Slog - Comments on Suckery http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/suckery You know what sucks? The super bowl is blasting away on the television in the bar I'm sitting in right now in Portland, Oregon. And you know else sucks? I'm in one of the bars I sit in all day when I sneak down to Portland to write, and one of the reasons I like this bar--where, yes, I sit all day but I waaaaaay overtip to thank the bartender, and I get the hell out if they start to fill up and need the table--is because it doesn't have WiFi. I've become such a web addict that I... Copyright 2008 Sun, 04 Feb 2007 17:28:05 -0800 Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:27:48 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by RainMonkey Trolling for animosity.

Feeling lonely, say something about smokers. Hey, look, you've got mail!

]]> RainMonkey http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/suckery#c610897 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/suckery#c610897 Life Sun, 04 Feb 2007 18:16:39 -0800 Comment by Dan Savage It's from the heart, RainMonkey. Ask Ari Spool.

]]> Dan Savage http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/suckery#c610913 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/suckery#c610913 Life Sun, 04 Feb 2007 18:28:08 -0800 Comment by wf Hmm, do Josh and Erica give you shit for this? It certainly undermines their surface option advocacy, then anti-car stuff, and all that complaining about global warming when even their own editor drives 350 miles round trip in order to find a place where he can concentrate for a day.

]]> wf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/suckery#c610951 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/suckery#c610951 Life Sun, 04 Feb 2007 18:45:36 -0800 Comment by Dan Savage Uh... i don't know how to drive. I took the train--with 300 other people.

]]> Dan Savage http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/suckery#c610958 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/suckery#c610958 Life Sun, 04 Feb 2007 18:49:32 -0800 Comment by Boomer Are you doing TAL in New York? Do I finally get to see you?

]]> Boomer http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/suckery#c611013 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/suckery#c611013 Life Sun, 04 Feb 2007 19:53:26 -0800 Comment by parvati screw portland....come to victoria, no smokers allowed ANYWHERE and its not inundated with wifi yet.....the only problem is that no one wants to carry your syndication out here because they are all conservative, tight assed pussys....o canada!!

]]> parvati http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/suckery#c611025 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/suckery#c611025 Life Sun, 04 Feb 2007 20:11:19 -0800 Comment by sidney # 6 --- still tight assed - eh? in BC? thought they had gay marriage and universal heath care and no death penalty and did not send a lot of troops to war and ... tight assed perhaps means no butt fucking and that means you don't know how to ask, Seattle kids go there for the not ass

silly boy .... come to some parts of America for tight assed AND conservative

]]> sidney http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/suckery#c611042 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/suckery#c611042 Life Sun, 04 Feb 2007 20:17:36 -0800 Comment by caleb Dan, just keep quiet. Follow your own advice. A private getaway - we all understand. Somewhere they won't spot you as quickly, in fact, wear your old flannel shirt and old jeans and they will think you are from Eugene.

Your non smoking compulsion is getting old .... of course most people agree, your readers, so it is very,very safe. Good marketing, take the easy issues as your own.

]]> caleb http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/suckery#c611071 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/suckery#c611071 Life Sun, 04 Feb 2007 20:25:52 -0800 Comment by wf crow duly consumed.

]]> wf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/suckery#c611117 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/suckery#c611117 Life Sun, 04 Feb 2007 20:40:26 -0800 Comment by Rielle @6 - I live in Alberta, which as you know is so redneck it's Canada's Texas. We have Savage Love here...

]]> Rielle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/suckery#c611119 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/suckery#c611119 Life Sun, 04 Feb 2007 21:00:40 -0800 Comment by parvati #7-its all a front...most canadians appear open minded on the surface, but dig a little deeper and they are just as sexually repressed as all the fundamentalist christians in your country. and very polite too... ;>)

#10-WTF?? YOU HAVE SAVAGE LOVE IN ALBERTA??? red necks reading dan??shit, what is this world coming to?

]]> parvati http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/suckery#c611127 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/suckery#c611127 Life Sun, 04 Feb 2007 21:23:42 -0800 Comment by me Dan, are you seriously not appearing at the Seattle stop on the TAL tour? What's up with that?

]]> me http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/suckery#c611134 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/suckery#c611134 Life Sun, 04 Feb 2007 21:50:04 -0800 Comment by catalina vel-duray Yay to Dan for taking the Amtrak. That is the ONLY way will go to Portland anymore, but I am a train geek.

I am flying back to Omaha tomorrow to see my mom for a few weeks, and then taking the train from Omaha to San Francisco at the end of the month, and I. Can't. Wait. Talk about going cold turkey on the internet! Two whole days of napping, movies, reading and the bar car!!!

I'll try to send some dispatches from the frozen heart of this misguided nation ;-)

]]> catalina vel-duray http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/suckery#c611135 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/suckery#c611135 Life Sun, 04 Feb 2007 21:53:27 -0800 Comment by Dan Savage Uh... I'm appearing at all the TAL stops. Why do you ask?

]]> Dan Savage http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/suckery#c611136 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/suckery#c611136 Life Sun, 04 Feb 2007 21:54:42 -0800 Comment by Ernie The solution to your wifi problem is simple. It's what I do at work in order to get work done, despite the fact that I have a wired internet connection and no content filtering. My work even requires an internet connection 99% of the time.

I turn off the crap the distracts me. I close my mail program, I don't run instant messaging, and I close my web browser. In your case, this would be as easy as disabling your wireless, which is as easy as right-clicking its icon and clicking "disable". You could of course, just turn it on again, but that requires effort on your part.

]]> Ernie http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/suckery#c611324 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/suckery#c611324 Life Mon, 05 Feb 2007 00:11:45 -0800 Comment by sputnik yay for smoky bars. you know whats worse smoky houses cause yyou cant go to the bar cause your married or in love and its all ove the place. Smoke is good. it kills the pain of heartache and really gives you one.
you feel more alive when you your doing something like smoking. Ihate what i do....... bBut i lov eit. Why?
scientists need not appply. I'm drunk and my girlfriends msad at me.

]]> sputnik http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/suckery#c611497 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/suckery#c611497 Life Mon, 05 Feb 2007 03:03:34 -0800 Comment by sputnik I neewd to watsshch some Blade Runnner.

]]> sputnik http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/suckery#c611500 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/suckery#c611500 Life Mon, 05 Feb 2007 03:04:33 -0800 Comment by larry clark Huh, I had to work during the Super Bowl. It must be nice to be able to complain about actually being able to watch the Super Bowl.

]]> larry clark http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/suckery#c611572 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/suckery#c611572 Life Mon, 05 Feb 2007 03:38:01 -0800 Comment by larry clark bitch. ;)

]]> larry clark http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/suckery#c611574 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/suckery#c611574 Life Mon, 05 Feb 2007 03:44:25 -0800 Comment by jamier Has the TAL tour been announced yet? I can't find any info on it through google...

]]> jamier http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/suckery#c611924 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/suckery#c611924 Life Mon, 05 Feb 2007 08:35:04 -0800 Comment by trina from portland I'm on the TAL update mailing list, and I'm guessing #12 is too. We got an e-mail Jan 31 announcing the TAL tour and saying who will be appearing in each city. Dan, you're on the list for every city except Seattle and Los Angeles. Glad to hear that was a mistake, though I don't think I can afford the tickets (for train and show) to come see it.

]]> trina from portland http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/suckery#c611934 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/suckery#c611934 Life Mon, 05 Feb 2007 09:08:44 -0800 Comment by Gomez I've gotta take the train to Portland one of these weekends.

I also find that I get more work done when no wi-fi is available. Damn our lack of self discipline!

The place of choice in the U District is Solstice, which doesn't quite get a connection with the U District wi-fi. Also, ironically, the place of choice on the hill for this is Victrola on the weekends, which shut their wi-fi off on weekends to clear out the laptop crowd and make more room for hipsters.

]]> Gomez http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/suckery#c612047 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/suckery#c612047 Life Mon, 05 Feb 2007 10:04:04 -0800 Comment by Dan Does anyone know where TAL will be recorded when it comes to Seattle? Are tix available yet? I just signed up for the weekly email, missed the 1/31 mailing, and am anxious that I'm going to miss out on opportunity to see my favorite show.

]]> Dan http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/suckery#c612092 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/suckery#c612092 Life Mon, 05 Feb 2007 10:41:03 -0800 Comment by nottessa Yes, we have Savage Love in Alberta- I've been reading for the past 3 years. I recently moved to Montreal- supposedly the heartland of Canada's kinkiest- and I can't find it published in any of the local publications.

go figure.

]]> nottessa http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/suckery#c612227 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/suckery#c612227 Life Mon, 05 Feb 2007 12:08:12 -0800 Comment by parvati we used to have it here in Victoria, but word on the street is that the wife of the publisher who's paper it was in, read it over breakfast one morning. to her horror she read something about someone cumming on someone's face...(pass the jam, please). she showed the article to her husband and said "do you know what your paper is printing?" savage was removed from then on.
i am from montreal, very kinky town, but it has to be en francais....get savage translated.....salut!

]]> parvati http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/suckery#c612273 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/suckery#c612273 Life Mon, 05 Feb 2007 12:45:33 -0800 Comment by nottessa I should have mentioned that I was referring to the 4 local english "alternative" publications that I've come across.
I've found both the "My Messy Bedroom" and "Three Dollar Bill" columns in these prints... both in english... and both of which are far inferior to "Savage Love".

]]> nottessa http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/suckery#c612472 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/suckery#c612472 Life Mon, 05 Feb 2007 14:08:18 -0800 Comment by suck it up I hear ya Dan. I live in Portland and love dive bars, but I've recently been diagnosed with asthma. Doctor's orders to stay out of smokey bars. The remaining options I've found so far are yuppy habitat. On the bright side, I have been saving a lot of money....

]]> suck it up http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/suckery#c614323 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/02/suckery#c614323 Life Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:27:48 -0800