A strange blog post about me by a Star-Bulletin staffer
November 24th, 2009 by Charles MemmingerA reader brought this blog item to my attention. It's by Star-Bulletin staffer Burl Burlingame about my departure from the newspaper earlier this year, posted on his blog site.
"Whew. I was afraid for a while that Charley Memminger would come crawling back to his old workplace, but no, the competition has harpooned and hauled him aboard. He’ll be writing something called Charleyworld, where every day is Charleyday in Charleytown. Now the Tiser gets to know him, and to know him is to — I won’t go there.
It’s the little things that add up. Like the way Charley swerves his car to run over kittens, or the way he eats spoonfuls of mayonnaise right out of the jar, or how he insists on sitting around in his underwear — those awful skid marks! — even at the office, or the way he obsessively watches the same “Girls Gone Wild” video over and over, or even the way he bursts into tears every time he looks in the mirror. No! What we’ll miss is the way he makes fun of people!"
They say there's no such thing as bad publicity so I guess I should thank Burl for the Charleyworld mention in his blog, wherever it is. Burl's one of those Star-Bulletin staffers who, by virtue of seniority, was not one of the 17 staff members laid off by the paper. So he was lucky there. I volunteered to take one of the 17 layoffs, so at least one of those younger staff members got to keep their job. Why my departure would cause Burl to publish this strange, puerile diatribe, only his psychoanalyst knows. The Star-Bulletin can be proud that it still has such a classy guy occupying its premises.
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Tags: Burlingame, Charleyworld, cupcakes, Free Beer!, kittens
November 24th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
Burl is your twin?
November 24th, 2009 at 6:57 pm
It's called reverse projection. Obviously, everyone knows that you would take waterboarding as the torture of choice before even sniffing a spoonful of mayonaise, so everything he said is the opposite, and since he brought these strange items up, He is the one familiar with them...Someone should check his computer for a worn out dvd of GGW, and his freezer for dead cats! He sounds jealous for not bailing from SB.
November 25th, 2009 at 5:19 am
No one else says bad things about you, as far as you know. Burl's only one person to call you 'horse'. You don't need to start looking for a saddle until three people dol
November 25th, 2009 at 7:19 am
I think Luke is right-everyone knows how you feel about mayo! But that was pretty tuff-I wouldn't blame you from being a little taken back.
November 25th, 2009 at 8:42 am
He hate me.