Dear Scott,
Thanks for your posts to the “almost hit by a black truck” post and the “Tale of the Wood Chipper” post.
They say that really great art strikes a chord deep in humanity.
Great art makes people impassioned.
Great art has the power to shift people’s thinking.
I believe that is true! And your entrance onto the stage of the folly is met with grave concerns, and for me they circulate in the area of government and humanity.
In my utopian world I am imagining a place where if you make a suggestion, or ask for various things to be considered, you are not complaining. You are not a problem. You are not a negative force.
In my utopian world I am imagining a place where you can write a story and people do not call you a moron, pathetic, a bad parent, a bad driver, a bad citizen, a crack smoker, a liar, and a person on a high horse.
I can write rebuttals to everything you post, explaining how my child never touched the wood chipper because we were there to tell her not to (my issue was really about eliminating the threat of an unsafe environment for everyone), and that I could have exited my driveway just fine, but I don’t like to accelerate fast unnecessarily… because it uses too much gas, backing in was safer and economical, and that I do like a glass of red wine on occasion, and the rum my sister distills at her rum distillery, and caffeine, but that is where my drug line ends. Or perhaps I should write that occasionally we have bad choices as parents which we would file under “being human.”But really, do we have to have this conversation about my stories? Stories? Stories?
I would prefer to focus this conversation on the rage that is emanating from ever part of your person. I am sad for you that you feel so much rage for me. I am hurt by your words (and I am sure this was your intent). By writing a story, I have come to receive so much fear, hate and rage. Wow- feels like Tuscon last weekend in a microcosm.
I think there are great artists who would say that if their words are passionate enough to evoke strong emotion in the reader, then it is successful. Ok- I am going to try to be brave and let you walk all over me with your words. I will let that happen because it seems you need to walk all over me; perhaps it is making you feel better. Perhaps I am aiding you in your own self-healing.
Finally regarding my commentors: They are not me.
“It’s obvious you wrote this, and then posted your own comment to legitimize yourself.”
False. I want you to try to imagine that not every one in the whole world sees the world the same way you do. And, not everyone sees the world the same way I do. And, I am not telling you that you have to see the world my way. Ok? Wow, so much hate and rage coming from you…
Frelinghuysenfolly novel policy.
Presented to readership on January 14, 2011.
Frelinghuysenfolly will not accept posts that exhibit:
“a culture of fear and hate and rage that I don’t want to participate in.” (earlier blog post Stats Suggest)
But this site is interested in:
“visionary statements on issues and problems of a small town jersey girl navigating the intersections of humanity and government”
Please keep in mind that children could read this site- your language and reference to elicit materials is so often inappropriate for a public blog.
frelinghuysenfolly 
I was wondering if the readers would be insightful enough to understand the moral of the stories written. Obviously this scott reader has no understanding of the written word, but chooses to spew rude comments to something they don’t even understand!!
by the way the reader scott doesn’t have a clue who sally starr is???
“Sally Starr, along with Gene London, were the royalty of Philadelphia kid television. Aunt Sally and Gene were on sometimes 7 days a week and no one was tired of watching them. All of these performers were great in their time and made an impact on our generation, but Gene and Sally more than any of them were probably our second parents, providing morals and guidance you didn’t always get at home and school.
“Please keep in mind that children could read this site- your language and reference to elicit materials is so often inappropriate for a public blog.” – I agree and apologize for any language, I did not think of that possibility when I wrote.
As for trying to hurt you with words — resoundingly, no. I read your story, and saw how outlandishly absurd, far-fetched, hypocritical, ragefull, and hateful your stories were and commented in like manner- a manner that was: outlandishly absurd, far-fetched, hypocritical, ragefull, and hateful.
As with all people, I was merely mimicking my surroundings. In this case, if you don’t like what I say or how I say it, you should consult a mirror.
If you wish to write of a Utopian world, as you state you are attempting, you should try complaining less and poking fun a little less, mocking less, lieing less- you may call them “stories” but everyone in you area knows of what and whom you speak. Maybe you should take your own advice- you do know that children can read this? Are you aware that the people you mock and decry are parents of said children? Are you aware that your lies are spread through the town, to the school (especially if you use the school’s email bank), and down to their children?
Utopian world? I don’t think so. You don’t acctually care about this town or its residents. You display this at meetings where you create problems that don’t exist, demand inquisitions without merit (but with a hefty price tag!) You display this through your writings, your lies, your hypocrisy inside this blog. Your deluded conscience may seem clean, but like the Pharisees, you are nasty, dirty, and wicked within.
I understand there are many points of view, there is only one truth. You’ve already admitted that you lied about your child playing on the wood chipper, you lied that the mayor was driving in an unsafe manor, and I’m sure a host of other things that I would find if I could stomach to read more of your contrite drivel, propaganda, lies, hate, rage, hypocrisy, and defamation of good people who are doing their best.
The only other thing I can concede is that, like all other people in this non-Utopian world, our elected officials make mistakes. People should be able to point-out the mistakes without fear———– but only to the point that they are doing so in an effort to prevent damage, not when they do so without merit or reason, or only to further their own agenda, or to run a personal campaign of hate against another human being.
“But the Pharisees said, He casteth out devils through the prince of the devils.”
Sorry for the double post– but I also would like to say on the Sally Star issue, I stand corrected and thank you for the information! Check out the Wiki page for more if you’d like (you being the general reading public).