We Read The Weeklies
...and it's the special silver linings edition!
We're mixing up the format a little and starting off with the East Bay Express. Why not? Bottom Feeder reports on a fight in a Contra Costa condo complex where one person tore out someone else's topiary duck. So Method and Red. Gay couples aren't sorry they demanded equal rights. Cover article: Julia Butterfly Hill (the chick who lived in a tree for two years) started her own nonprofit environmental action group. A music columnist goes to Yoshi's four nights in a row and now hates jazz. Obit for Mac Dre. The EBX's election 2004 silver lining: Jello Biafra will put out some good records in the next few years.
Onto the Guardian! Cover article, and general mood: Glum. Depressing article from a guy who writes for an alternative weekly in Ohio (conclusion: they knew all along Ohio wouldn't vote for Kerry -- gee, thanks for telling us now). Have you thought about going skiing in Tahoe this winter? Dan Leone claims he was really stressed out about the election. You know, we don't believe him. Is that dude stoned all the time or what? Cheap eats... uh, yeah....! Hooray For Anything's back in business, with not one but two fine moments in prose for your perusal! We missed you! The Guardian's silver lining: Newsom didn't do very well in the local elections.
And rounding it out, the Weekly (sorry, South Bayists, we couldn't scrounge up a Metro this week either). Matt Smith thinks Newsom didn't really need to shoot the dog to balance our budget. The Infiltrator participates in an anti-abortion rally even though he's pro-choice. Harmon Leon, we think this time you might have gone too far! Cover article: local metal band Dirty Power. Savage Love: the election sucked but at least blue America has all the cool places to live. The Weekly's silver lining: A whole column of silver-lined thoughts from local musicians (examples: Jon Stewart will be funnier, at least we know we hate red America, and "I heard George Bush is going to start serving free ice cream whenever he speaks").
And the Weekly of the Week: We'll probably go with the Weekly, even though we weren't so into the heavy metal cover article. Harmon Leon, we really do think you might have gone too far this time with the Operation Rescue thing! Sounds like a car wreck of an afternoon! Also, the Weekly's silver lining article was the most entertaining of the three.