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Friday, September 12, 2003 |
Man in Black
Anyone interested in a moving evocation of Johnny Cash by a kindred artist may want to check out "Luther Played Guitar" by Stan Ridgway, from his album Black Diamond.Those unafraid of the wrath of the RIAA may even want to Kazaa the .mp3, which is certainly out there somewhere.
2:16:20 PM 
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Bean Ball
This week's award for most creative Bush-bashing goes to Seattle baseball fan Randolph Sill, whose antics are reported by Amy Jenniges in this week's issue of the Stranger:
On August 29, Randolph Sill headed to a Mariners game with a homemade sign decked out with slogans written in Japanese kanji, along with the number of Sill's favorite player, Ichiro Suzuki. Whenever Ichiro came up to bat, Sill would hold his sign high. Sill, who's spent time in Japan, knows Japanese television regularly broadcasts Mariners games and spotlights signs for its native son Ichiro.
Here's what Sill's sign said: On one side, the kanji read, "President Bush is a monkey's butt." On the other: "Americans are ashamed of our corrupt president." Sill, who hoped his sign would be broadcast on TV here and in Japan, says many Japanese fans at Safeco Field smiled and winked when they read his sign.
Mariners security staff, however, were not amused. When they caught on during the seventh inning, a cop escorted Sill and his sign to the security office, and seized the sign. "I haven't heard, yet, if the sign was broadcast to all of Japan," Sill says.
1:20:38 PM
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The Reaper’s Week
As we get further into an era where celebrity permeates every aspect of the culture, it is inevitable that the number of people who die each week will include growing numbers of people that someone has heard of for one reason or another. This week’s crop of notable passings is especially interesting in its international and cross-occupational reach. For those of you who haven’t heard, we very recently lost:
Of these, all were natural deaths except for the tragic and shocking murder of Anna Lindh, and all but Lindh and Ritter had lived rather long and eventful lives. Still, it’s interesting the range of accomplishment encompassed by the growing notion of fame, and how the deaths of strangers can make us reflect on the natures of our own lives, times and places in history.
8:18:08 AM
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