This arrived in our office over the Xmess holiday...

Every time I thumb through a copy of The Stranger, I look over "Stranger Suggests." After glossing over which author-readings, movies, art shows, or whatever is deemed worth seeing, I move on to the rest of the paper. I have NEVER done anything you have suggested. Not once have I looked at a listed Sherman Alexie read-along and whipped out the cell to order tickets. (Do you order tickets for a reading? Or do you just show up with a Kindle and make Mr. Alexie cry?)

I feel like I might be missing out on a lot of Seattle's offerings. None of my friends give a shit. They don't like concerts, activism, or anything that doesn't involve over-priced clubs, orange-skinned muscle men and women that I have less in common with than a potato. I think I need new friends, a new scene, a new something. Has anyone ever tried doing everything The Stranger suggested for a week? A month? A year? Is there a group of people that do nothing but what The Stranger suggests? Does anyone do what you suggest and write about what happened or how it changed them? There really aren't any follow ups for what happened.

The idea of a month where every day I do something that takes me out of my comfort zone is excitingly terrifying. Maybe terrifyingly exciting, I'm not sure.

Kyle Regan

Kyle is going to see Sherlock Holmes tonight, eating oysters at Anchovies & Olives tomorrow, and heading to Meiro Koizumi's solo show at Hedreen Gallery Wednesday. Look for his reports—will Sherlock Holmes change him? will oysters agree with him? will walking into a gallery kill him?—daily on Slog.