The Slippery Fish

Archives for Litsa Dremousis, 2003-2011. Current site: https://litsadremousis.com. Litsa Dremousis is the author of Altitude Sickness (Future Tense Books). Seattle Metropolitan Magazine named it one of the all-time "20 Books Every Seattleite Must Read". Her essay "After the Fire" was selected as one of the "Most Notable Essays 2011” by Best American Essays, and The Seattle Weekly named her one of "50 Women Who Rock Seattle". She is an essayist with The Washington Post.

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Adam Kellner is Somewhere:

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Above: a photo of Adam shortly before his disappearance Above: video Adam's family has compiled including news footage and vital informa...
Monday, June 28, 2010

Mischief abounds!

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Tomorrow through Friday, I will be frolicking with my dear friend, Kate, in town from San Francisco, and our itinerary is kinda spectacular....

A year ago today:

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Henry 1998-2009 In recent months, I've sardonically taken to referring to my home as "The Mausoleum". (If I weren't sardon...

Tweets from the past week (minus re-tweets and replies):

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Monday, June 21st: 8:47 a.m. Pens, toothbrushes, razors. #ThingsThatShouldBeRecyclable 8:56 a.m. I'd love to go Robin Hood on #TonyHaywa...
Friday, June 25, 2010

Tales from the neighborhood:

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My newest post for KOMO4.com's Capitol Hill blog: http://capitolhill.komonews.com/content/vivace-al-fresco-one-broadways-most-resilient...
Thursday, June 24, 2010

Riz Rollins paints with music and...

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...has long exemplified the vast knowledge and reverberating love of the very best DJs. Trent Moorman's new Q & A in the Stranger wi...
Wednesday, June 23, 2010

My new Seattle Weekly feature is here:

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The whimsical and hook-laden Seattle-based band, Horace Pickett, plays Artopia this week! Touring in a Volvo, a giant stuffed tiger and a dr...
Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Perhaps unsurprisingly...

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...it is easier to write for long periods of time when, unlike today, my nerve endings don't feel like someone took a cheese grater to t...
Monday, June 21, 2010

Dad!

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As I wrote elsewhere yesterday, my father taught me to respect everyone but that trust should be earned and that, also, he's the reason ...
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Saturday, June 19, 2010

Just once...

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...I'd like an editor to say, "Fuck it. If they don't know that word, they can look it up." Sick of the lowest common deno...
Friday, June 18, 2010

Christmas seems...

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...both like yesterday and a lifetime ago. Time is contorted this year.
Thursday, June 17, 2010

Let's congratulate GOP Texas Congressman Joe Barton...

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...for becoming the nation's most contemptible individual in the space of one hearing. Rod Blagojevich and Sarah Palin jealously admire ...
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Louis C.K. on lube, how Jimmy Carter might die and why the Pope is a pedophile. From last night's Daily Show:

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The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c Louis C.K. www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party
Wednesday, June 16, 2010

"Mike Todd died in a plane crash and my father consoled Elizabeth Taylor with his penis."--Carrie Fisher

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Sure, her recent work might benefit from tighter editing, but Carrie Fisher will always be in the pantheon as a writer and as an actress. In...
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Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Orayne Williams:

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Of the slew of horrific details surrounding the BP disaster, one of the most unsettling is the huge role human error played at each juncture...
Monday, June 14, 2010

We could all use a bit more Baxter:

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Yesterday at Thomas St. Park in Seattle, 5:50 p.m. Baxter is nine weeks old and his owner told me it was the kitten's first day outside ...
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Sunday, June 13, 2010

Bemused detachment...

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...is not only necessary at this stage but perhaps a key factor in getting one to the next.
Thursday, June 10, 2010

Lucky:

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It's hardly a secret this is the worst year of my life. However, I'm so massively fucking grateful to so many for so much. Last nigh...
Wednesday, June 09, 2010

In six hours...

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...I must be cogent and witty for a dinner party. Right now, I feel like the bumblebee that just crashed against my bedroom window. Still, I...
Tuesday, June 08, 2010

The most recent findings re the XMRV retrovirus and CFIDS/CFS from a new Chicago Tribune feature:

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Despite the depressing-as-fuck headline, it's encouraging that in recent years, the illness has finally been recognized as the perniciou...
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Litsa Dremousis:
Litsa Dremousis is the author of Altitude Sickness (Future Tense Books). Seattle Metropolitan Magazine named it one of the all-time "20 Books Every Seattleite Must Read". Her essay "After the Fire" was selected as one of the "Most Notable Essays 2011” by Best American Essays, and The Seattle Weekly named her one of "50 Women Who Rock Seattle". She is an essayist with The Washington Post.

Her work also appears in The Believer, BlackBook, Esquire, Jezebel, McSweeney's, Monkeybicycle, MSN, New York Magazine, New York Times, Nylon, The Onion's A.V. Club, Paste, PEN Center USA, Poets & Writers, Publishers Weekly, The Rumpus, Salon, Spartan Lit, in several anthologies, and on NPR, KUOW, and additional outlets. She has interviewed Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys, Betty Davis (the legendary, reclusive soul singer), Death Cab for Cutie, Estelle, Jenifer Lewis, Janelle Monae, Alanis Morissette, Kelly Rowland, Wanda Sykes, Tegan and Sara, Rufus Wainwright, Ann Wilson and several dozen others. 

Contact: litsa.dremousis at gmail dot com. Twitter: @LitsaDremousis.
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