This week's issue of Seattle alternative newspaper The Stranger profiles the "Best of the Seattle Blogs". They give a great plug to Sound Politics, the local issues group blog that I helped start, calling it "a well-written--and sometimes well-deserved--scorching of Seattle liberal pieties".
 | The article includes this picture of me, sitting at my computer in my obligatory blogger uniform of pajamas and bathrobe. |
Green Lake software developer and "center-right" (read: Bush-loving wacko) Republican Stefan Sharkansky knows he's swimming upstream in liberal Seattle. His local politics blog, Sound Politics (www.soundpolitics.org), takes daily jabs at Seattle's political establishment with headlines like "Baghdad Jerk," "Go Dino!" and "Christine Gregoire's Character Problem."They only printed a few of my answers to the question "What other blogs do you like?" so please, nobody should feel slighted.
When I showed up at my favorite neighborhood coffee house this morning, I found a copy of the article posted by the cash register and the Barista asked me "Are you really a Bush-loving wacko?"
Just because The Stranger was founded by the same people who founded The Onion doesn't mean they just make things up.
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at November 04, 2004 02:06 PMDude- theres no such thing as bad press, but there is such a thing as a bad bathrobe.
( congrats...)
Looks like a cross between the lubavitcher rebbe and hugh hefner.
Posted by: jannol on November 4, 2004 03:09 PMStefan,
I don't recognize you without a smile on your face, or at least - I don't know what to call it - a look of energy, I guess.
Posted by: Ron Hebron on November 4, 2004 05:52 PMOh my God! It's Israeli cantor / opera singer Dudu Fisher!
Congratulations Stefan... ;-)
Posted by: David Melle on November 4, 2004 11:11 PMWhat a cute outfit! Those folks at the Stranger will remember that photo long after they have forgotten your politics. Maybe if you put up some more pictures of yourself you could establish a cult following among some of The Stranger's regular readers.
Lucky guy. And they spelled your name right, too. Next stop, the big time. Andrew Sullivan, move over!
Posted by: Michael Gersh on November 6, 2004 09:14 AMNice work! I'm jeaulous.
Posted by: Another Dreamer on November 12, 2004 04:00 PMjust curious. Does your surname have anything to do with the village of Sharkan?
GZ