RIP Gossip Column

Respighi demands a new post so I’ve selected to rag on Binx and his new Katy Tried column. He’s too lazy (or uninteresting) to post his own blog and he’s been itching to take over the gossip column for a long while now.

This little chestnut is from his latest post:
Spendastic: does any body in hr know emmawrites?
whas up wit her?
BinxB91: emma was once a great wit
Spendastic: once?
BinxB91: well, these days she talks mostly about TV
Spendastic: i talked with her once long ago, and then
i'd see her words pop up and they were...well...deranged?

Why is this funny? Because when I did the gossip column, Binx sent the very same post and quip about me, my wit, and TV, twice---to Timmy and Gus both. WTF? Get a new line, Binx. We get it. I watch too much television. I’m not witty no mo’. Point taken. Move on.

I’d like to know what exactly Binx has contributed to this site. In the words of the Famous F: “Cite please.” Almost every comment (except his famous baseball book review which read like he C&P’d it from Amazon) he’s made on the community blog and other shelfers blogs have been condescending. His comments to Schelll on her blog are always paternal blatherings. They read like sneering pats on the head.

The first abookshelf.org gossip column was my invention (drawn from inspiration of Auntie Fay Corgasm’s advice column) and, modesty aside, has gone down hill since I stopped doing it (apologies to the dead Meemaw.)

Binx needs to edit. His columns are too long and boring. If people wanted to read pages and pages of comments that contribute nothing to the overall “tidbit” they’d go into the Book Shelf themselves and participate. Edit. Edit. Edit.

I hate what my Gossip Column baby’s become. It’s boring as hell. No pizazz. No zip. No wit no mo’. RIP.

My suggestion to Binx is (and always has been) to develop his own column and fill it with all of his intellectual musings. I’d like to see if that’s possible. No TV (well maybe some PBS stuff you can nick from Naggy). No entertainment. No Tom Cruise. No co-workers. No children. No pictures. No politics. No hobbies. No school. No movies. No spouse. Just intellectual offerings as he sees them. Can he do it? Probably not. It would take more than a cut & paste effort.