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The Boys in the Band
Recently, there was a change in scenery among the gallery: fresh new faces (well, not so fresh, and more like feces than faces) for Sergeant Fester's Homely Farts Club Band.
The original photo came from the "Apex Senior High Marching Band Page" - and the story behind the screen is pretty ... well ... pathetic ...
Pinninni@aol.com writes:
Please remove this picture from your web site. It is of the low brass in my marching band. If you don't remove it, I will lose my Web page and I really don't want this to happen.
This was something new. Normally when someone comes across their face among the gallery, they threaten FUGLY - not some innocent girl. And by innocent, I mean the original photo wasn't even on her Web site.
Of course, the Web site it did come from is maintained by a boy, which could have something to do with it: if you're playing tuba in the marching band, you're already the lowest class of loser, so you really can't put much fear into anyone with testicles, even if they also happen to be a band wimp. There are politics and hierarchies ...
... even among losers.
Anyhoo, we yanked the pic. A person who'd do something that would cause a hapless girl to get beat up is almost as bad as the kind of reprobate who'd do the beating up.
But it didn't end there ...
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Richie Evans writes:
Mr. Kerr,
This was a first - someone saw the name "Joe Kerr" and figured it was "Mister Kerr." For those of you who can't figure it out, "Joe Kerr" is like "I.P. Freely" or "Hugh G. Rection" - try reading those aloud. If you're from Apex, put in your teeth first.
I take offense to the remark you made about "boys in the band". First of all, my friend was the one who posted the "angy band boy" message you are so fond of referring to.
I'd really like to know who this guy is. He threatens to beat up a girl, then gets his "friend" to write a snippy little e-mail. I mean, I've met some sad pathetic losers in my lifetime - but damn!
Scratch that - I don't need to know his name - but you could do your community a great favor and etch it on the wall in the girls' bathroom along with a few words about date rape.
He and I are seniors in the band. This is our last year to be a part of it, and we want to make it the best we can. Posting pictures of band on your site for the sole purpose of making fun of them is not a way to promote band unity. It is hard enough as it is without your "help".
A few other notes we received also mentioned "band unity" - is that something like "gay pride." The "we're social lepers and proud of it" approach to grubbing for a scrap of dignity is inherently flawed. Add the fact that being in marching band is your only source of self esteem to the fact that your band keeps getting trounced at competitions, and it looks like nothing anybody else could do or say would make your sad lives any worse.
Oh, by the way, it's a fluglehorn, not a floodlehorn.
Oh, by the way, I care.
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drasticman@juno.com writes:
... just wanted to say that the fact that you were willing to take down that picture and save our band unity when you didn't have to seems to say that, despite what some of your Web site viewers think, you're not such a bad guy.
Cool. You wouldn't have any pull with the folks who give out those Nobel Peace prizes, would you?
Good work on your web site, and on exercising your First Amendment rights.
I truly adore compliments from a person who pats me on the back and says he respects my freedom of expression after I've stopped expressing anything that might offend him.
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