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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Dudes / Death / City / Life We Don't Normally Run Obituaries...

Posted by David Schmader on Tue, May 15, 2012 at 2:06 PM

....but that's mostly because people rarely send us obituaries to run. But then someone did, and here it is.

Name of Deceased: Rony Wiesel
Age : 51
Date of Death : 05/04/2012
Last Residence : Seattle Washington
Place of Birth : Toronto, Canada
Work History : Art Director and Writer/Editor at various papers
Education : Reed College - English Lit
Synagogue Affiliation : Seattle Kollel
Hobbies / Interests : Writer, Editor, Property Management and Real Estate

I believe it was Brendan who recently brought up the idea on Slog that a good obituary makes you wish you'd met the deceased. This is a good obituary.

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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Dudes / History / TV Zach Wahls on David Letterman

Posted by David Schmader on Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 9:56 AM

The wonderfully articulate son of lesbian moms (and new author) chats with David Letterman about bullying and homophobia, and it's kind of amazing: Wahls is so naturally empathetic towards those who might disagree with him/his family, it gives Letterman a chance to come out swinging.

Also, I don't want to be one of those people who, like, survives life in a gulag and then remains forever and inordinately amazed by life outside the gulag—"Sandwich wrap? We didn't have that in the gulag!!!"—but as someone who grew up gay in Texas in the 1980s, I'd like to say that I never thought I'd live to see the day when the accomplished son of lesbian moms discusses homophobia on television with David Letterman. Good work, human progress.

Thank you, Towleroad.

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Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Dudes / The Ladies Important Ani DiFranco Poll

Posted by Grant Brissey on Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 11:05 AM

Please make your voice heard.

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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Dudes / Two-Block Radius An Exchange

Posted by Brendan Kiley on Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 3:00 PM

A few hours ago on Broadway, a man in a Kangol cap, a track suit, and sunglasses was whistling across the street to a friend. He tucked his bottom lip beneath his incisors, one of which was gold, and emitted an uncommonly loud and elaborate whistle. The whistle had a high, smooth, oscillating pitch. It sounded like a sine wave or an unusually cheerful mourning dove.

"That's a hell of a whistle you've got there," I said as I passed.

"Thank you sir!" he boomed. "I swallowed a bird!" Then he gave me one of those wink/cheek-clicks that is often accompanied by that pointing gesture where you make like your finger is a gun and your thumb is the hammer.

But he didn't make that pointing gesture. Just the wink/cheek-click.

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Friday, February 17, 2012

Dudes / Politics / Economy Ever Wondered What It Would Be Like to Be Trapped in an Underground Hangar with the President?

Posted by Cienna Madrid on Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 11:58 AM

Toby Crittenden, Program Director of the Washington Bus, is one of a lucky few hundred non-Boeing employees picked to stand in an underground hangar at the Boeing factory while President Obama rubs exfoliated elbows with workers and shouts about jobs (spoiler alert: they're important!).

I asked Toby to text me breathless updates about his trip because I am incredibly nosy and he is incredibly obliging. Here's what he's noted so far:

"Presidential politics brings everybody out. This isn't your run-of-the-mill political hack crowd. Many different faces here. We're busing past giant airplane engines basking in the great outdoors... now we're in a giant tunnel under the Boeing plant. It looks like the set of a scifi movie—like Battlestar Galactica, minus the threat of human eradication, and soundtracked by serious smooth jazz jams. The energy in this tunnel is as tense as your average unarmed jawa in a tatooed bar (again, minus the threat of human eradication)."

For all you non Battlestar Galactica fans, here's what that looks like (BYOSmoothJazz):

Toby Crittenden
"I suppose the only thing left to do is propagate the human species."

Toby says the president has alighted from a Boeing plane and is preparing to address the crowd:

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Monday, January 16, 2012

Dudes / The Weather A Snow Penis, and a Snowman With a Penis

Posted by Grant Brissey on Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 10:45 AM

See them and more right over here.

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Thursday, January 12, 2012

Dudes Witness the Majesty of Virgin Steele!

Posted by Grant Brissey on Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 5:01 PM

And their giant sword, right here.

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Thursday, December 22, 2011

Dudes / Comedy / Youth Pastor Watch / Homo / Conflict of Interest / Religion / Genius / LGBTQITSLFA Who's wearing white robes here . . . .?

Posted by Chicago Fan on Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 3:33 PM

The Cardinal of the Most Holy Roman Catholic Church in Chicago compares the gay rights movement to the Ku Klux Klan. Because of an argument about routing the Gay Pride Parade. Out of touch, much?

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Friday, December 16, 2011

Dudes / Music / The Ladies Bree McKenna's Review of I'm in the Band, by White Zombie's Co-Founder, Sean Yseult (A Woman)

Posted by Grant Brissey on Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 9:02 AM

"The only women backstage were often tagged with a 'Tulsa' badge to get backstage (that's 'A Slut' backwards)."

Read the whole thing here.

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Thursday, October 27, 2011

Dudes / The Ladies Now Look

Posted by Jen Graves on Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 10:42 AM

A Slog Tipper (thanks, Jennifer!) just sent us a costume that is creepy-gross-sexist in a different way from Dr. Howie Feltersnatch, M.D.: Anita Waxin. Damn, frat guys have such good senses of humor.

I have another thing to say about Halloween costumes. I'm with Dan that Halloween is essentially straight pride day, and humans should go with their sexy selves.

But I would also propose that if you are a person who finds yourself casting a judgmental eye at cleavage every other day BUT Halloween, you have no right to show yours on Halloween.

If I see your sexy on Halloween, I wanna see it at least some other days, too. And I don't want to hear your prudish bullshit the rest of the year. Unless prudish bullshit is, like, your kink.

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Friday, October 7, 2011

Dudes / Nepotism Congratulations Are In Order

Posted by Cienna Madrid on Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 2:34 PM

My brother just called to tell me he's been awarded a Navy SEAL contract. I was less than thrilled when he first brought up the idea of becoming a SEAL a year ago, and reading up on their training and deployment did nothing to soothe my liberal, big-sister hand wringing (why the fuck couldn't he grow up to be a teen dad like his friends???). But after watching him work for the last year—running marathons in hiking boots, swimming miles with a brick in his mouth, morphing into one giant ab, etc.—I'm really proud of him for getting his goddamn contract. He's earned it. (Goddammit.)

And what better way to celebrate that fact than by paying a hairy man $5 to write Congrats! on his stomach and dance his fucking ass off? (Hat tip to TVDinner for the idea!)

I love you, buddy! Reach for the stars!*

*And then quietly smother them in their sleep.

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Thursday, October 6, 2011

Dudes / Occupy Overheard in the Office

Posted by Cienna Madrid on Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 2:44 PM

Addressing the topic of Occupy Seattle: "We should have a pajama party—I sleep in the raw."

This image will now be seared on my brain for a good long while. And so it's my duty to spread it around:

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Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Dudes / Politics Hey Look, the Racist* Scumbags Are Still at it with Their Stupid Signs!

Posted by Christopher Frizzelle on Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 1:17 PM

Photo By My Crappy iPhone

It's the same stupid Obama/Hitler sign that smug racist* scumbags have been standing next to for years. These fucking idiots are like catnip to me. Having no self-control, I asked whether Obama had exterminated six million innocent people—update: a commenter to this post points out the number's more like 12 million, and Wikipedia says "as many as 17 million"—and the one on the left said, "Uh, you've never heard of Anwar al-Aulaqi?"

I said I had just been reading about Anwar al-Aulaqi.

The guy on the left went on: "He was an American! He hadn't done anything! OBAMA KILLED HIM FOR HIS THOUGHTS!"

I said, "No, I think he killed him because he was an al Qaeda operative."

The one on the left said, "He hadn't done anything!"

I said, "Except advise the Christmas Day bomber to wait until he was over Detroit to detonate his underwear, so he could kill as many innocent Americans as possible."

"For his thoughts!" the one on the left went on, not listening. "YOU COULD BE NEXT!"

Considering I have no plans to join al Qaeda, I'm not that worried. The light changed and I crossed the street and bought a smoothie.

* It's just my personal opinion that vilifying Obama by making shit up and conflating him with one of history's most accomplished evil-doers is racist. But like I said, that's just my opinion. Let's poll it!

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Dudes / Visual Art So What's It About? Well, It's Big! No, It's HUGE! It will KNOCK YOUR POWER OUT!

Posted by Jen Graves on Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:46 AM

Patte Loper made this painting, called Film Still Circa 1977. An exhibition of her new works is happening Thursday during Pioneer Square Art Walk, at Platform Gallery. None of her works will weigh 30, 50, or 340 tons.

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Patte Loper made this painting, called Film Still Circa 1977. An exhibition of her new works is happening Thursday during Pioneer Square Art Walk, at Platform Gallery. None of her works will weigh 30, 50, or 340 tons.

It's happening now—maybe you'll see the juggernaut out there on the road this week, snaking from Riverside, California, to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

A custom vehicle three freeway lanes wide has been commissioned by LACMA in conjunction with a company that normally transports nuclear generators and missiles ("extreme objects"). But this extreme object is a 340-ton boulder that's part of a new sculpture by Michael Heizer, the cowboy/land artist whose earliest urban installation was here in Seattle.

That piece, made in 1976, also included big rocks: three granite slabs 30 to 50 tons each (give or take 20 tons, you know), carted by train and barge from the Cascades to Myrtle Edwards Park, where they sit to this day.

But that piece didn't seem to have quite so much to, ah, prove. LACMA director Michael Govan is calling this new Heizer one of the heaviest objects ever moved, raising the spectre of ancient monoliths.

Utility lines, street lights, and stop lights are being dismantled—then remounted immediately—to make room. Permits have been required from every municipality and county along the way, as well as the state of California.

It just goes to show: Museums and wealthy donors don't love challenges, unless those challenges are logistical.

And then they love them so much it's pornographic.

Almost like they're, you know, compensating for something?

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