Glad, Mad or Sad: Tales of Chuck Barker: Chuck's Letters from College: Letter #3 The Grand Daddy of Them All!

Saturday, September 15, 2012

Chuck's Letters from College: Letter #3 The Grand Daddy of Them All!

The third in my series of Chuck's letters to me from UVa has about it the stuff of legend. The drawing of a disappointed Ralph Sampson, the profane antics of Mr and Mrs Filing Cabinet, more spider torture and a movie sequence idea are easily his most memorable work in the epistlelary form. Er, um. I 've added below the front and back of the letters as complete documents, the envelope's front and back, and close-ups of the hilarious components for easier viewing.


Chuck got sick of hearing about UVa basketball star, Ralph Sampson.

Don't know what brought this on, but the juvenile profanity is still funny to me

Again with the spider torture

the phrase "so's that I may have a smoke" is comedy gold


Shit McCoy, a janitor I believe, was my creation. How was this allowed through the US mail?

A Most Obnoxious Envelope. I love this drawing. Wish I had wallpaper made from it.

Complete Front Side of Letter

Complete Back Side of Letter

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A Word on the Blog Title

I remember walking down to the Barker house one afternoon and Chuck and (Trey? or was it Lewis?) were seated on the front porch. Both were in high spirits and couldn't wait to announce the latest finding: all human mood is reducible to three states, which happen to rhyme. Glad, Mad or Sad.Later, on the very same front porch, Chuck and Trey discovered that if they removed the first letter of each of their names, rather than some nonsensical phonemes, they would still have names: Huck and Rey (okay, Rey would really need to be spelled "Ray," but still).