Letters to the Editor
stackey-dackey
Published Letters: 324 Editor's Choice: 8
-
CelianSF
[Read the article: National Review writer compares Obama to Hitler]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you've read any of my other letters you would know I'm not really one of those "hardworking" Americans the journalists and bloggers and pundits are talking about. I grew up in the Bay Area and I visited my family in New York every summer in Bed Stuy(sp?) I've lived Los Angeles AND in Massachusettes (as well as Australia.) Currently, I'm trapped in the South for family reasons.
So I know from regional prejudice; When I moved to MA I was shocked to learn that I had to be a vegan, a bisexual, AND that my home state was about to fall in the ocean. Don't get me started on what I hear from folks down here the minute I open my valley girl accented mouth.
I wasn't implying that people in New York or in big cities don't work hard or that New York isn't diverse; what I was trying to say is that those conservative fucks who probably surround themselves with other rich white ivy league educated legacies are always revering the so-called hardworking Americans in the flyover states, on the farm and in the town, don't know shit about the people they pretend to speak for.
I guess I wasn't clear enough.
-
CelianSF
[Read the article: National Review writer compares Obama to Hitler]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No problemo. I think I should have used quotes on the "hardworking american" comment.
Its a process.
-
Joan, I too was concerned with the Bruni Meeting.
[Read the article: Obama's political brilliance in Berlin]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]She is one smoking hot woman. Exotically beauitiful. And Possibly a "homewrecker."
I mean she and Sarkozy got married very quickly. It was like, one moment he is running for President and married to one woman, then the next minute he is divorced, married, and his new wife is making albums about the orgies of orgasms she has with leader of France (Yuck.) I'm surprised Sarkozy has any blood left in his brain to run the country with her around.
I know next to nothing of French culture, but that sort of behavior is pretty much a no-no in the modern United States for someone running for President. (Its okay if you're the mayor of New York.) At least Sarkozy didn't dump her during a press conference.
I think someone could twist their meeting to say Obama approves of that sort of behavior or that Mrs. Obama is stuck in the U.S. "taking care of the kids" and he's running around with a French Tart who also happens to be an ex model, a rock star, and now the First Lady. (So odd.)
I really liked his speech though. Were you in Germany? I'm sorry, I haven't been reading your blog posts. If so, thats awesome. (Yes, I used a Bushism)
-
Guys in your office panning the movie
[Read the article: "Step Brothers"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Humor is probably the most subjective art form out there. You've got cultural ideas of humor, age inspired ideas of whats funny, and then personal views on whats funny. No to mention, the whole whats taboo to joke about and whats not. I, for one, don't understand Benny Hill, or M*A*S*H, the three stooges, Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin, Dane Cook, Carlos Mencia, Sarah Silverman (Okay, I do like the episode where she sleeps with Black God. That cracked me up) most of those Broken Lizard movies (like Super Troopers, but for some reason I love Beer Fest) The British Office (I can rationally see why people think its funny, but the show is so painful to watch. Sometimes it feels really mean-spirited, at least to me. I do love Extras and pretty much anything else Ricky Gervais is in) and the American Office.
So having said all that, I love Will Ferrell. I do. I don't expect the people on this website to agree with this love, but I hope they respect the fact that it doesn't make me an idiot, or mean that I can't enjoy sophisticated humor. I like quite a lot of British humor, like the Black Adder series, especially the WWI episodes, AbFab, and the whole Simon Pegg/Edgar Wright ouvre, though I don't really think any of that is truly sophisticated either. Quite a lot of visual British humor is slapsticky and silly as well, I mean, unless your reading an Evelyn Waugh novel.
Anyway, my love for Ferrell was cemented because of Anchorman. I will forgive Will Ferrell a lot, even Blades of Glory and I'm assuming Semi Pro, because of the way he said this line, "Discovered by the Germans in 1904, they named it San Diego, which of course in German means a whale's vagina." I actually choked on my popcorn and had to get the heimlich manuver from my friend the first time I heard it. Now, whenever I see the movie, I try not to eat at the same time.