let me begin by saying, i am in fact a big fan of both puppeteers and ventriloquists. you're both dynamos in my book!! and my interest in your craft is what makes my plea all the more urgent. see, i sense a gulf brewing between you two groups of artisans. a beef growing between the two factions at the clubs and coffeehouses and street corners of your performances. i've grown increasingly wary of the arguments and bickering i've seen between the ventriloquist and puppeteer communities at your gigs and functions. and my goal is to end it now, to in fact squash this beef!
perhaps it was always inevitable that you titans would clash. you have much more in common as performers than perhaps you would like to assume: there are major similiaries between your works. and now with the economy in a standstill and your audiences nitpicking precisely where to spend their entertainment dollar, both professions increasingly wage battle as you try to book the same venues and attract the same consumer, and find these consumers choosing one or the other. your demographic simply overlaps. in a perfect world, the public would support both groups.
and who am i to be getting all highfalutin on ya'll, you ask? well i'm the customer, the rare one out there who has been supporting both sides. and i just feel it's time to hash this all out. i'm proposing a sitdown of sorts, a roundtable discussion which i am willing to mediate. these proceedings shall take place at a neutral site, preferably in north america, with the clear intentions of discussing the problems and obstacles faced from the perspective of both camps, and how we can all specifically overcome them. let's be civil and grow together. we don't have to join hands and sing 'com by
i'm gonna give both sides a few days to think about this. but make no mistake, we are now at the precipice. the crossroads. and it is here where i will once again state my position : i consider both groups to be beautiful mechanisms of the universe! LET'S END THIS DANG GULF!
