29th Street Ballroom
Willing to Be Ventura's Replacement
RECEIVED Mon., Dec. 21, 2009
Louis,
Please throw my hat in the ring for Michael Ventura’s replacement as the Chronicle's ace columnist – should his number ever get called early, as was his hero's, Carlos Castaneda. And no, I have no delusions as to whether I or anyone else could fill Ventura’s shoes. But I’ll tell you this much: Even if I won the lotto tomorrow or sold my film script for millions in a Hollywood bidding contest that mostly only happens in the movies, I’d consider it an honor and a privilege to pick up where Ventura left off.
Now regarding Ventura’s most recent column, "Conditions on the Ground” [“Letters at 3am,” Dec. 18], I have one criticism. I sure wish your editors had titled it with Ventura’s closing lines: “Merry fucking Christmas. We’re at it again.” You see, I’m of the opinion that 99.99% of Obamacans who started reading the article, stopped the moment they got where Ventura was headed.
I’m a Democrat who is in the minority in believing that we should pull out of Iraq and Afghanistan immediately and provide political asylum for the women of both countries. Whereas most everyone I know are Obamacans who, I’m convinced now more than ever, are not going to wake up on their own. And it’s going to take the written equivalent of multiple electric shocks like what happens when one is struck by a cattle prod for my Obamacan friends to stop blindly worshipping decisions by President Obama that would otherwise be driving them crazy if those same decisions were being made by President Obama’s predecessor, the Decider.
Please throw my hat in the ring for Michael Ventura’s replacement as the Chronicle's ace columnist – should his number ever get called early, as was his hero's, Carlos Castaneda. And no, I have no delusions as to whether I or anyone else could fill Ventura’s shoes. But I’ll tell you this much: Even if I won the lotto tomorrow or sold my film script for millions in a Hollywood bidding contest that mostly only happens in the movies, I’d consider it an honor and a privilege to pick up where Ventura left off.
Now regarding Ventura’s most recent column, "Conditions on the Ground” [“Letters at 3am,” Dec. 18], I have one criticism. I sure wish your editors had titled it with Ventura’s closing lines: “Merry fucking Christmas. We’re at it again.” You see, I’m of the opinion that 99.99% of Obamacans who started reading the article, stopped the moment they got where Ventura was headed.
I’m a Democrat who is in the minority in believing that we should pull out of Iraq and Afghanistan immediately and provide political asylum for the women of both countries. Whereas most everyone I know are Obamacans who, I’m convinced now more than ever, are not going to wake up on their own. And it’s going to take the written equivalent of multiple electric shocks like what happens when one is struck by a cattle prod for my Obamacan friends to stop blindly worshipping decisions by President Obama that would otherwise be driving them crazy if those same decisions were being made by President Obama’s predecessor, the Decider.
Charlie Ponzio