From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V6 #264 Reply-To: shindell-list@smoe.org Sender: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk shindell-list-digest Wednesday, November 17 2004 Volume 06 : Number 264 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] post-show kindnesses [Jolie ] Re: [RS] post-show kindnesses ["Sandra J. Smith" Subject: [RS] post-show kindnesses Carrie, thanks for passing on your story - what a great experience for you and your friends! I had an experience in the same vein, although not nearly as cool. During the summer of '01 Richard played a free show in a park on Long Island. I had planned to attend with my boyfriend; however, I broke up with the gentleman two days prior, alas and alack. Figured it would be in poor form to go to the show anyway, so I held back. The ex was good enough to ask Richard to sign something for me, so I ended up with a promotional poster from the show that says, "To Amy, Wish you were here" and the scrawl. Now, I've chatted it up with Richard many times after shows (I'm one of those snarky geeks who always ends up hanging around to bs) but there was something so thrilling, so gratifying, about getting a personal souvenir from a show I hadn't attended. And no, I didn't take him back. The ex, that is. Although I seriously considered it after that one. On a more temporally relevant note - would any list-ees like to get together before and/or after the Friday Joe's Pub show? I'd love to put faces to names, and I think I'm flying solo if tickets really are sold out. Feel free to email me off list. And one more thing - thank you all from the bottom of my heart for the political discussion post-election. I work in a field that's pretty engaged in the political process, so after four years of intense work and focus...let's just say it's been a dark time. I HAD to disengage a little or I would've ended up jumping in the East River, so I couldn't bring myself to comment, but your thoughtful words reminded me that there are people who share my values and don't live on the island Manhattan. That's all for now. Cheers, Amy (who used to be alc35@cornell.edu, until they heartlessly kicked me off their server) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 08:05:59 -0800 From: "Sandra J. Smith" Subject: Re: [RS] post-show kindnesses At 7:59 AM -0500 11/16/04, Jolie wrote: >Carrie, thanks for passing on your story - what a great experience >for you and your friends! >I had an experience in the same vein, although not nearly as cool. >During the summer of '01 Richard played a free show in a park on >Long Island. I had planned to attend with my boyfriend; however, I >broke up with the gentleman two days prior, alas and alack. Figured >it would be in poor form to go to the show anyway, so I held back. >The ex was good enough to ask Richard to sign something for me, so I >ended up with a promotional poster from the show that says, "To Amy, >Wish you were here" and the scrawl. That reminds me of a story my husband tells about a David Johannsen concert in the 70s. He (my husband) and his then-girlfriend had a huge fight on the way to the show. She disappeared briefly after the show, then came back and handed him David's latest LP, on which David had written: "Kevin, don't be mad." Sandy ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V6 #264 ***********************************