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Websites Wabler on 30 Apr 2008
The Hasil Adkins Rejection Letters
Sphere: Related ContentThis week marks the arrival (April 29, 1937) and unfortunately the departure (April 25, 2005) of The Wildest One Man Band Hunch Machine that ever stalked the planet. Hasil “The Haze” Adkins wrote, performed and lived out his wild-ass rock & roll dreams with a sincere ferocity unmatched by fellow humans north or south. Rattling the walls of his Madison, West Virginia shack, Hasil would croon sweet odes to commodity meat and serenade the fickle moon above with his hot dog reverie. Early on, he’d mail out his home-recorded concoctions to the country music stars of the day, hoping to place a song or grab a plum spot on a traveling package show. Like the rest of the world, Nashville would have to wait a few decades to get hep to Hasil’s chicken walk-inspired genius.
Websites Wabler on 29 Apr 2008
Serial Killers respond to a 10yr old’s letters
An unemployed man pretended to be a 10yr old boy, and asked questions of serial killers residing in prison. Not to be seen as rude, many of them responded, and quickly.
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What happens to your mail - 1951
I recently stumbled across an article, found here, that is from a popular science magazine in 1951.
They show what would happen to your mail if you sent it to or from an address in New York City.
Whats really cool about the whole thing is that they had these huge pneumatic tubes that they separated the mail into, before they sent them to other parts of their mail system.
Here’s the link: What happens when you send mail
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