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Jun 14 Pierrot Lunaire commented on Dear Elliott Bay Books: Please Be Open the Hours You're Open.

Wasn't this also your problem with the state-run liquor stores? PRIVATIZE ELLIOTT BAY!!!

Jun 7 Pierrot Lunaire commented on What's Wrong With Capitol Hill.

Dominic, would it be beneath you to even mention what your problems with this study (or Michael Wells) are before you launch into personal attack mode? Do you disagree with the Chamber of Commerce's goal (whatever you perceive that to be) as an appropriate goal for the neighborhood, or do you disagree that the study's recommendations (if implemented) would achieve that goal, or do you think the data used to arrive at those recommendations was inaccurate, or what?

Note that the Capitol Hill Blog seems to have read the study as explaining *why* "high-end and big box department stores will likely never be part of Capitol Hill’s commercial core", rather than whatever you think it is.

Apr 25 Pierrot Lunaire commented on ~~Did~~ Twitter Did NOT Kill This Young Man.

The update, and some of the comments that inspired it, are as content-free as the original post in a sense -- it's like people are so used to working without facts on the internet, they no longer understand what constitutes one. None of the articles states that his death has been established to have occurred at the time he disappeared or any other time before the bombing (though that is the overwhelmingly likely conclusion, obviously). It is, like, ontologically possible for someone to have been missing since March AND ALSO to have died after April 15. Jumping to a different (even if less stupid) conclusion from the one originally suggested is still just that.

Apr 19 Pierrot Lunaire commented on On the Whole Internet Pointing Fingers at the Wrong Guy.

What on earth is "useful" about "a snapshot of what a significant number of human beings are thinking about at any given moment"? Especially when the vast majority of those human beings have no more access to the actual facts of the matter than you do?

Mar 28 Pierrot Lunaire commented on JT Leroy, Laura Albert, and How a Lie Can Reveal a Bigger Truth (With an Aside About the Creator of Deadwood).

Also, saying that she was sued for fraud because "Sarah" turned out to be fiction-fiction instead of thinly veiled autobiography-fiction is not strictly accurate (although, again, it makes for a better story). She signed a contract under the name of a legally nonexistent person. What if the film company had made the film, and then found out the contract giving them the rights to do so was legally invalid?

Mar 28 Pierrot Lunaire commented on JT Leroy, Laura Albert, and How a Lie Can Reveal a Bigger Truth (With an Aside About the Creator of Deadwood).

"But that simple, small detail damns almost everyone else Leroy/Albert came across in his/her career..."

If true, yes! But why would you take this story at face value? Why give that much weight to the statement of a compulsively self-dramatizing person with an instinct for telling people whatever they want to hear as long as it makes for a "good story"?

Mar 26 Pierrot Lunaire commented on Tiny Apartments Are America's Future.

@8, but do apodments and apartments actually rent at the same rate per sq ft? When last I did the math apodments seemed to be significantly more expensive per sq ft than regular apartments, even if cheaper overall because so much smaller.

Mar 1 Pierrot Lunaire commented on Friday Photo Fun: Mom Mullets!.

OMG, West Coast.

By the way, I know Christopher was all excited to put the words "Sweet-Ass Rack" on the cover, but I think the combination of that headline with the taken-from-behind photo sends a mixed message, like it was attempting to refer to the subject's "Sweet Ass-Rack" but the hyphen migrated.

Feb 5 Pierrot Lunaire commented on In Which Rob! Speaks For Us All.

Napoleon XIV (who seems to have declined to make the transition to registered comments) cracked me up repeatedly & was perhaps the funniest of all the old-time commenters.