From: owner-eda-thoughts-digest@smoe.org (eda-thoughts-digest) To: eda-thoughts-digest@smoe.org Subject: eda-thoughts-digest V2 #93 Reply-To: eda-thoughts@smoe.org Sender: owner-eda-thoughts-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-eda-thoughts-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk eda-thoughts-digest Sunday, April 4 1999 Volume 02 : Number 093 * If you ever wish to unsubscribe, send an email to * eda-thoughts-digest-request@smoe.org with ONLY * the word unsubscribe in the body of the email * . * PLEASE :) when you reply to this digest to send a post TO the list, * change the subject to reflect what your post is about. A subject * of Re: eda-thoughts-digest V2 #xxx or the like gives readers no clue * as to what your message is about. Today's Subjects: ----------------- ET: goth stuff [Courtney M Gordon ] ET: Re: eda-thoughts-digest V2 #92 [Lara Jean Ruth ] Re: ET: goth stuff [The Masked Orangutan ] ET: something for everyone [Naomi Vaughn ] ET: Re: something for everyone ["Kevin B. Pease" Subject: ET: goth stuff Dear yall, Does anyone else out there have an interest in vampire folklore and the vampire culture? just curious. I find the stuff fascinating and if there's anyone else out there, just wanted to talk about some of the non-cheesy vampire movies and stuff. love and lollipops Courtney ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 11:35:35 -0600 (CST) From: Lara Jean Ruth Subject: ET: Re: eda-thoughts-digest V2 #92 Hey James! Happy Easter :-) Just a quick note to say I really enjoyed your poetry that you posted last night. (and the lyrics too) Lara ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 13:22:25 -0600 From: The Masked Orangutan Subject: Re: ET: goth stuff Yes...sort of. I am a member of the Camarilla, which is the official fanclub/people-who-run-all-the-officially-sanctioned-games for WhiteWolf's Mind's Eye Theatre game system. This includes Vampire: the Masquerade, which I play and enjoy, but I'm mostly in the Cam for the Garou and Changeling venues. V:TM is pretty much something I do on the side. I'll still talk i f you want to, though. Palantir, the Trekker Angel 0:P known as Siece on the Discworld MUD list mod for the GL-Changeling listserve Courtney M Gordon wrote: > Dear yall, > Does anyone else out there have an interest in vampire folklore and the > vampire culture? just curious. I find the stuff fascinating and if > there's anyone else out there, just wanted to talk about some of the > non-cheesy vampire movies and stuff. > love and lollipops > Courtney ------------------------------ Date: 3 Apr 99 15:53:13 CST From: Naomi Vaughn Subject: ET: something for everyone well, lastnight i couldn't sleep...so i was up around 4 or 5 watching mtv...and i saw the video for this song. i thought it was cool...the lyrics are really great...kinda "words to live by"...so, well...wanted to share.. :) bye bye.. love, naomi - -- ((it's by Baz Lurman(sp?!) or something...and I don't remember what it's called....so sorry. :)) Wear sunscreen. If I could offer you one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will despense this advice now. Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind, you will never understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded. But trust me, in twenty years you will look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine. Don't worry about the future, or worry knowing that worring is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind. The kind that blindsides you at 4 pm on some idle Tuesday. Do one thing every day that scares you. Sing. Don't be reckless with other peoples' hearts; don't put up with people who are reckless with yours. Floss. Don't waste your time on jealousy, sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long and in the end, it's only with yourself. Remember the compliments you receive, forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how. Keep your old love letters; throw away your old bank statements. Stretch. Don't feel guilty if you don't know what to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don't. Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to knees, you'll miss them when they're gone. Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll dance the "Funky Chicken" on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else's. Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or what other people think of it. It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own. Dance. Even if you have nowhere to do it but in your own living room. Read the directions even if you don't follow them. Do not read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly. Get to know your parents. You never know when they'll be gone for good. Be nice to your siblings. They are your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future. Understand that friends come and go but a precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps between geography and lifestyle because the older you get, the more you need the people you knew when you were young. Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft. Travel. Accept certain inalienable truths: prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old and when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble, and children respected their elders. Respect your elders. Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund, maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse, but you'll never know when either one will run out. Don't mess too much with your hair or by the time you're forty, it will look eighty-five. Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth. But trust me on the sunscreen. ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 18:06:56 -0500 From: "Kevin B. Pease" Subject: ET: Re: something for everyone >well, lastnight i couldn't sleep...so i was up around 4 or 5 watching >mtv...and i saw the video for this song. i thought it was cool...the lyrics >are really great...kinda "words to live by"...so, well...wanted to share.. :) >((it's by Baz Lurman(sp?!) or something...and I don't remember what it's >called....so sorry. :)) Hey all, I just figured I'd throw in a bit more information on this. The song title (according to the DJ on one of the Boston stations who played it the other day...) is something like "Everybody's Free (to wear Sunscreen)" or something to that effect, and Naomi, you got the spelling right, I *think*... it's either Lurman or Luhrman, not sure which, but either way is close enough for government work, I think. :) Anyway, the lyrics to the song were taken from a weekly column written back in 1997 by a Mary Schmich of the Chicago Tribune. They ended up being attributed (mistakenly) to Kurt Vonnegut all over the internet... the original column, and some other related stuff, can be found at: http://chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/schmich/feature/0,1438,4379-4379,0 0.html Kevin - ---------- Kevin Pease kbpease@boston.crosswinds.net ICQ UIN: 3106063 AOL IM: kbpease http://www.crosswinds.net/boston/~kbpease/ "I know it's been quite a long time since I / Sang a hymn without guilt in my eyes / But I believe he truly wouldn't care 'cause if you / Really tried he'd save a place for you there..." ---(Sarah Slean, "John XXIII")--- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 18:43:48 -0500 From: zerocool@sunlink.net (Niki) Subject: ET: help help help Hey Angels :) I need some help...majorly... Do any of you have information or insights on poetry or lyrics from the 60's? It's for an American Cultures project and I am not doing well in that class as of this moment...I really need some help with this so I figured that you guys would be the ones to ask :) Thanks for any help you can give me... - -Niki ------------------------------ End of eda-thoughts-digest V2 #93 *********************************