The Return of Seattle’s Smaller Weekly Watch
We discontinued Seattle’s Smaller Weekly Watch a few months ago after the slaughter rule kicked in—we were 16 and 20 pages bigger than our arch enemies for a few weeks running, and writing SSWW every week felt like picking on the retarded kid. So why is SSWW back? Well, because Weekly partisans—Weekly employees all (hi, Chuck!)—would spin elaborate conspiracy theories in our forums and comments about why I didn’t bring it back this week.
For the Week of April 6-13, 2006:
Seattle Weekly: 112
The Stranger: 108
The last time they were bigger than us was December 15, 2005. This week’s paper is a regular issue for The Stranger, and a special issue for Seattle Weekly.
Yes, it’s the Weekly’s tepidly-anticipated fashion issue, which begs the question: Would you take fashion advice from this guy? Or this guy? You probably shouldn’t take fashion advice from this guy either, but that last guy doesn’t tell you what to wear, now does he?
(Oh, and about that t-shirt… When I spoke at the University of Missouri, the gay group was in hot water over a drag show they had sponsored and a kinda, sorta filthy t-shirt they had handed out. I wore the t-shirt in solidarity with the belegured gay group. While it’s true that my boyfriend is probably better hung than yours, that’s not the sort of thing I would normally wear a t-shirt proclaiming.)
Why are local media outlets always sniping at each other like bratty kids? It is annoying, it's tired, and it's only interesting to people who work at these papers. Readers don't care.