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Saturday, March 7, 2009

Bars / Last Night The Actual Saddest Thing

Posted by on Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 3:18 PM

No disrespect, Mr. Frizzelle, but your saddest thing's got nothing on the older gentleman attempting to walk down the street across from Barca last night. He was so drunk, his entire upper body was traveling altogether behind his hips/legs/feet—he looked like he was pantomiming the existence of an extremely strong wind. He proceeded in slow motion, barely staying upright until he no longer did. He made the acquaintance of the sidewalk right at the top of that long ramp down into the Value Village parking lot. A good Samaritan left the bar to go help him; he communicated from the ground that his wife was going to be mad because his car had been towed, and further that he was trying to find Basic Plumbing. Basic Plumbing is the gay bathhouse located exactly one block due west of where he'd fallen down. It was 7 p.m.

(Let me add, for the splendid bartender's sake, that the man had not been drinking at Barca. Also, Barca makes excellent martinis.)

 

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oh, dear. that is sad.
Posted by boxofbirds on March 7, 2009 at 5:05 PM
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i wonder what happens outside of your 2 block hack-reporter newsblasts????

Posted by yawn on March 7, 2009 at 6:33 PM
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@2: Would you like a breaking news report from your mom's house?
Posted by She's a Firecracker on March 7, 2009 at 9:16 PM
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Did he make it to the bathhouse?
Posted by username7410 on March 7, 2009 at 9:37 PM
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really lame. this rag gets off by reporting stuff like this, eh?

Posted by anony on March 7, 2009 at 10:46 PM
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Oh, and the saddest thing about this? The Stranger decided to print specifics that may have been embarrassing to the man, as well as facts that would help his wife identify him and his remarks about the gay club.
Posted by You you you you on March 7, 2009 at 11:03 PM
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Oh right, like this guy is trying so hard to be discreet, above commentor, by being drunk and blabbing about his wife and man lust to strangers.Exactly what specifics is The Stranger providing about this guy that is unethical? If you're stumbling drunk in public, you need to deal with whatever shameful shit you get into. You don't deserve to be protected from your cuckolded spouse finding you out.
Posted by seriously? on March 7, 2009 at 11:38 PM
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@7 -- yeah, because *nobody* on The Stranger staff (or this board, for that matter) has ever stumbled around drunk in public making an ass out of themselves, right? Just typical mean and self-righteous asshattery from someone at the Stranger. I am a little surprised it is BJC though -- usually you expect this out of the angry gay duo of Frizelle or Savage, not so much her.
Posted by Good Grief on March 8, 2009 at 8:15 AM
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@8 -- how biblical. He who has not made an ass of himself on a public street crawling around legless at 7 PM looking for an adulterous gay tryst, should cast the first stone.
The detail of the story I like is that somebody actually took their finger out and went to help him.
Posted by --MC on March 8, 2009 at 9:50 AM
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Would somebody please teach this guy the correct way to be on the down-low?
Posted by Chris down in The Couv on March 8, 2009 at 10:46 AM
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It's not a bathhouse, it's a sex club. (no showers, no steam room, despite the misleading name.)

It's okay, you're forgiven, I wouldn't expect you to know that.
Posted by so I've heard on March 8, 2009 at 12:03 PM
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"He who has not made an ass of himself on a public street crawling around legless at 7 PM looking for an adulterous gay tryst, should cast the first stone."

i am going to embroider that.
Posted by waltwhitman'sniece on March 8, 2009 at 12:55 PM
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um, actually @11, it does have showers downstairs.
Posted by BP fact checker on March 8, 2009 at 2:16 PM
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'Good Grief', you missed the point of #7's comment: the person chastising the author for supposedly identifying this guy and embarrassing him is ridiculous, as the man isn't described physically and even if he was, he's not being discreet to begin with so his privacy doesn't need defending. No one here was trying to say that The Stranger staff/fellow commentators don't get drunk and make fools of themselves. (As for saying that The Stranger is self-righteous, maybe give the person in the mirror a good hard look?) Many people do that. But those who do that, and make a PUBLIC fool of themselves, shouldn't be surprised that they end up being talked about.
Posted by Society Against Bizarre Anger Towards Stranger Staff on March 8, 2009 at 4:40 PM
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Oh that's right, I forgot we were all fodder for other people's scrutiny around here. I didn't realize that. Every time somebody does something out of the ordinary and potentially embarrassing, it's necessary that we print it so that those who are close to them can figure out who it was.
Is anyone curious about my neighbor's sexual habits, and perhaps wants to know what intersection I live at? Maybe what floor I live on? Each of those is pretty innocuous in itself, but put them together, and I'm publicly humiliating someone for your gossipy pleasure. Maybe her boyfriend would be curious what happens when he's out of town?
For fuck's sake, I'd rather fall over drunk on the way to a gay bathhouse before I took part in that. Everyone around you is not a puppet for your personal amusement. If you want a gossip mill, move to some small town and chat with your neighbors about the juicy details there. Let the remainder of us function in relative anonymity please.
Posted by You you you you on March 8, 2009 at 4:54 PM
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I just don't see what's so sad about that. Except maybe the car getting towed. That's a pain in the ass, but not really sad.
Posted by scouters on March 8, 2009 at 11:36 PM
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Meanwhile in Fremont and Ballard tons of stuff happened but the Stranger ignored it.
Posted by Will in Seattle on March 9, 2009 at 12:10 AM
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@15: You're the idiot that reads it. If you aren't interested in reading about things people do (do you also read the Superficial? Perez Hilton?), then don't. And certainly you don't need to comment on the story. Just stop reading. The less people who do, the less these stories will happen.

Also: The Stranger, despite the tagline, is not where you should look for hard-hitting news. (Although they can break some great stories, too.) It's published weekly. The dailies, these newspapers that are failing while you all bitch and moan about the lack of news in The Stranger, are where the real story is. Support them. Stop trying to make The Stranger into something it is not. Your (free) blogs cannot do everything in the news world.

Furthermore, not sure why you're carrying a torch for the drunk, closeted guy. No one posted the apartment number, his intersection. Certainly no one invaded his privacy, as he was OUT IN PUBLIC. What about that don't you understand?
Posted by If you hate The Stranger...stop reading it! on March 9, 2009 at 12:38 AM
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If stuff happens and The Stranger doesn't report it, is it important?
Posted by johnnycache on March 9, 2009 at 9:09 AM
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Caution: lack of Stranger-directed vitriol!

I saw this guy, too. Stumbling down 12th, at about, oh, 7PM. He was soooo effin' blotto, that people--other than me and my girl--were talking about him.

(btw, dudes, read the AP, they got plenty more oddball shit than this.)
Posted by LB on March 9, 2009 at 3:50 PM
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all i gotta say is, "hooray for basic plumbing." i love that place.
Posted by who's got time for comments when there's sex to be had. on March 11, 2009 at 8:50 PM

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