Letters to the Editor
Buckethead Wendy
Published Letters: 43 Editor's Choice: 14
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wow...
[Read the article: How the fortune cookie crumbles]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So, do I have everybody's permission to like my $6 shrimp with broccoli better than the food my Chinese coworkers have cooked for me? Sheesh.
For the record, I do not weigh 300 pounds, I do not think Chinese people are all dirty or gross, and I have tried chicken feet. I'm not uneducated or xenophobic, just (evidently) incredibly gauche. I fail to understand how anyone has time or energy to get so enthusiastically judgmental about what total strangers are having for dinner.
I think I'll have some American snow peas in brown sauce tonight. If that's okay with all of you.
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For heaven's sake
[Read the article: The best-laid plans]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This was a harmless, charming little excerpt. I quite enjoyed it, even. Salon is a magazine; there are "important" pieces and there are pop culture pieces and there are personal essays like this one. You can read about China or the economy or Jeremiah Wright quite easily without being subjected to anything else. This can be accomplished by reading another publication, or simply by clicking only on the things you want to read. Honestly, it's very simple.
I enjoyed it, but even if you didn't, you have to acknowledge that these kinds of articles do have a place in a magazine like this one. And at the very least, it wasn't yet another whiny sanctimonious diatribe about how hard it is to be a wealthy white suburban mother. I think we can all agree that's a good thing.
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I like it!
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I absolutely love the idea, they just don't always pick the amusing bits. Sometimes it can be genuinely enlightening, or incredibly charming - I'm thinking of Allen Iverson, standing up from the bench during the All Star Game, watching Chris Paul coming down on a fast break: "Yeah! Good pass, boy!" like he was cheering for his kid's peewee league. Or when they show a coach's inside joke with a ref, or the opposing coach, or just catch him saying something about the halftime act. (Byron Scott, Sunday night: "Nasty. That's just nasty.") Even the boring "keep rebounding" speeches are a nice glimpse into their world for those of us who are sports fans but not sports players. So I say they just need better editors picking better soundbites.
Now, if they'd stop interviewing Eva Longoria or someone's grandpa while there's a game going on, that would be nice. But this stuff happens while there's nothing going on anyway, so no harm done. Easily the least offensive gimmick they offer.