Over there at stAllio!’s digs, he’s been keeping a good hand in at critiquing the local political situation.
Just to sum things up a bit for you out-of-towners – Indianapolis has a bunch of dirty cops; after a string of high-profile drug shootings, Mayor Ballard frantically tries to keep it together; and Jon Elrod quit his District 7 race like a little girl and went running back to District 97.
ANYWAYS, stAllio! had a particularly insightful take down of radio personality Abdul Hakim-Shabazz’s recent major public malfunction: “what this town needs are a couple good police beatings.”
Abdul apparently didn’t have any adequate defense to stAllio’s post, so he shot back with this:
Steph,
Go get a drink and relax. You are way too uptight. I thought you would have mellowed out after getting married.
To which I pop my head up from gardening the front flower beds and pronounce a particularly insightful: “What? WTF is he on about?”
I guess he thinks Ben Berg and I are the same person? I kinda wish, actually. He’s a better writer than I am, and a cool local artist. I do have a lovely piece of his art in my home:
Abdul, perhaps you should lay off the coke a bit.
oh no, you’ve revealed my secret identity!
That was a secret? Heh.