This Week In Nut Mail
The weirdest, wackiest correspondence comes, not by e-mail, but with lots and lots of stamps on it. This was from one of the "the world will end soon!" types -- a rather regular correspondent who also sends multi-colored lucite disks with crosses embedded into them. I give them to the neighbors, who put them in their cacti.
(And just to clarify, no, I'm not suddenly experiencing my first episode of baby-lust at 44 -- he's referring to a letter from my column.)
Wow! And the typewriter! The type looks exactly like that produced by the one I used in high school - and it was old then!
I find it fascinating to imagine what sort of person is behind a note like this. Almost certainly they are absolutely serious, and they have a genuinely, um, unique view of the world...
bradley13 at June 18, 2008 4:33 AM
You're taking me back. One of these guys, in the pre-internet days, sent me a vanity-published book about his persecution at the hands of the law. I had no idea the local police regularly stomped people on the sidewalks of major thoroughfares at rush hour, but you know, if it's in a book? You have to believe.
Nance at June 18, 2008 5:19 AM
Wow, Amy, you get all the nutbags, don't you? Crazy. o_O
Flynne at June 18, 2008 5:31 AM
Yes, Nance, I know the type all too well.
As for this guy, you gotta love a guy who can't spare an entire piece of typing paper for his message!
Amy Alkon at June 18, 2008 6:52 AM
Amy,
How about a book on this? I’ll bet you have a stack of these. Bind them together to make a great coffee table book.
rusty wilson at June 18, 2008 7:22 AM
People like that are the reason I own several guns. Of course, they are all back in Michigan.
Redpretzel in LA at June 18, 2008 9:02 AM
Now redpretzel is an interesting moniker.
Is there a good story behind it?
lujlp at June 18, 2008 9:36 AM
sideways drilling?
so nice of him to share you column with the prophecy club. you're such a slice of americana.
Scott at June 18, 2008 11:31 AM
I swear this could be my brother. Does this LW also believe Bush is the actual second coming of Christ? 'Cause the rest sounds just like him.
Scary fact: My brother works in law enforcement.
Kimberly at June 18, 2008 11:32 AM
Sideways drilling? They're gonna need one helluva long straw for that milkshake...
http://www.prophecyclub.com/
I'm going out to hoard some SPAM now.
Eric at June 18, 2008 12:28 PM
Eric, my favorite on that site is Mr. Madison... Not just for the Hitler-in-Tuscaloosa haircut, but for the first line of his bio, which explains so much so quickly:
"Rick Madison was brain dead from an automobile accident and in a coma for 27 days."
Crid at June 18, 2008 3:23 PM
He still looks "mostly dead!"
I gotta go with "Leslie Johnson is a licensed, ordained Prophet and has given over 5,000 personal prophecies. She has pinpoint accuracy in her prophetic words, dreams, and visions." I picture John the Baptist, Jesus, and Mohammed behind her in line at the DMV waiting to get fingerprinted.
Eric at June 18, 2008 3:54 PM
Let's take her to Wall Street.
The Johnsons have handsomely matching crimson blouses.
Crid at June 18, 2008 4:48 PM
I ran away from the midwest years ago and thought I'd left those bug-eyed fanatics behind, but now and then one manages to deliver a seven page letter attesting that their loving lord and savior is going to fling me into the pit of hell.
Frankly, I'm looking forward to it, as I hear the mail service there leaves something to be desired.
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at June 18, 2008 8:42 PM
Pretty creepy.
Inquiring at June 19, 2008 8:39 PM
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