I didn't know that one pathetic motherbleeper can make such a living leaching off of Floyd Mayweather with hate.
You are no different than a hanger on, but are even worse: you're a hate barnacle.
You do nothing productive, nothing helpful, make the world not a better place.
Find something positive to do in your life.
Find a cause that you can devote yourself.
You are simply a journalistic disgrace and parasite.
STEPHEN DONOVAN, HELSINKI, FINLAND
Correspondent Stephen Donovan checks in from Helsinki, Finland of all places with some kind words for yours truly.
I don't know if is this a mash note. Should I play hard to get? I am no cheap and easy date.
Evidently, Mr. Donovan is a bit peeved, to put in mildly, withyour humbled author's ruminations on the amazing life and times of his hero, Floyd Mayweather.
All I did was to note how the egocentric one compares his random drug testing cause to the great works of Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King.
I mean, I could understand Mr. Donovan's ire had I compared Mayweather, who I called "the best boxer in the sport," to Genghis Khan. Or Charles Manson or some notorious person.
You Mayweather fans don't get it. Floyd, to me, is like Joni Mitchell's line about "the sun coming through the kitchen window like butterscotch" in her song, "Chelsea Morning."
Mayweather and his clan give me a reason to get up every morning.
I riff on Mayweather. I'm just tickling the ivories here, there is no real malice aforethought. Many say there is no thought, period, just fast typing on my keyboard.
In point of fact, putting on a fan hat, Mayweather is my second favorite fighter to watch. I can't help it if his out of the ring antics provide constant copy for my columns.
One guess as to who my favorite fighter to watch is...his name starts with a "P" as in peeking or Peking or Peking Duck.
If Mayweather ducks Pacman, if the two never fight, they will have both deprived you the paying customers of some wonderful entertainment and deprived themselves of a one bout purse which exceeds all other fighters' career earnings.
Me, I'm just the organ grinder. You, I hope you are not a (celery) stalker.
Now, kind sir whilst I appreciate your patronage in these pages, I don't wish to be viewed as BOTH "a journalistic disgrace" and "a parasite."
I don't think that, by the latter, you mean those lucky enough to live in Paris, do you.
Coincidentally, it's fitting that I self select "parasite" now because I was a journalistic disgrace starting at age 16 when I was a one night a week "copyboy" at the still reputable Boston Globe.
My key duties were tapping out the wrestling results (Professor Toru Tanaka blinded big oaf Bruno Sammartino with the ceremonial salt again?) and calling yacht clubs for their race results. On a typical Saturday night, I spoke to 17, 18 drunks in succession who informed me of their boating mastery.
Which reminds me I just rewatched the best movie line ever on parasites. It's in "Casablanca" when fraudster Peter Lorre asks Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) if he thinks of him as a "parasite."
Bogart responds with his trademark, snappy patter.
"It's not a parasite I object to, it's a cut rate one," Bogart replied.
By the bye, kind sir, I am impressed that you properly spelled "barnacle."
I know, I know, I resemble that also.
At least I'm not a mollusk, so there!
"barnacle, common name of the sedentary crustacean animals constituting the subclass Cirripedia. Barnacles are exclusively marine and are quite unlike any other crustacean because of the permanently attached, or sessile, mode of existence for which they are highly modified. Typical barnacles attach to the substrate by means of an exceedingly adhesive cement, produced by a cement gland, and secrete a shell, or carapace, of calcareous (limestone) plates, around themselves. Colonies of such barnacles form conspicuous encrustations on wharves, boats, pilings, and rocky shores. They range in length from under 1 in. (2.5 cm) to 30 in. (75 cm). Their shells are commonly yellow, orange, red, pink, or purple, sometimes with striped patterns. Because of their sedentary life and enclosing shells, barnacles were thought to be mollusks until 1830, when their larval stages were discovered. Much of what is known about barnacles is the result of research by Charles Darwin, who published a monumental work on the subject in the 1840s."
(Source: Free Dictionary By Farlex online)
Source: examiner.com
0 comments:
Post a Comment