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Thursday, January 8, 2009

Nightlife / News New Pub Crawl Poster

Posted by Dan Savage on Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 4:38 PM

"How do you get the gay community's attention?" asks Keith, the manager of the Eagle. "Spell something wrong." Don't I know it.

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

At least it doesn't have that retina-scarring rainbow background anymore.

Posted by breklor on January 8, 2009 at 4:58 PM

The new design made me think of Spinal Tap.

Posted by Urgutha Forka on January 8, 2009 at 4:59 PM

kudos for the new design!!!

Posted by azrael, gothik dark saint on January 8, 2009 at 5:01 PM

still depressed, tho.

cause, thats what i do, it is my bereft soul and all.

Posted by azrael, gothik dark saint on January 8, 2009 at 5:04 PM

Darn, @1 beat me to it... =)

It's lovely, guys!

Posted by wench on January 8, 2009 at 5:07 PM

this poster is so fucking trig

Posted by oh, so now we get NO color on January 8, 2009 at 5:08 PM

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.

Posted by mattymatt on January 8, 2009 at 5:11 PM

Too bad printing it out uses up all the black ink on your printer ...

Posted by Will in Seattle on January 8, 2009 at 5:12 PM

@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.

Posted by azrael, gothik dark saint on January 8, 2009 at 5:17 PM

@1,

But it does still have that bubble font. I haven't seen that since I retired my Mac SE.

Posted by keshmeshi on January 8, 2009 at 5:28 PM

@8

Invert! Ctrl-I or command-I, it's magic-cool.

Posted by The CHZA on January 8, 2009 at 5:29 PM

At least whoever it was that sent the letters knows that there is no "the" in "Re-bar".

Posted by levide on January 8, 2009 at 5:36 PM

@11 - unlike you I don't run on Windoze with IE all the time. Or ever.

Posted by Will in Seattle on January 8, 2009 at 5:44 PM

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.

Posted by Greg on January 8, 2009 at 5:52 PM

Don't bother calling Purr. They don't answer their phone anyway.

Posted by Joseph on January 8, 2009 at 6:00 PM

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?

Posted by Andy Niable on January 8, 2009 at 6:34 PM

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.

Posted by Thought I Saw A Bum on January 8, 2009 at 6:44 PM

What? No Madison Pub? There must be a reason...maybe they're celebrating Richard Nixon's 96th birthday instead.

Posted by Belmont Place on January 8, 2009 at 7:03 PM

(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?)

Posted by Andy Niable on January 8, 2009 at 7:10 PM

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…

Posted by Rob on January 9, 2009 at 6:16 AM

Geez, this is starting to look like the bar owners want people to believe they wrote the ricin letter to increase business

Posted by MR. Language Person on January 9, 2009 at 7:02 AM

i'm going out saturday night.
i think it's kinda lame they organized this on a friday when the threats said saturday.

Posted by happy renter on January 9, 2009 at 7:06 AM

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.

Posted by Metro on January 9, 2009 at 8:31 AM

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.

Posted by JimS. on January 9, 2009 at 8:44 AM

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?

Posted by GrammarCop on January 9, 2009 at 9:22 AM

@24 - Madison Pub sponsers a team in the gay softball league... The Maulers

Posted by hl on January 9, 2009 at 9:31 AM

@19
screw Obama and screw you, too

Posted by guess who on January 9, 2009 at 9:33 AM

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)

Posted by sensitive heterosexual guy on January 9, 2009 at 9:40 AM

@16
screw DOMA and screw you, too

Posted by guess again... on January 9, 2009 at 9:42 AM

Here are details of what's happening at each of these clubs this weekend:
http://www.seattlegayscene.com/2009/01/c…

Posted by Bill W. on January 9, 2009 at 9:43 AM

@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.

Posted by JimS. on January 9, 2009 at 9:44 AM

31
screw you, bitch

Posted by whine a little more on January 9, 2009 at 2:32 PM

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.

Posted by fourflavorvegetable on January 9, 2009 at 10:29 PM