LoaferLetters
Iillustrations by John Schilling
(scanned from original Loafer's)
A little bird told me that you crazy fools were starting up Loafers again without alerting me. As the editor of the mag, I'm a bit befuddled, bamboozled, and befloxumed to discover such a thing. And online no less! This really is too much! Please let me know when you need my editorial, etc. Until then, I am
Your humble servant,
Mix
So, you want little blips like:
"Had Mama Cass just left half that sandwich for Karen Carpenter, they could both be alive today!"
Gary Pederson
hAiL tHe LoAf! I mIgHt NoT bE wItTy EnOuGh To CoNtRiBuTe, BuT i CaN tYpE oBnOxIoUsLy.
Mike Skarich
Mkay, so I couldn't send you a picture of my ying-yang, but could I write an article in which my ying-yang has a small speaking part, like the Elisha Cook Jr. role in "The Maltese Falcon"?
Mark Lazar
To whom it may concern:
I was dismayed, to say the least, to discover that Loafer's is now on the World Wide Web. Do you know what this means? It means--since I have to spell it out for you--that anyone, anyone around the world, can read it. Even in Sweden, provided they speak English. Then they can ask an American to read it to them.
This is absurd! It used to be that when I sent all my letters to you I had the distinct impression that only seven or eight people were actually going to read them, as opposed to the dozens, if not fifteen, who will read it now. Granted, you never printed any of my pieces against then-dictator William Jefferson-Hemmings Clinton, but at the very least I knew that there was no chance in a million that a Chinaman would ever get his mitts on a Loafer's. Now I fear that the unseen enemies in the island nations around the world will forever be at my doorstep, licking.
I still don't know why I write to you. Then again, I'm back to living in a basement.
Your humble servant,
John Ashcroft
hey p
All my "writing energy" has been dumped into a drama I am writing for church. I won't bore you with it, but I will try to get something else together. Topic is the hardest thing to come up with--you know me I can babble on about anything! Maybe you want to give me an assignment?
Karin
Honey,
I would be willing to contribute ONLY IF I CAN SEE MY NAME IN PRINT!
Ha
Janice
Dearest Editor-with-Andy :),
January sucks and I haven't been functional at all. But I woke up this morning and there was a "speck" of SUN LIGHT that managed to find its way among the ever present gray clouds of January through the windows into my bedroom ... and into my heart ... and as I looked out at the incredible disastrous state of my bedroom and the stacks and stacks and boxes of unattended paper and mail and laundry and books and magazines and STUFF everywhere ... and unpacked suitcases etc ... all a total reflection of power of GRAY ... I had smiling feeling fill me ... this ENLIGHTENMENT ... I want to write something for Loafers :). I
have no idea what flow out of my fingers on this key board ... I was just stirred to actually write again this morning ... and it felt so good ... and Loafers came to mind. :) So here I am.
I can't find your little reminder note in my recent email about the
deadline fast approaching and my logical mind tells me it was Jan 31 ... so dear Editor :) 1 , I'm writing today see if you might be still accepting a wide range of whatever for the REBIRTH issue of Loafers. I feel honored to be invited to contribute.
Your humble servant,
Carol B.
hey Peter
I would be interested in the online version of Loafers. It's better than nothaving anything going on.
It is also true that life has gotten busy and I am not sure if I can make deadlines even as well as I used to, which was hardly never. But count me in. I also need a reason to get my sorry ass writing again.
Hey, we had two inches of snow this morning. awesome!
John
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