{"id":4691,"date":"2007-01-08T20:12:19","date_gmt":"2007-01-08T20:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=4691"},"modified":"2007-01-08T20:12:19","modified_gmt":"2007-01-08T20:12:19","slug":"the-stranger-makes-hilarious-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2007\/01\/the-stranger-makes-hilarious-mistakes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stranger Makes Hilarious Mistakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Stranger<\/em> is an entertainment rag(see: magazine) local to Seattle.  I read it off and on when I had glancing contact with Portland radio&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigredhair.com\/portfolio\/photo\/daria1.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">Daria O&#8217;Neil<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knrk.com\/showdj.asp?DJID=25689\" class=\"external external_icon\">Gustav <\/a>and <a href=\"  http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/billprescott\">Bill Prescott<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/main\/mt-archives\/003697.php\">Morning Radio Shows<\/a>. We&#8217;re talking late 90s early 00s, kids.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunatley I forgot about <em>The Stranger<\/em> and its strangeness.  That is until I caught up on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.regrettheerror.com\" class=\"external external_icon\">Regret the Error<\/a>. As they explain it, no one does corrections like The Stranger.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"blocked\"><p>For example, when its theatre editor confused two playwrights, the paper made him complete <a href=\"http:\/\/www.regrettheerror.com\/2006\/01\/oh_how_we_love_.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">a quiz<\/a>. That earned praise from us in our round-up of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.regrettheerror.com\/2006\/12\/crunks_06_the_y.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">year in media errors and corrections<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.regrettheerror.com\/2007\/01\/the_stranger_ad.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">Now the paper has published<\/a> its own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestranger.com\/seattle\/Content?oid=125321\" class=\"external external_icon\">round-up<\/a> of corrections.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some examples follow:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"blocked\">\n<ul>\n<li>Bradley Steinbacher, the managing editor of <em>The Stranger<\/em>, regrets sharing an office with Dan Savage, editor of <em>The Stranger<\/em>, especially since Mr. Savage often changes clothes in said office, during which Mr. Savage routinely threatens to place his scrotal sack on the back of Mr. Steinbacher&#8217;s neck. Sometimes this threat is sung to the tune of <em>Fr\u00c3\u00a8re Jacques<\/em>. Both the threat and the state of Savage&#8217;s scrotal sack are regrettable. <\/li>\n<li> <em>Stranger <\/em>news writer Sarah Mirk regrets not double-checking the visiting hours for Yakima County Jail on November 5, resulting in a very, very disappointing end to a six-hour drive through a blinding rainstorm<\/li>\n<li><em>Stranger <\/em>associate editor David Schmader regrets not buying more of that mushroom fudge from that lovely woman at Hempfest. <\/li>\n<li>Christopher Frizzelle, the arts editor of <em>The Stranger<\/em>, regrets being so stoned the month of August that he let associate editor Charles Mudede write a review of a book that was published 140 years ago. <\/li>\n<li>With regard to Ms. Mirk, <em>Stranger <\/em>news editor Josh Feit regrets not getting the young, impressionable Ms. Mirk hooked on crack and\/or knocked up, which might have compelled her to drop out of college and stay on <em>The Stranger<\/em>&#8216;s staff. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Damn. <em>The Stranger<\/em> makes me laugh.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.regrettheerror.com\/2007\/01\/the_stranger_ad.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">regret the error<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stranger is an entertainment rag(see: magazine) local to Seattle. I read it off and on when I had glancing contact with Portland radio&#8217;s Daria O&#8217;Neil, Gustav and Bill Prescott&#8216;s Morning Radio Shows. We&#8217;re talking late 90s early 00s, kids. Unfortunatley I forgot about The Stranger and its strangeness. That is until I caught up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[31,54,58],"class_list":["post-4691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-culture","tag-emag","tag-linkable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}