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Yahoo!Okay. Nick Welsh, the writer? Holy cow. A colleague asked me at work if I’d read this week’s Angry Poodle. “Naw, I’ll catch it later,” I murmured through my work-fogged brain. I caught it later. Please, Lord, just take me now! Never mind the quixotic subject matter of the essay (which featured kittens, sprayed milk, and a much celebrated form of physical delirium), Nick Welsh’s explosively fun writing is worth the price of admission. Period. Why has our self-congratulatory little town not erected an outsized bronze statue to this guy? Nick, thanks for the excited attention you lavish on the written word. You turn Mother English into a bouquet of sparklers. Please give this man a raise.—Jeff Wing
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Jeff Wing - NO ONE has said it better. Nick is a TREASURE in Santa Barbara. NO WRITER can sniff him in style, wit, wisdom, and eloquence. I would donate for a bronze statue. While Barney Brantingham's column is cute, it turns my stomach a little when he wins the Indy's best columnist award yearly. I hope he doesn't think for one second that Nick doesn't have more talent in his big toe. Apples and dried out, sour oranges.
potenita (anonymous profile)
July 27, 2010 at 10:06 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I agree about Nick's writing and poodling. Absolutely the best, without the venom of the late and unlamented Travis Armstrong.
However, he could do a bit more sniffing around and barking. With the PlanSB Update nearing its conclusion, what's happened to that former collection of watchdogs-watchbitches, CPA? The organization seems a bit toothless. The new establishment-type Executive Director has spoken before the city council, including last night, and on the mayor's program last Saturday. There definitely seems to be a shift in emphasis, to get along to go along, hang with the EDC and all praise to Bettie Weiss and her city planners. Smart Growth, here they come?
Too bad --- the city (and county) needs citizen oversight so that we don't Portlandize ourselves. ...If CPA folds, what's left?
at_large (anonymous profile)
July 28, 2010 at 12:04 p.m. (Suggest removal)