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Philly, you are annoying ["Music Issue: Espers," John Vettese, Oct. 22, 2009]. Record collectors making music for record collectors is counter-productive, inauthentic and simply not fun.

Your columns used to be good. Now they're clichéd adulations of greenness and the French [Loose Canon, "Mile-High Garbage," Bruce Schimmel, Oct. 22, 2009]. You've become too wealthy for the good of your own column.

First this is not typical Philadelphia, you find this all over the country, where the old establishments are highly suspicious of newcomers [Naked City, "No Good Deed," Andrew Thompson, Oct. 22, 2009].

Second, what we have here is a failure to communicate. The Pioneers should have thought twice about their names and the implications it has. Without these old-timers, their home would be under a highway going to King of Prussia. There is a legitimate basis for their fear of outsiders. It's the Pioneers' responsibility to calm down their fears.

The old-timers need to realize that it isn't the '70s. That the neighborhood can benefit with the presence of the Pioneers. Find me a long time Point Breeze resident that doesn't want cleaner streets, community gardens and nicer buildings. The Pioneers are making it a reality, and they should be supportive. The Pioneers and SPHINC can learn from one another. SPHINC seems disconnected from what resources are out there. While the Pioneers are disconnected from the long time residents.