Homo There Are No Wigs in a Drama Free Zone! Or…Tribute Must Be Paid! Mom Finley Clears Things Up!
posted by on March 19 at 10:33 AM
You didn’t read this. But a few little details demand clarification anyway, dammit. Or so saith Mark “Mom” Finley, et al. Listen!
Seconds after the current issue of The Stranger was dropped onto the street, I received several fun and peculiar things. First among these were about fifty thousand emails of this variety:
Adrian- Just read your article and thanks for the warning…I knew (Boy Mike) personally…a friend of mine shared an apartment with him….he ran out of the fat fuck’s apartment after a couple of weeks. I will never forget the sight of Fat Fuck Mike weeping hysterically and crying, “Don’t leave me!” I’m sure of course Fat Fuck will never remember the incident….he always seems to conveniently forget those types of things…Well. Charming.
Another fun and peculiar thing was a 17,000 word, double-spaced, cross-referenced, footnoted and indexed missive from “Mom” Finley. (Okay, it was like 700 words. I kid because I love. Or something.) It begins…
Hello Darling - Just thought I’d get a few of the facts straight for you.
Well, then. Of course. Ouch.
Boy Mike did indeed start Retrovenge on Tuesdays at Neighbours, but Rock Lobster was my baby. Andrew Tasakos (aka Bitsy Bates) had “Ask Bitsy” on Mondays, while Nicole rounded out the week with the Lip Synch Contest on Wednesdays.
Wow. A drag queen for every night of the week. Thems was the days. (Remember when people used to stand in line and give them MONEY? And “assistants” like Maggie Bloodstone would scramble around on the floor like crabs and pick up the bills that had dropped? Jesus.)
It is true: In the piece I stated precisely what Boy Mike told me in interview—-that he conceived of and hosted Rock Lobster. This turned out to be a big poopy pile of cow pucky. I suspected as much from the beginning, mind you. (But some people never seem to return their messages…ahem.) So. Rock Lobster was Mark’s, and Mark’s alone. Learn it. Love it. Live it. Thank you.
There were all kinds of other “factual clarifications” in Ms. Finley’s email, of course, stuff like The Candle Throwing Incident Happened on Monday, Not Wednesday and so forth. But the most shocking thing came at the very bottom of the email…
I try, as best I can, to live me life as a “Drama Free Zone”…Besides - I’m too busy with my newest endeavor. In case you haven’t heard, I’ve returned to my original night and show every Thursday at Neighbours hosting Rock Lobster. Come check it out - I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised.
Yes. After lo these many centuries, Mark Finley is hosting a brand new Rock Lobster every Thursday at some place called “Neighbours”. (Never heard of it.) Between us, I didn’t know she’d ever stopped hosting it. But I can’t say my curiosity isn’t whetted. I might just have to put on some big sunglasses and a fake moustache and peek in some foggy Thursday…you know, for posterity’s sake. Don’t you agree?
(And, um, there are no wigs in a “Drama Free Zone”. Who does this painted bimbo think she’s kidding? I ask you.)
Oh my God I can't understand a word of this post. It's in English, obviously, but I couldn't begin to tell you what it's about, what the controversy is, or anything. It's like reading the Jabberwocky. And I say that because I love. :-)
Maybe you can borrow Brendan's mustache. I hear he's not using it much these days.
I can't understand a word, either, but I gotta say that I LOVE "the sould of an ashtray in love" from the article. Couldn't understand a word of it either.
So, Adrian, is it true that Marky Mom moonlights a fact-checker for certain local publications?
Finley still lurks in the Biltmore. I went down to the basement to do my laundry on Sunday only to find It eating dirty clothes in the Free Shit/Whatever area. Literally. Eating.
I politely asked It to leave and It barked a shoe at my face. Looked just like this.
Neighbours should be burned to the ground. (With everyone on the standard Saturday night still inside.)
"soul", obviously, not "sould".
The post made me feel like I was drunk trying to read something normal.
"It was an age when drag queens ruled the Hill: Chocha Fresca, Bitsy Bates, Kahlua Ice, Nebulina Novatron, Ginger Vitus, Jackie Hell"
How COULD you forget Crystal Lane?
Shout out to Crystal Lane!
Could somebody patiently explain why The Stranger picks on people like Finley and Robin Williams. Besides existing what did they do to piss you off?
...cause the staff at Stranger, leader Dan included, likes to obsess ... since most of them are transplants, it is an imported trait to counter act NW cool and calm and non interest in trivial dirt ...
... need not make journalistic sense, just the catty, bitchy worst of gay culture ...
Culture? Marty, shut the fuck up.
So, does it say something about me that I understood all of this?
Poe lives in the Biltmore? The Biltmore really should have it's own fanzine. It's the Chelsea Hotel West. Everyone has a few Biltmore stories.
10: Mark Finley has a long history of near-criminal behavior that has made him a wealth of enemies. Ask around.
As for Robin Williams, he's just terrible, and worthy of being despised just for who he is.
Crystal Lane reached ICON status - what a talent, and great person to boot.
The fucking AIDS epidemic has taken so much from us.
Go Crystal where ever you are.
And whatever happened to Flame Retardant?
i have never heard of crystal lane. tell me more!
@10
'cause they're both awful.
(personally, Mom doesn't bug me that much and I miss her column in the SGN, but Robin Williams is beyond awful)
The Biltmore is the gayest place on earth.
and, for the record, who the hell said anything disparaging re: mark fucking finley? i gave him his correction and announced his show. and yes, marty, stfu. (thanks pencil riot.)and what the hell did dan have to do with any of this? jesus.
Ah, the Biltmore. Halcyon, fucked up days.
Okay, I know nothing about Finley. I can see how some find Williams annoying, but geeze why obsess about him? Now Jim Carrey on the other hand has never even made me chuckle, in fact compared to Carrey, Robin Williams is a comedy genius.
Mike Daisey lived in the Biltmore as well? I need to move. Now.
is anyone obsessing over Robin Williams?
now ROBBIE Williams, HE'S obsessible...
as for the Biltmore, I'd say someone should write a play about it, but Terrence McNally did that 30 years ago and called it "The Ritz"
@24 i started writing it three years ago. shh.
@25
Just make sure you write parts in for Dina Martina and Nick Garrison and you'll have a monster hit.
Adrian! Hit Cherry Canoe up for some killer Biltmore anecdotes, she's got a million of 'em.
@ 18: Crystal Lane was the greatest drag queen ever be on the hill, at least from the early 90's to now. She was famous for Wednesday night at Brass Connection during those infamous days when Hadaway's "What Is Love" was all the rage. She died suddenly and, for me, shockingly since I did not even know she was sick. She had some classic one-liners that the crowd would repeat back to her and constantly made fun of her despite the fact she looked glamorous and you actually felt good when she made fun of you. No one has ever been able to repeat the style that was Crystal Lane. Some day someone will do a piece about her and that would be much better reading than Boy Mike’s return.
@28
oh, i'm so much younger than you.
What's with the tards today?
Finley is an evil toothless hag. He treated a friend of mine who lived in the same group home as him like shit and was rude to me everytime I called in to check on my freind. he has not a friend in the world. Just people who he uses.
First of all, Finley has many friends including myself.
Second for Adrian...don't worry...people freak out when they see Mom mentioned in the Stranger because Dan Savage has a history of totally lashing out at him in it's pages...especially the welcome freshman editions.
Well at least the both of you have a friend, Hunter.
First…Crystal Lane was way old school… she was the first “branded” drag queen I was conscious of as a young man just out of the closet. I was at Neighbors’ the night she retired, and the night (very soon after) that Seattle heard she had died. Wow. It was a different world then…
Second… Mark Finley is still alive? (I had heard he had choked to death on his false teeth in a drug induced haze.) Who knew?
Third… Boy Mike was always basically a good guy… a bit much some times (imagine, a drag queen that’s a drama queen…), but ultimately a good guy. I drank way to much GoldenSchlager at his place at the Biltmore way too many times…
MOM. sheesh that is such old school queen shit. I have a mom and it ain't this toothless hag.
Can someone cite a story in which I lashed out at Finley? Anyone?
is this the same "mom' I came across in Long Beach, WA about a decade ago? enamored was he of a feather crow guy?
@36
THANK you.
I can't wait to finally see that nasty toothless hag Mark mom finley get arrested and dragged off to jail for "dissability" fraud. For the last decade he has been getting financial support and housing under a claim of dissability- even though he anounced in SGN that he no longer had AIDS (a christmas "miracle" he claimed. How can a dissabled person stumble around drunk from gay bar to gay bar, hit on young twinks, perform (badly) lyp Sinc (badly), dance (even more badly), cyberstalk young gay men and porn stars on Myspace, Friendster and Manhunt and then ride a SEGWAY down Broadway? Answer: Mark mom finley is con-artist, a liar and a fraud! And the sooner we get rid of this monster the better and safer Seattle will be. Where is Connie Thomson and her KOMO News 4 investigations when we need her?
Mark Mom Finley has no friends- just people that humor him and go through motions because:
1) They are terrified of him,
and/or
2) They are stupid enough to have believed his deranged lies about famous people he claims to know- "I was in the Warhol diaries", "I partied with George Clooney" etc. etc
and/or
3) They are manipuulated by his con-artist machinations
and/or
4) They are sociopath loosers like him that fuel their lives by self delusional lies and stunts designed to get the attention and adulation that their sick minds feel they deserve for some reason or another...
In short Mark Mom Finley is a monster...
You would be a Psycho toothless, attention whore Drag Hag too if you were the DEMONIC love abortion of JP Patches and his sidekick Gertrude.
Mark Mom Finley AND Neighbors need to be flushed down the toilet, swimming with the turds... Sick of hearing about him/it/her.
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