Take Revenge on the Media

Seattle has been well represented on the Best Of Craigslist list recently. Usually it's packed with entries from San Francisco (home field advantage), New York (sheer numbers) and DC (unexplainable), but Seattle has been making a remarkably strong showing. Well done, guys. Are we getting funnier as a city? Is that possible?

We'd like to highlight the post titled "Hate the media? F*ck me! - w4m", though. Originally posted in late March in the freewheeling "Casual Encounters" section, this post has since found the honor it deserves on the Best Of page. The opacity of the Craigslist anonymizer keeps her identity from us, but we can't help wondering whose masthead she's on.

If you don't hew to any political interests there's plenty to revile about my professional life which, sad to say, is the only life I seem to have. I capitalize Web site and Internet. I never use the passive voice. This is the longest thing I've written for publication in ages. I don't use a comma after the terminal "and" in a series. I rely on the press releases of boring and often insane community groups to develop stories around that you don't give a shit about, and I can't blame you for that!

I'm better-looking than your average reporter — God knows it's goblins and gnomes all over the newsrooms of the world — so that isn't saying much. Mostly, I expect my half-assed way of getting my shit pulled together to fuel your aggressive, angry libido.

I am everything that is wrong with the media, incarnated in human form. If you've ever said "F*ck the media," this is your chance.