Comments on: Letter to the Editor

By: The Rotund

The Rotund — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:55:50 +0000

You guys totally and completely blow me away with awesome. Thank you so much for every letter and comment you sent in. I just posted a link to the letters that Meowser mentioned – there has been no sort of comment from the Weekly, but I’m going to pick up a print edition and see if there is anything additional in there. I’ll keep you posted!

By: Meowser

Meowser — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:23:12 +0000

Delurking to say my letter and SM’s were published in the OW, although (for whatever reason) not our names, at least not in the online edition (although I did give them my name). Go SM! And Annie McPhee, whose name they did get in there. (But shit, ALL the letters I saw from you guys here and at TR’s place totally deserved to be in there, I’m actually stunned they picked mine.)

By: celeloriel

celeloriel — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 02:46:58 +0000

@Naamah_Darling
I felt the Call of Cthulhu SAN reference to be UTTERLY appropriate. Well said.

By: A Sarah

A Sarah — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:41:46 +0000

Which is very funny, as someone who used to work for a weekly newspaper.

:fretful cringe: wellroundedtype2, were you being serious, or were you gently and very charitably pointing out that I kind of trivialized the work that people do who are employed by weekly newspapers?

Eep… I think I did. I’m sorry!

By: Naamah Darling

Naamah Darling — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 09:32:51 +0000

Letter sent. Unfortunately, uhh, I neglected to copy it so I can’t share it here. Dammit.

I will say that I DID NOT SWEAR. I actually DID NOT SWEAR. I sounded all smart and shit. I really, really did.

I didn’t even use non-swearwords like “douchebag” or “rutting, scrotum-faced chimp-raper.”

I was completely non-insulting. I want a fuckin’ baby-flavored donut for my effort. That was NOT EASY.

CHUBBY CHASERS FOR FUCK’S SAKE?! MOTHERFUCKER, I WILL CHASE YOUR ASS AND BEAT IT.

Sorry. Had to vent. Being nice cost me some SAN.

By: bellacoker

bellacoker — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 03:07:32 +0000

Cindy!!

Are you in DFW, would you like to meet up sometime? I live in Denton.

Sorry to interject with the unrelatedness, I was just so jealous of the Indiana/Michigan crewe. :)

By: wellroundedtype2

wellroundedtype2 — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 02:38:24 +0000

A Sarah wrote:
Research is HARD, especially when you’re trying to churn out a daily pap-… uh, when you’re trying to do a quick turnaround on time-sensitive news stor-… uh. Hm. Well. On second thought, how embarrassing for you.

Which is very funny, as someone who used to work for a weekly newspaper.

By: kateharding

kateharding — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:19:17 +0000

Nice, Meowser!

By: Meowser

Meowser — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:17:41 +0000

Mine:

I dunno. Maybe y’all are under the impression that all women bloggers, regardless of the content of their blogs, have an ultimate dream of dreams of being thought of as nothing more than fetishist wanktoy fantasies.

But while I’ll wave a tiny pompon for y’all’s having a “best fat-rights blog” category in the first place, as a long-time reader of The Rotund, I can tell you right now that Marianne Kirby no more desires that characterization for her public image than any of the *male* bloggers who blog about fat rights or fat acceptance.

And if you’d spent even two seconds skimming the article you wrote about her *for your own publication* — never mind actually catching fat cooties from spending time looking at her blog — you would have known that before you started thumbing your ‘berry to E in your blurb about her. With one hand, of course. Daaaayummm.

By: Cindy

Cindy — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:01:25 +0000

Journalist here. I work for a daily paper, and if it’s one thing that annoys me about the alternative press, it’s the *attitude* they try too hard to create and maintain. Here in the Dallas area, one of the metro alts is always injecting “whaaaafuck?” into their stories.

Just do good, sound journalism and make the non-alts work harder. That’s really all you need to do. Really.