Angus Lind drinks the Kool-Aid
Angus, with today's column, joins the cult of Lafcadio Hearn.
"Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under a lava flood of taxes and frauds and maladministrations so that it has become only a study for archaeologists. Its condition is so bad that when I write about it, as I intend to do soon, nobody will believe I am telling the truth. But it is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes than to own the whole state of Ohio."
H/T Golden.
A "lava flood"? Out here we call it a "flow"... we also have an Ian Lind, once the investigative reporter for the daily Star-Bulletin, and now writing for the Hon. Weekly (pale echo of Gambit) and blogging from his home in Ka'a'awa (just say "kah-AH-va") on the rainy Windward side of O'ahu.
http://www.ilind.net
You don't suppose? Naaaah...
Posted by: KamaAina | 12 February 2008 at 01:47 AM
The sackcloth and ashes should be de rigueur next year for Mardi Gras.
Posted by: Aaron | 12 February 2008 at 10:55 AM
There's a shop on Magazine Street called Plum that sells silver bracelets with the latter part of this quote on them. I got me one!
Posted by: civitch | 12 February 2008 at 03:43 PM
There's a very unfortunate "Keeping Them Honest" promo for Valentine's Day which is running on CNN. I'm not tech savvy enough to locate it online, but it pushes the GOP miscue, sending us all these billions of dollars and "look what you got for it": highlighting our crime, corruption, and all that citizens themselves are up in arms against. I only saw it in passing but the portrayal of us all as, essentially, con artists left a feeling of hoodoo which echoed a while afterwards. Since the anchor is supposed to be "live" that day and the pre-campaigning is all negative, how exactly does he get interviews?
What we need to do is counter this quickly... demand the promo be pulled for its misleading voiceover. Or otherwise protest.
Posted by: Carmen | 12 February 2008 at 04:34 PM
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