I now present the second of the two messages I received this weekend (re-visit the first one here) from my mystery caller, now the fifth message I’ve received from her on my work answering machine over the last year or so.

I feel like she’s spinning her wheels a little, and seems to be having trouble introducing any new information into the mix. We’re getting tired re-treads of her takes on British music (which she loves to include the B-52s in, for no apparent reason) and a continuation of her rant on Alcoholics Anonymous. She does seem to offer some sort of conclusion, though, when she asks me to “share the information” and thanks me at the end. She also exercises a new-found familiarity; I was “Bri” in the last message, and this time, she’s simply “Karen from Naples.” I’d love to read her letters to the editor.

Believe It or Not
(576 kb mp3, 1:37)

Hey Brian, this is Karen from Naples. Believe it or not, here’s some history: New England was colonized by the English, and what’s important about this is, when I get back to the Oxford Group and AA, Cold War activities suggest the first ten stories in Alcoholics Anonymous might be industrialists who lost it all because of drinking. They might’ve started drinking because the stock market crash of ’29, monies were never accounted for. It might have been some type of corporate or industrial takeover. Matter of fact, in the AA book they talk about ‘hydrotherapy.’ New York City found out Macy’s Day Parade wasn’t what it appeared to be on world news. Hepatitis, bubonic plague gets renamed ‘AIDS.’ Look at Blue Man out in Las Vegas, people who get wise to the entertainment industry and hydrotherapy. Matter of fact, my latest concern is I know you folks went through the movie A Perfect Storm up there, and I look at the British Invasion of the Beatles, and then in the ’80 Marilyn Manson, the Kids Club, the Sex Pistols, the B-52s, “Rock Lobsters,” what’s going on down there? You jump in the pool, you come out a lobster, formaldehyde or something. And I just wanted to suggest that I think we got national problems and they might relate to, y’know, in the ’70s they talked about ‘spiritual wars’ in England, Protestant against Catholic? I think what’s criminally evil and insane – English – against [beep beep] the good people there. So just, y’know, share the information, thank you for your time.