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The Dear Ex-Friend Project

Dear Ex-Friend,

Whether you have already read the whole story in Kiss Machine #14 - The Activity Issue (kissmachine.org) or whether you've stumbled in here by accident, this is the place to download your very own Dear Ex-Friend Cards!

 
 

 

"So I went ahead without asking for her help or permission, or whatever. I borrowed one of her do-it-yourself business card sheets, and got to work making 2 by 3 and a halfers I could hand to the faux punk the next time I saw her. Because I knew, sooner or later, I would. It's a small town.

I made ten cards, each with a short bit of text informing her, politely but firmly, that if she ever looked at me again when I was with my nephew, I would rip off her head and shit down her neck. I didn't use those exact words, because I have a position in the community of some standing, and don't want to blow it."


 

Here they are!

Click on these links to download your ready-to-print set of cards (Microsoft Word format). Don't forget to put your Avery™ Clean Edge Business Card (55871) product in your printer first!

Click here for printing instructions

Got more to say to your Ex-Friend? Feel free to make your own! But please, if you use one of ours, include the website address janetteplatana.com, so either you or the lucky recipients of your Dear Ex-Friend Cards will be able to write in and tells us about the experience at our Dear Ex-Friend Message Board.

So how'd it turn out?

Did you just receive a Dear Ex-Friend Card?

Did you just give one?

Which was better?

And ...

Are you ready to go public?

We really want to know what it was like for you. So do share:


Guestbook

Name: Annette Date: 2008-03-21
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hey JP #3, from girl cousin #2. I think I would absolutely love your sense of humour. crafting with words, how completely wonderful. hope all is well in your corner of the world.

Name: coral Date: 2008-01-18
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Hey Janette. Great stuff. I like other peoples comments. The dog thing. Great

Name: Sonia Date: 2007-12-25
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Hope you and your family had a good Christmas! <3 Happy New Year too!

Name: yazzi_boo http://www.yahoo.com Date: 2007-11-21
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hey wut it do dis ya gurl; yazmyn shouting out 4rm da a and im alwasy repping where i stay so hate it or love it

Name: Mike M. Date: 2007-09-17
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Hello there Janette, my old ex-friend.

Name: Alison Date: 2007-07-16
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These are brilliant...fabulous. Someone very, very dear to me will enjoy reading these cards...and then create his own.

Name: Sonia Date: 2007-07-03
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I looked through your cards, I'll be printing some off tomorrow. There's some people that deserve them. I hope they get a clear picture in their head that they aren't perfect! Thanks Janette.

Name: Sonia Date: 2007-06-15
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You are awesome and I will miss you very much. Thank goodness for Cooked & Eaten... and this wonderful website. Btw, your writing inspires me. <3

Name: lee Date: 2007-05-31
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thank you for words that let me leave the hum drum.

Name: Sandra Alland http://www.blissfultimes.ca Date: 2007-05-28
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I love your cards. They make me laugh and weep at the same time. I have a project called The Forgiveness Project, but sometimes it doesn't work. Then your cards come in handy.

Name: Janette Date: 2007-05-26
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Bitter? No more than anyone else, I think. And I write. But Jen -- it's art. Aaaaarght. My mother is alive (Some of this is True), my grandfather was not hit in the chest with an axe (Louis Louis), my father is dead (The Weather), I never got hit by a car (Ladies, It's All About Me), Jesus did not baptise me, (My Baptism), etc., etc. Hi, art. It's like Santa. Or god. Not real. But true. Best, Janette

Name: Jen Date: 2007-05-22
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You sound bitter, Janette. What gives?

Name: Janette Date: 2007-05-20
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Dear Tania, I don't have a book. Just stories in various journals and mags. Should they ever become collected between two covers, I'll let you know.

Name: Tania Date: 2007-04-29
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Where can I get your book?

Name: Janette Date: 2007-04-26
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Mike -- You have given me a great idea. My next Project will be "The Apology You Never Got", followed closely by "The Apology You Never Gave". (Of course.) Check this Projects page for new cards.

Name: Mike Date: 2007-04-25
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Thank you for the "Fanstasy Apology" you offered to go with the Dear Ex-Friend card I got at the Kiss Machine launch. I know people were laughing hysterically, but I really felt as though I were getting the apology that bastard never gave me. I hope he really did punch himself in the nuts until he passed out. I don't seem to have to go to therapy as much, now. Funny.

Name: Janette Date: 2007-04-25
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Dear Farsina, Great idea! How about "Dear Stranger, please leave my your home address, so that I can nip over to your front yard the next time I have to go to the bathroom. I will have a friend with me, who will stare blankly in the opposite direction while I poop. Don't bother to supply plastic bags: we'll leave an empty one on the grass."

Name: Farsina Date: 2007-04-21
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Please add an sheet of "dear stranger" cards! I need one for the people who let their dogs "go" on my sidewalk. I could run out, hand them an appropriate card, and run away again!

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