Won't you be my neighbor?
What's to say about this flattering profile on Blue Plate Special? Well, really, "Mr. Rogers?"
I'm getting messages from all my now former friends mocking me about the head and shoulders with this graf: John Robinson, 53, with his thinning gray hair, and handsome, not just wholesome but Mr. Rogers-wholesome face, looks like the kind of guy who'd barely be able to work his e-mail.
The name and age are accurate. The rest is left-wing MSM propaganda that I fully expect to cause a blog swarm the likes of which would make even Dan Rather's head spin. Besides, I'm more in the rugged Mel Gibson mold, aren't I?
More later.
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Don't let your head get too big boss. The author made at least one fact error (repeatedly) re: the number of blogs our site carries. She could have been wrong about all that other stuff as well;-)
Posted on March 7, 2006 8:07 PM
Well, I've learned a lot from you, John, but perhaps the prevailing lesson is that "transparency" is king.
Readers, in the interest of full disclosure, I have not met JR in person, and was only working from photos for the physical description.
However, I am prepared to stand by my original assessments of "handsome" and "wholesome."
As for the Mr. Rogers thing, well, blame my mother's love of public television. The man was one of my first childhood heroes.
You're in good company! Right up there with Big Bird! [yet more winking]
Hope it's not causing you too much trouble in your...uh...neighborhood.
Posted on March 7, 2006 8:41 PM
I always thought that Mr. Rogers was kind of the creepiest children's television host this side of Bozo the Clown (post Gacey...).
John does sometimes have that same eerie calm...but I've never seen him do any singing or talking to puppets.
Posted on March 7, 2006 9:51 PM
Wow -- they didn't say anything like that about my boss.
Posted on March 8, 2006 10:58 AM
Mr. Robinson, As one of the subscribers to your paper, as well as a perhaps too-often commentator on your blog, I enjoyed the article much. I have always had much respect for you and your staff for laying yourselves out there for the buzzards (sometimes me!) to pick at.
As for looking “like the kind of guy who’d barely be able to work his e-mail” just have a picture done wearing glasses. Not the ones you have now, but heavy horn rimmed things. They give a person a more scholarly, almost geeky, look. Besides they act as a mask to allow you to stare at, and really study, people while also permitting you to believe that your rudeness isn’t being noticed. I am now deeply attached to my glasses, and only sorry I was forced to get them late in life.
Posted on March 8, 2006 1:01 PM
> Hope it's not causing you too much trouble in your...uh...neighborhood.
Briana, you will go far in life.
(and that was an excellent article)
Posted on March 8, 2006 3:55 PM
Thanks, all. No my head's not getting any bigger. It just looks that way because I'm getting balder. Brenda, I like the glasses idea. Thanks!
Posted on March 9, 2006 9:28 AM