Tuesday, September 18, 2007
More dang hippies... who at least can read...
AUGUSTA, GA. - So we lost the super great Corey Pein to Willamette Week (oh, screw 'em with their Pulitzer Prize. Lah-di-dah), but we've been reading his stuff online. Can't live without the sly wit he brings to his stories.
Yet, even more interesting are the comments people leave at the end of his stories. I'm accustomed to the Augusta Comical's readers leaving comments that can be categorized in two ways. One, "You're obviously a liberal and why do you hate America," or two, "You're obviously stupid and why do you HATE AMERICA?!"
But apparently the Portlandish way is to don a tweed coat and take out their organic pipe weed and ruminate on punctuation. What’s up with the grammar Nazis up there? Corey used the word "ubiquitous" in a story, and I'm pretty sure he used it correctly. But not according to the smarty-pants Portlanders. There was a whole series of comments about his use of the word. “While I agree he used the word incorrectly... blah blah history of the suffix '-ous' blah blah 'I'm so smart' blah blah 'Pity the poor moronic journalist' blah blah 'food not bombs.'”
I don't care about their hippie crap. It's just that they aren’t even worrying about the content of his very fine stories; they’re focusing on ONE SINGLE WORD.
It’s like they can’t see the forest for the spotted owls.
i remember that comment. that comment was bullshit. "ubiquitous" was used correctly. go ask alice.
ReplyDeletei hope "y'all" are well.
please send cheez-its.