Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 16:05:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: "EC Lindstrom" <elndstrm-AT-halcyon.com>
To: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] How to vent the spleen through puppetry


Actually, that sounds like a marvelous way to handle these things, though
I'd be scared to see what might happen if Royal De Luxe took this
approach. . .


Eric L.

> I received the following wonderful suggestion from Gregory MacNaughton:
>
> These Puptcrit spats make me think of the Taiwanese puppeteers I have had
> the
> fortune to meet and with whom I have studied. Taiwan of course is a rather
> condensed geographic location which at one time had hundreds of puppet
> companies
> competing against one another. Puppeteers would frequently have spats and
> arguments but they would not vent their spleen in conversation but in a
> puppet
> show. I wonder if we could challenge everyone on the list that if they
> have
> something provocative (or rude or insulting) that they want to say to
> someone
> on the list, they should create a short piece, film it and post it to us
> all
> watch. That way we can have our petty disagreemnts but they would always
> be
> related to puppetry. Instead of trading obnoxious baiting and petty
> insults, let's encourage eachother to deveolp some chops. There is no way
> we
> can stop being petty but at least we could be creative about it. - Gregory
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