The Virginian-Pilot
                             THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Friday, October 14, 1994               TAG: 9410140011
SECTION: FRONT                    PAGE: A22  EDITION: FINAL 
TYPE: Letter 
                                             LENGTH: Short :   31 lines

`FAR SIDE' GOING? SAY IT AIN'T SO

I don't care about major-league baseball or the World Series anymore.

The Washington Redskins are history.

Congress is going to go home in a few days, and I hope it stays there.

I'm tired of Whitewater, Bill and Hillary and the rest of the Arkansas mafiabillies.

O.J.'s trial will probably take years to complete, the press will be barred and I will be bored.

But now you tell me that Gary Larson is retiring! That ``Far Side'' will no longer be there every morning!

What are you, sadists?

What are we to do?

How do you expect us to face life?

I'm mad.

I'm more than mad. You call him on the telephone; tell him.

No, wait, I'll call him - let's all call him. Everybody in America who can read this letter call him! Don't just sit there, do something. EEEEkk!

DAN BALLARD

Norfolk, Oct. 4, 1994 by CNB