Monday, July 10, 2006

NB: I'm selling my television

Copy of a letter I just sent to Wolf Blitzer's CNN beardfest "The Situation Room":

I wanted to thank Mr. Blitzer and his "Situation Room" correspondent for their piece on the World Cup headbutting incident.

As if to visually underscore the unpleasentness of Zidane's maneuver, the report included a collage of other headbuttings captured on tape and amassed, no doubt, from the computer desktop of an early adolescent of middling intelligence.

Years from now I'm sure I'll tell my grandchildren it was on July 10, 2006 that the world's premiere cable news network first had the courage and rectitude to show me a video of a grown man's head engulfed by an elephant's anus.

I trust Mr. Blitzer is at this very moment working on his Peabody Award acceptance speech.

In Earnest,

DRF