July 2, 2024: Now I’m getting notes on projects I’m not even working on!

Today I received the following email: ”

“Hi Joseph,

A bit of editing on the Sc. 26.

P 22 Should read after Charlie says “And send me his address. Can’t wait to meet this guy.”

Charlie: A Uniformed Officer is holding him at the warehouse. I’m sending you the address. (or something like that)

Jesse: All in a day’s work, huh,  Good job.

Otherwise reads like he’s being brought in and is a bit confusing.

Thanks for all this though.”

Charlie?

Jesse?

I was confused, checked the sender.  It was an executive I had exchanged emails with in the past, but not someone I had actually worked with.  As I was trying to make sense of the email, I received another email, this time from a second executive who had been cc’d on the first:

“Joseph, once these changes are made we can release but take a beat to read it over tonight because it doesn’t play until next week.”

Her I did not know.  Obviously, they had the wrong Joseph.  I thought of just ignoring the mistake but figured the other Joseph might catch flak for not making the necessary script changes.  On the other hand, sending an email along the lines of: “Guys, wrong Joseph” felt kind of embarrassing.  After some thought, I opted for the following group response:

“Hey All,

I”m working on a rewrite that kind of changes the fourth act so that Charlie and Jesse end up adopting a pet monkey who can figure into future episodes helping to solve crimes and offering comic relief but some pathos as well as he was also abandoned by his father.  He’ll be sort of like Marcel from the first season of Friends but with more of an attitude.Hope you like this idea.  I was going to pitch you first before writing but figured we were pressed for time so I just went ahead and did it.Can’t wait to get your thoughts!Joe”Here’s hoping they love the idea.

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