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Monday, August 14, 2006

The Triumph of Lust

Posted by on August 14 at 11:22 AM

I was a little worried for the Lusty Lady—that the new Four Seasons was going to harness the weight of its wealth (and its clients’ prudishness) to crush the wee peep show next door. But now the hotel (after allegedly trying to buy out the building) is singing its praises as “a cultural icon.” It’s a boom-backlash success story—the hotel’s happy, the Lusty’s happy, even Mimi Gates is happy:

Another Lusty Lady supporter is Mimi Gates, 64, director of the art museum. She married Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates’s father, William H. Gates II, in 1996. The museum has embraced its neighbor, which often uses the marquee to promote new art shows. One, for artist Chuck Close, read, “Chuck Clothes.”
“The Lusty Lady’s marquee is a Seattle landmark,” Mimi Gates said.

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Lusty ladies suck because they lead to masturbation. Masturbating people suck. Wipe semen on the Torah and cunt juice on Christ. Masturbating is a farce.

_I_ would never do it.

But maybe that's because my weewee is too small to find.

Bush is the most pro-lusty president we have ever had. America needs to stand hard with lusty ladies now. The Stranger has gone against conventional Seattle wisdom and been anti-lusty. Bush is the best American wanker the Lusty Lady has ever known, and many in the Seattle sex-work community appreciate what Bush has done for fuckers.

I was a litle worried myself - it's nice to know my alma mater is safe...

MY Alma Mater, Four Seasons, has such a stick up its corporate butt that it probably doesn't even know what a strip club is. This whole project is just sour grapes over losing the contract to run the Olympic, which will always be THE hotel in Seattle to me. But I'm a traditionalist when it comes to my hotels.

Not that I can afford the Olympic. But it's nice to know it's there, and under the management of a much more fun, and - to my mind, at least - sophisitcated company is enough.

If you go to the construction site and look at the poster showing what the Four Seasons will look like, you'll see a little blurry Lusty Lady located next to it.

Not "allegedly" tried to buy out - in fact tried and failed; ex-mayor Schell and his group couldn't convince the Lusty Lady's owner to sell, for millions, and instead ended up having to buy the overhead air rights - in other words, they not only didn't get the property, they ended up paying for thin air! Applause here.(Saw a story in the Weekly about this) This is just PR BS wherein rich developers slap backs and pretend they're happy that the neighbors walk around in the nude next door - when in fact they're still pissed. As for the Lusty's owner, Chris, he may be a porno prince but he's also one of the last of uncorrupted downtown landholders who think greed ISN'T good.

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