the bright corners of the human imagination have the power to prevail over the mono-cloud overhead. Wendy Xu's book of poems, You Are Not Dead,
  
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