Comments on: VINDICATED! – Part 2 of a 3 Part Series http://www.foolishtreefilms.com/blog/jo-blog/vindicated-%e2%80%93-part-2-of-a-3-part-series/ Let's make a movie! Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:39:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Schmaltzy Ferguson http://www.foolishtreefilms.com/blog/jo-blog/vindicated-%e2%80%93-part-2-of-a-3-part-series/comment-page-1/#comment-143 Schmaltzy Ferguson Tue, 13 Apr 2010 01:30:47 +0000 http://www.foolishtreefilms.com/?p=1705#comment-143 Gee Jo, San Francisco sounds like Shangra-La! Here in Washington DC, where I live, being "normal" means you're a stressed-out, dissatisfied, workaholic kvetch. But lucky for me, I landed on my feet mostly, stayed mild and mellow, and hey: abi gezunt, lots of T&A, but no sweetie pie, alas. (hey Jo-can you post this in one of them wild California personal ad sites-you know: "I wish they all could be California ...la,la,la,la...") As a working DC "society" musician, though now barely working due to the breakdown of society as we knew it, I am used to reinventing myself every 7 years. Example: in '84, I began calling myself into a jazz violinist. It was not quite true then, but I kept on imagining it was until it happened. Believe me, no one has made an idiot of themselves on stage in so many categories as I have! Fortunately, I chose to believed this to be chutzpah, and not the insanity it may have been. Nonetheless, trying to play jazz forced made me re-learn violin after having quit for 7 years. I suceeded, one day at a time, thanks to Ronda Cole's Greater Washington Suzuki Institute and to Jes..(just kidding-I'm Unitarian) These violin master teachers are incredible-like modern-day samurai. It has been exhilarating running along after them, trying to play and become one of them, a real teacher-plus teaching keeps me in green tea and sushi. But I'm liked by children and old people, so I'm probably not a jerk, but my sisters keep saying if I would just grow up, and do what mature persons do, I would have a significant other who wasn't a dragon puppet! So I must not be vindicated yet. But don't you feel sad for the people for whom the "ladder just broke." What a rude awakening for mainstream Ohio Methodists, like cousins I left: "haves" who became over night have-nots. No wonder people are so edgy, with crazy tea people toting shotguns along on thier riding mowers. Makes you glad you left Ohio, huh ? Lucky for me, all my sibblings followed me to the East coast, did alright, and made me a proud aunt of 5; and even though a wacky bohemian sister, I did put in an astonishing number of free babysitting hours. Sorry for this long-winded epistle, Jo! Next time I'll just write on your email. What is it, BTW ? I am very glad to hear that life has been good to you, Jo, and you didn't suffer at the hands of too many jerks, with or without hair going up or hanging down, but did at last find a soul mate. You are vindicated. You go girl! Gee Jo,
San Francisco sounds like Shangra-La! Here in Washington DC, where I live, being “normal” means you’re a stressed-out, dissatisfied, workaholic kvetch. But lucky for me, I landed on my feet mostly, stayed mild and mellow, and hey: abi gezunt, lots of T&A, but no sweetie pie, alas. (hey Jo-can you post this in one of them wild California personal ad sites-you know: “I wish they all could be California …la,la,la,la…”)

As a working DC “society” musician, though now barely working due to the breakdown of society as we knew it, I am used to reinventing myself every 7 years. Example: in ’84, I began calling myself into a jazz violinist. It was not quite true then, but I kept on imagining it was until it happened. Believe me, no one has made an idiot of themselves on stage in so many categories as I have! Fortunately, I chose to believed this to be chutzpah, and not the insanity it may have been.

Nonetheless, trying to play jazz forced made me re-learn violin after having quit for 7 years. I suceeded, one day at a time, thanks to Ronda Cole’s Greater Washington Suzuki Institute and to Jes..(just kidding-I’m Unitarian) These violin master teachers are incredible-like modern-day samurai. It has been exhilarating running along after them, trying to play and become one of them, a real teacher-plus teaching keeps me in green tea and sushi.

But I’m liked by children and old people, so I’m probably not a jerk, but my sisters keep saying if I would just grow up, and do what mature persons do, I would have a significant other who wasn’t a dragon puppet! So I must not be vindicated yet.

But don’t you feel sad for the people for whom the “ladder just broke.” What a rude awakening for mainstream Ohio Methodists, like cousins I left: “haves” who became over night have-nots. No wonder people are so edgy, with crazy tea people toting shotguns along on thier riding mowers. Makes you glad you left Ohio, huh ? Lucky for me, all my sibblings followed me to the East coast, did alright, and made me a proud aunt of 5; and even though a wacky bohemian sister, I did put in an astonishing number of free babysitting hours. Sorry for this long-winded epistle, Jo! Next time I’ll just write on your email. What is it, BTW ?

I am very glad to hear that life has been good to you, Jo, and you didn’t suffer at the hands of too many jerks, with or without hair going up or hanging down, but did at last find a soul mate. You are vindicated. You go girl!

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