From: Gary S.
Gevisser [
Sent:
To: 'Devin'
Cc: rest
Subject: RE: grubby grub - The
meek WITH TEETH shall inherit the earth
Devin, you have thought it through further
than any of us on this end. Marie and I have just begun to eat some Freedom
Onion Soup almost as thick and delicious as the Freedom Fries we had last night
with the kids and so I will have to make this rather quick.
We all need to think more about this and
the more input we get from others the better. One thought is that we supply the
blank t-shirts with the “stain” label and the grubbygrub.com logo for a minimal price.
Perhaps they order the t-shirts from our website but bare in mind we want to
keep all costs to a minimum. Perhaps as much as 80% of the cost of the war in
In making the t-shirt the kids should not
be forced to have to include grubbygrub.com but they may choose to once they
see how well it is promoted by genii like
Perhaps gubbygrub.com is written in a
certain way and we supply the graphics. Everybody should pretty much do as they
see fit; all I want to see is a paradigm shift in the way the clothing industry
operates, i.e. it is time to put the bulk of the money where it belongs, in the
hands of those who are most creative as opposed to the old farts who travel the
world stealing other peoples’ ideas, find the cheapest labor in the
planet, then mark up the goods to high heaven thinking the more they steal the
greater the likelihood God will become mesmerized by all that glitters,
obtaining for themselves a prime spot when it comes time to meet their maker;
no different to those kids in class who feel the need to raise their hands to
let everyone else know how brilliant they are.
For all I care the logo and the label can
be written all the way across the bottom blah
blah although the sleeve may be just fine for the current ruling elite.
Either way it should all be done in permanent ink although it might even be interesting
if after a period of time the ink fades. I understand though the trade secrets
for “invisible ink” remain under wraps?
Kids and teachers can go on to the website
to look at examples of shirts, material to stain, designs and we can also
provide them with already made ”winning” designs. The t-shirts can
be bought directly from us with the “custom stain”, logo and label.
The “custom stain” could even be part of a contest.
My mother spotted Penny
Coelen on the beach one day while doing a fashion show on
Cash collection for our “minimal
override” will be “principally”
based on the honor system. Every school who “participates”
will be asked to provide us with a record of sales that we can then broadcast
to the world. Folks no doubt will have to be convinced we don’t “lie,
steal or cheat” and the last thing I assume any rational person would
want right now is to open another war front, certainly not with me or you as
the executor of my estate to mention little of this brilliant idea all Marie’s
without one speck of insight coming from me.
Grubbygrub.com will have to earn its
stripes each and every day. One of the things we may be tasked with is to
promote the schools’ auctions of t-shirts that will take place throughout
the year and eventually I would assume it will in short order reach the 4
corners of the world which as we know folds just like the barrel of a wave.
What we envision though is a far less oppressive form of taxation than what I
originally had in mind for the rapacious out there like those white
"wheaties" wimps in places like South Africa who continue to exploit
the labor pool while depositing their ill-gotten
gains in Switzerland, although most smart folks I knew growing up never trusted
the Swiss.
Kids right now go door to door selling
gift wraps, magazine subscriptions, and part of the promotion may involve the
kids perhaps walking around with the t-shirts promoting the school’s
upcoming fashion
show. The kids could have a number on the t-shirt which the parents,
significant others, travel companions then buy and place up on their empty
walls, those who can’t afford Sebastian Capella's works of art, that
is. One could also have silent auctions going on 24 hours per day. I know of
one person who lives in Point Loma who may even decide to use the numbering
system to call for help from the special forces units flying overhead just in
case things get too hot.
Right now the bird is screaming like there
is no tomorrow. I have been tasked with getting rid of this beautiful
Australian specimen
that as you know was salvaged from Marie’s ex-husband’s darkened
garage, perhaps the prize for having the best t-shirt for this spring.
In short order a rather different
ad-campaign shall begin worldwide although I really would prefer if South
Africa’s Minister of Finance, Mr.
That last hyperlink shows a photo of my
Dad taken just the other day at the Ccrest Café in
And of course you know “Joe”, Jonathan’s
artist name, has his mother’s good looks to mention little of why she is
the one doing most of the math tutoring. I get the feeling though she is in
agreement that I might have in fact pulled together a
unified theory of the workings of the universe with more than a little help
from above. Should someone decide one day that I am deserving of some
particular million dollar prize you may be forced to negotiate a fee-splitting
arrangement with Mr.
Please don’t forget that
I wish I could flash up right now a photo
of Marie’s next masterpiece but as you know I have certain restrictions
placed on me, mostly though they come from her. Would you please, however, do
me a favor and call “me” [sic] Mr. Jim Ashworth [+1-619-239-7206]
and tell him not to even bother giving Mr. George Hurst an advance copy of the
lawsuit he is to file against “Mr. Hearst’s”
[sic] client and have him waste no time, spare no expense in getting this one
particular Perfect Storm finally put to bed.
I am copying a bunch of folks on this
e-mail including family and pals in the clothing game who might have ideas of
their own that they would like to contribute. Again, I don’t have any
concern with anyone choosing to take this idea and running with it themselves
as long as they are as charitable and transparent as us. Most folks, though,
even those who know very little about me know, know enough about me that I wasn’t
exactly a potted plant while heading up the restructuring team of Epilady
There is a footnote I am contemplating
pulling together that will soon accompany the E-mail I sent to the
principal of a local elementary school here in
Ps - Joe has baseball practice this
afternoon but if you want to come on down for a great afternoon of surfing,
absolutely no business, just meet me between Torrey Pines and
From: Devin
[mailto:devin@quasark.com]
Sent:
To: Gary S. Gevisser
Subject: grubby grub
I realize, I missed something in the
concept expal
The kids take a t-shirt and decorate it- at school or at home with materials they supply themselves.
They then download a grubbygrub logo from the website and affix it to the shirt? I saw you had some kind of a logo on the shirt.
The kids make money in two ways:
1) reproducing the shirts, by hand, or eventually silkscreening their desings, and selling them to their network of friends & families
2) photograhing the shirt, posting the design on grubbygrub.com and auctioning the design, or the actual shirt?
Do they pay for the logo download, a portion of the auction price, or a membership in grubbygrub.com?
When making and selling the shirts to their own circles of contacts, they make a donation to grubbygrub.com for each sale?
Talk to you later.
Rgds,
DSS
