From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V7 #210 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, June 2 1998 Volume 07 : Number 210 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: another celeb demise [tanter ] Re: please pass the placenta [tanter ] Re: Tropical placenta mandala [tanter ] On the subject of Placenta's [Gary Assassin ] Call any placenta [Natalie Jacobs ] Re: On the subject of Placenta's [Tom Clark ] Re: It's just a big liver, for cryin' out loud... [Russ Reynolds ] appetizers... [Mark_Gloster@3com.com] Re: last call for Ram's Head tix... [Mike Runion ] Re: In other news/SpiceGirlz vs. Monkees [nicastr@idt.net (Ben)] Re: something else you-know-who never said... [Eleanore Adams ] Re: Fwd: gouda, what is it, and what it means to you. [lj lindhurst ] Re: appetizers... [sdodge@midway.uchicago.edu (amadain)] why is today an important anniversary? [tanter ] Re: something else you-know-who never said... [Eleanore Adams ] Re: why is today an important anniversary? ["Jabberwalk With Me" ] Re: appetizers... [Ross Overbury ] Re: In other news... [Ross Overbury ] Re: why is today an important anniversary? [Gary Assassin ] Re: why is today an important anniversary? [Bayard ] Mike Love [Chris ] Re: appetizers... [Jon Fetter ] Re: Mike Love [sdodge@midway.uchicago.edu (amadain)] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 01 Jun 1998 09:40:49 -0400 From: tanter Subject: Re: another celeb demise At 09:34 AM 6/1/1998 -0400, Terrence M Marks wrote: >How can you worry about The Spice Girls when THE MONKEES HAVE BROKEN UP!?! Didn't they break up a long time ago...? When they reformed wasn't it without Mike? I hardly think either group will be sorely missed..... Marcy ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Jun 1998 09:43:48 -0400 From: tanter Subject: Re: please pass the placenta At 05:48 AM 6/1/1998 +0100, candlabra@lewiston.com wrote: >Helps tame those nasty frizzy split ends. Check out the back of your >conditioning-shampoo bottle - there should be an ingredient listed like >"hydrolized animal protein" or something similar. > >I remember hearing a rumor a few years back that companies like Revlon >also bought up a good deal of donated plasma from bloodbanks? Gd knows >what we've been putting in our hair all these years! (and then some...; ) I'm pretty sure that it's illegal for them to use human elements in beauty products, but everyone should buy products that don't use any animal products. There are tons of perfectly good products that are animal free. Marcy ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Jun 1998 09:45:17 -0400 From: tanter Subject: Re: Tropical placenta mandala At 08:31 AM 6/1/1998 -0400, Natalie Jacobs wrote: >Sorry, my mistake. The placenta is used *after* the birth to stop >post-partum hemorrhage. The oxytocin makes the uterus clamp down and stop >the bleeding. I'd like to know which midwives so I stay away from them! As much as I hate needles, I prefer the tiny shot of oxytocin I got! Marcy :) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 09:55:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Gary Assassin Subject: On the subject of Placenta's Here is a song my band did about placenta's I went to the hospital to see my friend Stu They shot him 'cause his library books were due But I got sick of machines that go "ping" I killed three patients when I started to sing (Luckily Stu had built up a tolerance) So I went downstairs and I got lost I was looking for food at a real low cost 'Cause I was broke and about to choke When I saw this thing lying in a tray It looked like pizza or maybe lasagna It smelled OK like it didn't need nothing on it So I pulled out my plastic fork and knife And ate it; But I was in for the shock of my life I reached a section that was long and thin I sucked it in like spaghetti or maybe It was a little thicker, but I got somewhat thicker When at the other end I found a dead baby Oh my god I ate a placenta What else is there left to do Didn't want to didn't think I meant to At least I know that they're good for you I was so grossed out that I puked on the floor I jumped over a table and headed for the door I mean, "gross, I just almost ate a dead baby" They're probably high in calories And I could've got rabies, maybe So anyway I went back upstairs and saw Stu I got an idea that no one else knew I said, "I almost ate a dead baby, Stu" He asked was it good and I said, "well I would have like it if it wasn't red and blue" So we got some food coloring some red dye #2 And we got some more dead babies; "From where," asked Stu And we started our own company, now we're millionaires The richest on earth which just goes to show What you can do with an afterbirth ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 10:21:39 -0400 From: Natalie Jacobs Subject: Call any placenta >Meanwhile, I'm still pondering the earlier contention that placenta is a >vegetable. Hmm.... Placenta is not a vegetable. Cabbage is a vegetable. - - Mopey Spice ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Jun 98 09:28:56 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: On the subject of Placenta's On 6/1/98 6:55 AM, Gary Assassin wrote: >Here is a song my band did about placenta's I read once where the Nazi's used placenta in their medical research. That's it folks! Next Topic! - -tc ******************************************* Tom Clark Apple Computer, Inc. tclark@apple.com http://www.netgate.net/~tclark "Beer is the only virtual reality I need." -Leroy Lockhorn ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Jun 98 09:35:00 -0800 From: Russ Reynolds Subject: Re: It's just a big liver, for cryin' out loud... ======== Original Message ======== At 05:00 PM 5/30/1998 -0400, you wrote: Well, at the risk of being completely repulsive, I will say that I've >heard of midwives having their clients chew on a bit of placenta during >labor, as placentas are chock-full of yummy oxytocin (a hormone that >speeds up contractions). I'd like to know whose placenta they use, since the placenta comes out after the baby does. Marcy ======== Fwd by: Russ Reynolds ======== Maybe the midwives keep one or two on hand in a cooler for such an occasion? I roomed with a guy once whose sister and hubby had just moved out following the birth of their child. Shortly after moving in I was looking in the freezer for some barbecue items, saw something that looked like frozen meat and started to pull it out when my friend says "you don't want to eat that--it's the baby's placenta" so I guess my point is you can keep them fresh in the freezer if you want to. I have no idea why they wanted to, unless maybe they had a recipe... can we change the subject now? - -rr ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 12:54:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: last call for Ram's Head tix... Saturday june 13th... it's a whopping $21.50 but hey, live a little... This is in Annapolis I think and the lovely & talented Scary Mary has invited y'all to stop by at her house before the gig. So far we have: - -mary - -gene & april - -doug - -luther + a friend - -me & my pal Big G. I've not heard from Ben or the New Guy, Jenee. Let me know asap as i plan to buy the tix NLT tomorrow! got to get a decent table! I am told the Ram's head is taper-friendly when the artist allows taping so I plan to have mic stands in tow... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 10:31:46 -0700 From: Mark_Gloster@3com.com Subject: appetizers... I apologize to all members of the feg list for mentioning the spice gristles. If that was what pushed us down into this maelstrom of non-appetizing nutrition, I must express my deepest regret. I'm the kind of person that faints in hospitals, and I sometimes have great difficulty eating in cafeterias. I'm looking forward to returning to discussions of other foods, like fish and insects.... Happies, - -Markg (np: jeezis colostomy sandwich, 50 eggs next) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Jun 1998 13:35:13 -0700 From: Mike Runion Subject: Re: last call for Ram's Head tix... Bayard wrote: > > Saturday june 13th... it's a whopping $21.50 but hey, live a little... > This is in Annapolis I think and the lovely & talented Scary Mary has > invited y'all to stop by at her house before the gig. > > So far we have: > > -mary > -gene & april > -doug > -luther + a friend > -me & my pal Big G. Could a fellow feg from Florida drive up and join you? Just kidding...I don't plan on making that sort of trek again for a very long while! My truck and right foot need about a year to recouperate (no cruise control). Ugh. Have fun, y'all. - -- Mike Runion Cocoa, FL, USA /******************************************************************\ | VCM: http://www5.palmnet.net/~mrrunion/cones.htm | | Fegmaps: http://www5.palmnet.net/~mrrunion/fegmaps | | Spoken Word Tape: http://www5.palmnet.net/~mrrunion/wordtape.htm | \******************************************************************/ "Wait a minute. Time for a Planetary Sit-In!" - Julian Cope ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 13:39:05 -0500 From: nicastr@idt.net (Ben) Subject: Re: In other news/SpiceGirlz vs. Monkees >It appears the Mike Love Project, aka the Beach Boys, will be doing >shows int he future. They are booked to play the biggest little >city in the world in early August at a White Trash oldies car festival >here in town. Woo Hoo... > Will John Stamos be on drums?!?! I'm crossing my fingers... >For Terry... Also playing town are the remainders of the Monkees and >Herman's Hermits (or Peter Noon [sp?]). I do not know if Peter Tork was >on the bill, but the interview made no mention of him. Another >cut-throated omission of the creative genius in the group. :( Hmm... I wonder if, like the Monkees, the Spice Girls will some day be revered by critcs for their pure pop compositional skills. Think of it: Monkees: manufactured pop group / Spice Girls: manufactured pop group Monkees: TV stars / Spice Girls: well... they had a movie Monkees: goofed on by their contemporaries (So You Wanna Be A Rock 'n' Roll Star?) / Spice Girls: goofed on by just about everyone Monkees: appealed to a teenybopper audience / Spice Girls: appeal to a teenybopper audience I hope someday the Spice Girls get the appreciation the deserve!!!! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Jun 1998 11:02:32 +0000 From: Eleanore Adams Subject: Re: something else you-know-who never said... Terrence M Marks wrote: > Reminds me. > > There are a set of rules that them scholastic types have set down to aid > in determining if something was written by Shakespeare or not. (It came > in handy when they found some long-lost play that might have been his, > about five years back.) > > Something like 11 rules and his plays never break more than three of them, > or suchlike. One of them is "Shakespeare doesn't use contractions", which > rules out "You're gonna be sorry" and "You've got to be kidding". > I've been trying to find these rules for a while[1], and I'm wondering if > any of you might know where they would be codified. (Or if any of you > could back me up that these rules exist.) > > 1: But I haven't been looking too hard, mind you, because I have no idea > where to look. > > Terrence Marks > normal@grove.ufl.edu When i was in grad school we never studied any set of rules - i would like to see a list if you find one. What we did study about authenticity was the folios and how each was slightly different. As a nature of a play is interactive with a localization, economic group, actors interpretation, audience responce etc... each time a play was performed it evolved -the jokes the nature, of the action... One can believe that the first folio play will be the most authentic to the first words of Shakespeare (before he or one of his followers rewrote it to fit a perticular audience) It one compared this lost work to any workes by Shakespeare, it would be workes in the first folio since they will be the least tainted by co-writers and theater folk of the time. (Which is not to saty that Shakespeare did not write or have a hand in writing the other folios.) I don't think anyone agrees on a checklist of authenticity. i don't think there is an agreement on if this lost work is Shakespeares, or partially Sheakespeares. I could be wrong.... Good luck!! Eleanore ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Jun 1998 11:03:43 PDT From: "Capitalism Blows" Subject: Re: Geri Spice and I'm being nice... i see .chris has completed his finals. hot damn! ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Jun 1998 11:06:59 PDT From: "Capitalism Blows" Subject: Fwd: gouda, what is it, and what it means to you. Date: Sun, 31 May 98 13:11:36 -0700 Subject: gouda, what is it, and what it means to you. _Gouda Cheese What Is It, And What It Means To You _) Last Updated: 12/06/97 _ Acceleration of the ripening of Gouda cheese with lysed starter bacteria PhD-fellow: Vesna Prsic, M.Sc. Supervisors: Dr. A. Noomen, Prof. P. Walstra (Dairying and Food Physics Group, WAU) Project term: May 1994 - May 1998 Sponsor: J. Mesdag Foundation _ Introduction Characteristic properties of a particular variety of cheese, such as texture and flavour, result from ripening processes. Ripening time may vary between three weeks and two years depending on cheese variety and consumer preference. Commercial interest to reduce the cheese production costs stimulated research on strategies to accelerate ripening. This project focuses on the impact of starter lactococcal cells on the ripening of Gouda cheese, and on possibilities to accelerate this process through enhanced proportion of lysed lactococcal cells at the onset of cheese ripening. Theoretical background Proteolysis largely determines organo-leptic properties of most cheese varieties. In Gouda cheese, peptides produced from paracasein (mainly by chymosin action) are further hydrolysed by the proteolytic system of starter lactic acid bacteria (LAB). Resulting smaller peptides and amino acids contribute to the basic cheese taste, but also act as precursors of more specific flavour compounds. The proteolytic system of LAB involves an extracellular cell-envelope associated proteinase (i.e. CEP, or PrtP), peptide- and amino acid-transport systems located in the cell membrane, and a number of intracellular exo- and endo-peptidases. Peptide-transport systems probably fail to function in metabolically inactive cells as present soon after cheese manufacture. Therefore, (auto)lysis of starter LAB plays a key role in cheese ripening by allowing the conversion of extra-cellularly produced substrate by intracellular peptidases. A higher proportion of lysed starter cells increases the rate of free amino acid production, which may lead to acceleration of the traditional cheese production. Research The aims of the research are: * 1) to gain fundamental knowledge about the factors affecting the extent of autolysis under conditions as present in Gouda-type cheese, and about the link between the extent of bacterial lysis and rate of cheese maturation; * 2) to develop a technological strategy to accelerate the ripening of traditional Gouda-type cheese. Most of the fundamental studies are performed in cheese analogues and/or simulated cheese moisture developed in our laboratory. Various Lactococcus lactis subsp. cremoris strains are used. Special attention is paid to the assessment of stability of intracellular enzymes under cheese conditions. Development of a reliable method for the quantification of cell lysis is essential here. Refining existing procedures for the quantification of DNA leakage, activity of intracellular enzymes (e.g. peptidases, FBP-aldolase, actatedehydrogenase) in cheese matrix, and assays with fluorescent probes are the most probable choice. Methods considered for cell disruption include the physical and enzymatic ones. Electron microscopy will be used to visualize starter cells in cheese. _ ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Jun 1998 11:10:09 PDT From: "Capitalism Blows" Subject: let the games begin happy First Day Of Hurricane Season everybody!!!! (the thornton family now moves into a General State of Preparedness, ready to pull dan rather's bacon out of the fire *yet again*, if needed.) also on june 1st every year, i begin listening to all my cd's in alphabetical order. so, now playing: ac/dc, DIRTY DEEDS. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 14:14:15 -0400 From: lj lindhurst Subject: Re: Fwd: gouda, what is it, and what it means to you. Eddie, will you marry me? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 14:16:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: Re: last call for Ram's Head tix... > > Could a fellow feg from Florida drive up and join you? Just kidding...I > don't plan on making that sort of trek again for a very long while! My > truck and right foot need about a year to recouperate (no cruise > control). Try a cinder block-- works for me! Hope you & your truck are healthy for the mountaintop feg coven later this year, when the night is cool enough for a roaring fire... but we'll have the hot tub going for thin-blooded florida fegs with sore feet! ;) =b ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Jun 1998 13:16:55 -0500 From: sdodge@midway.uchicago.edu (amadain) Subject: Re: appetizers... >I apologize to all members of the feg list for mentioning >the spice gristles. No problem. I grew up in the American South, things like spice gristle don't shock me. >I'm looking forward to returning to discussions of other >foods, like fish and insects.... I actually have an African cookbook (printed by the government of Malawi, no lie!) that has insect recipes. If you want to know how to prepare bee larvae, drop me a line. Incidentally, animal placenta is used in -lots- of cosmetics, most often conditioner as someone pointed out, and some facial creams/cosmetics. Sometimes it's not even hidden as "hydrolyzed animal protein" but straight out listed as "placenta", and in fact some expensive cosmetics like "la prairie" use the high placenta content as a selling point! They can do this because the general consumer most likely doesn't actually know what a placenta is and thinks that it is in fact some ultra-nice cosmetic ingredient with vague animal origins. I suspect the talk of Revlon using -human- blood is probably one of those urban legends a la Proctor & Gamble's satanic logo, but OTOH I don't rule much of anything out where large industry is concerned. Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Jun 1998 14:14:37 -0400 From: tanter Subject: why is today an important anniversary? Kudos to the one who can answer this (Monsieur Eb is NOT allowed to participate in this one! ;] ) Marcy ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Jun 1998 11:22:51 +0000 From: Eleanore Adams Subject: Re: something else you-know-who never said... Terrence M Marks wrote: > Reminds me. > > There are a set of rules that them scholastic types have set down to aid > in determining if something was written by Shakespeare or not. (It came > in handy when they found some long-lost play that might have been his, > about five years back.) > > Something like 11 rules and his plays never break more than three of them, > or suchlike. One of them is "Shakespeare doesn't use contractions", which > rules out "You're gonna be sorry" and "You've got to be kidding". > I've been trying to find these rules for a while[1], and I'm wondering if > any of you might know where they would be codified. (Or if any of you > could back me up that these rules exist.) > > 1: But I haven't been looking too hard, mind you, because I have no idea > where to look. > > Terrence Marks > normal@grove.ufl.edu OK, it has been a long time since I was in school and a lot I forgot. I did find a web site that looks like it will help with your search of authenticity. http://www.bcpl.lib.md.us/~tross/ws/will.html#7 eleanore ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 15:37:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Gary Assassin Subject: Re: why is today an important anniversary? It's the last day you ate meat? ------------------------------------ If you have a condom and sunscreen SPF 15 or greater, than it's safe to look at http://www.panix.com/~gsa/index.html On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, tanter wrote: > Kudos to the one who can answer this (Monsieur Eb is NOT allowed to > participate in this one! ;] ) > > > Marcy > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 13:21:32 -0700 From: "Jabberwalk With Me" Subject: Re: why is today an important anniversary? tanter dixit: > Kudos to the one who can answer this (Monsieur Eb is NOT allowed to > participate in this one! ;] ) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was released on this date in 1967. :-P - -g- - ----------==========**********O**********==========--------- Glen Uber Internet: uberg@sonic.net ICQ: 13311304 Web: http://www.sonic.net/~uberg "Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible." --Frank Zappa - ----------==========**********O**********==========--------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 13:24:06 -0700 From: "Jabberwalk With Me" Subject: Re: In other news/SpiceGirlz vs. Monkees Ben dixit: > Will John Stamos be on drums?!?! I'm crossing my fingers... Yep. And his older brother Richard Stamos is going to sing "Loving You" at halftime... - -g- - ----------==========**********O**********==========--------- Glen Uber Internet: uberg@sonic.net ICQ: 13311304 Web: http://www.sonic.net/~uberg "Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible." --Frank Zappa - ----------==========**********O**********==========--------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 13:27:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Condiment Spice Subject: That scan ages back... Ages ago I said I would scan this autographed album cover with Bob's scriblings on it. I have complete the task. If anyone wants it let me know. Also, if you can not handle an attached jpeg file, ell me your desires, at which I'll laugh, and ask you how you want the file sent differently. over, .chris ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Jun 98 16:29:57 EDT From: Ross Overbury Subject: Re: appetizers... > > I actually have an African cookbook (printed by the government of Malawi, no > lie!) that has insect recipes. If you want to know how to prepare bee > larvae, drop me a line. You can add Bedouins to the list of bug-biters. A Turkish friend who had spent some time on that part of the world refused to believe this until I brought in the cookbook were I had seen this. The Bedouins use them as a seasoning. An Iranian market here sells what seems to be galls complete with larvae. The labels are in Persian (is that the name of the language? Pardon my ignorance.) only, so I don't know what they're for. When I bought dried lemons (loomi) and sumac drink from the same shop I was warned by the cashier, then collected my reward of puzzled looks after saying I had neither visited Iran nor know any Iranians. A shop in downtown Montreal sold something labeled only as Mfumbwa. It looked like crispy deep-fried larvae. The shop is closed now. Go figure. Where am I going to get my Mfumbwa now? I have this sickening feeling this thread leads back to the dreaded (by me) "where would you take Robyn for dinner?" one. Oh yeah, and I'll second Susan's assertion that placenta protein would be bragged on as opposed to being slipped by the consumer. I saw hair care products in NY a couple of years back that had PLACENTA prominently displayed on the front of the front of the bottle. And they weren't cheap. yadda yadda yadda, - -- Ross Overbury Montreal, Quebec, Canada email: rosso@cn.ca ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Jun 98 16:46:35 EDT From: Ross Overbury Subject: Re: In other news... > > np. (Well, not playing because I'm in a computer lab, but I really want to > make a recommendation)-"The Snowflakes are Dancing", Isao Tomita. I still find this widely dissed recording charming (well, maybe not the Golliwog's Cakewalk). This recording was my introduction to Debussy. These tunes even sound good on piano! - -- Ross Overbury Montreal, Quebec, Canada email: rosso@cn.ca ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 20:16:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Gary Assassin Subject: Re: why is today an important anniversary? How about 73 years ago today Lou Gheric played his first game in HIS streak? ------------------------------------ If you have a condom and sunscreen SPF 15 or greater, than it's safe to look at http://www.panix.com/~gsa/index.html On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Jabberwalk With Me wrote: > tanter dixit: > > > Kudos to the one who can answer this (Monsieur Eb is NOT allowed to > > participate in this one! ;] ) > > Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was released on this date in > 1967. > > :-P > > -g- > > > ----------==========**********O**********==========--------- > Glen Uber Internet: uberg@sonic.net > ICQ: 13311304 Web: http://www.sonic.net/~uberg > "Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible." > --Frank Zappa > ----------==========**********O**********==========--------- > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 20:37:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: Re: why is today an important anniversary? in 1964 the soft b ... er, that is, the rolling stones arrived in new york on their way to starting up their first u.s. tour... also, in 74 alanis was born.. ok so i looked it up (you oughta know..) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:04:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Terrence M Marks Subject: Re: another celeb demise On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, tanter wrote: > At 09:34 AM 6/1/1998 -0400, Terrence M Marks wrote: > >How can you worry about The Spice Girls when THE MONKEES HAVE BROKEN UP!?! > > Didn't they break up a long time ago...? When they reformed wasn't it > without Mike? I hardly think either group will be sorely missed..... > Yes. They broke up in 1969, 1977, 1986 and now 1998. Mike was on the album but not the tour, giving him the appearance of being "The MOnkee Who Was Too Good For The Others". Terrence Marks normal@grove.ufl.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:46:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Subject: Mike Love Condiment Spice reported >It appears the Mike Love Project, aka the Beach Boys, will be doing >shows int he future. They are booked to play the biggest little >city in the world in early August at a White Trash oldies car festival >here in town. Woo Hoo... I saw an ad for Mike Love's Ego Trip playing at the Hampton Ballrooom in New Hampshire. I don't know if the Beach Boys that are left are playing with him. The official billing is "America's Band featuring Mike Love of the Beach Boys". What is really, really scary is that the most expensive tickets listed at $29.50!! Oh, and the Teen Idol tour (Davey Jones, Peter Noone, Bobby Sherman) is also playing at the Hampton Ballroom. Chris ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 13:16:25 +0800 From: Jon Fetter Subject: Re: appetizers... >> >> I actually have an African cookbook (printed by the government of Malawi, no >> lie!) that has insect recipes. If you want to know how to prepare bee >> larvae, drop me a line. Great! Another unrelated and disgusting thread! There is a local liquor made in the mountains of southern Taiwan that uses 3 out of 4 of the life stages of a large wasp (ever see a brown hornet?--about the same size, but meaner): the larvae, pupae, and adults, bottled separately. The first time I saw them in a store I thought they were a biological display. I just can't imagine drinking a shot and then hawking out a dead wasp the size of your thumb. If I ever find myself catering an Entomologist's convention, I'll know what to stock the bar with. I would have sent a bottle to Fegfest 98 if I could have figured out how to mail the stuff and if I knew people's preferences (I'm a pupae-guy myself). And of course, for a chaser, there's centipede liquor... Jonny the Wasp-boy - ------------------------------------------------------------------- "They are grubby little creatures of a sea floor 530 million years old, but we greet them with awe because they are the Old Ones, and they are trying to tell us something." --Stephen Jay Gould ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 00:54:43 -0500 From: sdodge@midway.uchicago.edu (amadain) Subject: Re: Mike Love >I saw an ad for Mike Love's Ego Trip playing at the Hampton Ballrooom in New >Hampshire. I don't know if the Beach Boys that are left are playing with >him. This Sunday's Chicago Tribune Arts & Entertainment section featured an interview with the Big Bri, who apparently lives in the western suburbs of Chicago now. He said that "Mike Love's ego" is one of the things that is preventing them from reuniting. So either this is a joke on the band name or it's very apt :). Actually it sounded more like Brian's ego was closer to the problem- reading between the lines would suggest that he is peeved that the other Beach Boys refuse to do everything exactly the way he wants it exactly when he wants to. This is just the way it read to a more or less objective observer, I have no idea what the Beach Boys' individual gripes are with each other. >Oh, and the Teen Idol tour (Davey Jones, Peter Noone, Bobby Sherman) is also >playing at the Hampton Ballroom. Gosh how depressing. I'm not surprised that Mike Nesmith doesn't want in on this kind of action, I wouldn't either. Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V7 #210 *******************************