Sayitwithpie.com Finally Up And Running
After a year of gathering dust? Why now?
Last weekend, The Star ran a very brief and hard-to-locate excerpt of piece I wrote for Torontoist. From my response:
In last Tuesday's news roundup, [I] followed up on the confrontation between a cyclist and a motorist at College and McCaul Streets. The altercation came to a bloody end when the cyclist stabbed the motorist several times in the neck and fled the scene on foot. The cyclist was later apprehended by the police, but no details about the cause of the fight (or the cyclist's apparent mental imbalance) were revealed to the press. [I] said:"Police have arrested Yonan Inwia for assault, but give no further details. It's stories like this that need Rosie DiManno: "Yonan Inwia fell roughly to the ground, his hands reaching out in a Christ-like fashion to break the heavy fall. Little did Yonan know, today he would be the messiah of cyclist rage, wielding the cuspidated tool of justice."
Today, on page three of the Ideas section, The Star quoted from that paragraph, but without noting that [I was] actually making fun of DiManno's exaggerated literary stylings. [I] can only hope Star readers recognize that the bad Christ allusion and "wielding the cuspidated tool of justice" were intentionally schlocky and not written in earnest.
Was the convenient exclusion of context a backhanded retaliation by The Star for [my] harsh critique of their Queen of Columns? If so, it was a low blow indeed.
I'm not really a "letter to the editor" type of person, but I felt like I needed to defend the integrity of my writing somewhere where I could use the first-person singular pronoun (instead of the royal "we" used at Torontoist). It's too bad I didn't have a domain name reserved and waiting around for me to use it—oh wait...
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A strange follow up: Allderblob thinks the story is somehow involved in a conspiracy to bring down Kurdistanian terrorist cyclists, or something. I can't tell if they're joking.