09.27.05
Ballad of a Thin Man
Because something is happening here
But you don’t know what it is
Do you, Mister Jones?
But you don’t know what it is
Do you, Mister Jones?
– Bob Dylan, “Ballad of a Thin Man”
This month’s issue of Philadelphia magazine contains an ill-begotten screed by Noel Weyrich that slanders my friend and fellow Philly blogger Richard Cranium. Weyrich accuses Richard of race-baiting and using the Latoyia Figueroa case to garner publicity for himself and for his blog:
By raising the issue of race, members of the Dick Brain Trust managed to provide their own entertainment for a little while. They briefly got as much media attention as the missing-person case they were trumpeting. In the meantime, poor obscure LaToyia’s name finally crossed the lips of Nancy Grace and other cable news demi-gods. Not that it accomplished anything. It didn’t help solve LaToyia’s murder. But it felt good to the bloggers because the blogosphere is a great big cyberspace circle-jerk.
