November 2000

My Plan Will Make Us Famous

OFFICIAL ERI MEMO
To: Sketchy
From: Godzilla
RE: I have a plan

Ok, right. Hold on. I had an idea so insanely brilliant about 5 minutes ago that I...well...I don't know what.

I have a plan.

OK listen: It's a two man operation and I think you're just the man for the job. Here's how it goes. We'll both go into a room. You will become inconspicuous. I will loudly start to make an incredibly over-emotive speech out of the blue. It will be nothing but cliches. I will end the speech with a long dramatic pause. Then I will look around as if for approval. Then you will stand up and start slowly clapping. This is how we will trick everyone into agreeing with you. We will toy with their emotions. I will be a hero and get my name, with picture, in the paper.

After we repeat this enough times, preferably at very public places like art museums, subways, and maybe even the mall, we will become famous.

People may consider it quite underground and almost renegade art. People will go about their daily lives in our city hoping that their day will be "interrupted" by our routine. People will let us into everything for free, too. It will be quite a phenomenon. We'll probably get to go on Letterman or Carson (but a time machine is not involved with this plan, so I guess that's out).

We should get practicing. After a while we can have Open Practices on the Mall or something. That will give us a good cult following, too.

Riches are bound to follow.

I've got my thinking cap on.