To:
Electronic Gaming Monthly
& Christian Kid

Way back in 1994, the video game Mortal Kombat was popular (personally, I was more of a Street Fighter II fan) and I wrote a letter to the magazine Electronic Gaming Monthly about the wonders of an extreme Mortal Kombat player's life:

Now the red censorship bars serve two purposes here. First, I used a questionable urban-dictionary word as my first name, which I chose not to repeat here. Second, in the reproduction of my letter in the right window, the magazine posted my mailing address.

So, in a wonderful backfire, about 50 sharp-eyed kids wrote me letters asking me how to do the stuff I jokingly wrote to EGM claiming I could do. And out of 50 kids, this is the best one:

So at this time in my life, I remember that I couldn't wait to write this kid back. At that time, I was in a very vehemently anti-religious phase. So I suppose I went the devil's advocate route:

Looking at this now, I wish I wouldn't have written that last line. That's too much, and it's just mean. Like so many other things in life that make me cringe, that last sentence is one of them.

Anyway, Troy did write me back about 3 letters after this, to the effect that I was confused and that Jesus died for all beings everywhere in the universe. I have his letters somewhere in a box. I'll post them if I dig them up some day. I never wrote him back though - at least I don't think I did.

As a footnote, Electronic Gaming Montly magazine still hasn't sent me my t-shirt.

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