MikeK: I Used to Think DFO Was An SOB …
MikeK: When I first encountered DFO in 1991 those three dots were not unlike three small but serious stab wounds visited upon those who'd embarrassed themselves enough to make it into the column. If you somehow made the 'Sweet Potatoes' section it was cause for temporary celebration and permanent rededication to not being in print the next week. There were three whole years when I loathed DFO and his column and was convinced he was a flat out SOB. Now, ten years later, as a father and hopefully more mature guy, I have come to realize that DFO is only truly evil when you've done something that you can't quite explain in front of mixed company, and in those cases, well, Katie bar the door ... ;_0
Green Libertarian: Well Mike, you know, DFO has mellowed, as Anymouse would tell you, it's because he hangs out with all those librul reporters and editors at the Spokesman-Review.
DFO: MikeK; I try to keep my inner SOB under control. But it still lurks beneath the surface. Mebbe in the past I thought I had to perform and be the baddest Leroy Brown in town. Now, I've been here so dang long that I know too many people -- and tend to like most of them. 'Tis hard to drop the hammer when you like someone. I still do. But it's harder. That's all I'm saying.
