..but before I let you go…
I’m hot.
And bothered.
No, no. Not like that. (That’s another post for a different blog, anyway).
I try (oh, so hard) not to read editorial letters in the Columbus Dispatch. Really, I do. And I try equally hard to maintain a level head when anyone insults my Buckeyes. I’ve been hit by frozen marshmallows and pennies in Michigan Stadium (God’s cereal bowl), pennies at Camp Randall in Wisconsin (thank heaven college kids don’t make much money..quarters would hurt), been the recipient of a littany of rhyming words at Penn State (we are the BUCK-eyes..use your imagination here), have endured the annoying biting shadow hand-puppet of the Wolfpack (hey, you had Chuck Amato…I understand your need for simple entertainment), to name a few.
Even when the ex-president (affectionately referred to as Karen AHole Brook by my 15 year old son) of a university makes a sweeping statement that the entire college population of said university is a “riotous culture”, I bit my tongue. But as usual, some idiot in C-bus had to validate AHole’s assumption that just because there were isolated riots by idiots a few years ago, we’re all a bunch of rabblerousers, and I couldn’t hold back.
I read the letter to the editor this afternoon and just had to share that I crafted what might possibly be the a)fastest, b) most alliterative and c)best quality piece of writing I’ve done in a long time to send to the Dispatch. Don’t worry–it has all that trademark sarcasm my editorial fan club (see: When it Rains) has come to expect in my pithy editorials.
Like I didn’t have enough to do with making cookies for tomorrow’s tailgate or proofing the galley…but if you’ve learned anything from me, you better learn never to hack me off about the Buckeyes…or piss off a smart-alec writer. Forget sticks and stones…I’m about to level someone with words.
Fingers crossed the editors calls to confirm my details (with a snicker in her voice)…
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