Hey, Katherine! This guy thinks Silicon Valley sucks! And he lives there!
UPDATE: Ken Layne hates San Francisco too! Be sure to follow the links, especially this one from Nick Denton’s blog to one of Layne’s old Tabloid.Net pieces. Woof.
For the record, I don’t hate San Francisco. I have a bunch of friends there, and I’ve enjoyed my visits to the Bay Area. What I do hate is snotty provincialists from either coast who think that it’s all tumbleweeds and J. R. Ewing down here, and can’t understand why anyone would choose to live here rather than wherever they are. As such I’m happy to give equal time to dissenters.
Back in 1994 a sportswriter for the New York Post, down here to cover the Rockets and Knicks in the NBA Championships wrote a piece called “Houston is Hell” or something like that. It was clear from reading it that he came in with his mind made up about Houston and made no attempt to see if maybe he was wrong. Having lived in Clear Lake, Mieszkowski has certainly earned the right to whatever opinion she wants about Houston, but if it’s gonna infect her writing then Salon had no business asking her to write that story. Shame on them all.