Sunday, November 29, 2009

Some topics are best left to Ace of Spades

For example, the suicide of 52-year-old Mike "Christine" Penner, two years after the L.A. Times sportswriter wrote a column with these immortal words:
During my 23 years with The Times' sports department, I have held a wide variety of roles and titles. . . . Today I leave for a few weeks' vacation, and when I return, I will come back in yet another incarnation. As Christine. . . . I am a transsexual sportswriter. It has taken more than 40 years, a million tears and hundreds of hours of soul-wrenching therapy for me to work up the courage to type those words.
Many years to "work up the courage" -- and two years later, he/she kills him/herself. Over to you, Ace.

7 comments:

  1. There you go. For an NPR interview all that is required is a dickectomy. Easy peasy testicle squeezy. Ballectomy optional.

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  2. I still think he just did that to hide out from job cuts.

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  3. "People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."

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  4. Stacy, do you know something about Ace that we don't know? Is he building up the "courage" to face his own coming out event? A pirate lesbian whore trapped in a male body (ravaged from years of cigarette, value rite vodka, and bacon abuse).

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  5. Joe said...
    Stacy, do you know something about Ace that we don't know?

    No, it's just that when a situation offers so many opportunities for genuinely cruel punchlines -- what's the typographic equivalent of biting your tongue? -- Ace and his crew of Morons never disappoint.

    On the other hand, you know about Ace and the Latina tranny hookers, right? NTTAWWT.

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  6. Now that I think about it, I probably could have written that more clearly. I think Penner was pretending to be a transsexual to hide out from the job axe.

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  7. And Kathy Shaidle beats Ace to the punch on this topic:
    http://www.fivefeetoffury.com/:entry:fivefeet-2009-11-29-0001/
    [andycanuck]

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