I Paint What I See

So in the ‘ongoing saga of a quack who’s gone to the dogs.’. or rather the ongoing saga of Antioch College that’s either about to die a loud noisy and undeserved death or about to make a most amazing comeback ever, the kickass CM’s have been organizing a letter writing campaign to the Board of Trustees in hopes letters might convince them to change their minds about the closure and give us a chance to save the college. Here’s my ‘Drop in the bucket’:

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Sitting at the car dealership this morning. Two “little old ladies” are sitting behind me chatting. A few gems from their conversation:

“Oh and the commercials on the TV, there’s so many…”
“Oh I hear that was Clinton’s fault, he changed it so they could put more commercials on the shows”
“I hate that”

“but the lizard insurance… Geico lizard.. I like that.. if you put animals in there then it’s ok with me”

“Oh and the new stuck on bandaids one… there’s this little dark girl, a little chocolate button, and she sings the cute bandaid song ‘Stuck on bandaids, cause bandaids stuck on me” Now that’s a commercial I like. We sing that all the time”

“But this trash.. the ones with movie stars. Aren’t they horrible?”

I wrote the following in response to an editorial about Antioch College I found at http://rightreason.ektopos.com/archives … cta_1.html

While I submited this to both locations I don’t know if they will ever be posted in any public manner, though I hope the author’s at least read them. Since I spent a while writing it, here it is. Read it if you feel so moved.

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