Complexity or hypocrisy...

[Carl Remick]

>Carl Remick wrote:
>
>>Among the most lazy-minded, too.
>
>C'mon, not all of us. I run into people all the time who are going to
>school, working, in a band, publishing a zine, doing all kinds of
>things. Not everyone here is the passive lump of bourgeois myth.
>Sure, there's plenty of vulgarity, brutality, and greed, but there's
>a lot more than that too. My immediate neighbors in my apt bldg
>include a pianist, several singers, several dancers, some academics,
>a jewelry maker, several shrinks - and, most recently, George
>Stephanopolous. It's an incredibly varied mix. Maybe you've lived too long 
>in the wasteland of Long Island.
>
>Doug

FYI, *my* immediate neighbor out here includes an airline pilot (at least 
he's one so long as the bailout works) who is also a master builder (he's 
adding a wing to his house virtually single-handedly) and who was a finalist 
in the Van Cliburn amateur pianist competition -- an impressive roster of 
achievements for which he will be featured on an upcoming segment of 
PBS-TV's "Egg" arts show.  At the same time, my neighbors do *not* include 
George Stephanopolous, another big plus.

That said, your overall point about LI as a cultural wasteland is well 
taken, and my wife is heartily sick of my comments about the nincompoopery 
hereabouts.

Be assured, though, when the national recovery takes place and I am 
gainfully employed again, I will proudly join the commuter throng on the 
LIRR once more and stand united with you Manhattanites in the Renaissance 
Festival that is NYC, scanning the horizon for incoming bogeys.

Carl

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