My takeaway from a cursory reading of these Sasquatch postings: the end is near, and it's probably for the best.

There's a reason no one was reading Line Out. As someone that's loves music, and Seattle's music scene, can you guys just stop with this shit? Nobody comes to Slog for music coverage. We want bitchy political coverage of questionable value and the occasional brilliant social commentary. This excessively boring music coverage is a poor substitute for Goldy. I would prefer al All Mudede Slog to this shit.

@2 - shut yr mouth! i love the music coverage all up in this mamba jamba! also: i vote no on the all mudede.

@2: i get to attend vicariously even though i'm decades too old to put up with honey buckets and fucking idiots for 3 days. leave it be, it'll all be over tonight.

@2
Bad hipster music can be ignored. If I don't want hipsterdom I can just chill at the Northgate Mall or go see a metal show (metal is the anti-hipster genre)
Bad liberal politics, however, are imposed on me. I can't just go find a job and say I can work for $12 an hour. Instead, if Goldy had his way, I'de have to wait for someone to be able to afford to pay me 15/hour, even though I can live on $12. If I want a gun, I can't have one, if Goldy had his way.

You can always walk away from the hipster shit. One cannot walk away from socialism as easily, as the people trying to escape Cuba will tell you.

And I actually like the music coverage. It's a reminder of how happy I am to not be a hipster and reminds me that I haven't seen a Queen cover band in some time.

I'm with #2. All this music coverage is of less than zero interest to me. It's destroying SLOG for me, and I used to like SLOG quite a bit. That's fine, peoples' tastes differ - but I suspect I'm not alone, and I've encountered a lot of comments suggesting others feel similarly. Why not give the music coverage the dignity of having its own blog, and restore the news and current events blog to being about news and current events? The last several days of wall-to-wall Sasquatch coverage intensify this dynamic, but it's been this way for weeks.

@5 - Or you could just move to Wyoming and be surrounded by persons that believe in the USofA that you purport to. (other than the race thing, of course)

You are surrounded by liberal politics and it is imposed on you (to use your words) because that is what the majority here in Seattle believe in. Welcome to democracy.

So, what other Seattle blogs are y'all reading? After six (!!) years of reading Slog almost daily, I think I'm done. It's just not doing it for me anymore. I need to go elsewhere. I give literally no fucks about any of this music shit.

Yep, I'm near done too. If it wasn't for the excessive bad cop and 15now coverage, slog would be fuckin lineout.

The problem reading horsesass.org is it's too serious and too politicky. I liked the mix of culture and politics on the old Slog.

@2's right. But the trouble is that Dom can't be everywhere to report and still write and Paul's got a fulltime job writing about politics and lit. Goldy was invaluable; this Sasquatch shit is not.

The real trouble with HA is not the seriousness; it's the fact that Goldy has to make a living elsewhere and can't post much -- certainly not as much as he did on Slog. What a stupid move to fire him.

Jesus Christ, for the all the people caring enough to comment on this that seem to hate music just read another article. There is plenty of content put out by the stranger. Your need to comment about your disinterest in music in a MUSIC ARTICLE just makes you reek of some sad middle aged man with no other way to fill your time. Some of us enjoy music coverage, no one is making you fill your time with reading topics that don't interest you.

@10 Sure HA can get too serious and politicky. But trust me, you don't want me to start covering music.

LOL @14. Perfect coda (it's a musical term).

Reported as spam, but the language is so yummy I just had to save some.

...the most attentionable is the "Limelight large pillow-shaped watch", on the body of which mounted nearly eight hundred diamonds, It worthes more than nine million yuan...

Collectivism dear, I thought you were moving to Houston. What's the holdup? Money? Do you want us to hold a bake sale or something?

What I find weird is that if you read Slog you'd think Sasquatch was the only cultural event happening this weekend.

Folklife is humming along at the Seattle Center. An indie event which is free and has a lot of interesting bands that aren't pimped by Ticketmaster. Has Folklife been mentioned on SLOG?

SIFF is going strong and has pretty good coverage here and of course excellent in the Stranger with the SIFF Notes and all.

Beyond town there are scads of Memorial Day weekend events. Seagull calling contests. Fireworks. Parades.

How about a Slog News filter alongside the Slog Music filter?

The Sonics played this weekend. It was on TV.

@9

Some other good WA based political blogs include:

Note that, unlike Slog, most of these blogs focus on reporting political goings-on rather than over editorializing.

Crosscut
TNT Political Buzz
ST Politics Northwest
PubliCola
Spokesman Review Spin Control
Seattle PI Strange Bedfellow
TVW The Capitol Record
The Olympia Political Blog
Puget Sound Business Journal

Yup, Line Out needs to come back, and so does Goldy. Solg has lost it.