Release The Hounds: Gate Getty Blog Comments To Open For Business

This is going to be one of those situations where no matter what happens, every single person involved will believe that it proves that their opinion about everyone else is correct.

Always a comfort in these troubling and unsettled times.

Peter likes cats. That's kinda cool.

Whither Rich "Big Vinny" Liebermann?

Big Vinny allows comments, hence his exclusion from the "City Brights bloggers who do not have comments" list.

The City Brights section is just the latest disaster from the geniuses at upper management over there. I mean, Ronn Owens is a groovy guy and all, but he already has a talk show for several HOURS a day FIVE days a week. It's not like I can't hear what Ronn Owens has to say ( and I do quite a bit whenever I visit the family down south).

I'm not sure why I need to hear the cries of the rich and powerful in Yet Another Section of the Chronicle, but if there's one thing I've learned on Intervention it's that you can't help someone unless they want to be helped. So let the Chron mainline crazy until they choose otherwise.

Hey, gang. I want to thank Eve for clarifying the error about our comments section. When I explained the mistake, she offered, very graciously, to clarify it, which she has. Clarify it in rather fine print, mind you, and without acknowledging the immense glee universally exhibited over it, but that's more than I expected, and considering the orgy of hate our attempt to humanize ourselves to our readers was so easily whipped into by one article in Gawker--an article so wildly inflammatory, misleading, untrue and self-congratulatory--my brother and I, for example, are to thank him for reaching a "more perfect" (what a moron) understanding of what it's like to be ourselves--that any acknowledgement of their completely unjustified and unjustifiable attack would be impossible. It would require integrity, which its author either discarded as a burden or, more likely, never possessed.

By the way; I tried to leave a comment pointing out some of the more transparent lies in it. Guess what? I couldn't. You have to earn their acceptance by submitting an unspecified number of comments for them to judge. I wonder how my brother and I would be treated if we'd adopted such a rule.

All of the "print" on SFAppeal, I believe, is done in the same sized font.

Allow ME to express my immense glee at the Getty Brothers offering comments on future blog posts. I think it's great and totally appreciate that perhaps, Peter, you and your brother took the wrong advice.
But for all of these corrections and clarifications you've offered today, and thank you for doing so, you seem just as riled up and defensive as everyone else. Why not let your future posts speak for themselves? Maybe the more we’ll read, the more we’ll understand your perspective.
Until then, I’d ease up on the integrity talk if you plan to continue to allow your biography to state: “Peter Getty has flirted occasionally with real work, but finding it wearisome, has returned full time to his first love, watching television.”
I wanna like you, I really do. But that bio from an adult offering us his thoughts inherited privilege is, well, askin’ for it…

Wow, just like after Jesus died and went to hell for three days before ascending into heaven...the devil is always in the details.

I just love SFAppeal, I do, truly even from a far, far, galaxy in the valley ( silicon not Potrero Hill mind you )

Now I would not be a good Prostestant if I didn't tell you that I will be the Hot dog stand in the third circle on the right when you finally get to your destination....

I just hope Romana will give me a good review for my Happy hour ( free whole dill pickles!)