Letters from the Inside, Bart Corbin, #2

Hey Kelly,

Sorry. I hadn't thought of you as a school teacher :). Again, I received the letter on a Thursday so I could not mail you till Monday anyway.

No family for Thanksgiving? I hope you still had a good time. As I've (no reference to you) gotten older, I too have desire much more alone time. I can remember whe I almost needed crowds around me. Now I have one 24/7. Not what i had in mind.

Sorry, again, for the difficulties business is giving you. I hope some prospects are coming to light since your letter. It's tough everywhere, but real estate and advertising are some of the worst. Few things are recession proof (except alcohol). I read gyms too. I, or course, worked for myself also. It was the only real way to eventually be compensated as you thought worthwhile.

Have a great time in Japan. I've never been to the Orient. I never traveled much. It was one of the other things I meant to get to. I've been to Canada, the Cayman Islands a couple of times, Italy for a couple of weeks, and mostly domestic outside of that. I wish I had done more before the children were so young. Hey, maybe you can send me a cheap touristy postcard from there. Unless geishas are cheaper FexEx. :) My brother was in Thailand. he said they liked his belly. I bleieve it is a sign of being wealthy. Oh if that was all it took here :). He loved it. Sounded more like a man's paradise to me. I had a change to go to Segovia, Spain when I was in college. My Spanish teacher and I got along well and that was his hometown. He had just missed the cut to make the basketball team for the Olympics. He wasn't a big guy. Dated the Homecoming Queen for a while. I regret I didn't take him up on it, to see another country with a nature from then would have been perfect.

Well I'm not sure if the pictures do me justice, but I know this recent haircut doesn't. So hard to find a hair artiste these days. I supose they have to arrest more! :) Rob Lowe? (played me in the movie about my crime) Kind of surreal, but he is on the backside of his career, isn't he? He's not as tall or as big as I am. he shoudl research his projects more before accepting. Some people see this stuff and accept it as factual. Celebrities have too much benefit of the doubt and influence. Journalists do not write "true crime" books anyway; persuado "authors" do. Unfortunately, they feed a public blood-lust that is their substitution for boring lives.

I just finished reading "Hi Fidelity" that the movie was based on. I really liked it, easy read, but relevant in a funny way. I am now back on my classics kick and reading Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. I read popular pulp too, but I like to sometimes lay back with some classics and read them. I don't feel quite so much like I wasted time.

I like most kinds of music: contemporary jazz, hard rock, some country. I don't care for most rap except for some of the more popular stuff. We can only receive cds here, no downloads, etc. and the radio reception is limited for the prison is a type of valley near some mountains not far from Alabama and Tennessee. We really only receive one station well.

We have TV and a little cable. Sports are on alot but we have a movie TV. The others tend to want to watch the same things over and over again like children. No DVDs with us anyway, so it is awhile before we see a new release. They call the TV the "Trick Box" here. Some here only live for what's on and you can get assaulted quick for arguments over what is to be on or changing a channel. I like Nirvana, also, I respect Tom Waits' writing.

You may be surprised how you would do in Georgia near Atlanta or in it. But its not the Big Apple. I imagine you would make friends where you want. Like I said before, one of my best girlfriends was from Rochester. I tend to speed it up too and get annoyed.

I have not been allowed contact with my sons since this time 2004. It always is hard for me and will continue to be. Their being kept from my mother and side of the family is an injustice that continues to be perpetrated by my in-laws. Nothing is ever enforced on them. I cannot call or write them or anything. I write them and send the letters and cards to my mother to keep so that one day maybe whthey can see I never forgot them. They live with my sister-in-law now. The one falsely portrayed as a heroine in the movie. None of those scenes actually happened, nor did the conversations. It must have really be a distortion because when she emailed my brother and disclaiming the movie before it aired.

I have received letters and interview requests as of recent. I will be forced now to at some time make a true account of things to counter the barrage of falsehoods portrayed as fact just so I may sometime have an opportunity at parole.

Anyway, I had no intention of rattling on for so long.

Hopefully, I will hear from you before your trip. If not, have fun, be careful, and soak in your Christmas and New Year in a memorable way.

Bart