Hey, what if we all just tested our blood and saw how pure it was? Maybe we can all have a tiny taste. Just for fun. Just guy stuff.
Hey, what if we all just tested our blood and saw how pure it was? Maybe we can all have a tiny taste. Just for fun. Just guy stuff. Chip Somodevilla / Getty Staff

Oso pastor pocketed $40,000 in funds meant for landslide victims: Allegedly, Gary Ray, 57, stole a bunch of money back when he worked at the Oso Community Chapel around when the landslide struck. The landslide killed 43 people. Ray took $40,000 meant for victims. He was charged with three counts of first-degree theft on Oct. 5. Crime doesn’t pay, Gary Ray!

Your ballots were mailed out today! Make sure to vote, motherfucker! Go straight to your mailbox (in probably a day, this is snail mail we’re talking about, we have to be realistic), grab that ballot, and you either vote right away or put it somewhere where you have to stare at it until you decide to vote. Put it on your pillow. Tape our cheat sheet to the bathroom door so you have to look at how you’ll vote every time you drop a deuce. Vote on the toilet. Vote like your life depends on it. It very well might.

Spokane City Council may tell Border Control to fuck off: Well, they’re not being that firm about it—this is Spokane, after all. The council is considering shortening federal agents’ leashes by not permitting them from searching non-public parts of the city for undocumented people. This probably pertains to earlier this year when federal agents raided Greyhound buses and detained people on them. You know, 2018 stuff.

Scarecrow Video is celebrating its 30th Anniversary: To celebrate, they’re hosting an online auction and they’ve received some super cool shit. There’s art from two Twin Peaks cast members, an original Road House shooting script, signed Herschel Gordon Lewis items, and lots more you can see here. There’s a party—Video Store Day—on Saturday. Come one, come all. Scarecrow is the coolest.

Get your ice skating fix in Everett this weekend: Ice skating, it turns out, exists even when it’s not the Winter Olympics. That’s crazy! I like to forget about it for four years and then get pleasantly surprised that, hey, ice skating is a sport and then I watch ten minutes, get bored, flip to snowboarding, and am satiated for another four years. Except with ice dancing. Ice dancing is a whole other can of worms. Oh. Right. Anyway, all the current U.S. ice skating champions are competing at Skate America in Everett this weekend.

Oh, wow: Happy birthday, Lincoln. I love you.


Go stargaze this weekend, you hopeless romantics: The Orionid meteor shower is peaking this weekend. Look to the skies now and you can see a couple, but on Sunday you’ll be able to see 20 at a time! Well, you would be able to if we weren’t going to be experiencing a waxing gibbous moon at the same time. I know what you’re thinking. Rats! Another cosmic event spoiled by a waxing gibbous. There, there.

The debate of the century is tonight: Dino Rossi and Dr. Kim Schrier are going head-to-head tonight at Central Washington University. The Stranger’s Rich Smith, Dino's probably-nemesis, is there! Live! In the field! Near Dino Rossi!


Lindsey Graham ignites literal blood feud: Elizabeth Warren took a DNA test to prove that she’s part Native American because President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, said that he didn’t believe she was Native American. Turns out she’s Native American. But, Lindsey Graham wants to prove he’s more Native American so now he’s going to take a DNA test.


It turns out Gerard Butler is Scottish: Yesterday, I made an error in Slog PM where I described Gerard Butler as an “Irish actor.” This, as was pointed out to me by three emails and a Facebook message, was wrong. Listen, I have two things to say. One: I watched the first thirty minutes of P.S. I Love You a month ago and Butler is Irish in that. Two: What’s the difference between Irish people and Scottish people anyway? They’re both white cultures with funny accents. Fight me.

Don’t fret, the Seahawks are staying: Everyone was sad about Paul Allen’s death for about a minute. Then everyone was far more concerned about whether the Seahawks, one of Allen’s many possessions, would stay in Seattle. The answer is: yes. No word yet on if the team will be sold, but it will likely stay in Seattle. What’s Seattle's worst nightmare: Amazon leaving or the Seahawks leaving? Oh, I guess the Mariners kinda threatened to leave too earlier this year. The future could be bleak for Seattle sports. But hey, there’s always hockey.

Turkish intelligence obtained audio recordings of missing journalist’s capture: According to Turkish officials, Jamal Khashoggi, dissident Saudi journalist living in the U.S. and working for the Washington Post was captured, tortured, and killed by Saudi agents. In the process, they cut off his fingers, cut off his head, and dismembered his body. In the audio, a doctor was brought in to advise the dismembering. He advised the agents to listen to music while they did the dismembering. He found it easier to do with music.

Paul Allen is still in our thoughts today: And every day, really.