Wow - a book of old postcards from my seaside New England hometown shows a sort of bathing dress as perhaps the height of alluring beachside fashion exactly 100 years ago. But now they come in blue! Multiple shades, even! Progress!

Does she even HAVE children? I'm guessing no. As a parent, I understand that there are plenty more things to worry about and plenty more damaging images my children can see than what's going on at Seattle Center.

Frankly, that article sounds like someone weakly attempting to stir the turd.

Nicole is just towing the Time's smarmy "Kids and Cops" editorial policy that Frank Blethen employs so people think he's human.

The whole thing is just so predictable. You know when you see the Sunday Time's, barring any international incident that might have happened on Friday, you're going to see the heartwarming or hearttugging "human interest" story. There will be a big picture of a child or an old person (or a group of children or some old people) who have had something really great or really bad happen to them. In the background will be an out-of-focus, presumably caring, adult.

Or, we'll be asked an inane rhetorical, self-congratulatory question ("Will Puget Remain The Economic Powerhouse of the Northwest?")with a pretty picture of a local industry.

In this print version of a daily Greek Tragedy, Nicole is the voice of the worried soccer mom.

What the fuck is wrong with this city? How can we be both one of the most liberal cities in the nation, and at the same time, a pack of fucking prudes? How did we establish the first sex positive community center in the nation and maintain an 18 year strip club ban? Why aren't there a ton of fantastic strip clubs like in Portland, serving booze with hotties shaking it? Why the fuck is Seattle as hung up about sex as Oklahoma City?

GITAI, we've always been this way, which is strange for a city that was supported by hookers during it's developing years. Did you know that Washington state had prohibition before everyone else did?

I think it's because the area was settle by scammers out to make a quick buck, and morals was a good way to keep people in their place.

Hey Nicole, keep your dumb scribblings behind those velvet curtains. Y'all nanny people need to get over it! Could you please not give a fuck anymore?

My favorite line:

"I'm no prude. I have spun in circles at Dead shows, screamed myself hoarse from the Greek to the Gorge, and snaked through rooms of merry-makers without spilling a drop."

Mahalo for spelling muu-muu correctly.

That woman must be a real joy at dinner.

In her column it says, "David Heurtel assured me that the doors and windows of Fisher Pavilion will be draped during the event, so passers-by won't be "exposed."

So no one will see anything. It isn't like there are going to be naked chicks humping sculptures by the fountain. But oh dear lord the very idea of go-go dancers and adults drinking alcohol well that is just too much.
Because all sex is dirty and bad. But violence is okay.

I sent Nicole an email. I don't care if she reads it, I just feel better for typing it. That Grateful Dead comment was the smelliest shit of the entire crap load! Y'all should write if you please to nbrodeur@seattletimes.com.

Nicole is a mom.

I wish she'd just go back to New Jersey, or wherever the hell it is she comes from. She was agonizing over that in another column, about how mommy and daddy need her back home. So go! And don't let the door hit your boring column in the ass on the way, either. Gah!

Just because Nicole is a mother, it doesn't mean she has to behave like she is the mother of everyone.