Tiring of Bill’s Thailand (mis)adventures and more
Dear Editor,
Let me applaud your paper’s determination to present views from many LGBT groups and the attempt by Mr. Hanson’s column to widen the age range. He wants to speak for those of us who are seniors (I’m 71). Unfortunately his ramblings are often just that, ramblings. This latest contribution (LGBT Weekly issue 140, Feb. 13) seems to have been two after thoughts, two disparate notions that he figured would ‘do’ to make up an article. First the elephant fart in Thailand, a story that I assume he found funny (and could have been had he written it better), and then the reminiscence of the old days when we presumably stayed closeted and longed to play with Barbie dolls.
Please! Can’t he come up with something more useful and edifying? Perhaps a short review of a novel or other book (or doesn’t he read?) since many of us still do read books. Or without stepping on the toes of theater reviewers, some commentary about having seen a play that has some particular import to seniors? Anything but these idle sentences that add up to four columns of disappointing chatter that give the representative impression that all of us seniors have nothing much of importance to say.
ROBERT HEYLMUN
Novelist
SAN DIEGO
