EMINEM FANS VOW TO TORMENT HOMOSEXUALS
YO CRETINS: Are you providing an alternative to the tirelessly moronic Willamette
Week, or are they actually covertly funding you to invade Portland and make
them look good? Your hideous queer issue [Issue 3] is a perfect example. After
letting your despicable “One Day at a Time” columnist diss the brilliant Eminem,
you publish yet another deeply prejudiced “Hippie Report.” The contempt you
express for hippies leaves us wondering if you’ll soon be publishing a black
report or perhaps an anti-Middle East column. In reaction to your reactionary
views, we’ve decided to grow dreadlocks and openly vilify and torment homosexuals
for the rest of our lives. And like Eminem, we’re young, and we intend to be
around for awhile, so fuck you very much.
Mark Jarman and Nara Ramal
ANN ROMANO: GAY MALE COMMUNIST?
DEAR ANN ROMANO: In the June 29 edition of the Mercury [One Day
at a Time] you used the word “epitaph” in describing how righteous shop-keepers
threw your smut peddlers out of their store, when what you clearly meant to
say was “epithet.”
What the hell were you doing in school instead of learning English? Daydreaming homoerotic fantasies, perhaps? In fact, “Ann Romano,” it is glaringly obvious that you are nothing but a big gay male.
There can be no other explanation for your wanton defense of these godless perverts, and it is just like one of you people to hide behind a sneaky nom de plume (like that big fruitcake Samuel Clemens for example).
With flamboyant homos like you running the media, it’s only a matter of time before Ivan quits playing possum and sends a few MIGs our way. This is your wake-up call, Ann–or shall I say, Andy Romanoff! Lay off the bottled water and the Judy Garland pictures or we’ll be wearing fur hats and playing hockey by this time next year.
Robert Lickarod
OH…SO THAT’S WHERE VERA GETS HER WEED
HI: I am one of Portland’s finest and I want to tell you when you’re a cop
you can do ANYTHING you want! It’s no fraud to steal overtime from the city;
in fact I can sue the city for demoting me! And it’s likely the city is gonna
pay–if they don’t, we can spill the beans on how Vera Katz gets her pot from
our evidence room. Most people don’t know how all that “Oregon” gets to NYC–let’s
just say the mayor has connections–and we get our cut. My house is in Alameda–4000
sq. ft. with a home theater and I drive a BMW due, in part, to all my overtime!
Anonymous
WHO’S WHO? ME! THAT’S WHO!
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Lorraine A. Michaels
CALLING ALL DRUNKS! WIN CASH & PRIZES– JUST FOR BEING YOU!
DEAR READERS: In honor of our upcoming Drinking Issue, the Mercury is proud to announce our very first ESSAY CONTEST!
The theme of this essay is “WHY I DRINK“ and we invite YOU to send in 800 typed words on this very pressing subject.
Now, we can hear you say, “Oh yeah? (Hic!) Wahsh in’t for ME?” Well, how about
$100 to spend on liquor? And what’s more, the winner will also receive
their very own Home Bar Kit (vomiting clientele not included) provided
by the fine folks at Palookaville! Best of all, you can see your essay printed
in the Mercury’s Drinking Issue, coming August 3! So don’t delay!
Send in your essay to “Why I Drink” c/o Portland Mercury, 1524 NW 23
Ave., Suite 2, Portland, 97210. You can also email your entry to steve@portlandmercury.com.
Essays must be postmarked no later than Monday, August 25! No drop-offs
or calls either, you dirty stinkin’ drunk! GOOD LUCK!