From: Gary S. Gevisser
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 2:08 PM
To: Hulett Esq, hi Professor Brown, I just noticed that I misspelled Kirk’s last name in my post 687 on The Buck Stops Here.
Cc: rest
Subject: Symposium?

Kirk good afternoon.

Just on an hour ago after sending my last email I got off a 7 minute and 11 second phone call with Jeffrey Krinsk, first though speaking very briefly with his one assistant Joan who knows, like my wife, how very sensitive my dog Pypeetoe is in recognizing pain, right now he is pressed square against my back not wearing however, his green sweater, but very much sound asleep.

The call was interrupted just very briefly when Devin Standard following up on communications from yesterday called tu say, “Hello…” there now being an additional hyperlink on the email I sent him back on 12-20-02.

And of course u know I am smart enough not tu call Jeffrey, at least to his face, a jerk, 4 the simple reason he would have every right tu respond in kind, my being late 4 our Wednesday Chicken Pot Lunch the result of my laptop computer once again heating up it close tu, it seems 212 degrees Fahrenheit, i.e. boiling point, corrupting a number of files that led to this email tu an attorney in South Africa “ready to go tu war”, being delayed.

I just had to shut down and restart my computer.

Tragic, some would argue, that Vasgo De Garma, I believe Portuguese, had unfavorable winds when passing thru the Cape of Storms back in the 1500s leaving the door open 4 the Dutch in the form of Jan Van Reinbeck a ship captain working for the Dutch East India Company tu approach the dark but very rich continent from the south end with nothing short of a wrecking ball, the Portuguese being sumwhat less hostile to peoples of different race; my knowledge though, of South African history marred in many ways by my lack of attentiveness at school given the indoctrination by our teachers to mention little of the Capos keeping us all in check, not much different to how things operate here on the west coast of the United States, although I wouldn’t trade places with anyone, anywhere at this time, life just incredibly good, nothing like being perfectly positioned to watch a new sunrise each and ever day, particularly knowing as certain as one human being can be that the winds of change will ultimately help not just those in need but tu hell with needy people, agree?

I am though willing tu still meet with u but it would have to be over here at the Del Mar Plaza where it is possible my friend David is working cing tu it that we get the best cuts of meat and I think it is only right that I inform you that the Strous “butcher” family from Durban, South Africa, were not Rabbi Abner Weiss’ or my family’s kosher butcher, probably only a gentile family cing enough of this pittance of a market tu make a go of it; my friend Irwin’s mother once eaten by a lion, remember I have no hard evidence of how many X the dead return, not exactly “quid pro quo” unless u consider eating animals inhumane.

Abner Weiss though, still missing, no doubt at this time more than a handful of ex-Carmel College students, their kids, parents and grandparents having read why Rabbi Weiss didn’t use the occasion on the FARCE-FAST when remembering “the dead” to declare “loud & clear” the following:

As much as it pains me at this hour, particularly the fact that I may not be able to be with my family to celebrate the ‘breaking of the fast’ since it is unlikely I will get support from any of the other leaders of community when members of BOSS don’t simply wiretap my telephone but decide to arrest and then ban me, I am compelled by my read of the First Commandment, ‘I am the Lord Thy God, who delivered the Children of Israel out of the land of Egypt out of the House of Slavery, never to return’ which to me also means that we cannot tolerate the slavery of others which is what this Apartheid regime has implemented nationwide, no different to what the Nazis did during WWII and what the English did to the Afrikaner people during the Anglo Boer War of 1899-1900, to instruct each and every one of you here today, parents and children alike, to leave in unison this place of worship that has been vilified by the likes of the Lazarus family who are all seated below me to my right as well as above to my left, and to remind you all what I have you read aloud, each and every Friday Night that is as holy as this day of Atonement, ‘Guard my tongue from evil and my lips from speaking vile… May the Lord Bless you and keep you, may he cause his face to shine upon you and be gracious unto u …” [sic].

Which leads me to the thrust of how tu make the most of our next meeting, still not knowing whether Stonehenge II is still standing although as of 12:34PM PST a neighbor friend sent me an email, “Hi Gary--as nearly as we can find out the cabins are fine for now.”

Cutting tu the chase, simply go tu the www.footsak.com website and read Perfect Storm II and then take a look at my E-mails to Thomas Stephens Esq. and Lester Houtz Esq, u should recall once speaking tu Les and of course u had only very positive things tu say about me, not that u will necessarily forgive me 4 my decision to “blow up” the Splash Technology shareholder class action lawsuit, just consider it “water under a duck’s back.”

And, naturally, it would be even more ridiculous tu assume that since the word “Splash” contains the word “Ash”, my mother’s maiden name, that would have had any bearing on my decision tu do the right move and sock it tu Milberg Weiss blah blah.

Time is running out and it is my opinion that we can short-circuit a whole lot of unprecedented misery and heartache at least in modern X by acting very responsibly at this time.

U no doubt recall how we first became acquainted my seeking “guidance” in making the president of HomeFed Corporation “ante up” 4 having driven me tu my “wits end” without my succumbing though, tu his dictates that I sign away my soul as in conscience, be4 getting my “pittance” consulting fee, having though produced, even if I say so myself, a pretty good not-so-happy, “Status Report”; not all that surprising, however, that it was a matter of time be4 the stock of Homefed and its parent company, Leucadia National Corporation [LUK] headed up by the likes of Joe Steinberg and Ian Cumming, tu the best of my knowledge still in a $6 billion joint venture with Warren “BO” Buffet, went thru the roof.

And of course the University of Witwatersrand in the province of Transvaal in South Africa had its fair share of exceptional students, very possibly my cousin Dr. Barry Molk and his father Dr. Leizer Molk both attending this fine institution producing though professionals who didn’t get that much more of a salary than say a good plumber, which is certainly not the reason why Leizer Molk and my brother’s sister, Daphne Gevisser decided to emigrate from South Africa with their 3 sons, 2 physicians and a lawyer.

I never told u everything about me including my desire to die richer than Charles Engelhard, my uncle David Gevisser, who u c in the center of the photo contained in the previous hyperlink. his “sole executor”, Engelhard, perhaps at the time, the richest person in the world other than my mother, her ability to run circles around the likes of everyone I have ever met including David Gevisser, more than a figment of my prolific imagination, doing everything I can to get my mother to produce a balance sheet prior to G-D extending her a hand saying,

“Time tu give u a break from The Rattlesnake.”

Just 4 the record, Mr. Borden of Homefed possibly deciding tu get back on the bottle not sure when or where that Status Report will be aired, I have though, no idea how much money my mother actually pocketed from being consigliore to sum of the richest and most powerful people in the world including Aristotle Onassis, possible at this time that she has cashed in the handful of pretty decent diamonds kept 4 donkey years in her brazier, very doubtful, however, my incredible mother provided her invaluable services 4 simply “chicken feed”, hi William H. Jackson, don’t get a “hard on” just because I acknowledge having a “prolific imagination” u idiot.

Kirk, I do, have every reason tu believe that mother, moth tu the flames, and my step-father, Alan Zulman, who was one of the youngest “self made” millionaires in South Africa are spending or giving away what remains of their estates as if there was no tomorrow, nothing quite like the competitive spirit tu destroy all the good that is out there and why the need, I believe, for each one of us tu c ourselves as part of one big team, as in New Tribe, agree?

And just like I don’t know everything about u u r only beginning to know what really makes me tick but make no mistake once Symposium II assuming there isn’t already another Symposium II, gets underway geared toward effectuating total transparency beginning with those who use the public airwaves to peddle their wares, snake oil et al, u will c sum virtue in at least looking into why Citicorp Ventures Corporation [CVC] would bring someone like Newell “Loser” Starks, sidelined, the most euphemistic word I could think of, 4 going on at least a decade, to “spearhead” their incredibly “hostile” acquisition of Stratos Lightwave Inc.

Remember also Knowledge is Light, knowing one’s area of expertise along with one’s limitations critical to having a happy and fruitful lunch.

And if u r into it we could catch a wave or too immediately following our getting together.

Take care, latchkey email will be next.

Gary

Ps – U can also reach me on my cell phone, 1-858-SEL-NEXT