And speaking of The Stranger, they’ve managed to piss off more people than usual with their latest cover. Slog covered the controversy with their usual unrestrained glee. It also hit LiveJournal’s Seattle community.

The shot was taken by a photographer named Ye Rin Mok. It’s worth taking a spin around her site, which is full of beautiful photography (all of it SFW, as far as I could tell) and puts a much different context on the image The Stranger used.

My own take: it’s amazing how juxtaposing words and images changes meaning. When you see the same image without the words FOOD FIGHT and FAREWELL, SWEET BESTIALITY, does it seem quite as tawdry?