December 11
FAN MAIL
Every week we receive fan mail from our readers asking us questions like “How can I appropriately camouflage myself as Puerto Rico on a budget?” or “How do you respond to the world’s increasing flatness?”. Today’s letter comes to us from “Super Fan” in Sioux City, Iowa. Super Fan writes: “How’s Maury? We never hear about him anymore.”
Well, Maury is currently at war with a black magic website in California. This is a pretty typical Maury story. Basically, he used to post messages on a black magic website in California, using his full name. Now that he’s finishing up his PhD, he’s worried that the black magic website – which showed up in any Google search with his name – would pose a problem while interviewing for teaching jobs. But the black magic website refused to take down his posts. War ensued. My point is that some derelict black magic website in California refuses to take down years-old message board comments out of editorial integrity. [Silence] Huh? Um…Where was I going with this? What was the question again? – Kiran