I love this e-mail exchange.  I find it totally, totally awesome.  What's even better is that when Lou asked if we could use it for the site, Josh's reply was, "if it furthers our glory, he is at our command."  He also says, "...Amazing Ben's website has the full blessing and support of the future priests of the Catholic Church."

That is awesome.  The current generation of Catholic priests seemed to like me OK when I was going to Catholic School in Florida (they would have liked for me to have spent a little more time on my homework, but other than that I don't think they had any complaints), and it's good to see that the future priests are cool with me too.  Certainly last thing I want to do is start pissing off holy men.

Hello sir,

Chances are you don't know of me (yet. my ambitions are yet to come full circle), but allow me to introduce myself.  My name is Josh Eskew, a seminary student in Indianapolis.  But enough with introductions.

I am an avid reader of Amazing Ben's website.  I have read it since the first badass of the week, and my badass request for General Zod is even on the site.  Isn't that sweet?  Anyway, I'm writing you because you (or a demonic incarnation of you) appeared in a dream I had the other day, and I felt you would like to know that your words as posted on Amazing Ben truly do take life in the minds of those that read it.

In my dream, as in many of my dreams, I was doing ridiculous things such as flying, ascending to the Papacy, or punching children.  I don't remember in what respect you appeared in my dream, but I consciously remember thinking "That's Lucius Diamond from Amazing Ben's website."  I woke up and thought "Why the hell was I dreaming about Lucius Diamond?"  Perhaps there is some unknown divinity within you that chose to spoke to me in the ethereal form of a dream.  In truth, I cannot say.

I've been putting off e-mailing you because I know how strange it must be to have some random reader e-mail you and saying they had a dream about you.  Rest assured, I am not stalking you.  Thanks for reading this, I hope you thought it as odd as I did.

Josh

To which Lou responded...

Josh,

First off, I almost didn't open your email because it looked too much like a 'real' email.  Like those ad people are getting very smart, putting clever things in the subject line like "how're you?" or "who DOESN'T want a larger unit?"  Anyway, I'm glad I did, because you're message definately gave me a genuine laugh.

In all seriousness though, since my time on earth first began (which is longer than I can even remember) I have been a dream walker, capable of probing people's minds while they rest, and gaining valuable knowledge.  From time to time, I also just hang out.  I can't really remember visiting your dream, so it must not have been anything major.  I probably just felt like stopping by for some baby punching action.  So, needless to say, it wasn't a demonic incarnation.

I definitely find this to be very odd, so mission complete Josh.

Best of luck with your theological studies.  Thomas Aquinas was a legit badass who probably had writer's cramp.  The quest of obtaining Ultimate Righteousness is long and arduous, but well worth it when you find yourself surrounded by your peers in the halls of ValHalla!

Here's to realizing your ambitions,

Lucius