Radar: The Billy Letters:

1998:
Find out why the L.A. Times hasn't sent my newspaper —Charles Manson.
P.S. O-yes HI BILLY
Easy easy EASSY

(Manson attached the mysterious picture of a barn)
I bet you don't remember this —you dont even know where its at. HAHA. I got you there.
Charles Manson
Easy BILLY


2007
Hay Lo Soul, Hello Soul
Good To Too Two 2 here from you. I thought things got so good for you that you just 4 GOT WHAT you could of remembered or could remember what you don't forgit. Where is your mind—must you watch TV all day to go to night school to be a D.A. JUST to forgit I didn't take your money when I had ALL your credit cards locked up in
my dreams—Rife with Con Va Lution due 2 subjewgashen. My spelling got better—see when you go to school you learn to spell—oh well I'm just playing clown words to say I didn't forgit Hellbilly—Bill we always had good days + I'm glad your gonna be a D.A. Be one who works for justice + not one who wants to win win + and don't care if people didn't do rong—anyway be as good as you are when you git a job + don't let the job make you bad you make the JOB good.
Easy Charles Manson
You even typing now—Cool. A HILLBILLY that can type—FAR OUT.
I know if you payed what you owe you would be brok brok in like broak ones a panter brock + that they is a crook

plays on numbers, sounds:"billy" - clown words.

_______________________________comments:

-The end of the first letter talks pretty specifically about two key points. The first is that Billy "don't remember"-- notice the use of the word don't, even though everything else is in the past tense. ?what is in past tense? Find out, I bet, I got. no past tense. The second point has something to do with geography and space --"where it's at", "got you there". The remembrance theme is picked back up on right away in the second letter, and the explicit change from "hear" to "here" nice to here from you (and~'where' is your mind) show that the spacial theme is as well.

-I was also pretty fixated by the Manson letters. Especially creeped out by the photo due to the date 4/19. Pretty important day to the radical right:
* Day before Hitler's birthday, therefore lots of Neo-Nazi activities,
* 1993- Fire ends siege on Branch Davidian complex in Waco, TX,
* 1995- Oklahoma City Bombings
and... wait for it....
* 1971- Manson sentenced to death whoa that's weird.