Why I Want E-mail To Fuck Off.

I am so bored of e-mail.

15 years ago it was an incredible, wonderful thing. A new, instantaneous way of communicating. Now, my inbox seems to be clogged full of junk, bills, viruses and advertisements. The cheery “You’ve Got Mail” tone provokes a groan rather than the excited squee of delight it originally did. It is now an unwanted chore to visit my inbox, a task of filtering the “YOU OWE ME MONEY!!!” threats from the “YOU NEED A LARGER COCK!!!” accusations. And those are just from my girlfriend…

Traditional mail is slow and costs money so people tend to write over-lengthy prose to get their moneys worth, turning what should be a rewarding process into a bit of a boring job.

E-mail (and in more recent times, Facebook) has killed off a large amount of this personal letter writing. Why write a letter when I can send an e-mail? Why send an e-mail when I can send a Facebook message? Why send a Facebook message when I post my entire life in status sized chunks thrice a day for all to see?

The idea for this part of my site was created on a whim when I found a heap of Bunny Suicide postcards in my “man drawer” and had an intense itch to send them out immediately. As I couldn’t really be bothered writing anything remotely personal (as I mentioned, my Facebook kinda has that covered) I decided to write complete and utter nonsense.

My friends enjoyed them and I, strangely, got a lot of pleasure from sending them out. So, I’ve set up this site as a means of displaying the crap I write on the back of postcards and in hope that more of you will request to receive one.

Postcards are the perfect medium – short and snappy. It means writing one is never much of a chore. Each one a single, solitary thought. I aim to recapture the excitement of receiving physical letters in the post combined with the snappy format frequently used in e-mail.

I hope to collect postcards with random, interesting images and display a new one every Monday, Wednesday and Friday with a load of old bollocks scribbled on the back.

If you would like to receive a postcard then please get in touch. I’m sure you can work out how to do that.

Thanks a lot,

Jonny Borders.

P.S. Yes, I realise the irony of e-mail being the primary method to request a postcard but it is sometimes a necessary evil. Before I amalgamated my various websites, I used to have a simple webform which was so inundated with submissions that I couldn’t keep up. This method of submission has a natural filter built in. Only the more determined of you will bother to contact me. This suits me fine. I still have a massive backlog of requests to get through