Reader: Was Post writer blind drunk before he wrote blind-item column?

On Wednesday, regular readers of the Denver Post food section were startled to find a column devoted to blind items -- and no answers. Was it a bid to get comments? If so, it failed there -- but the comments have been flying here since Lori Midson posted Leigh Sullivan-Guard's...

By Patricia Calhoun

May 16, 2011

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On Wednesday, regular readers of the Denver Post food section were startled to find a column devoted to blind items -- and no answers.

Was it a bid to get comments? If so, it failed there -- but the comments have been flying here since Lori Midson posted Leigh Sullivan-Guard's response to Tucker Shaw's piece, some of them focusing on the hyphen in Sullivan-Guard's name and the size of her penis.

And some like NumberThree, stayed more on point:

This is awesome. I was so pissed off after reading the "column" in the Post and I am glad someone has said something. The only reason I can think that they would even print this is that they were all hanging out after hours and 3 to many shots of tequila and they printed it on a dare. It's not Festivus yet! The airing of grievances doesn't happen till December.

You can still read the original Post column here, then digest the spirited Cafe Society discussion here.

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Patricia Calhoun is editor-in-chief of Westword, the alt-weekly she co-founded in September 1977. She’s been inducted into the Colorado Press Association Hall of Fame, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia Hall of Fame and the Colorado Restaurant Association Hall of Fame. She’s also received dozens of local, state and national awards for writing, including first place for feature writing and first place for column writing with the Society of Professional Journalists. Patricia is a weekly commentator on Colorado Inside Out, PBS 12's public affairs roundtable, which has won two Emmys.

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