This week, Studio Reader Stan meets with studio executive, Mr. Brick.
Studio Reader Stan enters Mr. Brick's office.
Mr. Brick: Good, you’re here. I really need you to start chopping down the trees in my backyard. They’re ruining my view of my neighbor’s pool.
Studio Reader Stan: Uh, I’m not your gardener. I’m the studio reader that your receptionist told you three seconds ago was coming into your office.
Mr. Brick: Oh yeah, the studio reader. I called you in because all of our big summer blockbusters last year tanked. I need you readers to stop sending me such crap.
Studio Reader Stan: If you’ll recall, no readers read any of the scripts you filmed last summer.
Mr. Brick: So what am I paying you for?
Studio Reader Stan: You aren’t. We only get paid when we read.
Mr. Brick: So how’d those movies get made?
Studio Reader Stan: Each script was given to you by one of your producer friends, and therefore they bypassed all the readers.
Mr. Brick: I don’t accept excuses for your failures. Just don’t let me down me again.
Studio Reader Stan: Okay, well, I just read one of the scripts in your pipeline called, “Rats meet Bats” and it was a horrible piece of dreck. I would suggest you take it out of your pipeline immediately.
Mr. Brick: That’s our number one project. We expect it to break box office records.
Studio Reader Stan: Have you read it?
Mr. Brick: No. One of my producer friends gave it to me.
Studio Reader Stan: When it fails miserably, are you going to remember that I tried to warn you about it?
Mr. Brick: Are you suggesting I can’t remember who deserves praise and who deserves scorn?
Studio Reader Stan: Based on our conversation so far, yes.
Mr. Brick: That’s ridiculous... It’s your memory I worry about. How many times have I asked you not to over-water the begonias? Now hurry back to work. There’s pruning to be done.
Thirteen Sick Tasteless Classics, Part II is adult literature featuring adult language and situations that satirizes thirteen famous novellas and short stories. It is Jay Dubya's sixteenth ebook.
