Freelance writer Alice Levitt went to the “Everything Equine” horse show last weekend and wrote about it for our column, Scene@, that appears in the Calendar section of the newspaper. Scene@ is a short little feature — 350 words or less. It’s basically a first-person “being there” piece, so it has more “attitude” than a news story would.
Well, the model horse hobbyists Alice mentioned in her write-up thought that she put a little too much attitude in her account. One of them started a thread at modelhorseblab.com called
“A good example of Ignorance towards this hobby (or any hobby really)”
There are 9 pages of angry replies, including one that ends thusly: “She’s still a bitter dried up inside she-snake and woe to her if she steps foot in our barn.” Whoa, Nelly!
Consequently, the “Everything Equine” Scene@ is the 6th most popular item on our website this week, and climbing. (Photo from the horse show by Matthew Thorsen.)
This article appears in Apr 30 – May 6, 2008.
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