The mind of Pops McFriend
The following is a reproduction of an actual exchange that ocurred between my sister Sasefina and my father (who remains blogless) about 6 years ago:
-----Original Message-----
From: Sasefina
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 1999 1:30 PM
To: Father McFriend
Subject: one more request
I figured I would throw in another request. Why the hell not?
I was wondering if you could get tickets for REM at Chastain August 30? It is way sold out, but I really want to see them and the band they are playing with, Wilco.
Soooo, if you can ask around, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks.
-----Original Message-----
From: Father McFriend
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 1999 1:59 PM
To: Sasefina
Subject: RE: one more request
Sase, maybe i'll think about it sometime during the next millenium, long after the band members have died of aids and whatever, and the last sweet tune has been played out from the 80s and 90s and the cyclical pattern of the Snopes and McCoys has re-emerged and the Neanderthal movement has gained prominence once again and the philistines and nomadic barbarian hordes have laid waste to centuries of culture and the settling nuclear dust has finished its permutations among humans, animal, and other various half breeds, the Snopes included, and so it will only be then that the requests of the ethereal ones will be once again paramount in the collective consciousness of those that are and will be and always shall be preeminent, ontological, and basically fucked. ok - i'll think about it. love dad.
-----Original Message-----
From: Sasefina
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 1999 2:09 PM
To: Father McFriend
Subject: RE: one more request
Have you lost your mind? That is a sentence that Faulkner might have written if he had actually gone completely mad. You fatalistic freak.
Thanks?
-----Original Message-----
From: Father McFriend
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 1999 2:17 PM
To: Sasefina
Subject: RE: one more request
What else would you expect from an English major whose consciousness is Catholic, whose kids are legion, and whose aspirations are forever?
-----Original Message-----
From: Sasefina
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 1999 1:30 PM
To: Father McFriend
Subject: one more request
I figured I would throw in another request. Why the hell not?
I was wondering if you could get tickets for REM at Chastain August 30? It is way sold out, but I really want to see them and the band they are playing with, Wilco.
Soooo, if you can ask around, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks.
-----Original Message-----
From: Father McFriend
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 1999 1:59 PM
To: Sasefina
Subject: RE: one more request
Sase, maybe i'll think about it sometime during the next millenium, long after the band members have died of aids and whatever, and the last sweet tune has been played out from the 80s and 90s and the cyclical pattern of the Snopes and McCoys has re-emerged and the Neanderthal movement has gained prominence once again and the philistines and nomadic barbarian hordes have laid waste to centuries of culture and the settling nuclear dust has finished its permutations among humans, animal, and other various half breeds, the Snopes included, and so it will only be then that the requests of the ethereal ones will be once again paramount in the collective consciousness of those that are and will be and always shall be preeminent, ontological, and basically fucked. ok - i'll think about it. love dad.
-----Original Message-----
From: Sasefina
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 1999 2:09 PM
To: Father McFriend
Subject: RE: one more request
Have you lost your mind? That is a sentence that Faulkner might have written if he had actually gone completely mad. You fatalistic freak.
Thanks?
-----Original Message-----
From: Father McFriend
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 1999 2:17 PM
To: Sasefina
Subject: RE: one more request
What else would you expect from an English major whose consciousness is Catholic, whose kids are legion, and whose aspirations are forever?
