in the matter of Jon Ford: the malice of someone ya never met not even in
the 60's
Jon Ford
austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
Mon May 17 18:49:33 2004
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<P>Extremely strange letter, Michael! I can see you have trouble telling a joke from an actual threat or a denial of the reality of election day. Your portrait of yourself huddling timorously in your apartment with an iron pipe in hand is frightening-- prozac might help, but probably not strong enough in your case. </P>
<P>Jon</P>
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<DIV></DIV>>From: "Michael Eisenstadt" <michaele@ando.pair.com>
<DIV></DIV>>Reply-To: austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
<DIV></DIV>>To: <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
<DIV></DIV>>Subject: in the matter of Jon Ford: the malice of someone ya never met not even in the 60's
<DIV></DIV>>Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 09:15:09 -0600
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<DIV></DIV>>I am assuming that the Reunion hasn't a firm date yet. Connie had
<DIV></DIV>>said at the Red River motors yard party that it would be around
<DIV></DIV>>Memorial day. Maryann's email to the list definitely establishes
<DIV></DIV>>that it is at her house.
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<DIV></DIV>>as for my bout with Waly the W that is still on. it is all a question
<DIV></DIV>>of anger management. focus anger on an opponent and get and
<DIV></DIV>>stay angry, that I believe is the approved prefight ascesis.
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<DIV></DIV>>and as for geriatric harmlessness, that alas is not true either;
<DIV></DIV>>just read News of the Wierd: 85 year olds picking up a length
<DIV></DIV>>of pipe and beating someone to death, happens all the time.
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<DIV></DIV>>at one point in the past Jon in an off list email to me signaled his
<DIV></DIV>>intention to come east and severely beat me about. now i would
<DIV></DIV>>be easy for him to find as i happen to live next door to his dad.
<DIV></DIV>>his sincerity of intention seemed to me at the time very palpable
<DIV></DIV>>so i bethought of how i might protect myself not being a gun
<DIV></DIV>>owner. we have a wicked big cutting knife in the kitchen but
<DIV></DIV>>never having wielded it in self-defense, I would have to wonder
<DIV></DIV>>if it would be the right tool: Jon's dad is an elderly gent (more
<DIV></DIV>>elderly than me i mean) around 6' 3". the REAL Jon i don't
<DIV></DIV>>doubt is much bigger.
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<DIV></DIV>>i then had the aha! moment. stacked in the bedroom with the
<DIV></DIV>>other camera gear was/is a 3 foot steel pipe which goes with a
<DIV></DIV>>camera copy stand. should i see him through the window
<DIV></DIV>>i would have enough time to retrieve it and position myself
<DIV></DIV>>next to the door while he was presumably breaking through
<DIV></DIV>>it. this made me feel ever so much safer at least while i
<DIV></DIV>>stayed indoors. as for venturing out for that i'd have to figure
<DIV></DIV>>out something else
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>Jon who is now officially retired (we learn) has lots of time for
<DIV></DIV>>anger ascesis. sitting in the living room imagining his small
<DIV></DIV>>enemy (me) losing in a fistfight with Waly (about my size
<DIV></DIV>>and weight; W went out the door of the library in front of me
<DIV></DIV>>some months ago so i got a chance to briefly scrutinize him)
<DIV></DIV>>sends Jon to the keyboard to question whether there really
<DIV></DIV>>was an Austin election on Saturday on May 15. Perhaps i
<DIV></DIV>>was inventing its existence to avoid a painful humiliation in
<DIV></DIV>>a fist fight in a flurry of blows which he could well imagine.
<DIV></DIV>>
<DIV></DIV>>Still and all it got Jon off: like watching a touchdown on the
<DIV></DIV>>tube, eh big fella? catharsis is the school room term when
<DIV></DIV>>it's in literature, katechsis of affect for Freudians or, more
<DIV></DIV>>vulgarly, getting your nuts off.
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