Perhaps a t-shirt is more in your price range. Last month I began posting this image, which Seattle Post-Intelligencer illustrator Andrew Saeger created for a commemorative staff t-shirt after it became clear that Washington State's oldest newspaper was on its deathbed. Ever since, people in the comments have been asking how they can get a t-shirt for themselves.
You can now get one here, at a site run by Saeger and his brother.
Looking for P-I nostalgia at an even lower price-point?
Check out KUOW's wonderful series on the history of the P-I, which is airing this week and includes a link to a slideshow that offers a very retro photo of Seattle City Councilwoman (and former P-I reporter) Jean Godden plus a recording of P-I columnist Joel Connelly reminiscing fondly about how a highly scientific SLOG poll once crowned him Most Likely to Have Pissed on the Seattle Times.
Confidential to Connelly: I dug up the poll in question, and for now the actual results appear lost to history. But poll comment number two ("Why no Joel Connelly?") suggests that you actually might not have won the honor you're claiming. Hmmm.... A mis-remembrance of polls past? An unconscious guilty plea? A rare case of commenter confusion? In any case, I'm going to ask our tech wizards if they can find a definitive answer on who really placed first in our famous piss poll. Stay tuned.
UPDATE: Tech wizard Anthony Hecht turns a few dials, flips a few switches, and presto, the piss poll re-appears. Turns out Connelly is, indeed, engaging in some mild historic piss revisionism. He was in fact included in our poll, but he placed second to former P-I staffer Melanie McFarland, with Art Thiel a very close third.
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