From: Gary S.
Gevisser [gsg@sellnext.com]
Sent:
To: 'Stacy Ann'
Cc: rest
Subject: RE: Barbados
Stacy, I don’t believe in “accidents”
although I know for “certain” that mistakes happen only when we are
rushed.
There are though no certainties in life just “high,
medium and low probabilities” as in
Quantum Mechanics although those “failed students”
of mine from the University of Natal, South Africa who rather than learn about
the “art of larceny” decided to go study
art would be well aware of the fact that a good painting is made up of 3
things, shape, values and chroma; the shape, always happy to get the
“4shortening write” [sic], the “values”, the
various shades of gray remaining constant throughout the canvas while the
“chroma”, the richness of the colors, the high, medium and low
chroma go back and forth just like a wave, fortunate we are to have perhaps
Learning how to get away with “lying stealing and
cheating” is pretty much all that attracts youngsters to business school
these days quite opposite to the teachings of folks like Pythagoras and his
inner circle made up of multi-task oriented women.
Yesterday’s birthday celebration was a sight to behold
with more than 20 of his students ranging from ages 19 to well into their 70s
possibly even 80s showing up to pay “homage” to this incredible
professor who can cater to all types, rarely if ever losing his cool, including
incompetent artist-painters such as myself. 32 had planned to be there were it
not for a crane toppling over where the 5 freeway meets the 805 in what became
the longest wait in the history of San Diego commuters which had many folks
like me wanting to pull out their laptops and to get on to the World Wide Wait.
Actually it would have been impossible for me to pull out my
computer since I had Marie riding pillion and it is doubtful she would have
allowed me to type away even if I had found an ingenious way to strap the laptop
to the gas tank of the Ducati. Despite the traffic
lights being out and bumper to bumper traffic we made it from
I am though once again “under the gun” to get
moving this morning having to meet our first Grubby and GirlieGarb.com
“franchisee” downtown in less than 30 minutes.
Mr. Butler, a real
estate agent I have communicated with before just called Marie’s house
“pleading” with Marie not to go ahead and sell the house this
morning, “Do you know what I can sell it for. I just sold a house in the
neighborhood…” Marie though has developed quite a way to cut people
short bearing in mind though I can when “ambulant” accomplish a
task that took her all of 15 seconds in less than 3 seconds, as long as it
takes for me say www.sellnext.com.
Right now Marie is having fun with Pypeetoe who is getting, “mean.”
Devin
Standard, the executor of my estate, who is right now
“canvassing” his move to Colorado where he plans to join a
conglomerate with “water” related business responded to this last E-mail of mine by
letting me know; “Gary: 1/2 my ancestors emigrated to the USA from Barbados. My dad's
folks. DSS”
I still look forward to getting a
phone call from his now “skiing-all-talk buddy” Polie “Pollster”
Pollak. You may have read in one of my previous emails how my wife who when we
first met I referred to as “Tokolosh” thinking that it was Zulu for
“witchdoctor” once commented as she arose one morning, always
smelling like a rose, “I may be a Tokolosh but you sure talk a lot”
[sic].
The reason for the “sic”
is that I am all butt
certain Marie didn’t use the word “sure” for she is ever so
brief with her words and I know better than to test her patience. By the way
before Devin became a budding entrepreneur he did a lot
of running around the world on behalf of Colgate’s Mennem division.
At first I thought your were “Stacy Fried” and
wondered whether you received the reply email I sent her back on May 9th?
Again, do not be put off by my “round about” way of
communicating for there really is sense to much of the Chaos in this world
especially those in tune who haven’t bought into the nonsense of
“what you lose on the swings you can make up on the roundabouts”
never to forget that folks are beginning to treasure their cents more than
their dollars as the currency printing presses work overtime.
Back in the late 1989 I was called in to restructure the Epilady USA “empire” whose main backers had
interests in amusement parks to mention little of the identical twin Krok
brothers’ strong foothold in the pharmaceutical industry back in South
Africa that catered in many ways to the somewhat deprived masses, once a bone
of contention between myself and my more eloquent journalist cousin, Mark
Gevisser, who at the time of the Broadway musical revival, Meet Me in St.
Louis, wanted to make more “hey” [sic] out of the
Kroks’ skin lightening creams than I thought wasn’t warranted to
mention little of his father’s role in assisting the likes of
Although I had very little experience in the “deportment shop” [sic]
business and even less in the mass market and none whatsoever in
Shareholder Class-Action Litigation
I was able to draw from both sides of my family’s
“operations” in South Africa but mostly from reading my
father’s logbooks from WWII.
Perhaps most telling about my father besides being a rather good
fighter-bomber-pilot was his ability to express himself in the most precise
way, always telling the truth even if he and his fellow pilots hit the
“wrong target” fortunate enough though to have a commanding officer
who between operations 25 and 26 had the good sense to send him and two buddies
off to Cannes for a week where they got, “2 D/Hs + 1 FAIR MISS.”
I just noticed that today is the opening of the 56th Cannes Film Festival. A few years
back I attended one of these festivals going from one yacht to another
never once, however, losing my grip despite the slippery slopes associated with
this “rough and tumble” business in many ways like the SCAL
business although whereas people like
I have a cousin in the
movie business whose claim to fame is that he co-produced Saving Private Ryan
with Steven Spielberg and God only knows what spiel Gary Lewinson put forth but
obviously it was enough to sway a master film maker like Spielberg who I hear
is a rather conservative investor putting a good chunk of his savings into
things like Treasury Bills, the schmuck.
In due course I will be following up with Professor
Klein of
The reaction to this last E-mail you were copied on was quite
varied to mention little of a best selling author and senior journalist for the
New York Times
deciding to contact me after quite an absence. Timing like numbers is the
essence of all things, good or evil, wouldn’t you agree?
Trust me there are going to be very interesting times ahead
and I don’t think you wont to be left out nor do I think the world will
be better off without your continued input.
Let me also know if you would like to get together again;
for one thing I would like to show you the business model Marie and I are now
wanting to perfect that should start the world, especially our kids, thinking
straight to mention little of Jonathan’s mouse trap which shows that
despite “head trips” galore he remains capable of thinking outside
of the box.
From: Stacy Ann
[mailto:stacya613@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 1:17
PM
To: gsg@sellnext.com
Subject: RE: Barbados
This was sent to me, I'm assuming on accident. You may
want to check your email addresses.
Thanks, Stacy
