{"id":1393,"date":"2009-12-19T16:29:57","date_gmt":"2009-12-20T00:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/12\/regrets_to_the_stranger\/"},"modified":"2009-12-19T16:29:57","modified_gmt":"2009-12-20T00:29:57","slug":"regrets_to_the_stranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/12\/regrets_to_the_stranger.html","title":{"rendered":"Regrets to the Stranger"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Stranger art critic Jen Graves<\/a> took out after Garrison Keillor<\/a>, I took out after her in this<\/a> links post:<\/p>\n

No humor allowed<\/b>: Jen Graves posted<\/a> this dazzling piece of (at least brief) nonsense yesterday: <\/p>\n

Remember: American men don’t do art<\/a> unless it involves naked ladies, unless the men have thin shoulders. I hate you, Garrison Keillor.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Jen.
\nHe’s kidding. Kidding. The whole thing is a spoof on sex stereotypes,
\nnot an indulgence of them. Hate Garrison Keillor? Save it for Dick
\nCheney.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Surely the man who invented the place where all the women are strong, the men are good looking and the children are above average would have to be kidding when he sounds like a sexist troll.<\/p>\n

Maybe not. Seattle painter Susanna Bluhm<\/a> referred me to another version of what’s on Keillor’s mind these days. Turns out, he’s mad at musical Jews.<\/p>\n

\n

And all those lousy holiday songs by Jewish guys that
\ntrash up the malls every year, Rudolph and the chestnuts and the rest
\nof that dreck. Did one of our guys write ‘Grab your loafers, come along
\nif you wanna, and we’ll blow that shofar<\/em> for Rosh Hashanah’? No, we didn’t. Christmas is a Christian holiday–if you’re not in the club, then buzz off. (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

What’s up with Keillor? The doctor is not in, but I’m tempted to think the aging humorist has a medical problem. Something pressing on his cerebral cortex, perhaps? Shout out to Keillor: Time for a check up from the neck up. <\/p>\n

Second apology <\/b>goes out to Stranger book critic Paul Constant. When the Los Angeles Times covered<\/a> the Elliott Bay Book Company’s closure in Pioneer Square, I praised the article, saying the locals missed the story under their noses. I singled out Constant for special blame, saying he was “more interested in griping that he didn’t get full credit from the Seattle Times for being first as the news breaker.” (more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The problem is, the LA Times piece read a bit like an obit. Yes, Elliott Bay is leaving Pioneer Square, which is a huge blow to the neighborhood, but, as Constant later reported<\/a>, it is reopening on Capitol Hill. Constant was waiting to get his facts straight, always laudable. <\/p>\n

In the immortal words of Gilda Radner:<\/p>\n

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When Stranger art critic Jen Graves took out after Garrison Keillor, I took out after her in this links post: No humor allowed: Jen Graves posted this dazzling piece of (at least brief) nonsense yesterday: Remember: American men don’t do art unless it involves naked ladies, unless the men have thin shoulders. I hate you, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}