some letters from a closet duh fan
From: phillipgebser@hotmail.com [mailto:phillipgebser@hotmail.com] >Sent: Friday, >To: MarkMichaels@verizon.net
>Subject: [Radio] New comment on your Radio weblog
I have been discussing your blog with some friends and colleagues and we have figured out your plight. You are a classic example of a white privileged young man without any direction. You lack direction because you have never had to struggle. You have never had to endure. You have never had to truly work to survive. As an affluent white man the world is open to you, but you have done nothing as the plethora of choices are simply overwhelming for you.
See below:
white privilege, a social relation
1. a. A right, advantage, or immunity granted to or enjoyed by white persons beyond the common advantage of all others; an exemption in many particular cases from certain burdens or liabilities.
b. A special advantage or benefit of white persons; with reference to divine dispensations, natural advantages, gifts of fortune, genetic endowments, social relations, etc.
2. A privileged position; the possession of an advantage white persons enjoy over non-white persons.
3. a. The special right or immunity attaching to white persons as a social relation; prerogative.
b. display of white privilege, a social expression of a white person or persons demanding to be treated as a member or members of the socially privileged class.
4. a. To invest white persons with a privilege or privileges; to grant to white persons a particular right or immunity; to benefit or favor specially white persons; to invest white persons with special honorable distinctions.
b. To avail oneself of a privilege owing to one as a white person.
5. To authorize or license of white person or persons what is forbidden or wrong for non-whites; to justify, excuse.
6. To give to white persons special freedom or immunity from some liability or burden to which non-white persons are subject; to exempt.
You are a victim of your own white privilege.
We encourage you to embrace your status as a young, affluent white man and direct your energies toward efforts that will be more lucrative than the 'duh' blog. It seems to us that capital gain is what you are after. I assure you that the personal wealth you are seeking will never be attained through your blog.
Take care,
Phillip
(I have no idea where Mr. Gesber is getting his white priviledge tirade inspiration from. I grew up in a squarely middle-class family, the son of a social worker and a school teacher. Other than a few semesters of college tuition, I have paid my way for everything in my life. In fact, I spent my late twenties and very early thirties living a bare bones material existense as I pursued my artistic endeavors. If there is some fat bonus check for being white lying around for me, then let me know. I'd love to cash it.)
(and then also, on the very same morning...)
Mr. Gesber writes...
He (Che Guevara) was not a young Republican. He was a principled man who disliked the U.S. imperialist presence in third world countries. He was not necessarily Communist, but he was certainly anti-bourgeois industrial capitalism.
Che said, "Man really attains the state of complete humanity when heproduces, without being forced by physical need to sell himself as a commodity."
This may be difficult for you to either digest or comprehend, as your entire blog is devoted to meaningless babble, promoting your inane existrence as a commodity. I urge you to use your time more wisely, as this 'duh' revolution you are trying to promote is a waste of time and energy. No one will buy your stickers or anything else you produce, because you are not real. You are a fabrication.
Che is real and to this day people are inspired by his ideals and sacrifice. That is why you will find his image everywhere in the world, on shirts, banners, buildings, and, yes, even aprons. You will never be remembered as Che is. You will be forgotten. You are dust in the wind. Your blugs are infantile ramblings of a fourteen year old misfit who has never been forced to take responsiblility for his life. Shame on you.
Dear Philip Gesber,
You are a classic example of someone who is infinitely littler than what he tries to belittle. You are like the pea-brained caller on a morning radio show who dials in day after day to say how "stupid" the show is, even though you spend much of your "valuable" time listening to, or in this case, reading the show. According to your own e-mail, you are familiar with my "entire blog" which would require quite an investment of time and energy on your part. You also admit to discussing my blog with your friends and colleagues, which certainly makes it sound like my thoughts and ideas and writings have consumed your very distinguished social sphere.
When someone truly has no interest or respect for another's art, they respond with no response. But the fact of the matter is that my blog has deeply affected you and gotten under your tissue-thin skin. It aggravates and irritates something that you find lacking in your own life. (A purpose? A girlfriend? A penis? All of the above?)
Admit it or not, Mr. Gesber, you are a closet Duh fan. Your put-down comments merely add to the interest and readership of my work.
Meanwhile, I take your words and your ego and your life and roll them up into a spit ball and flick it into the void of frustrated wanna-bees and chronic, do-nothings.
I challenge you not to keep reading. I dare you not to spend more of your precious life reading and commenting on my blog.
My best regards to you and the hard working people of "teen butt-picks dot com."
Mark Michaels
(p.s. it's not that expensive to get your name legally changed. With the investment of a hundred dollars or so you won't have to go through life sounding like some sort of gastro-intestinal disorder).
I got my proof sticker in the mail from the prinitng company. (Fortunately, the colors pictured right, especially the blue, are nothing like what your see on the sticker. ) Everything is fine and dandy, so I faxed them the go ahead for a thousand more.