Posted Mon, Aug 18, 9:11 p.m.

Not famed prostitutes, famed businesswomen: Lisa, In that there is a link to my piece about potential names for the SLUT cars in your bizarre complaint about the SLUT term to begin with, I feel it necessary to point out that my piece was not about famous Seattle prostitutes as ...

Posted Thu, Jan 3, 3:57 p.m.

Actually it's Sir Ian...: but I get your point, and my apologies. (I suppose the irritating irony is that I looked up Neuheisel to make sure I was spelling it correctly.) The guy across the street owns two lots, with his old house on one and the other one vacant ...

Posted Sat, Dec 1, 8:13 p.m.

James J. 'Tiny' Freeman: One of the reasons for the Paynter piece was that Tiny was moving back to Seattle after far too many years in rural Montana--he got a little tired of dealing with the Vet's Administration there about medical stuff. So there was a very nice fete in ...

Posted Fri, Nov 9, 3:50 p.m.

HOW ABOUT: Wynken, Blynken, and Snog?

Posted Thu, Nov 8, 10:49 a.m.

SO IF SLUT AND HOOKER ARE SYNONYMOUS: ...at least for our discussions here (they aren't, of course)...and the definition is "will do anything for money", then surely one of the cars should be called THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON.

Posted Mon, Oct 29, 8:56 p.m.

FAKE ID?: Fake ID to get into the Rivoli? I suspect a toddler could have teetered into the Rivoli, as long as he had the 5 or 6 bucks, and was chewing on a cigar. I, however, never entered, but certainly would have had I had the courage, and the ...

Posted Mon, Oct 29, 2:37 p.m.

NAME THEM CARS: If the whole line is going to end up being called SLUT--whether its sponsors want that or not--then it makes sense that each of the three cars should be named for appropriate figures in our local history. The red car, for instance, should certainly be called the ...

Posted Wed, Oct 17, 12:11 p.m.

HE WENT TO THE BATHROOM?!: Casey, A very nice piece, about both Lauer and Senator Stall. For the complete Eric Idle version, instead of photos of the grandkids, what it would need would be a naked Terry Jones playing the piano in the background, with his great rocky Welsh tush ...

Posted Mon, Sep 24, 6:52 a.m.

WHAT DOES AN 800 LB PIXIE DO? ANYTHING HE WANTS: PERILOUS FIGHT DVDs can be bought on line (or I suspect in person, in the KCTS lobby, 5th and Mercer) through the Channel Nine Store, www.kcts.org, for $25. Or in the same place you can get KEN'S WAR, book and ...

Posted Sun, Sep 23, 12:06 p.m.

BURNS? I MAY HAVE HEARD OF HIM: I'll admit a bias where Ken Burns' THE WAR is concerned. I spent two years working on the previous PBS documentary series about World War Two, called THE PERILOUS FIGHT, a co-production of KCTS and two other companies that solely used color footage ...

Posted Thu, Sep 13, 6:41 p.m.

COME BACK, SHANE, SHANE COME BACK: The whole movie isn't overrated; Alan Ladd was overrated, and undertalented, and underheighted, for the part. Shane's supposed to look like (ironically) Jack Palance, not Stubby the Cowboy Buckaroo. Shane isn't supposed to be wearing buckskins and fringe, for God sake, but a Palance-like ...

Posted Thu, Sep 13, 1:01 p.m.

THE PROBLEM WITH AN AUCTION: of my last corduroy beauty is that there'd be one bidder--that would be you--and you'd get the thing for five bucks, which is of course 2.50 more than it's worth, but hardly in the spirit of the fund-raising auction. Thanks for the nice words about ...

Posted Thu, Sep 13, 10:35 a.m.

PIPER, HERE'S THE DEAL: P. Scott, your lingering fascination with my King Korduroy Sport Koats would be inspiring if it weren't also a little unsettling. And there is indeed only one left, because I gave all the others to an Indian music and dance troupe a few years ago, and ...

Posted Sat, Aug 4, 10:37 a.m.

FAREWELL, S. PAYNTER: I'll admit to a bias up front: I've known Susan Paynter for a long time–she used to review me decades ago when she covered television–and I've suggested a story or two to her over the years. As a television critic she was simply the best in town. ...

Posted Mon, Jun 25, 2:01 p.m.

The Totem Pole Story, But Accurate: First, the Seattle businesspersons lead by J.W. Clise who took the pole from Tongass Island--and a very famous Tlingit pole is was--thought they were taking it from an almost deserted village, because they didn't realize all the men were off fishing and the women ...

Posted Thu, May 3, 10:41 p.m.

RE: good one: Spike, Thanks large. Greg

Posted Thu, May 3, 11:53 a.m.

RE: Hard to Laugh: Sharp reply, you sure showed me. I think you mean Jonathan Swift. He's the one who wrote all the Hardy Boys adventures.

Posted Thu, May 3, 10:54 a.m.

That's All, Folks: One of the advantages of an on-line publication is that it gives readers a chance to respond immediately, almost free of editorial control, and it gives writers, if they so choose, the chance to respond to the readers. Yesterday I chose–Wednesday, May 2, 2007 will always be ...

Posted Thu, May 3, 6:54 a.m.

RE: An editor and rider defends his writer: I've always enjoyed the argument that "Though of course I get the joke, there might be others who don't and they're the ones I'm worried about." It's elitist, arrogant, self-righteous crap. Greg L. Palmer Lesser Wallingford Quadra-Wheel Safety Coalition

Posted Wed, May 2, 7:37 p.m.

RE: Mission Accomplished!: I suppose that it is to be expected, especially in good liberal King County, that if you want to slam somebody, you couple them in some way, no matter how far fetched, with Ronald Reagan and George Bush. And if doing it requires ignoring the obvious facetious ...

Posted Wed, May 2, 4:47 p.m.

RE: Corduroy sport jackets: How many what? Polyester leisure suits? Never owned one in my life. I did have a pair of bright red Hush Puppies in the eighth grade, that was as close as I got. And I didn't wear them long. I was going out the door one ...

Posted Wed, May 2, 4:11 p.m.

RE: The Opening Paragraph Makes it Clear: Ebenezer, And thank you. I've hesitated to point out that, traffic-congestion-wise, I do the best possible thing and work from home, commuting down a flight of stairs, rarely on a bike. I've also enjoyed the fact that nobody has complained about the offhand ...

Posted Wed, May 2, 3:29 p.m.

RE: Thanks Greg: Mr. Campbell, Thanks for the invitation, but I'm having a hard time seeing the purpose of my participation. You write as if under the impression that I don't ride a bike, that I've never ridden a bike, that I haven't in fact ridden a bike to work ...

Posted Wed, May 2, 3:22 p.m.

RE: Your rant is humor-impaired: JR, Thanks for the correction on who pays for the roads, and your insight about writing humor.

Posted Wed, May 2, 3:17 p.m.

RE: Hard to Laugh: Geoff, Every fibre of my being tells me I should just ignore your specious reply, but at least I'll try to be brief. If humor is going to be restricted to only those areas of the human experience where there is no tragedy, then there will ...

Posted Wed, May 2, 3:03 p.m.

RE: Corduroy sport jackets: I didn't force them to wear the corduroy jackets, they WANTED them, they asked for them, they were really really pleased to have them, almost as pleased as Mrs. Palmer was to get rid of them--the jackets, that is, not the Indians. I rather looked on ...

Posted Wed, May 2, 2:13 p.m.

RE:Corduroy sport jackets: I am thrilled someone remembers my simply stunning collection of corduroy jackets, which I gave some years ago to a company of Indian singers and dancers from Jharjhkand (formerly Southern Behar), led by Mukund Nayak, who came here for the Children's Festival and got off the plane ...

Posted Wed, May 2, 11:49 a.m.

All I Hoped to Prove: is that bicycle riders are humor impaired. Thank you, John C. Todd Jr. for your assistance in that. I never expected a huge reaction from bicyclists, certainly not in a WRITTEN medium.

Posted Wed, Apr 18, 2:28 p.m.

Right you are: That it's possible at any given event to fit the entire counterprotest into the front seat of a VW bus and still get on the news just like the ten thousand people across the street is just one of those things that happens in the quest for ...