Comments on: Oh Jamie Kelly, You Bitch!

By: Dear Wilco, « 4&20 blackbirds

Dear Wilco, « 4&20 blackbirds — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:59:59 +0000

[...] just a few weeks ago. One of our local reporters, Jamie Kelly, gave Sir Elton’s performance a less-than-stellar review. If Jamie was in the audience at the Adams last night, I don’t think he could say the same of [...]

By: S&Co.

S&Co. — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:36:53 +0000

Thanks, Rebecca. I think it’s funny that the Missoulian sent two reporters (Nickell and Kelly) to review a show — obviously it would be the same show — that just went down six months ago. I think it’s funny that Nickell called it a rock concert (ha) and that Jamie Kelly couldn’t directly say, in a family newspaper, what he apparently really wanted to say: that these big touring shows (from Brad Paisley to Elton John) are basically (however predictably enjoyable they may be for the masses) hit-and-run jobs (“staged, deliberate, rehearsed, repetitive”).

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:05:14 +0000

When I was a junior at UM, I took a class in environmental history from Dan Flores. Towards the end of the semester I wrote a paper that was a scathing review of The Monkey Wrench Gang. At some point during the writing process I convinced myself I didn’t have the experience or gravitas it takes to tear apart Edward Abbey. I backed off, ending my assignment with a lame, “…but it’s a good book, regardless.”

Dan gave me a B. Under the grade he wrote, “This could have been an A paper, but you chickened out at the end. Too bad.”

Jamie, you get a B.