The new girl on the 7Days block, Lauren Ober, has been delightfully snarky in her writing for the sometimes “alternative” Vermont newsweekly. After being rescued from the sinking ship known as the Burlington Free Press (snore), Ober’s been serving up one dose of think-smack after another for those of us who need our daily dose but – unfortunately – have to look far outside the “I Love Vermont” club to find it.
Ober’s targets so far have been the obvious and the super-safe (read: right-wing-evangelicals, etc.) but her writing’s been refreshing and punchy. Let’s just hope that Ober doesn’t get drowned out by the creative wet blanket that can be the pun-happy and cutesy-obsessed culture at 7Days.
It would also be nice to see Ober turn her snarky pen on the Vermont dopes who need a good smackdown from time to time.
Click here for Ober’s 7Days blog post for today: Westboro Baptist Band of Crazies Coming to Vermont? http://7d.blogs.com/blurt/2009/08/westboro-baptist-band-of-crazies-coming-to-vt.html
What can I say, I’m a sucker for writing like this (an excerpt from the link Ober link above):
Here’s a little background on Mr. Phelps (no relation to human fish cum mad toker Michael Phelps) and his Westboro Baptist Church. Apparently God visited Phelps and was all like, “Yo son, what’s wrong with this world? Dudes are doing other dudes and it goes against my will ‘n’ shit.” And Phelps was all like, “Oh, word, homes. Guys screwing other guys in the poopshoot ain’t cool. I gotta do sumpin’ about this.” And God was all like, “Dawg, you need to represent me on Earth. Ain’t nobody down there listening to me.” And Phelps was all like, “God/Jesus/the holy spirit, I feel you. You can count on me.” Then he started making crazypants signs that say God Hates Fags and Thank God For AIDS and other awesome stuff like that. Sign Guy Steve totally ripped them off.
Write on, Lauren.
Hey, thanks for the kind words. Glad to hear that someone’s reading what I write. And I’m glad to hear that it’s not making you barf.
LO