Kool-Aid May Cure Heart Disease

(Editor’s note: We’re holding a contest. We want to see The Best Email You’ve Ever Received. Ever. Please send your email, unedited [if possible] to reviews@burnsidewriterscollective.com. The best three will be posted in this section on August 1st. Maybe we’ll even offer some sort of prize…)

Dear BWC,

I was lying half-awake in bed this morning, listening to the wife’s favorite morning show, when I believed I heard a commercial claiming Kool-Aid as a cure to heart disease. Come to find out it was actually the medication Coreg (“It’s cardio-protection!”). This naturally got me thinking about mistaken identities, and specifically whether your estimable organization has ever been confused with the Burnsey Wrighthoffer Collection, with which you share not only acronym letters, but also - and here I must of course be presumptuous - an affinity for dainty pewter collectibles, i.e. those created by the exhibit’s namesake, the flamboyant early 20th century Master.

I could understand the confusion.

Anyway, just wondering…

Best,
Mark Hollingsworth
Oyster Bay, NY

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Mr. Burnside Writers Collective Editor Guy,

For sometime now I have been quietly visiting your site and keeping to my own business when it comes to such things as This or That. But your recent article entitled “Now: This and That” was truly something quite remarkable. Never before have I thought of This being directly proportional to That and especially in relation to Now. The Christian community should really think about these things as they relate to the world around them. This article should be put up in every Church and Bible College in order to encourage the community as a whole.

Now, the one puzzling and perhaps unnerving thing for This is That: if you take This and That and put it into an equation of much too detail to get into, it equals 666 and we all know what That means Now don’t we?

Thanks and keep up the good work,
Cameron Dupree
Riverside, California