• The petition to boycott posterGIANT for its aggressive tactics against DIY artists on public walls—most recently, posterGIANT damaged large murals in Pioneer Square by a local artist—has gathered 350 signatures and counting. The petition's message is that posterGIANT "has a long and bad history in Seattle," and that word needs to get out to posterGIANT's clients that it's unworthy of their business unless it changes tactics. According to petition organizer Joe Martinez, posterGIANT's clients include Seattle Art Museum, Rat City Roller Girls, EMP, Chop Suey, Showbox at the Market and Sodo, Seattle Theatre Group, and Neumos. A spokeswoman for posterGIANT has said the recent incident in Pioneer Square was an anomaly, but the petition page on Change.org is packed with testimonials that disagree, portraying the company as a bully ripe for comeuppance.

• News came Monday that the Funhouse building has been sold. "We have six months to vacate the property, ending our tenancy on October 31, 2012," wrote proprietor Brian Foss. That's the bad news. The good news is that Foss and his business partner will seek another location. The closure isn't a surprise: Word of a proposed mixed-use building on the site had surfaced in mid-March. And really, when has punk rock ever successfully stood up to progress?

• Seattle-based author/musician Pat Thomas won't be living here much longer. First, he's jetting to England in May to present four lectures on his much-lauded tome Listen, Whitey! The Sights and Sounds of Black Power 1965–1975. (Local white supremacists hated it; they also didn't read it.) Then upon his return, he'll be moving to Los Angeles to start writing another book, this one on former Yippie Jerry Rubin.

• On a recent Friday night, Central Cinema hosted a screening of John Carpenter's moist horror flick The Fog. Among the attendees for the 9:30 p.m. screening was a twentysomething man sitting by himself with a glass of red wine. "He seemed really happy to be there," reports an eyewitness. "When Adrienne Barbeau's name came on-screen, he cheered." Soon afterward, the man put his head down on his table and went to sleep for the duration of the movie, including the intermission, when lights are brought up, tables cleared, etc. But still he slept, one hand wrapped around the stem of his almost-empty wine glass. "At the end of the movie, a server had to shake him awake," says our source. "He woke up with no problem, threw back the last of his wine, and exited."