What I happened upon...

[Paul Mackin]

On May 28, 2006, at 11:52 AM, Dave Monroe wrote:

> Hope y'all don't mind, but, Robt.'s apparently
> all-too-predictable sniffiness aside, there indeed ARE
> legitimate concerns here, and, as it's even easier to
> find Melanie Jackson's e-mail address (I HOPE) ...
>
> Anyway, just sent the follwing to her, so ...
>
> -----
>
> Dear Ms. Jackson--
>
> As long-time fans of your husband's work, not to
> mention as people generally concerned with the
> well-being of pretty much anybody and everybody on the
> planet, we thought you might be interested in the
> following, easily found (e.g., via Google) web pages.
> The first is, we're assuming, a listing plus a
> soundfile from a band we believe your son (given the
> confluence of name and location) might be in ...
>
> http://music.download.com/xchoirboys/3600-8691_32-100314019.html
>
> No real problem there, I'm assuming.  A band's got to
> promote.  But what you might (or might not, that's
> your business, of course) be concerned about is this
> ...
>
> http://nickh1001.tripod.com/photos/index.album?i=4&s=1
>
> An innocuous band photo, of course, on one hand, but
> it doesn't take a rocket surgeon to work out which boy
> might perhaps be your son, given the other photos and
> their captions ...
>
> http://nickh1001.tripod.com/photos/index.album
>
> At any rate, there's enough consternation these days
> over sites like Myspace and Facebook, but knowing well
> family concerns about privacy (even giving knowing
> full well as well about adolsecents not necessarily
> wanting parents watching over their every move), we
> thought you might have concerns.  If not, well, not.
> Rest assured, though, none of us are going to be
> bugging any of the boys, at any rate, though we hope
> no one minds the soundfile getting a few extra hits,
> so ...
>
> Yrs.,
>
> Dave Monroe
> On behalf of the Pynchon-L listserve
> http://waste.org/pynchon-l/
>
>


I must be dreaming.  Did you really send this? No way of knowing what
reaction on the other end might be (if there is an other end) but if  
i received
something like this from a stranger I might  have trouble getting to  
sleep for
a few nights.

At least they'll know there's not a LONE nut out there? There's a  
whole p-LIST of nuts.



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