MeMo's feeling blue
Yes, we poke fun at MeMo, but MeMo earns all that poking by writing columns like yesterday's:
As previously noted, MeMo went off for a few days to fight Worldwide Torpor. But as every superhero knows, you're only as good as your costume. MeMo did not expect - or anticipate, for you grammarians - not to be accompanied on her quest by her luggage. It is difficult, but not impossible, to present a plausible persona when you're in a strange (read: Not Lone Star) place with no clean underwear. Or shampoo. Or any of the face paints and unguents that set apart the Warrior Superhero from the Mild-Mannered Editor, or the slightly pulled-together-looking woman from the slightly ragged-looking one.
By Day Four, unless you adopt a certain equipoise and devil-may-care attitude, you could start to get a little jumpy at the thought of yanking on that same pair of crusty jeans again. Even with the right attitude, it's no good to have jeans that incorporate more of your DNA than you yourself do.
We at blogHOUSTON are sorry MeMo is feeling so torpor-ish, but all this crusty-jean talk is way more than we care to know. Torpor means apathy (yes, I had to look it up), and who knows what's got MeMo so down in the dumps (COUGH food editor, downsizing COUGH), but we encourage the Chronicle to get a blog that actually blogs interesting stuff. Perhaps even newsy stuff.
(Since I have already nominated Ken Hoffman for debate analysis, I guess I can't nominate him for a cultural blog, too. Maybe James T. Campbell could take a break from the Trash Beat and we could have a corrections blog.)
Posted by Anne Linehan @ 10/05/04 03:41 PM | Print | Comments (1)
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