From my drinking column:

The Boss is a bar next to Jumbo Seafood Restaurant & Lounge, which in turn is next to a business that sells jewelry and furniture, all of which are contained in a building, Rainier Mall, that’s painted the color of white flesh and has near its entrance impressive statues of roaring lions and ancient and curvy Greek women dancing in a way that would excite and wet the dreams of a 19th-century German philosopher.

These are the statues…

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Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...