Slog - Comments on Letter of the Day: Young Frankenstein Edition http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/letter_of_the_day_young_frankenstein_edi So this morning I was in Marysville and I stopped for breakfast. There, above the fold, on the front page of The Seattle Times, was a color picture from Young Frankenstein, along with a short article. You may or may not know that critics were free to review the show as of last night, so I shelled out my fifty cents, CASH, to read the review. First, I flip the whole newspaper package to remove and discard the advertising. Then I turn to the entertainment section - Tickets or whatever the fuck they call it - and look for the... Copyright 2008 Fri, 24 Aug 2007 16:22:26 -0800 Sun, 26 Aug 2007 15:54:42 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by michael strangeways indeed...WHY buy a paper?

paper is morte...

the times is morte...

bien...

]]> michael strangeways http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/letter_of_the_day_young_frankenstein_edi#c790605 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/letter_of_the_day_young_frankenstein_edi#c790605 Arts Fri, 24 Aug 2007 16:34:54 -0800 Comment by Tony Where would Slog be without Times-bashing? Geez ... it's clear. The play ended too late for a printed review, so they used the picture package to draw readers to their online review. They had that posted first thing this morning, about 10 hours before the P-I's.

]]> Tony http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/letter_of_the_day_young_frankenstein_edi#c790621 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/letter_of_the_day_young_frankenstein_edi#c790621 Arts Fri, 24 Aug 2007 16:56:12 -0800 Comment by brappy What was he doing in Marysville anyway? :-P

]]> brappy http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/letter_of_the_day_young_frankenstein_edi#c790656 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/letter_of_the_day_young_frankenstein_edi#c790656 Arts Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:42:20 -0800 Comment by No Use I don't think the Stranger is bashing the Seattle Times in this post. The guy that wrote the letter is. Right?

]]> No Use http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/letter_of_the_day_young_frankenstein_edi#c790667 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/letter_of_the_day_young_frankenstein_edi#c790667 Arts Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:56:08 -0800 Comment by Jeff I'm not making this up: The Times has a blind "page designer" on staff.

]]> Jeff http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/letter_of_the_day_young_frankenstein_edi#c790669 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/letter_of_the_day_young_frankenstein_edi#c790669 Arts Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:00:45 -0800 Comment by you're dumb it also said on the front page above the fold that the review would be online only that day, and that it would appear in the paper on saturday. geez why buy a paper if you don't even read it

]]> you're dumb http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/letter_of_the_day_young_frankenstein_edi#c790922 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/letter_of_the_day_young_frankenstein_edi#c790922 Arts Sun, 26 Aug 2007 14:15:30 -0800 Comment by Ugoddawanna True, they have a legally blind page designer. Actually, she's an art director for news design, and while she can't drive a car, she can see enough to design amazing pages and special sections. She's a helluva smart journalist. So don't go knocking her.
BTW, Beethoven was a deaf composer.

]]> Ugoddawanna http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/letter_of_the_day_young_frankenstein_edi#c790933 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/letter_of_the_day_young_frankenstein_edi#c790933 Arts Sun, 26 Aug 2007 15:54:42 -0800