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Hootsky Trootsky
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The Beautiful Letter by Hootsky Trootsky

October 6th, 2006 11:37 AM

INSTRUCTIONS: Create a love letter (either real or ficticious). Figure out a way to distribute it such that either:

(A) it is viewed by a great number of people, or
(B) it is viewed by a very small number of people but as a result it completely blows their minds.

As an example of (A) consider the following:

Spiral Love Letter: Helen has vanished, and one of her admirers writes her a love letter. To impress her, he divides the letter into eighteen parts, and prints each part on a separate US Priority Mail sticker. The letter contains prose, poetry, a brief play, e-theory, and several hyperlinks (printed in blue) to significant project websites. He places the stickers on street corners in downtown Chicago, starting at Washington and Dearborn and ending at Monroe and Wabash. There are four of the same stickers per intersection, one on each corner. Each sticker lists the intersection before and after, such that readers can follow the chain of stickers to read the letter in its entirety. The path they must follow forms a spiral that progresses past the Art Institute to the Palmer House Hotel. There, the letter indicates that the reader should "go up" and contains instructions for ascending to the roof of the hotel. On the roof they find a piece of paper with more plot information in a ziploc bag.

As an example of (B), consider if the love letter were inserted into a random file in an office in which you do not work.

My love for yellow Schwinn ten speeds goes back to a pair of Continentals that my parents rode when I was a little kid. They were stolen from our unlocked garage leaving a little hole in my heart.

So, here is my little love note from one Schwinn to another. The recipient bicycle lives at a bike rack near my house and belongs to an unknown gentleman. When I went to deliver my note, it wasn't at home, so I had to track it down in other locations that I recalled seeing it. Lucky for me, it was parked at the train station.

- smaller

bike thoughts.

bike thoughts.

This is my lady bicycle, dreaming of the day she will find a yellow partner.


the note.

the note.


delivery.

delivery.

i think those handlebars are smiling.



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posted by Cameron on October 6th, 2006 12:40 PM

The 'Circle: Yes No' bit is classic.

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posted by SNORLAX on October 6th, 2006 12:44 PM

YAAAAAYYY!!

unfortunately i have no votes.. sorry

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posted by jack knife on October 6th, 2006 1:10 PM

I don't usually go for romantic, but that's swoony.

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posted by Ink Tea on October 6th, 2006 1:33 PM

I had a vintage yellow Schwinn Olympia, named Mercury, whom I purchased from a grey haired man for $12. When I puchased it, he told me it had at one time been his mother's, and she'd riden it to and from work. It was a very sweet bike, and had a ladie's crossbar, spoiling me forever.

Bike love.

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posted by Møuse on October 6th, 2006 5:20 PM

strangely beautiful, it makes my existential romantic side go all wobbly.

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posted by r0ck c4ndy on October 6th, 2006 7:06 PM

Once we were having a garage sale and we didn't notice someone stealing my dad's bike, and leaving an old schwinn in it's place. About two years ago, after it had been sitting in the garage for about 5 years I took it out and painted it, and brought it to Burning Man, where it was very happy. Now it lives in my garage and needs a new chain, but is very much loved.
Perhaps they stole your schwinn, rode to my parents house, and traded up!

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posted by anna one on October 9th, 2006 11:16 AM

I can't wait to see if you.. er, your bike... gets an answer!

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posted by Hootsky Trootsky on October 9th, 2006 2:52 PM

Ja, I've been trying to make my bike as conspicuous as possible around the hood. Also, singing loud backup vocals and doing other behaviors that might suggest to my neighbors that I be the type to leave notes and suchwhat.