No source?

This isn't your own little billboard for personal responses.

plus, he or she is right. you suck and I'm embarrassed to lend my eyeballs to the advertising that pays your salary.

Stick with your pontification amid police reports, and get a day job kthx.

Thank you all.

This uh this reminds me of the joke ah about the peasant farmer who had incestuous relationships with his daughters simultaneously...[beat, reaction shot of unsmiling crowd]...this uh this may not be the best crowd for this kind of joke!

Plus, I'd also like tap Britney Spears' ass. I don't care if people think it is chunky.

Please don't try so hard. You're naturally a genius. Just use your own mind instead of recycling dead men's thoughts. And extrapolating ivory-tower "book smarts" to falsely rationalize things that need no explanation because they are thoroughly inconsequential? That's also a rather bad habit. You can do so much better than...

You know what? You're right, Charles. This is a blog. Who cares what you write here? Save your good stuff for actual publication.

I admit to being one of the perhaps majority who feels slightly noxious when I read the phrase "Marxist critique" or esoteric references to existential philosophers. But I do occasionally enjoy Mudede's posts even if I don't take them too seriously.

Carlitos Marx

I would suggest that a "mosquito" on the internet is someone who anonymously posts smartass quips, while using a funny, phony name and without any history, address, or credibility.

The person Charles is slagging here, however, is far from a "farnf" or "Mr. Doe".
He is an actual person, namely, Jim Demetre.
Unlike a mosquito, he has been writing criticism for various Seattle papers, including the Stranger, the Weekly, Reflex, Aorta, and the Dailies, for longer than Charles has been rewriting police blotters. He has been writing and editing a serious discussion of art and culture online, Artdish, since 1999, a bit longer than Charles has been posting tittie shots with cryptic comments on Slog. He is far from an "Old Bean", is personally present at many Seattle arts and literary events, is imminently approachable, personable, smart, funny, and credible.

So who here, exactly, is the "mosquito"?

I am unsure what exactly Charles means by "people who look different than you"? Its true, Jim is somewhat slimmer than Charles- perhaps he is complaining about discrimination against the portly? Or is this a veiled accusation of racisim?

Charles, one of your frequent tactics is to refuse to acknowledge the reality of anyone else in your discussions- by refusing to use actual names, you avoid having to deal with real people, with their histories and accomplisments, and can instead swing at straw men of your own devising, ignoring any comments in return.

You have set yourself up as a public intellectual- this is a european concept, so I am sure you are aware of what that means. I am happy to see this, as I think the USA, and Seattle in specific, is pretty anti-intellectual, and I welcome serious discussion of topics like class and culture. But as a public intellectual, you must expect that others will discuss and debate your pronouncements- in forums both formal and informal. Artdish is one such forum, serious and silly by turns, but as I mentioned, a place where since 1998 locals have discussed these things.
Not a haven for "mosquitos", but an ongoing, serious discussion of art and culture. When commenting publicly on these things, you must expect to be publicly commented on.

"Did I mention I went to Cornell?...Oh by the way I went to Cornell....Yes, that was Cornell."