Showing posts with label Chain Letters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chain Letters. Show all posts

Friday, August 9, 2019

Plant Your Seeds (Chain Letter Parody, 1969)


“Plant Your Seeds,” San Francisco Express Times, vol. 2, no. 10, 11 March 1969, p. 11. “This is a chain letter. Within the next fifty-five days you will receive thirty-eleven-hundred pounds of chains. In the meantime, plant your seeds.”



Other Scenes (New York City), vol. 4, no. 5, June 1970. [See also Northwest Passage (Bellingham, WA), vol. 3, no. 5, 1 June 1970, p. 26.]




Friday, May 17, 2019

The Great Anti-Pollution Chain Letter (1972)


Sam Love and David Obst, eds., Ecotage! (Pocket Books, 1972), 13, 14, 44-5. A proposal for “The Great Anti-Pollution Chain Letter.” “Below is a list of typical individuals, each intent on polluting our country for their own gain, and at our loss. Before each name are two months of the year. Whichever name is beside the month in which you receive this letter, you send them garbage within three days. […] Within eight weeks the man will receive 40,000 pieces of assorted garbage.”