Bloviations

Even Otis got it right…

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Dear Senator McCaskill,
Twice I’ve attempted to email you regarding House Concurrent Resolution 305 and twice you’ve told me that, while you “appreciate hearing” from me, “Unfortunately, your message was caught in Senate spam filters.” Your email recommends that I “…please submit your comments through the webform on my Senate website – http://mccaskill.senate.gov.” I did, Senator [...]

Dear Onslow County Library,
How is it possible that you do not have a copy of Jack Kerouac’s Big Sur?
I’ve been reading Marion Blackburn’s most awesome writing blog, Fiction Daily 2. She’s been reading Kerouac recently and has been writing about his work, specifically Big Sur, and it has driven me to want to give [...]

Dear City of Jacksonville:
I really do like that Jacksonville has a mass transit system, even though it’s quite limited. I can appreciate that the Jacksonville Transit has a limited number of buses because of a fear of using government monies for public-use facilities and equipment.  Often it is the residents who do not use, [...]

Dear Driver,
It was very nice to meet you Tuesday afternoon (5:30ish) at the Wal-Mart/Office Max parking lot.
I’d like to offer a bit of constructive criticism feedback, though. May I?
Next time you’re reversing into the parking space next to the Silver Rhino, please put the cell phone down. While I’m sure that you’re telephone [...]

Since it didn’t take the first time…

Dear Jacksonville Daily News,
Your blurb (at left and “blurb” is an overstatement) about the OOPS reception and art show at the Jacksonville-Onslow Council for the Arts was pretty sad.
Not only was it poorly written and only a sentence (and a fragment) long, but the photograph of Bernie Rosage, Jr. [...]

Dear Jacksonville Drivers,
The image to the left is a “Stop Sign” and it means “stop the forward movement of your vehicle.”
You may see this sign at intersections of streets or in parking lots. It does not matter where you see the “Stop Sign”, it still means “stop the forward movement of your vehicle.”
The “Stop Sign” [...]

Dear Mr. Hurd:
I would like to take this opportunity to express my complete disappointment in HP.
I purchased an HP Pavilion DV2310US notebook PC in May of 2007. In March of this year, the PC began to malfunction. It would not fully turn on and became unreliable. On 27 March 2008 I submitted an online service [...]

Dear Onslow County Parks and Recreation Citizen Advisory Committee,If you want the citizens of Onslow County to participate, try providing more information on your webpage.The location of the meetings is a good place to start. I’d follow with the members of the Board, meeting agendas and minutes, and current projects.
Your constituent,
Thomas Brock
UPDATE:
I found, via the [...]

Dear Jacksonville Daily News,
Shame on you for only sending a photographer to the Jacksonville-Onslow Council for the Arts‘ Soup in a Bowl event yesterday. And an even bigger shame on you for having a photograph and a slightly over-run sentence for your coverage in today’s newspaper.
With a staff of over 30 professional journalists, I [...]