Slog - Comments on This Week's Illustrated Letter to the Editor http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/this_weeks_illustrated_letter_to_the_edi As you know if you read the print edition of The Stranger, every week on our letters page the illustrator Greg Stump illustrates one of the week's letters to the editor. Here's this week's, in response to this piece about book thieves: (Click image for a slightly bigger version.) We just got a letter to the editor about this illustrated letter to the editor: I want to respond to your “Illustrated Letter of the Week” for March 6, 2008, in which a reader tries to defend stealing from bookstores. My first reaction is simply to wonder what is wrong with... Copyright 2008 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:14:22 -0800 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 23:07:38 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by elenchos YHBT. YHL. ETC.

]]> elenchos http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/this_weeks_illustrated_letter_to_the_edi#c959970 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/this_weeks_illustrated_letter_to_the_edi#c959970 Books Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:20:10 -0800 Comment by Christopher Frizzelle's Enormous Penis He also draws pictures of me!!!

]]> Christopher Frizzelle's Enormous Penis http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/this_weeks_illustrated_letter_to_the_edi#c959977 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/this_weeks_illustrated_letter_to_the_edi#c959977 Books Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:28:20 -0800 Comment by the bloop I dunno elnachos. I think the letter could very well be legit.

]]> the bloop http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/this_weeks_illustrated_letter_to_the_edi#c959978 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/this_weeks_illustrated_letter_to_the_edi#c959978 Books Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:28:35 -0800 Comment by Katelyn I loved this illustration, by the way. You guys should do a comic-book edition of The Stranger in which everyone DRAWS their column.

@1 How did I get so behind on my acronym memorization?

]]> Katelyn http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/this_weeks_illustrated_letter_to_the_edi#c959979 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/this_weeks_illustrated_letter_to_the_edi#c959979 Books Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:28:49 -0800 Comment by Humor Re: this cartoonist's work: Could I have a glass of water? My throat is so DRY!

]]> Humor http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/this_weeks_illustrated_letter_to_the_edi#c959986 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/this_weeks_illustrated_letter_to_the_edi#c959986 Books Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:37:00 -0800 Comment by Asshats Steal Books I'm poor and I like to read, but I borrow from friends or use the *fucking library*. Why do you have to own a book?

]]> Asshats Steal Books http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/this_weeks_illustrated_letter_to_the_edi#c959991 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/this_weeks_illustrated_letter_to_the_edi#c959991 Books Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:38:51 -0800 Comment by Katelyn Books are friends, Asshats.

]]> Katelyn http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/this_weeks_illustrated_letter_to_the_edi#c959996 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/this_weeks_illustrated_letter_to_the_edi#c959996 Books Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:44:58 -0800 Comment by Katelyn And also books are interior decorating.

]]> Katelyn http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/this_weeks_illustrated_letter_to_the_edi#c959998 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/this_weeks_illustrated_letter_to_the_edi#c959998 Books Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:45:49 -0800 Comment by bma Again, this guy is an irredeemable asshole. Why can't *he* get hit by a car or garbage truck or whatever?

]]> bma http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/this_weeks_illustrated_letter_to_the_edi#c960001 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/this_weeks_illustrated_letter_to_the_edi#c960001 Books Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:46:54 -0800 Comment by Bellevue Ave someone should throw him off a cliff?

]]> Bellevue Ave http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/this_weeks_illustrated_letter_to_the_edi#c960008 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/this_weeks_illustrated_letter_to_the_edi#c960008 Books Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:53:05 -0800 Comment by Fnarf No, he needs to take care of this himself. A fatal drug overdose should do it.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/this_weeks_illustrated_letter_to_the_edi#c960047 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/this_weeks_illustrated_letter_to_the_edi#c960047 Books Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:23:16 -0800 Comment by sasha Can't the dude just borrow from the library like all other poor litterary types?

]]> sasha http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/this_weeks_illustrated_letter_to_the_edi#c960089 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/this_weeks_illustrated_letter_to_the_edi#c960089 Books Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:48:37 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV University Bookstore is in League with the Textbook Mafia! :(

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/this_weeks_illustrated_letter_to_the_edi#c960090 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/this_weeks_illustrated_letter_to_the_edi#c960090 Books Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:48:48 -0800 Comment by Karlheinz Arschbomber This guy is scum, and belongs in Guantanamo.

The book business is challenging enough without sanctimonious thieves like him. (her)?

If he wants to read books for free he can:
1) Go to the Library, or
2) Read the fucking books IN the store.

]]> Karlheinz Arschbomber http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/this_weeks_illustrated_letter_to_the_edi#c960109 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/this_weeks_illustrated_letter_to_the_edi#c960109 Books Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:58:54 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi Books are clutter, and they're a pain in the ass to move.

A more fitting death: one of his bookcases falls on him and crushes him to death.

]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/this_weeks_illustrated_letter_to_the_edi#c960158 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/this_weeks_illustrated_letter_to_the_edi#c960158 Books Fri, 07 Mar 2008 10:36:32 -0800 Comment by Jeff Stevens An even more fittingly fitting death: upon being informed that University Book Store is in fact, yes, an independent business, Dude's head publicly and gloriously explodes due to cognitive dissonance worthy of Gyorgy Ligeti himself.

Steal fast, think dumb, and leave an unironically headless corpse.

]]> Jeff Stevens http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/this_weeks_illustrated_letter_to_the_edi#c960206 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/this_weeks_illustrated_letter_to_the_edi#c960206 Books Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:19:57 -0800 Comment by elswinger What's a book?

]]> elswinger http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/this_weeks_illustrated_letter_to_the_edi#c960241 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/this_weeks_illustrated_letter_to_the_edi#c960241 Books Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:43:40 -0800 Comment by Christopher Frizzelle's Enormous Penis I'd like to steal a book about...an enormous penis!!!

]]> Christopher Frizzelle's Enormous Penis http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/this_weeks_illustrated_letter_to_the_edi#c960711 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/this_weeks_illustrated_letter_to_the_edi#c960711 Books Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:17:57 -0800 Comment by treacle Contant's article got Boinged

]]> treacle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/this_weeks_illustrated_letter_to_the_edi#c960856 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/this_weeks_illustrated_letter_to_the_edi#c960856 Books Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:05:21 -0800 Comment by adrian! i only steal books from book stealers

]]> adrian! http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/this_weeks_illustrated_letter_to_the_edi#c960876 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/this_weeks_illustrated_letter_to_the_edi#c960876 Books Fri, 07 Mar 2008 23:07:38 -0800