Slog - Comments on Open Thread http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread It's muggy in the office and we're scrambling to wrap up this week's issue and our enormous SIFF guide... and I can't come up with a better excuse as to why Slog is so slow this afternoon. Why don't you tell us what we should be writing about in this space.... Copyright 2008 Mon, 19 May 2008 17:34:53 -0800 Tue, 20 May 2008 11:11:15 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by bluh? What's a Slog?

This week's issue of what?

What's a SIFF guide?

]]> bluh? http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1027968 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1027968 Mailbag Mon, 19 May 2008 17:46:41 -0800 Comment by j This raging debate -- Proposal to create Dan K. Savage Statue in Cal Anderson park. Vote for new Capitol Hill Community Council officers June 5th, between 6:30-8p at upper level CHAC.

]]> j http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1027969 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1027969 Mailbag Mon, 19 May 2008 17:47:02 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Me. We should be talking about me. Specifically, where should I get my hair cut next? My regular thing has disappointed me, and the last two places I went were AWFUL. I'm open to anyplace except ones where the staff are into that rockabilly look.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1027970 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1027970 Mailbag Mon, 19 May 2008 17:50:40 -0800 Comment by kt Darcy Burner about to speak to UAW (the union that academic student employees are part of) on campus at UW. Yeah Darcy!!

]]> kt http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1027971 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1027971 Mailbag Mon, 19 May 2008 17:52:03 -0800 Comment by Joh WE should be talking about what I should have for dinner tonight. You'd think that 4 years of culinary school would incite me to be able to make decisions about such things, but I can't for the life of e think of something tasty to eat tonight that is both filling and cold. Maybe a good pasta salad. Hmmm....

]]> Joh http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1027977 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1027977 Mailbag Mon, 19 May 2008 17:55:51 -0800 Comment by arduous Maybe instead of Freaky Fridays you guys should do Freaky Mondays the day before you have a major issue coming out.

]]> arduous http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1027979 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1027979 Mailbag Mon, 19 May 2008 17:57:27 -0800 Comment by PopTart I have a question, how exactly do you select what slog tips are posted? I feel like I'm doing it wrong somehow since no tip I send in is ever posted.

]]> PopTart http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1027992 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1027992 Mailbag Mon, 19 May 2008 18:27:55 -0800 Comment by Josh's Mom What have you done with Josh?

]]> Josh's Mom http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1027993 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1027993 Mailbag Mon, 19 May 2008 18:33:29 -0800 Comment by Jubilation T. Cornball I'd like to discuss how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb.

]]> Jubilation T. Cornball http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1027996 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1027996 Mailbag Mon, 19 May 2008 18:35:40 -0800 Comment by j Joh @5, gazpacho

]]> j http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1028001 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1028001 Mailbag Mon, 19 May 2008 18:41:30 -0800 Comment by RHETT ORACLE Racism and misogyny vis-à-vis ageism and nepotism.

]]> RHETT ORACLE http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1028008 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1028008 Mailbag Mon, 19 May 2008 18:49:09 -0800 Comment by Catalina Vel-DuRay I would like to see slog dedicated exclusively to Furnishings and China, with occasional forays into The Bible As Literature.

Fnarf, I get my hair done at a very strange place in a dismal strip mall in Auburn. The lady does a wonderful job, is extremely inexpensive, and she has the clipper attached to a vacuum, like a commercial flowbe, so there's no mess.

Or you could go to the beauty parlor on Beacon Avenue that all the elderly ladies in the neighborhood go to. They all get exactly the same hairdo. It might work for you, too!

]]> Catalina Vel-DuRay http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1028012 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1028012 Mailbag Mon, 19 May 2008 18:57:32 -0800 Comment by Wisepunk Nipples.

]]> Wisepunk http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1028023 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1028023 Mailbag Mon, 19 May 2008 19:10:00 -0800 Comment by Amy Kate Horn Fnarf, try Follicle on the west side of Broadway between E Pine and E Pike; it's indie minus the attitude and reasonably priced. Patricia is great with men's heads.

]]> Amy Kate Horn http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1028028 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1028028 Mailbag Mon, 19 May 2008 19:14:56 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Auburn's a bit far to go, Catalina, but thanks for the tip.

Wisepunk, I agree. I like big ones with small aureoles.

Josh's Mom: surely you saw this? http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/revolution_9

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1028030 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1028030 Mailbag Mon, 19 May 2008 19:16:49 -0800 Comment by reverend dr dj riz hmmm @8
I saw Josh Feit just last Saturday walking down Pine towards downtown wearing a t-shirt under a basketball jersey and thought it was the oddest 'look'.It was hot, the hottest day of the year so far, and here this man had on two shirts instead of one. And he was weraing them completely backwards, as if he was hiding something, like his pale hirsute chest and arms. I remembered that someone on Slog keeps asking why Josh had been fired and then wondered myself, 'Has Josh really been fired ? And if so why ? And how has it been kept so hush hush?'
I wondered this partly because even when whispering Feit has an unsually loud voice and an almost bull in a china shop manner. I can't imagine him keeping quiet about anything, yet this rumor keeps resurfacing like a whisper. I should have asked him myself but I had just started drinking a pimm's cup at the bar at Machiavelli. If you've never had one go on some Monday because bartender Joanna really makes one of the finest pimm's cups I've experianced in North America.

]]> reverend dr dj riz http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1028031 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1028031 Mailbag Mon, 19 May 2008 19:18:13 -0800 Comment by reverend dr dj riz umm ...I was typing while you was postting fnarf. We think so much alike you and I. Did you also grow up as poor black child on Chicago's south side ?

]]> reverend dr dj riz http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1028033 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1028033 Mailbag Mon, 19 May 2008 19:24:01 -0800 Comment by Amy Kate Horn Josh resigned, took a little time off, and is looking for a new gig, as far as I know. Also, he plays basketball. I wish there were a juicy scandal to whisper in your ear, Riz, but there isn't. Josh worked for the paper for a long time and left on good terms. Change for change's sake is often wise.

]]> Amy Kate Horn http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1028041 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1028041 Mailbag Mon, 19 May 2008 19:37:38 -0800 Comment by Menopause Marlene Kittens!!!!

Seriously, kittens mofo.

]]> Menopause Marlene http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1028044 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1028044 Mailbag Mon, 19 May 2008 19:54:50 -0800 Comment by elenchos I used to go to the 65th St Salon but the guy there that I trust seems to be gone. Maybe I'll go over to Broadway and try Follicle. I've been feeling kind of lost on the whole thing. Plus my hair keeps growing.

Did anyone see my tearing off the roof vid on my blog? I was acting, of course. But still.

]]> elenchos http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1028055 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1028055 Mailbag Mon, 19 May 2008 20:17:10 -0800 Comment by PopTart @20 I gotta admit, I'm a bit disappointed in the video. I mean really, where was the time lapse photography of the roof being torn apart and rebuilt? Where was the choir?

]]> PopTart http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1028069 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1028069 Mailbag Mon, 19 May 2008 21:00:58 -0800 Comment by elenchos Oh, can't you see it? I has all that stuff. And more. How much RAM do you have? Upgrade your RAM and watch it again. Lots of the best YouTubes have to have the most cutting edge hardware to get the most quality from them. Mine especially.

]]> elenchos http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1028076 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1028076 Mailbag Mon, 19 May 2008 21:20:29 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Did you also grow up as poor black child on Chicago's south side ? No, Riz, I didn't, but my dreams sometimes I'm a white boy trying to get into the South Side clubs in the late 20s to hear Louis Armstrong, whom I firmly believe to be the greatest cultural figure in American history. But I've never been there. I've only spent a couple of days on the North Side, and a day wandering around the loop.]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1028080 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1028080 Mailbag Mon, 19 May 2008 21:28:09 -0800 Comment by Fnarf I was nearly overcome with excitement, Elenchos. In fact, I foolishly grabbed a hammer right in the middle of it and bashed a hole in my living room wall. What the hell was I thinking?

I was kind of hoping that you would YELL "tear the roof" etc. instead of whispering it like that.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1028081 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1028081 Mailbag Mon, 19 May 2008 21:31:33 -0800 Comment by elenchos Acting! That was me ACTING! Plus, how much RAM do you have?

]]> elenchos http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1028140 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1028140 Mailbag Tue, 20 May 2008 07:47:38 -0800 Comment by michael strangeways hmmm...how about some comments on how ugly the SIFF poster is this year...

]]> michael strangeways http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1028202 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1028202 Mailbag Tue, 20 May 2008 10:21:38 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV On a cold a gray Sammamish morn
A pale and coddled little child is born
In the Suburbs
...and his Momma cried.

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1028204 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1028204 Mailbag Tue, 20 May 2008 10:22:18 -0800 Comment by Greg I want a post about HUMP!

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1028242 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1028242 Mailbag Tue, 20 May 2008 10:58:48 -0800 Comment by Sue I'm hoping someone is going to cover Arianna Huffington today at Bell Harbor International Conference Center, at noon.

]]> Sue http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1028250 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1028250 Mailbag Tue, 20 May 2008 11:01:31 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV Cause if there's one thing she must do
It's find and pre-enroll him in a private school
In the Suburbs.

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1028265 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1028265 Mailbag Tue, 20 May 2008 11:11:05 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle More articles on why the Stranger staff is going for the rockabilly look and how we can too.

Either that or more articles on sun worship. Or how to tag Stranger "newspaper" boxes with un-artistic tags and get covered by the Stranger at the same time.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1028266 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/open_thread#c1028266 Mailbag Tue, 20 May 2008 11:11:15 -0800