Peg Life Vol. 13

For the past few days I've been toying with the idea of writing this issue as separate, unique emails to each person on the list. I thought it would be cool if I wrote it as 25(, 30, or however many readers there are) sections that make some sense on their own but require the other parts to get the whole message. Then everybody would have to communicate with each other to share the different parts of the story (if it had any story to it) and everyone would laud me for how clever my idea was and tell me how they really enjoyed collecting all the pieces and would I sign their printout of the completed email and did I want to go back to their place to make out with an unspoken agreement that this would lead to oral sex. But then I realized that I couldn't be sure which people on the mailing list actually bother to read these, so if I sent a piece to someone who never checks their email then the whole house of cards collapses. Checkmate. So then I thought, OK, maybe it's not feasible to try to unify separate versions in that fashion. I could still just write individual emails to the 25 or 30 people and not try to connect them at all. It would give Peg Life a more personal feel, if only for one issue. But whether or not Peg Life needs a personal feel is beside the point because if I did it like that it wouldn't be Peg Life at all. It would just be me writing to most of the people I know while having "Peg Life Vol. 13" in the subject line. On the other hand, that's essentially what I'm doing right now. My laziness pipes up and points out that the alternative would require writing 25 or 30 different emails. This way all I have to do is one. It was really the first idea that would have made the whole thing at all interesting. I suppose I could now ask everybody who reads this to reply to me and tell me if you would be willing/able to participate, but a large part of the appeal to such a little game would have been the surprise. I could have asked people to reply for a different reason and maintained an ulterior motive, but that rarely works properly. This way everybody knows what they're getting into, so you would have to be interested to play. I suspect the puzzle is still more fun knowing how it works than doing it with people who don't care or aren't there. And speaking of puzzles, go to www.deathball.net/notpron. It will make you feel something. Getting back on track, I'll base my decision to write a puzzle story on what I hear from people. And maybe I'll write individual emails to everybody anyway. Or maybe just some people. Or maybe no one. Who knows. Whatever happens, hopefully it's more interesting than this has been. Perhaps I haven't eaten enough Buick Skylarks today. And my pencil shavings are wearing awfully thin. I'd better have these things checked by an optometrist. It's no use going five days without a blender. I'll tell you one thing though; it's too bad they took away corduroy. I'm dolphin fermentarium. Scorch a ladle. Dressing parsed on flacid paste. Actuary.

Tony Hawkins chortles noisesomely a dirge