AeroSpite

It was bound to happen eventually.

Here at Recess, we pride ourselves on having a degree of taste and discernment about our entertainment. We're college students, not slobbering nincompoops, and as such, we like to think we approach things a different way.

Over our three-year history, we've managed, at least once per year, to turn out a story that provokes public outcry. Two years ago, stinging rebukes from Dave Matthews fans streamed in from across America, riled up about our "pro/con" article about the relevance of the greek-friendly minstrel. And last year, barely-literate teenagers trashed our Nine Inch Nails review with a degree of vitriol we thought reserved only for the black trenchcoat crowd.

Our commitment hasn't changed this year: We still tell it like it is, whether our opinion is the conventional one or not. So why no hate mail? Why no furious elderly readers and spiteful young miscreants? Was anybody reading Recess at all?

Thanks to Music Editor Robert Kelley, we can sleep a little easier about that. In our Spring Break issue, Rob trashed the new shitebomb of an album from Aerosmith, a band that's known more for its frontman's fat lips than for its phat guitar licks these days. He even called Aerofans "whiskey-swilling rednecks." Ouch.

Unsurprisingly, not everybody agreed with his assessment. From a student using the best of his rhetorical abilities to some people still striving to reach writing on the eighth grade level, folks had a lot to say about Rob's review. In fine Recess tradition, here's an unedited sampling of the responses.