B&W has worked through various stages of grief about the election and has arrived at acceptance. (How healthy of me!) Acceptance does not mean good cheer, but rather a return to the status quo of low-key despondency that has become familiar in the last three years. Wish we'd had this in our town--did you get one, Mike? (Also interesting, if rather corrosive, reading here and meta coverage here.)
I had a lovely (NOT!) experience in Seattle this past weekend, during which the guy yelled at me that "things are very busy because people are shopping for Christmas and if you don't like that you can go back where you came from!"
Later, in obsessively trying to come up with the perfect comeback, I kept returning to this poster, and wishing that I had had the foresight to remark "You poor dear, it must be sooo tough for you living in a city where 80% of the people disagree with you."
Not very charitable I know, but it wasn't the kind of experience that leaves me feeling overly charitable.
Posted by: Sivani on December 1, 2004 02:13 PMI did, and in fact intended to blog about how great the cover is simply for the use of type. I was too busy to do more than skim the issue, however, and did not think to keep it. Then it was two weeks later and seemed pointless to write about.
There was an article in the P-I about the cover the other day, which is quite unheard of; the dailies studiously ignore The Stranger, as though it were somehow non-extant, or possibly doomed, even though it's been around now, incredibly, for nearly 15 years.
Posted by: mike on December 1, 2004 11:13 PM