It wasn't hard to identify the house being warmed as I drove through the dark streets of a central Seattle neighborhood. It was a small house on the corner, illuminated brightly from within, with the whirling figures of dancers filling every window. I gingerly pressed open the front door until it encountered resistance in the form of a body inside, and slipped through the narrow opening. Inside the house was devoid of all furnishings. A group of musicians was standing pi

There is a dead pig in my bathtub. I'm reminded of the opening sequence of "Breaking Bad," the television series that chronicles the life of Walter White in his transformation from mild mannered high school teacher to methamphetamine drug lord. In the first moments of the show a large RV careens down a desert road. We meet Walter, dressed only in his underwear and wearing a gas mask, as he swerves wildly from shoulder to shoulder. Behind him the interior of the RV is a cha