There’s no audience on earth like a captive audience. I will try to write a postcard to Lindsay Lohan every day while she’s in jail. Oh, and I’m Greg Rutter. var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-584857-18']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })(); Tumblr (3.0; @dearlindsaylohan)http://www.dearlindsaylohan.com/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luau8kifVz1qcjlg3o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>I suspect that they arranged this because they knew mail isn’t delivered on Sundays.</p> <p>(Source: <a href="http://www.tmz.com/2011/11/07/lindsay-lohan-released-from-jail/#.TrgJH1Yu6UM">TMZ</a>)</p>http://www.dearlindsaylohan.com/post/12471312530http://www.dearlindsaylohan.com/post/12471312530Mon, 07 Nov 2011 08:38:44 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltcj2xGBhe1qz7s6jo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://interweber.tumblr.com/post/11682924461">interweber</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong><a href="http://interweber.tumblr.com/post/898565684/ask-and-you-shall-receive-my-lindsay-lohan">Updated</a> </strong></p> <p><strong>:( :( :( :( :( :( :( </strong></p> </blockquote> <p>The answer to the question that everyone is wondering: if she goes, yes I will.</p>http://www.dearlindsaylohan.com/post/11698147808http://www.dearlindsaylohan.com/post/11698147808Thu, 20 Oct 2011 10:39:27 -0700<a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me--lindsaylohan-20110512,0,3473402.story">Lindsay Lohan pleads no contest, expected to serve sentence from home.</a>: <blockquote> <p>Lindsay Lohan pleaded no contest Wednesday to misdemeanor theft for stealing a gold necklace and was promptly sentenced to 120 days in jail — time she may be eligible to serve confined to her Venice home.</p> <p>Because of jail overcrowding, the 24-year-old actress is expected to serve only a fraction of the sente.</p> </blockquote>http://www.dearlindsaylohan.com/post/5413795068http://www.dearlindsaylohan.com/post/5413795068Wed, 11 May 2011 22:01:17 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lk4fl0dlaO1qcjlg3o1_400.png"/><br/><br/><p>On Friday, April 22nd, <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/lindsay-lohan-leaves-jail-posting-181648">Lindsay Lohan was sentenced to serve 120 days in jail</a>. About three hours later she posted bond and was released pending appeal.</p> <p>As of now it’s unclear whether she will indeed be going back to jail or not, but for anyone wondering, rest assured that if Lindsay does go back to jail she will be receiving more postcards.</p> <p>Stay tuned …</p>http://www.dearlindsaylohan.com/post/4873838809http://www.dearlindsaylohan.com/post/4873838809Sat, 23 Apr 2011 13:00:36 -0700<a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2010/sep/24/local/la-me-0925-lohan-bail-m">Lindsay Lohan Released From Jail After Posting Bail</a>: <p>On Saturday Lindsay Lohan was re-re-released from jail after a judge re-re-reversed an earlier judge’s ruling that no bail to be set. She posted $300,000 and went home after spending a little under 24 hours in jail.</p> <p>She is due back in court Oct 22nd to determine if she will face additional jail time.</p> <p>Until that time, stay tuned …</p>http://www.dearlindsaylohan.com/post/1198606865http://www.dearlindsaylohan.com/post/1198606865Mon, 27 Sep 2010 07:44:41 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l9d4wuIRhz1qcjlg3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>(click to enlarge)</p> <p>Sunday, September 26th, 2010</p> <p>Dear Lindsay Lohan,</p> <p>Have you ever left the house with the oven going? Of course not, no one does. I believe no one, since the late 1800s has. And yet everyone still worries about it when they leave the house. I believe this is all a big marketing ploy perpetuated by the oven makers of the world. “Did you turn your oven off today?” is probably their tagline.</p> <p>-Greg Rutter</p>http://www.dearlindsaylohan.com/post/1192287880http://www.dearlindsaylohan.com/post/1192287880Sun, 26 Sep 2010 09:38:54 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l9bbtneW1v1qcjlg3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>(click to enlarge)</p> <p>Saturday, September 25th, 2010</p> <p>Dear Lindsay Lohan,</p> <p>I bet some people get reincarnated as something they didn’t want. Like a weird, undiscovered fish or a plant that lives for a 1000 years or something. If that’s the case, that you don’t like what your reincarnation assignment is, just go with it. Unless you’re a lemming. Lemmings are just reincarnated people thinking “screw this assignment, I’m out of here!”</p> <p>-Greg Rutter</p>http://www.dearlindsaylohan.com/post/1185872440http://www.dearlindsaylohan.com/post/1185872440Sat, 25 Sep 2010 10:12:59 -0700<p>According to the <a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-fast-track-sep24,0,3315099.story">LA Times</a> Lindsay Lohan has gone back to jail after violating the terms of her probation.</p> <p><strong>So we&#8217;re back baby!</strong></p> <p>One small problem. I need her new address. Anyone have it? Email me greg dot rutter at gee mail dot com</p>http://www.dearlindsaylohan.com/post/1179952086http://www.dearlindsaylohan.com/post/1179952086Fri, 24 Sep 2010 11:38:00 -0700<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/08/02/lindsay.lohan.released/index.html?hpt=Sbin">As of Monday August 2nd, 2010 Lindsay Lohan Has Been Released From Jail</a>: <p>She has been moved to a rehabilitation facility to receive treatment for drugs and alcohol addiction. Because of this I have decided to no longer send her mail so as not to interrupt the rehabilitation process.</p> <p>Thank you all so much for your support over the last 13 days and for taking the time to visit my website. I’ll of course be leaving up the postcards I’ve sent to her in the past.</p> <p>In the meantime please enjoy my regular <a href="http://www.whatevs.net">blog</a> or my <a href="http://www.twitter.com/greg_rutter">twitter</a> or send me an <a href="mailto:greg.rutter@gmail.com">email</a>.</p>http://www.dearlindsaylohan.com/post/893485159http://www.dearlindsaylohan.com/post/893485159Mon, 02 Aug 2010 08:19:55 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6a2darvvK1qcjlg3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>(click to enlarge)</p> <p>Monday, August 2nd, 2010</p> <p>Dear Lindsay Lohan,</p> <p>For the homeless the standard shopping cart has become the go to device for their way of life. But while these carts are plentiful they are not designed with the modern urban environment in mind. The cracks in the pavement grind it to a halt, nevermind the noise it makes lumbering down the street or the things that slip through the steel mesh. Sort of explains why they’re homeless to begin with: always taking the easy way out.</p> <p>-Greg Rutter</p>http://www.dearlindsaylohan.com/post/893281883http://www.dearlindsaylohan.com/post/893281883Mon, 02 Aug 2010 07:05:00 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l68wxkHSnT1qcjlg3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>(click to enlarge)</p> <p>Sunday, August 1st, 2010</p> <p>Dear Lindsay Lohan,</p> <p>People who are worried about the end of the world always have advice about what you should hoarde. Water, canned food, weapons, clothing - everyone has a different theory. I guess you have to figure out what you want to fight for when roving gangs come to try and take it from you. I probably wouldn’t fight too hard for books or fuel or a car but if I had a shelter filled with beef jerky nobody would be getting in there that’s for sure.</p> <p>-Greg Rutter</p>http://www.dearlindsaylohan.com/post/888909370http://www.dearlindsaylohan.com/post/888909370Sun, 01 Aug 2010 08:12:00 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l68wptme951qcjlg3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>(click to enlarge)</p> <p>Saturday, July 31st, 2010</p> <p>Dear Lindsay Lohan,</p> <p>They say you can’t please all of the people all of the time, but what if you could please nearly all the people all of the time. I mean theoretically it’s possible. There’s someone that’s able to please 99.99% of the people every time they do something. Maybe there’s someone that can please everybody except for one person who just thinks that person can’t do anything right. Well that one guy is probably a big jerk who doesn’t appreciate anything anyway.</p> <p>-Greg Rutter</p>http://www.dearlindsaylohan.com/post/884677466http://www.dearlindsaylohan.com/post/884677466Sat, 31 Jul 2010 08:49:00 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l68wesMOa61qcjlg3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>(click to enlarge)</p> <p>Friday, July 30th, 2010</p> <p>Dear Lindsay Lohan,</p> <p>I think a pretty good idea would be to put those stuffed deer heads but make outdoor versions of them. Of course you couldn’t make them out of real stuffed deer, but how much more impressive would it be to have a deer’s head on the wall of your house made out of steel. Anyone could shoot a deer, but now people visiting you will think you took down a steel one.</p> <p>-Greg Rutter</p>http://www.dearlindsaylohan.com/post/879832300http://www.dearlindsaylohan.com/post/879832300Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:15:00 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l67b59hs3s1qcjlg3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>(click to enlarge)</p> <p>Thursday, July 29th, 2010</p> <p>Dear Lindsay Lohan,</p> <p>The coffeeshop I go to in the morning has a large sign that say “no checks” by the register. Personally I can’t ever imagine going through the trouble of a check – the pen-manship required, the line of eyes behind you, the pressure of spelling out the words – just because you’d rather keep the cash of $1.75 for a coffee. But someone must have kept writing a check every morning to necessitate the sign in the first place. That’s how life is: one person taking the time to ruin it for everyone else.</p> <p>-Greg Rutter</p>http://www.dearlindsaylohan.com/post/875419998http://www.dearlindsaylohan.com/post/875419998Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:55:00 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l67awyLEjV1qcjlg3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>(click to enlarge)</p> <p>Wednesday, July 28th, 2010</p> <p>Dear Lindsay Lohan,</p> <p>I had a huge realization last night that the device we use to store the photos on our digital cameras is called a “memory card.” There’s no way they planned something like that, right? Like, a group of marketing guys couldn’t possibly be that clever and poetic about an everyday piece of technology, right? I mean everyone so casually says “the photos from the birthday party are on my memory card” as though its not a clever piece of writing and just hand over the 1/2” x 1/2” card with pictures of Justin or Beccy throwing up birthday cake.</p> <p>-Greg Rutter</p>http://www.dearlindsaylohan.com/post/870910713http://www.dearlindsaylohan.com/post/870910713Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:35:00 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l64le6Uftv1qcjlg3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Tuesday, July 27th, 2010</p> <p>Dear Lindsay Lohan,</p> <p>I recently read an article about art forgers and then later dreamed I was one. Only, in the dream everyone kept saying “that looks photoshopped” when they spotted it as a forgery. Is that an example of technology encroaching on the world of art? Or perhaps a metaphor for how our society rushes to keep up with increasingly sophisticated forms of art? Or maybe it’s just that my brain couldn’t think of the word “forged” because it was sleeping.</p> <p>-Greg Rutter</p>http://www.dearlindsaylohan.com/post/866217712http://www.dearlindsaylohan.com/post/866217712Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:36:19 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l64l8w9JrU1qcjlg3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Monday, July 26th, 2010</p> <p>Dear Lindsay Lohan,</p> <p>Can you imagine how profoundly different the human existence would be if we had six fingers per hand rather than five? Some might see it as a blessing, but not me. You’d constantly have an extra pinky getting in the way – as though one pinky always in the way wasn’t enough. Or when you brushed the hair from your lover’s eyes you’d have to remind yourself not to let that stray pinky go up their nose. What a hassle.</p> <p>-Greg Rutter</p>http://www.dearlindsaylohan.com/post/861463464http://www.dearlindsaylohan.com/post/861463464Mon, 26 Jul 2010 07:13:00 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l64ky4LBFQ1qcjlg3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Dear Lindsay Lohan – Sunday July 25th, 2010</p> <p>(click to enlarge)</p> <p>Dear Lindsay Lohan,</p> <p>Woodworking is such a strange hobby. The entire leisure activity is predicated on work for one thing, but also that you have to believe in your heart that the wood wants to be a different shape. How strange to think that you’re doing the wood a favor by allowing it to finally take the form it has always wished. Just let the wood stay how it is, that’s always my belief.</p> <p>-Greg Rutter</p>http://www.dearlindsaylohan.com/post/857634152http://www.dearlindsaylohan.com/post/857634152Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:06:03 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l60oaaAlV01qcjlg3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Dear Lindsay Lohan – Saturday, July 24th, 2010</p> <p>(click to enlarge)</p> <p>Dear Lindsay Lohan,</p> <p>Writing is rules. Whether it’s about word choice or sentence length or subject matter each writer has decided on rules they have agreed not to break. Me? My rules are too many. I won’t use the word “penultimate” because I think it sounds pretentious. I’ll just write “next to last” instead, and problem solved. But why is “pretentious” allowed but “penultimate” not? Because those are just the rules.</p> <p>-Greg Rutter</p>http://www.dearlindsaylohan.com/post/853479860http://www.dearlindsaylohan.com/post/853479860Sat, 24 Jul 2010 10:53:42 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l60nabeQTB1qcjlg3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Dear Lindsay Lohan – Friday, July 23rd, 2010</p> <p>(click to enlarge)</p> <p>Dear Lindsay Lohan,</p> <p>To me it feels like cheating when someone orders mac & cheese at a restaurant. It’s simply too good to be considered a meal. It would be like ordering a breakfast that consists of just a plate of bacon without having to sit through the horror of the eggs or the endurance of home fries. Better yet it’s like ordering a paper cone filled with the cherry syrup meant to create a complete sno-cone. It’s just too much pleasure for one person to handle. An ecstasy no one should be able to enjoy.</p> <p>-Greg Rutter</p>http://www.dearlindsaylohan.com/post/849829076http://www.dearlindsaylohan.com/post/849829076Fri, 23 Jul 2010 08:06:10 -0700