It is the 621st day of Trump’s presidency, and Trump can now text us whenever he wants.
Rich Smith
Rich Smith writes about politics, books, and performance for The Stranger. You can hear his impersonations of Bernie Sanders and Jeff Sessions on Blabbermouth, and you can read his poems at www.richsmithpoetry.com
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A Straight Guy’s Guide to Not Raping People
Even if you think you already know what I’m going to say, just read this.
So you’re a guy. You just got to college. You’re excited to have sex with a woman. But how do you do it, exactly?
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Let’s Fight About Those Fancy New Movie Theater Seats
Fancy Movie Seats Suck By Rich Smith It has come to my attention that people enjoy this new trend of installing extremely comfortable seats in megaplexes. As if the American ass needed any more coddling! I understand the appeal. The soft leather of the king-size luxury recliner welcomes the body like a friendly cloud. The […]
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Vancouver Democrat Carolyn Long Packs a Candidate Forum in Trump Country
Come for the candidates, stay for the moderator.
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Meet the Diplomatic Democrat Who Stands a Chance in Trump’s Washington
Carolyn Long bridges the political divide in town halls, classrooms, community centers, and even at home—her husband voted for Trump.
Carolyn Long bridges the political divide in town halls, classrooms, community centers, and even at home—her husband voted for Trump.
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Weekday Trumpdate
Weekday Trumpdate gives you the latest on the ongoing catastrophe in the White House.
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Mohamed Asem’s Revealing Memoir of Airport Detention
Asem Experiences Racism and Self-Reflection in Stranger In the Pen
In the new book from Perfect Day Publishing, Stranger In the Pen, Mohamed Asem makes the best of racist travel policies.
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Why Did a Mother Throw Her Kids Off a Bridge?
In late spring of 2009, in the middle of the night, Amanda Stott-Smith drove to the Sellwood Bridge in Portland, Oregon, and dropped two of her children over the railing. They fell 75 feet into the Willamette River. The 7-year-old, Trinity, survived the fall (and more than half an hour in the cold river). The […]
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Alice Bolin’s Dead Girls Explores Why Everyone in the Northwest Is so Obsessed with Serial Killers
Alice Bolin’s debut collection of essays, Dead Girls, illuminates a mystery that has plagued me ever since I moved to the Pacific Northwest: Why is everyone out here so obsessed with serial killers? Bolin approaches the question with a suite of four essays that lay out the mechanics of what she calls the “dead girl” […]
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Let’s Fight: Reading Indoors vs. Reading Outdoors
PAIGE VICKERS Reading Outdoors Is Overrated It has come to my attention that people continue to pretend to enjoy reading outside. Like any romantic person, I’m sympathetic in theory. Actors in movies look great tucked into the crotch of some mighty oak with a classic spread open in their lap, or laid out on a […]
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Chelsea Hodson’s Tonight I’m Someone Else Explores the Haziness of Young Romance
RYAN LOWRY In her debut book of personal essays, Tonight I’m Someone Else, Chelsea Hodson catalogs and explores all the weird kinks you develop while looking for love in your 20s: excessive longing, self-sabotage, self-delusion, self-obsession, self-deletion, and lying all the time. The self Hodson summons to write so beautifully (if a bit hazily at […]