Slog - Comments on Letter of the Day

Comment by Non

Non — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:03:47 -0800

I have a question:

How do the Strangers restaurant, art, and social happening reviews keep him from "living under a rock" if he lives in fucking ~New Mexico~???

Comment by PopTart

PopTart — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:08:44 -0800

Best post on Slog today. I will forthwith stop eating my copies of the Stranger after I read them having now found out that they are not edible.

Comment by skye

skye — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:16:36 -0800

i thought the extra copies were being used to build a monorail.

Comment by Mr. Poe

Mr. Poe — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:18:28 -0800

How is he getting a print edition, in New Mexico, Wednesday morning? How is he getting a print edition?

Comment by elenchos

elenchos — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:26:22 -0800

I used to subscribe to the print edition of The Stranger from Spokane. It kept me from living under a rock.

Comment by w7ngman

w7ngman — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:29:51 -0800

Wake and bake 10am - Noon, work Noon - 3pm, drinks 3pm - 2am?

Comment by Will in Seattle

Will in Seattle — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:31:11 -0800

I like to have lunch with Stranger staffers from Noon to about 2:30 pm, because it makes them that much more productive.

As to resources - you should have said the power in Yakima is hydro-electric, that's what that meant.

Comment by PopTart

PopTart — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:31:16 -0800

@4 Umm, space time warping of course, he is in New Mexico...

Comment by poo poo

poo poo — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:42:57 -0800

Isn't anyone at all curious about where the author of the letter got his paper, and about the chemical composition of his ink?

Comment by smp

smp — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:53:57 -0800

I concur with poo poo and will go a step further - where did he obtain his notebook paper? Was it from a store he walked to? How far was the paper transported before it ended up on the store shelves? What kind of bag did he opt for to deliver the notebook paper(I assume it was wrapped in non-biodegradable plastic) was it paper, plastic or did he carry a canvas tote. What kind of food did he consume to obtain the energy needed to purchase said notebook paper - locally grown and organic I am sure. What kind of clothing was he wearing to purchase said notebook paper? Cotton? Or was it a blend of Cotton and Petroleum derived polyester? I have many questions. Like why doesn't he have email?

Comment by Catalina Vel-DuRay

Catalina Vel-DuRay — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:00:46 -0800

I imagine that working for "The Stranger" must be a lot like the office in the movie "The Best of Everything": deadlines, cocktails, gossip, fanny pinching, sleek office furniture by Knoll, summer picnics where they have sing-a-longs on the school bus on the way to the picnic site. But I wonder who the Joan Crawford character is...

Comment by banjoboy

banjoboy — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:18:38 -0800

"Take this letter --and respond". I'm gonna be ending all my correspondence like that from now on.

Comment by max solomon

max solomon — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:53:58 -0800

newspaper pulp is made out of conifers, thanks to the hearst papers & their campaign to ban hemp.

Comment by Kent Cudgel

Kent Cudgel — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:52:18 -0800

And weed is made out of tobacco, right?

Comment by Greg

Greg — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:52:23 -0800

I'M BACK, MOTHERFUCKERS!

And I have it on good authority from a guy in the UW's paper science department that trees are not cut down to make paper. Rather, trees are cut down to make 2x4s, and paper mills buy up the chips.

Comment by Will in Seattle

Will in Seattle — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:19:22 -0800

Depends on the tree, Greg.

As any ex-forester could tell you. You don't make shakes and shingles from oak, you use cedar, for example, and you make beams from certain trees, and knot every tree makes good 2x4s (most people use metric now).

Comment by Thermometre

Thermometre — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 08:43:46 -0800

Wow, 16, your insight is chock full of authority. Having been dangerously misled by Greg, color me wised-up. Thank you for what you do.

Comment by nicole

nicole — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 08:56:29 -0800

yeah, i was definitely wondering if this person is so environmentally concerned why don't they read the stranger on a nice low energy consumption laptop? i live in nyc and that's how i read it...

Comment by Greg

Greg — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:08:49 -0800

@16: Most people use metric except for architects, surveyors, structural engineers, contractors, carpenters...