a (mail) call to arms, by mike g.

For the handful of you who might actually be wondering why there haven’t been very many new installments of the jackassworld mail lately, the dip is directly proportionate to the decline in viewer mail that has graced our postal box recently. Fortunately for you, I have had time to sit around and hypothesize about the decline since there hasn’t been anything to open and have concocted a few theories. Is the drop associated with the election fever that recently swept our nation? Doubtful. Is it the fault of the crashing stock market and our blossoming recession? Perhaps, but since a good deal of our mail comes from overseas, that theory doesn’t totally hold water. Or, is it simply the fact that we ran out of clever bumper stickers that said juvenile things like “fart” and “poo”? Personally, and somewhat ironically, I think it was the stickers that broke the proverbial camel’s back. Then again, maybe I was wrong about my second theory and all of our U.S. fans did their banking at Washington Mutual and CitiBank.

Nevertheless, in the past month, we have received two packages—both special in their own way. One made the 8000 mile journey (approximately 13000 km for our metric friends) all the way from Iran. Community member, Sima, sent us a box from the Middle East, and Mr. Knoxville opened it himself. You’ll be able to see his cameo once we get some more material together for the next installment. Oh… and rest assured that I will have some dumbass throw prepared to cut to his clip like, “Take it away, Johnny!” Or, maybe even, “Whadda you have for us, Johnny?”

We also received a box from Allison in Wisconsin, which I absolutely need to mention now, because if I don’t, her gift (see photo) will soon be completely inedible. She says that she came upon the recipe while checking out Dave Carnie’s “Faces of Broccoli” link of the day in late October. A thousand jackass thanks to Allison! Now that we have a documented picture of her gift, I’ll let the boys in the office finally dig in. I know they’ve been waiting patiently.

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