Any relation to Johnny?

Dear Josh,

It’s kinda funny that you are still on my friends list in a way. You and I had limited interaction over the years, really if it was measured I am sure I have had more conversations with random gas station attendants than with you. But I think the primary reason why you have never been purged is that I kind of feel like me having you on my friends list is kind of an endorsement from me. I approve of you as a person. I know that no one really needs my approval (or in actuality wants it) but it’s all I have to offer, so you got it.

I remember hearing the guys kind of bitch about you over the years when you were all in a band. While this, I imagine, is completely typical of most band like situations, to me it was kind of interesting and peaked my curiosity.

To me them engaging in complaining it taught me a few things. One is that they all cared for you very much. One never complains about someone who is irrelevant to their life, and usually the more vehement the complaint the more care and consideration that person has for the other. The second thing about the complaining that got me was that for the most part they were complaining that you were too practical, and generally “uninvested” in the whole band idea. This also endeared me too you. I understand loving one’s music, and for musicians I imagine it is something on the order of religion. Faith in the noise being made is part and parcel with the sincerity of the art I think. But for you it seemed to be (and I am basing this on very little here) something you did to relax and escape, not as a career avenue.

I tend to enjoy people who are respectable (atleast by my feeble standards) and there are a shit ton of folks out there that complain about not being respected, when they have done nothing other than exist to garner it. I guess what I am saying is that whatever little quirks and behavioral anomalies that caught my interest in you , basically amounted to me respecting you in some weird way. So I say congrats, because in my world that is a pretty big deal (not like dodge stratus big deal, but a big deal none the less).

I have had very little interaction with you on FB, and I can only assume that this unfriending will be more or less the closing of a chapter in our interactions. However you have my email, or if you don’t lemme know and I will send it along, if for any reason you would like to chit chat, or there is something I can do for you.

Today was a great day, but tomorrow our FBfriendship will end,

Curt