JimmyCsays: At the juncture of journalism and daily life in KC

An amazing comment has arrived at the mailbox of JimmyCsays, having worked its way from the land of the Rockies. 

The comment is of such a nature, as you will soon gather, that it cries out for “guest blog” status. 

My longtime friend Hubartos vanDrehl, the Prince of Paonia (that would be Paonia, Colorado) has weighed in with golden nuggets of reflection on my latest blog entry….and also on the state of the cosmos. 

Because when vanDrehl (pronounced van-dreal) writes, it is never — never — about just the subject at hand. Maybe it’s the elevation. Maybe it’s the mesas and the mountains. Maybe it’s what he’s smoking in his art studio. Whatever the inspiration, vanDrehl’s prose often ascends to dizzying heights.  

So, savor this, faithful readers, and let me know what you think.    

My Dear JimmyC,
    Give a man a web site and watch his ego inflate to the size of the national debt. Why in God’s Holy Name, in Buttcrack Nation, now filled with oily slicks of greed, corruption and self-destructive behavior heralding the twilight of The Empire, should anyone hang on every bit of news as to the status of your wood floors or access to computer plug-in sites? (See blog entry from Wednesday, June 16.) And furthermore, what’s wrong with squatting at coffee shops? As annoying as designer coffee snobs can be, their literacy level is well above that of the average city editor at the latest newspaper on the edge of the abyss. Starbucks has hot chocolate, if you don’t drink coffee, you big weenie!
    Please enlighten me as to the benefit(s) of caring about organized sports and hanging on every development in a field rampant with ego-engorged mouth breathers, jock rot and paychecks allowing Neanderthals to show us on TV their tacky “cribs” bought with the hard-earned dollars of fans who ought to know better and desperately need lives of their own.
    Having visited Kansas City many times over the years and knowing it to be a large metropolis possessing potential for possibilities, the law of averages says that there must be something going on worth reading about that has something more germane to world than this latest piece of drivel to ooze from your keyboard.
    Our Great Nation stands on the brink of The Shitter. We await your solutions with bated breath and clutched genitalia. 

I Remain. 

Ever The Catholic Boy,
Hubartos vanDrehl 

vanDrehl....at rest