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800 Maynard Ave S, Suite 200, Seattle, WA 98134
800 Maynard Ave S, Suite 200, Seattle, WA 98134
Raising a 7-incher in your honor Dan.
An establishment that is 21+ should make no special concessions beyond preventing actual physical encroachment.
Beyond that, this post is fucking amazing.
Fuck you, LCB.
Now ... let's find some va jay jay in bars!
This game is fun.
I'll never pay enough taxes to pay for that flash moment, and it boils my blood. What can we do?
Dan Engstrom
Fremont
Ugh
My apologies, Dan.
Who ever it belongs to, its nice, attached to something even nicer, and probably gets appreciated up close and personally frequently.
The gun was a side issue.
Oh, and great dick!
We love to talk about how we are a "world class" city, yet we let a paternalistic, anachronistic bureaucracy like the WSLCB exist out of fear that people might think we are advocating alcoholism if we suggest that it is an organization that was never needed to begin with, and is even more unneeded now.
But beyond that, if we were to abolish the liquor board tomorrow, we would still be burdened with a puritanical mindset that allows the Seattle Police Department to shirk their real responsibility - public safety - in favor of harrassing bars, stripclubs, and other "dens of iniquity". No one's forcing anyone to go to the Eagle, and no one's forcing them to stay - so why is the SPD even there in the first place?
And it's not just conservatives who are guilty of this - many liberals get preachy and screechy when the idea is floated that we don't need such strict regulation of bar and strip clubs. The children are trotted out, as they always are, as examples of why we need to restrain ourselves: If we were to relax zoning on strip clubs, for instance, or let them serve booze, there'd suddenly be a pole installed in the lobby of the Olympic Hotel, and you'd see the Seattle Girls School offering classes in lap dancing.
Abolition of the WSLCB and reform of the morality laws are exactly the sort of thing the initiative process is designed for - but we will never see a movement like that, because there is not the corporate interests to bankroll that sort of initiative. We'll just continue to pretend that we need this sort of "protection", and that liquor control is a desirable function of government in the 2qst century.
God, that took everything out of me. Where's that bottle of Frangelico.....
If your point was to make clear how the degenerate neo-urban gay man stereotype is, then you did a great job.
Has it ever fucking occurred to your diseased and egomaniacal mind, that waving your dick in public is, in point of fact, illegal and certainly not something that normal decent people who go out for a few drinks with friends want to see? To me, whether it happens in a nightclub, church, or the city park, it is a form of sexual assault by a social misfit, one that deserves to bring down the rule of law.
The fact that you find it funny, and see fit to show your pathetic ding-a-ling as some sort of protest, demonstrates your disgusting opportunism.
It also makes clear just what a poor example of the gay community you are. You do a great job making us look bad. The religious right has nothing on you when it comes to keeping us down in the ghetto.
Not my dick though. But you can fantasize all you like.
xo
Dan
I can't decide if that is a good thing or not.
As far as I am concerned, if some guy wants to let it all hang out in a gay bar, who cares? I'd honestly have an issue in mixed company, though. I'm not a prude (I looked at the pictures after the cut), but I don't necessarily want to see that if I'm out having a drink with friend after work.
But yeah, the LCB should either have something better to do or should be cut back if there are budget problems. And that applies to all states. Unfortunately, in my state, there are only two areas where the legislature can make cuts to balance the budget: health care and education (which includes the arts and museums). You gotta love Louisiana.
but i had always imagined Dan a bit more hung.....
I wonder if I wear a low cut shirt and expose my breasts by accident (or on purpose) I'm going to get some bar shut down. Somehow I doubt it.
and off the subject, Dan, I freaking love you.
Or, maybe it's always depended on who you ask. Some people are cock-obsessed and that's all that matters to them. To me, though, the music playing makes all the difference, and it was the only gay bar i could stand to be in for any length of time. (Re-Bar doesn't count, does it?).
Um, does the Cuff still suck dick?
I'm certain you understand this point, Dan, that's this is all about people's uptight attitudes about sex, (and by association drugs and rock music). The Eagle has long been an easy target. So, what I'm wondering is: is there anything really different or unusual about the current cirmstances?
And i must say, brilliant idea to use dicks everywhere in defense of The Eagle. It would warm the cockels of my heart if all pubs and bars, both ritzy and dive, straight and gay, rally to support this cause. Death to the prudish, homophobic WSLCB!
#44,¶3: Um, does the Cuff music still suck ass?
#45,¶2: ...circumstances. Maybe what's changed is your ability to be aware of what the WSLCB is doing. Which raises the question: how did you discover this news (and how can we get updates on their "progress"?)
¶3: ...straight and gay, rise to the occasion to support this cause.
boy penises!
maybe Dan is gay after all...
http://it.truveo.com/Batman-60s-Tv-Serie…
Also this video seems fitting too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGRPFUYUU…
What I found so shocking is that after the police came SEVERAL times to stop the sex and drugs, it was still going on. This is far more than someone having a dick out. It is about the fact that up until the last few weeks, the bartenders and bouncer would walk the bar and not do a thing about the behavior they were warned about. (In fact, it was only a month or so ago I complained that people were getting high on the patio and the bouncer looked at me like I was crazy and did NOTHING.)
I am not an Eagle hater. The Eagle is the bar I usually hang out in. I would never dream of going to the Cuff, which seems little more than a location for bachelorette parties at this point. But the owner and staff of the Eagle have never cared about what goes on in their bar and STILL refuse to monitor the sex and drugs.
What's your Problem!?
Can't a bunch of moral upstanding family men let off a little steam without the nanny state bitching it's head off?
Your? Dumbass.
Who cares if someone wants to have some fun on a Friday night. Some like to drink, some get high, some smoke some pole. Who are these things hurting?
After we lose the Prop 8 battle, the LCB is on the list for potential riot spots.
NO MORE MR NICE GAY.
Wuuuunderful.
Seriously @56, if you shut down every public place where anyone has ever done drugs or had sex, nobody would ever be allowed to go outside again.
And there's an even more insidious issue that Dan sort of skims over here, but which is more salient, IMO: the guy "going commando" in the UK was not intentionally exposing himself, he just happens to be not wearing underwear (which, so far as I'm aware at least, is not currently illegal in this state), while at the same time wearing an unbifurcated garment (also not illegal).
My question for the LCB would be: if the person in the photo was indeed guilty of "indecent exposure" or some similar offense, why was he not arrested on-the-spot? And conversely, if he WASN'T guilty of any sort of infraction, how could the establishment be held liable for what is in essence a case of incidental exposure?
And although I'm not sure the "up-skirt law" was originally intended to apply to men equally as to women, in this case it seems a least probable the LCB officer may in fact be guilty of some sort of violation for having taken such a photograph; or I'm at least guessing a court would have a reasonable expectation of making such a judgment, if it ever came to trial.
(sorry, please try not to trip over my soapbox...)
Now, when I pay my bus fee, I am never going to be OK seeing wieners in that environment. EVER.
So, since the city is so hung up on getting wieners out of gay bars, what are they doing to make our city buses wiener-free?
Tania
Great article Dan... if the P-I had been more like this, maybe they wouldn't have gone under.
BTW... Even as a lesbo, I have to say I'm impressed with the wiener in your article... and I apologize for using wiener so many times in this post.
Bullshit that's not your dick.
They already can't show nudity or porn on the screens and in fact had to cover up a nude male calendar they had hanging behind the damn coat check. It's excessive hateful behavior by people that are complaining to the liquor board... probably from pissed off former customers who have been told to go outside to smoke. Unfortunately the liquor board feels like they have to investigate every complaint, it's the laws that are homophobic, prudish, and aimed at "protecting" grown adults from grown adult things.
I have to give kudos to Savage, I have been trying to follow this story for awhile and am happy to see some guerilla activism being encouraged. Fuck this shit, let's take our goddamn bars back.
"a month or so ago I complained that people were getting high on the patio and the bouncer looked at me like I was crazy and did NOTHING"
get a fucking clue!! the staff can only do so much policing. most well adjusted adults have a difficult time telling other people how to behave, unless they're being unruly and obnoxious.
So, Kirby, what exactly IS it about The Eagle that draws you there? Hmmm?
@83 - you're absolutely right about where some of the complaints to LCB and SPD come from, from sissy bitches Kirby (#56)
Here in Dayona Beach, Florida, a woman's right to expose her breasts in public in defiance of indecency laws has been affirmed legally. There have been protests where large numbers of woman expose themselves publically, and a court held that such "indecent" exposure is legal if, and only if, it is done in order to... protest indecent exposure laws.
So I'm thinking maybe 150, 200 guys in Washington standing on an overpass with their dicks out might be a nice legal test for the Northwest. Sure, you'll get arrested the first time, but think of the progress you'd be making for Penis Rights. It'd be a great photograph, anyway, for the paper.
Oh shit. And here I was hoping to see a project to get a local, fresh fast food vendor installed in bars. Cuz sometimes you need a snack.
Oh.
I'm sooooo moving to Portland!
Ridic(k)ulous.