From: owner-sheryl-crew-digest@smoe.org (sheryl-crew-digest) To: sheryl-crew-digest@smoe.org Subject: sheryl-crew-digest V3 #65 Reply-To: sheryl-crew@smoe.org Sender: owner-sheryl-crew-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-sheryl-crew-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk sheryl-crew-digest Monday, March 6 2000 Volume 03 : Number 065 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [sheryl-crew] Re: sheryl-crew-digest V3 #61 ["steve popichak" Subject: [sheryl-crew] Re: sheryl-crew-digest V3 #61 I sell Sheryl stuff all >the time, both autographed and not. (I am a reporter with special ties to >the woman - born in her hometown and went to her school - so I get them >quite frequently anytime she is in the area. She will usually sign a load >of stuff) In fact recently I sold a yearbook from Sheryl's senior year at >the University of Missouri. It went for over $200. Like I say, her stuff >is a hot commodity. Am I the only one to whom this sounds a bit exploitative and distasteful ? This friend/fan is using a personal/loose friendship or acquaintance connection, knowing that Sheryl's guilt won't let her say "no", to get what they want (the last thing Sheryl wants to be seen as is bitchy or snobby now that she's big, especially to anyone in her home town she once loosely knew back then). This is fine if you got signatures or momentos for yourself that you personally treasured, but your interest is obviously just in making money. A yearbook, which most people see as a personal momento, you see for the bucks it can fetch. So you're wasting and monopolizing Sheryl's time (I'm sure there's other stuff she'd rather do, as she signs enough already all the time for real individual fans). A few might be OK, but you keep coming back. You're exploiting her guilt and awkward position to say "no" in, to regularly waste her time and have her be a factory worker for you, and to provide welfare for you. And the whole time you feel good and bask in your glory of "hey, I know Sheryl Crow". ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2000 08:31:24 PST From: "steve popichak" Subject: [sheryl-crew] Fwd: Re: sheryl-crew-digest V3 #61 >I sell Sheryl stuff all >>the time, both autographed and not. (I am a reporter with special ties to >>the woman - born in her hometown and went to her school - so I get them >>quite frequently anytime she is in the area. She will usually sign a load >>of stuff) In fact recently I sold a yearbook from Sheryl's senior year at >>the University of Missouri. It went for over $200. Like I say, her stuff >>is a hot commodity. > > Am I the only one to whom this sounds a bit exploitative and >distasteful ? This friend/fan is using a personal/loose friendship or >acquaintance connection, knowing that Sheryl's guilt won't let her say >"no", to get what they want (the last thing Sheryl wants to be seen as is >bitchy or snobby now that she's big, especially to anyone in her home town >she once loosely knew back then). > This is fine if you got signatures or momentos for yourself that you >personally treasured, but your interest is obviously just in making money. >A yearbook, which most people see as a personal momento, you see for the >bucks it can fetch. > So you're wasting and monopolizing Sheryl's time (I'm sure there's other >stuff she'd rather do, as she signs enough already all the time for real >individual fans). A few might be OK, but you keep coming back. You're >exploiting her guilt and awkward position to say "no" in, to regularly >waste her time and have her be a factory worker for you, and to provide >welfare for you. And the whole time you feel good and bask in your glory of >"hey, I know Sheryl Crow". > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ End of sheryl-crew-digest V3 #65 ********************************