Response

[Wayne Johnson]

Pray to Gawd, Mike. you are not the Nicholson character in Pledge.  

Personally, I would rather have been the House Elf in HP2.

wgJ
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Eisenstadt" <michaele@HotPOP.com>
To: <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 2:47 PM
Subject: Re: Response


> From: "Pepi Plowman" <pepstoil@yahoo.com>
> To: <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
> Cc: "Ghetto 2" <GHETTO2@LISTSERV.WHATHELPS.COM>
> Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 9:28 PM
> Subject: Re: Response
> 
> 
> > Mike, you remind me of Don Quixote, fighting
> > windmills! You want to pick a fight whether there's
> > one there or not! Is this a late midlife crisis, or
> > what?  You send a blip out of the blue talking about
> > how you were insulted by an e-mail sent by Jim Strong,
> > but you don't forward the e-mail.  There's no way to
> > know what Jim meant without seeing it, albeit he
> > rightly figured it was personal.
> 
> It was personal but he posted it both to me and
> to agl. I should have allowed it to go through but
> it was so creepy I was ashamed to.
> 
> That was a mistake it seems. Here's his email
> in its entirety
> 
> START HERE
> 
> --- Michael Eisenstadt <michaele@HotPOP.com> wrote:
> 
> > http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/469781.html
> > 
> > very long interview with Theodorakis the great Greek
> > composer by an Israeli journalist
> > 
> > he is full of it just like Jim Strong and others but
> > more nuanced. 
> > 
> > here's a snippet
> =================
>   <reply>
>    what a pathetic, whiney little schnorra weasel you
> are mikey ... i. e. Gai kakhen afenyam ....
>    or, in the laternative, go engage in your favorite
> pasttime - anal (and/or) banal intercourse with your
> significant other doppleganager ... 
>    maybe you should try to get another waiter job -
> and avoid being fired this time for being a flaming
> asshole with the customers ...
> 
> peace and have another xanax.
> 
> STOP HERE
> 
> I shouldnt have showed to Madelon as it upset her.
> 
> What set him off I don't know. I said that Theodorakis
> and Jim Strong and others are full of it. The expression
> "full of it" seems so anodyne so what set him off?
> 
> Pepi, I want you to know that I take pills for my male 
> menopause and the tests show that it is under control. 
> The figures are in range and that's science. Unlike
> FHR (female hormone replacement) medication ours 
> is distilled from horny stallion pee.
> 
> Pepi also said
> 
> > You are developing paranoid conceptualizations, 
> > as ever, as you enumerate at length friends and 
> > acquaintances in consideration of their possible 
> > view of you. 
> 
> At length? This is so unfair. Jon Ford mistakenly 
> identified Wayne Johnson (40 year friendship) 
> and Gerry Storm as having dissed me on 
> JSDGMLG2.
> 
> I wrote merely to disabuse him of an error. Jon
> has never even MET Wayne. Gerry I know from
> the Raw Deal. Jon Ford spoke ONLY of Wayne
> and Gerry.
> 
> I shoulda stopped there. But at the keyboard a
> counterbalancing contrast seemed to be needed.
> So I named JS, Simmons, Ted Samsel and
> Fontaine also as folks who really REALLY dont like
> me. Pepi, that aint paranoid conceptualizations,
> that's simply the way it is. It's only 4 people, it's
> not a big deal. Sorry it's such a problem for you.
> 
> Afterwards Wayne confirmed my claim of friendship. 
> And Gerry publicly giggled at Wayne's revelation of the 
> LEGUME conspiracy against me.
> 
> You're right about email being an imperfect medium.
> I have always thought that the charm of OUR maillist
> was that we knew each other in real life and saw
> one another at parties. So when reading Karen or 
> Connie or other folks that we actually know in real life,
> it always strikes me how lifelike their emails are, 
> you can almost hearing them speaking, it is SO them.
> 
> As compared to folks one knows ONLY through 
> email. 
> 
> I think the problem with my letters is that the
> charm of full self-expression is too tempting for
> me. My self-expression IS different from the 
> usual Texan sensibility, I know that. But my view 
> is that if I find myself living among folks with a 
> more buttoned-up sensibility, the last thing I 
> would do in my whole life would be to adopt it.
> Alas, this decision does not easily make me 
> friends nor do I have any ambition to run for 
> elected office.
> 
> It's like Jack Nicholson at the end of the Sean
> Penn directed movie The Pledge where 
> Nicholson is sitting on the porch of his lakeside 
> house drinking a beer and arguing with himself 
> with gestures. Or is it?
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> 
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