This Week in The Stranger

Partial Index of This Week’s Contents

aliens, sex, relationships, futility, and the existence of
–retro-campy
aneurysms, the induction of
–the repair of
Artist, the Choke
back, the way
band, the best fake-blood-soaked, sweater-vest-wearing, electric-organ-pounding
business, juvenile-fiction magical
cake, a rule against human
confetti, air choked by expensive
convolutions, joyriding rhythmic
crying, real drooling-and-snotting
culture, an encouragement to co-opt black
–freak
dialectic, hello-third-world diaspora
dickrags, square-headed
disease, menstruation mistaken for a venereal
–hereditary polycystic kidney
–a sea of
doughnuts, animal porn and abortion

’80s, something that crawled out of a Manhattan loft during the
extremities, the screaming of lower
factor, the unhinged fun
feeling, movie-length meditations on a particular
flesh, sagging
flowers, a violent passion for
Fraser, the bangs and eyeballs of Brendan
frontperson, the sugar-tit of the charismatic
gynecologist, insistence on a funny
home, the no-pants-necessary comfort of your own
joints, the smoking of imaginary
lip balm, poison
makeup, evil clown
massacre, an ecstatic
melodies, happy-go-plucky
mori, a Hello Kitty memento
nightmare, a high-school principal’s worst
peas, the breeding of round and wrinkly
pimping, fish slinging and produce
pull, subcutaneous
richness, a sideways
salmon, an entrance drug tempting addiction to West Coast
self-pollination
spawn, evangelical
teat-stroke, the loving
tunesmithery, maniacally gleeful
vigilance, heightened levels of no-bullshit
vigor, Barack Obama and hybrid
woman, an ecstatic yet robotic naked
unbeliever, the most devout