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 #243 ecto, Number 243 Friday, 22 May 1992 Today's Topics: *-----------------* many Somehow, it seemed to fit in More line segments Another evoked association (wuz: Today's chuckle) Aural Gratification phone number? Happy Birthday Re: ecto #242 Re: ecto #241 ======================================================================== Date: Mon, 18 May 92 23:59:04 PDT From: stevev@greylady.uoregon.edu (Steve VanDevender) Subject: many It has been a tiring weekend, the kind of one it could take me the rest of the week to recover from. Last Thursday and Friday I made final arrangements to travel to Atlanta, GA from July 2 to July 5, during which I will run in the wheelchair division of the Peachtree Road Race. Of more notable interest to Ectophiles is that I will leave Eugene July 1 and fly to Chicago where I will finally meet Vickie'n'Chris for the first time, staying overnight before I arrive in Atlanta on the 2nd. If they have not rejoined the net before that time I shall have to arrange some kind of group message from Ecto to deliver to them. Friday night I made my infamous "stir fry of pain" for a generally appreciative audience, many of whom drank lots of water immediately afterward. Saturday I spent some time at the Willamette Valley Folk Festival, a charming event I was introduced to because it happened on the lawn right across from the dorm I used to live in at the U of O. It is a fixture of spring in Eugene. Then I ran a 3000m track race at the Oregon Twilight Meet, which will undoubtedly sound depressing or embarrassing if I were to say that I finished 3rd of 3 and came in 2 1/2 minutes behind the frontrunners, except that it wasn't, because Hayward Field always attracts a nice crowd. While at the meet I found out about a party that I went to after returning home and watching this week's exceptional episode of New Trek; I thought I would be arriving late by showing up at 10:30 but in fact I was one of the first guests to arrive, and surprised to find that it was identical to a party I had heard about Friday night in a completely different context. Sunday was pretty much a day of vegetation at the Folk Fest, except that I had a fairly intense tempo run in the evening and then saw a really wild episode of my favorite TV show, _Parker Lewis Can't Lose_. Two Nice Girls played at the Folk Fest later that evening to a thoroughly pleased crowd, winding up with a version of "Purple Haze" that featured some of the heaviest breathing I've ever heard in public. And today I finally did my part for Happyvangelism. A local radio station known as "the KAVE" has a "Women in Music" show which is actually quite good. It was extremely eclectic: tonight's show featured the Cowboy Junkies, who apparently are performing tomorrow in town, but I also remember bits by k.d. lang, Enya, Concrete Blonde, and a variety of other artists who are much less memorable to me. However, I did hear Tori Amos for the first time when the host Christina played "Leather". I actually guessed that the song was by Tori while it was playing; all the chatter in rec.music.gaffa has apparently given me a very good idea of what to expect. I called the request line and asked Christina if she had any Kate Bush; unfortunately she said she hadn't brought any in this week but would try to next week. However, she was very interested when I asked her if she had ever heard of Happy Rhodes, especially when she asked what label Happy is on and I said that she was on her own (perhaps in both senses); she said that they are much more inclined to pay attention to independent artists. So as soon as I recall my _Warpaint_ CD from a friend (annoying how one can never keep them around the house long :-) ) I will drop it by the station offices (less than a block from where I work, as it turns out) for their perusal along with the phone number for AG so they can order their very own, and dream of cheering mobs of Happy fans inhabiting Eugene, and the KAVE flying Happy in for a live concert, and other Happy possibilities. ======================================================================== Date: 18 May 1992 15:37:31 CDT From: Subject: Somehow, it seemed to fit in Jeanne wondered out loud: >What really makes a witch? Ppl have called Tori a witch. Ppl have called >Happy a witch? Am I a witch if I have this fascination with eyes.. Damned if I know why, but that reminded me of the following lyric from the distant and irrelevant past. WITCHCRAFT Recorded and popularized by Frank Sinatra I don't know offhand who wrote it Those fingers in my hair That sly come-hither stare That strips my conscience bare It's witchcraft And I've got no defense for it The heat is too intense for it What good would common sense for it do? 'Cause it's witchcraft That wicked witchcraft And although I know It's strictly taboo When you arouse the need in me My heart says "yes, indeed" in me Proceed with what you're leading me to It's such an ancient pitch But one I wouldn't switch 'Cause there's no nicer witch than you 'Cause it's witchcraft That crazy witchcraft And although I know It's strictly taboo When you arouse the need in me My heart says "yes, indeed" in me Proceed with what you're leading me to It's such an ancient pitch But one that I'd never switch 'Cause there's no nicer witch than you * * * It occurs to me that this also feeds indirectly into Court's interest in paganism, so that's two of us whose concerns it may have something to do with. Perhaps it's not quite as irrelevant as I thought :-). Mitch ________________________________________________ "Is that a line?" --reply to remarks by Bruce Willis, in a Seagram's Cooler commercial "If they were actually lines, they would go off infinitely into space. I suggest that they are really line segments." --general sense of dialog in the classic Second City sketch, "Football Returns to the University of Chicago" ======================================================================== Date: 18 May 1992 15:52:43 CDT From: Subject: More line segments Meredith comments on my idea for commercials: >That would be fun, but don't try to broadcast it- "War of the Worlds"-esque >pranks on the airwaves are now quite illegal, and I would imagine that would >go for fake commercials as well... What I actually had in mind was something along the lines of the _faux_ commercials for _faux_ products and services that Garrison Keillor does regularly, and with impunity, on his show. The FCC has never made any effort to shut down the efforts to advertise Powdermilk Biscuits or Bertha's Kitty Boutique, so I don't think we have to worry about Ecto-Seltzer or Eau de Drears being vulnerable that way. Speaking of Orson Welles and commercials, not many may know that most of the fuss occurred in 1938 when people switched over from Charlie McCarthy during the commercials, and missed the announcements that the Martians were fic- tional. Linda Ellerbee, in relating this at the end of an episode of _Our World_, observed that this was the first known occurrence of zapping. Regarding the brouhaha over the true birthday of ecto, it seems to me that the former ectoplasm was the same thing as the present-day ecto, so that the 13th makes more sense than the 18th, which was merely the effective date of a name change. What arrived on earth on the 10th may not qualify as a formally constituted mailing list (with a name/address), but even it may have a substantive claim to being the earliest incarnation of our electronic small group. 2 out of 3 left in the running may not eliminate the ambiguity, but we may at least have reduced it by 1/3. :-) Mitch ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 19 May 92 12:44:01 EDT From: Chris Sampson Subject: Hi, everybody, Until June 1, I will be out of town. Specifically, in AZ (Grand Canyon, Tucson, Phoenix, Lake Powell etc.). See y'all then. Chris ======================================================================== Date: 19 May 1992 14:31:29 CDT From: Subject: Another evoked association (wuz: Today's chuckle) Valerie's first-person narrative of the 10,000 Maniacs concert included the following bit of business: >it was the day for bizarre questions...one person carrying a reporter's >notebook asked natalie what she thought about capital letters in the english >language. she merely stated that she never was the type of person who wrote >in all lower case, and denigrated us lazy ones. Characteristically, this evoked in me an association--specifically, of a review on the Today show, some time in the early 60's, of a compilation of letters written by the late, great radio comedian Fred Allen. As it happened, he characteristically typed them out with two fingers, and all in lower case --a style which, as fate would have it, has been copied by a number of persona- ges, of varying degrees of distinction, on various parts of the net; as well as anticipated, as best I understand it, by archy the cockroach in the writings of Don Marquis. The compiler of the book related that someone once asked allen (now _i'm_ doing it! :-) ) why he did it that way, and Allen replied, simply, "I can't shift for myself." (Or was it "_i_"? :-) ) To shift the subject (for myself): As I write this, the disk jockey on WXRT has just characterized Peter Murphy as the only artist who hasn't yet performed at Farm Aid, or words to that effect. Go figure. Mitch Pravatiner ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 19 May 92 13:12:13 PDT From: stevev@greylady.uoregon.edu (Steve VanDevender) Subject: Aural Gratification phone number? I'm taking my Warpaint CD over to "the KAVE" today, but I can't find AG's phone number to give them so they can order a promo copy. Can anyone send it to me? ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 19 May 92 22:59:57 EDT From: elizabeth w warwick Subject: Re: Aural Gratification phone number? My friend Greg, aka footah!, says that he posted the number not too long ago. So, hope you received it. Good-bye!!!!!! lizzylou ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 19 May 92 21:34:34 PDT From: stevev@greylady.uoregon.edu (Steve VanDevender) Subject: Re: Aural Gratification phone number? Thanks to Greg Bossert and Michael Peskura for sending me the AG phone number. I'll drop that by the KAVE tomorrow. Today I left the CD with the host of the "Women in Music" show, who seemed enthusiastic about it and recommended that we call during their instant request show Thursday night. ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 20 May 92 08:33:48 +0100 From: Terry Partis Subject: Happy Birthday Hi, Here's wishing Beth Perry a very Happy (Glad) Fuzzy blue birthday on 21st. May (tomorrow) Terry ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 20 May 92 18:20:26 EDT From: jessica Subject: Re: ecto #242 Hiya. Thanks.. I'm not sure waht your mailer does when sending/forwarding messages.. did it put the: ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- line in itself? What I really need to see are the headers that would be above that line.. often, mail readers don't show them unless you ask.. I tihnk you might be best off asking the system administrator there to take a look at the messages.. jessica || jessica || It is this that || Don't try to tell me there's no reason for || || lawrence || brings us || any moment in time, every memory of mine. || || koeppel || together. || Those years are lines of color on my face, || || dembski || --Kate || the past is warpaint. --Happy Rhodes || ======================================================================== Subject: Re: ecto #241 From: tlb@bsbbs.columbus.oh.us (Tracy Barber) Date: Wed, 20 May 92 01:55:05 EDT EC>From: Jeanne B Schreiter EC>Subject: Years EC>Date: Sat, 16 May 92 2:35:36 CDT EC>Mitch...thanks for the kind words, but there's a lot of poets out there, i EC>ecto, in hiding... Have you published any of your poems yet? tlb --- * SLMR 2.0 * Childish Game: One at which your spouse beats you. ---- Tracy Barber tlb@bsbbs.columbus.oh.us {n8emr|nstar}!bluemoon!bsbbs!tlb The Big Sky BBS (+1 614 864 1198) ======================================================================== Subject: Re: ecto #241 From: tlb@bsbbs.columbus.oh.us (Tracy Barber) Date: Wed, 20 May 92 01:56:04 EDT EC>If you thought Annie Lennox's performance on Saturday Night Live sucked, EC>then you were right. If you let this unfortunate event stop you from EC>enjoying her new solo album 'Diva', then you are making a mistake. That wierd. When they played SPAC a few years ago, they were really good. That's too bad that has to happen to a few. tlb --- * SLMR 2.0 * Please don't yell at me. I'm new at this. ---- Tracy Barber tlb@bsbbs.columbus.oh.us {n8emr|nstar}!bluemoon!bsbbs!tlb The Big Sky BBS (+1 614 864 1198) ======================================================================== The ecto archives are on hardees.rutgers.edu in ~ftp/pub/hr. There is a README file explaining what is where. Feel free to send me (or leave in the incoming directory, just let me know) things you'd like to have added. -- jessica (jessica@ns1.rutgers.edu)