Please go away

Published 6:58 pm Saturday, October 16, 2010

The Buzz would like to walk back from our Friday comments on the balloon boy caper in Colorado. The 6-year-old is blameless; not so his parents, who apparently burn with an insatiable desire to get their faces on the teevee.

If The Buzz sat in judgment of Richard and Mayumi Heene, here’s how we’d rule: No more TV. That means no more pseudo-smutty reality shows. No more live interviews on Action Eyewitness McNews. No more uploading of “storm chasing” videos to YouTube. And take down the ones already there.

This surely would be a torture for mom and dad — but a blessing for their kids.

Skiing you can afford: Columnist Sharon Wootton visits a ski area in Eastern Washington where all-day lift tickets cost $10. That’s right, just 10 bucks.

That kind of money might buy you a glass of beer at Aspen, Colo. — as long as it’s Coors.

It happened at the fair: A film airing tonight on Channel 9 documents Seattle’s first world’s fair: The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition of 1909.

Don’t remember this fair? It was the one with the steam-powered monorail.

— Mark Carlson, Herald staff