Well Met!

[Diana York Blaine]

A hearty Pynchon hello to Tony Elias, he of the informed rhetoric
regarding paranoia.  Don't mind the Steely/Johm M. flame BTW.  It's all
for show.  They're actually lovers and soul mates and this is their
peculiar brand of foreplay. We're merely the voyeurs who watch greedily
and then scuttle off to our own crabbed corners.

Certainly the most famous paranoid scheme around these parts lately has
been the whole New World Order Twelve Guys Mostly Jews Who Run the World
rant. I'd hesitate to call its proponents unintelligent (particularly
since my name and the words "smug arrogant elitist" are apparently linked
permanently in some of our list member's bits and bytes) so let's just
say belief in this plan seems to be maintained most vociferously by those
of a certain educational and economic demographic.  Most delicious to me
is the presence of Norman Fucking Mailer on the list of 12 (excuse my
naughty tmesis.  Hope no one's twelve-year-old is handling his mail for
him this morning!). Of all people though. Really! I guess Pynchon's out as
a candidate for many obvious reasons. But Mailer? Huh?

We've also got our own counter force here in Texas in the form of a group
agitating to break away from the rest of the states. These "republicans"
have been harrassing the county clerk in my burg with death threats
(he's actually on the run as of this moment) and taking out million dollar
liens against judges and state employees all over Texas (using checks
written on their bank of course--they claim all assets of the state of
Texas as their own.) They have also asked the government to vacate Austin
so these "true" leaders can move in. Maybe we'll get our own Rump
Parliament, speaking of turn-ons!  Never a dull moment which is odd
because Texas is one of the dullest places I've ever been. (Dulles?)

Hope you stick around. Our bite is worse than our bark, so that's half the
fun right there.  -Diana