Many years ago, we went to buy a doll for my son we put up a new email address for all of you to contact the management. Little did we know, for that is how new the internets are to us, that we had not, as we intended, set up a simple forwarding account. Instead, we inadvertently created a real POP mailbox.

In former times that would not have been a problem, as except for the occasional email from David Frum, Jonah Goldberg or Bruce Bartlett, few people have either a reason or a need to contact us. That, of course, was before Brad R. and Gavin M., the ambiguously heterosexual duo, joined this outfit. All of sudden, lots of you started writing in. While none of us actually knew we were being sent emails. So what follows is the best of the emails sent to S,N! over the last three months…

A Paul wrote to Brad and Gavin, letting them know of Operation Yellow Elephant. It was topical at the time, but 3 months later we are a bit behind the curve. Fortunately Paul closed his email with:

(no reply necessary)

Another happy customer. During the infamous cat wars, Celtic Girl sent us several extremely disturbing pictures of cats. They made our corneas explode. Becky also sent us a picture of her evil cat. It has been forwarded to the appropriate people.(Marie Jon”s attorneys.) Same goes for the pics from Nick and Tamy.

Eric let us know he writes criticism of Brent Bozell, a field that, much like cultural geography, can always use a few brilliant minds. Speaking of brilliant minds, Tom Cruise, MD, has a blog. Changing speeds, back in June The Rittenhouse Review was looking for a new village idiot. We don’t know what became of that, but TRR is worth reading anyway.

John Cole emailed us a link to a post of his that doesn’t work. So instead we found a link to this Roger Ebert review of Deuce Bigalow that was very funny:

The movie created a spot of controversy last February. According to a story by Larry Carroll of MTV News, Rob Schneider took offense when Patrick Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times listed this year’s Best Picture Nominees and wrote that they were “ignored, unloved and turned down flat by most of the same studios that … bankroll hundreds of sequels, including a follow-up to ‘Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo,’ a film that was sadly overlooked at Oscar time because apparently nobody had the foresight to invent a category for Best Running Penis Joke Delivered by a Third-Rate Comic.”

And that was the emails that almost weren’t. We’ll add, for those that don’t see the S,N! favicon in Internet Explorer: we’re saddened but clueless.