WHAT THE HELL – UPDATE

A Boston priest has been arrested in Manhattan on charges of stalking Conan O'Brien.  You read that right by the way.  Rev. David Ajemian was arrested just last week, but he has been writing threatening letters on parish letterhead, contacting O'Briens parents and showing up at his studio, for over a year.  Newsday says:

"I want a public confession before I ever consider giving you absolution _ or a spot on your couch," wrote the Rev. David Ajemian, who signed the notes "Padre," said Barbara Thompson, a spokeswoman for the Manhattan district attorney's office.Court papers say Ajemian referred to himself as "your priest stalker" in one note and complained of not being allowed in to see an earlier taping of the O'Brien show."Is this the way you treat your most dangerous fans?" the note said.The letters and e-mails, which started coming in September 2006, continued even after Ajemian was asked to stop and were "intended to cause annoyance and alarm," Thompson said. The priest could face up to a year in prison if convicted on charges of aggravated harassment and stalking.Ajemian, from the Archdiocese of Boston, was arrested last week while trying to enter a taping session of NBC's "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, near where other NBC shows are taped and the famous Christmas tree is put up, Thompson said.

First of all, I'd like to commend Newsday for including where the famous Christmas tree is put up.  It kinda woulda wrecked the whole story had you not known.  I often read other news reports and am left haunted because I don’t know the proximity of noteworthy holiday trees.  It gives me no sense of perspective.  I also think the news should use local evergreen landmarks to give a sense of scale.  Like, "Kim Kardashian fucked another black guy, whose penis was roughly the size of a tree trunk, specifically, a Norway Spruce.  Like that one in front of Super Target." Second of all … WTF?

CREEPY UPDATE – The New York Times has excerpts from some of the priests letters:

A Feb. 20 letter said: “I’m told by some of those officious little usher people that you’re overbooked. Is this the way you treat your most dangerous fans? You owe me big-time, pal. I want a public confession before I even consider giving you absolution.”An April 26 letter, signed Padre, said, “I am not Seung Cho,” apparently alluding to the gunman at Virginia Tech. The letter continued: “Even if I did once look out on that dark and dreaded doorway on West 72 Street, remember Frank Costello once dodged a bullet in your building, and so can you.” The gangster Frank Costello was shot and wounded in the lobby of the Majestic on West 72nd Street in 1957.