I was going through a box of books under my bed,
and came across a small book of autographs.

This book started in 1986 when I was just
a medium sized brat. I would just run around
and ask people in the biz or where ever we
worked to sign it.

I'm thumbing through the book and I can't
figure out who some of these people are!

The cleanest was Uncle Jay's, Neil Foster and
Karrell Fox, Howard Flint, Mike Caldwell, the
entire Oopsy the Clown clan. Next were Mike
Caveney and I think John Carney.

I hope that my signature is readable even
when people might have forgotten who I am.

Because if you read who it is, you can at
least google them, and hopefully something
will come of it and you'll remember them!

Then my autograph will be worth nil, because even I can't read my signature. In fact someone once asked one of my senior students how they could tell if I had signed a karate rank certificate, and my student answered "If you can read his name he isn't the one who signed it." Your music is ur signature Mai-ling and will live on well beyond your years.

As long as people know its yours, that's all that it matters.

almost all the autographs of Dante's during
the last 1/2 of the 40's are fakes.

but at least people can read it say's Dante.