Letters to the Editor
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Loogie?
That is a old word to use every day.
I remember when I was a wee little youngster, my mother would drive the family's lime-green hatchback Ford pinto to the grocery store. Mom would pickup grandma and her girl friend. Grandma would go on and on about good Louie Mencken and bad Louie, the shipper tycoon, Dreyfus.
One Saturday's trip to the candy store, my grandmother's gal friend 'hocked one' from the front car window that blew back against my back window. I watched the Flem blow up, down, and all around. It stuck there on the window for several days till a hard rain came. Forget about watching moo cows in the field that trip to get kitty food!
When my little children were little husky 3-rascals, they were not permitted to say "fart" at home. It was okay to ask, "Who cut the cheese?" Fart was a bad word and too gross for my wife's virgin ears. Never would you dare say s^#t if ladies were around who were under 50 years old.
If potty training wasn't going well, we called a pro-bono White House Fraud, New York lawyer, to watch over the youngsters as they did the funky business. If a child fell off the pot stool; I was prepared to sue the buckaroo toilet manufacturer for disregarding republic's consumer safety standards for 5-million dollars. The attorney would stand up on the commode and squat. One day he broke the ceramic/porcelain that sat over the indoor spring and the small claims court refused to allow the creep to reimburse me.
OT-"Hopalong Cassidy." Zippy the Pinhead says, was a unknown, even in the fifties. A star WHO none knew who he was, and he was a flop?
A Richard Cohen may be circulated widely, but by doing so, a better thinking reader will decide to save a 25-cent piece.
I'll buy a WA/PO for the funnies. On a rare day like today, when I know someone I respect (*Maxine Hong Kingston*) is written up, I'll splurge after looking under the cushions for extra change. I'll buy for the funny section.
Zippy (funnies) made 50's star Hopalong angry today. Hopalong said, "I don't give a flying $~><~$ about anyone under 50!"
It's like committing nostalgic suicide or financial ruin to keep a Floppy Cohen around.? We need to be able to honestly recall and talk about what is real GROSS. The Bloody Warmongers!
The Richard Cohen piece in the Washington Post is more GROSS to read on newspaper print.
*What struck my attention was a STYLE section by Jonathan Yardly (second Reading)was THIS. Jonathan Yardley does a Post Book 'critic' on occasion so we reconsider old neglected books from the past.
My friend, Maxine, invited my son and 'me' to go to the White House when Clinton gave *Maxine Hong Kington* a Humanities Award. Gads. I be bragging about Clinton on my deathbed like YKW. Sorry.
*Maxine Hong Kinston* is on the front page of the STYLE. The Wa/Po did something good today. YES. Mr Yardly and I agree, and he believes *'Woman Warrior'* was a Memoir that Shook the Genre. I just had to put in a plug...maybe it is googleable?