alt.obnoxious

I have a hard time reading our local alternative weekly newspaper anymore. It's sad because I used to pick it up first thing every Thursday and devour it from cover to cover. And while it's true that I've kind of grown out of it — I'm not as interested in up-and-coming local bands and the bar and club scene as I used to be — the paper's also gotten really crude. I mean, if you can't express yourself without resorting to dropping f-bombs and other epithets to make a point, are you really that good of a writer? The whole in-your-face thing (both in content and language) is just obnoxious. If you have nothing to add to the mouldering mass of words out there other than snark and whining then you really have nothing to add at all. And then there's the ads in the back. They used to edit the images so that they were maybe PG-13, but now they're R going on NC-17. Honestly, sometimes I'm embarrased to have it in my house. Brown paper wrapper anyone?

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