MONDAY, MAY 25 The week kicks off with two huge kabooms. The first occurred underground in North Korea, where a world-infuriating second round of nuclear testing was carried out not far below the surface of the country's northeastern region. The second kaboom took place outside a Manhattan Starbucks, where a low-grade explosive device (believed to be a "glorified firecracker" rather than international terrorism or anticorporate activism) shattered the windows and singed the outside wall of one of the chain's Upper East Side outlets. Also, it was Memorial Day.

TUESDAY, MAY 26 Nothing happened today, unless you count the announcement of the Supreme Court of California's decision to uphold Proposition 8, the voter-approved ballot measure restricting the state's marriage rights to heterosexual couples. In a kicky twist, today's decision does nothing to the 18,000 same-sex marriages performed during last year's 18-week window of legality other than render them legal-only-in-California novelty items. As half of one of these 18,000 incriminatingly arbitrary marriages, Last Days looks forward to the unrelenting legal challenges Prop 8 is doomed to face, beginning with tomorrow's announcement of the federal lawsuit filed by attorneys David Boies and Ted Olson (who famously fought on opposite sides of 2000's Bush vs. Gore ballot battle) seeking to invalidate Proposition 8 on the basis of constitutional guarantees of due process and equal protection. Hurrah, onward, and for now, here's a celebrity quote to illuminate the glorious fact that marriage equality has made the leap from fringe concern to mainstream civil-rights issue, from the culture-shaping hiphop mogul Russell Simmons on the Huffington Post: "In my heart, I know that marriage equality for every human being isn't a question of if, but only a matter of when. I ask those who feel that giving freedom to others somehow binds you, to please take a good look at what you are standing behind... And to my brothers and sisters in California, I'm there with you every step of the way until that day comes."

WEDNESDAY, MAY 27 The week continues with day number three of a creeptastic child-custody battle in Canada, where the mother and stepfather of two young Winnipeg children face accusations of racist teachings and failing to provide adequate care after their daughter repeatedly appeared at her elementary school with white-supremacist symbols drawn on her skin. As CBC News reports, the 8-year-old girl and her 1-year-old brother have been in the care of Child and Family Services since March 2008, with the mother and stepfather's battle to regain custody finally commencing this week. During Monday's proceedings, a social worker told how the young girl spoke of this being "a white man's world" and provided graphic descriptions of how to kill nonwhites. On Tuesday, another social worker told of her first meeting with the parents, who claimed their daughter was "famous for lying" and had likely drawn the neo-Nazi symbols on herself. And while the mother told social workers she had no idea why her daughter would refer to the family as "skinheads," extended family members later told the social worker that the parents shaved their heads, shaved the little girl's head, and described themselves as a skinhead family. Court proceedings are scheduled to continue into June.

THURSDAY, MAY 28 The week continues with the formal coronation of the Northwest's latest living legend, a new-millennium Seattle superhuman blending the laid-back star quality of Sir Mix-A-Lot with the how-is-he-still-alive wonderment of Slats. Last Days is speaking, of course, of the Capitol Hill man who was shot in the head and went back to bed, first introduced to Stranger readers by news writer Jonah Spangenthal-Lee, who shared details of the police report today on Slog-the-Stranger-blog. The specifics: At around 10:30 p.m. last Friday, the 25-year-old man was sleeping in his East Harrison Street apartment when someone fired a bullet into his bedroom. According to the police report, the bullet penetrated the wall of the man's apartment and struck him in the head, but the shooting victim felt "well enough to sleep through the evening." The next day, the man finally got around to notifying police, who searched his bedroom and found a ".22 or .25 caliber" bullet lodged inside his pillow. As for the man: He sustained only minor injuries and declined medical attention. As for the bullet: Police determined it came from an adjacent apartment, knocked on the door, received no answer, called in a SWAT team that found no one, and ultimately left a note for the neighbors to contact the East Precinct. Stay tuned, and congratulations, bulletproof sleeper.

FRIDAY, MAY 29 Speaking of local notables: We continue with the would-be gun-wielding zombie apprehended tonight by Seattle police. Details come from KOMO News, which reports the would-be zombie first drew attention when he walked into Capitol Hill's Metro Clothing store wearing "all black, knee pads... a gas mask, and carrying what looked to be a machine gun," as well as an artillery vest apparently rigged with a grenade and a knife. And while our black-clad, gas-masked, grenade-laden man was merely taking part in the Friday-night "zombie crawl" sponsored by Metro to promote next weekend's Crypticon Horror Convention, at least one bystander thought a real-live masked gunman was entering the store and called police. "A dozen police cars converged on the scene and officers ran into the store, guns drawn," reports KOMO, adding that officers arrested the would-be zombie gunman but quickly let him go after confirming his zombie qualities were a put-on and his mini-arsenal all toy. "I was surprised," said one-named zombie-walk-organizer Seage to KOMO. "I didn't expect anyone to be arrested being dressed as a zombie because we did this last weekend. [There were] a dozen of us walking around in full zombie gear—blood, guts, and nasty skin hanging off and it just went fine."

SATURDAY, MAY 30 The week continues with a humongous march for universal health care through the streets of Seattle and a private demonstration for readily accessible marijuana onboard King County Metro, the latter of which was reported by Hot Tipper Ethan: "Immediately after boarding the #48 in Ravenna, I noticed a man across the aisle measuring out dime bags of what looked to be part shredded newspaper and part low-quality marijuana." Did he have a scale or was he just eyeballing it? "Eyeballing it," said Ethan. "He got off around 50th."

SUNDAY, MAY 31 The week ends with the tragic last day of Dr. George Tiller, the Kansas physician who spent the past three decades risking his life and enraging abortion-rights opponents by performing legal late-term abortions at his Wichita clinic. This clinic was bombed in 1986 and became a crime scene in 1993 when Dr. Tiller survived a shooting by a "pro-life" terrorist in the parking lot, but through it all, Dr. Tiller carried on—until this morning, when the 67-year-old doctor attended morning services at the Reformation Lutheran Church, where he was fatally shot. By end of day, police will have apprehended a suspect: Scott Roeder, a 51-year-old Kansas man with a history of anti-abortion activism and mental illness, who's being held on suspicion of first-degree murder. recommended

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