How well do any of us really know our friends? I’m sure most of us would like to think we know them very well especially if they’ve been around your family for years. Let me start my telling all of you that this is a gut wrenching story and it’s very close to my heart because it happened only about 15 miles from my home. I have gotten to know the victim’s family and they are very good people that should not be going through something like this.
Good morning, and welcome back to pysih.com!
There’s been a brief hiatus while we sort through things and help Max and Admin get back into the swing of things.
To that end, Cleo and I, and I’m hoping a few others are going to jump in and become contributors.
We hope we’ll be able to pick back up where we left off and get some of the old and new readers and writers activated and involved.
To that end, if you’re interested, post a quick comment, leave your actual email address in the hidden field of your comment and we’ll open up communications.
That all aside, Cleo has a baker’s dozen of stories we’ll be working through over the next few weeks and I have a couple, any requests?
Ever since People You’ll See In Hell made it’s now infamous appearance in the HBO documentary, “There’s Something Wrong With Aunt Diane!”, the number of visits to the site, and the number of comments made to the five articles where Diane Schuler was the topic of discussion went through the roof.
Our server has handled the extra load like a champ, but the incredible number of comments has given our WordPress software fits. Nowhere was this more apparent than in ‘Diane Schuler: An Interesting Perspective’, written by our good friend Fuzzy Wuzzy. The total number of comment reached, and then exceeded, 700 by the third day after the HBO Documentary premiered – The most comments a story has ever received on our site, outpacing it’s nearest rival by at least 200 comments.
Time for another edition of “We Get Email” my friends, and this time I’m really quite excited. Because this time, you, the reader, will decide the final outcome, and how I will reply to her “request”.
Allow me to explain.
This afternoon I received an email from a person who calls herself Tawnya Clouston. Ms. Clouston is much different from the usual malcontent unhappy about something that was said in an article, or in the article as a whole. She is well spoken, polite, and – I swear I had to check three times to make sure I wasn’t seeing things – she never insulted the website, the author of the story or myself. That doesn’t mean she isn’t seriously misinformed about what we do here at PYSIH, among other things.
I woke up Friday morning to discover that somehow I had an administrator password for Windows now, something I don’t usually set up because, well, I’m just plain lazy. This left me unable to logon to my computer – Very strange, to say the least. I have my suspicions about how it happened, but it was such a minor glitch that it wasn’t worth spend the time investigating the cause.
I took this opportunity to upgrade my operating system from a 32 bit Windows XP setup to a 64 bit Windows 7 setup. I had my old system backed up on an external hard drive, and all my passwords backed up off site, so I lost very little. Unfortunately, I wasn’t very diligent about updating my backup, so I lost whatever stories that were emailed to me recently and haven’t been published yet, and the email addresses of our newer writers.
Well, not exactly, in this case. Someone calling themselves Carrie S. Dash, apparently a relative of Christina Grafner, the biological mother of poor little Chandler Grafner, has a problem with PYSIH. In order to explain, I need to quote our story on this case:
Take the family of 26-year-old Jon Phillips and his 22-year-old common-law wife Sarah Berry, for instance. At best, they could be described as incompetent parents. At worst…
Evil.
Jon Phillips was the guardian of 7-year-old Chandler Grafner. Chandler was given into “Daddy Jon’s” custody after Chandler’s mother (Christina Grafner) was arrested during a traffic stop on the 26th of March, 2007, for possessing drug paraphernalia. During that traffic stop, Chandler’s mom, who used to be in a relationship with Jon Phillips, had her sons in the back seat. According to the officer who made the arrest, both boys looked very thin and complained of being hungry. In the officer’s report, he wrote that the boys had told him they hadn’t eaten in three days.
Merry Christmas everyone. I’ve spent the last few hours lounging around, preparing my stomach for a first class Italian Christmas Eve celebration at my parent’s house. This has been a tradition in my family for many years, ever since I moved out of the house in 1985
For openers, they’ll be serving baccalà salad and spaghetti with baccalà tomato sauce. For you unfortunate, non-Italian folks out there, baccalà is really just dried, salted cod fish fillets, soaked in cold water for several days to remove the excess salt, and boiled until tender. To make it into a salad, you would mix it with black and green olives, garlic, oregano, basil, roasted red peppers, salt, pepper, olive oil and some parsley (I’m sure I left out some spices, but you get the general idea, right?).
Yes my friends, it time for another edition of “We Get Email” here at People You’ll See In Hell. For you new folks, this is a feature article where I share an especially interesting piece of hate email with you, the readers, along with my response. It’s usually good for a few laughs, since PYSIH hate email is always a little “different”
Today’s email comes from Sam. It seems Sam has taken exception with the level of maturity at PYSIH, among other things. Understandable, perhaps, but it was where he took this exception and how he took it there that separated his email from the normal correspondence I get every day.
