The first bad decision was to put on Limp Bizkit. It seemed like a good idea at the time: “Hey, let’s put on some music that sounds like an elk bleeding to death and listen to it ironically and look at each other and laugh.” But then without even knowing why people started to feel aggressive, like they wanted to fight people, and the girls started sneaking off to the kitchen to take solo shots of tequila…

The whole thing’s here.

Christopher Frizzelle was The Stranger's print editor, and first joined the staff in 2003. He was the editor-in-chief from 2007 to 2016, and edited the story by Eli Sanders that won a 2012 Pulitzer...