Yall checkyisshit out!

I just sent this to a friend of mine, and am goin to send it to some others as well, folks from around the world that I know personally, and although it was not meant to be such when I started the email, it has caused somethin unique and cool to be born that made me think of Josh's awesome news letters! Anyway... let me know what yall thank!!!

Begin transmission of foo that I have copied from the email to here:

This is your manual subscription notification from Daniel Runyon Com that there is new content that you might wind up gittin some enjoyment out of. You will find said new content in two location of the Daniel Runyon Network of websites, linked thusly:

http://www.danielrunyon.com/audio/timeoftheevenin

and

http://www.danielrunyon.com/blawg/familychaw

to

http://www.henrynorris.org/

you may also find this email exchange between Daniel Runyon and one of is Atlanta wedding video customers entertaining, and even informative about how Daniel Runyon really is as a person!

First, this was what had happened up to this point to trigger it:

Hello Daniel,

We do understand your situation. As stated in your e-mail, we expect to receive our DVDs no later than next week.

Junior

> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:06:37 -0400
> Subject: Re: Wedding Video Update
>
> Hey there Junior,
>
> I am very sorry about my time frame, I hope you will understand when I
> tell you what we have been dealing with. We recently discovered some very
> shocking things that happened in our family 4 generations back. None of
> us knew about it, but discovered it. The news quickly spread through the
> 250 descendants that are tied directly to it. It was decided that we
> would have to hold an emergency family reunion before some of the key
> people were gone forever. I have had to leave and find these long lost
> family members and document their stories before they are dead, which
> will probably not be very long from now, because all we had to go on were
> an article from the 1886 New York Times and Atlanta Journal.
>
> It has caused me an EXTREME shock, and a delay of about two weeks that
> has caused me all kinds of troubles with my entire operation, but this
> event and family reunion with people we have never even heard of before
> could not be put aside, as it is only going to happen this ONE time and
> cannot be repeated, so I really hope you will understand that you will
> have your wedding video for the rest of your lives, but I will never be
> able to attend this event but this ONE time that it is all happening. I
> will be back in town this weekend, and will mail out your videos this
> coming Monday. I am terribly sorry that yall have had to wait, but from
> one human being to another I believe that most anyone could understand.
>
> Not to mention I had already gotten a little bit behind BEFORE your
> wedding, as I told you on your wedding day, because my wife's mother's
> mother died in Peru just one week before, and we had to coordinate
> between family in New York, Georgia, Miami, and Peru, between several
> brothers and sisters of my wife's mother. It has been one crazy last
> couple of months! Please forgive and understand.
>
> Daniel
>
> Junior John wrote:
> > Hello Daniel,
> >
> > We would like to find out if you have already posted the 3 DVDs and if
> > not when would you be doing so, seeing that our payment
> > has already been cahsed.
> >
> > Junior
> >
> > > Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 2212 -0400
> > > Subject: Re: Wedding Video Update
Hey there Junior, yes, I got your check yesterday and deposited it today. I send out DVDs after payments have cleared which generally takes 3 or 4 days, and I should be done with yours by then... I'm going back through it and making some adjustments here and there, and I made some cool changes to the clip that I showed you (other than the names / date) that I think yall will like a lot. I have not put the new version on the site
though, as it's no small amount of trouble to prepare and convert the
file for the web!

Daniel

Junior John wrote:
Hello Daniel,

I called this morning to find out if you have received our payment and when would we be receiving the 3 DVDs. Please let us know as we would like to send them to our families.
> > > > Junior

and THIS is what I told his ass:

Would you like me to send them by the deadline you have given, even if for some reason I am not completely finished?

Let me tell you somethin fellow... I do wedding video so that I do not have to be told what to do by any bosses. Wedding video is a creative art and NOT a manufacturing process. When I get spoken to as you have to me in the last couple of emails, I do not feel very creative.

Perhaps you are also forgetting, as I told you in an earlier email, that because your footage and music was working so well together, I GAVE you a Fancy Edit Cinematic Introduction at NO EXTRA CHARGE. Do you know that it usually takes me about one month or so to edit one of those?

You will have your wedding video for the rest of your lives. It will not hurt you in the least to wait until I am finished giving you the best of my creative ability in preserving your magical day. I had a REALLY good time at your wedding and thought your entire family was FILLED with wonderful people. But when you hired me, you were commissioning an artist, not hiring a factory machinist, and you signed a contract that said in BOLD LETTERS something to the effect of "If you are looking for fast food video, you would be advised to seek the services of another videographer".

I am just being straight up human with you. You will have your wedding video, but do not talk to me in a manner such as that. I have just discovered that my Great Great Granddaddy was the only man ever hung by the court around here, for mutilating a man who made fun of his tobacco and for being poor. It was in 1886, and I do believe that I have inherited his lack of ability to take foo off of anyone, so my apologies, but I just spent the day at the tree where he was hanged, and read aloud the sentence as it was handed down from the judge in 1886. Good day to you sir, and do know that I still think yall were really awesome people.

This concludes the first official Daniel Runyon Newsletter, to which you have been subscribed whether you like it or not. So far, I have only sent this to one recipient, as it was intended for him (you), but I suppose now you will not know if it was YOU you, or another you who was first, as after crafting this one I simply copied and pasted... ok... I will tell you... it was Adam Ellis, who you will find featured among the Folks I Know (Or Somethin) at Daniel Runyon Com! Unfortunately, there is NO WAY to unsubscribe from The Official Daniel Runyon Newsletter. You can TRY to block this email address, but I will just use another. You can TRY to set up a filter to not let emails with the words Daniel Runyon anywhere in them come through, but I will just use a code name. Face it... you are perty well fucked, my friend!

Daniel