First off, I love the magazine. I really do. I pick it up every week. Your classified ads are WAY better than those in Style weekly.
But, no pics of the watermelon festival? 100,000 people showed up – way more than that art thingy at the museum last Thursday… I saw that guy who always wears the funny little hat, Korey. He was there. I’ve enclosed some pics. Feel free to publish them on your Web site or next week. Maybe you could hire me as a photographer. I’m looking for a job.
Also, I didn’t see the astrology page this week. This is a bad move and I’ll tell you why. Forget the ultra-Christians who hate it unless they pull their purse strings and won’t run their ads. (you gotta do what you gotta do). But if it pisses those people off, that’s one of the best reasons to run Freewill astrology, or Amy Alkon or whoever.
The REAL reason you need to run an astrology section every week is because it’s the one thing that people want to read about most - themselves! We are narcissistic. We need advice, spelling tips, whatever. We want to read that one little blip every week that is just for us, about us. If it costs too much, just make one up. It’s not like you need a degree in astrology to write a column.
So, love the Brick, get it every week. Check out my pics. Thanks!
 
–Byteme

P.S. kick ball is for retards. Sorry, but it’s true.      
   
Hey Byteme,
 
First off – Thanks!
 
Second off – The Watermelon Festival was indeed a good time, however, we figured everyone else would be covering it and decided to focus on something else. Thanks for sharing the pics.
I love this one:
 
Third off – I can’t say that many ultra-Christian advertisers are beating down our door to give us their money, and a syndicated astrology column would hardly be their biggest gripe with us. Freewill was pulled because we ran out of space. It IS nice to know that someone aside from Clay’s dog misses it. We’ll keep that in mind.

P.S. Has the backlash against “Tropic Thunder” taught you nothing? You can’t say “retards” any more. 
 
–Tod C Parkhill