A whole lotta Hate Mail

Their letters are in yellow, whilst mine are in black & white.

Bob,
Thank you for making me and others play through your dress-up creation. I love you. It makes me let go of my childhood anguish and pressure from having to be too morally right. I think God will understand.
Elvira

See! I knew I was doing something good. It just felt naughty.

Thanks Elvira.
Oh man! That's another one to put with Betty Page! Elvira, Mistress of the Dark!

Thanks again!
Bob

Bob,
My name has nothing to do with the movie you mentioned. But anyway, I understand that it's your way of relating to people.

I wonder if you ever had or have true love. After all, extreme tendencies can be disastrous whether or not you care about it. If there will come a day where you get tired of the business you are in right now, I wonder how you will evaluate your life. I really wonder.

Elvira

I'm having trouble figuring out where you're coming from. Are you thinking that at some point I might possibly look back on all I've done through these years with regret? Possibly even as a disaster?

Why would you question whether or not I've ever had true love? You do understand that Myspace relationships and Internet friendships aren't proper ways to know any particular person, right? People online are pretend. Everybody knows that, E.

Bob

Bob,
I don't think the Internet is created just so people could make pretended relations with each other. Internet from its ideal humanitarian goal is made to connect human beings globally. World history has revealed how secluded and bloody a specie could be if prejudices and biases dominate so, I think the Internet should be channeled as a medium to disintegrate the barriers among races and nations.

Moreover, life is a step forward not backwards. For this reason, I want to make it clear that I don't think of the possibility of repentance on your part. My concern is whether or not you somehow suffer from injustice due to what you stand for and that the man in you wonders if the future could be different from what you have today.
I asked you about "true love" because your present life seems and appears to me as surrounded by technological preferences thus, your evolutionary claims are purely materialistic. And I wonder about the misery of such situation could do to you.

Don't take my queries negatively. I'm just curious for more after all, isn't it that knowledge is power?

So, please don't be irritated.
Elvira

No, you misunderstood my question. I was explaining how you can't know how someone really is by just reading their Myspace, or their website. That's all I was trying to say. Of course the internet is a global revolution, but that still doesn't make the friendships between people who've never actually met any more real. I was illustrating how you don't know me at all. If you did you'd see that I am a conservative, kind man, with many close friends and charrished loved ones, and have had several loves.

I'm visiting my family for Thanksgiving for two weeks, staying with my parents for the first week, and my brother, his wife and their kids for the second. This year alone I got to see my family probably 8 to 10 times for week visits (they're in the Midwest and I am in NYC. I think it's one of the most important things a person should do- Stay close to family.
Last week, one of my acquaintances at the coffee shop I've been a regular at for almost 6 years said this to me:
"Bob, you know what's so interesting about you, is that anyone who only knows you from your site would assume you're this crazy, outrageous guy with major issues, but in real life you're the most gentle, easy going person."

That's a quote from Paul at Alt Coffee in the East Village (They're in my top friends).
I'm telling this to you attempting to illustrate how part of what I'm doing is showing how easily people fall for what they see on a web site, and how different that is from actually knowing someone in real life. That's the problem I think you're having right now. You're pretending to know me and sending me your psychoanalysis when you actually know very little about how I actually am. I made the mistake of judging others from what I saw online for a couple years, then I realized that people are vastly different when you meet them in person.

Yes, the Internet should disintegrate borders, educate the secluded and keep pushing forward, but even with all that it still can't replace actually meeting someone in person. And I think you're having an issue with that that needs to be addressed.
Bob

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