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KWo's Big Announcement
8/31/05
by KWo

As we at deadlyhippos have grown in stature from a mere website to the most legitimate source for hippo-related arcana and societal criticism in the entire world, it has became apparent that with our great power comes great responsibility. (We also learned this from the Aunt in Spiderman). As such we have been immensely concerned about maintaining the same high journalistic standards you have grown accustomed to while at the same time providing the same fair and balanced coverage of America's most important issues. To that end, we today announce the appointment of the newest member of the deadlyhippos family, our ombudsman Demko. Now there is one less detail that separates us from the New York Times.

Demko comes highly regarded as an ombudsman as he has previously spent the last five years in rigorous training during which time he has disagreed with any and every suggestion, argument or mere contention offered by Clay.

There will be a more formal critique of the site offered by Demko in the future, but today we introduce his status as deadlyhippos ombudsman with an analysis of the recent letter I posted to the producers of My Super Sweet 16 (MSSS).

It is also with great pain that we announce the movement from KWo of deadlyhippos writer to the more flexible position of of-counsel. While deadlyhippos maintains a solid foundation in the field of law, we have no idea what exactly an of-counsel attorney does. Ergo, KWo's status as of-counsel writer seems highly appropriate. Reached for comment KWo stated: "It has been one of the greatest pleasures of my internet-writing life to cover such important issues as online russian brides and imaginary celebrity ping pong matches. While I can no longer offer the same penetrating and infrequent contributions as our limited readership has become accustomed to, I can assure the reading public that my heart remains committed to deadlyhippos even if my wallet demands otherwise." Dry your eyes, and meet our ombudsman.

Clay:

A quick word from your ombudsman (I'm not certain that's even the right word. I always thought of that meaning a liason between the consumer and the producer, that's not exactly what I do.)

Anyway, I would have appreciated a little more research in your My Super Sweet Sixteen piece. You suggest that the show has completely changed format and will focus entirely on Super Sweet Eighteenth birthdays, which I believe is false. I think this was just one Super Sweet Eighteenth birtday and the show will resume chronicling Super Sweet Sixteenth birthdays henceforth. By the way, the episode was super sweet, and everyone knows it.

Also, although you purport to be a big fan (and in fact claim to schedule your Mondays around the show- big flipping deal, it comes on at 10pm on Monday, what else would you be doing?) you clearly didn't watch or pay attention to the SEASON FINALE last year in which an Atlanta-area girl had a Super Sweet Fifteenth birthday. The show by the way was awesome (featuring an appearance by lil' bow wow).

MTV's ingenuity in expanding the show to other Super Sweet birthdays makes for a better show with more Super Sweet footage. Clay, check your facts before you mouth off again.

-demko

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