From: "Alan Cook" <alangregorycook-AT-msn.com>
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 02:21:36 GMT
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Puppet Snobism?


Mathieu's suggestion to take things with a grain of salt is wisdom indeed, and reminds me of Jimmy Gorno, a genuine 5th generation puppeteer from Italy who in the 1960s was working for an alleged "5th generation Greek Puppeteer" named Sid Krofft with "Les Poupees des Paris"on New Orleans " Bourbon Street and then at the San Francisco CA wharf.

I repeat here, one of my favorite true-life stories:
One night Jimmy was in a philosophical frame of mind. He said, "I'm Italian, so I'm Catholic, but I take it all with a BIG grain of salt." While saying this, he drew in the air a great big cube.

I find many puppeteers are apt to question, to dare to discover and to figure out stuff on ther own. It is one reason I find them so interesting.

ALAN COOK


-----Original Message-----
From: Mathieu Ren?
Sent: Sunday, February 3, 2008 5:38 PM
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Puppet Snobism?

Yikes.
Tough comments from Greg.

Food for thoughts, I appreciate it, and will think about it all.

As I mentioned in my long whining post, but perhaps not in so many words, I 
was looking for attention.
Why is that bad? It can be bad when too much attention is asked for. Maybe I 
am guilty of that.

Greg, I was not accusing any specific person of being a snob. I was 
questionning if it was the case, fearing it even.
I like Puptcrit, would be disapointed if indeed it was inhabited with snobs.

Sometimes I sound "righteous", or like I'm "stating the truth". But that is 
only how I sound when I am "amazed" or overly enthusiastic, and I don't know 
exactly how to avoid it. I can't blame it on a language defficiency, as I 
tend to sound like that sometimes in my native French as well, according to 
a very good friend of mine.
People who know me in person realise I never mean harm or boasting.

I do mellow down after a while of assimilating a method. I'm an extreme kind 
of person, going from one end of a spectrum to another before I settle in a 
kind of equilibrium.

So, next time that in text form, I appear boastful, self-righteous, or 
extemely enthusiastic, take it with a grain of salt, and remember this: I 
mean no harm, and try to only compete with myself.

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