From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V8 #418 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, November 9 1999 Volume 08 : Number 418 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: KimberlEy (Re: Good writeup at www.mrshowbiz.com) [Minky Sponge ] Re: Ferndale! [Briannupp@aol.com] Re: last night's Cincinnati show [Eric Loehr ] Re: last night's Cincinnati show [Tom Clark ] "smoking causes serious risks to your health" [Joel Mullins ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V8 #416 [James Dignan ] chicago feg thing [ultraconformist@ets.cncdsl.com] Can you spell R-I-S-I-B-L-E ["Crazy Unca' Nick" ] Re: Okay, this is my last resort... MP3 help? ["Stewart C. Russell" ] eb all over the squirrels ["Christ in the Desert" ] this is not good ["Anal Oil Leakage" ] Re: eb all over the squirrels ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: eb all over the squirrels [overbury@cn.ca] Re: "smoking causes serious risks to your health" [Tom Clark ] Bass in your fass [overbury@cn.ca] Re: Robbie W, MP3s and KimberlEy ["Adam Leonard" ] Who is eb? ["Adam Leonard" ] Re: Who is eb? [Marcy Tanter ] Re: Who is eb? ["JH3" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 16:28:51 -0800 (PST) From: Minky Sponge Subject: Re: KimberlEy (Re: Good writeup at www.mrshowbiz.com) - --- Bayard wrote: > Eddie, how did you get the tracklisting to "A Star > for Bram"? Thanks for > that! > > =b > well, i am no eddie, but last night at the cincy show i saw that the t-shirt/merchandise people had some sheets of paper with the tracklisting. great fucking show, by the way. dave ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 21:21:01 -0800 From: "Michael R. Runion" Subject: [Fwd: Re: Who are you, who-hoo-hoo-hoo?] Message-ID: <382900A1.496E@palmnet.net> Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 21:20:33 -0800 From: "Michael R. Runion" Reply-To: mrrunion@palmnet.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I; 16bit) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James Dignan Subject: Re: Who are you, who-hoo-hoo-hoo? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit James Dignan wrote: > Hey, is the fegmap still operating? Sadly, it's pathetically out of date, and it doesn't look like I'll ever have time to resurrect it...pretty much a lost cause...an archaic relic at this point. Mike (desperatly seeking time to load up several new and old cones!) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 21:31:30 -0500 (EST) From: Eric Loehr Subject: Re: last night's Cincinnati show On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, dmw wrote: > > On Mon, 8 Nov 1999 JudeHayden@aol.com wrote: > > > my taste, especially with Robyn's tendency to wander about, time-wise... I > > jeez, i'm glad to hear someone finally bring that up. it's one of the > reasons i'm so delighted to hear him playing with a drummer live again. > i've found some of his "solo" solos to be excruciating on account of the > timing. > I'm glad you both brought this up ;-} Either the magnetic memories are wacky or Robyn's had a bit of odd timing playing Mexican God for one, and has also messed up words/chords more than I remember ever noticing before. I suspect Robyn might take this as a complement, but he almost gets a Dylanish speed up/slow down/throw-that-chord-in-at-the-last-minute-before it's-too-late sort of feel. Maybe he's not concentrating as hard knowing that he doesn't have to carry the whole show himself? (Then again, maybe it's *my* memory -- magnetic or otherwise -- that's wacky, and I just never noticed him doing this before...) Of course, he's also playing some stuff he hasn't played live much recently (or much at all in the case of Mexican God...) Great shows nonetheless... Eric, who finds it quite easy to criticize that which he does himself, except not as good. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 21:29:48 EST From: Briannupp@aol.com Subject: Re: Ferndale! After a second listen to my recordings from Ferndale, I've decided they aren't as good as I first thought. Actually most of its great, but it does distort in louder parts. There is a half second glich in America, but nothing unbearable. Still worth trading. Sorry and Thanks -Brian ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 21:43:49 -0500 (EST) From: Eric Loehr Subject: Re: last night's Cincinnati show (I'm taking the law into my own hands here to reply to my own post -- probably NOT a first on the fegmaniax computer network) On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Eric Loehr wrote: (much insightful -- not inciteful or even insiteful -- stuff deleted) > I suspect Robyn might take this as a complement, but he almost gets a It's compLIment, you fucking moron! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 18:50:21 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: last night's Cincinnati show On 11/8/99 6:43 PM, Eric Loehr wrote: >(I'm taking the law into my own hands here to reply to my own post -- >probably NOT a first on the fegmaniax computer network) It's ok, this list has seen a lot of recursion - and it's never blown up it's stack. Just watch out for those Eb/Hal deadlock conditions - they're a bitch to debug! Geek mode off, - -tc (I'm not even gonna mention Quail's dangling pointer!!) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Nov 1999 21:32:14 -0800 From: Joel Mullins Subject: "smoking causes serious risks to your health" Well, many of you, and evenEb, will be completely SHOCKED to hear that I quit smoking! Why? you ask, would someone so pro-smoking all of a sudden quit? Well, I didn't do it on purpose. It just sort of happened. About two weeks ago, I started feeling like shit and didn't have the desire for a cigarette. So, I just laid in bed for 2 days and didn't smoke. It turns out that I have some sort of condition (but no one has been able to tell me what it is yet). It's nothing serious. Just some heartburn from hell mixed with indigestion and all that jazz. The doctors have done a lot of tests and found nothing wrong with me. So, now they tell me that I just need to not-smoke, watch my drinking, and stop eating so much greasy, fatty food. Anyway, I haven't had a cigarette in over 2 weeks. There doesn't seem to be much point in starting to smoke again now. I lit one up a few days ago and took a drag, but it tasted like shit (not wonderful like it used to). I'm over the nicotine withdrawl, and now just miss the hand-to-mouth and social aspects. But I miss spicy mexican food way more than cigarettes. Hopefully, the medicine the doc gave me will get this shit under control and then I can go back to eating tasty food. - --the new and improved, smoke-free, alcoholic prevert Joel ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 22:01:59 -0600 From: steve Subject: Re: Okay, this is my last resort... MP3 help? >>As far as I can tell, there are no free MP3 converters for the Windows >>platform which will create CD quality MP3 files. You'll have to pay >>$25 or more for that feature, freeware has a lower sampling rate. JH3: >I have all sorts of problems with this statement, but perhaps discretion >is the better part of valor in this case. No idea what John has in mind, but I must get on my hobby horse and point out that "CD quality MP3 files" doesn't fly. It implies that there is some $25.00 software that will put back the bits that have been thrown away. MP3 is nifty and useful, but it ain't CD quality - and the new digital formats will leave it even further behind. - - Steve _______________ We're all Jesus, Buddha, and the Wizard of Oz! - Andy Partridge ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 17:25:48 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V8 #416 >probably don'ty take into account lurkers, but I'd guess that if onl,y >25-30% of fegs post, we'veprobably got about 200-250 members, with 70% >beiung in the US and large minorotoes in England, Scotland, Canada and >Australia.I am the list;'s southernmost member, in the southern South I claim an injured index finger in my defence, although I kinda like the word 'minorotoes' >> PS Did you see the results of that 600,000-participant HMV music UK poll? >> Like, weird. Elvis only scraped best male vocalist from Robbie Williams by >> 0.5%. > >Who is Robbie Williams? wrong question. The correct question is: "Why is Robbie Williams?" James James Dignan___________________________________ You talk to me Deptmt of Psychology, Otago University As if from a distance ya zhivu v' 50 Norfolk Street And I reply. . . . . . . . . . Dunedin, New Zealand with impressions chosen from another time steam megaphone (03) 455-7807 (Brian Eno - "By this River") ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 01:00:58 -0600 From: ultraconformist@ets.cncdsl.com Subject: chicago feg thing OK, I just got off the phone with Thee Hedblade. He has echoed my strong distaste for the Goose Island Brewery idea. Does anyone besides Dave D. feel strongly about it? Other options include the Chicago Diner (not diner food actually, all vegetarian restaurant), and another one I hadn't thought of until an hour or so ago, an excellent Thai restaurant called P.S. Bangkok. Actually, there are a couple good Thai places a few blocks from the venue. Preferences? Anyone? Bueller? And just how many people will there be? There's me, Dave D., Hedblade, Eddie and Clarissa that I know of. Doc has already said he will not be able to make it. Dolph and Rebecca, are you going to be able to make dinner or just the show? Anyone who wants to do the dinner that hasn't spoken up yet? PLEASE write to me, I need some input here, if only to know how many people to make a reservation for- Wednesday is fast approaching. Thanks. Love on ya, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 Nov 1999 23:16:27 -0800 From: "Crazy Unca' Nick" Subject: Can you spell R-I-S-I-B-L-E Have you ever felt you are living in a parallel universe where reality is so subtely warped, you only notice once in a while when the seemingly ordinary becomes bizarre? From the online version of the UK's Guardian newspaper... You can read the whole thing here: www.newsunlimited.co.uk/Distribution/Redirect_Artifact/0,4678,3-101061,00.html > How Robbie headed > Amadeus in the race > to be music's man of > the millennium > > Matt Wells > Monday November 8, 1999 > > A former double glazing salesman who > failed his GCSEs has beaten one of > history's most celebrated child prodigies > in a poll to determine the millennium's > most influential musicians. More than > 600,000 people judged the musical legacy > of Robbie Williams to be more enduring > than that of Mozart. ... > Williams was beaten > only by Elvis Presley to the title of best > male singer ... > The performance by Williams confirms > him as a star on the same level as > George Michael and Sir Elton John OK. Here's the kicker. This poll covered every musical genre from classical to hip-hop and every age group, right. So what was the "Best Song Of The Millenium"? ...Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody, of course. Off to check my time machine for squashed pre-Cambrian butterflies... ~N - -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "No man is lonely while eating spaghetti" - Robert Morley ...or subscribing to Fegmaniax: http://www.njaz.com/fegfotos ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 08:40:47 +0000 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Okay, this is my last resort... MP3 help? Aaron Lowe wrote: > > I highly, highly recommend MusicMatch (http://www.musicmatch.com) for all > your MP3-compression, conversion, CD-ripping, etc., needs. As long as you're running a BillBox. I rather like Grip and GQmpeg when in mouse mode, LAME (that encoder I mentioned to Bayard, from http://www.sulaco.org/mp3/ which does have a Windows port if you must) and mpg123 when not. The thought of *paying* for software and not working from source... urk, I feel quite faint. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 10:28:55 +0000 From: hamish_simpson@agilent.com Subject: Robbie W, MP3s and KimberlEy Robbie Williams may be pants but he now has my fave drummer playing for him. He is Chris Sharrock, formerly of the Icicle Works, World Party, the LAs, Lightning Seeds, etc. and is a rock god!!!! (Chris not Robbie) On WAV to MP3, you get BladeEnc and a Windows 95 front end from ZDNet, although it's not the cleanest MP3 I've ever heard. I was recommended LAME by the esteemed Mr Russell but haven't tried that yet. Finally, on the Kimbo spelling debate, if you cut to the chase and check out the official Katrina and the Waves web site at http://www.katw.com/ you'll see he has two "e"s. (H) NP - Beck! "Odelay" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 07:30:21 PST From: "Christ in the Desert" Subject: eb all over the world sorry to have missed the fegs in cincinnati, but they wouldn't let me take in my dictaphone, so i got pissed off and left. sounds petty, i'm sure, but i refuse to support a venue (luckily, thanks to ticketfucker's 95% "service" fees, i hadn't purchased a tix in advance) that won't support tapers. you're with me on this, right lobstie? i'm thinking i'm even going to write greenberger and request that they never book robyn into that venue again. anyhow, i eschwed miles' advice, and designed a tollless (sp?) route from cincy to princeton. much to my surprise, it took me within five miles of matewan, so i even got to stop off and check out the massacre site, and the museum dedicated to the events (and the movie). not much there, in all honesty, but still pretty interesting. as karen and jeme can attest, i LIVE for driving at high rates of speed through winding mountain roads. turns out w. virginia is the optimum locale for said activity. i was so happy that i hadn't taken the interstate! it was better (and much longer-lasting) than any rollercoaster you could name. route 83 between stacy and welch was alone worth the price of admission (viz., getting caught behind coal trucks, school buses, slowpoke drivers and the like; and in numerous construction areas (including "blasting zones", though i didn't see any actual blasting)). oh, and if anyone needs an (almost) toll-free route from philly to boston, let me know. the only toll you have to pay is at the tappan zee bridge. and when i drove it, the fall foliage through the smaller roads was absolutely stunning. interestingly, the roads were in MUCH better condition than the vast majority of the interstates east of the rockies, the driving on which is akin to what i imagine driving on the surface of the moon would be like. i don't know how y'all can put up with it! (and to make matters worse, you too frequently have to pay tolls for the "right" to drive on these piece of shit highways.) although i have to say, i have never seen (nor, in point of fact, even imagined) so many churches per square mile as in this area of the country. couple this with signs promoting churches, signs promoting god, signs saying things like "strong men correct themselves" & cetera, and it's pretty alarming. robyn has been upgraded to headlining position for tonight's show, as the verve pipe have bugged out. i must say, the hospitality of the princeton chamber of commerce is pretty overwhelming. they're awfully blown away that i'd decided to make the trek down here. they're even going to try to get some reporters to talk to me for their write-up of the show. KEN "Never let them see you sweat" THE KENSTER ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 08:24:15 PST From: "Christ in the Desert" Subject: eb all over the squirrels one of the employees of the princeton library just ordered out for a "triple-decker ham club". yum! but that's not what i wanted to tell you. what i wanted to tell you was that i saw snow on the ground driving through the maryland and west virginia panhandles last week. does that make me the first feg to see snow this winter? or have hal, ross, or chris w. already been dusted up? ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 08:38:35 PST From: "Anal Oil Leakage" Subject: this is not good none of the detroit fegs had heard of ham heaven (a delightful little restaurant that i'd visited when in detroit in '93, and where the hostess was by all appearances near suicidal in relating to me that they didn't serve ham flavoured soda.) natalie jane jacobs even doubted the very fact of its existence. a metacrawler search turns up three links to the very same ham heaven, however, all three are dead. yikes! has ham heaven gone the way of the dino saurs? . ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 16:42:51 +0000 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: eb all over the squirrels Christ in the Desert wrote: > > does that make me the first feg to see snow this > winter? There was a wee flurry here last month, but that hardly counts. However, I keep warm by listening to Hamish Simpson's excellent rendition of "Devil Mask" -- keeps those winter blues away! Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 10:53:32 -0600 From: "JH3" Subject: Re: this is not good >a metacrawler search turns up three links to the very same >ham heaven, however, all three are dead. yikes! has ham >heaven gone the way of the dino saurs? More to the point, if your name is "Ham Heaven" and you die, do you go to Ham Heaven Heaven? Or Ham Heaven Hell? And if you wanted some ham in Ham Heaven Heaven, would you have to go to Ham Heaven Heaven Ham Heaven? Food for thoth. JH3 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 12:04:45 -0500 From: overbury@cn.ca Subject: Re: eb all over the squirrels > but that's not what i wanted to tell you. what i wanted to tell you was > that i saw snow on the ground driving through the maryland and west > virginia panhandles last week. does that make me the first feg to see > snow this winter? or have hal, ross, or chris w. already been dusted up? I was afraid someone would ask. A while back I had said that the first snow here in Montreal almost always arrives before Hallowe'en, and that the last snow is late April, and occasionally early May. Caroline had replied I was exaggerating. I was all set to post a triumphant snow spotting report in late October. There's been no snow here yet, although the puddles have been frozen over a couple of mornings. Toronto's gotten a dusting of snow, so if Randi's been out of the hospital at all, or to the window, she might have seen some. Further south, in London, Ont, they got something like 20cm of snow last week -- enough to require shoveling. Doesn't Brett Cooper live in Alaska? ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Oh ho ho ho! My ribs hurt! > Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - -- Ross Overbury Montreal, Quebec, Canada ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 09:11:31 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: "smoking causes serious risks to your health" On 11/8/99 9:32 PM, Joel Mullins wrote: >The doctors have done a lot of tests and found nothing wrong with me. >So, now they tell me that I just need to not-smoke, watch my drinking, >and stop eating so much greasy, fatty food. Dude, kill yourself now. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 17:12:13 GMT From: "matt sewell" Subject: Re: this is not good > >a metacrawler search turns up three links to the very same > >ham heaven, however, all three are dead. yikes! has ham > >heaven gone the way of the dino saurs? > > >More to the point, if your name is "Ham Heaven" and you die, >do you go to Ham Heaven Heaven? Or Ham Heaven Hell? And >if you wanted some ham in Ham Heaven Heaven, would you >have to go to Ham Heaven Heaven Ham Heaven? > Also, do all the meats get their own seperate heaven? And if so do they each have their corresponding meat heaven diner? Could you visit ham heaven in beef heaven, or veal heaven in chicken heaven? Here's hoping there's a ham haven where pigs can go to avoid being slaughtered... MeatfreeMatt ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 12:24:11 -0500 From: overbury@cn.ca Subject: Bass in your fass Stewart said: > However, I > keep warm by listening to Hamish Simpson's excellent rendition of "Devil > Mask" -- keeps those winter blues away! 'n I say: YEAH! - -- Ross Overbury Montreal, Quebec, Canada ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 19:13:14 GMT From: "Adam Leonard" Subject: Re: Robbie W, MP3s and KimberlEy Chris Sharrock is a rock prostitute, not a god. He'll play for anybody... >From: hamish_simpson@agilent.com >Reply-To: hamish_simpson@agilent.com >To: fegmaniax@smoe.org >Subject: Robbie W, MP3s and KimberlEy >Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 10:28:55 +0000 > >Robbie Williams may be pants but he now has my fave drummer playing for >him. He is Chris Sharrock, formerly of the Icicle Works, World Party, the >LAs, Lightning Seeds, etc. and is a rock god!!!! (Chris not Robbie) > >On WAV to MP3, you get BladeEnc and a Windows 95 front end from ZDNet, >although it's not the cleanest MP3 I've ever heard. I was recommended >LAME by the esteemed Mr Russell but haven't tried that yet. > >Finally, on the Kimbo spelling debate, if you cut to the chase and check >out the official Katrina and the Waves web site at http://www.katw.com/ >you'll see he has two "e"s. > >(H) > >NP - Beck! "Odelay" > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 13:18:13 -0600 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: eb all over the world WARNING: high West Virginia content... At 07:30 AM 11/09/1999 -0800, Christ in the Desert wrote: >anyhow, i eschwed miles' advice, and designed a tollless (sp?) route from >cincy to princeton. I'm glad that you did! I thought you'd have to scurry to get to Princeton/Athens on time for the gig, but yeah, doing the Rt. 83/Rt. 52 trip is much more interesting. This also means that you drove past my life's history through age 21 -- Rt. 52 would have taken you past Powhatan, which is where I grew up (and where I'll be on Thanksgiving), and Northfork, Switchback, and Elkhorn, my old schools. I would have enjoyed making the drive with you. >much to my surprise, it took me within five miles of >matewan, so i even got to stop off and check out the massacre site, and the >museum dedicated to the events (and the movie). not much there, in all >honesty, but still pretty interesting. The film was done in Raleigh County (about 45 miles north of where you are now, Eddie), rather than in Mingo County at the real locale. If I had known you were taking the scenic route, I would have also told you to be sure to stop at the McDowell County court house in Welch, 'cos that's where the Pinkerton detectives gunned down Sid Hatfield et al, right on the courthouse steps. >route 83 between stacy and welch was alone worth the price of admission >(viz., getting caught behind coal trucks, school buses, slowpoke drivers and >the like; Coal trucks are notorious for driving on the wrong side of the road and running people over. Really. I could name ten people I've known who died that way on the Maitland Curve just east of Welch. Glad you survived. >although i have to say, i have never seen (nor, in point of fact, even >imagined) so many churches per square mile as in this area of the country. >couple this with signs promoting churches, signs promoting god, signs saying >things like "strong men correct themselves" & cetera, and it's pretty >alarming. There's lots of churches and signs, and some scary fundamentalists, including snake handlers on the far side of McDowell County. But my own experience is that most people there don't go to church at all, most of those who do are fairly mainstream Methodists or Baptists, and irreligion is far more tolerated than it is here in Middle Tennessee. The sheer amount of churches in southern West Virginia has more to do with schisms and feuds between the few churchgoers than with any popular religious feeling. I think that these apparently contradictory phenomena (flourishing sectarianism + widespread unbelief and tolerance of same) stem from isolation and from the age old hillbilly tendencies toward clannishness and staying out of other people's business. You can drive down the mountain just south of War, WV, and go past "The Church of the Living Christ Jesus," then drive a few feet more and see "The *True* Church of the Living Christ Jesus," but if you stop at the corner store to get a Coke, no one will try to "compel you to come in" to either rickety edifice. On the other hand, the second question people ask you in Nashville, right after "what's your name?," is "what church do you go to?" And it's not even conceivable to the questioner that a person might not go to a church. >i'd decided to make the trek down here. they're even going to try to get >some reporters to talk to me for their write-up of the show. Whoo-hoo! I'll have my aunt and uncle (who live in Princeton) be on the lookout for you in the Princeton TIMES or the Bluefield DAILY SMELLOGRAPH... er, TELEGRAPH (sorry, I worked for the Welch DAILY NEWS, and old habits die hard). Have a great time at the show! later, Miles ====================================================== Miles Goosens UNlimited edition R. Stevie Moore CDs now available! http://www.rsteviemoore.com My personal website http://www.mindspring.com/~outdoorminer/miles "If a million people say a stupid thing, it is still a stupid thing." -- Anatole France ====================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 19:24:10 GMT From: "Adam Leonard" Subject: Who is eb? I feel sure I am asking a question which is likely to get me lynched but, this guy/girl is mentioned an awful lot on this list... What is this B+ argument all about as well...? Who is drawing up a top 10/100 and for what purpose? Just to give my fellow fegmaniax a bit more info about me, I'm a major Dylan, Drake and Roy Harper fan, and (imho) the best band alive today are The Auteurs (or any other Luke Haines blessed band, eg. Baader Meinhof / Black Box Recorder). Right, it's nearly half-seven. Must go and watch Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 14:19:15 -0600 From: Marcy Tanter Subject: Re: Who is eb? At 07:24 PM 11/9/99 +0000, you wrote: >I feel sure I am asking a question which is likely to get me lynched but, >this guy/girl is mentioned an awful lot on this list... Eb is a wonderful man who lives west of the Mississippi. He is a font of information, a bastion of kindness and is the brunt of many a joke due to his sweet nature. We all love him lots. Dr. Marcy Tanter "...Nature's self which is the breath of God." - --William Wordsworth, _The Prelude_, Book V, line 221 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 14:29:39 -0600 From: "JH3" Subject: Re: Who is eb? From: Adam Leonard : >I feel sure I am asking a question which is likely to get me >lynched... You mean, *David* Lynched? Yow, anything but THAT! You'd need a parka, at the very least. >but, this guy/girl is mentioned an awful lot on this list... Who, Eb? I never mention him. Well, okay, just now I did. >What is this B+ argument all about as well...? Eb has, in the past, called Robyn a "B+" artist. Personally, I interpret that as meaning "bee plus," which is to say that Robyn is somehow an improvement on the average bee. Of course, I'd go a bit further by saying that Robyn is also an improvement on your average prawn, sea otter, or vole, but that's strictly IMO. >Who is drawing up a top 10/100 and for what purpose? Eb is drawing up a Top 20 Albums of the Decade list. By definition, there is no purpose to such a list whatsoever. >Just to give my fellow fegmaniax a bit more info about me >(imho) the best band alive today are The Auteurs (or any other >Luke Haines blessed band, eg. Baader Meinhof / Black Box Recorder). KA-CHING!!! That's another one for the "Auteurs-Lovin' Fegs" column! Only what now, 270 left to go... >Right, it's nearly half-seven... As long as you don't wait until half-twenty-two, you probably won't get lynched. And welcome to the list. And just to follow up on a couple of other things, I've just finished a long chat with my crack team of Viennese psychiatrists over this issue, and I think we've got it all worked out. >...do all the meats get their own seperate heaven? And if so >do they each have their corresponding meat heaven diner? I'd say that from an eschatological perspective, the meat *itself* wouldn't have it's own heaven, because it's part of a carcass, and the whole point of heaven is that your soul goes there and leaves the corporeal part of you behind. Otherwise, we're just back to the old mind-body problem. But if you're really just referring to actual *restaurants*, then I'd say that there probably *are* "heaven" places named after all sorts of meat products, especially if there's alliteration involved. And they probably all have their own websites. >Could you visit ham heaven in beef heaven, or veal heaven in >chicken heaven? I'd be very dubious about this. I mean, that would imply that these are not entirely separate places, right? But to have a Chicken Heaven *inside of* a Ham Heaven, for example, would just be purpose-defeating if you ask me. It would imply that chicken is somehow less worthy of grace or salvation or whatever than ham. OTOH, assuming they *are* separate, I don't see why you shouldn't be allowed to travel from one heaven to another. Otherwise it would just be like the old Soviet Union, and there would probably be "cold wars" between rival heavens, etc., and the whole point of heaven is to avoid stuff like that. It's bad enough that they'd be practicing segregation. >Here's hoping there's a ham haven where pigs can go to avoid >being slaughtered... Seems to me that would be pig haven, or heaven, or whatever. Once it's ham, it's too late for the pig! And as long as I'm posting... From: Dr.Sticky : >A5CCE5B-F35A5FE Well, of course the obvious answer is -4D8D7A3, but why ask *us*? Is this some sort of secret contest? And what's the prize for winning? John "I didn't start the between-names quotes thing, and I'll be damned if I'm going to finish it" Hedges ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V8 #418 *******************************