From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V10 #137 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, April 20 2001 Volume 10 : Number 137 Today's Subjects: ----------------- and, oh yeah [dmw ] Re: In Defence of "Pulse of My Heart" ["victorian squid" ] soft boys interview online [HAL ] "Pulse of My smoke infested Heart" ["Kenneth Johnson" ] Re: "Pulse of My smoke infested Heart" ["victorian squid" ] no woman no cry [HAL ] Toronto? ["Maximilian Lang" ] Re: no woman no cry [Glen Uber ] Re: [Ebmaniax] Another doubleheader [Glen Uber ] three things [Bayard ] Soft Boys UK Tour - 1st date review online already [enzo ] Re: KC [Eb ] Reality Chequed ["Spring Cherry" ] fegbooks? [steve ] investigating [Jill Brand ] Re: investigating ["Maximilian Lang" ] Re: investigating [HAL ] Re: fegbooks? [Jonathan Moren ] RE: investigating ["Brian Huddell" ] Re: investigating [HAL ] Re: Toronto? [Mike Swedene ] Re: investigating [dmw ] Mind is Connected ["Russ Reynolds" ] Re: fair play [Jeff Dwarf ] American Sports comments: flee if you need to [was: RE: fegmaniax-digest V10 #134] [Jeff Dwarf ] password? ["Orrling, August" ] Feg o my Heart ["Spring Cherry" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 15:45:56 -0400 (EDT) From: dmw Subject: and, oh yeah Elvis Presley "Milkcow Blues Boogie" ...did anyone mention that one? - -- loathesome d. - - oh no, you've just read mail from doug = dmw@radix.net - get yr pathos - - www.shoddyworkmanship.net -- post punk skronk rawk = the new thing - - www.pathetic-caverns.com -- books, flicks, tunes, etc. = reviews - - www.fecklessbeast.com -- angst, guilt, fear, betrayal! = rock music ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 13:15:31 -0700 From: "victorian squid" Subject: Re: In Defence of "Pulse of My Heart" On Thu, 19 Apr 2001 09:12:35 Kenneth Johnson wrote: >and Pulse. I am not sure I can forgive Robyn for giving me whatever >coughing sickness he was spraying all over the front rows that night, Is that where I got it? Actually, all the boys had something it seems. But I think it more likely an audience member or a grubby supermarket checker in my case as 6 feet is probably too far back to get sprayed. (I once was in the front row at an LL Cool J show where he was "baptizing" the audience with Evian water. If anyone asks if I am saved, I will tell them he did it) >convenience and accessibility. So it is an American Pub (with Anglophile >artifacts). I have not yet visited the Moon & Sixpence, but I hear it is >close to the real deal as far as recreating a true English pub. If it's not too smoky that seems better. Thanks to Stephen for mentioning that issue. A year and four months quit person thanks you. It's not a big thing and a few people is fine. Unlike the common stereotype I didn't become a shrill anti-smoke nazi and I don't mind people at the same table as me smoking unless it's bothering someone else. But a general smoky atmosphere is maybe more than I want to deal with. An old friend of mine used to have this joke about the Metro in Chicago, that people who hung out there coughed once they got outside and started breathing oxygen "*cough* *cough* what's all this nasty air! how can people breathe?" >looking for at my library. Why pay to rent something for three nights, when >the library will let me have it for three weeks for free, beyond whatever Um, because the video store is only like 4 blocks from me? :) I don't need to keep stuff for three weeks anyway. Usually if I don't watch it within two days, it wasn't going to get watched anyway. Does anyone else rent stuff like "The Sorrow and The Pity" because they feel they -ought- to watch it, and then just not feel up to it and watch "A Hard Day's Night" again instead? loveonya, Susan Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 21:27:04 +0100 From: "Edward of Sim" Subject: UK Tour Dates Here I am, a transplanted Californian in Lancashire, so excited the Soft Boys reunion tour has hit the UK. Now I look at the tour dates. Ugh. Why are they completely dissing the north!?!? A whole ton of gigs in the south, a gig in the midlands, one way up on Glasgow, then back to the south! Why why why!? It's bad enough Fripp won't play north of London, now this! Okay, enough complaining. At least it got me to post. :-) Stay groovy, fellow fegs. peace Edward ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 15:02:07 -0600 From: HAL Subject: soft boys interview online http://www.popculturepress.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 14:20:53 -0700 From: "Kenneth Johnson" Subject: "Pulse of My smoke infested Heart" FEGZ on Cigarettes: >that issue. A year and four months quit person thanks you. It's not a big >thing and a few people is fine. Unlike the common stereotype I didn't >become >a shrill anti-smoke nazi and I don't mind people at the same table as me >smoking >unless it's bothering someone else. But a general smoky atmosphere is maybe >more than I want to deal with. I might be categorized as one of those shrill ex-smokers at times. I hate crowded rooms without enough oxygen and too much carbon monoxide as much as the next mammal (or robot monkey). My real ire, however, flares at the discourtesy and stupidity inherent in most cigarette smokers. When I see some sallow-faced exhaust pipe monkey blithely discarding their cancer stick on the street or any other public place (concert venues especially) it makes me murderous. As if the world were their ashtray. It is almost a sanctioned form of littering and one of the most odious to boot. I suppose its okay as long as some transient, or prison worker, or minimum wage slave cleans up after them. Does anyone know how long it takes one of those filters to breakdown/decompose, or the amount of chemical toxins released when they are incinerated, if they make it as far as the dump or the landfill? I don't have the numbers handy, maybe some studious research minded feg might oblige... I also remember reading something about birds, animals, and small children choking on them too, but I won't get into that because I wouldn't want anyone to think I'm some bleeding heart liberal scum. ; ) Please if you have to smoke beyond the range of an ashtray or butt receptacle, please extinguish completely and discard in a garbage can. How hard can that be? I think I want to start a leaflet campaign around Portland's bus stops. - or just start smacking with my yard stick the hands that drop the smoldering butt. > >An old friend of mine used to have this joke about the Metro in Chicago, >that >people who hung out there coughed once they got outside and started >breathing >oxygen "*cough* *cough* what's all this nasty air! how can people breathe?" Back when I frequented the Metro, I practiced that same black habit that I now condemn, but I will attest, for reasons beyond sanitary air, that place was unbearably filthy. >I don't need to keep stuff for three weeks anyway. Usually if I don't watch >it >within two days, it wasn't going to get watched anyway. "Reason not the need....." 3 weeks for a video does seem excessive. I don't usually keep them for more than a week. It is just the ability to watch a film at my leisure that I like, rather than picking a 3 day time frame in which to watch a particular film. Of course the Mult. Co. library only allows 5 vids at a time...... : ) > Does anyone else rent >stuff like "The Sorrow and The Pity" because they feel they -ought- to >watch >it, and then just not feel up to it and watch "A Hard Day's Night" again >instead? No I'd be the one to try and slog through it and fall asleep. ya-ya Kenneth _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 22:50:59 +0100 From: "Rob" Subject: Re: UK Tour Dates On 19 Apr 2001, at 21:27, Edward of Sim wrote: > Here I am, a transplanted Californian in Lancashire, so excited the Soft Boys > reunion tour has hit the UK. > > Now I look at the tour dates. Ugh. > I feel the same myself. A two hour drive to Nottingham on a Monday evening is not something I can do. I feel such a wimp after reading about people making 5 hour journeys in the states, but I cannot spare the time. At least on the last reunion tour they played Wolverhampton, a mere hour away. Then again, who am I to complain, it's James in NZ I feel sorry for - not much hope of the tour extending there. Any offers of cdr's gratefully accepted. (He lives in hope - well not literally, that's on the other side of the Pennines and a lot closer to Nottingham.) - -- Rob ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 15:04:52 -0700 From: "victorian squid" Subject: Re: "Pulse of My smoke infested Heart" On Thu, 19 Apr 2001 14:20:53 Kenneth Johnson wrote: >on the street or any other public place (concert venues especially) it makes >me murderous. As if the world were their ashtray. I think you probably used to do this at least sometimes when you smoked. The majority of smokers do this. I did it. So I really don't feel as tho I can take the high ground here. But yes, it's icky. It just doesn't seem that way when one is in the habit. I eventually developed the habit of trashcanning them when out and about (and eventually eventually, just quit smoking on the street altogether so as not to bother passersby), but the thing about concert venues is that ashing and extinguishing on the floor is really pretty ingrained. It's like the last place people can smoke freely without getting dirty looks. Not to mention they know someone else will clean it up. Smokers' paradise. >No I'd be the one to try and slog through it and fall asleep. Actually I have watched the film in question. The thing that's hard for me is working up the psychic fortitude to watch, say, 8 hour Holocaust documentaries. It's not about boredom so much as I can't always bring myself to put in the effort that "difficult" films require. It doesn't help that I'm married to a person who would rather watch "Starship Troopers" anyway. loveonya, susan Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 18:23:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Jill Brand Subject: Thanks! Thanks to everyone who helped me locate a CD copy of Globe of Frogs. I have, I believe, procured one. I listened to the vinyl version yesterday for the first time in ages, and though it still isn't my fave, I liked Side 1 more than I ever did before. I still think Balloon Man walked dangerously near the pop-icon line. However, "And it rained like a slow divorce" is an extremely potent line, especially if you reside in my age category. Jill ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 16:32:16 -0600 From: HAL Subject: no woman no cry I just got an mp3 of RobynH and Murray Attaway doing this Marley tune. Any one know when/where this is from? /hal ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 18:58:04 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Toronto? Hey, Every show from the eastern half of the great continent of North America has surfaced, except this one(to my knowledge that is). Has anyone out in Fegland got this one? If so, I would be interested in trading for it. Thanks, Max _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 16:06:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Glen Uber Subject: Re: no woman no cry On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, HAL wrote: >I just got an mp3 of RobynH and Murray Attaway doing this Marley tune. >Any one know when/where this is from? Murray "He Went" Attaway opened for Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians on the "Respect" tour of 1993. I was at the San Francisco show and the boys were definitely firing on all cylinders that night. The show was especially memorable to me because I managed to procure one of the on-stage set lists and have it signed by Robyn, Morris and Andy the next day following an in-store at Rough Trade Records on Haight Street. I even met a really cute girl from Sacramento at the show who stood next to me at the Rough Trade show and then offered me a ride to the bus station so I could get home that day. I was hoping she'd offer me a ride to Sacramento, but it wasn't to be. ;-) Mark Gloster once stated that the SF show on that tour was the best show he'd ever seen, with the possible exception of King Crimson at the Greek Theatre ('83? '84?). Apparently, Fripp and the KC Kidz "kicked major booty with alacrity" -- Mark's words, not mine -- at that show. Cheers! - -g- )+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+( ) ) Glen Uber // uberg at sonic dot net // Santa Rosa, California ) )+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+( ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 16:12:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Glen Uber Subject: Re: [Ebmaniax] Another doubleheader On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, lj lindhurst wrote: >>I did see one >>familiar fan whom I always see at Hitchcock shows, but I'm not sure if he's >>part of the Feglist gang or not. Kinda plump, half-bald, glasses, mustache >>and beard? Anyway.... I don't know who originally posted this, but if it was the SF show you were talking about, it was probably me. Cheers! - -g- )+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+( ) ) Glen Uber // uberg at sonic dot net // Santa Rosa, California ) )+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+()+( ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 19:26:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Bayard Subject: three things First off, to all those who have been getting messages bounced back, i apologize. This address will likely be going away soon. Secondly - on the Soft Boys road trip, someone asked me for lyrics. I can't for the life of me remember who that was. Write me and I'll send you what I have. capuchin (at...) bitmine.net might have a more complete collection. He compiled them, after all. Finally. I got word from eBay that I am now a member of their "bootligger ass-kicker" program. Kay, you're right, I'm a made man. Allen and Jeme made me feel like sort of a self-righteous prig (it's not their fault.... I'm thin-skinned) so I want to say one more thing on this. I would not concern myself about this for any other band. These guys are the absolute best. They are genuinely nice and super helpful. Can you think of any other band this legendary who would invite me backstage for a beer, mention my good friends in their tour diary, approach *us* post-gig to chat and offer Eddie the gig dates he's missing on his website, phone me up at home and work trying to find a way to get fegs on the guest list for a sold out show, not to mention being super cool about recording the shows? I didn't think so! HOWEVER, if a third person I like and respect emails me privately to tell me I should not trouble with people on eBay who are deceiving ignorant people and shilling intellectual property, I will strongly consider it *if that person is a TAPER.* I'm not sure Bird & Monkey appreciate that the item that was being offered as "L@@K RARE IMPORT SOFT BOUS 21 BIRTHDAY" is not just something that belongs to Robyn and the Boys, but to the person who taped it, who fixed it in history. There's a lot of time and effort and money that goes into that, guys. And it's almost never the bootlegger's own recording that is getting sold for ridiculous prices. Why would they bother, when great recordings are available for free? All I can say is I'd like to try and be the kind of fan I might have if I was as kind and cool and talented as these guys. They DESERVE the best fans in the world. If I can pick up one small piece of litter here and there, I at least *feel* like I've made some small kind of difference. OK, that's enough. =b "breakin' kneecaps for Posh Windsor" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 19:25:28 -0400 From: enzo Subject: Soft Boys UK Tour - 1st date review online already >Reply-To: >From: "pOoTer" >Cc: "Boris" >Subject: Soft Boys UK Tour - 1st date review online already >Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 00:06:43 +0100 > >Howdy, >A review of the first date of the Soft Boys UK Tour at The Junction, >Cambridge is now online at the following address: > >http://www.pooterland.com/index2/chronikles/2001/softboys18Apr2001/body_softboys18apr2001.html > >Regards, >pOoTer >pooter@pooterland.com >::::Visit pOoTers pSycheDelic shAcK:::: >aka tHe hEaVen aCCiDent at >http://www.pooterland.com >http://www.heavenaccident.com >ICQ:114026344 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 16:40:00 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: KC >Mark Gloster once stated that the SF show on that tour was the best show >he'd ever seen, with the possible exception of King Crimson at the Greek >Theatre ('83? '84?). I don't know if there was more than one KC/Greek show during that period, but I saw King Crimson at the Greek Theatre on June 5, 1984. That was the "Three of a Perfect Pair" era. It was only the FOURTH pop/rock concert I ever saw, following Peter Gabriel, Roxy Music and David Bowie. (Not a bad string of shows to begin one's concert-going experiences, hm?) Eb np: Beach Boys, Friends + 20/20 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 00:00:01 -0000 From: "Spring Cherry" Subject: Reality Chequed Doug lit up my day with: >...Kay impersonating reality!? ...now I really *have* seen >everything. You mean like when an irresistable force meets up with an unmoveable object? Dont know why your comment tickles me so much, but indeed it does. Thanks. ***** *:-) ***** Pulsing Heart... Ross-you are literal, arent you? Rarely do I really analyse Hitchcock, I let his imagery brush up against my feelings and take what I feel as the meaning. This one is complex. Id normally leave it alone but...hey, this is fun. For me the song works if the boundries of identity are loose(I could take 2 paragraphs proving this, but since Im not being graded...) , if the boy could be the you or the I, if the I could be the eye of any one of them looking into the mirror of themselves or another... Its obvious you have compression imagery for both boy and girl, with parachute and wings( sky elements) connoting freedom, flight, falling(as in love)and well--release, such as orgasm. They are closed up, they hope/want to open. He first,then her. How? By the pulse of the heart. By emotion, by love, --and think, when are you most consious of your own pulse? When you come-- by sex. And that pulse is the one constant in the song, the driving force, its a sort of fate. Will it get them to open up? Does the "alright" bit mean yes? The boy hopes to get out, the girl can be wakened. The pulse which drives thru the song is more powerful than any of the characters. And at the end the narrator seems to demand that that the listener recognize themselves in the song, most specificially the person he is singing it, but actually any human with a pulse. Will you open up? This is just my take, and its just my take after a few drinks at dinner. By tomorrow Ill probobly have a completely different slant. Which is one of the things I like about Robyn's work. Theres loads of room in his stuff for all sorts of twilight manuvers. In the twilight, thinking of the force which thru the green fuse driveth, reality's own impersonator. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 19:55:53 -0500 From: steve Subject: fegbooks? Out now: Tales from Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin The Book of Leviathan - Peter Blegvad - - Steve __________ Is this thing on? Sent via OS X Mail. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 21:17:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Jill Brand Subject: investigating Just wondering if anyone out there is fond of the following oddities: Howard Devoto (with and without Magazine) Vurt (by Jeff Noone) Withnail and I Jill ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 21:36:21 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Re: investigating Magazine rocks, The first Luxuria album was okay, Did not care for the second one. What was the solo album called? Anytway didn't care for that one. I think I like Magazine a little more than Buzzcocks. Max >From: Jill Brand >Reply-To: Jill Brand >To: fegmaniax@smoe.org >Subject: investigating >Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 21:17:44 -0400 (EDT) > >Just wondering if anyone out there is fond of the following oddities: > >Howard Devoto (with and without Magazine) >Vurt (by Jeff Noone) >Withnail and I > >Jill _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 19:59:09 -0600 From: HAL Subject: Re: investigating Jill Brand wrote: > > Just wondering if anyone out there is fond of: > Withnail and I This was on IFC tonight, and I forgot. I've never seen it, but I love Richard E. Grant. Isn't this one of the better films made by George Harrison's Handmade Films company (before Madonna and Sean Penn killed his enthusiasm with Shanghai Surprise?) Anyway, it's on IFC again tomorrow morning, so I'll set the VCR. /hal ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 04:31:17 +0200 From: Jonathan Moren Subject: Re: fegbooks? At 19:55 2001-04-19 -0500, you wrote: >The Book of Leviathan - Peter Blegvad Fegbook in deed, this one! I got mine a month ago and still haven't recovered. In case you're not initiated, go check out the well of milk: http://www.leviathan.co.uk/ J. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 21:05:47 -0500 From: "Brian Huddell" Subject: RE: investigating Jill: > Just wondering if anyone out there is fond of the following oddities: > Withnail and I Oh hell yeah! It's been a while though. I don't even know if there's anywhere in New Orleans I can rent it anymore, now that all the little guys have been Blockbastardized. Out of print in all formats, it looks like. Robinson's "How To Get Ahead In Advertising" is worth seeking out as well. +brian ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 20:47:38 -0600 From: HAL Subject: Re: investigating > Robinson's "How To Get Ahead In Advertising" is worth seeking out as well. Another Richard E. Grant classic. Boil Crisis!! I didn't know the director Robinson also did Withnail. Really can't wait to see that one now. /hal ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 21:49:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Swedene Subject: Re: Toronto? Apparently I am the only Feg who is on the list who braved the northern latitiude. There were TONS of cameras there, I taped the show and am in the midst of copying it over to cd, but I have reached the end of the semester so I am a bit busy. Once I have it, I will offer to do a tree or trades and try and get it up to woj or someone on an ftp. Free the music! Herbie np- Beatles "30 Days" Disc 6 - "I Lost My Little Girl" - --- Maximilian Lang wrote: > Hey, > > Every show from the eastern half of the great > continent of North America has > surfaced, except this one(to my knowledge that is). > Has anyone out in > Fegland got this one? If so, I would be interested > in trading for it. > > Thanks, > Max > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 01:24:38 -0400 (EDT) From: dmw Subject: Re: investigating On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Jill Brand wrote: > Just wondering if anyone out there is fond of the following oddities: > > Howard Devoto (with and without Magazine) My editor pretty much forced me to buy the magazine box set. i certainly don't regret it. i haven't read vurt yet, but i thinkt here's a copy in one of the scary "to-read" stacks around here... - - oh no, you've just read mail from doug = dmw@radix.net - get yr pathos - - www.shoddyworkmanship.net -- post punk skronk rawk = the new thing - - www.pathetic-caverns.com -- books, flicks, tunes, etc. = reviews - - www.fecklessbeast.com -- angst, guilt, fear, betrayal! = rock music ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 22:42:39 -0700 From: "Russ Reynolds" Subject: Mind is Connected All this talk about "Pulse of My Heart", but nobody seems to be saying much about "Mind Is Connected", which has been haunting me for days now. I enjoyed this live, enjoyed the MP3 too and I can't seem to get it out of my head. Am I the only one who thinks it's a really good song? - -rUss atp: Soft Boys/Rout Of The Clones. A bootleg, no? I was able to order this "import" from Amazon! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 23:26:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: fair play "Walker, Charles" wrote: > Or as my friend said about the best paying job of > baseball: a quote from an old school ball player noted that after the > national anthem they do not say, "work ball." They might as well. Willie Stargell. just died last week. :( only good player in the first pack of baseball cards i ever bought. ===== - ---evidence of how sick the world is, stolen from Harper's. 300,000: Number of Africans infected each year by "sleeping sickness," a fatal mosquito-borne illness. 1,000: Doses of eflomithine, a proven cure for the disease, that were available worldwide in February (2001). 60,000: does that will be available by June, after the discovery that the drug also eliminates facial hair. Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 23:34:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: American Sports comments: flee if you need to [was: RE: fegmaniax-digest V10 #134] "Yudt.Matthew" wrote: > TC: > > On another note, I must agree with a caller on the Jim Rome show > > today who said that next to the NCAA tournament, the NHL playoffs > > are the most exciting games in sports. I've been _loving_ these > > games, especially last night's win by San Jose over St. Louis. > > Yeah! > YUCK! to both. ESPECIALLY Jim Rome. I can't decide who is more > annoying: him or those stupid clones who call him. Go Pens! the saddest thing about Jim Rome is that when he teased (mediocre quarterback) Jim Everett by calling him "Chris," he thought he was insulting Jim Everett, when he was really insulting Chris Evert. ===== - ---evidence of how sick the world is, stolen from Harper's. 300,000: Number of Africans infected each year by "sleeping sickness," a fatal mosquito-borne illness. 1,000: Doses of eflomithine, a proven cure for the disease, that were available worldwide in February (2001). 60,000: does that will be available by June, after the discovery that the drug also eliminates facial hair. Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 01:23:46 -0700 From: "Crazy Unca' Nick" Subject: Re: Reality Checkers Having just read about the Cambridge show, the title of this message instantly flashed into my head a picture of a certain lamp-post... In Cambridge there is a certain large grass-covered square called Parker's Piece (Robyn gives it a namecheck in "I Used to Love You"). Parker's Piece lies exactly on the boundary between the part of the town dominated by the University (in Cambridge most of the older colleges are close together and are the focus for students and tourists) and the "real" part of Cambridge where real people have real jobs, real houses etc. (This is the division sometimes known as "town and gown".) Parker's Piece is crossed by two diagonal paths and where they meet in the center is (or was - I have not been back for years.) a lamp-post. At some point in it's history this lamp-post was inscribed with the graffiti "Reality Checkpoint". The name stuck and it became an unofficial Cambridge landmark. Many's the night I passed that lamp-post in search of a pub without either faux horse brasses and naugahide or the incessant pinging of "Galaxian" or "Space Invaders". (I can't remember the name of the place now, but it had formica tables, sawdust on the floor and a friendly cat.) Anyone know if that lamp-post is still there? ~N ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 13:50:48 +0200 From: "Orrling, August" Subject: password? Hello, I was downloading half the GLH show from Maxwells the other day. Today when I was going to take down the rest my computer was bitchy enough to tell me I have an incorrect password! Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong. The link I used was: ftp://feggy:TrainDream@stats.unidec.co.uk/pub/ Thanks in advance, help appreciated. August ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 13:31:30 -0000 From: "Spring Cherry" Subject: Feg o my Heart Mnnnn--I said Id probobly have more to say this morning. Just ...well, as is often the case with Robyn, its the visual details and puns which often contain meaning. Well-the bleedingly obvious just tripped me. I mentioned orgasm in the last post and this morn Im hitting myself on the head with a Homer like"Duh." Cause this pulse of the heart, whats it doing? Its coming. Oy. For you. Ive mentioned constriction, well the boy in the pillow hoping to get out, in some ways, is a description of a hard-on. And the parachute? Well think of all the marshmellows jumping off the empire state. Yup. Billowing white stuff. As for the girl--wings. Now Id never thought of engorged labia(minor and major) as wings before, but you know, its perfect. And when you pulse with orgasm they are flying. This is a great female image. And I cant beleive this the first Ive thought of it. Its in "Sounds Great When Youre Dead"(thou less explicit) and Ive missed it all these years. So unbelievebly obvious. I think Ill invent a new dance called "Do the Duh." Kay, whose sending this thru digest, so apologies if this has all been said before. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V10 #137 ********************************