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Stefan sharkansky: waitress slayer

I just get tired of rich people thinking that they can just do whatever they want, whenever they want. I just hope I don't lose my temp job. I know I will. This is just stupid and I don't know what to do.

It started as an waitress's amusing tale on a blog with few readers. It was about waiting table on dour Republican activist Stefan Sharkansky, his attorney/wife Irene and their 5-year old son at the Fremont Classic Pizzeria & Trattoria.

According to her, (and others who wait on them) the Sharkansky's 5-year-old was often "marginally attended," and permitted to be loud, obnoxious, and run annoyingly free in the dining room.

What's more, the Sharkanskys, she wrote, only tip 10%.

Sounds like trivial gotcha gossip well beneath the majesty of the likes of Sharkansky so often called an "influential Seattle Republican." Right?

Wrong.

Hell hath no fury like parenting scorned! And you don't know vindictive 'til you meet the Sharkanskys! Instead of letting this go and minimizing eyeballs to this trivia, the Sharks turned both barrels on the single mother of two who works two jobs and barely keeps her head afloat.

Puce friday oddems: home on the range; testicle lock box; sharkansky family values; lederhosen news you can use; a thong in our heart; words fail condi; dori, dori, dori

~ Dave Ross's (KIRO m-f, 12-3p) musical intrusion on the live Michael Medved Show (KTTH m-f, 12-3p) Thursday was some very funny radio. Seems Ross was in the studio next door recording a jingle to the tune of "Home On the Range" for Ron Upshaw's (of Ron & Don) blackberry jam. For some reason, the pre-recorded noodling of a Floyd Cramerish piano and Dave's mellifluous baritone singing about blackberry seeds' colonic cleansing properties floated over the national right-wing speechifying by Medved, who, ever the trooper, ever the critic, acknowledged the music, briefly critiqued it (two thumbs down), and went on. It was funny, and enjoyed by all. Dunno (nor care) why Upshaw is selling jam, or why Dave is flacking it. Dori Monson was not involved for once.

~ Happy Puce Friday, the decorators' day off!

~ BlatherWatch is banned in China (also KIRO!) We told you we were cool- we got the word from our blog server just last week. We thought it was only subversive blogs like David Goldstein's (KIRO Sat. Sun., 7-10p) Horses Ass.org who got that distinction from the Chinese commies. We're also banned on Dori Monson's KIRO- the word has come down: we're never to appear over their airwaves, nor is our name ever to be uttered on-air. We are the Blog That None Dare Speak Its Name- but the one everyone reads!

August monday (yawn) oddems: rush & paris; bustin' rhymes for jesus; turkel smirks; joe blobs; virtues czars; and the torrid touch of your sandwich

~ What do Rush Limbaugh and Paris Hilton share? (besides disdain for the common man?) You'd be right if you guessed bad press. You were also correct if you said the same image guru to do cosmetic surgery on their public faces. The NY Post's Page Six notes that Paris has been volunteering at Children's Hospital, and is being photographed holding babies and bopping around in one-piece bathing suits, Mary Janes and Peter Pan collars instead of "picking at her bikini bottoms on the beach," or using up boyfriends like Q-tips. Why? She's hired Rush's spin doctor Michael Sitrick and his crisis management team, Sitrick & Co. Big Pants has had some success by hiring Sitrick to put lipstick on his public persona caused by his drug problems, 3 marriages, high profile flatulence, and the revelations about his sex tourism in the Dominican Republic last year.          
                        (Photo: Paris and rent-a-baby).

Monday oddems: penis naively caught in talk radio trap; "fact-based scatological rants;" UN talk radio; Al Gore canned by KUOW; host-killer dies in prison; peggy noonan naked; folk music lives!

~Another talk radio-related mutilation: Actor Perry Caravello is suing Jackass star Johnny Knoxville and late night host Jimmy Kimmel for $15 million, claiming severe injury and humiliation after Knoxville talked him into putting his penis in a mousetrap on a radio talk show we're really sorry we missed. According to court papers: "Caravello was promised by Johnny Knoxville that he would be paid $10 million if he placed his penis in a mousetrap. He agreed to do so and, much to his emotional and physical harm, was severely injured when the trap literally went on his manhood." Insult was added to injury, he claims, when a video tape of the incident (would that be a 'snapshot?') made without his permission spread like herpes over the Internets. For those of us who've been tricked into inserting our penii into varmint traps while broadcasting- this is no joke. Our hearts and prayers go out to Mr. Carvello.

~ Listen to the best folk song since Where Have all the Flowers Gone? here. (Hat tip to Darryl).

~ Former Vice President, and national hero Al Gore, will speak in private with Steve Scher; in a conversation to be canned Monday, then served-up- presumably still hot- Tuesday on Weekday with Steve Scher, (KUOW, m-f, 9a-12p).

Does david goldstein make hate speech?

There's an effort by right wingers to smear David Goldstein and his radio show (KIRO Saturdays, Sundays, 7-10) with his employers.

Stefan Sharkansky for U.S. Attorney!

He's amazing!

Stefan Sharkansky, whose law degree is apparently part of the community property shared with his wife, attorney Irene Song has evidence of fraud in the 2004 election that the Seattle FBI couldn't find.

The heart of a growing scandal: john mcKay, election 2004, dino rossi, doc hastings & stefan sharkansky

The Bush administration is in shambles.

The guilty verdict of Scooter Libby, the Walter Reed "support-the-troops" scandal, and the dubious firings of GOP attorneys general (AKA the 'Gonzales 8') who wouldn't play political ball, have brought a tide of "accountability moments" rushing in on George W. Bush.

(...and has speeded up the 2008 presidential campaign- in full schwing already- spurred by the fact that 58% of the people wish George Bush was out of office right now).

The fall of john mccain: a candidacy wasted

Every time we get worried about the '08 Democrats beating each other up- we read something like For GOP, A Void on the Right, and realize: we'd rather have our problems, thank you very much.

Grumpy Republican meaneocon Robert Novak bemoans the dearth of candidates satisfactory to  conservatives. Most notable, he reports is how deep the rancor is for John McCain by the party's paleocons as well as the moraliticons. He's truly distrusted and despised.

Sharkansky eyeing Steinbrueck's seat, GOP eyeing Sharkansky's seat

It's the story that won't go away.

When Peter Steinbrueck, popular Seattle City Council member announced today he wasn't running for re-election next time, the heavy breathing by and for Stefan Sharkansky, the attractive, popular and energetic Republican hot ticket was heard all the way to Bellevue.

Tuesday oddems: KIRO potty mouth, newstalk ass bandit; strangest bedfellows, l’État, c’est moi, phamous philanders; phun with phatuous phundamentalists

~major market potty scandal at KIRO: "Why oh why, don’t people who use toilet seat covers in public restrooms, throw them away when they are done? I don’t understand it. We have culprit here at KIRO and I’m hot on her trail. There is a woman here at KIRO or maybe KTTH or KBSG – needless to say- major market radio here- who seems bent on goin’ potty and then leaving the seat cover right there on the toilet for someone else to have touch and throw away! That’s just gross! So I posted a sign in our restrooms that said: “If you use a toilet seat cover, please dispose of it when you are finished. No one should have to do that for you.”

~ we've been hearing about a talk host (who shall remain nameless) who got written up at a certain