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• Teacher accused of sexual misconduct with Lynnwood High School student

  12-10-2016 23:37
  
  The victim was 16 years old when the alleged crimes occurred, the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office said. He is now 17.
  
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• Man sentenced to more than 14 years for acid attack on Thurston County judge

  12-10-2016 23:06
  
  District Judge Brett Buckley and his two dogs sustained chemical burns and the acid caused about $30,000 in damage to the family’s home.
  
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• 25 Years of The Stranger: A Critical Overview

  12-10-2016 23:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by A. Birch Steen, Stranger Public Editor and OSHA Board of Governors Member (Deceased)The last time my pen touched these accursed pages was just after the Pulitzer Prize committee had set its good name ablaze by awarding Eli Sanders—and by extension The Stranger—its highest honor. This was the proverbial last straw for me. Then-editor Christopher Frizzelle used the opportunity to unceremoniously "kill me off" via a cerebrovascular accident.
  That Mr. Frizzelle believed a senior citiz
  
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• Seattle backs UW’s new freight lab to tackle urban delivery congestion

  12-10-2016 22:52
  
  Seattle pledged $285,000 over the next three years to the UW’s new Urban Freight Lab, which will test more efficient methods to deliver goods that are ordered online and delivered to large residential or retail and commercial buildings.
  
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• Bill O'Reilly defends producer's stereotype-laden take on New York's Chinatown

  12-10-2016 22:50
  
  Bill O'Reilly says offensive Fox News segment on New York's Chinatown was good clean fun.  "We are a program that is not politically correct."
  
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• Killer whales spotted near Camano Island

  12-10-2016 22:44
  
  Orca spotters watched killer whales from J and K pods near Camano Island on Tuesday morning.
  
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• Bertha restarts ahead of schedule after 6-day break

  12-10-2016 22:44
  
  Bertha restarted Tuesday after just a six-day shutdown, as inspectors found little or no erosion in the cutting bits.
  
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• Pacific Northwest: Major storms starting Thursday to bring heavy rain, high winds

  12-10-2016 22:23
  
  Between the National Weather Service's special weather statements (and laundry list of weather warnings) and Cliff Mass' doomsday-esque post from Tuesday, it's pretty clear: the Northwest is probably in for lots of wind and rain Thursday through the weekend.
  
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• Ancient bird from dinosaur area probably sounded like duck

  12-10-2016 22:23
  
  BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Scientists for years have known what birds living at the end of the age of dinosaurs looked like. Now, they say they might know what one sounded like: quack! The team of scientists says the “Vegavis Iaai” bird that lived in Antarctica’s Vega Island more than 70 million years ago […]
  
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• Trump Campaign Pushes Alternate Reality Hard as Facts Continue to Show Liberal Bias

  12-10-2016 21:59 via thestranger.com
  
  by Christopher FrizzelleEric Trump, a denizen of alternate reality. a katz / Shutterstock.com
  As of this moment, 538's election forecast has Hillary Clinton with an 86.4 percent chance of winning the election. Trump has a 13.3 percent chance. According to a PRRI/Atlantic poll released yesterday, "Clinton has opened up a commanding 11-point lead over Donald Trump." The Washington Post crunched those numbers and found "women moving 23 points toward Clinton in a week," now preferring Clinton overal
  
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• Seattle Police, In Response to Council Questions, Offer Their Thoughts on Social Media Tracking Controversy

  12-10-2016 21:34 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ansel HerzPolice chief Kathleen O'Toole defended the department's use of Geofeedia in a hearing on Monday. Seattle Channel
  One question that's loomed since we published a story about the Seattle police department’s acquisition of Geofeedia, the powerful social media mapping software, is why the department paid $14,000 to use it and didn’t tell anyone.Police have been tight-lipped. But on Monday, Chief Kathleen O’Toole and Brian Maxey, the department’s top civilian, exp
  
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• Remembering The Locker Room Talk of My Youth

  12-10-2016 21:32 via thestranger.com
  
  by Charles MudedeA thought that occurred to me in a locker room: Do rural men have bigger penises than urban men? Jim Bowie/shutterstock.com
  Speaking of locker rooms, I spent a good deal of time in them when I was a rugby player at Oriel Boys High School. (This Harare, Zimbabwe school, and particularly its rugby field, actually plays a big role in an anti-Apartheid movie, Dry White Season, that stars Donald Sutherland and Marlon Brando—during the shoot, which exposed me to the grinding mag
  
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• Dan Savage's San Diego Diary: Bored Stiff at the 1996 Republican National Convention

  12-10-2016 21:32 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage“Maybe the convention won’t be a complete bust,” I thought to myself. “Maybe someone will get killed.” THE STRANGEROriginally Published in The Stranger on August 22, 1996Saturday, August 10
  Bob Dole is in big trouble.
  This wholly unoriginal observation comes to me on my flight to San Diego via Reno, Nevada, "Home of America's Most Depressing Airport." Two little old ladies, identical twin sisters as it turns out, sit next to me on the plane. Alice and A
  
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• Inquest ordered in fatal Auburn police shooting

  12-10-2016 21:24
  
  Police said Travis Eugene Ell threatened a police officer before he was shot.
  
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• Enemies of the State: Remember That Time We Called the City Attorney Satan?

  12-10-2016 21:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverIt may shock you to learn that over the years, The Stranger has not always pleased every reader. Here are some, though certainly not all, of the enemies we've made.
  Seattle Weekly, 1994: As the upstart in town, The Stranger often picked on the more staid, more established Seattle Weekly. Staffers often traded places; at one point in time, there were as many as four moles at the Weekly who would leak Weekly gossip to The Stranger (one eventually got a job here). "Can't Get to Slee
  
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• Man’s body recovered from Port Townsend Bay

  12-10-2016 20:45
  
  The man’s identity and cause of death are unknown.
  
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• Just Announced: Bernie Sanders is Coming Back to Seattle Next Month

  12-10-2016 20:33 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do Staff Trevor Collens/ Shutterstock.com
  Senator Bernie Sanders is coming back to Seattle—this time, not as a candidate for the Democratic nomination, but as a touring author. His book about the campaign trail, Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In, comes out on Tuesday, November 15 (one week after the election). During his visit on November 30, Sanders will speak about it and his experience running for president. On our Things To Do calendar, you can see more detai
  
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• ‘I was in a lot of pain’: Victim testifies about Seattle Pacific University shooting

  12-10-2016 20:21
  
  “The shooter turned toward me, pointed the gun at me and fired,” Sarah Williams testified Wednesday during the murder and assault trial of Aaron Ybarra.
  
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• Sidewalk ‘future subway’ messages promote light rail. Free speech or ‘graffiti’?

  12-10-2016 20:10
  
  Eye-catching campaign stencils on Seattle sidewalks were applied overnight to show pedestrians where Sound Transit 3 stations could go.
  
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• Woman yells at editor, ‘Go back to China’; has this happened to you?

  12-10-2016 20:07
  
  Michael Luo, a Chinese-American editor at The New York Times, shared the story of a racist encounter. “Maybe you don’t know this, but the insults you hurled at my family get to the heart of the Asian-American experience.”
  
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• Cubs Bars in Seattle?

  12-10-2016 20:06 via thestranger.com
  
  by Chicago FanHey Sloggers:
  My pal, writer Paul Dailing, will be in Seattle next week and is in search of a bar that might have some Cubs fans in it for the NLCS games Tuesday, Wednesday and (if necessary) Thursday. (He's gonna miss Games 1 and 2 because he's taking Amtrak like a good person would).He writes the brilliant blog 1001 Chicago Afternoons, leads a walking tour of the history of Chicago corruption that raises money for grassroots journalism training for minority kids in marginalized C
  
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• 13,140,000 Minutes (That's How Long We've Been Alive)

  12-10-2016 19:45 via thestranger.com
  
  by David SchmaderDavid Schmader at 25.If you don't already know, the issue of The Stranger featuring this column celebrates the alternative newsweekly's 25th anniversary. What does it mean to be 25? In marriage, the 25th year marks the silver anniversary, symbolizing worth and strength and repped by the gemstone tsavorite. In manhood, it marks the age males have hit their peak and begin ever-so-slowly receding to the rest of their lesser (in terms of biological vitality, at least) lives. And in
  
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• Classes canceled in Snohomish County school district after shooting threat

  12-10-2016 18:58
  
  Officials canceled classes in the Lakewood School District after a student received a message saying someone was going to “shoot up the middle school.”
  
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• All schools in Snohomish County's Lakewood District closed by threat

  12-10-2016 18:26
  
  All schools in Snohomish County's Lakewood School District No. 306 are closed Wednesday as police investigate an online threat toward students at Lakewood Middle School.
  
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• Police Reports Illustrated Special Edition: Man Provides Critique of The Stranger

  12-10-2016 18:08 via thestranger.com
  
  by Callan BerryCallan Berry[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• The Morning News: Police Fatally Shoot One in The Jungle, Severe Storms on the Way

  12-10-2016 17:47 via thestranger.com
  
  by Heidi GrooverThe officer who shot a man in The Jungle yesterday was on site to help sweep the area. HG
  Police Shot a Man in The Jungle while City and State Authorities Were Clearing the Area Yesterday: Police say two officers came across two men fighting in the homeless encampment known as The Jungle, one of them armed with a knife. One officer reportedly shot the man with the knife, though it's not yet clear what led up to the shooting. The man died later at the hospital. The officers were i
  
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• Evicted Ballard Resident Who Has Autism Stares Down Homelessness

  12-10-2016 17:00 via thestranger.com
  
  by Ana Sofia Knauf Joel Romeo Abel with friend Max Wallace inside Ballard's Bop Street Records. Wallace launched a GoFundMe campaign when he found out Abel's landlords were evicting him.Courtesy of Max Wallace
  Joel Romeo Abel, who is mute and has autism, lived in Ballard for more than 20 years before his landlords announced in August that he would soon be evicted for “hoarding.” Friends and supporters donated more than $21,000 through a GoFundMe campaign to help him with moving costs
  
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• Satanic Temple cancels plans for after-school club in Mount Vernon

  12-10-2016 16:35
  
  The Satanic Temple of Seattle proposed the club at an elementary school that hosted an after-school Bible club.
  
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• Man standing in westbound lane of Highway 18 struck, killed by truck

  12-10-2016 16:21
  
  The 25-year-old Tacoma man was found dead at the scene in Auburn, officials said.
  
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• Bermuda braces for hit from strengthening Hurricane Nicole

  12-10-2016 15:50
  
  HAMILTON, Bermuda (AP) — Authorities in Bermuda closed schools and government offices on Wednesday as the British territory prepared for a direct hit from Hurricane Nicole. The Category 2 storm was expected to strengthen and could reach the island on Thursday morning as a major Category 3 hurricane. Premier Michael Dunkley urged everyone to stay […]
  
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• Bermuda braces for direct hit from ‘Nicole,’ a Cat 2 storm

  12-10-2016 15:50
  
  HAMILTON, Bermuda (AP) — Authorities in Bermuda are closing schools and government offices as the British territory prepares for a direct hit from Hurricane Nicole. The Category 2 storm is expected to strengthen a bit before striking the island on Thursday. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami says Nicole was located about 320 miles […]
  
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• Letter From the Publisher: Tim Keck Reflects on 25 Years

  12-10-2016 15:12 via thestranger.com
  
  by Tim Keck
  Twenty-five years ago, the Keck family of newspapers expanded our "node of operation" to include Seattle, Washington, the jewel of the Pacific Northwest. I'm not quite sure who made the decision, but it certainly wasn't a "Keck-level decision," as we call them.
  I made it to the paper we have out here a few months after launch. The staff was a "strange" collection even for a newspaper, especially in those days. We had a nice-looking hippie lady who could sing pretty good. A "theater-t
  
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• New York ‘alt-cabaret’ Joe’s Pub comes to Seattle

  12-10-2016 15:02
  
  Since 1998, Joe’s Pub has been synonymous with New York’s downtown performance and music scene — now it’s trying a pilot program in Seattle with shows by Justin Vivian Bond, Lady Rizo and Molly Pope.
  
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• An Oral History of the First Year of The Stranger

  12-10-2016 15:02 via thestranger.com
  
  by Amber CortesEarly days: (Left to right) Nancy Hartunian, Tim Keck, Dan Savage, Sean Hurley, James Sturm.Daniel Housman
  The following story was co-published with support from Longreads and its subscribers.In July of 1991, Tim Keck moved to Seattle from Madison, Wisconsin, to launch a newspaper. He'd recruited a handful of friends and colleagues from the Onion, the satirical weekly he'd cofounded and recently sold (yes, that Onion), to help him conceive a new, irreverent publication—one w
  
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• ‘Murderous’ Columbus Day Storm of 1962 was spawned by similar typhoon now looming over Pacific

  12-10-2016 15:00
  
  Oct. 12 is the anniversary of the windstorm that hit the Pacific Northwest in 1962.
  
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• Columbus Day Storm of 1962 was spawned by similar typhoon now looming over Pacific

  12-10-2016 15:00
  
  Oct. 12 is the anniversary of the windstorm that hit the Pacific Northwest in 1962.
  
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• Where Are They Now?

  12-10-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Where Are They Now?: Former Stranger Staffers Reminisce About Confronting Neo-Nazis, Death Threats, and the Time Before the Internetby Rich SmithTo know who we are now, it helps to know who we were before. So I scoured the internet (and current arts editor Sean Nelson’s e-mail contact list) to find some of our forebears. Most former employees have been able to find gainful employment after their tenure here, and some of them seem to have dissolved into the air. As a current writer for this
  
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• The Good Mother: Family Values, Hillary Clinton Style

  12-10-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  The Good Mother: Family Values, Hillary Clinton Styleby Emily WhiteOne of the more depressing Tuesdays in recent women's history was August 27, 1996. That was the day Hillary Clinton appeared on stage at the Democratic National Convention, wearing a Jackie O. suit, uttering the mantra: Husband-Family-Children-Husband-Family-Children. It seemed all the vestiges of the original Hillary had disappeared: her former provoked, impatient expression had been replaced by a look of warm, benign motherline
  
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• The First Savage Love

  12-10-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  How It All Startedby Dan SavageOriginally published on September 23, 1991
  Savage Love is an advice column written by a queer nationalist. The primary reason one seeks the advice given in a newspaper column is to receive the opinion of a disinterested third party. The Stranger is proud to offer the chance to communicate with someone who is a third party to heterosexual relations as a whole, and to provide the homosexual community with a chance to openly reach one of their own. Mr. Savage asks adv
  
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• Savage Love Glossary

  12-10-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Savage Love GlossaryGGG: Good, giving, and game. More specifically that you strive to be good in bed, giving of equal time and pleasure to your partner, and game for anything within reason. That means being up for trying things you may feel neutral about if your partner's into it. It doesn't mean having to do things that make you feel bad or scared for your safety.Breeders: Straight/heterosexual people, regardless of whether they have actually reproduced.Santorum: "That frothy mixture of lube an
  
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• Pretty on the Outside

  12-10-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Stranger Covers Through the Yearsby Stranger Staff{{ image:1 }}{{ image:2 }}{{ image:3 }}[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Mistakes Were Made: 25 Years of Golden Blunders

  12-10-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Mistakes Were Made: 25 Years of Golden Blundersby Christopher FrizzelleI am The Stranger’s in-house curator of blunders because the very first Regrets Issue, in 2004, was my idea, and I’ve edited that annual cavalcade of calamities ever since. It comes out the week of New Year’s Day. We’ve made plenty of errors so far in 2016, so this year’s issue should be a doozy. Mark your calendars!But what about all-time errors? What are the freakiest face-plants in Stranger hi
  
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• Letter from the Editor: Yup, We're Still Here

  12-10-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Summary: Letter from the Editor: Yup, We're Still Here.by Tricia RomanoI first encountered The Stranger when I was in college and thinking of switching mid-stride to the University of Washington from the University of Nevada Las Vegas. I hated the desert, Nirvana and Pearl Jam were cresting, and I wanted to be somewhere with cooler cultural offerings than Rita Rudner and Siegfried and Roy. I visited Seattle during a dismal, rainy Christmas week with a friend, not knowing anyone or anything. It w
  
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• Let’s Do the Twist: Queer Film Festival

  12-10-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Let’s Do the Twist: Queer Film Festivalby Kathy FennessyThe 21st edition of the Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival begins with a new name: TWIST: Seattle Queer Film Festival, which better reflects the varied forms of storytelling that characterize the event, from films to panel discussions to art exhibits. Fittingly, it also better represents festival subjects and participants who defy strict gender identity labels.This year’s motion picture slate includes documentaries, short fil
  
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• Jamie Hook on Boogie Nights: America Fears Cock

  12-10-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Jamie Hook on Boogie Nights: America Fears Cockby Jamie HookOriginally published on October 16, 1997In the press kit for Boogie Nights, Mark Wahlberg informs us, "I put the script down and thought, 'Well, this guy is a genius.'" Newsweek speaks of "A filmmaker with an enormous talent for making movies"; Filmmaker calls the movie "a virtuoso accomplishment." Perhaps it's Oscar time for Marky Mark, whisper others. Behind it all, the prodigal director: Paul Anderson, 26-year-old genius. Jesus Chris
  
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• In Memoriam: Remembering Stranger Staffers Who've Passed

  12-10-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  In Memoriam: Remembering Stranger Staffers Who've Passedby Stranger StaffWe dedicate this page to the memory of these members of the Stranger family who didn't live to help us celebrate our silver anniversary. We miss you, and we wouldn't be here without you.{{ image:1 }}PATRICK H. SCHMALJOHN (AKA PAT BROWN)March 19, 1963–March 23, 1999Production manager from July 1, 1996–November 3, 1997{{ image:2 }}
  JENNIFER MAREN WRIGHTSeptember 5, 1976–October 14, 2008Advertising sales coor
  
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• I'd Rather Jump Out the Window Than Celebrate 25 Years of The Stranger with This Issue

  12-10-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  Anniversary Issues Are for Suckers. I'd Rather Jump Out the Window Than Celebrate 25 Years of The Stranger with This Issue.by Dan SavageI'm writing this under protest.The Stranger has a new editor, and she wanted to do a 25th anniversary issue—a look back at a quarter of a century of misses, near misses, and fails—and I've been ordered to write something for this issue. I don't want to write anything for this issue. I don't want this issue to exist. But I am not the boss of me anymor
  
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• I Was Stranger Music Editor for Three Minutes 18 Years Ago and Seattle Music Still Sucks

  12-10-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  I Was Stranger Music Editor for Three Minutes 18 Years Ago and Seattle Music Still Sucksby Everett TrueMy name is Everett True. That means little or nothing to you. That is how it should be. Ephemeral. Transient. Pissing futilely in the face of Bruce Springsteen fans the world over, sooner or later our light dims and you get big gaudy flashing neon replacement signs that read, READ ALL ABOUT IT! 100 GREATEST PACIFIC NORTHWEST BANDS OF ALL TIME EXCLUSIVE TO ONLY A THOUSAND WEBSITES TODAY.You&rsqu
  
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• How Writing for The Stranger Made Me Blacker

  12-10-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  How Writing for The Stranger Made Me Blackerby Charles MudedeI have two former Village Voicewriters to thank for planting in my young mind the idea that writing for a weekly would fulfill my literary ambitions. One is Greg Tate and the other is Joe Wood. The former recently published a collection of writings, Flyboy 2, and is still very much active; the latter went missing on Mount Rainier in 1999 and his body was never found. In fact, if Wood hadn’t vanished, I most likely would have move
  
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• From GGG to Santorum: Excerpts from Some of the Most Memorable Savage Love Columns

  12-10-2016 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  From GGG to Santorum: Excerpts from Some of the Most Memorable Columnsby Dan Savage"What The Hell Is Frottage Anyway?," September 27, 1993Hey, Faggot:What the hell is frottage and where can I get some? If you don't answer my question, I'll stay awake nights watching info-mercials.Stupid In SeattleHey, Stupid in Seattle:There's no such thing as "frottage." It's a word I made up. I wanted to see how many letters I would get asking me what "frottage" was after I introduced it in my column. Original
  
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