Some evil bastard emailed me recently, and I’ll cut ’n paste it here:
Dude! I
LOVED the poem on your web site. That was pure genius. I e-mailed it to thirty people I know, they’ll totally love it cuz we've all had awful youth pastors like that before.
And I hope those awful youth pastors totally messed you up in advance retaliation for spreading spam on the internet.
I do not write things so that people can clog others’ email boxes. I know Blogger gives you the ability to forward my posts to other people, and one or two I could sorta understand (though you’re more likely to alienate people with my writings than amuse them), but thirty? The poem wasn’t that good.
As a spam-hater myself, do this at least: Tell people, “Hey, I read a poem about youth pastors that might amuse you.” Then give a hotlink. Then write whatever else you were gonna write. Give them the option to read it, or not. Stop raping their mailboxes with crap—especially my crap.