Life's Little Observations

Monday, July 28, 2003

Email from Uday Hussein
The following is my reply to an email sent to me by my buddy, Uday Hussein:

To: Uday Hussein
From: Life’s Little Observer
RE: Our latest pictures (My brother and I)

Uday, thanks for sending those swell pictures. I hadn’t heard from you in so long, I was beginning to worry about you. You haven’t called or written in such a long time. I think it’s been since March. I’m having a hard time getting a hold of some of your buddies also.

So how has business been? I guess it must be pretty slow because of the economy. I hear your dad faced a recall election, of sorts, similar to what Gray Davis is going through here in California. Gray feels like he is on the run too. If he loses the recall election, he may try one of your father’s strategies and try to escape north over the border to Oregon.

That picture of your knee reminds me of Joe Theisman’s injury years ago when he had his leg broken during a Monday Night Football game. They kept showing it over and over again. Theisman got through it okay and you can too with some physical therapy. With some good physical therapy that leg will be as good as new and you will be able to run long distances with your Olympic candidates.

I’m surprised you look so bloated in that picture. You should perhaps see a doctor and have him prescribe some diuretics. You look like you are resting comfortably and you look so much better without the beard.

If you see your dad give him my best. I understand he is about to enter the dating scene. I hear he is scheduled to meet 72 virgins in the very near future. That should be a lot of fun for him. Did he quit smoking? He really shouldn’t have cigars around all those virgins, if you know what I mean.

Tell your brother Qusay that there may be an opening to run a newspaper here in the states if he is looking for a job. The New York Times is looking for a permanent executive editor. Since Qusay runs the newspaper in Iraq, I thought he may be interested in a job if he was traveling this way.

Write again soon,

Life’s Little Observer

P.S. Those nice long mahogany conference tables in your dad’s office probably will fetch a nice price on Ebay. If you don’t want to sell them, they would make two or three nice caskets. Think about it.