alan bowman wrote:
> Hey Reed! et al
>
> I am here, at home in front of my computer, ploughing through 300 fluxlist
> mails.
Computers are not naughty but thinking makes them so.
Shakespeare's PC
>
> my address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Thanks. Good to have you back. Hope you had a good time.
> it's been very, very hot here, a veritable heatwave, perhaps all the little
> italian data bits were having an extended siesta?
Here in Maine last week it was hot and overcast and humid and uncomfortable
until the weekend when the sun came out and it was not cloudy and the sky was
very blue. I wrote a poem on the way to work Saturday. It goes:
Zen for Commuter
a crescent moon
fog on a field
a lone horse
a possibility discarded
>
> with regard to recent mails, i must agree that there's not a lot going on is
> there, i for one contribute pretty much zero nowadays (not that i contibuted
> all that much thenadays....)
>
We had an interesting discussion about professionalism in art and how it
relates to fringe cultures like mail art.
>
> the projects have been good (some, i think very), but the arguments and
> discussions haven't been forthcoming.
>
> Eric, if you want to contribute, do so, if you want to criticise, do so,
> opinions are welcome on the list and are not censored.
PLEEEASE no censorship...
>
> But for me, and I'm not speaking for anybody else here, the personal attacks
> and bilious spleenventing episodes have become extremely tedious.
> Now when I think Eric Andersen, i no longer think "artist, Fluxus,
> interesting etc." I automatically think of much more negative adjectives.
> Which is a shame as Im sure you must have a lot more to offer the list than
> you have shown.
I agree that it's really too bad to let negative feelings get in the way of
healthy interactivity, I guess I'm as much to blame as Eric on that account.
Reed
