Seattle versus Chicago with Derek Erdman

by Katie HerzogBuddhist master Derek ErdmanDerek ErdmanDerek Erdman left Seattle on September 11, 2017, which seems like a fitting date for a local tragedy. Erdman, a merry prankster, artist, and author of my favorite Stranger piece from the past 27 years (seriously, read it), once invited 1,000 people to a film screening at an apartment building he didn't live in (this, suprise, was shut down) and regularly opened his Madison Street apartment for art shows complete with free hot dogs and/or Har