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From The Inbox: Michelle Williams & Fursuit Requests
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John Del Signore
Published Mar 13, 2011
Modified Mar 13, 2011
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We receive a lot of e-mail (it's okay to be jealous). Most of these missives are carefully read, discussed at length among the editors, and courteously replied to in a timely fashion—except for the ones that are so bizarre and irrelevant that we're simply afraid to engage the person who sent it. But rather than let these more peculiar messages fade into the trash folder, we've decided to share a few of them here (with personal details redacted to maintain the senders' privacy). While we realize that publishing this single-sided correspondence runs the risk of encouraging an avalanche of e-mail from the weird side, some of these are just too strange to keep to ourselves. So fasten your seat belts for a tour of the eccentric underbelly of the Gothamist inbox:
On the subject "fursuit":
im looking for a fursuit
can u make this fursuit for me (see photo)
maybe u has a email adres from who can make a fursuit for me
i am 1,69 tall and weight 65
only i want not the head mask
i love fursuits and they makes me ferry happy when i get onesend email to [redacted]
Thanks, Redacted, for making us ferry freaked out—you're singlehandedly responsible for all those Crash Bandicoot nightmares we've been having! Regarding the "DOT commissioner," here's an e-mail that has it all:
Dear distinguished correspondent, I think we agree on the need for us to wean our national body off the dabilitating dependence on fossil fuels. Encouraging cycling reduces emissions. But in educating to counter this stupid backlash keep in mind that there are in the census 5 million jews to 1.5 muslims in America. I wish pundits would consider this calculation when choosing political clients. Also we can explore the use of hemp for ethanol. Corn is the wrong crop. Do you think that Rep. Wiener you or I can explore that subject to ameliorate the challenge of high food prices? I thank you for this potentially useful exchange of free speech, Sincerly, [redacted]
On our "article on Michelle Williams," the actress gets her big break:
Enjoyed the above piece. Wonder if Michelle feels the same since her nomination. Or maybe she'd like to give her daughter a vacation in Texas do she can see lots of cowgirls and make a movie about a Texas female icon.
Do you have her contact info?
On "Inspections":
Please come to inspect : Food town Located :Manhattan, Harlem NYC 148 street & St.Nicholas Ave It is sooooHorrible!!
Also
C Town: Manhattan,Harlem,NYC
146 street & Broadway
Same Horrible conditions.
Thank You
We're on our way! And lastly, "here's what's happening with the bees":
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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