Payment

It occurs to me that you have yet to pay me the $5,000 or so I've been trying to get from you for quite a while now. I'd be willing to settle for $1,500 if you could get the money to me in the next week or so. My lawyer's moving up to NYC on the first, so I'd be in a better position to actually take legal action against you. I'm also a bit more resourceful than I was last time we spoke insomuch as that I now write for Vanity Fair, The Huffington Post, Skeptic, The Onion, True/Slant - all of this has happened in the last three months - and have my second book coming out next year, in addition some other projects. So it's only a matter of time before I have enough extra money to hire a private investigator.

Additionally, I've discovered a very effective way to put some heat on those who owe me money - a fellow named Tony Anglesey, for instance, owed me $900 for work I did for him a year ago and had initially declined to pay me; he has now changed his mind due to an interesting trick I pulled that had prevented him from being able to do business with anyone who bothered to Google his name - which is most people these days. What I did was detail the situation on a site called Encyclopedia Dramatica, where I've been an editor for a while, and did so in such a way that this account was the first result for his name. Aside from lost business opportunities, the article would have been seen by anyone who looked him up for any reason, for all eternity. You may recall that you did not come off as looking particularly honest in the brief exchange you had with the administrator of Writer's Weekly a couple years back; the fact that a CNN contributor who met you, is owed money by you, and knows full well your role in Evote would just make the piece all the more blatantly damning, and Constantini has agreed to help me out on this. As for Anglesey, I took his article down two days ago when cut me a check; if you'd like to verify all this with him, I can put you in touch.

If this is acceptable to you, please get back to me ASAP. Again, I would want the check for $1,500 within a week, as I need to pay off some unexpected medical bills and won't be getting paid for all of my nifty recent work for another month and a half. As I noted above, I'm going to be bringing in a lot more money soon, so at some point I'd be less interested in receiving a settlement than I would be in attempting to collect the entire $5,152 and also setting it up so that you'll be forever known for what you did to me; in case you're wondering, I lost my apartment, went into debt, and had to go work as a furniture mover for about six months because of the way in which you screwed me over. You can probably imagine that this is the sort of thing I'm not going to just give up on, no matter how much money I'm about to bring in with my new gigs or how famous I get or whatever else.