This Week in the Mercury
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
News Good Morning, News!!
Posted by Matt Davis on Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 8:23 AM
RIGHT BECK ATCHA!!! Willamette Week's long-time gay columnist, and in this writer's opinion, one of the best things the newspaper had going for it, Byron Beck, is rumored to have been laid off yesterday afternoon. Stephen Marc Beaudoin at Just Out wonders aloud if Beck's Queer Window column might continue with "another voice." Which I think is the closest I think I've ever seen a blog entry come to actually submitting one's resume in public. Good luck, Byron. There's a book deal waiting for you I'm sure.
HILLARY FOR SECRETARY OF STATE??? The idea has been discussed, according to Obama aides. But then, so has the idea of putting mirrors in space to stop global warming...
WHO IS GETTING OUR BAILOUT CASH??? Bloomberg is suing the Feds under the Freedom of Information Act, for failing to disclose the recipients after promising "transparency" last month.
WHITE HOUSE DOG!!! The Peruvian Hairless dog association has offered four month old Ears to the Obama family:
PEDIGREE EARS: Ain't no "mutt..."
WHICH EMANUEL ARE YOU??? Wonkette offers a cheeky personality test to help you distinguish Obama's chief of staff from his Hollywood Agent and Doctor bros. And compare them to yourself, of course.
PUTTING THE P IN POLITICS!!! New Jersey councilman pisses all over crowd at Grateful Dead Tribute concert. Hat tip to the Gambit blog.
DRUNK DRIVING WITH A CHILD IN THE CAR!!! All part of Southeast Portland's marvelous sense of "community."
Good day.
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MD wrote:
"But then, so has the idea of putting mirrors in space to stop global warming..."
I think someone watched a rerun of Futurama on Comedy Central last night...
I'm surprised about your high opinion of Beck, Matt, unless you are being arch and British, and your praise of him is really a brilliant slam on the whole WW. At the risk of piling on (might as well now), Beck was definitely not the best thing WW had going for it. He never gave a shit about anything important (by which I mean unrelated to pop culture), until his boyfriend got the itch to marry and he discovered politics. Until then it was all gossip, musical theater, trite cliches and after-the-fact generalizations about gay culture. His greatest competence (I started to say "strength") was putting together those bullshit advertorial shopping guides that you newsweeklies pump out every few weeks.
I'm with ya there Geraghty. Beck's column should have engaged me as a "queer" person. Instead, I found it to be pretty much what you would expect from your average, unimaginative "gay lifestyle" indoctrinated queen. I'll bet anything if he had a podcast it would be full of that mindless Untz untz untz dance music, Kylie Minouge and Celine Dion or somesuch airhead fluff.
That dog is fucking hideous...but it may Peruvian-American diplomatic relations.
That dog is awesome. But I still they think should get a pot bellied pig if they really want a hypoallergenic rescue. Save a glamour pet!
I just heard about the breed in reference to the hunt for an Obama dog so I googled. First thing I thought of when I saw your picture is that this breed looks Egyptian. The Egyptians had dogs that looked like this. Like a wild dog from africa that was domesticated and transplanted thousands of years ago. There are historic links.
I just heard about the breed in reference to the hunt for an Obama dog so I googled. First thing I thought of when I saw your picture is that this breed looks Egyptian. The Egyptians had dogs that looked like this. Like a wild dog from africa that was domesticated and transplanted thousands of years ago. There are historic links.
I am from Seattle. All your comment threads are belong to me.
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