Sunday, June 7, 2009
SIFF / Celeb Justin Kirk: Angels, AIDS, All Stars, and All-stars!
Posted by Adrian Ryan on Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 5:45 PM
I’m talking with Justin Kirk in the lobby of The W Hotel, which is very sleek and shiny. Justin Kirk is also quite sleek and shiny: spotless and sharp and refined, with just a touch of arrogance riding in them thar high cheekbones. There’s something Byronian about his forehead and the perfect slope of his nose, too. He’s chewing on a toothpick. His teeth are perfect, his hair is perfect—sexier still from the gentle dusting of white just behind his ears. He’s wearing a respectable “I-just-turned-sexy/forty” ensemble of jeans/striped button-down-under-a-casual-black-cashmere-spring-pull-over. We are both wearing Converse All-stars. Mine are smudged. His are surgical. You really notice how smudged your Converse are when you're sitting next to Justin Kirk.
Sitting next to Justin Kirk, I feel like a dish rag.
Events Crypticon Seattle
Posted by Kelly O on Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 12:15 PM
Music Fuck You
Posted by Dan Savage on Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 11:32 AM
I'm supposed to be writing... so I went offline for nearly 24 hours... and I just went on to look up this story I read on the Globe and Mail's website last week... damn.
Can't... stop... listening... to G&O. When the hell is their first album coming out?
Stranger Suggests Today The Stranger Suggests
Posted by The Stranger on Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 11:00 AM
SIFF
'Manhole Children'
In the 1990s, thousands of parents were abandoning their children while their state, Mongolia, was transforming its socialist economy into a capitalist one. Many of these children moved into manholes under the streets of Mongolia's very cold capital, Ulaanbaatar. These children would have died if not for the warmth from a system of steam pipes that heated the city's upper-class homes and businesses. The documentary focuses on the lives of three children (from 1998 to 2008). As the three get older, another form of suffering (besides poverty) begins to absorb them—lovesickness. Even here, under the freezing city, in this vicious network of steam pipes, love is a powerful and dangerous drug. (Pacific Place, 600 Pine St, thestranger.com/siff. 6:30 pm, $11.)
CHARLES MUDEDEBooks Reading Today
Posted by Paul Constant on Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 10:20 AM
Three events today.
Diane Wei Liang reads in a couple hours at the Seattle Mystery Bookshop. Paper Butterfly is about a missing pop star...and murder. Then, a couple hours later, she reads at the Seattle Public Library.
And then the Hugo House hosts something called Earth's Oracles: The New Oracular Tradition. Brenda Peterson, Judith Roche and Patricia Monaghan give writers way too much credit by referring to them as "oracles for the natural world." This is really seriously pushing it.
Liang is the reading of the day, and when's the last time you checked out the Seattle Mystery Bookshop, anyway?
The full readings calendar, including the next week or so, is here.
News The Morning News
Posted by Unpaid Intern on Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 9:40 AM
Post by news intern Alexander P. Brown
Wreckage: Bodies and debris recovered from Air France Flight 447.
He Should Have Went To Vegas: Man who threatened president arrested in Nevada.
Complications On Top Of Tragedy: Group asks Supreme Court to stop Chrysler sell to Fiat.
Name Recognition Gets You Everywhere: Hutchison lead early polls in Exec race.
This Week In Big Brother: Cell phone spying technology is now user friendly.
Because A Stalling Economy Makes You Like Anyone With Money: Florida looks to bring in $100 million in "Gay Days" event.
Mixed Signals: Health insurance companies invest billions into tobacco industry.
All Hail The Guitar Hero: The ultra-talented Prince was born on this day. Due to his copyright views it's a bitch to find a video of him, luckily you can watch his solo at the 2004 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame tribute to George Harrison.
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