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Friday, August 31, 2012

Conflict of Interest / Bumbershoot Dan Savage and Lindy West, Tomorrow at Bumbershoot!

Posted by Bethany Jean Clement on Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 10:41 AM

The book looks like this, but bigger (click to enlarge).

The book looks like this, but bigger (click to enlarge).

Yes, indeed, it's Dan Savage and Lindy West, plus a couple other people, doing a slide show to celebrate Our Great Nation and our book, How to Be a Person: The Stranger's Guide to College, Sex, Intoxicants, Tacos, and Life Itself!

It's tomorrow, that is, Saturday, at 7 p.m. at the Leo K. Theater at Seattle Rep (aka the Words & Ideas stage) at good ol' Bumbershoot.

The slide show/discussion, entitled "The Stranger's Guide to America," is loosely based on chapter 4 of the book, written by Lindy West, which is extremely hilarious. To be discussed: moose wrangling, clogged arteries, Tom Hanks, earthquakes, glue-huffers, Oprah Winfrey's most recent movements, more, more more!

Also, bonus material: We made some mistakes in the book—here are the ones we've found so far. THEY ARE ALL DAN SAVAGE'S FAULT!

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Speaking of Bumbershoot, the new moving and flashing banner ad announcing the weather for this weekend is beyond annoying.
It obscures the posts, is distracting and makes reading very unpleasant. There really should be a way to make it go away. Advertising that bothers rarely works. Fail.

Posted by thatsnotright on August 31, 2012 at 11:22 AM

@1, but it's how the Stranger makes money, selling tickets to Bumbershoot. Think of it as a way to help pay everyone who makes this blog such a still-fun place.

Posted by gloomy gus on August 31, 2012 at 11:49 AM