What We Talk About When We Talk About Seattle

Seattle is the Emerald City, where It Rains All The Time, and where The Space Needle is, and where Kurt Cobain shot himself. Seattle is a place for Hipsters, and a place for lots of suicides (because of the rain). Every city’s got its stereotypes – here are a few for your reading pleasure.

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POLL: Who Would You Rather Bang — Hemingway or Fitzgerald?

Before I start this article, I’d just like to say something really quickly — no homo. Okay, now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, we can start the actual article.

Oliver has a MFA in fiction from a very expensive college, but has never published any fiction. He has written for ...
 

Western PA Man Streaks for 3 Miles

The naked man was finally captured wading through a creek. Authorities do not know why he was wading there or why he was naked to begin with, but upon further investigation, it was found that the man has “mental issues” and is receiving care, though he was still charged with open lewdness.

Dan grew up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He went to college in western Massachusetts. He can be reached at ...

Notes on Osama bin Laden’s Death Party

Maybe you’ve heard, Osama bin Laden was killed yesterday. The People of Twitter told me so. Or at least, told me I should step away from my computer and sit back down in front of my television to watch a press conference. But the press conference didn’t air when they said it would, so I started losing interest and flipping channels, distracted long enough to miss half the President’s address. Though I knew the gist: Jihadist #1 was dead.

Matthew Newton is a writer, editor, and journalist from Western Pennsylvania. Publisher and editor of the journal ...

Frequent Flyer Fatigue

The downside of air travel is the bit where you actually have to travel by air. The mild irritation that comes from close proximity to strangers at sixteen-hour stretches? That’s what kills me. I have noticed there are certain “types” of people you could end up next to on a flight, and I’ve noted a couple of them here.

Thus far, her most effective methods include writing and traveling. Occasional bouts of guilt persuade her to ...
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