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Balls! (3)
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Letters to the Editor
Letters from the week of 5/8/2008
Published: May 8, 2008
Bite Me, Jason Sheehan, May 1
Whenever I pick up Westword, I start off with the Letters section just to see if anyone is complaining about Jason Sheehan. About half the time, someone is, and it's always amusing. I myself like Jason, as he is a decent writer and works his life experiences into his reviews in usually interesting ways. Still, one slice of his life I wish he had not brought into his writing for Westword — and one which I am certain was easily avoidable — was about "the guy I know who fucked a chicken to death on a bet." This was shocking and unpleasant to read in this type of column. If Jason cannot make a better distinction about appropriateness in Bite Me, the Westword editorial staff should. Shame on you.
Jeff Butters
Centennial
I enjoy Jason Sheehan's critiques, though he does ramble on a bit writing his novella before he gets to the "meat" of the meal. But last week's Bite Me recent commentary on Grand Lux went a bit tooooo far in calling the line people "sons of bitches," when a few words later he exonerates them from any fault.
Cursing them (and you not editing this) is not fair.
Paull Kupler
Denver
"Balls!," Patricia Calhoun, April 24
"What does Colorado taste like to you?," you ask.
Are you kidding? You give us too much credit. You expect us meager munchers (who depend on Campbell's, Smuckers and Pepsi) to delineate what we consider to be the "taste" of the exquisite cornucopia of Colorado's cuisine when it is already being expressed every week in Westword by the nonpareil verbal mastery of you-know-who.
There is no Colorado restaurant reviewer who has tasted more dishes in more varied restaurants throughout metro Denver and environs than the one and only Jason Sheehan. Who else? He's the been-there-done-that-man who knows the complete range of Colorado foods. Among them are exotic, homespun, ethnic, soul, Mexican, Western, experimental, gourmet and Coors Field's specialty vendors. He has praised the superb and castigated the inferior. (See his current review of Grand Lux Cafe, for example.)
There might be a crumb or two of unintended and benign condescension in asking us neophytes of nourishment to come up with anything as fitting as Jason's inventory of erudite reviews. Jason has previously answered your question with his on-the-spot grandiloquence, but thanks for the opportunity you have offered us.
Tom Jenkins
Centennial
Close your eyes.
Inhale the cool mountain air.
Deeply.
That's what Colorado tastes like.
P.S.: As a fourth-generation native of Colorado, I can tell you what it does not taste like, and that's Rocky Mountain oysters. I know no one who has eaten them. I really wish this oyster fantasy would just go away and take the morons from the promotion companies with them. It's usually some idiot from another state who writes about us in Colorado, and they're clueless. From whence cometh these fools? I read the letstalkcolorado.com site, and out of twenty supposed vocabulary words, I knew eight of them. Terroir? OvisCanadensis? Lilly Dipper? Who are these people representing my state?
Sher K. Winstanley
Denver
Editor's note: There's still time to answer the question "What Does Colorado Taste Like to You?" — and perhaps win dinner with Jason Sheehan himself! E-mail cafe@westword.com or post your answer here.
I appreciate Westword's willingness to promote the local music scene, but I think you've gone a bit overboard! Not including the DJ categories you've given the good people of Denver, Colorado 25 different genres of music to choose from. In those 25 different genres there are 161 different bands to choose from. So much for, "it was an honor just to be nominated..."
In your attempt to leave no genre (or band) unrecognized, you've managed to strip the awards of any meaning. You've included completely unnecessary distinctions between the categories, for instance each nominee in the "Folk/Acoustic" category is, in fact, a "singer/songwriter" (and "indie rock" too), and wholly arbitrary distinctions between most of the "rock/pop" categories (how is bad weather california any more "rock" than "indie rock?"; why is born in the flood "indie rock" and not "modern rock?"; or why is EAOD "indie pop" rather than "avant pop?"; Ian Cooke "avant pop" and not "singer/songwriter" ... I think you get my point). In the end, the eventual winners of Westword's 2008 Music Showcase will be able to hold their heads high and proudly declare that in the year 2008 they were, without a doubt, one of the top 25 bands in the city of Denver! Wow, talk about a powerful statement.
oh, and while I'm at it, all this goes doubly for the Best of Denver issues. (and I've even previously "won" awards in several categories).
Comment by Tim Garvey — May 13, 2008 @ 10:07AM
I appreciate Westword's willingness to promote the local music scene, but I think you've gone a bit overboard! Not including the DJ categories you've given the good people of Denver, Colorado 25 different genres of music to choose from. In those 25 different genres there are 161 different bands to choose from. So much for, "it was an honor just to be nominated..."
In your attempt to leave no genre (or band) unrecognized, you've managed to strip the awards of any meaning. You've included completely unnecessary distinctions between the categories, for instance each nominee in the "Folk/Acoustic" category is, in fact, a "singer/songwriter" (and "indie rock" too), and wholly arbitrary distinctions between most of the "rock/pop" categories (how is bad weather california any more "rock" than "indie rock?"; why is born in the flood "indie rock" and not "modern rock?"; or why is EAOD "indie pop" rather than "avant pop?"; Ian Cooke "avant pop" and not "singer/songwriter" ... I think you get my point). In the end, the eventual winners of Westword's 2008 Music Showcase will be able to hold their heads high and proudly declare that in the year 2008 they were, without a doubt, one of the top 25 bands in the city of Denver! Wow, talk about a powerful statement.
oh, and while I'm at it, all this goes doubly for the Best of Denver issues. (and I've even previously "won" awards in several categories).
Comment by Tim Garvey — May 13, 2008 @ 10:07AM