Cmon, we all know Birch has 5 frozen human hearts ready for transplant wherever he goes. This is all a ruse, I suspect, to keep some ill gotten gains from the taxman. A visit from the elderly "Austrian" surgeon, a 220 volt electrical socket and an "adult novelty device" will shock that fucker right back to life.
No! This was consistently the best column (along with occasional gem from Hulk). Win one damn Pulitzer and now The Stranger is too cool to make fun of itself (yes, that's a low blow and likely totally inaccurate).
As Mr. Steen's secretary, does this mean I'm out of a job? What about my memberships in the WAC, Harbor Club and Rainier Club? And my tab at Canlis and the Olympic?
Oh Birch. Why'd ya have to go? Couldn't God have taken me? After all, I've had nothing to live for since they closed I. Magin.
I still remember the time the Critical Overview was inadvertantly posted under the Wm. Steven Humphrey byline then quickly changed.....
By far my favorite part of the online experience, and obviously very difficult to write so well - consistently surprising language and drop-dead barbs. I might just have to look through the archives now and then for a Steen fix.
Steen retired? Oh, great. Now we'll have to wear black armbands on our cynicism and endure our festering contempt in solitude. I suppose that degenerate Savage is getting more column inches out of this, somehow, or maybe a few more "medical marijuana" dens will be able to buy overpriced ad space. Thanks a ton, Stranger staff, for snuffing our patron troll. It's all over - only a cataclysmic eruption of Mount Rainier can save The Stranger from mediocrity now.
(Srsly, it was most enjoyable. Bring him back soon.)
He will be missed by a great number of our readers and even some members of our staff.
But not, one imagines, by David Schmader. Steen's disdain for him and his work reportedly ran so deep that he arranged for their vacations to coincide, in order to avoid missing a single chance to excoriate him in print.
Steen was the perfect foil for the Stranger.
Steen will be greatly missed. *weep*
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Del S. Raines
(Shit, I've been reading this paper for a longass time!)
Good luck!
Oh Birch. Why'd ya have to go? Couldn't God have taken me? After all, I've had nothing to live for since they closed I. Magin.
By far my favorite part of the online experience, and obviously very difficult to write so well - consistently surprising language and drop-dead barbs. I might just have to look through the archives now and then for a Steen fix.
(Srsly, it was most enjoyable. Bring him back soon.)
But not, one imagines, by David Schmader. Steen's disdain for him and his work reportedly ran so deep that he arranged for their vacations to coincide, in order to avoid missing a single chance to excoriate him in print.
Now I'll just skip to page 11 and ignore all the ads ...