Twice as Vice

I quote: "If we're paying money, we deserve a nice house, and we deserve it to be complete, and we expect things not to break down in the first year we move in." I have one thing to say to these recently initiated homeowners: Welcome to the joys of home ownership.

I'm not rich. Large repairs to my own home stretch my budget all the time. But I sure wouldn't expect the people I bought the house from to come fix every little thing that's wrong with it. And I'm paying a hell of a lot more than $300 a month.

Maybe instead of squandering her meager income on a new mirrored hallway, Patricia Madison should get off her butt and invest in a few tools, a box of nails, a bottle of wood glue and a bag of grass seed -- and quit looking a gift horse in the mouth.
Peter Koche
Kansas City, Missouri

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DB Dilemma
Blew his mind: I realize that a goal should be to catch the attention of the reader. But I was a little set back on the overall topic of "Blown Away" (Night Ranger, June 19). As I read it, I thought it was a good representation of the Warehouse experience. I was with her as I read: the progression of the night, the aroma of the parking lot. The drink comparison and the seizure-inducing lighting. Even the bachelorette party. Once she hit upon the fellatio, she lost me. Not in an "Oh, gawd -- she's talking about pee-pees!" way, but in a good/ bad judgment-call way.

I have been around the community long enough -- as I'm sure she has -- and even hung out at the old DB enough (let alone the new Warehouse) to know what goes on. As a straight guy, I just accept it as part of the scenery and go on. I have also hung around other bars and clubs in Westport and downtown, and each has "understood" issues of its own. As with the Warehouse, those issues are just accepted as part of the establishment.

I support her literary freedoms and enjoyed the article, even though y'all threw ol' boy off his game. But given the gay/lesbian/trans community's troubles in a primarily pseudo-Christian, Bible-thumping, anti-anything-progressive city, was it the right thing to focus the majority of the article on the DB Warehouse as a den of public party blow jobs?

All that aside, still love ya, 'cuz you rule!
Stuart Griswold
Kansas City, Missouri

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Buzz Cut
Boi toy: Thank you for Andrew Miller's article on KRBZ 96.5 the Buzz ("Buzz Off," July 3); they are my favorite radio station, and I think it's cool you are trying to help save them.

Also, thanks for the picture of Danny Boi. He is very yummy.
Dana Collins
Leavenworth

Don't turn that dial: First of all, I want to let you know that I look forward to reading your paper every week. However, I now love you even more for running the story on 96.5.

My friend and I are doing our best to help save the Buzz. We're making a video of listeners saying they love the Buzz, and we plan on sending it to Entercom. But two girls cannot save the Buzz alone.

It's nice to see the publicity the Pitch has brought to the whole situation, and hopefully this will show the suits that this station is worth keeping.
Angie Horner
Lansing

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Mixed Signals
World of funds: Regarding Andrew Miller's "Around Hear" (May 8): Is it not the premise of noncommercial public radio to be for information, leaving entertainment as a fill-in? Yet when I called KKFI 90.1 to suggest that they do the Jim Hightower spot just prior to Democracy Now, the manager was very offended at my suggestion, letting me know that for income purposes, his listeners were not into that kind of thing and would prefer not to have it, etc. (that is, information formats).

Yet his music stalwarts must not have been too loyal, as the station had to engage in an "emergency" fund drive, since the pledges did not arrive. Maybe the station needs a new manager, who appeals to more principled folk. Not to fault the choice of music in toto.
Joe Nichols
Kansas City, Kansas