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Hating on the East side == lame.

Posted by The Baron | December 21, 2006 10:09 PM
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It is such a sad thing to pick up the Seattle Weekly these days. Just when you think the paper couldn't get any more brain-dead and irrelevant, they somehow find a way take it to a new level.

Posted by Jim Demetre | December 21, 2006 10:16 PM
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To be fair, The Stranger has certainly never printed a typographical error.

Posted by Fnarf | December 21, 2006 10:26 PM
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Weekly(tm) readers all have Tivo anyway so, like, whatever.

Posted by em | December 21, 2006 10:46 PM
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SW's problem is that it's no fun. The "Uptight Seattlite" is maybe a joke that merits three columns, but I suspect they're expecting to milk years out of that thing.

Running Ask a Mexican in this market makes as much sense as running a column called "Ask a Canadian" in the San Diego weekly. It screams "hey, here's some some free thing we got from our corporate parent that we might as well use as filler -- back at headquarters, they call that 'synergy' -- if you don't get it, as 90% of you don't, read the glossary or something."

The Stranger has its flaws (most falling in the hipper-than-thou category), but at least it's FUN.

Posted by Maestro | December 22, 2006 12:28 AM
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There are so many good reasons to hate on the Weekly, but bringing up the stupid Eastside stereotypes just docked you below Seely, Annie, and that's really saying something.

Heather, heather, heather. *Knocks ball out of the park*

Posted by matthew fisher wilder | December 22, 2006 12:46 AM
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Whatever Matthew Fisher Wilder (???) ...

Annie rules.

Posted by Captain & Tennille | December 22, 2006 1:16 AM
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when speaking of the weekly's lameness, let's not forget rick anderson's crime hysteria /pro-incarceration campaign. lock more of 'em up & lock 'em up longer! that oughta do the trick!

of course, the stranger was host to erica barnett's asanine post about permanently revoking the driver's licenses of those who hit pedestrians. so more than one weekly can play the nancy grace game. shame on both parties! revoke their press credentials until 2047!

Posted by roger | December 22, 2006 3:11 AM
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At least they don't try to charge us city folk for that shit rag anymore. Up until the time the Stranger came to town, the Weekly was free on the Eastside and 75 cents over here.

Posted by 98108 | December 22, 2006 7:29 AM
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Dan is just ragging. And he's using movie times as a sad example because he know's that's the reason over half the people even pick up The Stranger, only to toss it a city block later.


Nobody cares but you, all combing through the competition like some snarky BINGO. It just makes you look pathetic.

Posted by tsk tsk | December 22, 2006 8:01 AM
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Uh... Dan didn't write that post. Unless "Annie Wagner," like "David Schmader" and "Bradley Steinbacher," is just another one of my pseudonyms.

Posted by Dan Savage | December 22, 2006 8:34 AM
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I'm not sure how many times I've looked to the stranger for Meridian movie times, only to be left wanting. I always assumed it was from some withholding action on Meridian's part. Still, when I read that bit about SW leaving out movie times, I had to chip in.
All the same, I don't think I'm just duped by the Stranger's anti-Weekly rhetoric when I say that every time I pick up a SW (which is pretty damned rare, twice a year?) I feel an instant sense of 'these guys/gals are dicks'. Maybe it's the eastsider feel?

Posted by skipping_lightly | December 22, 2006 8:37 AM
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@7

My reaction is honestly due to my surprise that Annie's churning out such a retarded entry in Slog, because I don't remember ever having an issue with any of her writing before.

Why do hipsters read the Seattle Weekly on the 43 bus on my way back home all the time? Why do punkers read the Stranger coming to see a show in Seattle from Redmond on the bus?

Because they're just weeklies, whose ultimate purpose is for most people to not read the actual content, but skip to the back to see what pays the weeklies' bills: the actual ads for shows, movies, theatre, that one personal escort called Carmen The MechaTranny, etc. which do show the start times, venues, and details if the paper's content is wrong or missing (and both papers are guilty of providing erroneous or no information on that front quite often.)

I'm sure all the kids in Kirkland who get out of the house all the time who are reading the Stranger in print or on-line (and they do exist) will appreciated being stereotyped as being Tivo-addicted Cinema-hatin' New Times readers. (What a bizarre insult, actually). Like they give a fuck.

Posted by matthew fisher wilder | December 22, 2006 9:30 AM
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Oh, FNARF, there are many typos in the Stranger. There's even a comma missing in Movie Times this week. I'm such a freak I fixed it on the web.

Matthew Fisher Wilder: Look, there are plenty of movie theaters on the Eastside, and even an independent (Lincoln Square). I have no doubt that they are sustained by a healthy movie-going populace. I'm just trying to hypothesize what possible reason Seattle Weekly could have neglecting those readers who want matinees and full listings for those theaters. Hint: It's because they're getting their times automated from a service (which we use too)—and they're not bothering to fill in the gaps. So movie times that are totally available on Tuesdays are not getting printed in the Weekly. FYI.

Skipping: I would be thrilled if you'd call Meridian's managers and complained about this. We receive Meridian's times on Wednesdays, and update them on the web then.

Posted by annie | December 22, 2006 10:18 AM
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Annie, I was mainly referring to your raison d'etre for posting this in the first place: to get back at a sad sack of frat boy turd called Seely.

You were better off ignoring the Weekly, instead of deciding to get ur smug on, which seems to have slightly backfired as you're now having to qualify your defense with "Yeah yeah The Stranger makes mistakes and uses databases, too".

The little "Forgivable" footnotes, however, are what made that entry disgusting as well as pointless.

ANYWAY...

Posted by matthew fisher wilder | December 22, 2006 1:16 PM
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Have to say that despite my distain for SW in general (except the food section, which rocks) I always use the Weekly's online film lookup feature over the Strangers - way easier to find the movie/venue/day you want.


My real pet peeve? What's up with not listing movies at Factoria? It's on the eastside, but it's also a hell of a lot closer to my south seattle home than the Oak Tree. Now that Lincoln Square takes up an entire column, why not expand the movie times to two pages so it's really useful?

Posted by Pam W | December 22, 2006 2:09 PM

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