Boston Globe: Mayor Menino “Pierced”
I’m not given to writing “fan” letters, but today I was impelled to send this email to Charles Pierce, the Boston Globe staff writer whose one-paragraph satirical column, “Pierced,” appears every week in The Boston Globe Magazine:
Dear Mr. Pierce:
Your writing is always incisive, but today it was downright surgical - and when I read “…watching [Boston Mayor Tom Menino] deliver a speech is the closest thing we’ll ever get to a one-man pie fight,” I almost fell off my chair. (Granted, I have MS, so staying on a chair is often harder than falling off one, but still…)“Pierced” is frequently my favorite piece in The Boston Globe Magazine, but this one was surpassingly good. And memorable: “One-man pie fight” is a descriptor that will assuredly accompany Menino’s name in story after story, right up to (and probably including) the poor mayor’s eventual obit.
Thank you!
(See “One-Man Show” for the rest of Pierce’s great column.)