From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V2 #113 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Friday, June 13 1997 Volume 02 : Number 113 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy:Dolby Bookends [Lem Bingley ] Alloy: Read & Delete [Elaine Linstruth ] Alloy: Tchaikovskiy's demise [Melissa Jordan ] Re: Alloy: That water killed Tchaikovsky, you know... [Melissa Jordan Subject: Alloy:Dolby Bookends I have broken the symmetry of my Dolby CDs - they are no longer sandwiched between two soundtrack albums, since I have just bought a copy of 'Catch The Fall' by The Dolphin Brothers, which I've been looking for on CD for almost five years. Ten points to the first person to correctly identify who The Dolphin Brothers were. Lem. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 14:45:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Elaine Linstruth Subject: Alloy: Read & Delete Howdy fellow Alloyers. For the better part of the last three weeks, I've been packing/moving/unpacking. I am now logged on from home (back to the old days of using my voice line & modem), and had some 65 unread mail messages. You people have been very busy. Anyway, because I can't read them all at once, and it appears that the T-shirt thing is going ahead full steam, whoever is doing the ordering & gathering of moneys -- put me down officially for 2 XL adult. If the design hasn't been decided, I'll figure that out and vote with the rest of you, as I get to my emails. If it has -- I want 2. I'll mail moneys if someone will point me in the right direction. And if the baby size is do-able, I'll take one of those, too. (Why not, she likes TMDR a lot.) (Most novelty baby romper-type clothing I've purchased has been the 18-24 month size.) That's all, thank you for your time. Glad to see Melissa is still alive and with us from the USSR! Elaine ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 20:56:22 -0400 From: Melissa Jordan Subject: Alloy: Tchaikovskiy's demise At 12:20 PM 6/11/97 -0400, Beth wrote: > >About that Tchaikovsky story -- since you mention it, I just have >to add an interesting twist that I heard from a biographer of his >on NPR... Wow, Beth - thanks for that theory. Would you believe that my Russian friends with whom I dined last night had never heard how Tchaikovsky died? They thought I was making up that story. I have had to promise to send them some documentation of the story when I return home. Very, very odd. It always seemed to be common knowledge in St. Pete. Russian writers, composers, musicians, poets - they always seem to die in very romantic sweeps of meloncholy, pride, or depression. I visited Tchaikovsky's grave very briefly on this stop in St. Pete - I like to make the trip there when I can to pay my respects to the master - he's in a tiny cemetary dedicated to composers, musicians, writers, and theater folk. He's in a corner with Rimskiy-Korsakov and Dostoyevskiy. Back to work now... Cheers, Melissa Melissa R. Jordan Special Projects Manager International Programs Office Goodwill Industries International, Inc. (301) 881-6858 (301) 881-9435 (fax) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 20:56:16 -0400 From: Melissa Jordan Subject: Re: Alloy: That water killed Tchaikovsky, you know... At 10:50 AM 6/11/97 -0700, E(lipse wrote: >Anyway, Melissa, I was wondering... if you'd ever considered >writing a book or some such of your strange misadventures. Hi, E(lipse! In truth, I have considered it, and I'm trying to get over my fear of rejection by every publisher on the planet. One of my college advisors has offered to help me edit it, and I have some talented friends who would surely give me some honest feedback... When I worked at the embassy, I used to entertain the stay-at-home foreign service wives on the front stoop of my apartment building. I would do what eventually became more or less a stand-up comedy routine about the nutty folks who called the embassy when I worked the switchboard and the odd things that always happened to me just walking around town... One of the wives used to manage stand-up comedians in the 'States, and she offered, if I ever wanted to pursue comedy, to manage me. Hmmmm... another opportunity missed. Thanks for the very nice words, E(lipse. Cheers, Melissa Melissa R. Jordan Special Projects Manager International Programs Office Goodwill Industries International, Inc. (301) 881-6858 (301) 881-9435 (fax) ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V2 #113 ***************************