Alexa, save us from the bear repellent!
Alexa, save us from the bear repellent! Maartje van Caspel/Getty Images

Did I see any of you at the KeyArena groundbreaking ceremony today?? No? That makes sense. I wasn’t there. You know who was there? The arena’s investors! And the Oakview Group, the ownership group of the new hockey team! It was star-studded. Now, the $700 million KeyArena renovations are underway. See you in 2021, KeyArena.

Bear repellent sprays some Amazon workers: A machine punctured some bear repellent in an Amazon warehouse. The fumes sickened workers and about two dozen were sent to the hospital. Their eyes and throats were burning. It was a whole thing. I wonder if Amazon docked them pay for the work they missed.

The XFL Is a Trumpian nightmare and it's coming to Seattle: The XFL, an alternative version of football, was born in 2001. It also died in 2001. It was all sorts of violent and misogynistic. It's being rebooted in 2020. Seattle will have a team.

Hate crime at Western Washington University: A student at WWU has been charged for allegedly creating racist and homophobic vandalism on campus. The first incident was racist graffiti at a residence hall. The next day there were two more places on campus hit by graffiti. The vandalism targeted African-American, Latino, Japanese and LGBTQ+ communities.

It’s frigid: It sure is cozy with these cold temps. Our drafty office windows are giving me a nice taste of what I can expect when I brave the cold tonight. Can’t wait to freeze these buns off!


GameStop needs a buyer: The brick and mortar game store is struggling to keep its head above water. The whole gaming scene has changed, or so I’m told. Games are online! Who needs a store! That’s the mentality, right? But yeah, if you have some spare money around, GameStop wants you to buy it.

Satanic Temple graces Illinois statehouse with sculpture: ‘Tis the season! Every denomination is represented at the Illinois Capitol rotunda. The Satanic Temple provided a sculpture of an arm holding an apple with a snake coiled around it—get it??? They call it the Snaketivity. It says “Knowledge Is The Greatest Gift” on it. Can’t argue with that one.

Harvey Weinstein sends self-pitying email to his friends, it leaks to the world: He started it out by saying he had had “one hell of a year” and that this was the “nightmare of his life.” Cool. Weinstein is awaiting trial currently for sexual assault allegations. Those accusers also had a nightmare of a year, Harvey. His friends leaked the email throughout Hollywood, so at least there's that.

Drama in the art world: I hope these museums get into a big fight.


My dad told me he cried during this: And that he wants to schedule a pre-death funeral so he can hear the eulogies about himself before he’s dead. The Stranger team was a bit more conflicted about George H.W.’s death.