Letters to the Editor
marco polo
Published Letters: 71
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What an ass!
[Read the article: I'm obsessed with being a hipster]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The LW has too much time on his hands. With all the trouble in the world he's worried about "edgy" - "dark rimmed glasses" - "hanging out in record stores". What a crock! Well, leave your comfortable life and go do all that if it'll make you happy, you fool. We here in the real world will remain unimpressed. We here in the real world are working, raising families, paying bills, and doing volunteer work, not hanging out in dives and making "art". Some of us are scraping up the messes the hip people are making for themselves. As I've gotten older, the "hip" people have become ever so much more irrelevant and sad.
Older people CAN TOO be hip, but in the classic way. Wearing your dad's gold watch vs. a Swatch (do they still sell those? I'm a nerd and can't keep up.) Developing your own sense of style - natural fibers and Levis vs. pink leopard print tank top and $200 jeans. Classical music vs. whatever-hip-band-is-in-style. Drinking fine wine at home with friends vs. snorting heroine in a filthy public toilet. I HATE HIPSTERS! To thine own self be true. Excuse me now, I'm going out and have to put on a matching pink blouse and skirt, natural color pantyhose, and cute comfortable shoes from Walmart. If you hip people want to stand there, filthy, smelly, and nodding out, and sneer, be my guest. You don't impress me at all, just make me laugh inside. F**K YOU, hip people of the world.
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I think the future is here...
[Read the article: Back to the future]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...I think this is as good as it's gonna get for 99% of humanity.
Where's my silver jumpsuit and flying car? Only in comic books. I think 99% of humanity is going to remain as it is: fat, ignorant, war-mongering, dopes shopping at Walmart until the gas and clean air just give out. Wait till China and India decide their teeming billions all need cars! They may stop eating the last of the endangered species and switch to Doritos and Coke like the rest of us..... Maybe the remaining 1% wealthy elite will be the ones to figure out a way to blast off and populate a new planet. So long, suckers.
Cell phones, computers, blackberries in winter - WTF? I guess we ought to enjoy what we've got as we waddle into Costco. It's doubtful it will get much better for our offspring.
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Thank You, Heather, for pointing out the foul points...
[Read the article: I Like to Watch]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...of "Private Practice". I was forced to watch this thing intertwined with "Grey's Anatomy" and was just fuming when it ended because ....I couldn't put it into words....it was just so...FOUL! You nailed the low points perfectly. Not to mention that idiotic 'speaking elevator'. And the 'I'm-all-barren-and dried-up-and-should-do-needlepoint' speech before the stomach turning kiss that miraculously made everything all better. Everything I've read about PP mentions the 'stunning' cast - huh? They're OK looking but not worth watching week after week. Stupid stupid stupid. (And speaking of stupid, look up the word in the dictionary and you will see a photo of George and Izzie.)
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Just my thoughts...
[Read the article: Finale wrap-up: "Grey's Anatomy"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...I for one am glad the repellant Burke left the repellant Cristina at the altar (although I love her, I really do!) I never thought that wedding would take place... Also hate the Izzie/George...What is George going to do now that's he's failed to pass internship??? How can he be married to Callie, she's so high above him now. They could have a baby anyway and he could be a house-husband, I can see it, Izzie might sneak over for "lunch" if their pathetic pathological thing went on for a year...I'm guessing the repellant Burke is going to leave the show... I'm guessing there will be some sort of loophole (pass one last test, mixup in the test scores) that will enable George to pass... I'm guessing Callie will get fed up with everyone and also leave the show, which would be a tragic mistake...She should have her own show, not Kate Walsh, if that horrifyingly bad Private Practice is any indication, if they don't fix that and surgically remove the creepy Ally McBealisms, no one will watch.
Why do all the characters in a show sleep with all the other characters in a show? I know it's easy, because they're right THERE and don't have to be brought it from outside, given a backstory, etc. But it's so predictable, sometimes ludicrous, and often creepy. (Remember on NYPD Blue and Andy's wife was killed, the DAs and the detectives in his office, who you might assume would be kind of busy, I swear to God, were SCRAMBLING to provide child care for his kid, they were worrying so about it.)
No one on Greys Anatomy is capable of a mature, long-lasting relationship, and all their efforts to get together are doomed to turn into bumping-uglies episodes that they will inevitable regret the next day, and them switch partners and repeat same. That's the fun of this show, people! Watching young good-looking folk messing up over and over again from the safety of our living rooms. Like on ER, no. happiness. EVER! Especially for married people.
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My Humble Opinion
[Read the article: Harry Potter and the prediction pool]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I only have a mild interest in Harry Potter, but enough to take a look at the article entitled "Harry Potter and the Prediction Pool".
My opinion? I can only say with great sincerity I have never read such a lame-ass, unfunny, dimwitted article on Salon. Ever. It reminds me of when my daughter was very young and used to try to tell a joke. She had the desire to tell a joke. She spoke words that SOUNDED like a joke. But it didn't come out a joke, or funny. (Maybe funny because she was so young and cute.) I'll bet the writers of this aren't young and cute. Not funny, either.
Jeez.