Letters to the Editor
patioman
Published Letters: 14
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Ahh CSI-Miami
[Read the article: "CSI: Miami" vs. "Grand Theft Auto"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]To watch this show is to be amused by its sheer stupidity, which isn't to say it isn't fun. David Caruso's line readings are not just slow, but also for some reason he feels the need to continually repeat his last sentence, " Yes, Mr. Wolfe, that's true, that's true." ad infinitum. Every time he does I always feel the need to chuck (chuck!) something at the tv.
Sadly as a college student this show did little to discourage me from playing EVIL video games, in fact just to spite em I flipped the channel, and turned on my PS2 where I commenced to go on a HORRIBLE, SOUL-KILLING murder spree. Yet I continue to be anti-violent in my non-video game life, to the extent that I recently particpated in a anti-war rally at my university.
What I hate about these shows is that they try to say something about my generation: eg. we are still thoughtless children who are in dire need of protection, the evil television has stripped our morals, and we always take everything at face value. I am NOT this, nor are any of my friends, but primetime sure would like us better if we were. Then they could rip our stories from the headlines and produce yet another no-brain procedural with little heart and even less mind.
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For Allah's sake
[Read the article: Balls out]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Please don't take his name in vain.
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From a student in your Creative Writing class
[Read the article: Love will outlast Bush]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yo Garrison, I wonder if it would, like, surprise you that some of the 10,000 tunes I'm listening to on my iPod are the Air America podcasts I download daily. Needless to say, I'm here on Salon every day as well. My friends are similar. We go to rallies, we vote in every election, we write editorials for our school newspapers and join and volunteer for student organizations that oppose Bush and support fair elections. We talk endlessly about politics. Trust me, we're aware of how hard life is and how hard it's going to be. I'm sorry if this doesn't compute with your perception of us as Zen-like, "dude" and "like" saying iPodders, but it's true.
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This again
[Read the article: The anti-iPhone]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]'Different' is the direct object of 'Think.' Which is to say, 'Think Different [Things]'—just as 'Do Good' is 'Do Good Things.'
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Further
[Read the article: The anti-iPhone]
[Read more letters about this article: Here](An adjective performing this function is called 'substantive.')
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Enough about the elderly
[Read the article: "Live Free or Die Hard"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I knew exactly what to expect before clicking on this review. Another Stephanie Zacharek article devoted to how an actor is growing old gracefully, and how it's lovely to see that on-screen. Exactly how many times has she/you written a review with exactly the same focus? Get over it.
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Movie Theaters in Saudi Arabia
[Read the article: Rated R: Contains scenes of movie theaters and female drivers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"In Saudi Arabia, there are no movie theaters to begin with." This isn't entirely true. I grew up on an Aramco compound in Saudi Arabia that DID have a theater (two actually) as did every other company compound around the country.
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Comma?
[Read the article: Meet Moaning Lisa, the orgasmic mannequin]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That's called an 'apostrophe,' brutha.
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Ahem
[Read the article: "The Perfect Holiday"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]A positive review for this. A negative one for No Country for Old Men.
Right.
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Hyphens good
[Read the article: Their favorite things]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]@dterrydraw: This from a guy who inserts a hyphen between an adverb and a noun. Smooth.
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So...
[Read the article: "Fool's Gold"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is another Stephanie Zacharek review about an aging Hollywood star whom Stephanie Zacharek finds attractive because of how gracefully he/she is aging, and kudos to him/her for said graceful aging, because Hollywood puts so many pressures on actors, etc. etc. Must we have a review like this EVERY SINGLE WEEK?
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Anonymous
[Read the article: Zero visibility on Highway 52]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Then leave Minnesota, Anonymous. No one's forcing you to live here. I take the 94 a few blocks away from where you meet the 16 on Uni, and I'm managing just fine.
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But...
[Read the article: Zero visibility on Highway 52]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]P.S. I liked the Keillor article—except for that Rapture cameo. Ugh.
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And so...
[Read the article: Too great to be good]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Stephanie Zacharek continues her war against all that's cinematically good, while exclaiming that Donald Sutherland is sexy in "Fool's Gold" and that Ice Cube's new movie is pretty good, okay?