Elijah Senn
via the Internet
It's my party:If Pete Simon thinks John Andrews is a libertarian (Letters, July 3), then he owes every true libertarian in Colorado an apology for the insult to us and owes himself a crash course in Political Parties 101 to learn what a libertarian truly is.
John Andrews is no more a libertarian than he is a Democrat. He is a disgrace to Colorado in the same manner as Tom Tancredo and Mike Rosen. None of them understands the law; they only understand political hacktivism and shilling. There is no libertarian wing of the Republican Party; there never was. Witness how they have screwed the people over the years to illustrate the point.
Pete, before you insult libertarians, the true heirs of the Founding Fathers, go do your homework. Otherwise, just stick to Basie and Ellington.
Mike Seebeck, media director
Libertarian Party of El Paso County
Everyone's a Critic!
Piss and vinegar:I have a few words to direct to Justin Mitchell, respected local journalist icon guy who deigned to make a short appearance in your July 3 letters section, blithely quoting "Brownsville Girl" and spouting old-schoolisms. I will preface my comments by saying that I am 49 years old and used to front a band that Mr. Mitchell once described, in his review of our opening set for Cheap Trick at the Rainbow Music Hall, as generating about as much excitement as the checkout line at King Soopers. I would be the first to agree that we indeed sucked in many ways, but it was wrong to say that we were not exciting orexcited...and now those things have come back to bite you in the ass, pal.
You seem to be tweaked by the idea that Mr. Herrera brings some passion and spit to his new post at Westwordwriting about music. In an industry where a tiny percentage of the total participants make all the money and get all the swimming pools and private jets, everyone else had better be doing it for other reasons, like love, or they're going to end up jaded out of their heads, writing checkout-line material for the World Weekly News. It's not worth it to be reduced to that by a thing that was initially (and ought to remain!) a source of joy, be it music or writing or whatever. These things are a matter of personal choice, not accident.
So who caresif you've been there, done that? I didn't; I certainly didn't quit making music because of your stupid-ass review, even though some of my friends and acquaintances back then thought (and think) that perhaps I should have. People can be so darn brave and original sometimes. You own your individual experience, but not anyone else's. Quit pissing in someone else's Wheaties just because maybe you didn't get everything you wanted. Thank God some babies never learn, and I think Bob and Sam would be the first to agree.
Victoria Woodworth
Denver
