The always outspoken Kimball F. Burin, pictured last year.
This Friday, the Armitage Heights Literary Society will be sponsoring a birthday dinner for the always controversial and much celebrated novelist, journalist, sometime politician and long-time Armitage Heights resident Kimball Francis Burin, who turns 77 tomorrow. The event will be held at 7:00 p.m. at the Stanton Ballroom in Armitage Square, located at 2300 Gilpin Avenue. Burin himself will speak, and that should be exciting, as he is just as outspoken as ever. In fact, he even referred to me on this very website last week as a "moonfaced, bed-wetting ward-heeler."
Burin has had an amazing life -- born in Brooklyn, he attended boarding school in New Hamshire, and came to earn his degree in journalism at the University of Mishipeshu, and has made his home in Armitage Heights ever since. He was appointed to this very position in 1971 during the troubled administration of Mayor Robert Freese, and resigned in 1973 to make a failed bid for the U.S. Senate. In that time, he has written dozens of celebrated works of fiction and non-fiction, including We Serve the Living (1962), Cruelty in Perfection (1975), and The People's History of Armitage Heights (1986), as well as helped found the Heights Free Press in 1967. In the interest of full disclosure, of course, it would also be relevant to mention his occasional columns for that magazine, many of which have been relentlessly critical of my term as councilman. "Single-mindedly critical and slanderous" were the exact words, in fact, of the 12th Circuit Court, who ruled in my favor last year regarding a lawsuit I brought against Mr. Burin for defamation.
However, this is not about Mr. Burin's history with me, but about his undeniable talent as a writer and public figure, which we should all be proud as a community to celebrate.
On a somewhat related note, please also be aware that members of the new Metro Council 3rd Ward Porter Weiss Memorial Novelist Laureate Search Task Force will be addressing the public on Friday evening at 7:00 p.m. as well, at the Armitage Square Women's Club, located at 2450 Gilpin Avenue. Refreshments and wine will be available, and commitee member and noted literate rocker Billy Draeger of the October Revolutionists will play a rare short solo set. There may also be a surprise special guest! The Women's Club can be reached at (436) 712-1232, or on the web at www.armitagesquare-wc.org. You can also click here for directions.
2 comments:
Larson, you cretinous excuse for a brownshirt! You're a disgrace to the Democratic Party, the 3rd Ward and the entire city.
I'm touched that you would go out of your way to mention my birthday fete, and then casually mention an obviously tossed-together, last-minute event of your own inept devising at the exact same time one block away.
I'm wagering your "special guest" is the ghost of some long-dead Kendall Park machine politician who take you by your scrawny, Wihinapa neck and drag you kicking and screaming into Ward-Heeler Hell where you belong, all the whole being serendaded by the emasculated bleatings of that wretched grad-school rock mewler you've hired in some pathetic attempt to seem relevant to anyone. Good riddance.
Have a good time on Friday. We'll be in the Stanton Ballroom having a real party if you should need us.
Mr. Burin, the 12th Circuit Court said you had to stop making Nazi references when addressing me. I would hate to make Judge Benson aware of this conversation.
Post a Comment