11.25.07
Letter to the Editor
In 2001, rapper Snoop (Doggy) Dogg came to my quaint little region of Southern California, much to the disdain of a local newspaper (The Valley Chronicle) photog who wrote an editorial on his experience while trying to cover the event. I wish I still had the bit he wrote, it is clipped out somewhere along with this letter that was actually published. Bob called the scene a “cesspool” and felt that the genre as a whole was pretty worthless, and I took offense to Bob’s generalizations and decided to write in, and as I mentioned they did run it. The reference to Joe Lamb at the beginning was because someone else had written to the paper, also expressing disgust at the night Hemet was apparently violated. It went as follows:
