From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V15 #1019 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Wednesday, January 13 2016 Volume 15 : Number 1019 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [AVALON] Yecch [Jennifer Marsh ] Re: [AVALON] R.I.P. Mr David Bowie [Chris Turner ] To leave the list, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon-digest ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 11:05:34 -0500 From: Jennifer Marsh Subject: Re: [AVALON] Yecch Oh God no. No. No, just no. > On Jan 12, 2016, at 9:53 AM, Victor Hastings wrote: > > http://www.nola.com/business/index.ssf/2016/01/rupert_murdoch_engaged_to_jerr.html > > Too much bad news for one week. > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 20:47:04 +0000 (UTC) From: Chris Turner Subject: Re: [AVALON] R.I.P. Mr David Bowie I find myself much sadder about The Dame than I thought I would; the worst I've felt since John Peel died. Sometimes it takes a loss to realise how much they mean to you. It is good that what has happened has at least brought his stuff to general awareness again. Such a breadth of work. And such genuine and touching sentiments from so many people. I doubt he would have become a star in today's industry though; not bland enough.B I'm very impressed with how he was able to keep his illness secret; just as when he surprised us with The Next Day. He must have had some seriously loyal people around him. I know a few heavy-duty Bowie obsessives, and they were in the dark about it. I did hear that great story about fey Mancunian scribbler Stuart Maconie interviewing notorious taste violators 'Tin Machine' and on being told that the questions must be shared equally between the four members, opened with 'Right, which one of you is David?'. Funny One crumb of comfort for me is that the night before Bowie died, and by sheer coincidence, I listened to our own Simon Galloway's Charity Shop Classics Thrifty Finds show on the Net - a Bowie special (I bet they really had to twist his arm to get him to do that... B ;) B ). Whilst it was, shall we say, B an 'eclectic' selection, I feel oddly pleased and fortunate to have spent an hour in DB's company at the very time he was leaving us. Kismet, I guess. bit.ly/1KbNx14 Chris BTW,B You can't be knighted posthumously either. It's a living order and you cease to be a member when you die. But apart from that, a well-meant sentiment. NP: Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)B ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V15 #1019 ****************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest