May 05
Today’s Best of the Springs GO! section of the Gazette calls The Toilet Paper “Best Bathroom Read”
Awww, and we thought they didn’t like us.
Here’s what they said with my commentary in brackets:
“You could get by without The Toilet Paper, but that’s a mighty unpleasant prospect. [Huh?] This homegrown paper’s layers [that was a pun, I think] of humor, stingingly blunt commentary [I don't generall think of blunt objects "stinging" so much as "thwacking" or "bludgeoning" -- perhaps "thwackingly blunt commentary" would have been a slightly less garbled metaphor] and punk ethos [can an ethos be punk? Respond] make it a must-read for anyone who wants to stay in touch with our community’s counterculture [Yeah, we should stay in touch and party sometime. See you in homeroom]. It’s like Colorado Springs’ answer to Vice Magazine [except we don't have as many photos of female junkies in see-through panties shooting up heroin in their groins, though we're working on it]”
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Very odd that our most obvious ideological foe not only prints us cheaper than anywhere else in town, but gives us sincere-sounding, if a tad bit treacly, shout-outs. I’m not sure if it’s detachment that comes with immense cash flow, something stemming from their (very-)quasi-libertarian ethic, bemused condescension, or some vague holdout of piss-and-vinegar fandom, but they certainly seem more inclined to treat us realistically (not a threat) and with the respect we deserve (a modicum).
In short, um.
I guess we’ll see what happens with this year’s Indy best-of, but with the DeGettitor in charge, I’m not keeping my fingers crossed. Did you hear she doesn’t like us too much?