News Jan 8, 2009 at 4:38 pm

New Pub Crawl Poster

Dan Savage
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1
Yes, did he mean "gay communities' attention" or "gay community's attention"?

At least it doesn't have that retina-scarring rainbow background anymore.
on January 8, 2009 at 4:58 PM Report this
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The new design made me think of Spinal Tap.
on January 8, 2009 at 4:59 PM Report this
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kudos for the new design!!!
on January 8, 2009 at 5:01 PM Report this
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still depressed, tho.

cause, thats what i do, it is my bereft soul and all.
on January 8, 2009 at 5:04 PM Report this
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Darn, @1 beat me to it... =)

It's lovely, guys!
on January 8, 2009 at 5:07 PM Report this
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this poster is so fucking trig
on January 8, 2009 at 5:08 PM Report this
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Jesus. Nobody's even died, so why does the publicity look funereal?

There has to be a balance somewhere between Retina-Scarring Rainbow and Morticia Addams Gloomy.
on January 8, 2009 at 5:11 PM Report this
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Too bad printing it out uses up all the black ink on your printer ...
on January 8, 2009 at 5:12 PM Report this
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@8:
if my dark soul were made of ink and despair were my printer, let it be said that ink would never run dry.......

you may need to load up on the cheap-o paper from office max tho, I got nuthin to cover that.
on January 8, 2009 at 5:17 PM Report this
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@1,

But it does still have that bubble font. I haven't seen that since I retired my Mac SE.
on January 8, 2009 at 5:28 PM Report this
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@8

Invert! Ctrl-I or command-I, it's magic-cool.
on January 8, 2009 at 5:29 PM Report this
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At least whoever it was that sent the letters knows that there is no "the" in "Re-bar".
on January 8, 2009 at 5:36 PM Report this
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@11 - unlike you I don't run on Windoze with IE all the time. Or ever.
on January 8, 2009 at 5:44 PM Report this
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Will, please stop with the OS rivalry crap. That was over in 1999. Nowadays Windows IS the Mac, complete with pointless transparency, little animations for everything, and icons that look like they've been coated in Lucite.

And everyone going to the bars: please, PLEASE take pictures of yourselves giving a big one-finger salute to the camera for that letter writing fucktard's benefit.
on January 8, 2009 at 5:52 PM Report this
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Don't bother calling Purr. They don't answer their phone anyway.
on January 8, 2009 at 6:00 PM Report this
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What genius scheduled this the night before the DOMA Protest March, which asks queers and their allies to show up bright and early at 10:30 am the day after a rip-roaring pub crawl.

Wouldn't real courage mean showing up en masse on the very night the threatened poisoning was to occur (Saturday), and also feed off of the energy of flexing one's political muscle earlier in the day?

Or is the noticeable fewer posts about the DOMA march indicative of the Stranger's less-than-enthusiastic support?
on January 8, 2009 at 6:34 PM Report this
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Ricin is the new Marlee Ginter. A non-story that no one cares about being covered like 9-11 on Slog. Oh wait, it involves gay people, that means it's very important. Gay people are sooooo fucking the most important thing ever.
on January 8, 2009 at 6:44 PM Report this
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What? No Madison Pub? There must be a reason...maybe they're celebrating Richard Nixon's 96th birthday instead.
on January 8, 2009 at 7:03 PM Report this
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(Let it be noted that the Madison Pub is the only gay bar in Seattle that refused to host a one-night Obama event during last year's campaign. They said they wanted to remain "politically neutral." Turnt our politics--especially anti-gay ones--really can hit home, can't they MadPub?)
on January 8, 2009 at 7:10 PM Report this
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Have fun in Seattle! Tonight in Baltimore, we are doing a guerrilla gay bar takeover of a straight bar.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=hom…

on January 9, 2009 at 6:16 AM Report this
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Geez, this is starting to look like the bar owners want people to believe they wrote the ricin letter to increase business
on January 9, 2009 at 7:02 AM Report this
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i'm going out saturday night.
i think it's kinda lame they organized this on a friday when the threats said saturday.
on January 9, 2009 at 7:06 AM Report this
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Talking to a staffer at Madison Pub last night, I got the impression that they're happy to have Pub Crawlers come to their bar, and don't know why the Seattle Times said they were not participating.

MadPub seemed busier than normal last night. And from what I observed at the service bar, every other drink ordered last night seemed to have a request for "a ricin chaser" or "a ricin twist".

I think the letter writer's attempt to hurt the bars' revenues has failed.
on January 9, 2009 at 8:31 AM Report this
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The Madison Pub has a reputation for not sponsoring any community organizations or contributing to the community at all. Unless you interpret selling beer and booze as being a community service, that is. They were on the previous poster yesterday and now they're not on the revised one. I'm betting the manager asked that their bar be taken off. It's consistent with their total lack of community involvement in general.

Oh, but they do still want your money, though.
on January 9, 2009 at 8:44 AM Report this
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Idle query ... isn't alcohol poisoning by overindulgence (say, by trying to get even one drink at each of 11 bars) a more serious public health threat than the relatively rare toxin ricin?
on January 9, 2009 at 9:22 AM Report this
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@24 - Madison Pub sponsers a team in the gay softball league... The Maulers
on January 9, 2009 at 9:31 AM Report this
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@19
screw Obama and screw you, too
on January 9, 2009 at 9:33 AM Report this
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Boozing the night away!
a novel way to dispel fear and fight terrorism and hate.
no wonder you clowns got your clock cleaned in California (twice)
on January 9, 2009 at 9:40 AM Report this
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@16
screw DOMA and screw you, too
on January 9, 2009 at 9:42 AM Report this
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Here are details of what's happening at each of these clubs this weekend:
http://www.seattlegayscene.com/2009/01/c…
on January 9, 2009 at 9:43 AM Report this
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@26, wow, that's not self-interested at all, is it? They know the whole team will come back and drink at the bar afterwards. I've heard from several people in community organizations they always say "no" when asked to help. Once even answered, "why would we do that, what's in it for us?".

Several other bars REALLY support the community-- The Cuff, Purr, Rosebud, Re-Bar, RPlace, even Changes in Wallingford, to name a few.

So why isn't Madison Pub on the new advert for the Pub Crawl? Was it just an oversight? They were there yesterday.
on January 9, 2009 at 9:44 AM Report this
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screw you, bitch
on January 9, 2009 at 2:32 PM Report this
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Oh for the fuck all. Yes, we can all be witty and catty and bitchy. But some S.O.B decided to threaten us. All of us. Drop the attitude and the bullshit and let's just go out there. Yeah, I'm looking at you, you fag (and before anyone squeals like a pig, I'm a fag, too, so shut it). And you, too, you breeder.
on January 9, 2009 at 10:29 PM Report this

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