Letters to the Editor
Xrandadu Hutman
Published Letters: 3054 Editor's Choice: 53
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Have hot steamy sex in a big pile of dirty laundry
[Read the article: My husband won't do his laundry]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Seriously. Just throw laundry all over the floor, lay down naked, and whale away at each other in multi-orgasmic fashion.
Kind of puts the whole issue in perspective, doesn't it? We are not here on this planet, grouping together into couples, in order to spend time aggravated over who is putting our protective coverings into little cylinders and who is not.
You love this man, no? He loves you, no? Enjoy each other. Put all resentments aside for a while. Get back to them later.
Have you asked him point-blank why he isn't laundering? What does he say? Have you threatened not to do his laundry? What does he say?
Do you say things like "I want to bitch-slap you"? Have you ever considered that this approach and attitude is possibly why the man avoids you in favor of golf? What man in his right mind would ever want to spend quality time with a woman who talks so demeaningly about her man? Imagine a man who says "I want to smack my wife around." What a charmer, what a prize. I am sure he must be a real treasure, a real catch.
Jeez, lady, never talk about your #1 mate while in any way invoking violence. Unless he cheated on you or kicked your cat. Get a grip. Or a divorce.
Or do the nasty on a big heaping pile of dirty laundry. The bed is rectangular and boring. Throw all the towels, blankets, shirts and undies in a pile, get down on all fours, naked, and making little arfing noises. Stop being such a ballbuster when you can just have a ball.
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Some quibbles and bits
[Read the article: Ari Watch, continued]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Well first of all let me say that I am a "Joan Walsh fan" and don't mean to give you a hard time. And I don't pretend to be some sort of expert. And I especially don't want to be condescending. But...
-- Ya gotta get some better lighting! You seem to have a splotch of sunlight on your face. You don't look bad, but better lighting would be more flattering and, more important, less distracting to viewers. Even a simple three-point lighting set up would do the trick.
-- You need a better backdrop! It looks like you're inside a storage shed!
-- The camera is too close. It causes a wide-angle effect that is not the optimum presentation of one's cranium. It's better to have the camera back a bit, then zoomed in. I am speaking as somebody who has worked in TV studios and run TelePrompter for professionals.
-- I view this video blog as an experiment on your part. You had good things to say and you're very articulate, good speaking voice, authoritative and informed, likable, and dare I say, purty. Why aren't you on major shows more often? However, as somebody pointed out in the text-blog's letters, the Fleischer gaffe is fairly small-time stuff relative to, for example, the release of the 1994 Dick Cheney interview where he said everything his critics are saying now. Or relative to other real scandals. So I'm not sure Fleischer deserves the attention, frankly, since prior to this blog entry, I didn't even know he was still out there hawking propaganda! (The past 3 years do not appear to have been kind to the man.) When you jump on the little things, it somewhat trivializes from the bigger things. Jumping on little things is more of a Rovian right-wing strategy visa conduits like Drudge, the Washington Times or Limbaugh, trying to make a talking-point out of some fake controversy to distract from the big fuck-up that the Bush Administration is hoping to downplay elsewhere.
-- Ari Fleischer not knowing the soldier's name is still pretty pathetic, and still worth pointing out, if briefly. "I don't have his name in front of me." Ha ha, senior moment! Graceless, unprepared, hollowly exploitative....par for the course.
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Hi again Joan
[Read the article: Ari Watch, continued]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Hey, it's nice to get a response from you. I agree with the guy who said we'll gladly fly to S.F. to work as image consultants for your next video blog.
I'm thinking maybe we can green-screen you and put you into various settings like they do on the Daily Show. A scene from "THX 1138" would look pretty cool behind you.
Anyway, I was a bit long-winded in my post, but thanks for replying. I was having some coffee and a Trader Joe's salad and reading various favorite websites (Media Matters, Salon, Wonkette, Snopes) before watching the Barack Obama interview on the Daily Show website (his response about his "lack of experience" was perfect). Then I went and did a Dance Dance Revolution workout before heading to my job. Tough afternoon.
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That "B.C." guy
[Read the article: Opus]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Anybody remember the B.C. comic that had an outhouse with an Islami crescent on it? And the extra panel where it said "SLAM!" in a way that looked like "ISLAM!" Basically it was a comic saying that Islam was crap. That pretty much sums up the tact and goodheartedness of the Christian faith.
This comic is OK. Nothing worth censoring. The newspapers are just cowards. What else is new?
Anybody remember Andy Capp? That comic frequently showed the title character beating up or slapping his wife. For laughs. Every newspaper printed it, no reservations.
It's a shame newspaper editors are so skittish about such trivial matters. It really is no surprise that circulations are dropping. Nobody respects these people, for good reason. Call them a liberal media all you want, but they're quite conservative.