Backhanded Compliment

By Mark Kaufman
In the “take it where I can get it” department, last weeks issue of The Stranger contained the following tidbit from A. Birch Steen, Stranger Ombudsman and OSHA Board of Governors Member (retired):

What I recommend, given the limited coherence of The Stranger’s writers, are the items that revert to the primitive form of picture making. If a caveman can do it, I figure, then this paper’s employees can surely do it, or at least do it well enough. Indeed,   the comics, the sketches,  and the photographs taken by an Irish person named Kelly O, are generally this paper’s one redeeming quality. 

Since I am at the very least one of the cadre of cavemen that provides comics and illustrations to the publication, I will take it as a compliment. Even if it is a joke. Thanks!