[AGL] Re: Feminine responses to unwanted hits

[Frances Morey]

I never really owned or possessed said piano. I just had knowledge that it would no longer have a home. I believe it was the one at the no longer extant Shorty's on E. 11th and Waller, when it was still owned by absentee landlord, Benno Haehnel, who lives in NYC. It had been his family's store, with living quarters for the family upstairs, from when the area was settled by the Swedes, back before the City sentenced East Austin to becoming a sort of reservation for the black people who were systematically displaced from the area known as Clarksville in the 1920s. The surviving Swedish buildings in that area were well built compared to what followed. Those that remain have been added to the Registry of Historic Structures. Back then, the city, trying to sweeten the deal for relocation of Clarksville blacks to East Austin, told them that they would relax the building codes to make it more affordable to build there. A lot of shacks went up.
   
  After some changes and a premature attempt at changing the ambiance of the area, IMHO, the building went vacant for some time and ended up being owned, and restored, by the city. It is now used for architect's offices. The area, a virtual stones throw from the capitol, by catapult anyway, is now thoroughly gentrified. I think Shorty was the last person who knew the provenance of the piano. His partner, Catfish, who died a few years ago also may also have known about it's history, too, but my own recollection is hazy. 
   
  My own book was published by Xlibris.com. It's basically a self publishing house, using the POD (print on demand) equipment now available. I think the whole thing cost around $1,500 when all was said and done. The idea is that once a book is "in print" it can be ordered and supplied one at a time without a heavy investment in printing and storing inventory costs.
  Ramsey told me that the only thing these operations may print in some quantity are the cover and dust jackets. Eakin Press also had this capability but their price per book was higher than Xlibris' so I went with them. The cost is greatly increased if there are lots of pictures which aparently don't reproduce as straightforwardly as text, unfortunately.
   
  Good luck with the publication,
  Frances 

Maryann Price PriMARY Productions <reddrum at realtime.net> wrote:
      Hey Francis!
  Maryann Price Owens here with an archival question:  Canya fill me in a little on the history of the  upright piano I have?   I think you were the one who passed it along to Tary.   Whose was it before you had it?  Was it taken to clubs on a pick-up truck?  
   
  I can see that wooden trim was knocked off the front.  Do you have any recollection of the decorative shape on the front (music stand area) wooden trim?  Oh, yass, and I especially like the plywood under the keyboard above the foot pedals...  Is there a piano bench floatin' around somewhere?
   
  Thanks, Francis.
   
  Maryann
   
  PS Aekin Press is floundering financially.  After waiting almost three years for them to begin the  publishing process for my "Singing For Fun & Profit" I hired an attorney (Mike Tolleson) and got peacefully got the manu back with some priceless original photos and letters.  I am now looking for another publisher.  Any recommendations?   
   
   
   
   
   
   
    ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Frances Morey 
  To: Ted Klein 
  Cc: Carmen Austin ; Carolyn Westergren ; Sharon Majors ; Mariann Vizard ; Austin List 
  Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2006 4:19 PM
  Subject: [AGL] Re: Feminine responses to unwanted hits
  

  Great lines!
  Frances

Ted Klein <taklein at ev1.net> wrote:
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 DIV.Section1 {   page: Section1  }      A free language lesson; Part One-short dialogs.
   
   
    Subject: Feminine responses to unwanted hits

  

   
      
Man: Haven't I seen you someplace before? 
Woman: Yes, that's why I don't go there anymore. 



Man: Is this seat empty? 
Woman: Yes, and this one will be if you sit down. 



Man: Your place or mine? 
Woman: Both – you go to yours, I'll go to mine. 



Man: So, what do you do for a living? 
Woman: I'm a female impersonator. 



Man: Hey baby, what's your sign? 
Woman: Do not enter. 



Man: How do you like your eggs in the morning? 
Woman: Unfertilized. 



Man: Your body is like a temple. 
Woman: Sorry, there are no services today. 



Man: I would go to the end of the world for you. 
Woman: But would you stay there? 



Man: If I could see you naked, I'd die happy. 
Woman: If I saw you naked, I'd probably die laughing. 




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