Letters to the Editor
Cap'n Eurazz
Published Letters: 12
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You CAN get your $ back, BabyGrumpus!
[Read the article: "License to Wed"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Or at least a free pass! You left before the movie was over - hell, my wife wrangled free passes out of the manager after we watched ALL OF the Village of the Damned remake. If the product is just so low quality, it's reasonable to request a refund - and get it. Try it next time. Though they might reasonably ask in this case: Just what were you expecting?
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Never Before In History...
[Read the article: Mom's a pothead]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...has any one 15-year-old been so often compared to Hitler!!!
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Hey, what happened to that crazy anonymous European, er, cannabis maven...?
[Read the article: Mom's a pothead]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I got an actual substance-free buzz reading his loopy shit in a kind of Vincent Price voice in my head. "...that despicable country." (Oops, that was Daffy Duck.) Here's to MackK for taking on his ludicrous (though entertaining) bloviation so tirelessly. Perhaps it's the middle of the night in his neck of the world and he'll be back with more juicy bombast after breakfast. If not, we win. U-S-A!
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About that moose story...
[Read the article: Hit her, baby, one more time]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's certainly heart-rending, but I just read it in a novel or short story. I'm wracking my brain but can't come up with where. Anybody recognize it?
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"God is Dead"!
[Read the article: Hit her, baby, one more time]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]THAT's where I read the "Moose" story! In the novel/story collection "God is Dead" by Ron Currie, Jr.! OK, it's not a moose, it's a loon with a broken wing, but in the story a young woman remembers when she and her mother (!) observed a man in a motorboat relentlessly harassing the beleagured bird to its death. Not the exact same story as Rebecca's, but curiously this book only came out a few months ago, and made a bit of a splash at the time. Also, the loon probably would have made a more delicate analogy than the moose provided. I'm just saying.
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Actually, Scrynne...
[Read the article: Hit her, baby, one more time]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Didn't Britney Spears do the same thing not too long ago?
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The daughter may in fact be asking difficult questions about her mother...
[Read the article: My Christian daughter says I'm going to hell]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Essentially, how much credit and respect do you expect ME to give this woman? It's possible that she, the daughter, has matured to a level where she's begun to recognize the mania and lack of reason attached to her mother's beliefs. This may sound like wishful thinking but it is in accord with my own daughter's reaction to my brother's descent into religious fundamentalism, and her tentative questioning of me vis a vis her fears that we all, according to him, were doomed to perdition. She essentially needed reassurance that what she suspected was true: that there was something, indeed, fundamentally wrong with my brother. (And forgive me, and not to tar all of those in his camp with the same brush, but it so happened that my brother was suffering from an escalating mental illness which manifested itself in his embrace of an extreme branch of Christian belief.) She was seeking clarity; perhaps, to some extent, this is what the daughter wants: reassurance that her own common-sensical feelings - which she is as yet in no position to express - are not "wicked." Father needs to be stolid and loving and non-judgemental enough not to lend support to his ex-wife's point-of-view, while avoiding an attack on them that will turn the issue into a tug-of-war.
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Yeah, my wife pretended it was the music, too...
[Read the article: "Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]But it was the bug-smashing and the blood-geysers. And boy were there blood-geysers. By the end, it's a Broadway musical version of Taxi Driver. Leave Steph to her Charlie Wilson's War's. If you've got the stomach - and, evidently, the ear - for it, don't miss Sweeney.
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I feel no pride in agreeing with Ms. Stephanie...
[Read the article: Too great to be good]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...so often have I found myself opposing her critical opinions. But here I think she's right both about the film and the performance: viewers seem bowled over by the appearance of greatness rather than the actual thing. The last time I felt this way was when everybody was flinging hosannas at Million Dollar Baby, and when was the last time anybody cracked open that movie's DVD case? There Will Be Blood is a much finer film in comparison - much of it is truly riveting - but it's a callow, immature work that evades drama, character and nuance in favor of bombast. Anderson lets Lewis run away with the movie, destroying any chance that anyone can even mount a credible performance opposite him.
These are the feelings of someone who was eager to like the movie, who was looking forward to it; I'm voicing disappointment, not snarkiness. But I'll be surprised if in a couple years people aren't surprised by the boundless enthusiasm they felt for what will seem, I believe, so empty an exercise.
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Mr. or Mrs. Pounce...
[Read the article: Night lands Clinton closer to oblivion]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Every poll I've seen has indicated that a far greater percentage of Clinton supporters vow to vote for McCain if Clinton is denied the nomination (as they would no doubt see it). And it is the Clinton supporters who continue to use Obamaniacs and Obamanauts and all those other pejorative epithets to describe his supporters. The blinders are yours, my friend, in a style matching that of your deluded, mendacious, and now blessedly fading candidate.
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Hillary campaigned as a woman
[Read the article: Gender lessons]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I suppose in my lifetime I'll never stop hearing the old saw about how a powerful woman is a bitch. She's a bitch because she's female; if she were a man she'd be an asshole. We all have prejudices; the biggest liars in society are those who say they don't. And Hillary's identity was profoundly tied to her being a woman. Her cachet went up when she cried, for God's sake. So, yes, many mens' reactions to her egregious behavior took into account her gender. How could it not? It was a fundamental part of who she is. It was also something she attempted to use to her advantage. And now we've come to a point where her campaign is being dissected, and her sad partisans look at the wreckage and point to her opponents whose revulsion took into account the fact that she was - gasp - a woman! As if that were irrelevant. The boys were mean! The fact is, Hillary got away with a lot because she was a woman - certainly many of her supporters would have written her off sooner if a man had been pulling that shit.
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One day, fascinating books will be written about this campaign.
[Read the article: A new low in Clinton bashing]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You, Joan, will be a comical figure.