Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 466 Editor's Choice: 25
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The Love Below was the better half...
[Read the article: OutKast's last hey ya]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...in my humble opinion. C'mon? "Behold a Lady"? "Spread"? "Happy Valentine's Day"? "Roses"?! "Dracula's Wedding"?!!
Even if I heard "Hey Ya" 5 times a day for the rest of my life (Like we were all doing when it broke; shit was everywhere), I'd still get shivers from the breakdown every time I heard it.
Sure the weird skits aren't funny in a ha-ha way but in a "O.K., what-the-fuck ever.." Andre 3000 way (what's with every recent hip-hop album's need to prove their comedic chops with an average of 4 "skits" per album? Note to Eminem: You are not a stand-up comic!). I mean, post-one-night-stand inner monologues? Yea, we know, its tough to find love when you're a huge hip-hop celebrity... but I digress. Most of The Love Below was above-average or excellent. Only about 3 tracks too long...
Speakerboxx, on the other hand, lost me completely half way into it. Now, after "The Rooster" I just skip ahead to "Last Call". What's with "announcing" the title of the album over and other again like a breakfast cereal jingle? Speakerboxx! Yea, thanks for the reminder, I almost forgot... And the skits weren't as good...
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OK? Now for a comment about the actual article in question...
[Read the article: "Lost Girls"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Alan Moore has never failed to dissapoint. That said, I'm not paying $75 bucks for a comic book. Unless there are plans for a paperback, I will have to leave this "difficult" read to others. Speaking of "difficult", try the graphic novel on the 9/11 commission. Most tedious page-turner I've read in a while...
No mention of the fact that Moore and Gebbie fell in love over the course of producing this book and are now engaged?
I's also like to thank Salon for a recent uptick in the amount of Comics/Graphic Novel reporting lately! Just to balance out the hundreds of "subscription threats" I read on these comment boards every day...
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Sorry to start a thread war...
[Read the article: "Lost Girls"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I wrote "Alan Moore has never failed to dissapoint." What I meant was: "I should really be in bed as my toddler son will be rising in less than 6 hours. Oh, and Alan Moore has never dissapointed me." Sorry about that...
Another point of clarification that, due mostly to people's immeadiate overreaction to the subject even being mentioned, tends to get confused. Pedophelia is a mental disorder (classified as so) wherein an adult is sexually attracted to non-sexually mature children as young as pre-school age (don't even get started on Nepiophilia).
Ephebophilia, in contrast, is the attraction to adolescents of sexual maturity who may not be of the age of consent (which, of course, varies by municipalty). This is entirely normal and common and should not be seen as deviant (acting upon it, however, is not a good idea). One of Moore's points, I would guess.
OK, overreacting Broadsheeters! Do your worst!
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When your team is complete crap...
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...like, say, the Giants, sometimes rooting for others' downfall is all you have. Funny thing is that if the Sox were in the National league, they'd be leading 2 of the 3 divisions on the strength of how good they were before half the friggin team went down.
You want to count them:
Matt Clement
Tim Wakefield
Coco Crisp
Jason Varitek
Trot Nixon
Manny Ramirez
David Ortiz
Jon Lester
I'm sure I've missed a few. You think if anyone lost half they're fucking team they'd be competing?
And why do you assume that if it happened to the Yankees, we'd be loving it? What we love is beating the Yanks straight up, no excuses, their A-team vs. ours (like in 2004). Smacking a healthy A-Rod down is fun! What fun is there in relishing other people's injuries - especially when half of them aren't even sports related and could easily happen to you or me.
I'm with the some of the other Sox fans here when I say that I've almost forgotten about the season at this point. Truthfully, I just hope that Ortiz and Lester are OK and can continue with their careers. Especially Ortiz. That guy is special.
But no, let's just laugh it up as if people's lives aren't in danger. Irregular heartbeat? Yeah, real fuckin' funny. Cancer? Another laugh riot. Maybe Schilling could get into a horrific car accident for the encore? Would that make ya happy, King? God forbid any of this would happen to someone you love, let alone sports figures you look up to and admire.
Why don't you write another article about how your juice boy, Bonds, deserves the be MVP-for-life or something?
I used to like ya, King. Now I'm pretty sure your a fuckin' dick. And I hope Barry Bonds gets his head decapitated in a freak Omen-style death...
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If defending my team makes me obnoxious...
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...then I guess I'm obnoxious.
Max, et. al: no offense, but you have no idea what you're talking about. Any of those injuries (on other teams) that you metion happen to include the starting catcher: the backbone of the team as well as the most knowlegeable like Varitek (wonder why the bullpen started stinking it up the moment he went down - Sox fans know)? How about the league leader in HRs and RBIs like Ortiz? How about a journeyman knucleballer that relieves an entire bullpens stress every 5th start because he eats up innings like Wakefield? And your going to throw Sheffield, Cano, or the Moose at me as an example of how the yanks got it bad? Matsui was there only major loss, end of story.
Yeah we were pretty sucky this year, what with that 16 game winning streak and losing a grand total of 3 games in interleague play. I mean we were only 1st in the division for the first 4 months of the season. Yeah, big suckin' there!
Ummm, neil: An irregular heartbeat can kill you instantly, with no warning AND is incurable. So STFU, buddy. Would you wish it on your mam? No? STFU!!!!
Bring it on shitholes! We've been in worse spots than this and will STILL field a competitive team next year. BTW, I've only seen one "Jeter has AIDS" t-shirt and it was worn by a Mets fan (and could be construed as funny because Jeter DOESN'T ACTUALLY HAVE AIDS)!