Ross Bender wrote:
While I enjoy the surrealistic air, paranoid ambiance, and Rashomon-like
fog
of this UC Village listserve, Tony West is as far as I know the only
professional journalist contributing to this list.
That's why I was gratified to see his immediate summary of the events at
the
First Thursday meeting, filed directly to this list, and even more to read
his articulate piece in the Philadelphia Public Record.
I'm very much looking forward to his series of articles on other
neighborhoods and other UCD-like entities. I expect it will give some
valuable perspective on similar situations throughout the city, and in the
process shed light on our own local tempest in a teapot.
<fade-in to computer screen, the faint sound of rain
gradually rising to that of a tapping keyboard>
THE ARTICLE YOU ARE ABOUT TO READ IS THE FIRST IN AN
EXCITING NEW 'NOT-NEWSWORTHY-ENOUGH' SERIES.
IT BEGINS, THRILLINGLY ENOUGH, AS A BIASED REPORT OF
WHAT HAPPENED AT MALCOLM X PARK AND WHAT HAPPENED AT
THE FIRST THURSDAY MEETING.
THEN, ARTFULLY WRAPPING ITSELF IN AN ATTEMPTED
APPEARANCE OF NON-BIAS, IT STUDIOUSLY QUOTES TWO
OPPOSING NEIGHBORHOOD STAKEHOLDERS WHO SEEM TO BE
WEIGHING IN EQUALLY ABOUT UCD AND SPECIAL SERVICE
DISTRICTS.
OVER THIS APPARENT NEUTRALITY YOU'LL THEN DISCOVER THAT
UCD'S 2ND PRESS RELEASE -- MADE PUBLIC FOR THE VERY
FIRST TIME! -- WAS THREADING ITSELF IN AND TYING THINGS
UP IN A PRETTY LITTLE BOW.
AH! A GIFT!
BUT WAIT -- A GIFT FOR WHOM? AT WHOSE EXPENSE?
<cue cheesy soap opera organ music>
WHAT WILL ARRIVE NEXT IN THIS 'NOT-NEWSWORTHY-ENOUGH'
SERIES? A HARD-HITTING LOOK AT COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS?
THEIR RELATIONSHIPS WITH SPECIAL SERVICE DISTRICTS?
A THIRD PRESS RELEASE, COMPLIMENTS OF UCD?
STAY TUNED, AS OUR INTREPID REPORTER AND TRUSTY FOCP
BOARD MEMBER CONTINUES TO KEEP HIMSELF FROM BEING
PERSONALLY INVOLVED!
<pan out to gothic mansion, flashing lightning, etc.>
..................
UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN
[aka laserbeam®]
[aka ray]
SERIAL LIAR. CALL FOR RATES.
"It is very clear on this listserve who
these people are. Ray has admitted being
connected to this forger." -- Tony West
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