You win this round …

Dammit. On the same day the Hibbing Daily Tribune runs my column about hitting a deer with my Ford Focus station wagon, the Duluth News Tribune runs Janna Goerdt’s column about hitting a moose with her Subaru. Not only does she get the bigger, rarer and much more literary dead animal on which to pontificate, she drives a better car. (All wheel drive standard on all models).

I’ve been served.

Meantime, down at the Star Tribune I expect Nick Coleman’s eagerly awaited column about running over a brontosaurus with his monster truck to run any day, shaming outstate writers back to our clip files and resumes.

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UPDATE: In further humiliation, I just picked up the hard copy of today’s Tribune and see they forgot to run my column again. Look for it this week or next Sunday.

UPDATE 2: The column will run sometime this week. I’m writing a new piece for my regular Sunday column. The editor is out at the Tribune and the staff is scrambling to keep up with the e-mail. I e-mailed early in the week and was buried by obituaries, press releases and angry e-mails from people who recently acquired the internet.

Comments

  1. Chin up kid… she’s a flash in the pan. Sure she hit a home run by hitting something the size of an SUV (and the extra points for illegally harvesting/transporting the critter!), but you’ve got the staying power.

    Just like how the Twins win by playing small ball, you surely have the greater totals in vehicle repair cost and pounds of meat slaughtered in your deer slaying career.

  2. My weapon of choice for deer is a Browning A-Bolt 30-06; here is my running tally over the past 3 years: 5-pointer, 10-pointer, doe, 10-pointer, spiker, 6-pointer…

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