Slog - Comments on There Are No Wigs in a Drama Free Zone! Or…Tribute Must Be Paid! Mom Finley Clears Things Up! http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o 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... Copyright 2008 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:33:53 -0800 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:00:52 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Simac 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. :-)

]]> Simac http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c973603 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c973603 Homo Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:04:29 -0800 Comment by COMTE Maybe you can borrow Brendan's mustache. I hear he's not using it much these days.

]]> COMTE http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c973606 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c973606 Homo Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:04:46 -0800 Comment by Fnarf 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.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c973609 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c973609 Homo Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:06:04 -0800 Comment by jackseattle So, Adrian, is it true that Marky Mom moonlights a fact-checker for certain local publications?

]]> jackseattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c973624 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c973624 Homo Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:10:05 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe 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.)

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c973627 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c973627 Homo Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:10:40 -0800 Comment by Fnarf "soul", obviously, not "sould".

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c973638 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c973638 Homo Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:12:00 -0800 Comment by Bellevue Ave The post made me feel like I was drunk trying to read something normal.

]]> Bellevue Ave http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c973653 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c973653 Homo Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:17:24 -0800 Comment by cinenaut "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?

]]> cinenaut http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c973677 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c973677 Homo Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:21:21 -0800 Comment by It's Mark Mitchell Shout out to Crystal Lane!

]]> It's Mark Mitchell http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c973693 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c973693 Homo Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:24:34 -0800 Comment by Perplixed 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?

]]> Perplixed http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c973709 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c973709 Homo Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:29:32 -0800 Comment by Marty ...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 ...

]]> Marty http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c973761 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c973761 Homo Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:44:39 -0800 Comment by pencil riot Culture? Marty, shut the fuck up.

]]> pencil riot http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c973777 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c973777 Homo Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:53:10 -0800 Comment by Aislinn So, does it say something about me that I understood all of this?

]]> Aislinn http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c973796 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c973796 Homo Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:02:48 -0800 Comment by Hooty Sapperticker 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.

]]> Hooty Sapperticker http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c973797 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c973797 Homo Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:03:29 -0800 Comment by Seattle Historian 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.

]]> Seattle Historian http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c973800 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c973800 Homo Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:04:37 -0800 Comment by John 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.

]]> John http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c973802 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c973802 Homo Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:08:02 -0800 Comment by RHETT ORACLE And whatever happened to Flame Retardant?

]]> RHETT ORACLE http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c973807 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c973807 Homo Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:10:02 -0800 Comment by adrian! i have never heard of crystal lane. tell me more!

]]> adrian! http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c973813 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c973813 Homo Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:12:25 -0800 Comment by michael strangeways @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.

]]> michael strangeways http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c973817 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c973817 Homo Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:14:37 -0800 Comment by adrian! 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.

]]> adrian! http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c973820 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c973820 Homo Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:17:05 -0800 Comment by Mike Daisey
Ah, the Biltmore. Halcyon, fucked up days.

]]> Mike Daisey http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c973825 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c973825 Homo Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:18:25 -0800 Comment by perpelxed 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.

]]> perpelxed http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c973841 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c973841 Homo Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:26:19 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe Mike Daisey lived in the Biltmore as well? I need to move. Now.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c973843 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c973843 Homo Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:27:49 -0800 Comment by michael strangeways 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"

]]> michael strangeways http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c973845 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c973845 Homo Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:31:05 -0800 Comment by adrian! @24 i started writing it three years ago. shh.

]]> adrian! http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c973871 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c973871 Homo Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:40:36 -0800 Comment by michael strangeways @25

Just make sure you write parts in for Dina Martina and Nick Garrison and you'll have a monster hit.

]]> michael strangeways http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c973904 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c973904 Homo Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:55:33 -0800 Comment by Hooty Sapperticker Adrian! Hit Cherry Canoe up for some killer Biltmore anecdotes, she's got a million of 'em.

]]> Hooty Sapperticker http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c973966 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c973966 Homo Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:20:38 -0800 Comment by Gay Seattle @ 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.

]]> Gay Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c974041 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c974041 Homo Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:55:12 -0800 Comment by adrian! @28
oh, i'm so much younger than you.

]]> adrian! http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c974054 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c974054 Homo Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:04:47 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe What's with the tards today?

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c974063 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c974063 Homo Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:13:27 -0800 Comment by no fan of finley 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.

]]> no fan of finley http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c974119 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c974119 Homo Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:57:29 -0800 Comment by Hunter 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.

]]> Hunter http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c974140 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c974140 Homo Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:05:54 -0800 Comment by pencil riot Well at least the both of you have a friend, Hunter.

]]> pencil riot http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c974284 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c974284 Homo Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:44:35 -0800 Comment by You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me 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…

]]> You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c974544 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c974544 Homo Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:29:59 -0800 Comment by jomama MOM. sheesh that is such old school queen shit. I have a mom and it ain't this toothless hag.

]]> jomama http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c974553 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c974553 Homo Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:36:42 -0800 Comment by Dan Savage Can someone cite a story in which I lashed out at Finley? Anyone?

]]> Dan Savage http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c974633 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c974633 Homo Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:10:17 -0800 Comment by Crow for Rent is this the same "mom' I came across in Long Beach, WA about a decade ago? enamored was he of a feather crow guy?

]]> Crow for Rent http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c974733 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c974733 Homo Thu, 20 Mar 2008 05:24:34 -0800 Comment by adrian! @36
THANK you.

]]> adrian! http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c975003 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c975003 Homo Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:04:08 -0800 Comment by MadgeYourSoaking INIT! 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?

]]> MadgeYourSoaking INIT! http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c976457 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c976457 Homo Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:32:45 -0800 Comment by Flush The Bitch! 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...

]]> Flush The Bitch! http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c976467 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c976467 Homo Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:42:20 -0800 Comment by Lil Boye Blue 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.

]]> Lil Boye Blue http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c976477 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c976477 Homo Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:51:27 -0800 Comment by SlapDatBee-Atch! Mark Mom Finley AND Neighbors need to be flushed down the toilet, swimming with the turds... Sick of hearing about him/it/her.

]]> SlapDatBee-Atch! http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c976487 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/there_are_no_wigs_in_a_drama_free_zone_o#c976487 Homo Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:00:52 -0800