Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 23 Editor's Choice: 2
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choking on drywall
[Read the article: The chronicles of yarnia]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Thought-provoking" performance art such as this goes a long way towards explaining why Bush got elected. Other good examples include: everything Christo's ever done, or this lady's [http://www.lmakprojects.com/artists/emily.htm] endeavor to "address the interstitial systems of both the social and built space-their potentials and failures as psychological and livable space and the individual's ability or disability to act because of the codes that form these spaces" by eating pieces of drywall. It's almost enough to make a person support drilling in ANWR or another poorly conceived military foray in the middle east--anything that might hasten my death, or, better yet, hasten the death of people whose "work rides a boundary between art and life. I place myself on this porous edge, as I place myself into the interstices of buildings and place buildings into my own body" (Id.).
Maybe terrorists should look into lacing drywall with poison? Anything that discourages bad performance art is bound to make people happy, whether they're religious fundamentalists of any stripe (pee-pee Christ, anyone?) or liberals who are sick of a few flaky fucks giving the rest of us a bad name.
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chair not couch
[Read the article: The Fix]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]letterman has chairs, not a couch. stern will be on the chair tonight.
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THERAPY
[Read the article: Therapy seems to happen in a vacuum]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'd have a lot more patience for Cary Tennis's column if he could just admit that most people in therapy are whiny, self-absorbed neurotics who have too much money and have never had a real problem in their life.
Here's my personal message to people who are contemplating writing a letter to Cary: Before whining about therapy to strangers on the internet, try doing something productive. Get a hobby, be nicer to people, pet a dog every once in a while. If that doesn't help, then have Mr. Tennis coddle you with some pop-psychology buzzwords.
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THERAPY 2
[Read the article: Therapy seems to happen in a vacuum]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]colonelwidow: It's interesting that you agree with nearly everything I said and then add, "know what you're talking about before you spew."
In general, I'd just like to point out that I said most people who were seeing therapists were whiny so-and-so's, not that all of them were. Sure, some people suffer from genuine depression, and maybe therapy can do them some good, but from my experience, most people who struggle with "depression" only do so to showcase how thoughtful and sensitive they are, just like the characters in those Woody Allen movies they enjoy so much!
One easy way to differentiate those with genuine problems from those who have the "I consider therapy fashionable" personality disorder, is that the latter group can never stop telling people about how they're in THERAPY, using that same faux-casual tone people use when bragging that they're close person friends with [insert name of some minor celebrity].
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Teri Hatcher
[Read the article: The Fix]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]HA HAAH AHAAHAHAHAAAHAAAA!!!!!!1
TERI HATCHER IS HILARIOUS! THANKS FOR INCLUDING THAT AWESOME QUOTE!
Fix editors: if there are no good quotes on a particular day, just omit the "money quotes" section. We probably won't even notice.
And Teri: if you want to tell jokes in the future, get someone to write them for you. Maybe something like: "Now I understand why pirates get so grumpy... one day wearing this eyepatch and all I want to do is drink rum, fire cannons, and rape people." Comedic gold!
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Ken Nordine
[Read the article: Early Angelina]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yeah, Angelina Jolie, but more important, is that Ken Nordine [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Nordine] narrating?
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let's hope she doesn't
[Read the article: How Opal Mehta saved our lives]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Kaavya Viswanathan's spectacular plagiarism screw-up should reassure overachieving Indian-Americans that we can fail and survive.
I hope Viswanathan doesn't survive*. The world could do with a few less spoiled, unethical rich kids/aspiring investment bakers who, with the help of their equally unpleasant parents, have the majority of an insipid chick-lit book ghostwritten by a book "packaging" house so they can get into Harvard.
I have no sympathy for her. Some might say "Oh, it's not her fault, her parent's pushed her too hard." Those people's also think Cary Tennis is insightful, so their opinions are irrelevant. Every self-respecting teenager in the developed world does whatever they want to do, parents be damned. This was her screw up, and she should suffer all the natural consequences.
*Just to be clear, although it's tempting I'm not advocating for the poor little idiot's death, I'm using the term "survive" in the same sense Sandip Roy did
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expert advice
[Read the article: My husband went to jail for pot -- and now he's smoking again!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Once again here's Cary recommending someone seek "expert advice". This time recommending she speak with his old drug counselor. Maybe a social worker has some value for a heroin or crack addict, but this is pot, and drug counseling is bullshit for something that's so clearly a personal lifestyle choice rather than a physiological addiction.
Second, he's smoking once or twice a week and he's not growing it, so leave him alone. Possession of less than 30 grams is a slap on the wrist in most states, even with prior convictions, so don't get so high strung about it. Worst case scenario, your kids being deprived of their dad for a few years would be painful, but if you're making all the money anyway, it couldn't be that bad.
Finally. His smoking again doesn't mean he hates you, it means he likes pot. Unless it becomes a constant thing or he starts growing again, leave the poor guy alone, follow your own interests instead of meddling in his.
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bad idea
[Read the article: Winter wonder wedding]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]this wedding video thing was a dumb idea. Please go back to showing internet videos I saw somewhere else months ago but forgot about. Or at least videos with dogs and cats in them.
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jodie and eminem
[Read the article: The Fix]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That jodie foster/eminem combination was exactly what I needed: one of the most obnoxious voices in hollywood quoting one of the stupidest people in the music industry.