Sunday, February 23, 2025

Matt Baume

This Week’s Comics: Little Girls and Their Robot Buddies

You know what trope I’ll never tire of? Giant Hulking Brute Whose Best Friend is a Tiny Little Creature. I think my favorite example is how Sweetums, the big burly rag-dressed Muppet, is often seen palling around with Kermit’s...

Slog AM: Russia Invades Ukraine, Starbucks Workers Still Unionizing, and We're Almost Out of the Cold

Sure is. matt baumeSo, war. Russia's invading Ukraine, dozens are confirmed dead, and Biden has promised to sanction Russia. He'll deliver an address at 9:30 am PST. Meanwhile, there's fighting near the Chernobyl containment zone, which happens to lie...

How the Show Soap Became the Most Controversial Sitcom in TV History

Sex! Murder! Cults! Nymphomaniacs! Ninjas! Demon babies! Aliens! The sitcom Soap, which ran from 1977 to 1981, managed to parody just about every soap opera trope at some point in its run. Not surprisingly, it often proved controversial. And...

Cyrano Review: It’s a Musical, but Why? Nobody Nose

Courtesy Metro-Goldwyn-MayerThe most astounding thing about Cyrano is not that this film, based on a French comedy from the 1890s, begins with Peter Dinklage performing a sword-fighting rap battle. It’s that this is, in fact, how the original...

This Week’s Comics: Sexy Devils, a Dragon on Electric Bass, and a Truly Terrible Experience

The worst beach-going experience of my life happened in July of 1985 on a beautiful, humiliating afternoon. I was five, the family was vacationing on Cape Cod, and I was experiencing the ocean for the first time in my...

Another Top Pick This Week: Intiman's The Mystery of Irma Vep

What is a man, other than a miserable pile of secrets? The Mystery of Irma Vep is a vampiric satire of Victorian melodrama and monster-pulp, written by the great playwright, performer, artist, and theater-rebel...

And Now, the Tender Tale of the Orca Swimming Around With a Dead Fish Balanced on His Nose

How do I look? Ocean Wise ResearchLast week there was a bit of a social media fuss over Alder, an 11-year-old killer whale photographed with a fetching new fashion accessory: a dead salmon balanced on the tip of his...

Slog AM: Jenny Durkan's Phone Was Manually Set to Delete Texts, Deadline Looms to Pass a Housing Bill, and Washington Schools Are Down 29,000...

Not the most inviting greeting for a farmer's market, but thanks for the reminder Matt BaumeSo did Jenny Durkan just unlock her phone and hand it to strangers or what? A forensic analysis (that was supposed to come out...

Pioneer Square Design Shop Fruitsuper Welcomes Valentine's Day with an Inside/Outside Lovefest

Joe Kent and Sallyann Corn have invited you to a Lovefest. FruitsuperWhile Valentine’s Day is a fine time to waggle your eyebrows at a romantic crush, there are other forms of love worthy of celebrating too. That’s the thinking...

The Star of Death on the Nile Is Kenneth Branagh’s Mustache

Girl look how orange you fuckin look.The first ten minutes of Death on the Nile are an artistic black-and-white origin story for Hercule Poirot’s mustache. Later, we see that he sleeps wearing a custom-made face mask in the shape...

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