Dear Readers,
My sincere apologies for the delay in postings – the Holiday
Season has come and gone and I find myself once again yearning for mulled wine,
Elf on the Shelf, and bitter arguments with my father about whether I’m truly a
“man” or still a child.
However, I was able to listen for 512 consecutive minutes to
the excellent “Serial” podcast narrated by the delightful and oddly seductive
Sarah Koenig. I really suggest you try
listening to this podcast – it is like sitting around a fireside in the 1940s
waiting for the weekly radio serial to come on, only now you can binge listen
on your Samsung Note ™ while taking consecutive loops on the monorail at Walt
Disney World. It really made me nostalgic for the days of yesteryear.
Anyways, I of course listened to the podcast a total of 5
times over the past two weeks. I’ve
spent hundreds of hours on the sub-reddit and have even booked a trip to
Baltimore to tour all of the prominent sites from the story. I really think this is the only way to truly
experience this phenomenon, although I suppose casually listening while you
drive to and from work, and shortly thereafter moving on with your life would
be acceptable too.
I’m not going to go into the ultimate result of the podcast –
I’m just glad that it exists and hope that the format continues! Frankly I’m sick of pretentious longform New
Yorker pieces about the history of cookie cutter stencils. I prefer my pretentious media in audio form,
thanks.
So how will I fill the gaping maw that is my free time now
that I do not have “Serial”? First, I’ll
be writing to you more! And second,
while I cannot divulge all information given its sensitivity, I can tell you
that I may or may not be involved in the search for treasure buried by Robert
E. Lee beneath one of his plantations in Virginia. I just hope that those awful Van Buren Boys
don’t get there first.
Yours in sleuthing,
Rupert Chang
