Stuertz Replaced!

[FatCap]

And Stuertz is back, at least temporarily.

[luniz]

http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/cityofa ... critic.php

Well there you have it. She sounds cool, I'm looking forward to seeing her work. Seems like they've been struggling a little bit over there lately.

[Worzel_Gummidge]

Lots of pictures, Lordy be!

[luniz]

Lots of pictures, Lordy be!

there are hundreds of chicks who look just like her in town. Unless she tries to make a splash there's no way the vast majority of restaurants she goes to are going to realize she's a reviewer. Anonymity is a mindset.

[slewfoot]

Not when you've got a set of teeth like Mr. Ed.

[kindofabigdeal]

Not when you've got a set of teeth like Mr. Ed.

Wow, stealing middle school insults from the comments of the story linked in this very thread?

[luniz]

Not when you've got a set of teeth like Mr. Ed.

Wow, stealing middle school insults from the comments of the story linked in this very thread?

Yeah are we supposed to be impressed by your coolness? We can be a little more mature than that, can't we?

[slewfoot]

Roses are red.
Suck my dick.

[luniz]

Roses are red.
Suck my dick.

well at least that's moderately funny, but I think the first line should end with a comma rather than a period.

[kindofabigdeal]

well at least that's moderately funny, but I think the first line should end with a comma rather than a period.[/quote]

Yeah, I was unsure about that so I consulted Strunk and White. Although the period is acceptable, as independent clauses which are intended to form a complete thought I think the most appropriate would be the semi colon. I think it would have been funnier had someone made a poetry reference earlier on. Maybe he (I'm assuming) could have gone with something like this:

Hay Dallas, a new reviewer is in town jockeying for a position in the foodie community. In the time I've lived in Dallas the Observer's critics have had difficulty reining in a large following. Maybe going with a philly is the answer, but personally I would have hoped for a pure bred Dallasite. I'm sure by now Scott has herded up everything she's written since her SAT, but, unless I missed something, he's been relatively silent on the subject. She seems to have a wide gait, taking on a variety of food issues from the restaurant business, to farming, to history. She seems to write with an information-dense style, which is nice for geeks like me, but I'd also like to see something a bit more cheeky, a la TG. I don't have any opinion on the the anonymity issue, but she's sure to face some criticism for that. Hopefully she can just take it in stride. big teeth.

[slewfoot]

I did consider a comma. But I was afraid of being taken for a Twinwillow imposter.

He does love his commas.

[slewfoot]

Oh.
kindofabigdeal....

Thats GOOD!

[luniz]

Oh.
kindofabigdeal....

Thats GOOD!

indeed...all the more brutal for the subtlety if you can even call it that. remind me to stay on his good side...

[Scott--DFW]

Seems like Hanna Raskin sees food as a component of culture (rather than fashion). I'm hoping that tendency, combined with her MA in American History, will translate into some interesting, substantive feature work.

Scott

[Kirk]

Raskin has definitely elevated the quality of food discourse in this town. And with hardly ever tossing an unnecessary French phrase, or referring to the multiple books she has written, in the process.