It appears Joe “Look What I Did in Your Hamper” Haldeman is dead. He gave up writing science fiction immediately following an unexplained 8 day disappearance which ended with a sudden reappearance at the Tucson General emergency room where he was treated for “unspecified colon injuries.” From there the Freedom of Information file I got from the FBI is nothing but a bunch of blacked out lines.

I found a blog entry about the man where a WWII buddy said that Joe found science fiction to be too painful and something he couldn’t joke about anymore.

His 19 year-old widow (see the May issue of “Playboy”) somehow got wind of my last post, and is suing me. She claims the !Hamper Incident to be a work of fiction. I, of course, kept no evidence and, in point of fact, after all chemical agents proved ineffective against the smell, to end this particular forever war I had to have a contractor tear out the entire room.

Does anyone know a good lawyer. My friend Spen Kafford apparently became one behind my back. He has also threatened me with litigation if I continue to use his name in my anti-Cuba literature. I think maybe I’ll ask his buddy, Fidel Castro, for help instead.

So, there I go. Sued twice on the Internet in my first week.