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Date:   Tue, 26 Dec 2006 22:04:32 -0600
Reply-To:   Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
Sender:   Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:   Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
Subject:   Re: Come out of the closet, all
Comments:   To: Joy Hecht <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To:   <5hbed6$a3huma@smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net>
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There seems to be > snob thing about calling oneself an artist, or creative, or > "dancing to a > different drummer" - as if it made us all so exceptional and > different and > therefore somehow superior to all those more mundane folks out > there. I > don't want to go there.

Why is it that you think that in calling myself an artist--I paint, illustrate, design and write for a living--that I'm being any more of a "snob" than someone who calls himself or herself an engineer or policeman or attorney?

If there's snobbery about my profession, it seems to be coming from that chip on your shoulder, not mine. I am an artist, have never been anything but an artist, and have never been expected (until now) to apologize for it (which I won't).

Don't call me a snob because of what I do.

Jim > > > > Joy > > > :::-----Original Message----- > :::From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On > Behalf > :::Of joe trussell > :::Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 8:04 PM > :::To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > :::Subject: Re: Come out of the closet, all > ::: > :::This is a good topic, and I apologize for coming to the party > late--it's > :::been a busy weekend! > ::: > :::I write and occasionally get published, although I'm not sure if > that > :::makes > :::me a writer. I write poetry, and some of that gets published as > well, > :::but > :::I'm not sure if it's art. > ::: > :::I've been playing guitar in a band called Chester Drawers for > thirteen > :::years, a band that consists of me and a buddy who get together > once a > :::week > :::and drink beer and learn songs, but we've never actually played > a gig in > :::an > :::establishment, so I don't know if that makes me a musician. > ::: > :::I occasionally cater parties and events with jambalaya, gumbo, > boiled > :::crawfish, or fried catfish, but that doesn't make me a chef. > ::: > :::I've been in the securities industry for twelve years, but I do > it to pay > :::the bills and choose not to let the career dictate how I live (I > have my > :::kids for that). > ::: > :::I drive a Vanagon and have torn it down and rebuilt it along > with a dozen > :::other cars, but that doesn't make me a mechanic. > ::: > :::Driving this Vanagon puts me in about a .01 percentile among > drivers in > :::this > :::country, and I like that. As I've said before, my vehicle is > the best > :::(in > :::my mind). I'm not really sure what my identity is but I know it > involves > :::this odd machine. > ::: > :::So, I'm not quite arsty-fartsy, not quite buttoned-up, not really a > :::hippie, > :::and most certainly not quite sane. That makes me a Vanagon owner. > ::: > :::Joe T. > ::: > ::: > ::: > :::>From: mordo <helmut.blong@GMAIL.COM> > :::>Reply-To: mordo <helmut.blong@GMAIL.COM> > :::>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > :::>Subject: Come out of the closet, all > :::>Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 22:12:45 -0500 > :::> > :::>Former woodwright and ornamental plasterer. Currently selling and > :::managing > :::>the craft of ornamental plaster and scagliola restoration. > :::> > :::>www.haylesandhowe.com > :::> > :::>-- > :::>mordo > :::>1990 Carat > ::: > :::_________________________________________________________________ > :::Find sales, coupons, and free shipping, all in one place! MSN > Shopping > :::Sales & Deals > :::http://shopping.msn.com/content/shp/? > ctid=198,ptnrid=176,ptnrdata=200639 >

Jim Felder felder@knology.net

"I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse, and a turtle dove, and am still on their trail. Many are the travelers I have spoken to concerning them, describing their tracks and what calls they answered to. I have met one or two who had heard the hound, and the tramp of the horse, and even seen the dove disappear behind a cloud, and they seemed as anxious to recover them as if they had lost them themselves." - henry thoreau


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