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• Hanna Benn Plots Her Next Artistic Move—Outside of Seattle

  17-06-2015 23:32 via thestranger.com
  
  Benn—who's leaving Seattle for a spell—could be the American Björk.
  Renowned for her rich, expressive singing, guitar playing, and arrangement skills with the polyrhythmic and melodious avant-rock band Pollens—and for her contributions to the choral ensemble the Esoterics—Hanna Benn has been an exciting creative force within Seattle’s pop and underground scenes for many years. Now, she's planning to leave the city and temporarily relocate to her hometown of Ind
  
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• My Philosophy: Cannonballs and Bullets

  17-06-2015 23:04 via thestranger.com
  
  Jedi Mind Tricks are playing the Crocodile with Ripynt & Carl Roe and Black Magic Noize.
  Let's dive right in. All the hiphop is happening on Saturday, June 20, so choose your own adventure. For starters, new jack old soul Joey Badass is playing the Showbox, and game-changing elder statesmen of hiphop De La Soul will be playing the EMP with Brothers from Another. In my heart, it'll always be a D.A.I.S.Y. Age.
  But that same night, the aggro-rap backpack icons of the indie era Jedi Mind Tricks
  
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• Amazon to Congress: Don't Let State and Local Governments Regulate Commercial Drones

  17-06-2015 21:38 via thestranger.com
  
  Show me the teen who wouldn't hit that drone with a rock and steal those pizzas and I will show you a disappointing teen.Slavoljub Pantelic / shutterstock.com
  Today Amazon's vice president for global public policy, Paul Misener, went before a house committee on oversight and government reform to make a plea that the Federal Aviation Administration—not state and local governments—be the sole regulators of domestic commercial drone use, Reuters reports.Why wouldn't the mammoth online r
  
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• Goldfinch Tavern and Rachel's Ginger Beer Open, Charlie's on Broadway Is Closing, Beacon Hill Getting Its Own Brewery

  17-06-2015 21:26 via thestranger.com
  
  Rachel's Ginger Beer has cocktails, ice-cream floats, and a menu firmly rooted in the deep fryer.Kelly O
  Now Open
  Goldfinch Tavern
  Ethan Stowell, who only announced that he was taking over the restaurant space in downtown's Four Seasons Hotel at the end of March, has opened the restaurant, called Goldfinch Tavern. (The goldfinch is the state bird of Washington.) Chef Joe Ritchie, previoiusly of Stowell's Mkt. in Tangletown, is running the kitchen, serving "Pacific Northwest cuisine, simply prepa
  
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• Shell No Protesters Picket Shell-Sponsored "Promise of the Arctic" Conference in Downtown Seattle, Submit a "Real" Agenda

  17-06-2015 21:03 via thestranger.com
  
  This is what opportunity looks like! In yellow, the maximum extent of Arctic sea ice cover over the last 30 years. In white and gray, this year's record-breaking low. Much more of this will melt over the summer, when Shell plans to hunt for oil in the Chukchi Sea.NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio
  A day after Terminal 5's contentious Arctic drilling rig trailed out of Elliott Bay, a Shell-sponsored "Promise of the Arctic: Managing Opportunity Responsibly" conference launched with a continent
  
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• Police: Dept. of Corrections worker planned husband's murder with inmates

  17-06-2015 21:02
  
  Police: Dept. of Corrections worker planned husband's murder with inmates
  
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• The Morning News: Charlie's on Broadway Closing, Fire in U-District, State Faces Government Shutdown

  17-06-2015 17:54 via thestranger.com
  
  An early-morning blaze in the U-District spread from an apartment building to two homes, leading to evacuations. (This is not that fire.) Gemancom/Shutterstock
  Fire in U-District: A fire broke out at an apartment early this morning and spread to two nearby homes, KIRO reports. Firefighters evacuated a group of students and a family; no one was hurt.
  Charlie's Appears to Be Closing: "All these years, nobody wanted to buy a Broadway legend," reports Capitol Hill Seattle blog. "Charlie’s, a l
  
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• Morning News: Charlie's on Broadway Closing, Fire in U-District, State Faces Government Shutdown

  17-06-2015 17:54 via thestranger.com
  
  An early morning blaze in the U-District spread from an apartment building to two homes, leading to evacuations. (This is not that fire.) Gemancom/Shutterstock
  Fire in U-District: A fire broke out at an apartment early this morning and spread to two nearby homes, KIRO reports. Firefighters evacuated a group of students and a family; no one was hurt.
  Charlie's Appears to Be Closing: "All these years, nobody wanted to buy a Broadway legend," reports Capitol Hill Seattle blog. "Charlie’s, a l
  
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• One Way to Stop Israel From "Pinkwashing"

  17-06-2015 17:52 via thestranger.com
  
  Seattle Times:
  Seattle Mayor Ed Murray is catching flak from activists who say he will be taking part in “pinkwashing” and violating a boycott when he travels to Israel in June for an LGBTQ-related conference and to lead a trade delegation there. The activists say Israel and pro-Israel organizations engage in pinkwashing by representing the Jewish state as gay-friendly to take attention away from how it treats Palestinians.
  Haaretz:
  Despite vocal efforts by supporters of the movement
  
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• More than 700 bear sightings reported on Eastside this year

  17-06-2015 15:39
  
  More than 700 bear sightings on Eastside this year
  
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• More than 700 bear sightings on Eastside this year

  17-06-2015 15:39
  
  More than 700 bear sightings on Eastside this year
  
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• With early fruit season, farmers say now is time to buy

  17-06-2015 15:31
  
  With early fruit season, farmers say now is time to buy
  
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• Snohomish asks for fireworks ban throughout the county

  17-06-2015 14:29
  
  Snohomish asks county to ban fireworks in unincorporated areas
  
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• Diabolical Doctors, Self-Spoofing Homophobes, and Spokane Minstrelsy

  17-06-2015 14:03 via thestranger.com
  
  MONDAY, JUNE 8 This week of diabolical doctors, self-spoofing homophobes, and surreal twists in America's ongoing problems with race kicked off in the North Texas town of McKinney, where a seven-minute cell-phone video instigated a national backlash that devoured the first half of the week. The scene: a community pool in McKinney, where last Friday evening a resident called police to report the group of kids who were allegedly using the pool without permission. What happened next was caught on
  
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• Man bails out of moving car to escape from police

  17-06-2015 13:56
  
  Man bails out of moving car to escape from police
  
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• U-District apartment fire spreads to adjacent homes

  17-06-2015 13:08
  U-District apartment fire spreads to adjacent home
  
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• The Wolfpack: A Bizarre Family, Candidly Captured

  17-06-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  The Wolfpack: A Bizarre Family, Candidly Capturedby Kathy FennessyAs long as families exist, filmmakers will seek out the most bizarre examples, as Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky did in the deeply discomfiting Brother's Keeper. Similarly, debut director Crystal Moselle struck gold when she stumbled across the Angulo brothers of The Wolfpack. The saga of these real-life Flowers in the Attic begins when a Midwestern farmer's daughter named Susanne travels to Peru, marries a kook who wants to sta
  
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• Of Nostalgic Idiots and Jurassic World

  17-06-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Of Nostalgic Idiots and Jurassic Worldby Elinor JonesIn the original Jurassic Park, John Williams's booming score reaches its crescendo as characters gaze up to see a live brachiosaurus for the first time. Their eyes widen right out of their faces and their mouths drop open, in complete awe of this gigantic science beast right in front of them. DOO DOO DOOOOOO.... DOO DOO DOOOO... DOO DOOO... DOO DOOO... DOOOO DOOOOOOOO... The moment is perfect movie magic.In Jurassic World, a similar build-up o
  
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• Maria’s Story: The Beauty of Rustic Simplicity

  17-06-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Maria’s Story: The Beauty of Rustic Simplicityby Charles MudedeThose who love André Paul Guillaume Gide’s beautiful novella La Symphonie Pastorale will certainly enjoy Jean-Pierre Améris’s Maria’s Story, an elegant, intelligent, humanist study of a relationship between a nun and a 14-year-old deaf and blind girl. Like La Symphonie Pastorale, Maria’s Story is set in the 19th century in rural France. Like La Symphonie Pastorale, Maria’s Story is not long. Though the film has moments
  
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• Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock and Roll: A New and Exciting Culture Lost

  17-06-2015 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock and Roll: A New and Exciting Culture Lostby Emily NokesAs Cambodia modernized, the nation’s culture-hungry youth of the 1960s/’70s created a new and wonderful music scene. French, South American, Afro-Cubanist, and Western influences resonated heavily—musicians mixed various foreign rock ’n’ roll styles with traditional Khmer music. The individual stories are fascinating and the songs are mesmerizing; the war, genocide, and eventual erad
  
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• Big crime jump sparks complaint to Seattle Mayor

  17-06-2015 03:53
  
  Big crime jump sparks complaint to Seattle Mayor
  
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• 10 Frames: A Selection of Shots from the Rebel Disco Alliance Star Wars Costume Party at Kremwerk

  17-06-2015 03:21 via thestranger.com
  
  Last Friday, local DJ crew Rebel Disco Alliance threw an epic, out of this world Star Wars costume party at Kremwerk to help raise funds for their upcoming showcase at Cascadia. Brooklyn Benjestorf
  Erin O'conner-Drew, one of the crew's founding members, rocked her iconic Stormtrooper get-up and posed alongside an outstanding representation of Boba Fett. Brooklyn Benjestorf
  Sean Majors, a recent inductee into RDA, threw down a wild and raucous set late into the night. He hammed it up with his fel
  
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• Savage Love Letter of the Day: Family From Hell

  17-06-2015 02:46 via thestranger.com
  
  I am getting married to my partner next month. I'm super pumped. Her family is awesome and supportive. I've had a long back-and-forth with my family about the wedding. I'm trying to do the "right" thing/be the bigger person even though they have never been supportive of me as a queer person. This including inviting them and trying to be positive about the wedding and writing about how much it would mean to me if they would be a part of this important day/chapter of my life. I suspect some of the
  
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• City of Seattle considers plan to save affordable units

  17-06-2015 02:27
  
  City of Seattle considers plan to save affordable units
  
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• Willem de Rooij's Bouquet XI Is a Complicated Arrangement

  17-06-2015 02:17 via thestranger.com
  
  Summary: Willem de Rooij's Bouquet XI Is a Complicated Arrangement of Exotic, Allergenic Flora and War Metaphorsby Jen GravesThis summer at the Henry Art Gallery, in a room by itself, there's a giant floral arrangement roaring up out of a white vase on a white pedestal. It probably reaches 12 feet in the air. Bismarck palm fronds five feet in diameter spike out at the top and the sides, forming a shield around a proliferation of grasses, vines, and flowers: yellow acacia puffs, spines of chalky-
  
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• "Why Is the Law Protecting Shell Oil but Not the Planet?"

  17-06-2015 02:17 via thestranger.com
  
  "Why Is the Law Protecting Shell Oil but Not the Planet?"by Sydney BrownstoneAt around four in the morning on June 15, about a dozen Greenpeace kayakers paddled into Elliott Bay to stretch a floating line across the mouth of the West Duwamish Waterway. A text alert went out roughly 15 minutes later, giving the "go" sign for Seattle's homegrown "Shell No" coalition to bring their kayaks down to a West Seattle boat ramp and block the Arctic drilling rig leaving Terminal 5.But the activists' strate
  
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• Where Do the City Council Candidates Stand on Police Reform?

  17-06-2015 02:17 via thestranger.com
  
  Where Do the City Council Candidates Stand on Police Reform?by Heidi GrooverAt city council candidate debates, questions about police reform usually get scripted, noncommittal answers about how trust has been eroded, cops should be more invested in their neighborhoods, and, oh, by the way, we're under a federal consent decree from the Department of Justice. No shit.Part of this is the result of broad, vague questions from moderators. It doesn't have to be that way. With the recent news of Mayor
  
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• What's Behind Mayor Ed Murray's Inaction on Police Reform?

  17-06-2015 02:17 via thestranger.com
  
  What's Behind Mayor Ed Murray's Inaction on Police Reform?by Ansel Herz{{ image: 1 }}Is Mayor Ed Murray serious about reforming the Seattle Police Department? That question arose shortly after his successful election campaign, which was backed by the city's powerful police unions, when Murray's newly appointed interim chief of police attempted to quietly overturn a series of disciplinary decisions against officers.Now the question is being asked again, one year after the installation of a new, w
  
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• Three People Review Threesome at ACT

  17-06-2015 02:17 via thestranger.com
  
  Three People Review Threesome at ACTThreesome Is So Good I Wish I Had a Bat SignalBy Christopher FrizzelleWhen was the last time you left a play going, "Wow, that was really good"? Have you ever left a play feeling that way? Have you ever left a play in Seattle feeling that way? Was it a brand-new play or an old play done well? Chances are, it was an old play done well.Threesome is a brand-new play, and it's so good I wish I had a Bat Signal just to let as many people as possible know how good i
  
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• The Great White Dope

  17-06-2015 02:17 via thestranger.com
  
  Reading the Resignation Letter Reveals Rachel Dolezal Suffers from a Bad Case of the White Man's Burden Syndromeby Charles MudedeRachel Dolezal, who has dominated headlines around the world for four straight days, on Monday announced in a post on Facebook that she had resigned as head of the Spokane chapter of the NAACP. Dolezal was supposed to hold a press conference, but that was canceled.I came to this conclusion after reading the Facebook post: Dolezal is quite mad. What else explains her re
  
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• Rachel Dolezal Isn't the Most Important Race Story in Spokane

  17-06-2015 02:17 via thestranger.com
  
  Rachel Dolezal Isn't the Most Important Race Story in Spokaneby Heidi GrooverI'm not going to argue that the story of Rachel Dolezal isn't newsworthy or doesn't make for great TV. But pull back from the media circus for a minute. Spokane and North Idaho wrestle with a very troubled racial history. That's why Dolezal's effort to reenergize the local NAACP chapter was so welcomed. It's also why her deceit was such a shock and why the region's activists are so anxious to get back to work.Only 2.3 p
  
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• Prince in Space

  17-06-2015 02:17 via thestranger.com
  
  The Fifth Element Is the Movie in Which Chris Tucker Plays a Galactic Princeby Charles MudedeWe must begin this brief line of thought on Chris Tucker's electric performance in Luc Besson's 1997 The Fifth Element with a little background on what I call the black elegance movement in black popular music. The moment for black elegance was from 1982 to 1988. It was formed by two streams that go back to the late '70s. Chic initiated the first stream, and Time initiated the second and stronger stream.
  
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• Joey Bada$$ Will Be Your Friend If You Don't Like His Music, He Doesn't Give a Fuck

  17-06-2015 02:17 via thestranger.com
  
  Joey Bada$$ Will Be Your Friend If You Don't Like His Music, He Doesn't Give a Fuckby Ansel HerzIf you don't dig his music, 20-year-old Joey Bada$$ says he's fine with it. Bada$$ is one of the most traditional rappers in the game; his dense rhymes, infused with verse-long metaphors and commentary on his Brooklyn youth, alternate over smooth or boom-bap beats. Before you dismiss that as too old-school, consider: Why shouldn't current hiphop retain that '90s sound?When Bada$$, born in 1995, turned
  
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• Inside Out Is the Pixar Movie Adults Have Been Waiting For

  17-06-2015 02:17 via thestranger.com
  
  Inside Out Is the Pixar Movie Adults Have Been Waiting ForRelatedby Wm. Steven HumphreyAre you the type of barren, childless adult who feels weird going to Pixar movies by yourself? Well... maybe you should. BUT! I strongly advise you to put those feelings aside (or rent a kid from your neighbors or the Duggar family) and see Inside Out, Pixar's latest kids' movie that's actually for adults.If you've seen the trailers, then the basic plot may remind you of that early '90s Fox sitcom Herman's Hea
  
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• Get to Know #LOVETHEHILL

  17-06-2015 02:17 via thestranger.com
  
  #LOVETHEHILL: A New Installation Honoring the Character of Capitol Hillby Trent MoormanSomething new is going up on Broadway between Pike and Pine. And it's not a mixed-use, shit-box apartment building or a Starbucks. It's an installation that's being launched to honor Capitol Hill, its history, and the people who have given the area its character. It utilizes social media and the space of 10 storefront windows. That's right, it's big and it's orange. For the past year, cocreators—and Seat
  
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• Brothers from Another Don't Let Racial Disparity Affect Their Sound

  17-06-2015 02:17 via thestranger.com
  
  Brothers from Another Don't Let Racial Disparity Affect Their Soundby Andrew HamlinCole DeLeon, Isaiah Sneed, and Nick Beeba are Brothers from Another—the hiphop crew opening for De La Sol at Experience Music Project on June 20 as the kickoff to EMP's Influencers Concert Series. Having toured with Macklemore, Sol, and Blue Scholars, they're set to self-release their album Windows Down in July. The young men—who defiantly advocate the Rainier 12-ounce curl in a city full of potheads&m
  
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• Beyond the Fried Buffalo Wing

  17-06-2015 02:17 via thestranger.com
  
  Four Places That Go Beyond the Typical Fried Buffalo Wingby Angela GarbesRecently, while working my way through a plate of crispy chicken wings ($13) at Quality Athletics (121 S King St, 420-3015) in Pioneer Square, my eight-month-old daughter began voicing displeasure from her end of the table. I couldn't blame her. As my husband and I sucked tender meat off of bones and dragged our fingers through the fantastic black garlic ranch sauce that lined the plate—rich, putty-colored, and deeply
  
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• Did Developers Shoot Down Discussion of Rent Control on the Mayor's Housing Affordability Committee?

  17-06-2015 02:10 via thestranger.com
  
  Jon Grant (right) is running for a city council seat on a platform of enacting rent control. The key speaker at his campaign launch? Jimmy McMillan (left) otherwise known as The Rent Is Too Damn High guy. Jon Grant
  There's an affordable housing crisis in Seattle and yesterday, the co-chair of the mayor's Housing Affordability and Livability (HALA) Committee, told me that rent control—even supposing the state ban on regulating rents was overturned—just doesn't do what it's supposed to
  
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• Ex-Grave Babies Member Offers Twisted, Post-Disco Cut "Dead Gods"

  17-06-2015 01:38 via thestranger.com
  
  Saulsberry/Perpetual Ritual (far left) gives us one of the year's freshest post-industrial disco tracks.
  Mitchell Saulsberry, former bassist with popular Seattle goth-rockers Grave Babies, has maintained a subterranean project over the years with a revolving cast of musicians called Perpetual Ritual.Now that he's free from the record/tour/record/tour grind of his previous group, which he left in 2012, Saulsberry's been focusing more intently on Perpetual Ritual, whose output skews mainly toward
  
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• Environmental Groups Split on City Council Endorsement. Which One Do You Care About?

  17-06-2015 01:34 via thestranger.com
  
  Council President Tim Burgess loves the environment. See! Here he is touring Bertha, the machine trying to bore a car-only tunnel under downtown! City of Seattle
  Last month, John Roderick picked up a big endorsement in his challenge to Council President Tim Burgess: the Sierra Club of Washington State. Today, Burgess matched him with an endorsement from another big enviro group, Washington Conservation Voters.
  In Burgess's announcement of the endorsement, this was the only indication of why WCV
  
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• One person shot in Everett, suspect at large

  17-06-2015 01:25
  
  Man shot in Everett, suspect at large
  
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• Man shot in Everett, suspect at large

  17-06-2015 01:25
  
  Man shot in Everett, suspect at large
  
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• Man dies after Everett shooting, suspect at large

  17-06-2015 01:25
  
  Man shot in Everett, suspect at large
  
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• Last Chance to Enter Official Stranger Drunk of the Week Poetry Contest

  17-06-2015 01:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Kelly O
  Hey, have you seen the poetry contest over at Drunk of the Week? Why don't you take a late afternoon brain-break AND WRITE SOME RHYMES! Here's one, by yours truly:
  "Hickory dickory dock / Does it really matter if it's a hen or a cock? / You should try to have fun / 'Cause life, you only get one / And if not, hey, suck a dirty gym sock"WRITE YOURS HERE! >>>[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• In Writing News: Bloomsday Celebrations Abound, Vanessa Place Sees More Print, Poets Talk about Disliking Poetry

  17-06-2015 00:44 via thestranger.com
  
  James Joyce, the man who famously said, "My prick is still hot and stiff and quivering from the last brutal drive it has given you..."YingHui Liu / shutterstock.com•Yes yes yes yes, it’s Bloomsday! All you need to know about Bloomsday is that it's the day fans of the literary legend James Joyce rejoice (pun and gratuitous alliteration mandated by the holiday) and do nerdy stuff like read selections of the modern master's work in public, which in Seattle is happening at Town Hall this
  
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• Lindy West on George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones, and Books with Fictional Maps in Them

  17-06-2015 00:13 via thestranger.com
  
  This is old news, or as we say around the office, "from the Stranger archives," but someone just came by my office and reminded me of the time Lindy West wrote about George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, and then I started reading it again and shot club soda through my nose. Ah, 2001. Anyway, ICYMI.[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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