From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V3 #30 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Sunday, February 1 1998 Volume 03 : Number 030 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [AVALON] Re: And Where is YOUR Entry, Ms. Grace Jones Lobue?? [PEAthas@a] Re: [AVALON] Re: And Where is YOUR Entry, Ms. Grace Jones Lobue?? [Waltz] Re: [AVALON] The big clean up [Heather Marie Propes ] Re: [AVALON] The Signifying Monkey [JVapor7@aol.com] [AVALON] No entry [Grace LoBue ] [AVALON] Roxy Musak [Amanda Carsner ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 12:13:48 -0500 (EST) From: PEAthas@aol.com Subject: [AVALON] Re: And Where is YOUR Entry, Ms. Grace Jones Lobue?? Jimmy Vapor vented: >>First came a Greyline bus tour of the Crescent City, a co-entry courtesy of Victor 'I actually like Limbo' Hastings and the ever-so-funkay Peter 'Don't Call Me Dollface' LaRue. Docked a notch for the bland taste in New Orleans music, but awarded 20 extra points for Mr. LaRue's increasingly homoerotic fixation on my appearance.<< Fixation on your appearance? Don't flatter yourself, Jimbo. Trolls don't appeal to me. I could, however, spice up the musical fare of my entry by adding Cowboy Mouth to the bill. I'd love to see the look on Bryan's face when Fred LeBlanc of the Mouth sucks the heads and squeezes the tip. No, sports fans, I'm not talking about Monica Whozit, I'm talking about the sensual art of eating crawfish. Yum. - -Peter ps- Hey, Jim Bob, the next time you take my name in vain on Avalon you should have the good manners to cc the email to me. If not I may be forced to sic my cyber goons and sycophants on you. It could get ugly when they force feed you haggis. - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 13:40:37 EST From: Waltznblak@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] Re: And Where is YOUR Entry, Ms. Grace Jones Lobue?? cowboy mouth sucks wind. nevermind crawfish. i wouldnt subject bryan to that redneck/preacher style music if my life depended on it. - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 15:41:05 -0600 (CST) From: Heather Marie Propes Subject: Re: [AVALON] The big clean up > << "The security with which the commentary considers the self-identity of the > text, the confidence with which it carves out its contour, goes hand in > hand with the tranquil assurance that leaps over the text toward its > presumed content, in the direction of the pure signified." > > -Jacques Derrida>> > It means that commentators on a piece of writing (such as Jimmy with my contest entry, for example) feel so secure about the meaning of the writing as singular, unitary, and uncontestable, that they do not bother to consider other possible meanings or the fact that their "singular meaning" is their interpretation. This causes them to dispense with the writing at hand (the signifier), and "leap right over it" to its "presumed content," (the signified), when in fact, anyone who has read Roland Barthes would understand that signifier and signified are in constant play with one another and we cannot seperate them. For example, what has Jimmy's interpretation of my writing to do with its object if my writing is not present? And this is not existentialism, it's semiotic theory. Heather > > -------------------- > To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: > unsubscribe avalon > - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 17:21:18 -0500 (EST) From: jason and jill Subject: Re: [AVALON] The big clean up > > << "The security with which the commentary considers the self-identity of the > > text, the confidence with which it carves out its contour, goes hand in > > hand with the tranquil assurance that leaps over the text toward its > > presumed content, in the direction of the pure signified." > > > > -Jacques Derrida>> > > And this is not existentialism, it's semiotic theory. > Example, my reaction to Derrida: Deconstructionist froggie professors are full of shit, and should be rounded up and shot. Jason - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 17:37:46 -0500 (EST) From: JVapor7@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] The Signifying Monkey May I quote the always delightfully obtuse Ms. Heather Marie Propes: "For example, what has Jimmy's interpretation of my writing to do with its object if my writing is not present?" All I know is when YOU'RE "present" on this list, Ms. Propes, my "object" immediately stands at attention. . Existentially--but not semiotically--Yours, J Please note that contestants do not receive bonus points by lengthening their already windy entries with obscure footnotes. Ciao! - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 18:34:46 -0800 (PST) From: Grace LoBue Subject: [AVALON] No entry Contests don't excite me. The Bryan Ferry/Roxy music sound DOES!! - ---Waltznblak@aol.com wrote: > > backyard bar-b-que, a few zimas and maybe some tequilla, darts and tannin' in > the hawaii sunshine. id invite my closest friends and we'd listen to > everything from black flag to the squirrel nut zippers. we'd all get drunk and > go skinny dipping down in waikiki. he may not like it, but i'd have a blast! > mich. > > > > > -------------------- > To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: > unsubscribe avalon > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 21:41:15 -0500 From: Amanda Carsner Subject: [AVALON] Roxy Musak Greetings All! We have musak at the place where I work part-time and strangely enough, out of all of the random songs in the world that could have played, a cover of "More Than This" came through loud and clear. It blew a breath of fresh air through the place and brought temporary joy to an otherwise crappy day at work. I couldn't figure out who did the cover though. It was a female singer but it sure as hell wasn't Natalie Merchant. Later, Amanda - -------------------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V3 #30 *************************** ======================================================================== Please send any questions or comments about the list to avalon-digest-owner@smoe.org