From: Gary S. Gevisser [gsg@sellnext.com]
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 4:33 PM
To: Devin Standard (Devin@quasark.com)
Cc: Shaim (shaim@covetech.com) et al
Subject: The meek with teeth shall inherit the scrap [earth] unless we get our waste lines in order, bloodlines to boot.

 

Devin, Marie and I are back from lunch and nothing too dramatic occurred and of course we now know for certain that someone who doesn’t believe in God nor that I have  “eyes in the sky” would have seen them as they let out the air in the right front tire of the Mini Cooper S this past Friday Night as the two of us along with her brother and his friend Francois who are both with the RCMP dined less than a 5 minute walk from The Cave where the vehicle was parked.

 

Quite a joker this person must be, certainly he-she-it must have no idea of anything about me including the fact that often there are young children in the car who are very trusting of me and my ability to maintain an even keel even when the going gets rough.

 

I am copying Sammy “Sham.” [sic]Haim on this e-mail in the event he might possibly have seen something untoward taking place in the neighborhood. I wasn’t certain that Sammy was home at the time but just before Marie arrived to pick me up the golden-oldies music suddenly stopped playing. It is possible that it was just a guest of Sammy’s popping his head through the slits in the bedroom blinds wanting to take a peep at Marie who was as usual dressed to kill. You know some folks cannot chew and walk at the same time just like some people cannot watch and hear with pathetic music blasting out of top of the line amplifiers whose speakers are shot. I have a picture of Sammy and me after I had spent a Sunday morning playing rugby with the guys that I will soon be placing up on one of the websites, probably grubbygrub.com assuming Marie and Jonathan agree.

 

I don’t think I mentioned to you that one of the guys I play rugby with was diagnosed just 6 weeks ago with a viral infection. He is now on life support systems, down to skin and bones and they doubt he will see out his next birthday. He is only 35 and was up until this sudden blow out of nowhere as fit as a fiddle.

 

Grubbygrub.com is right up Charlotte’s alley. Her artistic talents along with the fact that you have three young children to experiment with and develop basic programs for school kids to start an educational journey is not lost on any of us.

 

In the course of the next several days I will come up with a precise business plan, no more than two paragraphs of moderate length, no more than 500 words that spells out things crystal clear that you and the rest of the gang can then dissect and put back together again however you see fit, knowing that I have zero ego in this whole project but a burning desire to see it succeed.

 

In the meantime just give thought to the fact that kids like to manipulate things with their hands like food, non toxic dyes, dripping wax, finger paints that are real colorful; could involve simple sewing, gluing blah blah.

 

We need to figure out, i.e. conduct a needs assessment first with the schools exploring different possibilities, one with the kids supplying the t-shirts or we supply the blank t-shirts that may or may not have “blank verses” already affixed.

 

For older kids need to change the incentives, contests where propel the concept forward from fad to fashion to being a fact of life.

 

Next is the auction phrase which may or may not involve the parents, teachers, and/or charitable foundations which may not be too hot-to-trot because of the NIH syndrome, feeling that their existence may be soon subjected to questioning to mention little of the need for those in charge to be far more transparent than they are today.

 

We need to come up with several prototype models, just like what we have in model homes that address the demographics of the entire market place, i.e. create an environment where the kids can frolic around without parents impressing their belief system to mention little of kids finding themselves doing things like creating mazes that may have them embrace a whole new concept such as truth as they work out where the folks before them went wrong. At the Guggenheim in Bilboa Spain there was once a maze exhibit and one could watch from the balcony above as folks worried more about making fools of themselves then finding a way out the mess they were creating for themselves as they went around in circles while the kids while having a jolly good time were the first one’s to emerge perhaps similar in many ways to the experiment that was done with mice who were fed just very little and who lived much longer than their counterparts who ate like pigs.

 

I have finally started reading a book titled Holes which Jonathan has been insisting I read for some time and of course it all makes perfect sense to me.

 

The contests for the t-shirts should be held on locally, regionally, statewide blah blah internationally. There has to be some incentive for the older kids to be creative and to really put in an effort to doing something different. Perhaps a contest for the most creative, the wildest one, the most artistic, blah blah all geared towards kids-4-kids saving the planet without interference from the adults who should be guided in terms of how to stimulate their kids, coming up with themes like recycling getting down to the nitty gritty of pollution, garbage, over population, disease, coming up with a more efficient guillotine and so forth although it is possible there is enough time left for the French to reinvent themselves and of course making themselves extinct wouldn’t be any skin off my back given the fact that their best offspring sprung off to places like Canada and are now with me enjoying the spring of Del Mar.

 

I am a little under the weather, no doubt showing up in my script and so I am now off for my afternoon sleep and don’t worry, just be happy everything will turn out bliss.

 

Before I forget the clincher with the schools is going to be all the neat things we will be doing at the Grubbygrub.com website which will have game selections according to age group and/or IQ. According to Jonathan, “If you have a maze, you go from one area to the next based on how you answer the questions…” The key is having the kids create and send in their own games, telling their own stories…i.e. NextraTerrestrial.com 

 

Later,

 

Gary