Today is the last day you can pick up a newsstand copy of this month's Seattle Metropolitan, which contains a comprehensive article on Seattle political force would-be, Grant Cogswell:

[T]he poet-turned-activist-turned-politician-turned-filmmaker whose 10-year struggle to make Seattle a more urbane, communitarian, and transit-friendly city in the 1990s and early 2000s rocked local politics, nearly wrecked his own life, and inspired the book that inspired Grassroots. He’d traveled 2,800 miles from his current home in Mexico to attend and try to capitalize on the film’s making. He’d dropped in on shooting, been filmed himself for a companion documentary, enlisted Mayor Mike McGinn for one scene, even played a city councilman (not himself) in another.

Cogswell is also the man whose Stranger e-mail address I stole. He's fond of saying that this article "gets almost everything right." Cogswell is currently driving a van full of donated books to his current hometown of Mexico City, where he plans to open the city's first English-language bookstore. He is a fascinating character.

You can also read the article here.