Seattle Weekly's Locavore Parody is Duller than Dishwater

"then i find the author and another prominent member of the seattle alternative journalism community making fools of themselves on the internet like 12 year olds. jesus, guys, aren't you supposed to be professionals?"

Stranger-Weekly tensions run deep. It's like the Hatfields and McCoys. You're clearly not from around here. :-)

For the record, we here at Seattlest think of ourselves as the Clint Eastwood character in the spaghetti western A Fistful of Dollars.

YOU GUYS ARE MAKING ASSES OUT OF YOURSELVES FOR ALL ETERNITY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

(apparently, this Internet gem doesn't exist without Keyboard Cat anymore)

i'm visiting town from chicago and ran into this story. then i find the author and another prominent member of the seattle alternative journalism community making fools of themselves on the internet like 12 year olds. jesus, guys, aren't you supposed to be professionals? what petty, backwater bullshit. (the myspace-esqe bickering. the story was pretty funny. though this seely guy is obviously a thin-skinned twat.)

Neal: Thanks for weighing in. Re: Ronald's tenure as the Weekly's executive editor, it lasted from April '78-Feb. '79. That's not exactly "two years." (He held lesser titles subsequently before dropping off the masthead.) As for the insinuation that his alumnae status cancels out his current bias, that's like saying Stranger managing editor Bethany Clement is qualified to objectively critique the Weekly simply because she used to hold the same job at our paper. That's pure bologna.

P.S. As a former Weekly food writer, I was at first annoyed by Jason Sheehan's style but then grew to appreciate it, and I'll miss him. Re: Seely's satire, it wasn't my cup of tea, but it did fool me for a while, which either means I'm dumb or it was doing something right (or both?).

What a sassy back and forth!

I was 5 at the time, Ron, far too young to read about foreign wine junkets.

Hello, Mike Seely. What you seem to forget (or never knew, perhaps) is that I served for two years as Executive Editor of Seattle Weekly, back when it was an independent (rather than a village) voice. Cheers, Ronald

I prefer parody to bear (right, not bare) some relation to reality, but when a piece is actually a satire, bearing no relation is kind of the point.

Oh and, I admit right off to being 100% biased.

There's insular, and then there's having the father of the news editor of our primary competitor write about us. That's like having a member of the Red Sox critique the Yankees.

That's fine, Hanna. All I'm saying is that one of those "plenty"—and not Dom's dad—should have critiqued the story.

Ronald's opinion regarding this piece, which is in his vein of interest, was unique. He was interested in the piece, he reviewed it. If everyone in this insular community were to avoid coverage of anything where they may have additional personal interests, we'd have no news at all.

Appreciate the attention, Ronald. For anyone wondering, Ronald's son is the news editor at the Stranger. That should tell you everything you need to know about his lack of objectivity when it comes to the Weekly.

Mike, that's neither here nor there. Plenty of us with no relation to the Stranger take issue with the Weekly.