McSweeney's open letter to Paperboy residents
McSweeney's Internet Tendency, the online iteration of the "semi-quarterly" literary journal of the same name, publishes a feature called, "Open Letters to People or Entities Who Are Unlikely to Respond." They recently tackled video gaming's often nonsensical narratives with "An Open Letter to the Occupants of a House on the Nintendo Game, Paperboy."
The letter begins, "I am writing to apologize for causing damage to your property on "Tuesday," when the newspapers I was attempting to deliver accidentally broke two of your windows, overturned your garbage cans, and, most despicably, unearthed a gravestone in your front lawn..."
For more Paperboy nonsense see:
Mega 64's Paperboy sketch
[Thanks, Liz]