Emails of the week.
Highlight #1: Since I work for a somewhat outspoken liberal magazine, sometimes we get hate mail. I once was left a graphic, racially-tinged, 6-minute message about what “Bill” in San Antonio wanted to do to one of our columnists. Another time someone called to tell me that if my magazine was so sure the NAFTA Superhighway didn’t exist, he hoped when it did “roll through the countryside” the bulldozers would go right though my parents house and kill them. They don’t live in the countryside, but point taken. This week, though, we got the absolute best email e-ver:
Sender: LUCIFER@HELL.COM
Name: Darrell Sparks
Subject: UR A DIRTY RECTUM LICKING COMMIE
U/R A DIRTY RECTUM LICKING COMMIE MAGGOT, BORN FROM KARL MARX’S ROTTING FECES. I’M DOWN HERE WITH LUCIFER WAITING FOR U AND WHEN U ARRRIVE, FUN, FUN, FUN.
Charming! Our circulation manager pointed out the good news: our copies seem to be arriving to Hell on time. I was surprised that hell has a website, or that Lucifer is so supportive of the particular sexual maneuver referred to in the message.
Highlight #2: I’d never received porn spam in my work email before, but the reason I didn’t mind is because the organization that emailed me has the most amazing logo in the history of logos. Attached to the email was this JPEG ad (featuring James Lipton? You tell me…) for Beartrapping.com, a site so fierce that it’s own logo is literally ripping right through it’s own advertisement. Rawr!
EDITORS NOTE: I’m told by a source at Media Matters that mean emailer Darrell Sparks sent a similar email to them, as well as to Markos of DailyKos.com. All his emails involve Marx, feces and hell.
About The Author - Ben Wyskida is a writer, activist, conscientious hedonist and political communications strategist living in Brooklyn. - Visit Ben's site.
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