I respond to Joel Snyder's comments not at all politically, but with a
technical fascination only:  I'd *love* to see how he'd manage to sing
the internationale by email, and I suspect he could find a way to do it!
How, in fact, would any of us manage to "sing" anything here if we wanted
to?  Or---thump thump---has email signalled the end of singing in our
culture?  I'm changing the topic, of course, but only a little, since
greensfolk sing and help make movies that sing; while we write about them
and can only discuss the possibility of singing.
 
 
On Mon, 12 Aug 1996, Joel Snyder wrote:
 
> Oh my God.  I wasn't trashing unions in my response.  I come from a union
> family - my sister and I even unionized our family and struck our mom and
> pop management.  I only meant to indicate that the job was defined into
> existence by a union (nobody but the greensman could touch the greenery and
> the greensman was not allowed to touch anything else).   Given the number
> of unemployed technical and craftspeople in Hollywood (of whom my older son
> is one), I'm all in favor of union defined slots that pay enough to allow
> them a decent standard of living in between jobs.  OK?  Or do I have to
> sing the "Internationale"?
> Joel Snyder
> Department of Art History
> University of Chicago
> 5540 S. Greenwood Avenue
> Chicago, IL  60637
> 312-702-0278
> 312-702-5901 (fax)
>
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