Slog - Comments on Meet the Public Intern http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern Like all quality newspapers—the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Moses Lake Frontier Bugle—The Stranger employs a public editor. A. Birch Steen scrutinizes The Stranger’s content and takes our editors and writers to task for omissions and errors. But great newspapers are not just created by editors and writers. The Stranger, like all great newspapers, also relies on a large group of unpaid interns. Without the efforts of these trust-funded young men and women, paid staffers wouldn’t be able to drink at lunch and do bong hits at their desks and still put out Seattle’s Only Newspaper. We salute... Copyright 2008 Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:00:37 -0800 Thu, 16 Aug 2007 06:31:14 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Kristin Bell Oh, he looks so innocent and trusting! hehe. Rock on public intern!

]]> Kristin Bell http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c783700 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c783700 Media Wed, 15 Aug 2007 08:55:16 -0800 Comment by Cat in Chicago You guys are whacked. Poor kid.

]]> Cat in Chicago http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c783702 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c783702 Media Wed, 15 Aug 2007 08:57:13 -0800 Comment by Ajax http://www.mentosintern.com/

]]> Ajax http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c783705 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c783705 Media Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:02:55 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe I agree. I feel bad for him. God only knows what Charles has him do at night.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c783707 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c783707 Media Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:07:04 -0800 Comment by RonK, Seattle You are aware, aren't you, that Formula 409 is full of nasty, persistent chemicals that fuck up womens reproductive systems or give kids asthma or cause - the word escapes me - memory loss or something? (I forget what ... can the new p.i. look it up for me?)

Oh, the humanity! Who do I take this up with? The public editor? WASHPIRG? The kickball team?

]]> RonK, Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c783708 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c783708 Media Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:07:10 -0800 Comment by Jude Fawley Stefan, I take my coffee with half and half, no sugar. And I hope I do not have to tell you that again.

]]> Jude Fawley http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c783709 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c783709 Media Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:10:21 -0800 Comment by Darcy I want Steven to be my DD this weekend!

]]> Darcy http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c783710 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c783710 Media Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:11:11 -0800 Comment by Bill Lumbergh Steven, we're gonna need to go ahead and move you downstairs into storage B. We have some new people coming in, and we need all the space we can get. So if you could just go ahead and pack up your stuff and move it down there, that would be terrific, OK? Oh, and remember: next Friday... is Hawaiian shirt day. So, you know, if you want to, go ahead and wear a Hawaiian shirt and jeans.

]]> Bill Lumbergh http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c783711 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c783711 Media Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:11:47 -0800 Comment by Will in 98103 I live on a corner, and my parking strips need work. I mow what little grass there is and have done some nice planting, but like a lot of things in my life, I've left the project half-done, and I haven't kept up with weeding or watering at all. It shows. I am lame.

Why do I think this is a job for the public intern? Because of my neighbors. I live in close to Gasworks Park in Wallingford, well-known as "Nosy (and Anti-noisy) Neighbor Central." In the past, when I spent considerable time outside gardening, neighbors would stop by to chat and, occasionally, offer unsolicited and unhelpful advice on my planting choices. In addition, next door to me are a WINE DISTRIBUTOR (maybe some underage drinking could be had?), some sort of healthcare activist organization whose amiable employees smoke and talk trash on my sidewalk, a secretive eco-manufacturing company (at least I think that's what they are; they won't say), and a vintage car restoration place that never seems open and occasionally leaves barrels around which fall over and leak toxic waste into the ground (and, presumably, Lake Union).

So I need an intern to do my gardening.

]]> Will in 98103 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c783713 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c783713 Media Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:16:58 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe Steven,

I would like you to rebuild the viaduct. Or build a tunnel. Or both. Thanks.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c783714 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c783714 Media Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:17:26 -0800 Comment by Cato the Younger Younger WOW!! Slog has a personal Boy B*tch to do our bidding!!!

Enjoy that bus cleaning, pick one of the busses to the U-District like a 72, 71 or 49. Those are already so clean it should be easy for you. HA HA HA HA HA!!!

]]> Cato the Younger Younger http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c783717 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c783717 Media Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:29:51 -0800 Comment by brappy Wither A. Birch Steen?

]]> brappy http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c783723 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c783723 Media Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:36:28 -0800 Comment by Gabriel Not to be confused with the public editor who edits the public.

]]> Gabriel http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c783724 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c783724 Media Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:37:12 -0800 Comment by JakeLunden I like the bus cleaning idea, but step it up a notch: maybe Metro could take a hint from a few dozen people bombarding buses with brooms, mops, 409 and paper towels, with a few people outside with brushes, squeegees and buckets of water, a la fundraiser carwash.

Make it happen, Steven.

]]> JakeLunden http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c783729 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c783729 Media Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:43:48 -0800 Comment by Shawn This guy was GREAT on "The Man Show"!!!

]]> Shawn http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c783730 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c783730 Media Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:44:30 -0800 Comment by dicker hear hear Gabriel, i knows me some public that needs editing.

]]> dicker http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c783731 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c783731 Media Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:46:28 -0800 Comment by dawn as long as he's cleaning things, can we get him to clean up the entry way downstairs? it smells like a monkey cage.

]]> dawn http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c783732 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c783732 Media Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:55:32 -0800 Comment by matthew fisher wilder Have Steven do surveys all around greater Seattle asking people if they think both the Viaduct or SR 520 Bridge will crumble before each gets repaired.

I'm betting most people will say "Yes", which would actually be newsworthy.

]]> matthew fisher wilder http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c783733 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c783733 Media Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:56:52 -0800 Comment by COMTE Hm, sounds suspiciously like Mr. Blum will be taking on the tasks that even "Our Worst Enemy" wouldn't touch with a ten foot cattle-prod.

Oh, and while I'm thinking of it, could you stand on the corner of 22nd & E. Union and tell folks: A.) "please, stop shooting at each other!"; and B.) "slow the fuck down! 22nd is NOT your personal short-cut to avoid the light at 23rd!"

I'll provide the neon-yellow safety vest.

]]> COMTE http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c783735 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c783735 Media Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:57:50 -0800 Comment by Christin So basically, "This is Steven, and we're hazing him."

]]> Christin http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c783740 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c783740 Media Wed, 15 Aug 2007 10:04:14 -0800 Comment by lilblackcat My kid's (massively under-funded) public school is constantly asking us to work bake sales at functions, help reorganize/paint classrooms for the coming year and go around neighborhoods looking for donations for
a-thons or auctions to pay for stuff like the arts program. I would love to have an intern I could send on one or all of these tasks. Or even make him hold his very own bake sale and give all of the money to one of our public schools.

]]> lilblackcat http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c783756 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c783756 Media Wed, 15 Aug 2007 10:21:45 -0800 Comment by Dan Savage Dear Lilblackcat,

Sounds good, please send us an email at publicintern@thestranger.com, so we can get in touch.

Dan

]]> Dan Savage http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c783758 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c783758 Media Wed, 15 Aug 2007 10:23:00 -0800 Comment by kerri harrop i love this idea.

]]> kerri harrop http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c783776 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c783776 Media Wed, 15 Aug 2007 10:37:20 -0800 Comment by Greg Barnes SDOT repaved California Way SW, but forgot to install the bike sharrows. Maybe the intern should get a stencil and some orange cones and do their job for them?

]]> Greg Barnes http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c783787 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c783787 Media Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:09:38 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle (also in 98103)

My son goes to Roosevelt High School.

Roughriders!

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c783797 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c783797 Media Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:17:45 -0800 Comment by boobee i need help painting the outside of my house. um, please?

]]> boobee http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c783807 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c783807 Media Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:29:42 -0800 Comment by r How about creating an "Every child" website? Some readers could probably get a lot of use from something to link to when making comments in response to the statement that "every child needs a mother and father," because suggesting that the phrase simply be typed into the Stranger's search box seems to bring up a lot of comments and it is hard to find the actual stories.

eg http://www.thisisby.us/index.php/content/gay_marriage_the_big_deal

]]> r http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c783823 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c783823 Media Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:48:10 -0800 Comment by wrenn I want the intern to protest at a Seattle School Board meeting. All the cool kids are doing it, but I don't have time. There's one tonight, and every two weeks thereafter...

]]> wrenn http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c783875 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c783875 Media Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:23:06 -0800 Comment by Fremonty I'm moved to Seattle last summer, and one thing I have noticed is that everyone I meet socially is from somewhere else. Is this because the out-of-state population is more outgoing and easier to meet? Or do the natives recognize me as an outsider and avoid me? Am I just not looking in the right place? Seriously, I'd like to know the statistics of asking random people on the street where they are from and if they consider themselves to be outgoing and open to new friendships. I'm making lots of friends, just find it odd that we are all ex-pats and no locals.

]]> Fremonty http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c784266 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c784266 Media Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:21:31 -0800 Comment by A Public Intern Hey, here's a revolutionary concept!!!

I feel obliged to point out that Seattle already has MANY people who come to work every day to be "public" interns. They do research of every variety, from genealogy tips to legal advice. They strive to provide Seattle with services and programs of every size and variety. These noble "public interns" work to give kids and teenagers a place to hang out. One of their many services is free Internet access.

Go visit some of your public interns today!

Or, conversely, make Steven go spend a day with them! (and, by the way, if you DO ask him for research help? I have a pretttttty good feeling where he'll start his search.)

]]> A Public Intern http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c784268 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c784268 Media Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:33:52 -0800 Comment by TMac A few years ago (five? ten?) hoards of city workers descended on the "planting" areas of the I-5 Mercer Street ramp with backhoes and shovels. They tore out blackberry bushes and weeds, planted a few trees and covered the area with beauty bark. Since then not one moment of maintenance has occurred and the area is once again a grotesque mess of weeds and half dead blackberries. I say give the lad a rake and a few paper yard waste bags and leave him there until he's got the spot looking spiffy again. Having something pleasant to look at might make the horror of the Mercer ramp halfway tolerable.

]]> TMac http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c784279 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c784279 Media Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:10:27 -0800 Comment by Gitai Have him hand out condoms and safer sex information to the bush bunnies in Volunteer Park. They could really use them.

]]> Gitai http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c784299 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c784299 Media Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:46:58 -0800 Comment by dan rather steven.

i'd like you to kill everyone who works at microsoft. that way, i'll not be liable for a client's "untimely death." you will be. and i can get back to creating stupid shit for a living.

thanks, mang. seriously.


: ::dan

]]> dan rather http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c784382 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c784382 Media Wed, 15 Aug 2007 23:09:57 -0800 Comment by anal retentive Dan, having a public intern is just wrong. ( I could go in to more depth on this subject, but it is probably best if I don't ). If the public intern is meant to be satirical, then by all means go ahead.

]]> anal retentive http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c784450 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/meet_the_public_intern#c784450 Media Thu, 16 Aug 2007 06:31:14 -0800