Comments on A First?

You let us down Eli. You prim and proper fuck.

Side note: good job bud.

Next time, buy some acid off Matt Taibbi.

Pretty slim mention, but a mention nonetheless.

Next time, try to set fire to the bus.

You're off by over a decade:
http://backissues.cjrarchives.org/year/95/4/generation.asp

Eli --

Chances are he mentioned you because he respects you.

I guess this is as good a place as any to share how impressed I was with your feature.

The details you chose to bring to light, the overall tone of the piece --balancing fact with opinion and emotion -- was a perfect exemplar of why I read The Stranger.

Personally, it evoked memories of when I was your age and had a little more altruism and a little less of a jaundiced eye. You did a great job of reporting the PASSION that surrounds -- or doesn't -- the candidates, where all I can see these days is electability. It was nice to be carried back to the days when I worked on hopeless campaigns for well-meaning candidates and never thought for a minute that "we" would lose...even though we always did!

I was also very interested in the whole "day after" aspect. I haven't read that angle in ANY media, and for that reason alone your story is worthy of the paper on which it is printed.

It's great to see that the investment The Stranger made in sending you to Iowa (who got their mushroom allocation reduced, i wonder???) resulted in such a satisfying piece of journalism. Glad to have you back!

Cheers.

That was a good read, and a great shout out to you. Congrats. And props to the Stranger. Despite all your best intentions you really do some good reporting. Occasionally.