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To: Adam Doree, Mike
Smuland, Craig Hansen and Gavin Frankle
Subject: An Offer!
Dear NintendoWeb, SegaWeb, SonyWeb, PCGamerWeb
and whateverthehellelseyouhavethatendsinWeb,
Hello! I am a starry-eyed young scamp
taking his first few steps into the icy
pond of internet journalism! I am currently
looking for a place to lay my world-weary
hat and start making money! With the money
I make from internet videogame writing,
I hope to buy a new car or pay my tuition
or ADOPT A DINOSAUR. As you can clearly
tell, my command of the language is akin
to the command a magician holds over those
quarters in your ear! To put it more simply,
I'm quite good!
GamerWeb has always been my favourite site
on the internet! Even before it
existed, it was my favourite. I used to
connect to www.gamerweb.com and just
stare at that white 404 page -- so cold,
so impassive, so right. I knew something
great would grow there. I knew life would
spring from that oh-so-fertile dirt. And
you know, I think something HAS. A cabbage.
Or perhaps a beet root. No, wait -- cabbage.
You guys are CABBAGE!
Anyways, the reason I am writing to you
today is because, as I'm sure you are aware,
Nintendo is planning on releasing its handheld
console "Gameboy Advance" (NOT
Cowboy Vance) in the coming week. To put
it mildly, this is BIG BIG news! I am EXCITED
and IMPASSIONED and probably a little SLEEPY.
This is like the Buffalo Bills winning the
by god superbowl and then cheering wildly
and celebrating before playing Dodgeball
and fitting in my pocket! It is HUGE! It
is MASSIVE! It is http://www.thesaurus.com/cgi-bin/search?config=roget&words=big!
Regardless, I feel that I can combine my
burgeoning internet writing career and my
need to own a Gameboy Advance! And I feel
that you, GamerWeb, are
just the people to help me. I, Ed "Arbuckle"
Vincent will write for GamerWeb.com and
all its subsidiaries if you meet my following
terms:
-- One (1) Gameboy Advance shipped to
ME. For no cost to myself or to my
dear dear mother.
-- One (1) cute greeting card included
with the aforementioned Gameboy
Advance. Perhaps something congratulatory
with kittens or puppies or a Far
Side cartoon.
And that is all! Give me those and I will
come onto your website network as a fully-paid
salaried writer, or perhaps an editor, or
even EDITOR IN CHIEF if you want. I will
work very hard! You can count on me. I have
been in this business for almost two weeks
now and really feel I have a lot to contribute.
Why, just other day I was mulling about
my house in front of a roaring fire when
I thought to myself, "I have a lot
to contribute. Also, we're out of MILK!"
Do you like 1%, 2%, or Whole milk best?
I like milk because it gives me strong bones!
Thank you for your time. If this offer
is acceptable to you -- and I can't see
any fathomable reason why it couldn't be
-- please feel free to reply to this, and
I will give you my proper mailing address!
I really think I have a bright future at
GamerWeb or perhaps the Milk Factory!
Your pal,
Ed Vincent

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