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• Tuesday, January 16, 2007 12:59 PM

  tvnourishesme, you might want to eat a salad too.

  I wouldn't normally stoop to responding to such a petty attack, but I'm in a nasty mood after having worked overtime for no other reason than management's insecurity over a new newscast.

  Y'know, although Havrilesky's supporters are a foofy lot (foofy doesn't mean "gay," it means "would-be gay but that would take too much effort and committment") they couldn't understand a bit of hyperbole. That is, hyperbole intended to make a point, rather than intended to boost Havrilesky's deservedly low self-esteem.

  The gay FBI agent and gay drug dealer in "Weeds" was a hypothetical invention. It was intended to point out how some people see every gay character on TV as either a great advancement in gay culture, or a betrayal of that culture. It's almost as if having a blonde attorney on "Boston Legal" was something intended to affect the potential of all blondes everywhere, until the end of time.

  I'm considered a geek and a nerd because I like comics, science fiction, comedy music and animation. I am thought to be intellectually bereft because of my affections, as if I didn't read or do anything else. But when I read letters like the one by tvnourishesme, I feel as adept and versatile as Benjamin Freaking Franklin by comparison. How limited is your perception, dude?

  And hopefuly, this will be the last post in this thread, so we can all await whatever bit of backwash Havrilesky will produce next Saturday. Unless that other foofy person wants to ask what "Google" is, and how it's spelled.

  —tomreedtoon Read tomreedtoon's other letters
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