the Voice of Steely (was Hey 19)

[Ted Samsel]

> 
>      Oh, yeah:
>      
>      >And say, why aren't you NYers talking up my latest article in last 
>      >week's issue of the Village Voice?
>      >Huh...It was at least as interesting as that Rosenbaum piece or the 
>      >drivel in New York Mag sent you all into orgasmic fits.
>      
>      Hey, Rich?  Hey, everybody?  Didja happen to see that great article in 
>      the _Voice_ last week by that kickass righteous journalist feller 
>      Jeffrey St. Clair?  The piece, called "Beetle Mania," (and co-authored 
>      by another kickass journalist, James Ridgeway) is all about the risk 
>      posed to American trees, already beset by fragility and decline, by 
>      some nasty little buggies in the Asian longhorn beetle family.  (The 
>      beetles have been hitching rides to the US in logs imported from 
>      overseas, in typical Byzantine business fashion, by American timber 
>      companies.)  This piece is MUCH more interesting than that speculative 
>      Ron Rosenbaum thing that made it all the way to Tim Ware's Web Page 
>      (imagine!) and DEFINITELY Way More Interesting (way!) than that drivel 
>      in NY Mag that sent me into an orgasmic fit (my god!).  Man, that St. 
>      Clair guy is really good.  Sure wish I could let him know.  (But, it's 
>      too bad the _Voice_ is such trash most of the time these days.)
>      

We talkin' Southron Pine beetle type critters or where do these coleopter-
ae make their home? (A degree in Bug-ology does help...)

And does Steely make clever simulacrae of these critters to catch
fish with?

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