I ran across a blog called “Please Don’t Eat Sushi! Love, Mom”
Once I got there I couldn’t stop reading. It’s a collection of letters curated from this fella. All the letters are from his mom and they are strange… short, intense, surreal, possibly crazy. I can’t decide if I’m looking at “real” crazy or just someone who is strangely quirky with a sense of humor. Right now I’m leaning toward plain old garden-variety crazy. No offense to the son, of course. Anyway, definitely worth a read.
I had my own bit of letter writing crazy with my dad’s mom. I have them all somewhere and hope to unearth them one of these days and share them. All she did all day long is write letters. Hers were long, page after page, and filled with newspaper clippings with scribbles in the margins. Sometimes other people’s letters were included and those were scribbled on, too. She always had a running commentary on life and now that I think about it would have made on awesome blogger had she been born later.
She’s gone now and I miss her brand of crazy. Who in your family writes you letters? Do you have any good stories you can share with me?
Tags: crazy letters, web site
Hannah Nicklin, the lovely English playwright, wants to write more letters. Through her I recently discovered the web site postletters.org — “a UK-based, worldwide movement to encourage, promote and take delight in the activity of writing letters and sending post.”
If you go over to the site you can request to join the movement and at some time in the future you will be sent an interesting missive that will hopefully inspire you to write more letters. In fact, that’s the whole purpose of the web site — to get you fired up and get to writing.
Zip over there ASAP and enjoy yourself. Support the movement! Support letter writing!
Tags: fresh link, letter writing campaign, letter writing movement, web site
The Plug is cool (and weird). I was over there cruising around and the second link I happened to click on lead me to what Jay refers to as the Desperate Penpal Experiment. (Volume II, actually, but I have no idea what Volume I is about. I haven’t found it yet.)
Jay got all wild and crazy with a phone book and started writing random people across America to see what would happen. The results, while not extensive, were amusing and worth a look. It’s a fun, fun site.
You know, if there were more people like Jay in the world life would be way more interesting than it is right this moment.
Tags: cool weirdos, penpals, the plug, web site, wild and wacky
