I can't complain but sometimes I still do
Somebody didn't like my Under 30 column about grinding.
Question(s): If I am usually disgusting, wouldn't that make the grinding column "par"? And if I'm below par, doesn't that make the grinding column LESS disgusting than usual in accordance with golf scoring rules?
posted by Steve Hyden @ 2:33 PM
I can't complain but sometimes I still do
My name is Steve and I'm a newspaper reporter and writer living in northeast Wisconsin, which is just below the armpit created by the bulk of the state and the peninsula. I don't live in the actual armpit, which is Green Bay, which is a place where fat people sit on their porches and watch traffic go by when the Packers aren't in season. I live in Appleton, a place where slightly less fat people do slightly more interesting things, like watch NASCAR, which is traffic with better camera work. I like living here 79 percent of the time. I fancy myself a deep thinker, an iconoclast, a man who can enjoy both high and low culture. Think Chuck Klosterman with a dose of Jack Nicholson from "Five Easy Pieces." However, I suspect I am not nearly as cool as I think I am. I may in fact be a dork. For example, look at how I described myself a few sentences earlier. What can I say? I'm the guy who started listening to the Clash when he was 13 not because he was reacting against the repressive Republican regime he had lived under most of his life, but because John Cusack wore a Clash T-shirt in "Say Anything..."
5 Comments:
who makes the below par headline? the caller? your boss?
either way that's great.
That would be the op-ed editor, Matt Neistein. He appreciates the love.
I think the column was just plain old dumb. You supposedly write for the "twentysomethings", but not all people that age find dates by grinding. In fact, all of my friends who are dating, engaged or married did not find their significant other by grinding with them in a bar.
I will admit to participating in this hormone inducing, pheromone secreting public display of "I want your sex.....c-c-c-c come on!" You too can look downright sexy under a stobe light. Recap: Yes, I had a few drinks (understatement of course)and man, this guy looks just like _____(Insert your own celebrity), but most certainly I'm out of here when George Michael has concluded his ballad. No date, no engagement and no parenting skills required! Just good old fashioned "gross and necessary" grinding, thank you. As I suspect, only those of us who have ignited our "personal places" in such a manner would truly respect this hilarious (ability to laugh at yourself required here) ritual!
~Thanks for the stroll down memory lane Steve~
I found the colume about grinding very funny and I'm not "under 30" since last October. Old people have no sense of humor.
I love you Steve!
Post a Comment
<< Home