Comments on: A Giant Passes

By: Chicklet

Chicklet — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 15:19:10 +0000

I remember her story of her ill-fated stint with the New York Times. I believe it ended when she described a chicken-dressing (where you take the feathers off the dead chickens) as a “gang-pluck.”

By: zuzu

zuzu — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 15:14:42 +0000

Yeah, Helen. I love her quote, “You can’t be six feet tall and cute, both.”

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By: Helen

Helen — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 13:16:18 +0000

Having met the giant in question, I can tell you she’d have been the first to burst into loud guffaws over your choice of wording in the headline.

(For those who haven’t seen her/read vast quantities of her stuff, the woman was TALL. And grew up in a time and place where the diminutive Scarlett O’Hara/Dallas Cowboys cheerleader hybrid was supposed to be the epitome of feminity. She evidently found this funny and decided early on that all that garbage clearly must not apply to her.)

By: wemblee

wemblee — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 08:06:53 +0000

Very sad news. I didn’t know she had cancer. *sad sigh* Rest in Peace.

By: randomliberal

randomliberal — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 02:56:56 +0000

Only the good die young…

You will be sorely missed.

By: Jessica J.

Jessica J. — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 02:10:05 +0000

Oh, no. That is very, very sad.

By: Bitter Scribe

Bitter Scribe — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 01:04:04 +0000

This is so sad. We need someone like her. We need a dozen, a hundred more like her.

She had been syndicated in the Chicago Tribune, whose op-ed page was (still is) otherwise chockablock with right-wing nitwits like Victor Davis Hanson and Charles Krauthammer. One amusing effect of her columns is that every month, like clockwork, one or two dittoheads would write in huffing and puffing, demanding that she be removed.

It seems cancer accomplished what they couldn’t. Life is just so goddamn unfair.

By: johanna

johanna — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 01:01:42 +0000

Oh, God, no. 62 is way too young.

I got to hear her speak in person once – just stunning, hilarious, witty, charming.

Now I’m gonna cry a little at work. Why do things have to change?

By: evil fizz

evil fizz — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:53:35 +0000

*sniff* sad times.