the smedley log - suburban scrawl

Happy Monday (letters to the editor edition)

I wrote a letter to the editor this morning. I haven’t done that in a while, but I just couldn’t help myself. It was about politics, which I’ve been avoiding lately (at least in terms of my writing habit). I just shot off an email to the local paper regarding a “guest opinion” in this morning’s edition.

The reason I felt a need to respond was that if the editors of a newspaper are going to just hand out free space to any nut with half a clue, why shouldn’t I get in on the action too?

Not that there’s any real suspense involved, but I might divulge more details if they print my response. Or even if they don’t.

I thought that was what the City Payer and Philadelphia Weekly were for? Just about any nut job gets in there.

If I want to listen to nut jobs ramble I’ll visit the blogosphere thank you very much.

Dave – I wish I could get my letters published in either one of those fine periodicals.

Bice – Quite the appropriate analogy you bring to mind. That’s what many of the guest opinions remind me of these days.

I almost had the impulse to write in my letter that the guy who penned the guest piece might just want to get himself a blog and save us all the trouble.

I write way too many letters to the Inky. They run them every once in a while.
Earlier this week, they devoted a quarter of their editorial page to a 900 word essay on American Idol. I couldn’t help myself.

They tell me they are “considering it for publication”.