From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V3 #82 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Tuesday, January 26 1999 Volume 03 : Number 082 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: favorite books (was a lot of stuff) [nafio@my-dejanews.com] Re: Robbie Burns [nafio@my-dejanews.com] Re: favorite books (was a lot of stuff) [LuCkYDaBeD@aol.com] Re: Guilty Pleasures [was Spice Defamation] [ctyner@my-dejanews.com (Adam] Re: Arthur's Burial Site [katrin@dimensional.com (Katrin Luessenheide Sal] Re: Kids Books [katrin@dimensional.com (Katrin Luessenheide Salyers)] Re: top five books ["Bell-occhio" ] Re: Guilty Pleasures [was Spice Defamation] [Richard Butterworth ] Re: DC show info [chad schrock ] Re: The Nields and Great Big Sea on Mountain Stage. [chad schrock ] Re: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V3 #26 [chad schrock ] Re: The Nields and Great Big Sea on Mountain Stage. ["Joyful Girl" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 04:11:57 GMT From: nafio@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: favorite books (was a lot of stuff) Trace wrote: > Laurie R. King -- Her Mary Russell series, which begins with The > Beekeeper's Apprentice is a fresh perspective on Conan Doyle's > Sherlock Holmes stories, but this time Holmes has a young, female > partner. Nicely done. Trace! *hug* You so rock for loving this series... hell for knowing about it. Confession: I picked up The Beekeeper's Apprentice after seeing the title in the bookstore, reading the back and realising.. this is all based on that short story I couldn't finish! The synopsis sounds really cheesy guys, but trust me, you want to read these. Fiona "I'm SO a Dave's people if it weren't for Mike..." - -Marie-Claude Nov 16/98 - -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 05:01:33 GMT From: nafio@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: Robbie Burns Veronica wrote: > Just wanted to wish everyone a very happy Robbie Burns day really quick > before I run out of the house. Have to get down to the pub before they pipe > in the haggis!! Ack! Veronica, bring me some! My parents went to a Burns Supper the weekend before last. No one serves haggis around this godforsaken campus. Fiona "I'm SO a Dave's people if it weren't for Mike..." - -Marie-Claude Nov 16/98 - -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 05:10:11 GMT From: LuCkYDaBeD@aol.com Subject: Re: favorite books (was a lot of stuff) In a message dated 1/25/99 7:03:42 AM Central Standard Time, bbwminors@aol.com writes: > "The Monster at the End of this Book" > (A Sesame Street book starring Grover). Yay! Another fan of Grover. Everybody likes Big Bird or Elmo or Snuffleupagus (sp?). But I have always been devoted to Grover and his books. Most, if now all of my friends and acquaintances (sp?), don't think highly of him because of his quirkyness, but that has always been my appeal to him. Anyway, the reason I started writing this post was because "The Monster at the End of this Book" and the Grover book about hide-and-seek were my absolute all time favorite children's books. Oh, and I always went for those "Postman" books such as "The Jolly Postman" and "The Jolly Pocket Postman". Oh my gosh, now I can't stop thinking of great children's books. I just have to mention two more series. "If You Give A Mouse A Cookie", "If You Give A Moose A Muffin", and I think there are two more, one of them is fairly new. Also, "The Hungry, Hungry Catipillar" and the whole series by Eric Carle. Can you tell I love browsing in the children's section at book stores (especially the ones with gigundo children's sections). - --gus The one who kinda got tired of reading long posts, and is now the one posting long posts. Sorry. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 04:39:15 GMT From: ctyner@my-dejanews.com (Adam Tyner) Subject: Re: Guilty Pleasures [was Spice Defamation] I get a lot of flak for being a fan of the Presidents of the United States of America & "Weird Al" Yankovic. I guess they're not guilty pleasures since I don't really feel at all guilty about liking them, but.... - -Adam ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 23:28:52 -0700 From: katrin@dimensional.com (Katrin Luessenheide Salyers) Subject: Re: Arthur's Burial Site In article <19990125165613.01050.00002483@ng-ch1.aol.com>, kpfruhead@aol.com says... > "The lady of the lake, her arm clad in the purist shimmering samite, held aloft > excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifing by devine providence that I, > Arthur, was to carry excalibur. *That* is why I am your king!" "If I was to go around declaring myself emperor because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away." k@ (thanks to Tom for help on that one) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 23:24:10 -0700 From: katrin@dimensional.com (Katrin Luessenheide Salyers) Subject: Re: Kids Books In article <19990125180243.27573.00002537@ng-ce1.aol.com>, bbwminors@aol.com says... > Petit-Chou suggested: > *From The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L.Koniger (or > something like that Konigsberg. > That's a great one! Having grown up in NYC a > block away from the Met I really appreciated it, though my fave by her is > "Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley and Me, Elizabeth" which I JUST > found for Dana. Oh yeah, I'd forgotten she'd written that one too! k@ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 02:03:32 -0500 From: "Bell-occhio" Subject: Re: top five books Heather mentioned the amazing- >*Griffin & Sabine Trilogy - Nick Bantock The mailartist's bible! To anyone not familiar with this, get yourself acquainted, and fast. Skinny Legs and All - Tom Robbins I can't believe no one's mentioned him. Seems like he'd be up your collective alley. If on a winter's night a traveler - Italo Calvino A Prayer For Owen Meany - John Irving Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres Oh, that's five now isn't it.. far be it from me to fish over the limit. Lace (halle bloody lujah, my email is back..) ¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø¤º°`°º¤ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ bellocchio at folkfan.com ICQ 218859 http://i.am/her_webpage Moral: You should always tell the truth. But if your mom is out having the hair taken off her lip, you might want to forget a few of the details. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 10:22:33 +0000 From: Richard Butterworth Subject: Re: Guilty Pleasures [was Spice Defamation] ZardSnod wrote: > [Blah, blah, blah...] Hello Zard and welcome to this little crazy corner of the ng-iverse we call ammf. Well done for delurking, as I'm sure you've noticed we're all very friendly to newcomers here. How did you first find out about Fruvous? Actually we used to have someone called Zard who posted here lots years and years and years ago, but then she stopped and we were all Very Sad. Any relation? Anyway, be sure to post lots more and check out http://www.fruvous.com , which is maintained by Chris O'Malley who isn't half as frigthening as his name suggests. Tinkerty tonk Richard - ----------------------------------------- Salt fare North Sea weird stare further than the eye can see he had a head like a toy shop --`Some old salty'. Trad English song. - ----------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: 26 Jan 1999 12:10:43 GMT From: fruwench@aol.com (FruWench) Subject: Re: new quarters? *giggle* I just got a whole roll of Delaware quarters to give away this weekend. Oh drat, And it was gonna be a surprise. Ah, well. So I can't keep a secret. The gentleman on the horse is Cesear Rodney, our representative to the congress. The story goes that he got out of a sick bed, and rode through the rain to Philadelphia just so he could sign and make it unanamous. I think they let him sign first, just to be nice for his efforts and let him go back to bed. (Ok, history wasn't my strong point, the story is much more interestng and in depth.) The depiction on the quarter is a replica of the statue which stands in the square outside our Court Building. downtown Wilmington. I used to work on the square and eat lunch in his shadow. Always wanted to climb the thing and sit on the horse. *shrug* Ok, I'm a wee bit childish. :-) ladywench FruSpace - We came, we saw, we slept on the floor . . . "For we can still love the world, who find a famished kitten on the step and know recesses for it from the fury of the street" - Hart Crane "Chaplinesque" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 14:22:43 GMT From: Cameron_Ross@ufacademy.com (Cameron Ross) Subject: Re: Arthur's Burial Site On the topic of Arthurian novels... anyone read the Dream of Eagles series by Jack Whyte? I have tried almost all of the books on Arthur out there... and this is the only series I actually finished reading... it plays a lot on the minor characters, and doesn't revolve as much around arthur, it also satisfies many of the legends with plausible explanations... all and all a good series, even if you don't see Arthur to the end of the 3rd book :) - - Life101 - "Jesus was a Jesus Freak" -Dan Bern ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 14:19:00 GMT From: Cameron_Ross@ufacademy.com (Cameron Ross) Subject: Re: five favs ammf@fruvous.com writes: > >>Im sure Dealing with Dragons or Talking to Dragons and that series... > > >Patricia C. Wrede! AUGH! Someone knows these books! Brilliant! Woo > >hoo! I have too!... I think I still have one of those books out from the library.... ok, my fave five, in no order 1: the Apprentice Adept series: Piers Anthony 2: the Homecoming Series: Orson Scott Card 3: Ender's Game (just that one book): Orson Scott Card 4: The Sword Of Truth series: Terry Goodkind 5: The Wheel of Time: Robert Jordan Honourable Mention: Chronicles of Narnia Anything by Dahl (I remember our school doing the BFG as a play... :) The Mr.Men books... cause they just rock Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Fav Authors: Margret Wies Tracy Hickman Terry Goodkind Piers Anthony Orson Scott Card Ben Bova Robert Jordan Douglas Adams Roald Dahl I'm of course forgetting lots - - Life101 - "Jesus was a Jesus Freak" -Dan Bern ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 14:13:14 GMT From: epbuckley@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: top five books In article <78jpah$bhb$1@remarQ.com>, "Bell-occhio" wrote: > > A Prayer For Owen Meany - John Irving woo hoo! i'm with ya, sistah. i can't really pick five fave books because, well there are just too many. so i'll just pick owen for all five of them. if any of you have not read this, GO! now. run, don't walk. buy it. you will want your own copy of The Best Book Ever Written in the History of the Universe. peace, ellen (and no, i am not related to john irving. i just think he's a minor diety. ;) - -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 14:59:31 GMT From: vika@ibm.net (Vika Zafrin) Subject: Re: For NYC Fruheads: Support the DLF!! (not spam) zardsnod@aol.com (ZardSnod) delighted us with: >-Zard /me looks at the sky, expecting green and purplish polka-dot snow First Carps posts. Then Zard posts. Four times!! I'm not complaining. Welcome back from the land of the overworked, Zard. :) Vika Zafrin vika@ibm.net "I feel like I just gave birth. To a DAT tape." -COM ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 14:59:30 GMT From: vika@ibm.net (Vika Zafrin) Subject: Re: frucon II "Bridget" delighted us with: > however, i am looking to stay under 50 a >night. is that possible? i checked the web page but all that's there that >i can afford is the hostel... anyone else staying there, by chance? any >info would be helpful. thanks Don't dismiss the hotel just because it seems expensive! If you get a room there with three other people (see URL below), it'll run you $30 CAN per night. Not half bad! http://www.fruvous.com/con-trip.html (I think. If it doesn't work, go to ...fruvous.com/frucon2.html and follow the bouncing link.) And remember, with every room that gets booked under "Fruhead Convention" we get $10 off the ballroom rental! Vika Zafrin vika@ibm.net "I feel like I just gave birth. To a DAT tape." -COM ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 14:55:24 GMT From: elinX@rff.org (Rodney Elin) Subject: Re: DC show info Actually, it is a show at the "9:30 Club". The doors open at 9:00. I was just there a few days ago, and they plan on having an opening act on the 5th, but they don't know who it will be yet. Tickets are $10, plus fees. I realize this may be obvious information, but Ticketmaster is a an affiliation of related franchises, not one big company. That is why one Ticketmaster location may not have tickets for an event a few states away. The Baltimore/DC Ticketmaster franchise DOES sell tickets for the 9:30 Club, and has them available for the 5 Feb show, and you can charge by phone by calling one of the following numbers: Washington D.C. 202-432-7328 Out of State Number 800-551-7328 On Wed, 20 Jan 1999 17:03:22 -0500, "KatieWow" wrote: >hmmm . . . 9:30 show? i think i'll make the line time a little earlier . . >. maybe around 7:00? >~~kate - --Rodney (Oops! It looks like I accidentally put an extra character in my email address. To reply to this message, remove the letter X) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 10:24:01 -0500 From: chad schrock Subject: Re: @#!$!* weather (completely OT) Gruneberg Veronica J wrote: > > Apparently DC has kept the warm weather to it's self. :P It's all the hot air coming off Capitol Hill. It's thrown all the weather patterns off. (So, if your weather is really whacked, well, sorry.) > Oh well, at least it's only slightly below freezing today. it's 35F here, right now... - -- chad at radix dot net ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 10:05:03 -0500 From: chad schrock Subject: Re: DC show info Richard Butterworth wrote: > Ambush Bug wrongled: > > > :> Is embiggens even a word? > > : It's a very promulent word, if I say so myself. > > > > "cromulent" It's a perfectly cromulent word. > > Isn't there a note on the FAQ about not posting any of this > sort of peristipination on the ng? Oh now, you just made that up. - -- chad at radix dot net Killing time in the morning, since my car is ill and I don't have much else to do right now. Ugh. What a week. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 10:19:40 -0500 From: chad schrock Subject: Re: The Nields and Great Big Sea on Mountain Stage. epbuckley@my-dejanews.com wrote: > chad schrock wrote (re bela fleck): > > they will be at the Lyric Opera House in Baltimore, sometime > > in Feb. when I'll get to see them again. :) > ORRRRRR.. you could be like all the COOL fruheads in the DC area > and see them when they play at the birchmere. ;) I *could*... but the friend of mine that bought my ticket for the show at the Lyric didn't by tickets to the Birchmere show, so I would have to buy those tickets. See, it all makes sense. Barely. :) > peace, ellen (i know, i know, i'm TRYING to get these people > to realize that baltimore is actually the cooler town....) Stuffed shirts only think that other stuffed shirts are cool. - -- chad at radix dot net Hey Culligan man! ------------------------------ Date: 26 Jan 1999 15:51:21 GMT From: bbwminors@aol.com (BBWMinors) Subject: Re: Kids Books I was at a bookstore recently and saw "Uncle Shelby's ABZs" in the kids section, I gently took aside the clerk and suggested she read it and then decide if it should be next to "The Giving Tree." I'm totally against censorship but in favor of making informed decisions.: Actually, I was thinking that Dana's just about the age now where she'd LOVE it. ------------------------------ Date: 26 Jan 1999 15:48:09 GMT From: Ambush Bug Subject: Re: DC show info Remember when Richard Butterworth said: : Ambush Bug wrongled: :> : It's a very promulent word, if I say so myself. :> :> "cromulent" It's a perfectly cromulent word. : Isn't there a note on the FAQ about not posting any of this sort of : peristipination on the ng? Apologies. The funny thing is that I would never normally correct someone's speling or grammar on the newsgroup because I is so lousy at it myself. But it was *the Simpsons.* I plead temporary insanity brought on by an overdose of Rogaine (tm). ...and I like Mary Prankster too. Please do not banish me from your newsgroup. Mike - -- "Me fail English? That unpossible." -- Ralph Wiggum ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 10:34:52 -0500 From: chad schrock Subject: Re: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V3 #26 ZardSnod wrote: > Lori wrote: > > >Heck, while I was trying to figure out where they should sign > >LN, Jian just grabbed the Bottom Line postcard out of it and > >signed it; then the others followed suit. So I can't fill > >out the survey and send it back to BL now ... so what? > > Well, that's simple! Buy another Bottom Line release (even > another copy of Live Noise!) - fill out survey, and return! :-) Yes, but what is she to do about the other Bottom Line release? (I can see where this wouldn't be a problem if she bought another copy of LN, though.) > -Zard - -- chad at radix dot net ...who really should be at work, nagging the yutzes 'working' on the network. These are the people that were looking for Ethernet packets on a FDDI network. (Ethernet packets only exist on Ethernet networks. FDDI packets only exist on FDDI networks. A rather simple concept, no?) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 16:33:40 GMT From: "Joyful Girl" Subject: Re: The Nields and Great Big Sea on Mountain Stage. baltimore is definitely the cooler town ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: 26 Jan 1999 16:10:56 GMT From: jianbabe@aol.com (JianBabe) Subject: Re: five favs >Fruchild said: >>5 The Sacrlet Letter > >The first young person I've ever met who *liked* that book (including >everyone in my last three years of Honors English)! Wow I loved this book! Garnered some strange looks from my classmates too. (More so even then when I dressed up as Hester Prynne....... : ) Also, I wanna add how much it's delighting me that the latest subjects 'round here have been Shakespeare, books, and King Arthur. /me sighs happily ~Joni "Go out and tell our story, let it echo far and wide, make them hear you...my path may lead to heaven or hell and God will say what's best, but one thing he will never say is that I went quietly to my rest." Coalhouse Walker Jr. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 16:06:51 GMT From: gemini@p3.net (Trace) Subject: Re: frucon II On Mon, 25 Jan 1999 19:31:25 -0700, "Bridget" wrote: >ok, so i haven't been paying very close attention to the ng lately, but i am >now (finally) getting my act together for the con, and i'm looking for a >cheap place to stay. i'm flying in from denver by myself, and i don't want >to be stuck somewhere alone. however, i am looking to stay under +ACQ-50 a >night. is that possible? i checked the web page but all that's there that >i can afford is the hostel... anyone else staying there, by chance? any >info would be helpful. thanks+ACE- Hey Bridget I'm just now getting my act together for FruCon as well. I am planning on staying at a hotel other than the Ramada, and I now have one tentative person staying with me. If you're interested, give me a reply. I plan on staying at the Town Inn, which is one block off of Yonge & Bloor. It is actually a one bedroom suite (a bedroom with a queen bed + living room w/couch bed + bath + kitchen (so we can eat breakfast, etc in if we want). I'm trying to set up people to cut the cost, but it is about the same as the Ramada.... $110 a night Canadian, which means, if I get 4 people in the suite, it'll cost us $27 Canadian a night plus tax. :) Not bad eh? Let me know if you're interested, Trace - -- Trace gemini@p3.net *sniff* Target is within sniffing range. Hailing on all frequencies. *woop woop* Visual acquired. Our bogie is at 9:00. Fire when ready. - 1/1 BL dum tek ca tek tek ca tek tek *snort* ARGH *glare* Follow THAT one lads.... - 1/2 BL ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 10:58:41 -0500 From: "KatieWow" Subject: Re: five favs has anyone read the seventh son series (not sure if this is the appropriate name) of books by orson scott card? i had to read seventh son toward the end of my high school honors american lit course and really enjoyed them. last year a good friend of mine had to do a project for a creative writing class where he researched card's style and wrote a sample imitating that style. he e-mailed card for advice and received a note back saying that the project was a pointless waste of time :). ~~kate - -- **************************************************************************** Kate Leahy kleahy@loyola.edu **************************************************************************** nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight gotta kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight - --bruce cockburn, "lovers in a dangerous time" and so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches. - --douglas adams, "hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy" we're splitting into two camps--mike, i'm with you. - --jian ghomeshi, bottom line, 1/1 *************************************************************************** Cameron Ross wrote in message ... >ammf@fruvous.com writes: >> >>>Im sure Dealing with Dragons or Talking to Dragons and that series... >> >> >>Patricia C. Wrede! AUGH! Someone knows these books! Brilliant! Woo >> >>hoo! > >I have too!... > >I think I still have one of those books out from the library.... > >ok, my fave five, in no order > >1: the Apprentice Adept series: Piers Anthony >2: the Homecoming Series: Orson Scott Card >3: Ender's Game (just that one book): Orson Scott Card >4: The Sword Of Truth series: Terry Goodkind >5: The Wheel of Time: Robert Jordan > >Honourable Mention: >Chronicles of Narnia >Anything by Dahl (I remember our school doing the BFG as a play... :) >The Mr.Men books... cause they just rock >Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy > >Fav Authors: >Margret Wies >Tracy Hickman >Terry Goodkind >Piers Anthony >Orson Scott Card >Ben Bova >Robert Jordan >Douglas Adams >Roald Dahl >I'm of course forgetting lots > >- Life101 - >"Jesus was a Jesus Freak" > -Dan Bern > ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V3 #82 *******************************************