In last week's issue of The Stranger (a free Seattle rag) still
available for pick up around town, they ran one of their "NEW
COLUMN(s)" - a "Kaption Kontest! Below is a cartoon by Danny Hellmann,
which is in need of a caption. Have a look, consult your brain, and
send your..."
The cartoon depicted a man holding a handgun, spattered with blood,
with the bloody corpses of his victims in the living room that
provides the background.
I would have included the cartoon (which I would snag off their
website) but they already took it down:
"We're Sorry!
The page you're looking for does not seem to exist.
As you have undoubtedly noticed, we've been doing some shuffling
around here and the page you're looking for seems to have gone
missing. Please use the search field below to find what you're looking
for."
If you don't live in Seattle, you may not know the inescapable story
all week is that last Saturday night a man opened fire on party goers
in a living room in a house in Capitol Hill, massacring several
people.
The cartoon was in astonishingly bad taste on its own, in the next
context it was thrust into, it was completely beyond...
I don't have anything against bad taste, I'm a user and dealer myself.
I don't understand why hipsters adore the Stranger and revile me, but
what can you do?
The editors of The Stranger demonstrated that they don't even have the
courage of their own (sick) convictions by taking the picture down. I
suppose they've even cancelled the contest. It's a shame, the caption
I came up with for it was a killer.
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