Welcome to REVERB – The Sound’s recap of the top stories (and some not-so-top) involving Annapolis and Anne Arundel County that we found interesting enough to send your way… with a complimentary side of sass.
Local Reporter Finds Further Proof of the Deterioration of Annapolitan Society
Commercialism kills yet another holiday, Elisha Sauers at the Capital reported on Saturday… or did she? The title of Sauer’s piece might give the impression that she had stumbled upon evidence of a cultural shift that nominalized if not threatened to undo the very fabric of the American Thanksgiving, but her actual reporting did not follow through. Instead, Sauer gave readers your typical fluff piece about a family that had lined up in front of Best Buy on Thursday morning to bolster their chances of scoring under-priced electronic goodies on Black Friday. The one bright spot in Sauer’s bait-and-switch was the user comments at the bottom of the page – most of which seemed to completely miss the actual story and riffed on the title instead.
Grams, Can I Have My Cue Back?
What do you get when you combine local grandmas and one of the finest games of skill Europe ever bequeathed to us? Fantastic fun and fellowship, that’s what! Teresa McMinn reported last week on a group of 60-something ladies who play pool every day at the Annapolis Senior Activity Center at Wiley H. Bates Heritage Park and have become fast-friends through their love of the sport. One of the women interviewed for the piece commented that her grandsons tease her about spending her days shooting pool, drinking beer and smoking cigars – what kidders! It’s good to see unique stories like this making it into the Annapolis press, though. Keep up the good work, Historic Annapolis Patch!
Can I Have My Cue Back, Grams?
What do you get when you combine local grandmas and one of the finest games of skill Europe ever bequeathed to us? Fantastic fun and fellowship, that’s what! Teresa McMinn reported last week on a group of 60-something ladies who play pool every day at the Annapolis Senior Activity Center at Wiley H. Bates Heritage Park and have become fast-friends through their love of the sport. One of the women interviewed for the piece commented that her grandsons tease her about spending her days shooting pool, drinking beer and smoking cigars – what kidders! It’s good to see unique stories like this making it into the Annapolis press, though. Keep up the good work, Greater Annapolis Patch!
King Plays Passive Aggressive, Says He’s Bored with Us
After a month and a half hiatus, the King of George has made contact! Evidently Annapolis is less interesting to him than in days past, and he finds life in the struggling European Union (which last time I checked still couldn’t balance its budget for the next year) stimulating in ways which we ‘colonialists’ can’t match. Amidst his disaffected discourse, the King did manage to call for Annapolis Mayor Josh Cohen’s resignation. Dear King, who would be worthy – and dare I say adequately cultured – to take the place of J-Co if your majesty remains in foreign lands?
Elderly Catholics (and One German Foreign Exchange Student) Say Pope is Too Old School, Condoms Aren’t Just for Male Prostitutes
The Washington Post’s “On Faith” column this week surveyed Roman Catholic laity in Washington to find out what they thought of Pope Benedict XVI’s (as my good Catholic friend calls him, “Rad Ratzinger”) recent comments about the use of condoms by homosexual prostitutes. The verdict? The “faithful” think the Pope is just plain outdated and that most people – even Catholics – use rubbers these days. The piece, which falls out of our typical geographical concern but was just too good to pass up commenting on, is particularly amusing because nearly everyone except a twenty-seven year old German student who was quoted in the article and one other was capable of claiming Social Security benefits at the time of publication. Rock on, aged ones, rock on.
Local Teen Attributes Exceptional Literacy to Time Out of School
There is a young lad in the Annapolis area who seems to have a penchant for both writing and sass, and his name is Seth Perry. And this week he adapted Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” to satirize his forced day off of school due to BG&E’s incompetency. Goodness gracious – I can only wonder what this kid would accomplish if he spent less time in school and more time thinking. Admittedly this was the first week I checked out Mr. Perry’s “From the Classroom” column on Eye on Annapolis, but I can tell you this – at least you won’t come away from the article wondering when the heck snowfall in Kentucky became a newsworthy item for Annapolis journalists.
What’s Up Mag Strikes Gold… Again
I didn’t get to comment on this last week, but What’s Up Mag’s Most Eligible Singles of 2010 mixer proved to be another fabulous event hosted by the company. Even though I’m happily married I was sad to not have the opportunity to go and… watch. But thanks to the magic of the Internetz (praise be to Al Gore!), here’s what you missed via pictures (if in fact you did miss it).
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