This week’s issue includes our annual Get Out of Town! selections, our GASP! last-minute gift guide and all the other stuff you’ve come to know and love about the Weekly. And it’s all online and ready for you to peruse!

Feel free to comment here on the Dec. 13 issue. And enjoy!

This article appears in Dec 6-12, 2007.

33 replies on “The New Issue: Get Out of Town”

  1. ill-trained adolescents-no-longer who put their feet up on the seats in front of them in buses, movie theaters, or restaurants–please go back to SoCal or wherever you were raised without manners.

  2. Wow, it’s my favorite issue — The one with the Get Outta Town story! I’m not sure if it qualifies as good journalism, but who cares because it is an entire cover story devoted to my favorite thing…..bitching!

    Lotsa good bitching, venting, whining, haranguing, carping, off-my-chest getting, and general pissed-off barking here. I wish I had a paper version of the Weekly because it would be ideal for reading while lettin’ loose on the porcelain throne.

    This year’s “Get Outta Town” was a little light on specific news stuff and a little heavy on “bad drivers are poopie heads” stuff, but that’s okay.

    So here’s the rundown of gripes:

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  3. Aw crap, I accidentally clicked “Submit content” when I meant to click into the screen. Duh. Let’s try that again.

    So here’s the rundown of gripes:

    • Jessica Wofford complains about American Apparel ads. She thinks there are too many young, thin, underclothed, gaunt and disaffected-looking women. Oh, boo hoo. I can’t get behind this gripe. Is Wofford concerned about positive female body image stuff? That’s so 1990s. If you’re so unhappy with thin models, go buy Leonard Nimoy’s new photographic art book full of his black-and-white images of obese women. It’s highly il-largical!

    • Our own Jimmy Boegle complains that the Star and Chitizen raised their newsstand prices on Thanksgiving. Boegle never mentions how much they raised their prices — I’m guessing from $0.35 to $0.50? Omigod, that’s, like, such a rip-off! I needed that 15 cents to supersize the drink I wanted to cry into! Seriously, though, aren’t most dailies 50 cents? It’s easier to handle two quarters than a quarter, a dime and a nickel. Especially on Thanksgiving when your hands are covered in slippery turkey-fat and grease. The Star was doing a public service!

    • Karyn Zoldan complains about bed pet owners who don’t spay or neuter their animals. Or who let their dogs go around mauling people. Doesn’t Zoldan understand the joys of kittens….lots and lots of kittens? Don’t you understand that these kittens soon grow into a cats that aren’t nearly as cute, and so more kittens must be produced? Until they invent a kitten that stays a kitten its whole life, we must maintain steady production of organically produced kittens, lest our children are denied the joys of kittendom. Won’t somebody think of the children?

    • Mari Herreras complains about the CPS and Amy Gile, who was a caseworker who was gettin’ it on with an abusive parent that CPS was investigating. Herreras is right, although saying that CPS should “get out of town” seems a bit harsh. (I know, I know, you have to say that — it’s the format.) Don’t throw the abused baby out with the conflict-of-interest bathwater, ya know?

    • Tim Vanderpool should have teamed up with Karyn Zoldan because his “people who are cruel to animals are duty-heads” piece is the flipside of Zoldan’s “people who don’t spay their pets are poopie-butts” complaint. At least those two should have been side-by-side for thematic purposes, instead of the animal-abuse / child-abuse / animal-abuse sandwich you get with Zoldan, Herreras and Vanderpool one after the other. Anyway, Vanderpool is right and I think people who abuse animals deserve to be shrunk to mouse-size and then let loose in a room full of kittens.

    • Anna Mirocha’s complaint about the construction downtown sounds a lot like NIMBY-ism to me: Construction is noisy! Trucks beep when they back up! I have to take a detour to get home! Well, you did choose to live in the city’s center… If you want peace and quiet try Green Valley. Also, isn’t “Where will the artists go? Where will the bums go?” redundant? (If you read that with the wrong emphasis, it sounds like you’re calling the artists bums.)

    • Dave Devine also complains about the downtown revitalization efforts. I am sure he and Mirocha are probably right that the soul will be sapped when the Starbuckses and Cinnabons move in, but their complaints are still fairly vague and NIMBY-ish. Do you want the downtown revitalized or don’t you? Change is a-comin’… Here it comes…. Wait for it… Wait for it… Wait eight years for it…

    • Tim Hull wins the “vaguest complaint of all” award for his complaint against “General Malaise.” Just who is this General Malaise, and which army division does he command? Patton should slap him across the face. Anyway, I can’t help but agree. In 2004 when Bush was re-elected, I feel into a deep depression. I mean, I really couldn’t believe Americans could be so stupid. Three years later people seem to have woken up quite a bit, but it’s still not enough. We’re still making the same idiotic mistakes, falling for radio-show propagandists, etc.

    • Rita Connelly complains about the people who line up at In-N-Out burger, apparently desperate for trendy fast-food. I think I wrote about this in the blog before… Or somebody did… People who get excited about In-N-Out burgers are ‘tards! Go to the supermarket, buy your own goddamn meat and buns and stuff, and make a far superior burger at home! Or learn to cook real food! Oh well…there’s no White Castle, let them eat In-N-Out.

    • Jimmy Boegle comes back for more ‘plaining, this time about left-turn honkers. Boegle says if they’re men, they have small pee-pees. (If they’re women, what do we conclude about their genitalia?) Boegle is right — people have bad manners. In fact I’d say most of these bad-driver, pet-abuser, loud-partier complaints are the result of poor manners, which roots back to bad parenting. Why parents are so much less effective now than they used to be is an open question, but I blame the rise of 1970s disco!

    • Rita Connelly also complains about litter bugs. I concur. Give a hoot….don’t throw your shit on the ground!

    • Jim Nintzel comes through with a little more substance, specifically attacking Michael Goodman, who has been developing “mini-dorms,” which are a really crappy solution to a really severe student-housing problem. City planners need to jump on the mini-dorm issue like Furrs Cafeteria patrons on a pile of fresh-baked muffins. I also liked Nintzel’s use of ALL CAPS to mock somebody’s use of ALL CAPS.

    • Tim Hall’s complaint against underdressed co-eds is, um, interesting. It says more about Tim Hall than about the co-eds. Do they tempt you, Tim? Does the bare skin and overexposed bosom area cause you frustration and loss of driving ability? Did you know that Tucson is HOT and sometimes underwear is the only rational thing to wear?

    • Margaret Regan’s complaint should be side-by-side with Nintzel’s since it’s part of the same problem. She complains about parents who buy homes for their kids, who proceed to party all the time, party all the time, party all the time. Regan, I suggest you buy the home in question and rent it out to quiet grad students. It’s a great investment! (Well, it was a few years ago.)

    • Dana Pfeiffer complains about pedestrians who get in the way. Dana, just put a cow-catcher on the front of your car and when you see a jaywalker, speed up. Then turn on your windshield-wipers to wipe away the resulting goo. I promise I’ll come visit you in jail.

    • Jimmy Boegle complains about the democrats for not getting a candidate. Dude, they’re too busy protesting Bush. There’s no time for campaigning. Actually I don’t know what their problem is. Maybe the incumbent is too strong? Why don’t you or Nintzel run for mayor? It’s all well and good to make it part of a TW cover story, but how about actually running? Or get Max Cannon! Just imagine the Red Meats that would result. Milkman Dan has established a lot of political clout.

    There’s mre but I have to run! I type way too much. Maybe more later.

  4. “Oh well…there’s no White Castle, let them eat In-N-Out.”

    Interesting fact: According to local history that I’ve read, Tucson used to have a White Castle for a very short time at Speedway and Stone in the ?1960s?. Nonetheless, the brand will forever be associated with Harold and Kumar — and by extension Neil Patrick Harris. So I say let’s kick In-N-Out out and bring in White Castle. NPH, FTW!
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    P.S. — good morning! Time to start work.

  5. hmm so the weekly won’t run this eh?
    how about dat?
    time to publish this elsewhere and start spreading the news…

    Well a couple a things.
    1. I’m very glad to see Jimmy-James taking up my idea about writing something of merit with his editorial space. Bravo. Still I can’t help but wonder if his roof leaked with all the rain.
    2. I was super-flabbergatsicated to see Jimmy-James decided my comment on this here blob was worth responding too in the said hard-copy. Yippee. I’m a media darling ma!
    3. Now for the weirdness:
    When I first appeared in these parts Jimmy-James ripped into me calling me a coward and a dick and demanding to know who I was cuz I dared to state I thought the Best of Tucson was crap for way too many reasons than are worth going into here. But you can look it all up if you need to.
    Anyway of course I decided I would remain anonymous like Red Staff and Sister Twister etc. and despite Jimmy-James prodding I kept up the King Marlow moniker.
    Then one day I pointed out to Jimmy-James that this whole name thing was a joke because anyone could be anyone.
    There is no verification and all you need is a hotmail account and an IP both of which are simple to change or switch etc.
    Well Jimmy-James got in a snit over my usual fuck you humor and blew it all out of proportion accusing me of “threatening” to overrun his little blob.
    He also deleted my posts so there is no way of showing just how much he over reacted.
    But people in this town already know about the Jimmy-James boiling point. Electric prod = instant knee jerk.
    Anyway, here is the point, I was really surprised Jimmy-James has decided to quote a non-identified source in his soap box bellow this week.
    Dosen’t anyone wonder just who I am and what is my agenda?
    Did I skillfully manipulate Jimmy-James with my blob post to take on the Star in print?
    Am I a Star beancounter who knows that the 11 jobs really ain’t shit because of a new downsized media plan?
    I mean am I a source Jimmy-James should be quoting?
    Perhaps I’m just stark raving mad (YES!)
    Readers of the paper should know who Jimmy-James is quoting.
    Shouldn’t he let his readers know that the source he values enough to quote and take seriously is someone he thinks is “a dick” and a “coward”?
    But now to the weirdness since I’m digressing:
    In reading Jimmy-James editorial I believe he took what I said out of context and omitted crucial information, namely: that media whines about loosing jobs because media cares about it’s own ass when the paycheck is on the line.
    So I want to write a letter to the editor.
    But to do so I would need to reveal my name to get in print.
    And that is not something I want to do.
    So Jimmy-James has caused an interesting situation here.
    Basically he has quoted out of context a source who is unable to respond due to the catch 22 nature of his publication’s print vs. electronic double standard.
    Still and all I’m glad to see I’m helping give the Weekly something to write about.
    And at no charge!
    Looking forward to seeing if this makes it onto to the blob or if it gets omitted.
    Of course if it does run there will be the usual avalanche of barking dogs and staff infections.
    Oh the drama.
    Such fun.
    Vootie.

  7. I LOVE Tom D. He’s one of the best writers in this town. But come on Tommy, seven paragraphs devoted to attending the UA women’s bball game and nothing about the game! Unless you count this, “I read in the paper the next day that the UA had won.” Huh? Did you spend 2 hours looking for a seat and fiddling with your drink cup before you realized that the game was over? Otherwise, decent edition. I hope Devine does his his annual follow up report for 2007-the only one of its kind in town.

  9. Hey King Marlow, I too noticed that Mr. Boegle called you out in his editorial missive. You should be flattered, not flabergasted. In spite of his annoyance at your obtuse petulance, he must have felt you had something of a point. There’s nothing journalistically spurious about not quoting you by name, because it would sound pretty dumb to say, “King Marlow said that…” Also: I don’t think he took what you said out of context — not in a way that is misleading.

    Personally I think you’re being even sillier than usual by taking offense at being given the smidgen of attention that we all know you enjoy. Dude, Tom Danehy called me out in one of his blogs too, and I thought that was very gracious of him, considering I’d been harping on him incessantly for a while. So what’s your dealie, yo? If I’m a semi-narcissist (I certainly feel like one when I reflect on how much text I spew) then you’re coming across like a megalomaniac. Pipe down, my lad. You obviously have a well-functioning brain; just don’t let your easily-affronted sparks short-circuit things so much.

    By the way, what do you really think would happen if these guys knew your real name? Do you think they’d do anything at all? I don’t. I’m pretty sure they have better things to do than harass some blogger and put their own reputations in jeopardy, or “out” you and inspire even more of your angry zingers. I doubt they are even that angry at you, just annoyed, probably because you’re so predisposed to look for fault and accusation-fodder instead of treating them in a more Golden Rule kinda way.

    Face it — whereas the Tucson Weekly writers put their real names on the line week after week, those of us in this little pig pen have the luxury of hiding behind name-shields. We can pop our heads out, throw pebbles at the TW people to get their attention, then duck our heads behind our shields again. I do it because it’s kinda fun, good obnoxious-writing practice (no way would I write this obnoxiously if my real, Google-able name were attached to this), and creates an occasional dialog between me and some of the people I like to read. I do this on other websites too and I’ve been pleasantly surprised to get thoughtful responses from writers I never thought I’d get to talk to. I wouldn’t want to actually antagonize any of these folks. When they seem wrong on matters I do feel compelled to let them know, but that’s about it.

    So….come join me in the magical fairyland of Nice, Productive Blogging and not the thorny, vermin-infested cesspool of Butthead Blogging. Let’s hold hands and skip through the fluffy willows! Wheee!

    Oh yeah, by the way, your whole complaint about Best of Tucson really was over-the-top and dickish. Just admit it. It was ironic that you praised the Phoenix New Times as a superior alt-weekly when, as it turns out, the New Times also publishes an annual Best of Phoenix issue. (As do many other similar publications.)

    Jimmy Boegle: Thanks for clarifying. $1.50 for the Thursday paper is lame considering it probably didn’t even have much hard news in it (I’m guessing lots of wire stories and columns about “How to Keep Your Turkey Leftovers Ultra-Fresh!”). They must have been treating it as a Sunday paper, except, ya know, without all the Sunday sections. Sounds like somebody on their staff used to work at an auto dealership, the kind where they sneak extra fees into everything.

  11. I hate people who do nothing but complain. We live in a wonderful place and if you con’t like it get the hell out of town – most likely to phoenix where they will welcome your anti-tucson bitching.

  12. cgirl: This week, we bitch; next week, we honor (with local heroes); and then we mock (with our year in review). If you’re still unhappy with us after all of that, I’ll gladly refund what you paid for those issues. Happy holidays!

  13. mean people suck.
    nice people swallow.
    isn’t that right sin twister?
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    now once again to the point:
    first jimmy-james attacks a source calling the person a dick and a coward etc.
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    then jimmy-james quotes that person as an anonymous source but presents him to the public as if he were a legitimate source (jimmy-james even calls the person “him” without any idea if king marlow is one or many people or what their sex is).
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    then the quote is used out of context because the point of the king marlow quote was: journalists abuse news coverage to whine about their own but barely give the loss of mining, service sector and other jobs the time of day. base on other losses in the state, 11 jobs lost ain’t shit.
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    then jimmy-james refuses sets the rules so that the king marlow handle can not be used in print so i have no way to point address his shoddy journalism and public deception.
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    just think what this means for the future of weekly news with the jimmy-james approach now the standard:
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    Crazy cat lady says: “World is going to end next week.”
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    Are aliens real? One drunk guy under an overpass says they are.
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    sounds to me like shoddy journalistic standards at best.
    but what do i know. i’m just a turnip exterminator.
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  14. possible editorial for next week using the new journalistic standards:
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    last week a man high on meth was screaming that we are all giant insects. i don’t know his name and i never met him. heck i’m not sure if he was a he because i was passing by in my car with the windows up. and it was raining. and the person was coverd in a burka made from an old rug. but i think i heard the word insects and based on that dag nabbit i for one do not agree with this insect fear among us. we’re not insects. we’re people. flesh and blood. and so long as people go on being people i will fight this insect perception. i’m a human and humans have a right to be ourselves and we’ll cover this until our last breath is drawn.
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    viva the new flesh!

  15. #3, #6 —

    The two Tucson dailies have probably reached some kind of Nash equilibrium in terms of pricing, especially on very $pecial days like Thank$giving (pay-per-view hardcopy newspapers are one of very few businesses in a position to RAISE prices for Black Friday, such is the power of info and the kind of info you Modern Americans crave). TW Editor Boegle correctly points to worry that this bliss point might spread to silly areas such as “content” with his commendable albeit tardy “Doesn’t this send the message that it’s the advertising, not the editorial content, that people pick up dailies for these days?”

    But it is complicated. There is worry about The Great Hollywood Writers Strike: if there is nothing on TV except Law and Order reruns, ab-blaster, Erik Estrada, and HSN then people will stop watching TV, and if people stop watching TV why, they won’t see election ads and we won’t have a president anymore. Perhaps American Idol (it isn’t tightly scripted, as in “written”) will save us…

  16. King Marlow, you’re just repeating yourself. Why don’t you talk about something else for a while? Tucson Weekly aside, what are your gripes about the city? If you had been asked to contribute some paragraphs to the article, what would they say?

  17. Red Star: The Hollywood Writers Strike is really saving me a lot of time! I used to attempt to watch the “Daily Show” every night it was on. Now my evenings are free to do weird stuff like read books. “Daily Show” reruns are pointless because they’re topical and who wants to see Jon Stewart talk about something sinister Dick Cheney said two months ago? (even if he does squawk like Cheney: “Wah! Wah!”) But man do I miss him and Coblert to sum up all the stupid political stuff going on. I’m thinking of making my own “Schmailey Schmo” to fill the void.

    The fact that the networks are amping up the reality shows is a bad sign. Interestingly enough, reality shows are part of the reason the writers are striking, because those shows have writers too, and they are even more inadequately compensated than for fully scripted programs. About two years ago I got to know a woman named Melissa who was in a reality show about the family who run a ritzy mortuary. She told me that just about every bitchy or dramatic thing she said or did was faked for the show at the writers’ and producers’ behest. She went along because it kept the show alive and was good for her family’s mortuary business.

    So half the time people form allegancies and have spats with other people in reality shows, they’re being prodded and egged on. Even if they weren’t, I think those shows suck. Their proliferation will just mean more time for me to see movies and read books. Kewl.

  18. Okay so let’s finish this:

    I’m going to finish what I started — my little response to every “Get Outta Town!” item.

    • Jessica Wofford complains about reserved sports parking on the UA campus. But really, isn’t this just a symptom of a much larger problem? That problem being the way an academic establishment has allowed the sports industry to become too high a priority? There’s big money involved, of course, and money talks. Meanwhile nobody is even allowed to talk in a library. So do the math. (Or don’t if you’re Rita Connelly — ha ha.)

    • Anna Mirocha hates “Sleep America” commercials with their annoying jingle. But was Mirocha around when the UA had its infamous Spring Fling ads? They went like this: “There’s nothing else like it, there’s nothing like Spring Fling!” Not only is the lyric inane — yeah, there was nothing else like continuously breathing in all the dust that accumulated from people tramping through the sod-pulverized grounds — but the insipidly chirpy melody was impossible to get out of your head.

    • Jim Nintzel complains about StarNet trolls who use every article as an excuse for racist diatribes against illegal immigrants. I have to concur on this one, and y’know, Nintzel, this isn’t just on StarNet. It’s every forum where inadequate moderation meets a surplus of ignorant, angry people who live in caves with TVs permanently tuned in to Lou Dobbs Tonight. These people take what should be a sober, even-headed debate about a serious but not highest-priority problem, and turn it into a zero-sum war of racial demographics. If there’s a two-paragraph story about a Latino holding up a liquor store, these people are all, “If he had been deported this never would have happened!” even if there’s no indication he was an immigrant. By infecting the debate with non-stop racism and xenophobia, it makes it harder for everybody to discuss the subject calmly and productively. Way to go, mouth-breathers.

    • Dave Devine complains about the Pima County Board of Supervisors allowing Chuck Huckelberry (what a name!) to take home computer disks with early-voting results. Yeah, I can get fully behind this complaint too; it definitely falls into the category of “WTF?” In the age of Dubious Diebold and the Supreme Court’s coronation of Bush in 2000, how can any government be so glib about such pathetically lax, sloppy voting security? Chuck, Chuck, bo buckelberry, banana, fana, fo…

    Ah, finished my recap. Okay, then.

  20. Just read the “Readers’ complaints” section of the Get Outta Town issue, and that’s good stuff. Here are a few of my Tucson complaints:

    • Bad memories. I managed to accumulate a lot of bad memories in Tucson — some of them my own fault, some those of others. I have accumulated bad memories in other places I’ve lived, but few had the punch-in-the-stomach whammy of Tucson. So bad memories, get outta town!

    • The fact that the rivers are dry and nobody talks about it. The Rillito and Santa Cruz were functioning rivers at one point (as your great-grandparents) and now they’re just these arroya wash things that cut through the city like a couple of scars on some Mafia hoodlum’s face. Nobody talks about why. Why? Is it due to humans sapping the rivers for irrigation, or did the rivers suddenly dry up of their own accord? I’m guessing the former! Which animal ecosystems were devastated by the loss of steady water flow? Nobody discusses it, it’s just taken for granted. The rivers are full of fossils and history that mingles with the shopping carts that end up half-buried in the sand. Why don’t we mess with them and use an inflatable dam to make them real rives again, like in Tempe? They call Rillito a “wash,” but I don’t see no “washin'” goin’ on when there’s no water! Come on, dryness — get outta town!

    • Mission San Xavier Del Bac: People are all, “Oooh, it’s part of Tucson heritage,” and “Ahhh, it’s full of history.” But let’s face it, it’s a Mission where snooty European Catholics went around inflicting their mythology on Native Americans who just wanted to be left alone with their fry bread and peyote. Catholics were big jerk-o’s who Inquisited people and did other bad stuff. Yet we keep this ugly-ass “Xavier Del Bac” building in place like it’s important. When was the last time you went there? Last time I was there, the moment we parked the car I started to yawn. Booo-ring. Tear it down! Put up a mall! Or a resort! Import sod and a sprinkler system and put in a golf course with a big parking lot for SUVs! And to YOU, Mr. Xavier del Bac, I say this: Get outta town!

    • The Tiradito shrine thing: There’s a shrine in the middle of Tucson for people who have committed adultery or something. No wonder there’s so many cheaters in Tucson — they always know they can just go down to the shrine, say “I’m sorry,” and shrug that they’re only human. I say tear down the shrine and put up a kiosk of pamphlets about Good Morality and a special shrine to Loyalty with sculptures of dogs and Ed McMahon. Tiramisu shrine of Adultery and Coffee-flavored Italian Dessert….get outta town!

    • The University of Arizona: What’s a noisy, rowdy “university” doing in a nice, quiet, peaceful town like Tucson? The university brings in obnoxious kids who drive fast and don’t give anything back to the community. They just come in here, gather in big cliquey groups, carrying “books,” overrunning all the nearby housing, playing loud music, and then they get “educations” which they use to become corporate shills, and then they all leave town and FOR WHAT? So to you, stupid “establishment of higher learning,” I say GOOD DAY SIR! And get outta town!

  22. #19. T. Post — that’s a great blog but nothing’s been posted since November. Wonder if the blogger got outted? Maybe John S. can dig around and tell us more.

  23. Hey Margaret Regan! If your neighbors are as rotten as you say they are, you should write them up on this new website, Rotten Neighbor.

    Mr. Rogers is not available for comment.

  25. Catherine O’Sullivan’s column this week is one of the weirdest Catherine O’Sullivan columns ever.

    It all starts with her broken collarbone — apparently caused by her horse. O’Sullivan never tells us what the horse actually did, but she does call the horse an “asshole.”

    Then O’Sullivan proceeds to list incidents in which other animals are assholes, including Sigfried & Roy’s tiger, a Marineland whale, and a petting-zoo elephant.

    I guess O’Sullivan’s point is that wild animals sometimes act wild and we shouldn’t take this for granted when we’re trying to use them for our own entertainment. So maybe O’Sullivan is attempting to come to terms with her own feelings about having her body permanently messed up by her beloved horse. I dunno, because in this column O’Sullivan’s tongue is so far in her cheek, she’s totally French-kissing herself.

  26. The letters page has a good, solid Crazy Person this week. Excellent!

    The crazy person in question is Herman G. Flores. Okay, maybe Flores is not crazy, but there’s something a little “off” here. Plus the fact that Flores is responding to an article from two years ago makes me wonder if Flores isn’t in some kind of time warp.

    Some choice quotes:

    “In reality, methamphetamine is more expensive than gold. … In reality, at least 70 percent of all Tucson crime is methamphetamine-related.”

    Flores is very concerned about what’s “in reality.”

    “Methamphetamine is not addictive.”

    Hmmm, mind explaining that? Actually, Flores does explain it later on.

    “Being a Catholic, it saddens me to see that three major concerns about methamphetamine are never mentioned in the anti-meth campaign: 1) Methamphetamine is a satanic potion, and those who produce it practice a satanic ritual, and those who use it are part of a satanic cult;”

    Yeah, why don’t people ever mention that?! Everybody knows Lucifer was a Tweaker.

    “2) methamphetamine is terrorism’s best secret weapon;”

    Anybody remember when those Muslims flew those airborne meth labs into those buildings?

    “3) methamphetamine is a deception, not an addiction.”

    Be sure to cross your fingers behind your back whenever you snort meth. It also makes your nose grow!

  27. I just wanted to jump back an issue and give large compliments to how graphical the doubletruck on the Kyoto section was in the paper. If you missed it, you missed an excellent presentation.

  31. Ah, thanks for clarifying. Those graphics were done by the Sacramento News & Review as part of a joint Association of Alternative Newsweeklies project; the whole Kyoto project, save Nintzel’s piece on Mr. Free and the Satellite Freakout, was an AAN project.

  32. ah jimmy why the blog if you don’t want comments. you sure seem touchy about my comment. perhaps because you know that issues filler that panders to the haters who bitch first work on it never generations this society has spawned.

    seriously the rant issue is lame. the rants are sophmoric and the people writing them sound like pouty children. not one of those rants were really deserving. ok maybe one of them

  33. No touchiness here. Just snarkiness. And I didn’t even point out the lunacy of you bitching about us, um, bitching.

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