Two Bizarro Letters
Dec. 29th, 2003 03:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tinhuvielI've gotten some doozies since I've been working with the band, but I have to say the two letters I've received since yesterday have got to be right up there with the most unusual. Both were addressed to Barry's site.
Letter #1:
It all seems so hazy now but i have been trying to contact barry for a while but have had no reply from my phonecalls or from the dead birds that i have pushed through his letter box. I wondered if he would mind if i took a photo of him with some giant snails on his head to use as a link button on my site to his. Alas I am hoping that he would like to keep the snails afterwards and is welcome to them as a belated Xmas present as all my pets die horrible deaths. Many thanks.
He can have the photos afterwards............................................
Letter #2:
I just made my boyfriend buy me "Oil and Gold" and "Big Night Music" for my birthday, the latter being out of print and $45 on Amazon.com from some used record store in God-knows-where. Anyway, listening to the albums again for the first time in a few years, with new ears, one might say, and poking around online, led me to a question: Are any members of Shriekback gay? My beloved editorial board has a fairly strict policy, so if there are any gay members, I can review the new mini-album, which would be a wonderful sychronicity of my tastes and my job.
Letter #2 is relatively OK except you just don't go about asking what folks' sexual orientation is...at least I don't....but letter #1 is superfreaky.
Letter #1:
It all seems so hazy now but i have been trying to contact barry for a while but have had no reply from my phonecalls or from the dead birds that i have pushed through his letter box. I wondered if he would mind if i took a photo of him with some giant snails on his head to use as a link button on my site to his. Alas I am hoping that he would like to keep the snails afterwards and is welcome to them as a belated Xmas present as all my pets die horrible deaths. Many thanks.
He can have the photos afterwards............................................
Letter #2:
I just made my boyfriend buy me "Oil and Gold" and "Big Night Music" for my birthday, the latter being out of print and $45 on Amazon.com from some used record store in God-knows-where. Anyway, listening to the albums again for the first time in a few years, with new ears, one might say, and poking around online, led me to a question: Are any members of Shriekback gay? My beloved editorial board has a fairly strict policy, so if there are any gay members, I can review the new mini-album, which would be a wonderful sychronicity of my tastes and my job.
Letter #2 is relatively OK except you just don't go about asking what folks' sexual orientation is...at least I don't....but letter #1 is superfreaky.
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Date: 2003-12-29 12:53 pm (UTC)Disturbing!!
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Date: 2003-12-29 01:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-12-29 07:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-12-30 03:55 am (UTC)Asking about sexual orientation becomes quite normal, in a milieu where there's lots of "out" gay people, and clearly the writer is in such an environment if he works for a gay mag. It's not the first question you'd normally ask in Brighton, or that you'd ask baldly of a total stranger, but it's also quite a possible thing to do with just a modicum of tact. When the chief executive of the city council is openly gay, it ceases to be a scary question.
If any members of SB were that openly gay, they would probably welcome his enquiry and ensuing review. And if not, then he just gets a negative answer (even if they are gay but quiet), and nobody suffers.
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Date: 2003-12-30 07:53 pm (UTC)