I think you liberal fuckers are missing out on one of the most neglected issues that NOBODY is talking about!! Wasn't it really fun and personally rewarding to be smarter than the President of the most powerful country on Earth for almost an entire decade? When will that ever happen again? Never...thats when! Thanks to us, and those like us, we'll now be taught things by our leadership...we'll ponder viewpoints that differ from ours, we'll consider having a thoughtful foreign policy, we'll listen to other smart people and maybe even have them appointed to cabinet positions they deserve...probably be part of a meaningful energy policy...and on it goes. Where is the opportunity for mockery and derision there? How will we feel smug, superior and contemptuous about someone who is so obviously firing on all cylinders? You wait...you're gonna miss W a couple of years from now when you realize that you haven't been light years ahead of Obama on any single topic even once! Then my friends...you'll be sorry.

Bill the Cop.

A question, to which I suspect many Slog readers are searching for an answer:

Where's the best place in Seattle to get a bloody mary with breakfast on a Tuesday?

It shouldn't be so difficult to answer this one, but seemingly it is.

Thank you.

Well, Brad, here is a piece that the lovely Marti Jonjak wrote on the topic of bloody marys (or would that be bloodies mary?); however, I don't believe any of these places are open before 11 a.m. on Tuesday. Two places spring to mind that are: the Mecca and Cafe Presse.

Holy fuck, did you people have a crank party at 7 am this morning? I think I counted 90 posts to slog today! I think it might be time to pull a huff po and divide up the blog. Or is this the pre-orgasmic build up to your collective election wad being shot? If this keeps up I feel that the rss reader on my new iPhone is going to get a lot more usage.

this is a page from my little boy jonah's favorite book, "go, dog. go!"

let's hope it is prophetic.

^{Poor-quality photo courtesy of Jonah Spangenthal-Lee}

Nov. 4th Stranger Voter Cheat Sheet! I know it was in the paper a few weeks ago! But I need your brilliant SECB to do my absentee ballot...! Help! It's not on the website...???

Oh, but it is: here. And it'll be in the paper again this week.

Here's the long version (with pesky reading!).

Franz Amador

DEAR EDITOR: I am delighted every week to lay my hands on the newest issue of The Stranger. Every article is well written and interesting (even when they drone on and on about the newest and hottest cookie-cutter electronica snoozefest), but on every read-through there is a point where I set down the paper and sigh.

Bar Exam: STOP BOLDING RANDOM SENTENCES. [Boldface from the original] Bethany Jean Clement is grossly abusing her ctrl-B privileges. An example—"...people bedded down in run-down campers under part of the West Seattle Bridge, a community in the shadows with grit sifting down on it" [Bar Exam, Sept 25]—bolded text implies emphasis. Ms. Clement might be proud of her flowery prose (it's cute, really), but the next time I'm attending a poetry jam, I'll listen carefully to see if any of the professionals loudly shout the bits they're particularly proud of (and laugh when they do). Until Clement's habit becomes a national trend, I'll keep making fun of this free paper.

Kavan Phalon

Here is Mr. Phalon's envelope:

In case you can't see it, by the drawing near the return address, it reads "An attractive young man," while by the drawing of the goblin, it reads "The editor is some sort of goblin." We will take Mr. Phalon at his word that he is an attractive young man; everyone knows that each and every Stranger editor is some sort of goblin.

In the Comments on the pertinent Letters section, DANE rose to my defense:

I think "Kavan Phalon" is a piping hot TWAT WAFFLE.

We'll set DANE's opinion aside. The thing is, every column in The Stranger employs BOLDING RANDOM SENTENCES (or phrases, as the case may be). Mr. Phalon, it is not by choice; the goblin-editors IMPOSE THIS UPON US. All the arts columns are thus imposed upon: In Art News is forced to use random bolding, as is Constant Reader and Theater News. (I might also point out that all of these run before Bar Exam in the paper, meaning if you're going to sigh and put it down, Mr. Phalon, you have up to three previous opportunities to do so.)

So, is RANDOM BOLDING a thing of abject horror to you all? Please do tell and we will take the findings to the goblin-panel.

RANDOM BOLDING IS:

The Muni League had a candidate forum in the 46th district last night between Scott White and Gerry Pollet. The candidates never mentioned endorsements from the PI or Times, but the Stranger came up on at least three questions, and in depth when asked about gay marriage. Have some pie, in local politics you’re more relevant than what passes for daily locals.

Awww, shucks.

Hi Paul...

A couple of weeks ago you posted on SLOG a link to Nina Katchadourian's stories told in book spines. In comments, someone from the University Book Store linked to a contest they were running where you make your own spine story. I won! Apparently I was the only entrant. Still, I thought my entry kicked ass, so I've attached it for your pleasure.

I have a $25 U Book Store gift card coming to me, so thanks for the post!

DOUG.

Congratulations, Doug.

Anyone?

Need a momentary break from election obsession? (Insert folksy Palin wink here.) Relax with some soothing Letters to E.T., courtesy of Pitch.com's Studies in Crap.

Sample excerpt:

More here.

Slog used to put cute animal pictures up all the time and I thought this was perfect. This deer is tiny and darling and deserves to be seen by people everywhere:

More photos at the Daily Mail, plus details that will give you diabetes of the mind:

...staff at Tiggywinkles Wildlife Hospital in Buckinghamshire believe Rupert, as he has been named, will make a full recovery....

At five days old, he is being kept in an incubator and has just opened his eyes.

Mikki, we apologize for being remiss of late in the cute animals department. Efforts are being redoubled.