Goddamnit, I’ve been blogging my heart out since waaaay back in November, and who from Chronic does John Kelso decide to goose in his column but new jack Richard Whittaker?
“This guy who blogs for the Austin Chronicle Web page wrote I was a ‘surly cuss’ for gooning the South by Southwest music conference for taking freebies from the City of Austin. … ‘Local professional surly cuss John Kelso started his week off complaining about the fact that the City of Austin decided to become a SXSW sponsor and waive the costs to the city of hosting the festival — like they do for lots of events,’ Richard Whittaker wrote.”
His Cornponeness goes on to say, “If the Chronicle really wants to jeopardize its fine reputation as a journalistic beacon of light shining on city malfeasance, fine. Go ahead fellas, take the city’s fee breaks for SXSW.” Wow, didn’t know it was an either/or. You’d think Kelso was writing for this site – the comments sections specifically, under the name of Kurt.
People keep telling me Kelso has a humor column, but I’ve only seen his regular one.
This article appears in March 16 • 2007.