Here's an email I got the other day:

From: "Nathan Frawley"
To: "Ted Strong"
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 09:40:59 +1000
are you fuckin retarded? i find your site because it has some tenacious d stuff, so i eagerly set about reading your review of the gig, only to find you crapping on about getting a cold and buying beer for kiddies or some shit, i'm not even sure since i tuned out after you mentioned the d once and then fucked on about your sister. fuck you, i've wasted fifteen minutes of my life which i'll never get back because you're a wanker and can't write about what you set out to write about, and i'll never forgive you for being a self-absorbed twat and angering me enough to tell you. fuck you.

I realize he's referring to something I wrote on my website a couple years ago.

That text is here:  http://www.tedstrong.com/tenaciousd.html

So, I write back to him:
Hmmmm, obviously this is a joke email.  I'd just like to say that what I was doing was creative writing.  I think that's a very funny story, as do a few other people.  It is what I set out to start writing about.  But even if you were expecting a review of the d concert and didn't get that why would you get so upset about it?  why would you say to me, "fuck you"?  

Then he writes back to me:

From: "Nathan Frawley"
To: "Ted Strong"
Subject: Re:
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 18:01:00 +1000
say what you like, i'm not even going to begin to debate what constitutes creative writing and what constititues boring nonsense with no discernible form or creativity. you got hassled at a bottle shop and your sister is a slut? who cares? oh, and did you stay up all night thinking of "i was wiping my nose on valet parking tickets"? yeah, witty rejoinder my friend, that's A grade material right there. anyway, i said my piece about you wasting my life and you responded, so leave it at that and fuck off. really.

And then I write:  I can't believe what a mean person you are.  You must have a lot of friends, "so leave it at that and fuck off. really."

At this point my hotmail mailbox starts filling up with tons of heavy spam emails from all kinds of random email addresses.  It's causing my inbox to fill up to it's limit, thereby causing real incoming emails to be sent back. I also feel I need to point out that I was not buying beer for kids, I didn't get hassled at a bottle shop, I did not say or imply at all that my "sister is a slut." There was this man who was trying to buy beer with food stamps or something; and my sister was having a long conversation with her ex-boyfriend, while I was getting very sick and wanting to leave.

I don't guess there's anything that can be done about this guy.  It's just that it's very frustrating being hit over the head like this by some guy I don't even know.  All I did was write about when I went to LA and saw a concert.  This guy is obviously a sociopath of some sort, but I'm just afraid of what he's going to do next.  It really upsets me that someone could be such a rotten human being as this guy appears to be. This is so not good for society and with the world in it's precarious state right now, his bad vibes can only hurt.