This Is How You Write A Column

[Fenian_Bastard]

Read:
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index2.ssf?/base/living-0/116149796856910.xml&coll=1

 

[MU_was_not_so_hard]

Damn good stuff.

 

[Ledbetter]

Great read.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

Holy sh_t. If ever something deserved a sticky label for a while ...

Thanks, F_B.

 

[PeteyPirate]

Riveting. That hits home.

 

[huntsie]

That's a brilliant piece of writing. A riveting read

 

[Blitz]

Yes, this is good writing.
Chris appeared with a necktie tied around his forehead in his column mug as he described the differences and similarities between St. Louis and New Orleans a few years back during the NFL playoffs.
A real loopy, Dave Barry-sort of guy. Fun to read.
He's always been accepted by the masses as an exceptional writer.
This latest piece does nothing to disprove those theories.
Good to see he realized his problem, came to grips and got help.

 

[OnTheRiver]

Nice job, Chris. I'm glad you're doing better.

 

[JackS]

Damn it, FB. I've already read the books by Brinkley, Horne, Van Heerden and McQuaid and Schleifstein, and now I've gotta read another. Stop it already.

 

[alexg23]

Wow...I'll join the chorus of praise if for no reason than to keep this column up at the top.

 

[leo1]

damn. that's good stuff.

 

[tyler durden 71351]

Chris Rose is a pro. He has been knocking 'em out of the park since Katrina...he did a damn good one a few weeks ago after the Monday night game.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Good gosh. I'm in awe of Rose.

Here's hoping he's got a long and happy life ahead.

 

[zeke12]

That's one of the best descriptions I've ever read of depression.

Well done.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

You're a charter members.
You get a discount on the jacket to $174.95.

 

[JR]

Thanks for sharing, FB. Can I be in your gang?

It's not a gang.

It's an association of like-minded individuals fighting for social justice and the end of the tyrannical right.

****, Junkie, you're disqualified.

 

[JR]

That was an incredible column btw.

Just amazing.

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

This is easily the most compelling read I've found that speaks to what I see around me in New Orleans (Katrina) and Lake Charles (Rita) and parts in between (both), a fog of post-hurricane depression and disease that has touched friends (3 deceased in the last month, two more diagnosed with clinical depression), family (2 members deceased three weeks apart in July) and others (still fighting the fight).

Thank you for writing this, Chris. Welcome back to feeling good. And thanks, FB, for posting it.

 

[Del_B_Vista]

It's not a gang.

It's an association of like-minded individuals fighting for social justice and the end of the tyrannical right.

King Arthur: Well, we all are. We are all Britons. And I am your king.
Woman: I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective.
Dennis: You're foolin' yourself! We're living in a dictatorship. A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working class...
Woman: Oh, there you go bringing class into it again.
Dennis: Well, that's what it's all about! If only people would...
King Arthur: Please, please, good people, I am in haste. Who lives in that castle?
Woman: No one lives there.
King Arthur: Then who is your lord?
Woman: We don't have a lord.
Dennis: I told you, we're an anarco-sydicalist commune. We take it in turns to be a sort of executive officer for the week...
King Arthur: Yes...
Dennis: ...but all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting...
King Arthur: Yes I see...
Dennis: ...by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs...
King Arthur: Be quiet!
Dennis: ...but by a two thirds majority in the case of...
King Arthur: Be quiet! I order you to be quiet!
Woman: Order, eh? Who does he think he is? [/threadjack]

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

Nice work, Del. I could see you, me and FB drinking beer and doing Python bits into the wee hours.