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Have you been just aching to hit the open sea in style?

Or, "In Which We Suggest a Proper Landing Zone for that Satellite Headed Our Way"

The Rev. Ken Hutcherson, who, in addition to demonstrating the importance of increased protective headgear for linebackers, bully-pulpits Redmond's Antioch Bible Church, announced he's founded the AGN Financial Network, to finance his plan to buy Microsoft his brand of morality.

The Mojo and the Sayso which opened at ACT last night is four actors and a car, but the car is the thing, the main entity. The car is the set, the stage, and the focal character. It may not have any lines, but it stands in for everything that moves playwright Aisha Rahman's story forward. It's the absent child, gunned down by aggro off-duty cops, it's the broken family, being rebuilt from the ground up with parts scavenged from here or there, it's the hard facts of terrestrial life in the face of the easy fixes of shyster spirituality. Jennifer Zeyl designed the set. She's a genius, we hear.

The clock is ticking down on statewide ballot initiatives that hope to throw themselves into the field of vision of voters in November, and an article in Sunday's Olympian has a good rundown on who's going to make it and who's a laughable crank. The article mentions the boring-but-important initiatives that are likely to appear on ballots as well as all of the hilarious hits like the initiative that would apply the death penalty in cases of election counting errors, the initiative that would nullify straight marriages if they don't lead to offspring and--the most hilarious of them all--the initiative that would roll back the equal rights measures enacted by the state government last year. Unless that last one's not a joke, in which case it's the least hilarious. The Olympian article talks about how initiatives generally have to raise a shitload of money to get on the ballot, but that there could be an exception in the case of this most/least hilarious initiative.

Much like the team the Mariners' TV commercials have gone down hill fast in the last few years. This year's crop aren't groan inducing, and aren't that funny-- they just kind of hang there like a Joel Pineiro curve ball.

It's Easter weekend, which brings back memories of being late for church and having to sit in the narthex, and dressing up. Also, ham. But most of all, easter egg hunts! What if there were a city-wide easter egg hunt! Wouldn't that be great? Probably not, but in this week's Stalk, Seattlest tells you where we'd hide the eggs if there were.

Last Saturday, Seattlest attended what may be one of the final public screenings of Not Straight Forward, a documentary film by Jenny Ting, about Seattle’s lesbian dating scene. Saturday’s screening was the icebreaker to a broader evening of burlesque, feather boas and dancing, provided by Girl4Girl Productions. Seattlest didn’t stick around for these festivities, but the film sure was super. (Thanks for asking!)

Today at 11:00am, KUOW 94.9 will air the gay marriage debate between King County Executive Ron Sims, and Eastside bigot, Rev. Ken Hutcherson.

The Rev Sims vs Rev Hutcherson title fight went down last night and although we couldn't attend there's enough written material about it to keep us reading through the weekend and into next week. It would be cool if the Stranger guys could throw up a video or at least a transcript of it somewhere... Anyway, it sounds like Hutcherson brought a posse with him by bus so the crowd wasn't as one-sided as the venue, the organizers and the subject of debate would suggest. We're happy to hear there were no physical assualts.

There's Microsoft blood in the water right now and the sharks at The Stranger are taking full advantage, continuing to hammer home their contention that the software company changed their stance on the anti-discrimination bill in response to pressure from Ken Hutcherson. In "The Lying Game" this week they trot out ex-Microsoft empoyee Jeff Koertzen who reports that he was in a recent Microsoft meeting where the bill was discussed and "said that [Microsoft senior vice-president, Bradford L.] Smith's comments at the meeting made it evident to him that the company shifted its position on the bill after meeting with Ken Hutcherson." Seattlest hopes the feeding frenzy continues.

A lot has been written both in the mainstream media and online about Microsoft's reversal on the state of Washington's gay rights bill and Seattlest would like to add to the din provide a few links here. The short of it is that Microsoft had been getting resounding cheers from across the land (and on the web) for supporting House Bill 1515, an anti-discrimination bill, until the 11th hour when it withdrew its support for the bill and it died in Olympia. Critics say that it was pressure from the Right, including from pastor Ken Hutcherson, that brought about the sudden change of heart.