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Have ya read this week's "Reporter?" We sure did...and we'd like to take this time to respond to their editorial "Well, well, well." We would send in a letter, but it's the end of the year and there aren't going to be any more "Reporter"s this year.
Letter to the Reporter:
We tried. We really did. Back when the year was still young, our then meager staff sat down and tried to turn an impractical concept for a radio show into a written format. We wrote our sample piece, illustrated it, and submitted it to Kerstin Gunter.
We had hoped to be picked up as a weekly humor column.
But no. We were rejected because we were inappropriate for the Reporter...even though we were told we were funny.
You see...we were unsatisfied with the quality of the Reporter and did try to take an active part in changing things.
After a few weeks of brooding, we decided to publish on our own. Without being forced to answer to anyone, we gladly lowered our guards and rewrote our first issue "Ethopian Flypaper Boy." Now, seventeen issues , two new staff members, multiple submissions, an electronic mailing, and a possible grant for next year later, we'd like to use Nathan Arnone's phrase:
Suck eggs.
We did vote. We cast a ballet£ in late January, but our vote didn't count. I guess that gives us a right to complain. Why didn't we submit when you were asking for submissions? Hurt me once...shame on you; hurt me twice...shame on me. Maybe next year....
Gracies Dinnertime Theatre does not do news. We do humor, and creativity.
And to everyone on the "Reporter" staff who has been enjoying our weekly printings: thank you. Sincerely.
Good luck in printing the news.
-GDT Staff
£ Yes. This is a typo, but it was so good we decided to leave it.
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