Crazy ’bout Kandia
Just wanted to comment that I really liked Kandia Crazy Horse’s first music column in the Charlotte Creative Loafing. Seems to be interested in a WIDE variety of genres, and her writing style was fun to read.
— Ken Cotner, Charlotte
Bottom Line: Blame Clinton
In reference to “War Without End, Amen” (by John Grooms, Aug. 31): Every once in a while when I am desperate for reading material I will read a column in the Creative Loafing, even when I know that I am about to be subjected to the rantings of a Bush-hating liberal who feels no need to approach any topic with even a hint of objective analysis. Clearly, Grooms does not harbor any journalistic ambitions beyond writing for a free leisure pamphlet, but I would submit that his opinions might be taken more seriously if he didn’t feel the need to describe President Bush’s remarks as his “line of bullshit.” Grooms sounds more like the sullen, green-haired, lip-pierced teenagers that comprise your readership than the mature adult depicted in the photograph.
I’m sure that it will come as a great shock, but there are a good many people in this country, a majority, I’d wager, who do not feel that Mr. Bush has “shot himself in the foot” by refusing to accommodate Ms. Sheehan’s petulant demand for an audience. No President can be expected to meet personally with every disaffected citizen with an axe to grind. Can you imagine the commotion that might have resulted if every American who wanted a word with Mr. Clinton about his sexual romps in the oval office and inability to tell the truth gathered outside his Martha’s Vineyard vacation spot? It would have been bedlam.
— Bill Garrity, Matthews
. . .Amen
I want to thank you for the article in the current issue concerning the “war without end.” This war is immoral and doomed to failure, and the lives being wasted cannot be redeemed by throwing more American young people on the funeral pyre. I have five children, and I cannot imagine seeing one of them in that hellhole. How then can I support other people’s children being sent there?
Could you please use your paper to publicize the upcoming three-day march on Washington on Sept. 24-26? Information can be found at www.unitedforpeace.org. I will be there, along with my daughter from New York, and I hope many thousands of concerned citizens.
— Dennis D. Carrigan, Charlotte
What’s with the Web Site?
Change is good unless it’s bad. The new format of creativeloafing.com is positively horrible. Notwithstanding the time it takes to get used to change, it just doesn’t work well. Things are not categorized logically. Fonts are bold for some unknown reason like a flaming email. It feels impersonal and it’s way too busy. Or maybe it’s just my obsessive compulsive disorder. I have new appreciation for the old format.
— George Thompson, Charlotte
Chief Operating Office Doug Tuthill responds: We switched to a new online software provider for our website this summer and it’s been a nightmare. We are working with this provider to fix these technical problems, and we’ll also be unveiling an improved user interface soon. Thanks for your note, Mr. Thompson.
This article appears in Sep 7-13, 2005.
