Ghost Troop Home Page April Fools Part 3

September 3, 0800, email from Marisa Treviño, Hispanic Link News Service

 
Dear Captain May,
 
Thank you so much for your thoughtful feedback to my column. I have to admit that when I read your subject line in my email list I almost deleted it, thinking it was another spam from a porn site :-) But something told me to open it and I'm glad I did.
 
Thanks again and keep writing.
 
Sincerely,
Marisa Treviño
 

September 3, 0815, email to Marisa Treviño, Hispanic Link News Service

Thanks for not deleting me! It’s hard being an email news column, let me tell you, but my headlines are a lot better than the Chronicle’s. Here’s what they ran your essay under: “There is a medical problem with being blind to race.” Wow, that sizzles. Anyhow, I’ve got the piece in front of me, and it does have a nice bit of art, kinda quasi-Cubism stuff. If you want me to clip it and send it, I’ll be happy to do so, just give me a staff address where you want it to go.

If you ever want to talk about common issues, I’m more than willing. I like to work with bright people. That, and the feeling that I’m doing the right thing when the right thing needs doing, is my motivation. I’m something between a Diogenes (the Cynic), believing the worst in people and a Don Quixote, tilting at windmills. The results are usually as ridiculous as they were for that beloved caballero, but it’s the good fight that counts. I have a quote from Cervantes inside the cover of the books (mostly radical politics) that I bought when I was a boy-soldier (17 years old in 1977, serving at Ft. Hood, Texas, with the First Cavalry Division): “The man who fights for his ideals is the man who is alive.”

I know you’re busy, but I hope one day we’ll talk again. You pick when. My compliments for your fine work and your kindness in replying, ma’am.

Captain May

PS: Should you want to know a lot more than you probably know about a looming crisis in Washington, kindly read letter below. It was written in defense of an army wife who received McCarthyistic threats on the Hannity & Colmes Show (Fox) a week ago, and I used a network of assistants to distribute it to the tops, middles and bottoms of the major media. Result? Mrs. Candance Robison will be appearing before a Congressional Committee next week, and will be the tip of an iceberg that I have set afloat against the Titanic stupidity of the Bush League war with Iraq abroad and the American People at home. Adios, and enjoy – and can you send me a few more examples of smiley faces that I can make with my keyboard? I’m pretty dumb when it comes to graphics.

PPS: Apropos of Howard Dean’s standing in front of a graffiti backdrop to speak to some kind of urban group: I’m writing an op-ed applauding him for getting down to reality. I swear to God, what I read on barrio and ghetto walls, or railroad cars rolling across the country, is often truer than the headlines of the mainstream media. I’m going to work the op-ed as a ghost piece for one of my favorite students from charter school, a tag artist. Any ideas? Ciao.

Ghost Troop Home Page April Fools Part 3