Comments on: Goodbye Amy Welborn, we won’t miss you either

By: Denise

Denise — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:51:12 +0000

Don't sweat it. Amy Welborn is a hack writer who has dreams of being another Flannery O'Connor, but it will never happen. She is a mediocre writer — and getting a little too old to be playing the literary game. Time is not on her side, and neither is talent.

By: Bob G.

Bob G. — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:55:10 +0000

Nancy Nall and & have been going ’round n ’round on this over at Leo’s blog…she just does NOT get it (maybe a need a larger 2×4?)

I like calling Ft. Wayne “home”, even though it’s really not. It’s my “adopted” home, and for that, I’m happy enough.
I’ll ALWAYS be from Pennsy!

I just take exception to people who have no clue as to what goes on down here on the south side…none of it “perceived”, but all of it (unfortunately) ALL TOO REAL.

She doesn’t understand our wanting to fight for our neighborhoods…make them a good place to raise a family and do business. She lived over near Foster Park (the priviledged section w/ the nice BIG house, as opposed to our post-war GI bill houses).
Nancy doesn’t get it when I say that these neighborhoods CAN be regentrified so that the city can actually garner REVENUE from people OWNING these houses and working for a living…

Perhaps someday…she’ll put down the Kool-Aid.

B.G.

By: john b. kalb

john b. kalb — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:56:55 +0000

Per my sister-in-law, YOU CAN tell a Lutheran by the way they walk!! She originally made this comment about 6 years ago at a family get-together. Since I am a Lutheran (German & Missouri-Synod besides), I was the brunt of her comment. What branch of the Christian faith do Nancy & Amy profess to believe? I’ll bet it’s not Roman Catholic or Lutheran.

By: Bob G.

Bob G. — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:13:10 +0000

Compared to Philly, FW has got some damn good things going for it (aside from the typical political buttwipes)…you people just need to learn how to make hoagies & cheesesteaks, get some Drakes cakes & Tastykakes here and stop wasting money on new ballparks we don’t need…that’s all…lol

I, for one, can definitely tell you that Fort Wayne is ANYTHING BUT BORING on the SOUTH side…

It just depends on how you really define “boring” in the first place.
For example:

-Bullets through a house…NOT boring.
-A good night’s sleep one day a week…BORING.
-Police tackling a perp on the lawn at 0230 hours…NOT boring.
-Hearing police sirens MORE THAN TEN TIMES every day…BORING.

See?
It’s all the “perception”, folks.

B.G.
(likes the Amish anyway, including the “electric” ones)

By: El Fatal

El Fatal — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:31:05 +0000

Please tell me how you can tell if a German Lutheran walk down the street? I need to know so I can run in fear.

By: shoeginmachine

shoeginmachine — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:16:45 +0000

Neither of them left fast enough…and hopefully they never return…As for the Lutheran bit…I am pretty sure there are more catholics in town than LCMS members, but that was probably their problem…my guess is both are Catholic…and that rift still runs deep after 400 years.

By: Lucy

Lucy — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:05:22 +0000

I actually miss my days of working in Fort Wayne. I don’t get to venture over that way very often, but I enjoy myself when I do. We all know that I live out in the boondocks, or lake country as some would call it and my “big city” ventures involve Warsaw for the most part. I would much rather be in Fort Wayne on any Friday afternoon vs. Warsaw. Our little town has been experiencing growing pains for the last several years and trying to get from here to there on a Friday afternoon is just a nightmare. Put me out on Coliseum near Coldwater during the same time of day and I might get a little impatient at the length of the stoplights, but I will still be happier!