Monday, December 8, 2008
TV The Unfunniest Man on Television...
Posted by Paul Constant on Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 6:17 PM
...will be moving from 11:30 to 10 pm on NBC.
Nikki Finke is reporting that NBC will give Jay Leno the 10PM slot when Conan takes over "The Tonight Show." The move keeps the NBC star within the family, and away from ABC.
I was really hoping we were going to see the last of that unhilarious son of a bitch this year.
Enviro Ecofont!
Posted by Paul Constant on Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 6:05 PM
Ecofont is an open source font designed as a way to save ink in printing, which is supposed to help the environment.
Here are some questions from the Ecofont FAQ, which I assume was written by someone whose first language is not English. The first answer is especially illuminating:
How can Ecofont be free?
We do not have to make a profit out of the Ecofont.The letters are not really clear on my computerscreen.
The Ecofont works best when font size 9 or 10. The results vary depending on your software. If you work on a Windows platform you could use ClearType.When I print the font, it looks as if my printer is running low.
The print is somewhat greyish because less ink is used.
It's nice that they're trying.
City First They Came For the Tanning Salons...
Posted by Jonah Spangenthal-Lee on Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 5:15 PM
Seattle Xotics—formerly known as X-otic Tan—a "private Lingerie Showroom" on Lake City Way that was at the center of many unrepeatable salacious rumors during my high school years—may be gone.
Xotics' phone has been disconnected and Slog Tipper "Creme Soda" claims they have a "for lease" sign in their window. Neither the owner of the business nor the owner of the property could be located.
According to Xotics' website LINK, the business—described by one police officer I talked to as "dirty," which the officer subsequently clarified as meaning "prostitution"—offered things like:
The model will strip down to her bra & g-string for you and you may do anything you like as long as there is no touching between you and your model.Xotics is [also] proud to offer trained Dominatrixes. The Mistresses are skilled at humiliation, punishment, infantilism, puppy training, worship and a variety of other disciplines. We are equipped with a dungeon that contains a large selection of torture devices. Also, our Mistresses train men in the art of crossdressing. Whether you want to be a little girl or lady about town, we know how to get you there. Fetish and role play scenarios are encouraged and enjoyed.
In completely unrelated news, it's getting damned difficult to pay for a handjob in this town.
News / News But Does Honda Even Need a Bailout?
Posted by Dan Savage on Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 5:12 PM
White House urges money go to only viable automakers
Books I'm Not a Big Fan of Year-End Lists...
Posted by Paul Constant on Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 5:04 PM
...because I think they tend to be the last refuge of lazy journalists about to go on vacation. I'm especially not a big fan of year-end book lists because I think of books as more of a long-term thing. It kind of makes sense to have a top ten singles list for popular music, because music is very often rooted in place and time. But a good book should be just as good, if not better, as time goes by. Also, now that most papers have their entire content online, these reminder pieces are less important than ever.
That said, if you're into literary fiction, this L.A. Times list of favorite fiction and poetry is a pretty good one. Knockemstiff, Ms. Hempel Chronicles, Unaccustomed Earth, and The Flying Troutmans were all great books, and many of the others on the list are really fine, too. I noticed they left out some great small press books, like Couch and The Dart League King, but if you're looking for a wrap-up of this year's fiction, this is as good a list as you're likely to find.
Savage Love Savage Love Letter of the Day
Posted by Dan Savage on Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 4:30 PM
I am a heterosexual male, 75 years old, who just began noticing members of the same sex. Ever since, I have not been able to reach orgasm with my wife without a carrot in my ass. Fortunately, my wife is 68 and her eyesight is not very good, so I have been able to conceal this fact from her. However, I am not sure if I can continue with this. I want to suggest to her to stimulate me anally with a cucumber. What is the best way to go about this?Sincerely,
Confused Greengrocer
Why is it that authors of fake questions almost always sign off with, "Sincerely..."?
Religion Might Use This On My Christmas Cards This Year
Posted by Dan Savage on Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 4:21 PM
Via JoeMyGod.
Economy The Big Picture of the Big Bailout Failure
Posted by Jonathan Golob on Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 4:15 PM
The big Hank Paulson-lead bailout has failed by all objective measures. It's a complete, trillion dollar, failure.
(For those of you needing a refresher, here's the present crisis in a nutshell. The banks, filled with lazy and overpaid assholes, fucked up. Trillions of dollars in money that could not be lost, were shoveled into pyramid schemes that, inevitably, collapsed. Burnt, and well aware of their total incompetence at what should be the easiest task imaginable (lending at 6%, paying out depositors at 3%, pocketing the difference), the banks stopped lending to just about everyone. Businesses suddenly had their lines of credit evaporate. Lines of credit are critical for almost all companies to function on a daily basis.
In order to restart this sort of critical lending, Paulson shoveled money into the hands of the banker fuckups—paying taxpayer dollars for the detritus from the failed pyramid schemes, buying chunks of their failed banks with the same pool of cash and so on. The banks still didn't lend, and continued to freeze lines of credit. Without credit, businesses were forced to rapidly shrink and scale back, leading to the largest monthly job losses in decades.)
In other words, the economic team of these waning days of the Bush administration are like Slim Pickins in Dr. Strangelove:
Obama's crisis management plan—laid out this weekend-is better, but still does little to solve the underlying dynamic that lead to this disaster. In other words, Slim Pickins again:
Americans have been living beyond their means, right? That's the line we've been fed. We're just adjusting, being forced down to earth after decades of flying higher than our wings could support. It's an odd explanation, a bit like telling someone dying of cancer that their problem was letting the cancer go metastatic. "Why'd you allow those cancer cells spread all over? That's your problem right there!"
For most of the Americans drowning in debt, it wasn't extravagance that lead to their downfall. It was the mundane—trying to keep themselves living indoors, to return themselves to health, to educate themselves—that precipitated collapse. In real dollar terms, Americans have been paid steadily less for decades. As wages for work decreased, costs of living increased. The typical worker in the United States has no more control of this dynamic than the weather.
It's not like the productivity—how much a worker can get done for a given amount of money—of American workers has declined. In fact, this period of stagnated and declining wages corresponds to a time of fantastic increase in American worker productivity. Americans, going over the lip of this collapse, are among the world's most productive people—second only to the Norwegians.
Yes, American workers tend to be expensive in absolute terms. It doesn't matter. This productivity, by definition, means American workers should be some of the most competitive in the world—capable of producing more for less than just about any other person. American workers—factory lineworkers, service industry workers, agricultural workers earn their high wages by being better at their jobs than just about anyone else on the planet. Those are the numbers.
If "free-trade" worked, Americans should be among the winners. And yet, the United States accrues a massive, growing and ongoing trade deficit year after year.
It's this imbalance, more dollars leaving the United States in trade for goods and services than return, that is at the rotting core of the present fiasco. As a consequence, our trade partners built up massive piles of dollars—dollars that had to be invested by government bureaucrats, who gave the money to self-aggrandizing idiots on Wall Street, who promptly shoveled the dollars into get-rich-quick schemes.
Why can't Americans sell goods abroad? How does China, whose workers don't even make it into the top fifty of productivity, maintain a massive trade deficit? Manipulation.
Nearly a year ago, I wrote on this very question after reading an exemplary Atlantic Monthly article lucidly describing the mechanism and effect of these manipulations by James Fallows.
Politics More Proposition 8 Mess
Posted by Paul Constant on Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 4:13 PM
Apparently, December 3rd was going to be "Yelp Day" in San Francisco. But at the last minute, the mayor canceled the celebration. Apparently, the founders of Yelp, which is a San Francisco-based company, voted against Proposition 8, but they removed posts that identified owners of businesses as Prop. 8 supporters. Yelp claimed that the reviews were removed because they were about the politics of the owners and not specific to the products or services provided by the businesses.
Here is the story of how Yelp Day got canned:
The removal of reviews didn't sit well with Matthew Goudeau, director of the mayor's Office of Protocol and a then-frequent user of Yelp. He forwarded us an e-mail exchange he had last month with Jeremy Stoppelman, Yelp's co-founder.Stoppelman told Goudeau it was akin to somebody opposed to foie gras giving bad reviews to all restaurants that use the controversial pate, even if they'd never dined at the establishments.
"I am not foie gras. I am a person. No comparison between the two," Goudeau shot back. "People should have the right to know what businesses supported the inclusion of hate and discrimination into California's constitution."
Goudeau canceled his Yelp account and encouraged his friends to do the same. He stressed he did this all on his own time and not in any official capacity, but when he heard the mayor was about to name a day after Yelp, he told chief of staff Steve Kawa about his concerns.
Is someone keeping a master list of Prop. 8 supporting businesses? Would Yelp wind up on that list?
Politics KC Elections Candidate May Keep Port Job if He Wins; Current Director to Run After All
Posted by Erica C. Barnett on Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 4:05 PM
Lloyd Hara, one of three candidates that have officially filed their intent to run for King County Elections Director (a formerly appointed position that voters made elected in November) reportedly plans to keep his part-time Port Commission seat if he is elected elections director, numerous sources say. Hara has raised just over $37,000 for his port reelection, and has not yet raised any money for his King County Elections bid. Although Lori Anderson, spokeswoman for the Public Disclosure Commission, has not returned a call for comment, state law stipulates only that a candidate's name can't appear twice on the same ballot. Because the elections director position is on the ballot in February, and the Port position is on the ballot in November, the two positions would appear on separate ballots.
There is some precedent for holding both a state and a local office. Tim Sheldon, a conservative Democratic state senator from Potlatch, ran for Mason County Commissioner in 2004 and won; and Pam Roach, a state senator from Auburn, ran for King County Council in 2003 and lost. Both Sheldon and Roach were were seeking jobs that paid significantly more than their existing positions; about $65,000 and $104,000 for Mason County Commission and King County Council, respectively, compared to state senators' part-time salaries of approximately $33,000. (Roach's name is also on the list of likely candidates for elections director this year).
However, Hara's case would be different in one key respect: As elections director, he would be overseeing his own election. Under Washington State's "incompatible offices" doctrine, a person can't hold more than one office if "the functions of the two offices are inconsistent or, more generally, where occupation of both offices is detrimental to the public interest," such as "where one office is subordinate to another in some aspect of its functions and duties." That same doctrine was raised—unsuccessfully—in Sheldon's case in 2005, but Hara's case seems more clear-cut. In the words of one close observer of the elections process, "it's a totally clear conflict of interest."
Hara's situation is parallel to Sheldon's and Roach's in one other respect: The new job would pay substantially more than his current position. Port commissioners receive a per diem for going to meetings and travel expenses for junkets around the world—about $6,000 a year, plus up to $8,600 for attending events. The elections director, in contrast, makes $146,000. In the past, Hara has argued that port commissioner should be a full-time job—with full-time pay and benefits. He did not return calls for comment.
In other elections-related news, Sherril Huff, the current King County elections director, will reportedly announce tomorrow that she's running to keep her position. Huff, appointed by county executive Ron Sims in 2007, previously said she wouldn't run but appears to have changed her mind. (She didn't return a call for comment either). Huff's entry into the competition could eliminate some would-be candidates who were thinking about jumping in, as she's generally respected in county government. (Progressives and candidates with a Democratic background may also be hesitant to overcrowd the field and hand the position to someone like Roach, as I wrote in last week's In the Hall column.)
Also in the running: Alec Fisken, a former port commissioner who was defeated by Bill Bryant in 2007. He says that although Huff has "a good record," his name recognition will count for more in a low-turnout February election. Fisken opposed making the elections director an elected position and says he'd work to keep the office "truly nonpartisan." Meanwhile, Joe Fain—chief of staff for Republican King County Council Member Pete von Reichbauer and a leader of the campaign to make the elections director appointed—is not running for the position. The filing deadline is this Friday, December 12.
City Wall of Death Artist Says Sculpture Was Designed With Skaters In Mind
Posted by Jonah Spangenthal-Lee on Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 3:35 PM
The artist behind the Wall of Death—a sculpture along the Burke Gilman Trail which had been used as an unofficial skatespot for about a decade before the Seattle Department of Transportation installed an rock barrier last October—says he actually designed the sculpture with skaters in mind.
“We were just looking at people using the trail including cyclists, inline skaters, skateboarders and people with mobility contraptions strapped to their bodies beyond description,” says artist Mowry Baden, 71. “We thought it would be cool to make a ramp come down and bend with the trail so [skaters] could trick on it as they used the trail. We were making a work of art and we thought that we would make it skateable."
Baden says he consulted with skaters when designing the sculpture in 1993 and although the city asked him to design skating “countermeasures,” they were never installed.
Although the sculpture was designed to be skateable, Baden says he’s more concerned about public safety than skater access. “There have been some collisions. That can’t happen again,” he says. “So while it is lamentable that our work has to be modified, it is inevitable that something must be done.
It’s too bad. I regret that.”
Baden says he'll meet with SDOT on December 14th to discuss updating his sculpture. Baden says he wants to install a new barrier, "but good looking."
Media Robbing Hoods: The Seattle Times Wants to Take from Cyclists and Give to Developers—and Block Affordable Housing
Posted by Dominic Holden on Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 3:32 PM
Today the Times is protesting a program that would create more affordable housing, calling it “distinctly hazardous.” The heat rises from a poropsal going before the city council later this month. Here’s how it would work: Developers could build taller buildings—which allows them to sell more units and make more money—and in exchange, they would have to rent or sell 20 percent of the new units at affordable rates. Say the great minds:
There is equity in that, and social benefit — but also problems. The no-profit units amount to a tax on new housing. Tax a thing and you tend to get less of it. We're for taxing cigarettes and liquor, because less of those is all right. Taxing new housing gives us pause. Even pricey new housing creates slack in the market and tends to benefit all buyers.
So taxing stuff is great when “less of those is all right.” But as Erica points out, James Vesely, editor of the Seattle Times’ editorial pages, wants to tax cyclists. So the Times, we conclude, wants less cycling. But the Times doesn’t want to “tax” developers—even if they would make bigger profits from taller buildings. It's the opposite of Robin Hood. There’s nothing wrong with developers or land-owners making money, of course, but why not get some public payback for increasing the value of their land?
Times owner Frank Blethen—who drives a Posche to work—has been personally lobbying city council members over the past couple years to block the incentive housing program (paying special attention to Sally Clark, chair of the land-use committee), say sources at city hall. The paper owns a few blocks of South Lake Union, which stands to be upzoned.
“I just think it should be known that the Seattle Times are landowners and they will be impacted by program,” says Anna Markee, outreach director of the Housing Development Consortium of Seattle-King County. Seattle Times' Jill Mackie sat on a “stakeholder” board for Clark’s committee, advocating on behalf of the Times. “[The Seattle Times is] not just coming at it from what is best for the community but they have their own interests,” says Markee, who also sat on the stakeholder board.
Biases aside, the crux of the Times' argument is that any “tax” will hinder new housing. But when the city council passed incentive housing rules downtown several years ago, buildings proposed under those rules boomed. They are still under construction despite a recession. Meanwhile, plans for residential construction continue along neighborhood arterials. People are still moving to Seattle and we need more housing, increased density around rail stations, and affordable places for workers—especially in the neighborhoods where the current proposal would apply.
The Times says the incentive should kick in for buildings over 80 feet. But buildings over 80 feet aren't allowed in most areas outside downtown, so that proposal is a meaningless gesture.
“I’m disappointed that the Seattle Times seems very concerned of the impact of this on developers,” says Markee. “I didn’t see that much attention to questions about how are we going to provide enough housing in the city for all the people who need it.”
News Military Jet Crashes in Residential Neighborhood in San Diego
Posted by David Schmader on Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 3:02 PM
...and Slog citizen Gitai wonders, "Can we please whip up enough hysteria around this to keep the Blue Angels out of town?"
Strangercrombie A Whole Year of Mostly Naked Slog Commenters
Posted by Paul Constant on Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:58 PM
There has been an exciting change to one of our Strangercrombie items.
If you bid fifty dollars or more to Treehouse via our Strangercrombie PayPal button...
...You will get either our lovely tote bag, or your choice of either a Ladies of Slog calendar or a Gentlemen of Slog calendar. That's right: For a paltry fifty bucks, you too can bear witness to the glory that is Mr. Poe, Fnarf, Joh, Carollani, Aislinn and Lara (plus more!) in all their nearly nude glory. Just state your preference in the comments field when you make the donation, and soon enough you'll be enjoying a year's worth of foxy blog commenters for your own private...enjoyment.
For instance, get a load of these gams:
Hubba hubba! Who do they belong to? You'll never know, unless you buy a calendar! 12 months of some of Slog's most bitter and divisive topics—plastic bag taxes! Aurora Bridge jumpers! Bacon!—are illustrated in a high-class fancy calendar (generously donated by our friends at Speedy Litho.com) that you can purchase for just fifty bucks right here:
Go donate! Don't spend your 2009 staring at baby kittens and bad poetry about Jesus. Why not inject a little Slog Commenter flesh into your day, every day?
City Uh, I Don't Think That's What He Meant By "Use It Or Lose It"
Posted by Erica C. Barnett on Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:49 PM
In his speech Saturday, Obama vowed to send infrastructure money flowing to states as part of his economic stimulus proposal. However, he added, "if a state doesn’t act quickly to invest in roads and bridges in their communities, they’ll lose the money."
Some are interpreting this "use it or lose it" pledge as a not-too-subtle hint to states that we need to keep electing Democrats, not "obstructionist" Republicans. Which may well be true everywhere but Washington State. Here, instead of narrowing down the list of viaduct replacement options—preferably to, you know, one—we're EXPANDING the number of options under discussion, from eight (which is already too many) to nine, including Frank Chopp's fantastical mallway-in-the-sky.
Memo to elected officials: It's been nearly eight years since the Nisqually earthquake supposedly damaged the viaduct beyond repair. If you want federal money to fix it, stop picking your noses and pick an option. Now.
Homo / Religion Gay People Exist...
Posted by Dan Savage on Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:32 PM
...and some people out there actually, kinda, sorta like us. I know, I know: it's enough to blow your mind, huh? It's also enough to get your artworks yanked from a student show at Utah's Brigham Young University.
Says the artist...
Apparently the topic of homosexuality is a bit much for the BYU audience and my part of our Fine Art Classes show was taken down today. It seems that censorship is favored over support and love. This really saddens me. I found out because a friend of mine went to the show and said that my peices had been removed and the show had been rearranged.
The show was rearranged so that no one who attended would realize that the works on display had been censored for political/religious reasons. So... shhh. Don't tell anyone.
The student artist took pictures of openly gay BYU students—openly gay and openly ballsy—and a companion portrait of a supportive friend or family member. The artist didn't label the portraits; you don't know who in each pair of portraits is the fearsome, terrible, ungodly gay, and who is the tragically deluded enabler of evil—excuse me, "the supporter." You can see the pictures without the big red "censored" here. But they deserve a wider viewing—hey, maybe the Salt Lake City Weekly ("We Not All Crazy Bigots Down Here, You Know!") could put them on its cover.
Religion Get Bent
Posted by Paul Constant on Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:01 PM
Wayne Bent, who claims to be the second coming of Jesus and has allegedly used his position as cult leader to molest underage children, is going to trial today in Taos, NM.
Bent claims that God told him to fuck children.
Bent will go on trial for what police say was inappropriate sexual contact with young girls at the Union County compound, a story backed up by a witness in the case.“He picked seven virgins, he laid naked with them,” said Welch. “He picked seven messengers or angels and they put out the plagues to plague the earth. And there are seven wives who he’s had sex with.”
He also predicted that the world was going to end this past Halloween.
History / Teh Internets Could the Internet Have Stopped Hitler?
Posted by David Schmader on Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 1:30 PM
A Nobel Prize-winner floats the theory, the Associated Press reports:
The spread of information on the Internet has given the world a new tool to forestall conflicts, Nobel literature prize winner Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio said Sunday. In his Nobel lecture to the Swedish Academy, the 68-year-old Frenchman said an earlier introduction of information technology could even have prevented World War II. "Who knows, if the Internet had existed at the time, perhaps Hitler's criminal plot would not have succeeded—ridicule might have prevented it from ever seeing the light of day."
In other words, the internet is a race, and sometimes humanity loses.
Housekeeping Slog Happy, This Thursday! Now With Presents!
Posted by Megan Seling on Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 1:15 PM
Slog Happy returns to its original schedule, happening this Thursday, the second Thursday of the month at... are you ready for this? TWILIGHT EXIT!
Later this month the Twilight Exit will be closing up shop for a few days and moving to a new location, so we have to give the old space a proper goodbye! There's a lot of memories in those walls, after all.
And to go with the spirit of the holiday season, those who feel so inclined may bring a gift for a Slog Happy gift exchange. Make something, buy something for really cheap (like $5 or less cheap... we're in a recession), or find something in the back of your closet that you don't want anymore. Wrap it up all pretty and then bring it on down to the Twlight Exit on Thursday to exchange for something just as great, crappy, worthless, or wonderful! (The Stranger will also be spiking the pot with a few goodies, so you could walk away with a sweet prize!)
Gifts aren't necessary to participate—if presents aren't your thing, you're more than welcome to come down to drink, eat, and be merry. Your happy face is a good enough gift.
See you Thursday! 6 pm! At the Twilight Exit (2051 E Madison)!
Books / Nerd Forrest J. Ackerman
Posted by Paul Constant on Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 1:07 PM
The undisputed world's biggest fan of horror, fantasy, and science fiction died over the weekend at 92 years of age.
Ackerman might have created the term "sci-fi." His house, which was stuffed with memorabilia, was a kind of Nerd Mecca for decades. Here is Forrest Ackerman being menaced by the Flaming Carrot:
You sure can't say he didn't have fun.
Music Dave Segal Coins a New Genre
Posted by Christopher Frizzelle on Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 12:47 PM
(Exhibit A is a music video that has prompted a Line Out commenter to write: "Oh man, next time put the video after a jump or something. I almost punched a hole in my monitor seeing that anus gyrating around with his stupid hat, telling me about his preference for weed. Dear God.")
Film Why Wasn't I Warned?
Posted by Dan Savage on Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 12:08 PM
I rented Juno this weekend—man, that picture hit more false notes than an orchestra in an earthquake. What was all the fuss about?
Video of the Day Lunchtime Quickie
Posted by Kelly O on Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 12:04 PM
Call me crazy, but this is another sure sign of the apocalypse. I mean, who makes saxophones that small?
Strangercrombie The True Problem-Solver
Posted by David Schmader on Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 12:00 PM
There are literally a million reasons to love the Strangercrombie Holiday Auction, wherein a plethora of amazing, one-of-a-kind gift packages are sold to the highest bidder, with all proceeds going to one worthy charity. But one of the key reasons to love Strangercrombie is the uncanny way it takes fatal aim at the peskiest names on your holiday shopping list.
For example: Perhaps you spent the past weekend wondering, "What the hell am I going to get my snooty foodie sister who always complains how I never get her anything good?" Shut her face with the amazing gift pack, Ethan Stowell Cooks for You!
Seattle celebrity chef Ethan Stowell will cook dinner for you and five of your friends at Tavolata, and Mark Ryan Winery will pair Stowell’s creation with the perfect wine for maximum make-love-in-your-mouth enjoyment. PRICELESS! Current high bid: $417! (Participants must be 21 or older.)
Or perhaps you're looking for the perfect gift for your boyfriend/girlfriend/husband/wife, something that says, "I'm so lucky to have you, for you are my favorite person on earth." In which case, voila:
Seattle Art Museum Staycation!One of the weird downsides to living in a great city is the propensity to forget you’re living in a great city. Smash that bad habit with this awesome, artsy Seattle weekend. First, get yourself settled at the new Four Seasons Hotel, where you’ll be granted luxury accommodations for two. Then get ready for an extravagant art bath at Seattle Art Museum, where SAM’s curator of American art Patti Junker will give you a private viewing of Edward Hopper’s Women, supplying you with an autographed catalog of the show and sending you away with a limited-edition print of the Hopper painting Chop Suey. Added bonuses: Yearlong SAM membership benefits for two (including unlimited free admission and invitations to exclusive member events). Wrap up your day with complimentary dinner for two at SAM’s TASTE restaurant. A $600 VALUE! Current high bid: $355!
Elsewhere in the expansive Strangercrombie catalog you'll find amazingly perfect gifts for your sulky niece, your favorite pothead, your sweet, shy, single sister, and your favorite Francophile.
Bidding continues till December 12 at 5 pm, and as I mentioned, all proceeds will be going to the deserving foster kids of Treehouse. And if bidding isn't your thing, feel free to donate directly to Treehouse via the PayPal button below. Anyone who donates $20 or more gets a lovely Stranger tote bag, filled with good karma.
Chow / ??!! I'm Sorry, But There's No Way That's True.
Posted by Lindy West on Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 11:57 AM
My problem here is with the word hot. Hot. Hot. HOT. Filled with hot cocoa. HOT cocoa. HOT! HOT COCOA!
NO IT FUCKING ISN'T.
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