Trugoy supposedly had Congestive Heart Failure. 54, yikes.

Anyone else see De La Soul at a short-lived club on 85th and 15th Ave NW in Crown Hill (I think it's now Taki's Mad Greek & a hookah lounge)? Would have been '95, '96?

" "There's a new fentanyl mix. It's called "tranq," "

Careful goddamnit! This new mix is so dangerous, just uttering the name of it will cause cops to pass out.

The super bowl Jesus commercials were 'only' the first $20 million of a $100 million Jesus branding campaign. Expect to hear more from Him throughout the year.

I would much rather trust an actual investigative reporter at the ST to look into accident data, than a tweet from a one-time mayor who was defeated when he ran on transportation issues, and below that I would trust even less a blog that never crunches numbers on the cause of collisions.

The first paragraph of the ST article plainly states that the truck driver was apparently trying to beat a red light. McGinn's response: It'S ThE rOaD dEsIgN!!! The Stranger's response: eMbEd McG's TwEeT!!!!

You can do better.

@7: I think you misread McGinn's sarcasm.

@8, based on this nugget from his followup, I think you're seeing sarcasm where there is none:

"BTW, cars leaving the roadway and running into people and things is built into the design."

Man, I wish I could backdate the timestamp on my work and make it look like I completed projects on time! What's up with 1) Slog PM just not existing anymore and nobody from The Stranger addressing it and 2) none of the writers being able to actually post AM at the "posted" 8:30am time? Sounds like there's trouble in the socialist writer's paradise.

How many of the cars running into buildings are deliberately doing so as part of a robbery? Seems like that’s been a thing lately.

@9: no, he is parodying blame-the-victim reactions when pedestrians are struck by cars. of course, some pedestrians are fucking idiots, or stumbling meth heads, and "Vision Zero" is a pipe dream. there will never be perfection when vehicles and pedestrians mix.

it IS part of road design (and parking design and building design) to make buildings easy to run into. it could be harder, but that's how America built hundreds and hundreds of strip malls. curb stops, bollards here and there.

Ali Wong did the "perform while pregnant thing" years ago. She did it better afaiak.

In diplomatic circles, you don’t want to cast unnecessary dispersions or make blanket statement that have no wiggle room. As an intellectual, you should know way better than to say something that condemns a whole race or a whole nation of people for some practice or political action. We know – don’t we? – that there are kind people everywhere, and a government in power doesn’t represent vast swathes of its people. Did we all support Trump? Are there people in Russia who dream of figuratively serving Putin’s testicles on toast points?

With all that said, let me say this: Without regime change in the PROC, I will not be believing one official word from a representative there or anyone else who has a vested interest in keeping China’s status quo. Yeah, maybe I’ll have to listen to what they have to say, but believe? No.

And let’s not forget this either. Old China certainly had its problems with unbelievable poverty and corruption, but it was one of the first signatories of the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Mao’s China has never honored one tenet of it. Not one. And that is not the Chinese people’s fault.

I know Las Vegas is far, far from the Bugsy Siegel Land of Old. Hell, it’s gotten kind of family-oriented – except even now, Daddy slips away once in a while for some boobs, Blackjack, and a blow job. But I find the LV/U2 thing a little unsettling. Sort of disappointed in that decision actually.

Couldn’t have cared less about the Super Bowl this year – or its commercials. I wonder why Rihanna even bothered. She a zillionaire now with her clothing and makeup lines. Made her sooooo rich.

Don’t get the kamikaze car thing either. It happens all the time in Los Angeles. Almost every day. Usually a strip mall restaurant, but homes get it, too.

Glad about the Meridian 16, if you can believe what you hear. Saw many movies there. I thought it was a nice venue – clean, nice personnel, snack bar on every floor, and, for me, very, very convenient. Just the market stuff played there though. Not an art house by any means. It was, however, part of the urban redecorating thing that Paul Schell and, to a lesser extent, Greg Nichols had going on. Niketown. Planet Hollywood. As a fan of an older Seattle, I think the renewal did more harm than good. Oh..and that horrid skybridge at the Convention Center. Still want to take a sledgehammer to it.

Want to reduce traffic accidents and deaths? Have more police enforce traffic laws. Running lights and speeding have no consequences. Laws without enforcement are simply suggestions which can be ignored. And DO NOT legalize jaywalking. Cross at the corner, please.

'I enjoyed when Rihanna
grabbed her crotch and
then sniffed her hand.'

that Was classy!

was she just
Checking on
the poor Kid?

to be fast and loose
with one's Timestamps
may indicate Deeper issues
perhap's Rich's Overbooked.

or they gotta
put it out
Later.

@ 31 - Yeah, ST, I go back to the "Hey, Faggot" days of Savage Love - when DS was pushing espresso at Cafe Septieme by day, steppin' out as Helvetica Bold at night. Traditions and routines sure do change with time. That may be a good and bad thing depending. So many music venues then, and I was still young enough to enjoy loud. Glad I got to enjoy them. Glad I got to enjoy the originality of both Seattle and The Stranger. Hell, I miss the P-I, too.

The good news for younger people is that they don't remember and feel loss because they were never there. They have to establish their own code. You can't really convey to a 25-year-old what Halloween was like in the 50s and 60s. Going from house to house in your neighborhood, receiving candy sometimes from people you didn't know well sounds now like a very reckless concept. Or dressing up for air travel. Or just walking through the gate onto the tarmac never ever considering the possibilty that someone might do something nefarious once in the air.

Not to say we should just ditch established standards when they serve us well, but the older ones amongst us try, for the most part, to adjust to the new age. And no one wants to hear, "Back in my day..." from anybody. I certainly rolled my eyes to it when I was young because really, old man, who cares about back in YOUR day?

I wish The Stranger well.