Megan Seling

Sticker saying the film The Burbs should be in the Criterion Collection

Best sticker I’ve run into around town in quite a while

The Stranger’s Inaugural Complaints Issue If anyone’s gonna talk shit about our home, it’s gonna be us.

We live in this city, we work in this city, we eat, drink, and fuck in this city. We see what makes it great, and we know what drives us crazy. We love it enough to want what’s best for it.

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But we love our rain. And our Mariners. And the local organized Antifa Cells, wherever they are.

So if anyone’s gonna talk shit about our home, it’s gonna be us.

We rank in the top 3 “gloomiest” regions, with an average of 226 cloudy days and 156 rainy days a year; we have some of the worst traffic despite being one of the best cities for public transportation; and the Mariners are the only team in the league who have never been to the World Series.

We love this city and we are proud to call this bewildering little corner of the country our home.

And look, we know it’s not perfect. Our cost of living is about 45 percent higher than the national average. And we have fewer public bathrooms per capita compared to many other major US cities.

Trump has implied that Seattle is too dangerous to host the 2026 World Cup matches (though violent crime is down), and our new mayor, Katie Wilson, is a “liberal slash communist.” But we are done being your punching bag, America!

We’ve heard them all before. But their criticisms got loud again during election season, as outsiders started to notice that our own mayoral race had a lot in common with New York’s historic election of Zohran Mamdani.

For years, delusional politicians, ass-kissing mainstream media talking heads, and professional liars have been misrepresenting Seattle to the masses: “It’s been taken over by antifa terrorists!” “Seattle is a lawless wasteland!” “The city is spiraling out of control!”

The Stranger’s Inaugural Complaints Issue If anyone’s gonna talk shit about our home, it’s gonna be us.

This was a fun one to put together... @thestranger.com's Inaugural Complaints Issue!

Seattle is great. Here’s everything that’s wrong with Seattle.

Thanks for the nice words! Megan Carter is out for blood. Can't wait to watch her the rest of the season.

Thank you!! ❤️❤️

This is a fun article on Seattle's new professional women's hockey team, the Torrent. Of course, they're very underpaid and work hard, so support women's sports and buy tickets! @pwhltorrent.bsky.social

How to Make a Hockey Team in 205 Days People were brought to tears at the sight of professional women’s hockey players finally getting their due in a sold-out 15,000-capacity arena on the West Coast of North America. And it was abou...

Happy @pwhltorrent.bsky.social home opener day! I dusted off my hockey writer hat for this one:

"Now, before anyone can start to regurgitate some brand of 'ThEy DoN’t GeT pHySiCaL iN wOmEn’S hOcKeY' nonsense you read on a message board in 2017, let me say this: Yes, they fucking do."

How to Make a Hockey Team in 205 Days People were brought to tears at the sight of professional women’s hockey players finally getting their due in a sold-out 15,000-capacity arena on the West Coast of North America. And it was abou...

Pretty proud of this one. I followed the Seattle Torrent around ahead of their home season opener. God, I love hockey. www.thestranger.com/sports/2025/...

How to Make a Hockey Team in 205 Days People were brought to tears at the sight of professional women’s hockey players finally getting their due in a sold-out 15,000-capacity arena on the West Coast of North America. And it was abou...

Pretty proud of this one. I followed the Seattle Torrent around ahead of their home season opener. God, I love hockey. www.thestranger.com/sports/2025/...

How a Seattle Alt-Weekly Newspaper Became a Progressive Kingmaker

Still worth a read, though: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/t...

Millions of grocery-store pumpkin pies are sold every year—are any worth buying? A Stranger investigation. If you’re gonna pick up a cheap grocery store pie this season, you won’t be alone.

Feels pretty good to have The Stranger Election Control Board's hard work, influence, and jokes recognized by the NYT today, but they neglected to appreciate the also very vital Pumpkin Pie Control Board. It's fine, I'm fine.

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Your Vote May Not Have Counted: 1,930 of You Could Decide This Election Your ballot might be sick. Cure it, please. We can't bear to watch it suffer.

If you haven't checked to make sure your vote counted, you need to do it now - the race for Seattle's future depends on it!

Overhead in the @thestranger.com office: "What's MxPx?"

I was just thinking this very same thing!

Imagine how insufferable Dawson Leary's film podcast would be.

Does anyone else use their head as leverage when using an Aeropress or is that just me?

I love hockey.

I Moved From Seattle to Smashville It was March 27, 2010, and the Nashville Predators were tied 0-0 after three periods of play against the Detroit Red Wings. Back then, the boys in gold were the

Sorry for your loss, Mariners fans. I am going to selfishly take this opportunity to share one of my favorite things I've ever written, from when the Preds lost the Stanley Cup to the Penguins. Different team, different sport, but lots of the same feelings. ❤️

Haha, I hadn't thought of that! But it really is!

I don't know why there is a headless pigeon in my driveway but I am going to choose to believe it is an offering from the crows for Johnny Waffles.

A person in an inflatable rat costume holding a St Rat sign that says "Saint Rat Sez protect trans lives, fuck ice, release the Epstein files "

A picture of someone wearing an inflatable axolotl costume at a No Kings rally in Seattle

A good dog wearing a little saddle sign that says "I'm doggone mad!"

Several people wearing blue inflatable shark costumes at the No Kings rally in Seattle

There were also axolotl, sharks, squirrels, and very good dogs.

At the Seattle Center, ICE lice invaded the Constitution.

Seattle's No Kings Rally started at Seattle Center and now there has been a constant stream of people marching to Westlake for the past 45 minutes.

😂 but I bet it was memorable!