submitted by rex
Jul 5 2005 — 2:00am
Garrison Keillor’s first newspaper column came out this weekend. It begins, “These summer days when strawberries are in their prime seem to bring out the kindness in people.” That’s all I could read. Good luck to you on making it further.
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7 Reader Comments
3:01 pm
Okay, here’s the second sentence: “You bring home a little carton of hand-selected berries and wash the best one and pop it in your wife’s mouth and this is a statement of tenderness.” Ugh.
3:15 pm
Okay…I’m a sentimental fool. or maybe I just like column spaces being taken up with the little celebrations in life because it crowds out car bombings,state shutdowns, sex offender murders, car bombings, lindsey lohandless, supreme crout line ups, car bombings,AngelinaAndBrad, and car bombings.
Strawberry Feelings Forever !!!
10:23 pm
However, I think Keillor should be given credit for his deft assessment of gay marriage: “I’m sorry, but same-sex marriage seems timid, an attempt to save on wardrobe and accesspries.” Yeah, homosexual couplings are timid, as opposed to the, uh, fierceness of hand-feeding fresh strawberries to the Mrs.
2:10 am
You people are going to make me cry, like a woman.
11:25 am
Keillor’s of the same nearly unrecognizable genuis as Chuck Schulz: the majority of their work draws in and lulls readers and listeners with “the commonplace”, and that’s when they drop in an unexpected bit of brilliance.
12:37 am
Keillor’s at his best when he’s righteously pissed off. I’m glad the Strib hired him; they need to counter Krazy Kersten.
9:34 am
Dang, I knew I should have picked a fight with my family when we were strawberry picking this weekend. Myself, I prefer to eat them in the field all covered with pesticide goodness.