Letters for the week of April 3

Burnt Ends, March 20

I hope you can convince Skip Sleyster to continue to run his “Advertisement” in your paper. When he publishes for The Star, it just doesn’t have the same effect on me. I now carry your “Advertisement” with me so that when I need to experience something so incredibly funny to pick me up, I have it close at hand.

Amy Hart, Prairie Village, Kansas

Martin, “The Unconvinced,” March 20

Thanks to David Martin for exposing that someone in the University of Missouri system actually has the gall to think for himself. You ought to try it sometime.

While I’m more comfortable talking about the medical-pharmacological community’s great cholesterol scare, I have read enough to know that the human contribution to global warming is practically nonexistent.

A thousand years ago, Greenland was green and supported a Viking colo­ny for 400 years with minimal support from the homeland. Northeast Canada was covered in vines. Now, if you could tell me what humans did to cause the earth to get rapidly colder over the 400-year time span from 1400 to 1800, it will be much easier for me to go with the current crowd of fearmongers.

I believe that we have a responsibility to future generations to not screw up the earth, but the current “science” is a poor basis to make policy.

By the way, does anybody besides me remember that we had to switch to unleaded gas to decrease carbon monoxide, an obviously dangerous pollutant? Or that one of the benefits of going to unleaded gas was the fact that we would produce more carbon dioxide, a harmless gas that was good for plants. At least that’s what they told us 30 years ago.

J.P. Cummings, Kansas City, Kansas

Feature: “The People vs. Erotic City,” March 20

Nice piece, I mean article, on Erotic City. I used to live in Kansas City (late ’80s and early ’90s), and I must confess that I frequented the place. But it was not a place for gays to hook up. Rather, it was a place for persons of all orientations to go. I could go on for quite a while, but I will get to the point. There were ladies and couples and tons of sex for the consenting adult. Large booths for groups and smaller booths. Glory holes did not exist. There was a mutual door on the dividing wall between booths. You could open the door and watch others or just slip over to their booth and let the good times roll. You might not like the morality of this. That is your choice. Just as it was our choice to be there then. There were nude models and swaps and swingers and great after-3-a.m. strip shows. It sounds like it just went to hell. If anyone sees those two blond sisters, tell them I said hello!

P. Fish, Waterloo, Iowa

Feature: “Strike!” February 7

Just wanted you to know how much I enjoyed reading David Martin’s article “Strike!” in the February 7 issue of The Pitch. I do not have any connection to the people he wrote about, but his style of writing made me want to read the entire article. I like how he wrote about the college programs, the high school bowling programs and a little of the history of bowling and the difference in how lanes are oiled. It was a wonderful article. Thank you.

Cathy Lovetere, Stilwell, Kansas

Café: “Trays of Our Lives,” March 27

From August 1972 until the Forum Cafeteria closed in 1973, I had the most delicious stuffed peppers (they made them with roast beef from the previous day) every Tuesday when a co-worker at City Hall and I had our weekly lunch outing. My other choices never varied, either: the sweet-and-sour coleslaw (I still prefer that style to the mayonnaise type), fried okra and a lettuce salad. I’ve never found better stuffed peppers since, and I can’t tell you how much I miss them. (Sort of like the egg rolls at the old House of Toy on the Plaza; nothing like those exist today.) Thanks to Charles Ferruzza for the stroll down memory lane!

Charles Ballew, Kansas City, Missouri

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