Two
years ago, Liam Oatmeal (as we’ll call him) sent me more than 50 pages of email
correspondence. He then disappeared completely. If you know where he is, please
tell him to drop me a line at inbox@rochester-citynews.com. The following are
two samples from his massive catalogue.
—
Michael Neault
From:
Okasan
To:
Liam Oatmeal
Subject:
okaasandesu
Date:
Wed, 28 Nov 2001
Dear
Liam
I’mย sorry I’m late.
Congratulations
we very surplise.
You
were always studing very hard.
While
kenji was shopping.
Is
it snowing?in NY.
In
goidou almost no snow.
Someday
I want Miyo and Mami to show a lot of snow,
How
do you spend your X’mas?
But
now Liam has no hair?
I
want to see your skin head.
Please
send me your picture.(e-mail)
All
hippo member waiting fou your picture.
Miyo
wish war had finished soon.
I’ll
write again.
—
Okasan
From:
Erich
To:
Liam Oatmeal
Subject:
……ERICH……
Date:
Tue, 20 Feb 2001
SO
I FOUND ANOTHER WAY TO GET THROUGH TO YOU….
IT
TOOK ME 7 MONTHS BUT I FINALLY FIGURED IT OUT…..
BUT
I FORGOT WHAT I WAS GOING TO SAY…SO ITS EVEN FUNNIER…..
This article appears in Jun 15-21, 2005.
