Letters to the Editor
shango101
Published Letters: 5 Editor's Choice: 1
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Fool
[Read the article: A grad student in China has taken possession of my soul]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's jet lag.
Letters number 2 and 3 were very funny though.
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just ignorant
[Read the article: The lazy man's guide to Alaska]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]People who drive through the Texas Panhandle on the way to somewhere else might get the impression that's all there is to Texas, that and George W. Bush -- who, by the way, was "elected" by Americans. That's because they don't know any better, and it's just sad.
Texas has all kinds of beauty. Yes, it's challenging, what with the bugs, scorpions, snakes, stickerburrs, violent thunderstorms, flash floods, tornados, heat and humidity. But Texans are the kindest, friendliest, most humorous people you'll find anywhere. In Texas, you'll find yourself conversing with strangers wherever you go, and you won't be strangers for long.
Austin has the softest air and smells better than any other city. And we have Ann Richards, Willie Nelson, Mexicans, Barton Springs, SXSW, Rick Linklater, the beach, the Hill Country, Big Bend, miles and miles of wildflowers, Enchanted Rock, tubing on the Pedernales River, writers, artists and filmmakers, human eccentricity, great music and funny things happening every day, and that's just the very tip of our iceberg. And we used to have the great Barbara Jordan.
I've spent years in California too, but like most Texans who leave, I'm going back.
Garrison Keillor, your writing and your politics are just fine, and it's nice for you that you got to go on a fancy cruise with the other Lutherans. But I've noticed for years that some of your opinions are just lame.
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Dear Magpie
[Read the article: The lazy man's guide to Alaska]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wow. You *really* don't get it. Mexicans are not an "amenity." They are part of the culture of Texas.
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Another vote against the videos
[Read the article: Femininity vs. hipster coolness]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Please. I have watched only one and found it boring and a waste of time. What is the point? Self-promotion? What? I don't care what these people - writers! - look or sound like. Does anyone? It's just irritating.
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@ spikegillespie
[Read the article: How gay it would be]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ooooh yeahh, Spike Gillespie. Another groovy annoying Austin mother writer. Didn't you write a piece one time about how much cooler you were than the other mothers picking up the kids at preschool? For Salon, maybe? It's hard to be the coolest in Austin, so my hat's off to ya! Here's another one who used to live here: Marion Winick. Wrote something about how her seven-year-old son was in love with her breasts? A couple more from California: Anne Lamott and Ayelet Waldman. Same kind of thing. All write annoying narcissistic crap about their own fabulousness using their kids as fodder, and that's why it's offensive. Not funny. I'd hate to be those kids.