Cookie and Bill Solway;7:52pm

hello colleagues!

just came out of a work day. let me tell what is going to happen on saturday. it’s as i predicted. a lot of improvised manipulation on our part, meaning your part, since you two are the ones who are going to be in contact with the big wigs.

see the attachment for the final program of the night. basically, intro the MC, some newscaster on channel 7, she intro the first presenter, who in turn intros the recipient of the award. then again, the MC, to the presenter, to the recipient. the MC the presenter, the recipient. yada, yada, yada, etc, etc, etc, ad infinitum. i know. pretty retardo malardo in terms of a decent show. but you know why it’s like this. you got honchos who go to these gala events to push what they got to the other honchos who are pushing what they got and the whole night ends up becoming an “apearance” networking event in the disguise of a benefit dinner for the children. disgusting really. because, c’mon, let’s face it, if these mofos were really into for the kids, they’d be coming by my work at least once a month to find out what the youths names are. elizabeth and her teenager attitude at fucking 9 years old. earl and his future stand up comedian self. panumart, the gifted, yet unmotivated, literary genius. even mr. destined to be normal ,riggs. if these big fuckers gave a single shit about these kids, i’d know who the fuck they were instead of reading it on a program and what organization they represent. but hey. i’m just a normal kid grew up to hate those that have. what do i know right?

sorry about that tangent. i just want to let you both know where i’m coming from and why i’m doing all of this in the first place. we’ve talked about it and i agree, it’ll give our company good exposure. we can expand our network and make good contacts with politicians and community workers and business people who’ll be useful when it comes time to expanding towards property and licensing. and it’s good that you two will be talking while i run the tech stuff. it works out. i just need you two to know, for me, that it’s a necessary evil that must be tolerated in order to get enough leverage for, specifically, me to makes moves in the world that will directly effect the communities i represent.

i know. you guys think i’m crazy. but as long as i continue to do my job and you continue to do yours, we all get what we want.

so going back to the original topic. they’ve incorporated a 30 second video for ALL presenters. i’m pushing to use it in conjunction with the presenters speech as opposed to playing independantly. man, if they add the videos as a seperate segment, this beneift dinner will be long as fuck. don’t worry though. i think they want the show to be as concise as possible, too. i think they’ll go with that idea.

for you two, however, the responsibility is still the same. talk, flirt, encourage, demand, whatever you have to do to get these motherfuckers up on the stage and off the stage as fast as possible. use your charisma, your wiles, your particular psychological weapons. get them on and get them off. and when we do that, by the end of the night, i guarantee, they will love us. they’ll want to give us money. in more ways than one.

this is a good gig. you’re right, cookie. we got to sacrifice some things in order to get to the next plateau. this is one out of five of them. once saturday is done, we’ve got an even more rocky road ahead of us. but, at least, it’ll be one les thing to worry about. and besides, we want those things to worry about. it’d mean we’re doing the right things.

i wouldn’t want to go to war with any other two people right about now. except if it was an actual war. meaning, i would need actual warriors. meaning who can literally fight and shit. but in this metaphorical sense, in this metaphorical war, i’d rather have the two of you at my side than a whole army of soldiers. because soldiers come and go depending on their college applications and their work schedules. generals, well, generals are hard to find.

i’ll see you tomorrow, cookie, and probably after the meeting, i’ll head over to your house, bill. we still got to finish the musical.