My bus stop has a row of newspaper boxes, with the Stranger and Seattle Weekly at the end. One day I saw that someone had set a fire in the Weekly box. There was a large pile of ash in it, and its plastic window was warped and drooping. The Stranger box next to it was untouched. I mentioned this to my teenage son, and he asked the question I’d been wondering, too: “Why would someone burn the Weekly and not the Stranger?”

Franz Amador

19 replies on “Letter of the Day”

  1. I had explosive diarrhea once and shot it out cannon-style into a Stranger box. It’s not like anyone picks up the paper anyway.

  2. More accurate, Dan, is you’re mad, bad, and dangerous to know.

    @11: I don’t even live in Seattle, and I read The Stranger and SLOG religiously.

    That’s how fucking good it is.

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