Wednesday, February 11, 2004
i've been published
Here's a letter I wrote to the editor of the Weekly Dig, a local free independent newsweekly that's even worse than those things usually are. Pretty much every other week their editor writes or prints some sort of article with a stridently anti-Southern tone. Whenever they write anything about the South, it is done solely to point out how stupid, fat and poor they think Southerners are. For the most part it's pretty evident that such articles are not entirely sincere, and in my defense I'd like to admit that this letter is also not entirely sincere. I'm not offended by any stereotypes, I just find it amusing that a "progressive" publication would regularly and blatantly utilize such an unimaginative and untrue stereotype. It's not only lazy and naive, but, more damningly, completely unfunny.
And this letter has nothing to do with the fact that the Dig didn't run my preview of the I am the World Trade Center show back in October. Nope, not at all.
Here's a letter I wrote to the editor of the Weekly Dig, a local free independent newsweekly that's even worse than those things usually are. Pretty much every other week their editor writes or prints some sort of article with a stridently anti-Southern tone. Whenever they write anything about the South, it is done solely to point out how stupid, fat and poor they think Southerners are. For the most part it's pretty evident that such articles are not entirely sincere, and in my defense I'd like to admit that this letter is also not entirely sincere. I'm not offended by any stereotypes, I just find it amusing that a "progressive" publication would regularly and blatantly utilize such an unimaginative and untrue stereotype. It's not only lazy and naive, but, more damningly, completely unfunny.
And this letter has nothing to do with the fact that the Dig didn't run my preview of the I am the World Trade Center show back in October. Nope, not at all.
