July 7, 2013
Greg Cote
The Miami Herald

Re: Homer? – Some remarkably contained comments on your head up your ass reference to Homer in today’s MH

Dear dummy,
“The Reds’ HOMER BAILEY pitched the season’s first
no-hitter and the second of his career. How weird that a
pitcher would be named Homer. Heck, how weird that
anybody would be named HOMER.”
The Miami Herald
Today
You

Winslow Homer? Nah. Too many seascapes.

Homer Jones, #45 of the New York Giants, the inventor of the spike? Nah.

“Tell me o muse, of that ingenious hero who traveled far
and wide after sacking the famous city of Troy.”

That HOMER, you stupid bastard.

I was lecturing at an alternative high school, the alternative being that they listen to me, a curmudgeonly old White man, or they go to big guy prison. I told, forgive me, the captive audience that when you finish the Iliad, the world’s first war story, you get to read the Odyssey, the world’s first love story.

A somewhat somnambulistic feral Black youth, and should a paradigmatic template of that genre need to be struck he was the model, perked up and said, “Wasn’t that the story of the dude who took 20 years to get back to his old lady?”

3,000 years.
The story in its essence.
Genius.

That HOMER, you putz.


Kevin Smith