The hottest thing in local Seattle politics is the city's war on Saint Rat / Hot Rat Summer, a mosaic that someone put up (without permission) on the old pumphouse in Cal Anderson Park last year. Recently, city workers have been painting over the mosaic, and good citizens have been cleaning off the mosaic to restore it when they do so. It is a fierce battle, and one I hope the citizens win. We must fight for Hot Rat Summer.

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Did you ever feel the impulse to walk into the woods in the dark just to see how far you'd go? Do you have strange feelings about the mirror at the end of the dark hallway? Would you describe a portion of your nightmares as 'erotic?' Is the creaking on the stairs just the house settling, or is someone coming up? Did you ever have a toy you buried in the bottom of the toy box because it made you feel uneasy? Is it still there, I wonder?

Have you ever caught a scary bug and when you go outside to empty the cup, you find it's not in there anymore? Are you nervous about having the shower curtain closed when you're in the bathroom? Did you ever dread something alive and wriggling tumbling out of the open cereal box?

These ones are important:

Would you lock fingers with deadly flesh-ripping claws? Would you plant your lips against a bone-crushing maw? ⛧

❤ ⛧ Gotcha ⛧ ❤

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