I have a few friends with whom I have
long shared a correspondence. Email nearly killed it (there is no cute shoebox
that a sentimental friend keeps email in—though this is a product idea), and
Facebook and Twitter have not improved the situation. I feel a personal responsibility to write and
send a real letter from time to time, and I also feel a personal responsibility
for the decline in fortunes of the U.S. Postal Service. Obviously, I need to
write more letters again, and so do you.
Perhaps then I might have the courage to stand up to that one woman who works at the North
Salem post office and insist she stop yelling at me when people use my street address
instead of the P.O. Box number.
A friend sent this flyer with a note
which says, in part: “It is so awful that I had to send it to someone and you
are the only one I know who might appreciate its awfulness.”
Creepy is easy for dolls, especially
the realistic looking ones: their soulless eyes and empty heads, their frozen
expressions and stiff limbs. This officially
licensed doll is a study in contrasts: hyper-realistic creases and missing nipples;
naked but for his hat and diaper; sitting up and pouting at a size and age he
should be lying down and sleeping. It’s “Hand-crafted like a true champion.”
Go Niners.
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