From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V9 #330 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, November 14 2000 Volume 09 : Number 330 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: myths n' legends [Ken Ostrander ] Ahh the archive [BLATZMAN@aol.com] Re: myths n' legends and flags and such [Viv Lyon ] what does "hit me baby one more time" mean? ["Andrew D. Simchik" ] Re: 100% Barrett [Terrence Marks ] politics (on topic) [Bayard ] Re: politics (on topic) [The Great Quail ] RE: I Tot I Taw A Puddy Tat! [Julie Nelson ] Re: politics (on topic) [Ken Ostrander ] 100% PJ [Eb ] Elf Power threw the election in Georgia! [Natalie Jacobs ] Fwd: DB Montreal Show [Asshole Motherfucker ] Fwd: DB Montreal Show [Asshole Motherfucker ] Re: Elf Power threw the election in Georgia! [Viv Lyon ] Free At Last, Free At La....AAAGGH! ["Michael R. Runion" Subject: Re: myths n' legends >> > At least Quail isn't enforcing the Rule of Thumb. >> >> That's because the "rule of thumb" is nothing but a myth or urban legend, >> and the Quail is all about authenticity. > >not disputing you, but what is your source? The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb. ken "you just had a near-life experience" the kenster np moby play: the b sides ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 11:54:32 EST From: BLATZMAN@aol.com Subject: Ahh the archive Thanks to the archive, I retrieved the messages I erased. Thank goodsy-woodsy I did so! Such anger directed toward me! Here are a few snippets of my favorites: <> How do you know I don't give a fuck? How do you know what I do for my community, or which charities I support? How pretentious of you to insult me when you don't know me! Yes, I have certain beliefs, but that doesn't mean that I can't recognize that it's in my best interests to lend a helping hand. I DON'T HAVE TO LIKE IT, BUT IT DOESN'T MEAN I DON'T DO IT. You total dipstick moron. By now you know of my efforts to help immigrants integrate into our economic system. That is the battle I chose to focus on. You can't save the world, but you can have an effect on your community. I have seen positive outcomes because of my efforts. What have you done for your community? Write a check? Throw some extra cash toward a cause you believe in? People don't need your money, they need YOUR TIME, and that is way more valuable and effective than a check. What have you done for your community, since you're accusing me of not caring? It better be more than monetary support, cause that's the easy way out. It makes people feel like they are making a difference. People need YOU, not your cash, so find something you believe in and go out and make a difference. I find it interesting that you assume that I voted for Bush. Fiscally, it might seem the obvious choice, but there are other issues at stake in this country that really matter to me, and you shouldn't just assume that all my beliefs fall on one side of a political line. <>> So don't diminish your accomplishments. You are smarter than some and you shouldn't make excuses for it. I wish I was smarter. <> So what? We ARE NOT all created equal. Sometimes I wonder if this list would just prefer Socialism. It's not rocket science. People who work hard can still go to night school as adults, slowly work their way up. My Grandfather worked hard all his life, but he didn't aspire to be anything more than a janitor. And that was his choice. He chose to drink when he got home, instead of going to night school. His choice, not mine. He was also the kindest person I have ever met and I miss him very much, but he chose his lifestyle, not me. << I feel that there are more than a few arguments that contributors here have recently adduced that would make the subject of our adulation/admiration MR ROBYN HITCHCOCK gag... I know that for a fucking fact>> Well, here's another fucking fact for ya! I don't give a rat's ass what Robyn thinks of my politics, and I don't give a jbranscombe@compuserve.com's ass what Robyn's politics are! <> Are you really going to ask the mother of all stupid questions? Are you really that shallow? Are you incapable of enjoying music that doesn't espouse your beliefs? Since this is the dumbest question I have ever had to answer here, I'll spell it out for you: A-Luminous Rose B-Railway Shoes C-Heaven D-Wreck of the Arthur Lee E-All of Respect, really, including the glorious original Allright Yeah I guess I could go on with all the ABC's of why I love Robyn. I hope you don't question my love of the artist. Don't you dare! Put down my family, call my mother names, burn a flag in my presence, but NEVER EVER question my love for this great artist. You total moron. What a retarded statement! Can you believe I have friends who are way left? Believe it! And I've never disowned a family member who disagrees with me! true najone savray verdad pravda Rush RULES THE WORLD!!!!!!! On Sundays I elude the eyes and hop the turbine freight, too far outside the Wire where my white-haired uncle waits... <> Are you for real?? At least I'm not so pompous as to call myself sage <> Hey buddy, here's some e-Alka seltzer for ya! But it makes me want to puke even harder when someone makes welfare a lifestyle. It's not a safety-net they want, it's a safety bed that they can sleep in for the rest of their lives...Have another kid, get more cash, it don't matter, someone will always take care of me!!!!! <> You mean later-life. My point about becoming a DR is that they struggle for all of their twenties, and possibly well into their thirties. It will take them quite awhile to catch up to the rest of the working world. Your "gravy train" is a sad misconception. <> oooooh, poor little drunk in the gutter! Give him money for another drink when you pass him on the overpass! Puuuuhleeeze!!!!!! This is such a stupid stereotype. Lost his family? Why? Because his marriage wasn't strong enough? So the guy is depressed, it's up to HIM to pull himself out of the gutter. You think you're going to do it for him? People have to want to change, or they won't change. You can take the drunk out of the gutter, but you can't take the gutter out of the drunk. <> 4th generation unemployed??? And this is because what ... emotional scarring inflicted as children? Huh! Obviously government assistance is not helping these people. Maybe (just maybe folks, calm down...) they would only be 3rd generation unemployed if all assistance were CUT OFF and they were forced to go to work/school to support themselves. People become comfortable, even in a meager existence. Change is scary and dangerous, so they accept the little they have because it is "comfortable"... easy... Whatever. Blatzman is an easy target here. I'm proud of my beliefs, and you should be proud of yours. Affectionately, Blatzy ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 09:24:06 -0800 (PST) From: Viv Lyon Subject: Re: myths n' legends and flags and such On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Ken Ostrander wrote: > The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated > that > you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb. Ah, that's what they were referring to as being an urban legend. Go to: http://www.urbanlegends.com/language/etymology/rule_of_thumb.html And see for yourself if you also think it be untrue, matey. Vivien ps- I'm vain. So go also to http://portland.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=290 and see a picture of me and the flag I made. It's an almost exact replica of the "corporate states of america" flag they hung in the L.A. protests... except I added some different logos. you can see a better image of the flag here: http://portland.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=291 pps- yes, I realize this flag stuff is totally unrelated to the main body of this post. I'm just all stoked about it, is all. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 09:25:14 -0800 From: "Andrew D. Simchik" Subject: what does "hit me baby one more time" mean? >From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) >some other things equal to the birth of a child in terms of life trauma: >1) death of a parent, spouse, or sibling >2) rape of self, partner, or offspring >3) major house fire, burglary or other serious loss of property >4) bankruptcy >5) serious illness or injury >6) injury - or even complete unscathed survival from - major traffic accident Oh, it's easy to list life traumas. I thought we were talking about "life decisions." Usually none of those things are chosen by the victim. >From: drop the holupki > >hah. sounds like the quail and i should trade mates for the purposes of >tv-watching. notionally, i'm not allowed to talk during buffy or xena -- >unless it's a good zinger which i know i can get away with. I would like Buffy better if the writing lived up to its reputation. Half the episode seems to be extremely stupid and clumsy quips that the characters deliver poorly, painfully conscious that the jokes won't be funny. On the other hand, I've only seen a few of them, just to try to figure out what the big deal was. >From: BLATZMAN@aol.com >And this "Born into this Born into that Crap" is soooooo boring. Oh, I *know*, *totally*! >From: Ethyl Ketone >Not a TV watcher but, in the strange coincidence department, I came >home, put on "Songs in the Key of X" (bought it for the Nick Cave >song "Red Right Hand") and began to read my mail. Well, damn, go get _Let Love In_ right now! We'll wait here. You can thank us later. >From: GSS >Subject: Re: more political drivel I should learn to ignore > >so why don't you? What a great idea! Oh, to answer your question: I do not support the death penalty. >From: The Great Quail > >Dolphs, > >>UNCALLED FOR. >> >>If we are about anything here, we are about speaking our true minds. >>That's all Dave or you or anybody has done. Don't you dare try to >>make somebody shut up. We are not about shutting up. > >I am with Dolph here. Even though I don't agree with the Blatz, I >have also found the tone of jmbc's recent posts to be unnecessarily >insulting. I guess I'm really poor at reading for tone. I also wonder how much contempt for single mothers, illegal immigrants, welfare recipients, et al. Blatzman can express as his "true mind" before the rest of us are allowed to express contempt for him as our "true mind." I didn't see anyone try to make anyone else shut up. I saw someone say they wished he would, and I have to be honest and say I wish he would too. Ready to be banned from the list, sir. Drew - -- Andrew D. Simchik, drew at stormgreen.com http://www.stormgreen.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 12:24:17 -0500 From: Ben Subject: Re: 100% Barrett I think it is a collaboration between Syd Barrett, Robyn Hitchcock, and Kevin Ayers. Yeah that's the ticket... > > On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Terrence Marks wrote: > > > I found a new Syd Barrett song on napster. It's called Stanley the > > > Simpleton. If it isn't him, it's an amazing imitation. I've never seen > > > any previous reference to this song existing, though. > > > > Very interesting. I wonder if it might be Kevin Ayers, who did a Syd > > tribute song "Oh! wot a dream" on Bananamour. > > > > I don't think it is either Syd or Robyn, though. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 12:42:52 -0500 (EST) From: Terrence Marks Subject: Re: 100% Barrett On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Ben wrote: > I think it is a collaboration between Syd Barrett, Robyn Hitchcock, and Kevin > Ayers. I _was_ going to say Julian Cope.... Terrence Marks Unlike Minerva (a comic strip) http://www.unlikeminerva.com HCF (another comic strip) http://www.mpog.com/hcf normal@grove.ufl.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 13:04:43 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: politics (on topic) interviewer: i read a review in the voice, the village voice, that said your songs were psycho-biological nonsense, and he wished that you'd take a political stand on something. RH: well that's for him to take a political stand on something, isn't it? my talent is simply to create small worlds, and then destroy them. interviewer: he said he also wished you were "angrier". RH: whoever said that should have his fucking guts ripped out. (wrgw interview at the birchmere, 1990 - from memory, caveat emptor) =b ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 13:51:06 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: Re: politics (on topic) First of all, I feel kind of add remarking that jmbc's tone was personally insulting only to have the Blatzcannon released a few hours later. I blame Mike Runion, again. Bayard: >interviewer: i read a review in the voice, the village voice, that said >your songs were psycho-biological nonsense, and he wished that you'd take >a political stand on something. > >RH: well that's for him to take a political stand on something, isn't it? >my talent is simply to create small worlds, and then destroy them. And that there, ladies and gentlemen, is the reason *I* love Robyn so. Not just his lovely reply, but his pyscho-biological nonsense itself, which speaks directly to me a person, as a human being fixed in this weird world, and does more for me that most anything the Village Voice can dream up. Many of Robyn's metaphors, while perhaps obscure to some, speak volumes to my own experience and awareness, and make *sense* in a way that goes right around language to pop open a primal storehouse of images and symbols. This is something that overly serious, humorless rag* has never grasped -- the personal does not have to be political. The expression of a rich emotional world is just as significant and important as art with a political agenda, and usually outlasts it. - --Quail *I have hated the Village Voice since I was a teenager, reading its music reviews in my school library. Never had I read so much vitriol directed against Rush, Yes, King Crimson, Jethro Tull, etc. I was convinced at the time that the newspaper was a haven for snobby, spoon-fed intellectuals whose idea of "fun" was analyzing Phil Ochs lyrics at Marxist anti-cheeseburger rallies. Now that I live in New York, I can now say I was surprisingly on-target. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 11:02:25 -0800 From: Julie Nelson Subject: RE: I Tot I Taw A Puddy Tat! >From: Tom Clark [mailto:tclark@reardensteel.com] >Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 5:13 PM >To: lj lindhurst; Eleven Dollar Sandwich >Subject: Re: I Tot I Taw A Puddy Tat! > >>I've now got this unnerving image in my head of Quail as Frank Booth, >>watching "Buffy" with the Nitrous Oxide mask on. > >- -t "Don't you fucking look at me!!" c There is amazing post-dance ambient group called Faultline, that uses this sample in a song called "Closer Colder" and it is absolutely haunting. I've seldom heard a sample so oddly placed within a song. Highly recommended! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 15:08:32 -0500 From: Ken Ostrander Subject: Re: politics (on topic) >>interviewer: i read a review in the voice, the village voice, that said >>your songs were psycho-biological nonsense, and he wished that you'd take >>a political stand on something. >> >>RH: well that's for him to take a political stand on something, isn't it? >>my talent is simply to create small worlds, and then destroy them. which harkens back to one of his few "political" tunes. in addition to 'i wanna destroy you'; 'earthly paradise', 'the president', and (yes, i still think so) 'no, i don't remember guildford' come to mind. for most of robyn's work, the political is the personal. sure, there's tons of religious and psycho-biological gobbledygook; but they're pregnant with all sorts of potent archetypes. nonsense is such a lazy word. thanks for posting this quail, i take back my facetious about your humorlessness. the apex of village voice humor is the name of their annual music critics' poll. >Ah, that's what they were referring to as being an urban legend. Go to: >http://www.urbanlegends.com/language/etymology/rule_of_thumb.html > >And see for yourself if you also think it be untrue, matey. about as conclusive as one of scully's reports. ken "how am i funny?" the kenster np pink floyd the piper at the gates of dawn ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 13:13:30 -0700 From: Eb Subject: 100% PJ Well, I heard the PJ Harvey album this morning. Yes, I'm very disappointed. Not only are the production values so much more commercial (why do I keep being reminded of Heart's Ann Wilson??) but the lyrics have switched toward an upbeat stance which really isn't very interesting. Is it the Lou Reed/Chrissie Hynde, etc. syndrome? PJ falls in love, and her art takes a turn for the worse? Or is it just that any album which Thom Yorke touches turns into a set of boring, messianic anthems? ;) I like "Good Fortune" (despite its blatant Patti Smith affectations), "The Whores Hustle...," "Kamikaze" (the one song which sounds like classic PJ) and "This is Love" reasonably well, but *no* track puts a chill up my spine like her best stuff does. In this weak year, a new PJ Harvey album might've been my favorite disc of the year, but *this* PJ Harvey album isn't even going to slip into my top 10 (top 15, maybe). This is one case where I wish an album was *more* "goth." ;) Eb "One day/I know/We'll find/A place of hope/Just hold on to me/Walk tight/One line/You're wanted/This time/There's no one to blame/Just hold on to me" -- PJ Harvey...or Celine Dion? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 18:13:19 -0500 (EST) From: Natalie Jacobs Subject: Elf Power threw the election in Georgia! So great hordes of fegs and Spacecats and E6 list members all went to see Elf Power on Friday night. The show was somewhat sparsely attended probably due to a certain E. Smith performing just down the road. (Also, local faves Pedro the Lion and Death Cab for Cutie were performing that night, splitting the indie-rock vote.) The opening act was the Places, whose wispy-voiced singer I had seen performing solo at a bar a few months ago. They were sort of in the Cowboy Junkies vein - a girl and a guy with guitars and a few keyboards here and there. They were OK. I had made a Red King out of foil and cloth and Kleenex, and I gave it to Elf-ette Laura Carter, who ooh'd and ah'd and showed it to Elf frontman Andrew Rieger, who also ooh'd and ah'd. Both of them looked like they had gone to sleep with wet hair; however, neither they nor most of the other Elves were nearly as fashion-challenged as they usually are. Only multi-instrumentalist guy Adrian Finch seems permanently sewn into his brown coveralls. (Viv, Jeme, and I speculated shudderingly what he must smell like in there). I wanted an Elf Power T-shirt but didn't have sufficient cash and on the way to the ATM I saw a fuckin' ENORMOUS rat in an empty lot. It was as big as my ass (and that's pretty big)! I bought the t-shirt, which is "girly-size" and leaves absolutely no doubt as to my gender. (In fact, some might even say it makes me look like a "slut"!) So before the Elves went on, Andrew Rieger came out and told about how he had bought a record in Montana or someplace because he thought it had a cool cover, and it turned out to be a great psychedelic artifact, and he had eventually unearthed the artist, who happened to live in Ashland, Oregon and had come here tongiht to do a couple of numbers. A middle-aged woman with a guitar came out, and I cringed, wondering if this was some sort of joke. But it wasn't a joke. The woman - whose name is Elise something - sang two beautiful songs, an original and a Bert Jansch cover, in an intriguing smoke-raspy voice that reminded me a little of a female Skip Spence. The Elves are arranging for her album to be re-released, and I'll definitely be on the look-out for it. Then the Elves went on and rocked out. They weren't as good as the last time I saw them, mainly because they mostly played songs from their mediocre new album, but the songs did sound a lot better live than they do on record. (I suspect lousy production may have tripped them up.) The sound wasn't too good - Laura Carter's lovely antique Hohner accordion was almost inaudible - and everything just seemed to merge into a wall of noise. But nobody seemed to mind very much. I yelled for "Listening to the Higsons" and hirsute bassist Bryan Helium shook his finger at me and yelled, "I'll sic Thoth on you!" They did do some older stuff - with lots of discombobulated introductory stories from Rieger - which made me happy. The encore was "I Wanna Be Your Dog," as it was the last time, but at the end the Eddie-lookalike drummer kicked his drums over and Bryan Helium threw his bass down, and Adrian Finch broke a whole bunch of strings on his guitar (presumably not on purpose). This precluded another encore. Afterwards, Bryan Helium tried on Viv's Road Warrior goggles (baptizing them in Elfsweat) and told about his recent encounter with Robyn in New York. This was at CMJ or some similar showcase, and Elf Power played right after Robyn. Bryan was sitting on stage when he saw Robyn walking around, and - in awe at seeing his hero - he immediately started to play the first Robyn song he could think of, which was "Bones in the Ground." Robyn looked around and said (Bryan did a perfect Robynesque drawl), "Sounds like a Ween song." And that was Bryan's encounter with greatness. XTC-o-philes might be interested to know that Bryan's nom de rock is derived from the Helium Kids, XTC's former incarnation. So that was the show. On the way out Andrew Rieger stopped me to thank me again for the Red King. He said they still had one of my Thoths but the other two got "destroyed". I apologized for not supplying a box for the Red King and he said it was OK. Those Elves sure are nice. that's all, n. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 15:20:24 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: lesley gore? "Andrew D. Simchik" wrote: > I'm not a big fan of the death penalty, but surely we've also > imprisoned innocent people and will do so again. Better get rid of > prison too! you can release someone from prison; it's partially reversable (though you can't give them the time they lost back). you cannot re-animate a corpse; it's 100% non-reversible. ===== "The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. Journalists, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands." -- Oscar Wilde Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! http://calendar.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 15:27:00 -0800 From: Asshole Motherfucker Subject: Fwd: DB Montreal Show excerpt from a review of last night's bern(stein) gig: >The last 2.5 hours of the concert, the band played without pants. what, i ask, what more do you need? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 15:27:00 -0800 From: Asshole Motherfucker Subject: Fwd: DB Montreal Show excerpt from a review of last night's bern(stein) gig: >The last 2.5 hours of the concert, the band played without pants. what, i ask, what more do you need? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 15:37:31 -0800 (PST) From: Viv Lyon Subject: Re: Elf Power threw the election in Georgia! On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Natalie Jacobs wrote: > Afterwards, Bryan Helium tried on Viv's Road Warrior goggles Which made him look EXACTLY like Neil Young for some reason. I said so, and he said, "Trans era?" I assented. > So that was the show. On the way out Andrew Rieger stopped me to thank me > again for the Red King. He said they still had one of my Thoths but the > other two got "destroyed". I apologized for not supplying a box for the > Red King and he said it was OK. Those Elves sure are nice. I accosted speculatively-smelly Adrian Finch after the show and told him that in his little suit, he kind of looked like my dad as a young man in the Air Force. I further related to him how strange it was to see my dad's doppleganger rocking out on the guitar and saxophone. He was inordinately pleased by this. I concur with Gnat, those elves sure are nice. Vivien ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 17:37:09 -0600 From: "JH3" Subject: Hitting those babies time and time again Isn't this all just a big misunderstanding? Fellow Auteurs fan LJ Lindhurst originally wrote: >> Why should an employer have to pay for someone to take >> leave from their job to have a baby? It was their decision, >> they should be prepared to use up some vacation time for that >> activity, or take an unpaid leave of absence or something. Assuming we're talking about the US Federal Family Medical Leave Act, that doesn't mandate paid leave, only unpaid leave. And indeed they *should* be prepared as LJ suggests. From the FMLA: "An eligible employee may elect, *or an employer may require the employee,* [emphasis mine] to substitute any of the accrued paid vacation leave, personal leave, or family leave of the employee for leave provided under subparagraph (A), (B), or (C) of subsection (a)(1) for any part of the 12-week period of such leave under such subsection." Of course, in many cases the other employees might still suffer if the baby-making employee in question can't be replaced by a colleague or temp. And it's also true that many employers don't exercise this provision because it makes the job less attractive in a tight labor market. (I should also mention that the legal mandate only applies to companies with 50+ employees, and employees who have been in their jobs for at least a year.) But nowhere does it require companies to provide *paid* leave that hasn't been earned. Personally, I don't have a problem with legally-mandated unpaid maternity leave. While I happen to be one of the roughly 10-15% of Americans who have voluntarily (and I daresay unselfishly) chosen not to have children, it's probably better to discriminate against us (since we at least have - in theory - higher disposable incomes, lower personal debts, and far greater amounts of personal freedom, mobility, and leisure time) than to discriminate against 50% of the population because they can bear children and the other 50% can't. The *real* problem IMO is that governments subsidize childbearing to begin with, through tax deductions and welfare policies that provide incentives for uncontrolled breeding. It may be just my opinion, but the human race is probably going to die out within 500-700 years due to environmental degradation and exhaustion of resources unless we start making it *extremely* problematic for people to have children, period. And not just Democrats! Or Americans! *Everybody in the whole frickin' world!* But obviously nobody is thinking that far in advance, so to put it simply, humanity is doomed. And of course, I don't really have a problem with that either. I mean, after all, none of *my* progeny are going to be torn limb from limb by 26th-century roving cannibal rape gangs, are they? Well, there you go. John "I realize my views are unpopular, but so what" Hedges PS. Now, eliminating the U.S. Electoral College, *that's* a good idea that deserves some support. I could go on for quite a while about that one. I just hope the fact that Hillary is involved doesn't doom that effort too... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 20:13:21 -0500 From: "Michael R. Runion" Subject: Free At Last, Free At La....AAAGGH! Dear Jesus, I'm shaking. I heard the first scrapings about 10 minutes ago. My way is completely blocked and I think they're coming. I don't have long to write. The lights are starting to flicker, and I dread the power will die shortly. As you read this email, it may already be over. I haven't seen unfiltered daylight in 7 days. We're somewhere underground...underWATER! One of the open spaces I witnessed as I began my run was a large circular room with a glass ceiling. There was water beyond, and I could see a shimmery metal globe beyond the surface. EPCOT? God no, please. That neato Atlantis place in the Bahamas they keep advertising on tv now that the campaign ads have ended? Perhaps...but it doesn't matter. I fear Brevard has been wiped off the face of the earth. I'm not sure who's behind all this, but the odd shuffling black-clad minions that guard these caverns exude strong whiffs of crude oil. Some were hideous cowboy hats, big ones like Lawrence Fishburn wore in Pee Wee's Playhouse. Southern accents. I've seen PMRC stickers on several locked metal doors. There are rumors of mass killing...capital punishment the black-clads are calling it. I'm sure I'm dreaming, but I think I saw a curly-headed woman actually tossing babies into a bonfire, along with what looked to be...double punched ballots? The sad fact that I believe no one will ever know is that Nader won. Against all odds, the entire county of Brevard, Florida voted Nader. NADER WON!! And now WE'RE BEING ERASED! It's getting hard to breathe. The air's been shut down. We're being kept in small rooms in groups of 7 or 8. Some strange Syd Barrett song is being piped in, but it almost sounds like Robyn to me. Ah, Robyn. Will I ever hear your song again? HELP! (Pull yourself together) When the Syd song ends, long hours of imposed silence is being demanded. I think I've heard that horrid Dawson's Creek song coming from one of the control rooms. Either that or Buffy. God, I just don't know anymore. I was able to free myself this afternoon just after headcount while several black-clads were absorbed listening to the new Geddy Lee album. I ran hard. I found this room down a long unused-looking corridor with gruesome rabbit murals from floor to ceiling. This old dusty Apple laptop, a raggedy "T.C." scratched into the plastic, was just sitting here like it was waiting for me, resting oddly on some strange organic lump. Looks like a cypress stump. Ugh...it's sticky. Please let connection be good. If any fegs are getting this, beware. I know I've been silent for months now, but I have to warn you. Oh God, they're HERE! JESUS CHRIST! IT'S...IT'S... QUAIL?!?!?!?!? ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V9 #330 *******************************