OK...so the Monkee fanrage was a little over the top...but still...what did Davy Jones ever do to YOU, Adrian?

Uhhh.... yeah. I'm with @1 AlaskanbutnotSeanPurnell.
Wow--this is nasty! The Stranger can do much better.
By the way, you'll be growing older, too, Adrian.

What's a Monkees?

ha ha

Well OK, this is either surreal or the Starnger having nothing better to shit upon made all of these totally awesome rants up! Didn't read the original (don't need to as I'm well versed on Holier-than-Thou Stranger bullshit), but this feed back sure does rock. "I hope you die" now, that's funny.

Interesting that you would choose to publish the email of a minor, 13yr old, out of THE MANY that you received. I wish you would have posted mine, for example.

Another thing this whole blowup over a passing joke made me realize: a lot more baby-boomer old farts read the stranger than I previously realized.

I'm a Monkees fan and I'm not a "baby-boomer old fart" like you assume. I'm 27. Believe it or not, most classic rock and Monkees fans are young people, not baby boomers.

Great letters. Somehow I don't think it bothers Adrian that he gets less pussy than Micky Dolenz.

Mickey Dolenz was my favorite dumb ass, too.

Take the last train to Clarksville, Ryan.

Please, that hate mail is nothing. Write an article critical of the Prog-Rock band Rush and you'll get some real hate mail.

Of all the bizarre, vitriolic rantings of the Monkees' fans - and i'm one of them - i'm especially shocked beyond belief that one "Meghan Brozanic" (really, that is a name? ...it makes more sense backward, as Harry Caray used to say: "Cinazorb Nahgem") wrote in from Chicago to say that not only has she never heard of The Stranger, but incredibly she called it "your little paper".

Cinazorb, though it's no surprise that Chicago's mind-numbing flatness & oppressive summertime humidity has warped your ability to think clearly, let me explain: The Stranger is Seattle's Only Newspaper™ ...please refer to it as such in your future rambling rantings.

I like the heart icon a the end of the most hateful letter. "Hope you rot in Hell with your own dismembered cock stuffed in your mouth. Luve ya, buh-bye!"

The Monkees had all the relevance of The Banana Splits, Hogan's Heroes and Gilligan's Island -- with whom they shared 1960s and 1970s TV land. A few decent hits punctuated a lot of silliness.

This whole thing would never have blooooooown up in the manner that it now has, if Mr. Ryan had been more sensitive, and at least waited far longer before bashing David Jones.
Yes, the fans over-reacted as well and used one hateful term, "Faggot" in the process (UGH, by anyone's definition) but were Mr. Ryan to repent in some fashion, I think the fans would be grateful. I hope that they would, anyway. He will age too, you know, and not everyone is fortunate enough to age as well as say, Madonna (kidding-psych! because even she's had major work done, which is my whole point that no one can avoid looking somewhat time-ravaged ...)
I'm a looongtime Monkees fan, and am supprotive of the guys and what they do, but I also realise that any band or entity will have its haters, to be sure, so I didn't react as violently to what Mr. Ryan wrote as many fans did. Also, I understand Gay-snark, as well.

ADDENDUM to my comment ABOVE --

OOPS, I typo'd sorry: Meant to write "supportive" in my last paragraph ...