"Seattle works best as a boutique city, smaller, more remote, quainter and cooler than the Megopolises to the south and east."

MARVIN GREGORY
RENTON

Cheap and hackneyed

It's too bad that in your satiric projection of cost-cutting at Nordstrom, "May we help you?" [News clips, 3/1], the oh-so-politically-correct Seattle Weekly had to resort to a cheap, hackneyed ethnic slur: "Sure, you can have a full refund—if you can get past our new Returns Department bouncers: Guido 'No Neck' Gambino and Freddie 'Fractures' LaMotta."

May I suggest a little creative versatility in the future, if only to spread the stereotyping around a little; how about Armando "Bitch Slapper" LaFontaine, Pedro "The Blade" Alvarez, and maybe even Yoshi "Yellow Peril" Yoshimura?

I'm sure you get the idea.

DENNIS CALDIROLA
VIA E-MAIL

Letter o' the week

Dear Editor,

I would like to personally welcome you and your readers to the Human Being Society. We have even more members than the United States has citizens. All Human Beings are lifetime members. We meet everywhere, in every moment. We grow in every imaginable way. And we hold every imaginable belief.

Yet we are ONE.

Our purpose is to remind everyone of their membership in the Human Being Society. And as an important news magazine on the West Coast, we hope that you will always remember too.

Grow well, and remember our motto: "WE ARE YOU"

Love & Blessings,

MADAM X
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
HUMANBEINGSOCIETY.ORG

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