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Thanks to all the running around that the Thanksgiving holiday entails, I wasn’t able to ruminate over this in great detail, but it’s so noteworthy that it would be a shame not to let you in on it.
——-Original Message——-
From: ShadowZen
Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 5:09 PM
To: elle@evoque.org
Subject: a sweet little nothing…
heh elle;
just wanted to say i loved/enjoyed/etc your .org site, even the ‘medicated to the one i love’ page about your lover/boyfriend. not trying to ‘hit’ on ya… just was bored on turkey day and was surfing local chics on icq and you were one of ‘em. best site award, babe! loved the little postits about your universe/world/country … cool.
anyway… uhm… maybe my poems, vintage 1970’s will please your highness. attached. enjoy.
no holds barred;
zen
ungainly link to my yahoo personnals: Y! Personals
a website i designed for my roommates gaming habit:
http://go.to/drowdynastyicq: 8083330
This was in my inbox. On Thanksgiving Day. Now maybe they do things differently, but aren’t people normally sleeping away the better part of a food coma instead of trolling for chicks half their age online?
If you read through all that, he makes note of some attachments. Yes, he sent me the requisite picture of himself, as well as love poetry. Thankfully, the sadness doesn’t quite kill the funny.
When I forwarded the mail on to A.T., I immediately got a reply titled “Stalker much?” Attached was a short clip from Morrissey’s “The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get.”
Upon receipt of same forwarded mail, J.M. launched into a sarcastic tirade about Everquest losers and how 50-something single programmers who mentioned their inheritance in their Yahoo Personals ad were more liable to chop you up and toss your remains into the Tennessee back country.
The odd thing is that all of my IM profiles have my famed short and direct note