LETTERS 10.23

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Avid females!

Dear Mr. Wildman,

From your first sentence about "suffering numerous episodes of this uncompromisingly awful TV show to appease a previous girlfriend," we already knew you'd hate the Sex and the City (6.4.08) movie, so why were you sent to review it? Nothing good could come of that. Surely there is a sister in the Weekly Dig office who could've gone in your stead? And have more than just ONE opinion about it?

I'm not writing to defend the story (as you won't get it), but to say that, as an avid fan of the show (and a female ... no surprise), this movie was never meant for YOU, my brother! My female companion and I had a lovely time at the movie's opening ... after attending the Dig's monthly 242 event. I look forward to seeing the movie a SECOND time with a gaggle of girlz (known to you as its "limited audience") NEXT weekend. HA! (Psst: Regarding all that "phony" "greed" and "self-love" stuff ... It's a work of FICTION. Look it up!)

So, dear Mr. WildMAN, please leave the SatC seats open for the women ... and gay men ... who loved the series, and we promise not to rate/rape your machismotastic Indiana-Iron Jones-Man with predetermined bile in OUR mouths. Thanks, Sweetiekins.

With Cosmo Kisses,

LAURI-CARRIE BRADSHAW-MURPHY

VIA EMAIL

Not cool semantics.

Dear Dig,

I agree with Dan from Jamaica Plain in his definition of "graphic novel" as a comic printed in book format (as opposed to the "floppies," which we all grew up with, which still come out every Wednesday). To me graphic novels, trade paperbacks, manga, etcetera are all different formats of the same art form: comics. It's the quality of the work in these books, and not the paper or binding, which makes them disposable or indispensable.

But I take issue with Dan's use of the term "self conscious nerdy guys" who read Green Lantern Corps. In the words of Milhouse van Houten: "I'm not a nerd, nerds are smart." Dan, I know very little about math or science—I work in a comics shop—hence I'm not a nerd. I am a geek, a term I use with pride.

Viva la comics,

JESSE FARRELL,

MANAGER, HUB COMICS

Ryan White Throwback

Dearest Editor,

Are you aware that in David Wildman's review of "Sex and the City: The Movie," he used the phrase 'catch AIDS' (I think the exact phrasing was 'for Samantha to catch AIDS'). What is this, a 1989 rerun of "Life Goes On"? Will you please inform Mr. Wildman that AIDS is not a communicable disease?

Cheers,

EMMYLOU

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