#not saying paul wouldn't write this of his own volition bc he absolutely would but i just find the idea funny

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[image id: a screenshot of part of a magazine with the title GREAT SCOTT. the body text reads: "I have just read Issue 620, and I find it unbelievable that in "1992 Year in Review" there is no mention of Scott Thompson, the openly gay comedian on the CBS late-night TV show The Kids in the Hall. I cannot think of one other openly gay man on a weekly television show, especially one airing on a major network, and yet The Advocate has not mentioned Thompson since 1989. Why? Do you hate him, or does no one on your staff watch the show? It boggles my mind that someone like Gregg Araki can make a movie that less than 1 million people see and inkwells are spilled in his name, yet someone who has for four years been writing and performing openly gay comedy on a television show that draws over 10 million viewers a week is relegated to obscurity." The message is credited to Paul Bellini Toronto, Canada. End ID]

it has come to my attention that most kith fans are not aware of this hilariously passive aggressive paul bellini wrote to the advocate in 1993 about kids in the hall that i uncovered in my buddy cole doc research. for the record i highly agree with everything said but i have so many thoughts. first of course is damn it's clear the advocate did not watch the show if they published a kith related letter by "paul bellini toronto, canada" without acknowledging he's literally a writer on the show. second, and more importantly, i'm so curious whether paul genuinely was so pissed off he wrote this letter or if scott was pissed off about that particular year end list so often that paul was like "jfc scott fine i'll write them a passive aggressive letter if you'll stop complaining." it all reminds me of how my elementary school had a "good egg" board highlighting student acts of kindness and i was mad that i never got on the board to 8-year-old jess literally made zir friend write a letter to the teacher about zir going unrecognized so ze could finally get on the board