6/25/2007
Dear Advil,
Give this Dominique fleur a wide berth; she's a total scam with no interest in holding up her end once you've anted up your part. As for the piece (the post-retirement hardships piece), agreed that this isn't running in the direction envisioned. Hang more to the economic angle. The dog-food meat loaf, etc. Also bear in mind that nobody much gives a damn about post-retirement hardships.
Meanwhile, Toscanava has once again taken a sweet human-interest niblet and turned it into something scurrilous. It's the one with the young lady who always skips down to welcome home her seafaring father, a merchant ship's captain. At least, it was. Now it's been bundled to B-listed distributors under a new label:
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 Most Effusively & Exponentially,
Fladrilatts
6/26/2007
Dear Foorsht,
Have we not taught you how to crack the knuckles of the many rogues in our employ? That scoundrel's darkest work is yet ahead. --But are the coffers tinkling?
Yet I can hardly dwell on your responsibilities whilst woes 'round my own hind shanks do surge. I sent young Bailess out, infused with an uncommonly generous expense allowance, to get the A-to-Z on National Fire Hall Week and our suspendered heroes of the flame game. Two weeks later, in response to my measured inquiry, Bailess returned a memo reading simply, "Here it is," accompanied by this:
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You will notice the preternatural likeness that the intrepid inventor depicted bears to our own young Mr. Bailess, whose cubicle is adorned with portraiture of himself and of countless ladyfriends, renderings precisely of this style & stroke albeit sans paraphernalia, signatured by the street artists crowding city square over amidst the pubs and cathouses of the liquor district.
Really, Frumish, are your burdens then greater? (Sigh.)
In breathless anticipation of the unstymied rotundity of your health & fortune,
Adwunkis
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