Internal Office Memorandum
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TO: Matthew Haber
FROM: Jean-Paul B. Tremblay
CC: Guy Vincent Cimbalo VIII
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OK, gentlemen, you were right. That’s really the only explanation I can surmise for this shot across the bow.
Going off to help teach impoverished and undereducated children in the wilds of Ecuador this winter –– whilst concurrently having left behind that online “Reader Feedback” forum –– turned out to be a dreadfully bad idea. Heinous, even. (Though my lack of internet connectivity proved to be beneficial in polishing my storytelling chops; it’s quite striking how my ignorance of all things Denise Richards/Charlie Sheen and Randy “Duke” Cunningham/Mitchell Wade allowed my newfound gift for narrative confabulation to shine at those Quito-based USAID cocktail parties thrown in junction with Rafael and Lucio…I had people actually believing that I was an expert on everything from Supreme Court litmus tests to the canonical ambient compositions of Brian Eno and Harold Budd. Astounding!)
So, like I was saying, that “Reader Feedback” thing for low culture…a fucking bad, bad, bad idea.
The indignant, self-righteous anger that poured forth from said forum! As though people were entitled to free content on the web! I’ve always felt that unless you’re an impoverished Ecuadorian, you’re not entitled to any such handouts. How very wrong I have since been proven.
And now, not only have we disappointed myriad readers, we seem to have incited some form of extremely aggressive hostility. I am humbled and chastened.
Apparently, these “blog” things are hot shit, and we missed the boat on this one, lads. Or I personally dropped the ball. Or darted home without tagging up at third base. Or mixed sporting metaphors. Fuck if I know; my athletic knowledge is limited to the realm of sexual acrobatics, and that’s about it. (My mother once told me a man would fuck a snake if you held its head. I have since learned this is quite true.)
Anyways, let’s a get a cease-and-desist out on these guys…there’s got to be some form of copyright law or anti-parodic justification we can rely on, right? Do either of you know Lawrence Lessig?
Mucho regardo,
jp
P.S.: Guy, I couldn’t help but notice that somehow you managed to escape their assault…I mean, there aren’t any embarrassingly amateur photos of you posted on that site. No Flickr attack whatsoever. So the idea that you were behind this, I have to admit, did cross my mind, though I am willing to give your treacherous ass the benefit of the doubt.
Month: February 2006
