Puppet Master threads????

someone put up the original message on several groups to get a response. best is to ignore the off topic stuff.

Tony

Pottery & politics are the same. You can have handles on the left, you can have handles on the right, and you can have them in the middle. Or best yet, you can put them on both sides. As you spin, your work comes out different. You can point your finger and make a big impression or you can wiggle it and throw everything a curve. All kinds of shapes, sizes, colors, tall, short, thin, fat, or a little of everything. And then there is the MUD SLINGING. What a blast we have. Do you think politicians have as much as we do? AND just when we are all said and done, we get all fired up, hot, flames going thru out the room, red hot faces. Smoke shooting out the top..... Then morning comes and we are all cool again.

The great thing about pottery is, that if we don't like we made... We start all over again and no one is really mad or upset. And our graveyard is just broken pots and not broken dreams or lives.

So for all you Political blow hards, keep your mud in your own room. We are having fun here. We learn from our mistakes, and help ourself and others press on for greater pots, not great pot bellies.

Lori,

Potters are just people like everyone else, it is not that we are a different breed who are compelled to think about nothing else but clay and pottery. I am not living in your country (thoug i did for 20 years), but i can very well understand that there comes a point when enough is enough and it doesn't matter what newsgroup you are in, you just have to blow your stack. I think that is just natural, these things are just too important at the moment. (maybe even more important than clay and pottery). If the subject doesn't agree with you, just keep on scrolling down, nobody will mind if you don't read it.

Monika

A life time ago I worked in a remote country area in the far north. Land was cheap at the time and there had been an incoming of a lot of craft people and alternative life stylers ( I suppose some of these could be called 'potters') into the remote valleys. Over a period of time I got to know most of the potters as well as glass workers, woodworkers etc and produced the first craft directory of the area.

What I found was that potters in general were a lot of brooders. They worked all day by themselves in isolation and during the day a small matter in the morning became a monster of giagantic proportions by the time night fell as they had been brooding about it all day as the wheel went round and round. They then needed the opportunity to blow their stack once in a while.

This probably still sounds familiar to some of us, and the internet gives a chance to let off steam without hurting somebody else.

JW

I really like this analogy....

I am the culprit that started the thread. It was entirely by accident that I added Pottery to the address. I want to apologize again for having done so. I also want to say though that almost the only rational posts were the ones that came from this room. (and yes I cross posted - or meant to crosspost to a variety of political rooms to try to get some... well I think of it as interactions of interest.....) I did post to all the other threads (taking OFF the pottery room when doing so) to please remove Pottery from the thread. They were all polite enough to do so. I would suggest that next time something like this happens and you tell people to take it elsewhere that you remember to take the room you want it gone from out of the thread. Otherwise you are just keeping it alive for people in the other rooms to respond to. Again, my apologies. Didn't mean to, it was inappropriate, my bad.

DKat

DKat,

As long as we're owning up here, I need to take part of the blame. As was pointed out to me (kindly, I might add, and with good reason), I should have just let it go. I should have done what I would normally encourage - namely, just leave things alone for the threads to die out.

Even though I had just had one of the worst days I can remember, there was no excuse for me to sound off. There are better ways to manage frustration and anger - like making pots.

My apologies to everyone. I'll behave myself from here on in (well, maybe ) and go back to my quiet, little world of semi-lurking.

Take care all,

Lori

Going outside to rummage through my woodpile some more to find just the "right" pieces to split down to fit in my newly built mini-gama and use along with the charcoal. Wonder if I should add a few dead rose canes to the mix - I just trimmed a ton of 'em yesterday (another good way to vent...).

I have to say with a big Grin that if you consider what you did as "sounding off" you need to visit the rooms I had intended that post for (or for that matter, almost any room except for pottery or gardening rooms).... As I said the only really rational responses came from this room. I do promise again to be really really careful to see it doesn't happen again - one of my really embarrassing moments... And sorry to hear you had had such a bad day. Hope life is better and the potting g~ds are treating you well/good. DK