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Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Unsolicited feedback to persons who are unlikely ever to read this.

TO: My local public radio station
FROM: htms
date: 21 April 2010
re: pledge drive

Please, please, please just send me a bill. Go ahead, make it a fat bill. Just give me back my radio programs. I can't take it anymore.

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TO: the person or persons who stole our garbage receptacles, two of them, and tipped them over, way up the street
FROM: htms
date: 21 April 2010
re: our garbage receptacles, two of them, tipped over, way up the street

Seriously? SERIOUSLY.

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TO: the guy I heard on NPR, talking about that ridiculous proposed new immigration law in Arizona
FROM: htms
date: 21 April 2010
re: your use of the word "swarthy"

Thank you very much for using the word "swarthy." I have not heard that word used in, like, twenty years. I would especially like to commend you on your particular pronunciation of it, with a soft "th," which gave it especial panache.

Your point, also--that this ridiculous proposed legislation is really about racial profiling, identifying "brown people, swarthy people" as suspect illegals--is very well taken.

Sir: I admire you. Well-played.
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6 comments:

  1. Dr Write12:15 PM

    Perhaps we should just write an open letter to idiots in general:
    Stop. Just stop.

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  2. Unknown12:31 PM

    Completely agreed about the public radio pledge drives. The near constant "give us money?" routine has driven me to AM radio. I'm not even kidding.

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  3. radagast1:28 PM

    I'm with you, HM, on the whole KUER pledge-a-thon. And the same is true of KUED (local PBS). Really? Another two-week Wayne Dyer/Celtic Women marathon will put me in the mood to donate? Really?

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  4. Ann3:41 PM

    You never know who will read this, actually. I once wondered on my blog when sushi became the new hot dog in re to an R. C. Willey promotional. And lo. I heard from them. To assure me that their sushi was locally made and also fresh.

    America. What a country.

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  5. Nik8:23 PM

    This inspired me to blog the poem. However, my word verification was lickast so perhaps our blogs are linked more metally (to go with linkaly) than I knew.

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  6. Clint Gardner7:50 AM

    Never underestimate the ability of teens to find just about any sort of destruction or mischief entertaining.

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