Here is a photo of the Second Oldest Woman on the Web - Naked.

That photo was taken circa early 60's in front of my two bedroom upper floor apartment, right on the ocean in Manhattan Beach in Southern California - $65 a month!!!!! (The floor was covered with two rolls of carpet which I bought at a drug store!)

It was from my old stewardess past. Didn't have much money in those days. (Come to think of it, still don't!) The photo was taken by my good friend and landlord, a fantastically wild man who lived downstairs and did some photojournalist work for Black Star agency.

He also played a mean guitar. He was abandoned on somebody's doorstep when he was a baby and spent his whole life looking for his real mother. When the day finally came and he found himself sitting across the desk from the man holding the folder with her identity and whereabouts, he got up and walked out. A few months later he put a bullet through his head.

I bought one of his old Nikon cameras from his widow just to be able to hold on to a piece of him. It still takes great pictures!

Cheers!
Sharon
Director Online Communications
North Bay Multimedia Association

Response to: Throw Out Your Digital Clock and Get a Rooster February 1998

From: "Donald W. McArthur" Subject: Anderson and the New Yorker Date: Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:03:44 -0600

Sherry,

I enjoyed your riposte to Tina Brown's latest Luddite. I would encourage you to practice empathy, as he (and most others) are suffering under the mental illness of having lived during what may eventually be known as the Fifty Years War. Also known as the Cold War.

The point I am trying to make is that few alive today are familiar with peace, and what a peacetime economy can do. This is what it is like. Vroom. Couple that with the computer-networked ability to manage inventory and the subsequent dampening of inflation/recession cycles, and the Long Boom is upon us.

Now here in my opinion is a more salient issue that no one is dealing with. As we move into a more evolved technological society, to be able to "value-add" to any process will require an increasingly higher IQ (as a reflection of the ability to abstract, it measures surprisingly well). We pay well if you can "value-add".

Already an IQ of 100 +-15, the mean among the majority population in this country, is insufficient to earn a decent living. What will it be like in 10 years?

What will we do with these people? How will they develop a feeling of usefulness? Our minority/urban populations fought this battle at the end of smokestack America's supremacy, when you could earn a decent living with an IQ of 85 +-15. They have yet to come up with an answer, and their lives have become hellish in the last 20 years. We have nothing for them to do, and there is no value they can add to any process that anyone is willing to pay for.

This may be the issue that breaks the process of growth and evolution. Donald W. McArthur DonatLa@ix.netcom.com
Do not ascribe to malice that which is
adequately explained by incompetence.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Visit me at: http://pw1.netcom.com/~donatla/index.htm

From: "Annie"
To: sherry@sherryart.com
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998

Darling ... read the interview in Netguide, read your latest old woman site. Love it, love all of it... intersting that now that you're officially an "old woman" your outrageousness takes on other tones. outrageous old women have a different kind of power. I'm thinking about this today. I'll keep thinking about it and when I've hatched an explanation for myself I'll share it.

Met my sister-in-law last week at the museum. Couldn't find her so stood in a central location and yelled in a voice that could be heard on the third floor and also in the basement. She responded. She's great and proper and was speaking to a docent on the second floor when she heard the bellow. This in the family was considered outrageous. To me it was smart. Accomplished my goal in minimum time. Now if a child had done this it would have been understood. If a thirty year old had done this others would have been annoyed. An old woman, while eyed by the administration, didn't get a cute or furious response. But what was the response? I have to think about it. At the time I never even thought about it.

Maybe I'll test this theory today. Maybe we could be getting away with a great deal more than we are....meanwhile congrats!!!
Love, Annie

Read Annie's Letter from Maine on SherryArt.