15 October 2004

Why Russ Francis rocks.

For non-locals, Russ Francis is a local journalist, currently writing for a weekly news magazine. [BTW, the redesign of said weekly's site SUCKS, so don't bother following the link unless you are really interested.] He usually covers politics (especially the local stuff) and he specializes in investigative reports (I attended a seminar he led last Spring on how to dig up/through various levels of government information). Earlier this year, he was allegedly fired by the same news magazine for which he now works freelance -- I say allegedly, because insiders insist that freelance work was the plan all along.

Anyway...

Russ Francis rocks because he used the word defenestrated in one of his pieces this week, "Why hasn't the City defenestrated RG Properties?"

I'm purposely not linking to a definition; I will let y'all have the fun of looking up the word if it's unfamiliar. It sounds like a legal term, but really it's more dastardly.


1 comment:

Tim Bailey said...

I learned the meaning of that term in my early teens, by reading the rules to Steve Jackson Games' controversial live RPG game, Killer. Let that be a lesson to anyone who doubted that I wasn't a double-dyed geek of the first water.

And since an arena in Victoria, BC is about as relevant as a skate park in Palm Springs, California, I doubt anyone will get up the energy to defenstrate, eviscerate or flagellate RG properties. Clearly they are reprobates, and need to be remonstrated for jacking the taxpayers around, but risk-averse city potentates are more likely to fear that changing developers is likely to exacerbate the situation.