A whiles ago I sent a fake fan letter to Superchunk:

Dear Mac-
Enclosed is my toe nail. Can you use it as a guitar pick on “Hyper Enough?

Thanks. Your biggest fan.
Elton X. Schmerk
Fairloaf, California

I wrote about three of these (discontinuing the body parts theme). I wrote the exact fake return address in my real address book, to ensure some consistency. I read somewhere that Jon mentioned this “we have a guy writing us fake fan letters” in a real fanzine, maybe the one run by Scharpling.

Oddly, I never even realized Jon was super-funny until his work for WFMU. I am not saying Jon is not funny. Certainly he is funnier than me, and a better drummer. But who knows where ideas come from, right?

And truth be told I tell a lot of people that I got the idea of being a concert promoter from Superchunk. Jim Yardley called me out of the (tar heel) blue and asked me to show leaving-member Jack McCook in about 1992 around SF, and that’s one of the reasons I started following Superchunk2 (the one with Jim Wilbur, that still exists).

Anyhow if anyone besides my 33 readers reads this and wants to chime in, under real or fake names, in characters or au natural, that would be super-great.

I’m working I am just not working for you >>> I am not working for you, you are just stealing my ideas.

We cool because Mac wore my Cubberley Sessions shirt at GAMH, the one with the old or possibly ersatz Chicago Cub logo circa 1910 the one on the Mordecai “Three-Finger” Brown Gold Border.

it’s too late to write a joke bridging 3 finger brown and 5 finger discount

edit to add, a few minutes later: i check, using internal search function, to learn that I mention “wurster” 18 times in the first 1,080 posts although most of them are lame. There is one from Feb, 2012 about a Russian linguist at Stanford named Lera where I digress to something where I pretend to confuse Scharpling and Wurster with Coyle and Sharpe.

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