To My Supporters

Gird up thy loins as have I. I am shredded from two glorious days of leaf sucking. I am currently renting a few Yuengling and the hot tub awaits. Thereafter, I expect to dine on turkey soup thickened with Basmati and club sandwiches.

Next week will be strange, to say the least. Coincident with conferring among legal counsel, our beloved YES! Weekly is doing a spot. No matter the content, remember, they have ads to sell and I really, really deserve whatever light I am shone in.

I am fond of Charles, Brian and Jordan. Their judgment of my actions must stand in that light.

Next week is a crossroads of sorts for me in several ways. I also hope to begin development of a new software product to be hosted on the internet. The future’s so bright I have to wear shades.

Do not worry about me, even though I have given just cause in the past. This is not that. A year has passed and things are entirely different. What befalls me is a battle which must be fought. I will surrender tactics to the better advice of counsel.

The Wife is fully prepared for the events which are to follow. Such is the price of my avocation. We regard them as no more than that.

BTW, I tend to revert to King James when excited, bored, drunk and/or tired. My Mother claims I’ve done it since a child. My earliest memories are of mocking the Bible.

Prepare thyself for the ridiculous seems more apt. No doubt, a Class II Misdemeanor conviction for Cyber Stalking is nothing to laugh at.

Unless the magistrate makes it out for “annoying.” That’s right. I have been charged with annoying The Eternal Victim.

441 comments from her in the last three years and I’m annoying.

Since the notion of this case ever seeing a jury is laughable, allow me to present what I believe to be my most cogent defense:

The 27 emails in question were sent as alternative responses to a blog comment conversation appearing at the same time between us at Dr. Joe Guarino’s blog and in his absence. My intent was to offer private responses to a public conversation.

My inclusion of her address in the heading of the emails has been construed as a threat.

I’d hereby like to apologize to The Eternal Victim for making her feel afraid.

This isn’t my first time.

I made a Greensboro City Councilman and his family feel afraid last year. I published a Google Maps link to their house. Jordan Green liked it so much, he provided such links for all the candidates in the last GSO election. Neither of us was right to do it, but there you go.

I got a visit from the officers at GPD CID, a small article from Amanda Lehmert at the N&R and an admonishment from Allen Johnson. However, no charges.

If there’s anything worth talking about in this greasy mess, it’s the context in which a blog post hyperlink or the heading of an email represents a physical threat.

One magistrate has decided “no” and another “yes”. Being charged with annoying is so transcendently hilarious, that I’m nearly rendered speechless, but not quite. There again, I’ve lost my composure and forgotten the gravity of my situation.

If by some miraculous instance where my case is not dismissed on the merits or continued, I will appear much more chagrined.