[f_minor] what a waste of your/my time

Mon Feb 15 19:10:10 MST 2016

What a shame that this list has degenerated into such an ugly spat, showing the less pleasant sides of personalities who 
I have come to appreciate from earlier posts.  I have not been involved enough to know how this came to be, but it is a 
real shame that f_minor has come to this.  I learned a lot over the years from the time when I first discovered GG.  
I would like that we could all get along, but if this is not possible, then pull the plug.  The anger and bitterness which 
have emerged here does not reflect well on Glenn, and a f_minor without so many of the important contributors 
here would be a sad place for new GG enthusiasts to discover.  Dorian

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Macelletti <mmacelletti at sbcglobal.net>
To: Discussion of the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould. <f_minor at glenngould.org>
Cc: Matthew Harding <matt at ktlgroup.ca>
Sent: Mon, Feb 15, 2016 1:24 pm
Subject: Re: [f_minor] what a waste of your/my time

yes mary, many of us , including me, have been the recipient of your selfless generosity. and for this i am grateful.  also, your dedication to keeping the art of glenn gould alive and flourishing has been an absolutely essential factor in the success of this list, as well as the growth of our knowledge and collections.  true, sometimes the posts may seem a bit raspy. ( someone once complained that i should know enough to capitalize " i " !   someone even called me scrooge! ) 
 but that goes with the territory. 
i do hope the f minors can get back to where it was, with all the old familiar " faces "  writing in.  each with his or her own interesting particular slant on things gouldian.
 i never found one boring or irrelevant. 
and mary, don,t give up on us yet !

Sent from my iPad

On Feb 14, 2016, at 7:55 PM, maryellen jensen <maryellenjensen28 at hotmail.com> wrote:

To Matthew Harding on your Blackberry 10 smartphone on the Telus network,

Oh yes I most certainly did misspell "cite". Thank you so much for having corrected the error, and for so politely pointing it out..

Strange how you didn't bother to mention the other errors in my text:

"attemted" instead of "attempted"; "eogistic" instead of "egoistic"; "distate" for "distaste".

- It's been a little rough dealing with a computer keyboard when you're wearing a neck brace and all your trapezoid muscles are begging you to reinstate the guillotine because the pain killers aren't working worth a damn. I hurts like hell to hold my head aloft. But I did my best because you deserved it even though it is excruciating to write.
 You deserved it because I think you were bragging on about yourself. I am certain that you have a terrific and fantastic and admirable GG collection, perhaps even one of the best ever. But just to get even a copy of newspaper article from you is impossible without promising a kidney to  your family. Go ahead, berate me for that comment but you just ask anyone else on FMinor how much I have offered - an even sent through the post at my own expense. There are those of us who you know nothing about whatsoever. So tone it down Mister. 

Stop crowing about "cite", Sieur,

PS Where's your post to me Pat Zumst?

Mary

Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2016 11:50:06 -0500

Subject: Re: [f_minor] what a waste of your/my time
From: matt at ktlgroup.ca
To: maryellenjensen28 at hotmail.com

You spelled "cite" wrong. 

Good bye!

Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the TELUS network.

From: maryellen jensen
Sent: Saturday, February 13, 2016 8:11 PM
To: f_minor at glenngould.org
Reply To: Discussion of the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould.
Subject: [f_minor] what a waste of your/my time

I hope you've all had a load of fun commenting on 'this Beethoven' and 'that Beethoven' and pitting your wits against the FMinor "experts" who know absolutey more than you do - until of course they don't, and of course they will never ever ever admit to it.

I'd name some names right here and right now but I don't really need to, do I? They've all signed their names here in this latest joust. Still, I must mention my all time favourite: Bazzana, who wouldn't name Cornelia Foss in the GG biography. What's the matter Kevin, did you think that Glenn Gould was ashamed to have fallen in love? Was Cornelia ashamed to have fallen in love? For any reasons? Either of them? 
 The useless repetition of cliches which continue on the FMinor site is a dreadful scandal and an utter bore. BORE. Some of us  have attemted to make something better of it but to no fucking avail apparently.. 

We have unconvered enormous amounts of audio/video/and written materials which we do not share with F Minor any longer - since years already. And with good reason, because too many of your members are absolutely stingy shits and a complete waste of people's time and never say thank you and belong to Sony or otherwise..

So you just go on and play your trashy eoistic games and vaunt each other's names and refuse to acknowledge any of those of us who have taken steps further than you have but without your 'credentials', with no 'official' plastic cards pinned to our vests: armed only with our curiosity, love of music, passion and an absolute distate for what passes for 'discourse' on FMinor ie Apple computer fan boys and such like. 

If GG had recorded that Beethoven 7th no one would have even had admitted it, right Bazzana? Perhaps Lukas Foss performed it under Gould's name? 

Don't you dare site me for calumny.

Good Bye,
Mary Ellen

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