Errors-To: owner-ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu Reply-To: ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu Sender: ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu From: ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu To: ecto-request@ns1.rutgers.edu Bcc: ecto-digest-outbound@ns1.rutgers.edu Subject: ecto #409 ecto, Number 409 Monday, 1 February 1993 Today's Topics: *-----------------* hello!!! Ruby Blue CALLING ALL ECTOPHILES!! A sarcasm symbol Re: Betty rockapella kd lang's biography Musical Hall of Shame Re: Spirit of '76 In Which I Introduce Myself From the blasted past... ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 20:50:44 EST From: jessica@maurolycus.rutgers.edu (jessica) Subject: hello!!! Just a few very very brief things: How about "ectophiles do it happy" ? (my apologies if it's already been suggested, I haven't had a chance to read *everything* but i have cought a few messages here and there (and all out of order). :) (I know the grammar isn't exaclty correct, and someone did suggest the correct form "ectophiles do it happily", but considering waht we really mean, I thing "do it happy" is acceptable if not alittle humorous :) Also, not only have i found some great mailing list software, but i've found some great indexing software! Of course, it's uncelar to me that i'll be able to *use* it - it was discussed in a talk, and we were given an example of a working application, but we were not actually told where we could get it.... - but it would be *great* for the archives - you could so easily find which files contained the posts on topics you were interested in.. So, I will look more into that but it looked like it would be available, so hopefully I will have good news on that when I get back too. I'm not sure veryone knows (i've been sticking apologies on the tops pf the digests, but plenty of you don't get digests), but I am at the Usenix conference in San Diego.. learning lots of things and getting job offers. :) :) jessica ======================================================================== Subject: Ruby Blue Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 22:56:54 -0500 From: jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu I'm a bit hestitant to make this album suggestion because when I went to Tower today, I couldn't even find the band name in the Phonolog. But the album's just too durned good to keep to myself! The particulars: The band is called Ruby Blue, and they may or may not be from Scotland (the address on the liner notes is in London, but there's a definite Celtic feel to it and some other hints, I hear). Lead singer is a woman named Rebecca Pidgeon, and the album (apparently they're only one) is called _Down from Above_. It's on >Fontana/Polygram, catalog # 842568-2 and it came out in '89. Okay, all the grunties are out of the way. What about the music? Well, on my first listen, I thought of, at times, 10,000 Maniacs (if they were from a Celtic region), The Innocence Mission, with some doses of Clannad thrown in. The lead singer is a woman, but there are some nice male harmonies here and there. I wouldn't say Pidgeon has a gorgeous voice in the sense of Happy or Anelli Drecker, but it's still quite good. Lyrically, the album is all over the place, but one thing that will appeal to KaTe fans is that there are a number of songs that tell stories about folks (singular and in groups). To some extent, this is also a Suzanne Vega sort of trait. There's a _wonderful_ song called "Primitive Man" about a guy who take a day off work to go hunting with his buddy Bob. To tie into the now-dead Northern Exposure thread, this song reminds me heavily of the episode in which Joel goes hunting with Holling and Chris and is bitten by the bug of getting back to nature and the thrill of the hunt. Musically, well, it's a bit hard to define. A lot of the songs are just sort of standard rock in their arrangements. A lot of the tracks have fiddle, and there are heavy doses of accordion here and there. There's a definite Celtic feel to it (similar to the way that even the most basic rock songs of Big Country still have that very strong Scottish flavor that made them so damned good!) I'm really enamored with this band. I don't suppose anyone out there knows anything else about them? ObHappys: a) I finallyfinallyfinally bought Volume I on CD today. It's been so long since I've heard a clean-sounding recording of these songs! As for the bonus tracks, well, I really like "Flaming Threshold" though I haven't worked out exactly what it's about (though it definitely seems to be a precursor to "Feed the Fire"; she really likes that fire metaphor, doesn't she?). I'm disappointed in "Suicide Song" because it's, well, a bit sappy I guess--and I don't feel that way about any of Happy's other suicide songs (such as "I Have a Heart," "The Perfect Irony", and so forth). "Suicide Song" seems self indulgent in a way that Happy usually doesn't hit. The only two songs I can think of that manage the same sort of total "pity-me-whine-whine-whine" message that still _work_ are "Gloomy Sunday" (particularly Sarah McLachlan's version; I don't much care for Sinead's and I"ve not heard the original yet) and "Asleep" by the Smiths (perhaps the ulitmate suicide song. maybe a bit more self-indulgent that "Gloomy Sunday" but hey, I have a Morrissey fetish; cut me some slack) (at this point, jeffy notes that he used to be the scary sort of person who had the lyrics to "Asleep" printed in magic marker on his dorm room wall in '89, taking up roughly 24 square feet of space. his friends found it *very* disturbing. it's such a beatiful song!) b) Just wrote my letter/check to pre-order _Equipoise_ (two copies, one of which is to be sent directly to a friend). ObNonHappy: after thinking I wasn't going, then think I was going, then thinking I wasn't going, I now officially have a ticket to see Kitchens of Distinction and Suzanne Vega tomorrow night. I'll be sure to give a concert report for those later on in the Tour circuit. Should be a good show, and it's turned into a family event; I'm going with my best friend, my sister (the infamous Julie to recipients of the HGP) and my father (who I hooked on SV in May '87). Jeff (who was supposed to use this time to respond to e-mail. oops) |Jeffrey C. Burka | "Fairies are the perfect people to do this | |(suffering Bad Grammar) | sort of work. Biologically, their upper | |jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu | bodies are strong enough to wield a pickaxe...." | ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 29 Jan 93 4:24:15 EST From: WretchAwry Subject: CALLING ALL ECTOPHILES!! ...such Angels you are... !!!!**** !YAY! **** *HUG* **** !YAY! ****!!!! Are you ready for it? Can you not wait until the 9th? If you want it, you can get it...NOW! Yes, Kevin says they have boxes upon boxes upon boxes of CDs at the house and the kitties need some empty boxes to play in. Send your money now and they'll have an Equipoise out to you via return mail. CDs only, cassettes won't be ready until mid-February. This is your chance to get the CD directly from Happy (ask her to autograph it!) a couple of weeks before they're in the stores. Act now, and get a cool little insert featuring the covers of the 1st5 and a photo of Happy (they were supposed to go in the CDs, but the printer messed up and didn't include them. Kevin says he'll drop one into the CDs going out by mail.) BE THE FIRST ON YOUR *BLOCK*! OUTSIDE THE USA, BE THE FIRST IN YOUR *COUNTRY*! (Now we'll have a race between Martin and ChrisB!) $13.99 & $2.00 p&h. (Same price as the other CDs, add 50 cents extra per CD, if you buy more than one or any of the back catalog.) (If you want to figure what the price will be, and send the extra money, Kevin will send it out overnight or Federal Express.) (Outside the US, I haven't the faintest...) _Equipoise_ Happy Rhodes 1. Runners 2. He Will Come 3. The Flight 4. Out Like a Lamb (this is the one with the bagpipes!) 5. Save Our Souls 6. Closer 7. Temporary and Eternal 8. Cohabitants 9. Play the Game 10. Mother Sea 11. I Say Lyrics are included, and there are 2 photos of Happy inside. They had 10,000 copies pressed. 1500 are already pre-sold to various distributors around the country. They are working on a deal for European and Australian distribution, but it may not come about for a few months. I'll keep you updated. No word yet on what the BIG SUPRISE is, except that it's *not* a recording contract. Drop the dreams of Real World folks. As far as Happy is concerned, she *has* a recording contract...with Aural Gratification! Vickie ps, I'll have more tidbits (non-Equipoise) tomorrow. pps, no, I don't have a copy yet, so I can't tell you what it sounds like. ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 29 Jan 93 4:27:21 EST From: WretchAwry Subject: A sarcasm symbol :-> ?? Tonight's been very strange, I'll tell you about it tomorrow. Vickie ======================================================================== From: rhogan@chaph.usc.edu (Ron Hogan) Subject: Re: Betty Date: Fri, 29 Jan 93 1:34:02 PST >>Bitzi grabbed my head, pulled it into her chest (in that breach of space >>between the top of the cleavage and the shoulderbones) and rubbed it into her >>body? It was purely for a laugh from the audience of course, and caught me > > > >Oh, and since I'm in Hollywood, I suppose I should keep a running > >celebrity count-- Kathy Nijimy showed up with one of her friends. > > Now you've really got me excited! Kathy Nijimy is not only brilliant, but a > lot of fun, too. I spoke with her briefly after a performance of "Th Yeah, the times Bitzi and I shared were rather unique. As for the Kathy and Mo Show, I saw some episodes on Comedy Central a few years back, and have also seen Mo Gaffney's talk show on the same channel. I *was* thinking about saying something to Ms. Nijimy, since she was right in front of me in the ticket line, but I hadn't seen Sister Act and I didn't feel like saying, "I loved that bit in Fisher King where you were filmed so unflatteringly for a comic effect." Plus, after a few months here, you get to be a bit more respectful of just barging up to celebs and disrupting their private lives. None of which stopped me from trying to ask all of Betty out to lunch after the show, but then, their closing repartee was "We want to feel at home in LA, so please, give us flowers and chocolates and invite us places!" I just didn't catch all the irony in the statement at the time. Live and learn, I suppose. Ron ======================================================================== Date: 29 Jan 93 10:25:50 EST From: Mike Mendelson Subject: rockapella meth (is that short for methane?) writeth: > Hey- has anybody else noticed the guy who sings bass in the quartet on > WHERE IN THE WORLD IS CARMEN SANDIEGO? (awesome geography game show for > kids in the US, based on an amazing computer game, for those of you not in > the know) could be our own Footah's brother? He looks just like you, Greg > (but you have better hair). :> Well, ms. methanol, the name of said group is Rockapella, and there is actually a CD out with songs from that show, including the theme, which my newly formed a cappella group performs. I don't know why the name Sean Altman comes to mind... but he's either the lead guy or the bass guy, I forget which. Anyways, since I have never met or seen pictures of Greg, I now have the good fortune of knowing that he resembles the bonanza BASS (requires caps) dude from said group. BTW, for the curious, Rockapella are featured on two songs on Spike Lee's a cappella thing. The best is Zombie Jamboree (which my group also performs), and the also do Under The Boardwalk with (I think) the Persuasions. Wish they'd tour or put out a real CD but I guess they're too busy making gobs of cash on Public Television. Lucky sods. -mjm ======================================================================== From: special K Subject: kd lang's biography Date: Fri, 29 Jan 93 11:46:59 EST While browsing my favorite bookstore with my SO Cathy, I mentioned the name of the giver goddess/fashion plate/saint...kd lang. The eavesdroppping bookstore owner perked up and said, "Her book is coming out soon". "Book!?", I said, eyes glittering. Yes, kd's biography written by Bill Robinson (Robertson? I forget his name), a fellow Canadian, will be out sometime in March. Both her personal and her artistic story will be chronicled, according to the notice. special K, impatiently awaiting March ======================================================================== From: "Michael Blackmore" Date: 29 Jan 93 11:49:47 EST Subject: Musical Hall of Shame One and all, I was thinking about two quirky musical categories that we all probably have and it might be amusing to share. One is Guilty Pleasures and the other I'll call Guilty Secrets. Guilty Pleasures: those albums and artists that you do listen to but you have the ever so little guilt about, because you think others might laugh or think ill of your taste in music. Yet you own and listen to them anyway. Guilty Secrets: those albums and artists that you at one time have listened to and owned, but have gotten rid of. Yet the shock remains of how you could ever have listened to them in the first place. The worst Guilty Pleasure that I know of is one friend who owns and listens to Shaun Cassidy albums! (She won't allow me to use her name, so we'll call her X.) The worst Guilty Secret that I know of is another woman I knew in college who had an autographed copy of *get this* THE STARLAND VOCAL BAND's album AFTERNOON DELIGHT ("Sky rockets in flight, afternoon delight.) I'll start the ball rolling by revealing my Guilty Secrets and Pleasure, and hope this inspires other to confess (confession is good for the soul): Guilty Pleasures: Tom Tom Club's "Close to the Bone", Paula Abdul's "Spellbound", Madonna's "Like a Virgin", and Bananarama's "Wow". Guilty Secret: Forgive me for this dark secret of my past ;-) but when I was a young teenager I had all of Olivia Newton John's albums! Eeeeeek! It's out! (in the immortal words of Lost in Space's Dr. Smith: "Oh, the pain! The pain!") Now what about you all. Don't leave me twisting out here. Confess! - Michael B. ("First they start you with the medication, then you'll be in for a shock!" - Elvis Costello) ======================================================================== Subject: Re: Musical Hall of Shame Date: Fri, 29 Jan 93 12:05:02 EST From: Angelos Kyrlidis Micheal B. talks about guilty pleasures and guilty secrets... Guilty? Why be ashamed of something you listen to. If you like it, it's good. I used to be ashamed of growing up on ABBA and the Bee Gees and Queen, but now they are being fashionable again. And yes, I still own 'Physical' by ONJ. It's in Greece, but it's there. I even own an album by Tina Charles with the hit 'Dance little lady dance'. I have two Donna Summer albums. I owned the complete Iron Maiden, til I traded them for some Eno/Danse Society albums and a Tom Robinson single in 1985. So what? I even own a cover by the chipmunks of Billy Joel's 'You may be right'. [OK, I'm a little embarassed by that... :) ] Anyone else? Angelos ======================================================================== From: "Michael Blackmore" Date: 29 Jan 93 12:54:04 EST Subject: Re: Musical Hall of Shame Angelos, ABBA, hmmm. That brings back a flood of memories. Supergroups of the '70s! I never knew quite what made something a Supergroup or not, but I remember DJs (like Casey Kasem "America's Top 40") using the term a lot in the 70s. ABBA was a Supergroup as was Foreigner and Supertramp. What a strange and wonderous decade. I remember dancing to ABBA (but we won't discuss that little detail from my past!) There's a movie that I'd love to find in the video store that I don't remember the title of, that's about the 70s and its music. It's very, very bad as I recall, but I'd love to see it. It starred David Cassidy as a time traveler from some distant time in the future. He lived in an era without music, art, culture, anything. So he leads a team back in time to the 1970s, because to them it was the most culturally sophisticated era in history (I'm not making this up, this is the actual plot as I recall it!), with the best music, art, fashion etc. And I vaguely remember some scene with everyone (huge crowds hundreds, thousands!) dancing to the Bay City Rollers' Saturday Night (S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y!) - Michael B. ("How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie-Roll Tootsie-Pop? Let's find out!" - the Wise Old Owl) ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 14:53 EST From: Sam Warren Subject: Musical Hall of Shame > There's a movie that I'd love to find in the video store that I >don't remember the title of, that's about the 70s and its music. >It's very, very bad as I recall, but I'd love to see it. It starred >David Cassidy as a time traveler from some distant time in the >future. The film is called "Spirit of '76. >he leads a team back in time to the 1970s, because to them it was the >most culturally sophisticated era in history (I'm not making this up, Actually, you are. They travelled back to get a copy of the Declaration of Independence. They were trying to get to 1776, but wound up in 1976. >And I vaguely remember some scene with everyone (huge >crowds hundreds, thousands!) dancing to the Bay City Rollers' >Saturday Night (S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y!) They were in a disco. As far as guilty secrets, I'm afraid I once owned five Barry Manilow albums (but I sold them), and two Donny Osmond albums (but I broke those, on purpose). My guilty pleasures I suppose would include ABBA and Donna Summer. I am, after all, a product of the '70s. I was even fairly heavy into Led Zeppelin and Bad Company for awhile (I have eclectic taste, I guess). I still find it hard to believe that people can like Nirvana, and yet laugh at Bad Company! Go figure. ======================================================================== From: "Michael Blackmore" Date: 29 Jan 93 15:19:06 EST Subject: Re: Spirit of '76 Sam, >>And I vaguely remember some scene with everyone (huge >>crowds hundreds, thousands!) dancing to the Bay City Rollers' >>Saturday Night (S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y!) >They were in a disco. Actually, the scene I'm referring to is at the end of the movie and is distinctly outdoors. When the heroes return to the future. Everything is white and stark and people speak in a monotone, after they emerge. Everyone is wearing bell-bottoms, peace-signs, & other 70s items. And the crowd dancing to the song is outside as part of a procession honoring the returned heroes! I could definitely be confused about why they went back, but they definitely transformed their civilization to be modeled after the 70s lifestyle, that's definite. Thanks for the title it is the movie I'm looking for. I'll see if I can find it in the video store. - Michael B. ======================================================================== From: "Michael Blackmore" Date: 29 Jan 93 15:54:07 EST Subject: Re: Spirit of '76 I'm such a sick puppy! I'm going to rent Spirit of '76 tonight! Eeeek! - Michael B. ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 15:56:23 -0500 From: gmcdonald@zdi.ziff.com (glenn mcdonald) Subject: In Which I Introduce Myself Hello, Ecto. After hearing about Happy for months in rec.music.gaffa and on Really-Deep-Thoughts, I could restrain my curiousity no longer, and in a fit of unquestioning trust in your tastes, I sent off for all 5 of Happy's CDs, despite the fact that I'd never heard a note of her music. It will probably not surprise you unduly to find that I think they're wonderful. I haven't had time to go through them all enough times to form a considered opinion, but I'm initially leaning towards I and II as my favorites. Of course, Tori Amos has swayed my Kate Bush tastes back to HER old albums, as well, and I suspect a similar effect is being produced here. The shortest list of my favorite artists than I can manage is: Big Country, Kate Bush, Game Theory (now The Loud Family) and Marillion. My top ten albums from last year were by Tori, Soul Asylum, the Comsat Angels, Buffalo Tom, Black Sabbath, Del Amitri, Megadeth, Melissa Etheridge, Think Tree, Manic Street Preachers and Too Much Joy (there was a tie, if you're counting). As far as Guilty Pleasures, I adore Fiona. I own an Abba compilation and the last five Iron Maiden albums, but I don't see why anybody would feel guilty about that. glenn, who will be sending off a check for Equipoise as soon as he gets home ======================================================================== Date: 29 January 1993 14:59:04 CST From: Subject: From the blasted past... Yesterday Angelos wrote: >This recent resurgence of ecto-products, brought back memories of ecto-past, >when a whole line of products was launched... Someone should probably dig them >up for a re-evaluation by the expanded forum of Happy fans! :-) This inspired me to do just that. I'm still going through my personal archives for all the detailed descriptions, I have thus far been able to dig up the following overview of most of my pseudoinventions from back when: Date: 9 December 1991 13:11:42 CST Subject: Do All Rhodes Really Lead to the Mall?, or: The Ecto Shopping Guide As per a good idea which Doug threw out at us last week, I have codified my new product ideas to date, and am now pleased to offer the 1991 Ecto Xmas Holiday Wish Book of inimitable fancy gadgets, guaranteed to delight any and all conspicuous consumers on your Solstice season gift list. This year's line of designer tchotchkes from the Ecto industrial machine: EAU de DREARS perfumes and fragrances WALKING TOAST outerwear and other cold-weather apparel (some electrically heated, batteries not included) DEEP-SWEEP vacuum cleaners CRANIUM KEEP carrying devices (sort of a fanny pack for the head) H.A.P. BOX bedside entertainment centers COME HERE (I WANT TO FEEL YOU IN THE DARK) luminescent sex toys CRYSTAL ORBS energy efficient, multiyear light bulbs HAPPY CAMPER recreational vehicles and motor homes FUZZY BLUE VICKIE lingerie/underfashions/intimate apparel in blue velvet (produced in association with the Victoria's Secret chain of finer lingerie dealerships) WARM FUZZY BLUE thermal lingerie/underfashions/intimate apparel (a joint venture of the Walking Toast and Fuzzy Blue Vickie divisions) POETIC JUSTICE (MY EARS HAVE PARASITES) flea sprays and related pet-care products (_not tested on animals_) MOONBEAM FRIENDS Oxy and Nitro Blend Shampoo X-ECTO hobby knives I'M GOING BACK Kitty Windows (a household ingress/egress device for cats) The FUZZY BLUE pre-mix cocktail (sometimes also referred to as the "Fuzzy Blue Navel"), a mix of blue curacao and an as yet indeterminate list of other liqueurs, which has yet to be perfected but is included here for completeness. The WARM FUZZY BLUE [NAVEL] pre-mix cocktail, a heated variant of the above with certain liquors traditionally served hot added to the formula FUZZY BLUE MOLD FARM starter kits for home penicillin-making. In addition to the above, the following special merchandise is being offered this year in consideration of the upcoming political campaigns: BUSH '92 posters, prominently displaying the likeness of our KaTe as the preferred candidate of Ectoians everywhere. IMPEACH BUSH posters, with the famous artwork of KaTe and the peach serving as the focal point for a cogent commentary on the state of the body politic in general :-). Both posters are available in either the regular or the deluxe Suspended ======================================================================== ///////////////////////////////////////// Since dreaming up all the foregoing, a couple of things have come to mind outside the realm of consumer products _per se_, to-wit: 1) In view of the growth of the so-called service economy in recent years, it might pay to latch on to this trend. My first idea for our branching out into services is the WRENCHES GONE AWRY? chain of tool repair and maintenance shops. This could be done on a franchise basis; to increase the appeal of franchises to unemployed unionized screenwriters, we could organize it into two operating units, to be called WGA?-East and WGA?-West. :-) 2) With the recent service reductions on many public transportation systems, riders will oft-times be waiting longer in the cold this winter, and then have to endure a slower, more crowded ride. They could use some diversions. For our first foray into transit advertising, we could reproduce postings to the Ecto mailing list, add a plug for the Walking Toast clothing line, buy space in bus interiors, subway stations, the shelters at certain bus stops, etc., and give the hapless straphangers something to read, under the umbrella title TOAST POSTIES. (Think about that one a while, and it may begin to make sense. :-) ) ///////////////////////////////// ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Fall semester project Future Robber Barons Club Boomdidiwana High School written by: Mitch Pravatiner chief copywriter Michael Blackmore wrote yesterday: >But now can I get the patented Ecto Decoder Ring and >Ecto 3-D Glasses (accept no imitations, these are genuine plastic!)? I never thought of inventing the latter, but I did anticipate his other concern not so long ago: Date: 30 December 1991 11:52:50 CST Subject: It was terribly simple, once I finally thought of it... In one of my early product-design speculations, I spoke of the ideal sales agents for a number of our hypothetical wares, and mentioned that I had tried and failed to think of something that could be sold in cereal boxes, or by mail in exchange for a set number of box tops, or whatever. On the bus to the movies on Christmas Eve, it finally came to me. It all reminds me of something my mother told me decades ago, about the favorite catch phrase of her boss at the time. "It's terribly simple," the man used to say. In the movie _A Christmas Story_, there is a part of the plot where the little kid through whose eyes the story is told sends away for a Little Orphan Annie Decoder Ring, or something to that effect, from the show's sponsor, Ovaltine. The thing finally came in the mail, and the kid eagerly transcribed and translated the coded message given at the end of that day's episode. It turned out that the message was an exhortation either to buy and consume Oval- tine, or to tune in future episodes of Little Orphan Annie. He felt utterly gypped. That particular outcome aside, it dawned on me that we could market, in conjunction with the marketing of one breakfast junk food or the other, the HAPPY RHODES DECODER RING. The exact details of this product still need to be worked out, needless to say. But in theory, it could somehow be used to unlock the answers to such existential questions as the meaning of "boomdidiwan a-didiwanahai-hai-hai-hai-sagaminitoo," whether it's really Latin or Japanese, what's really in the backup vocal we have come to know as "cobwebs, cobwebs..." and similar minutiae. Last but least, I stumbled across an additional field of knowledge that I had added to the "Fast Times at Boomdidiwana High" array reprinted here the other week: ART APPRECIATION: Happy's original monster paintings on the inlay cards of the 1st4. So much for the aphorism that those ignorant of the past are doomed to repeat it. Some of us, at least, are well cognizant of ecto's past, and have been doomed to repeat it anyway :-). Mitch _________________________________ "Once again, Yankee ingenuity has triumphed." --TV commercial for Benson & Hedges 100's Circa 1967 (466something on the Chinese calendar) [epigram reprinted from the end of one of last year's product-related posts] ======================================================================== The ecto archives are on hardees.rutgers.edu in ~ftp/pub/hr. There is an INDEX file explaining what is where. Feel free to send me things you'd like to have added. -- jessica (jessica@ns1.rutgers.edu)