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fegmaniax-digest         Tuesday, May 15 2001         Volume 10 : Number 198



                               Today's Subjects:
                               -----------------
  Re: WanderLust                      [The Great Quail <quail@libyrinth.com>]
  Re: dot dot dot                     [The Great Quail <quail@libyrinth.com>]
  DNA related stuff                          ["Rob" <rob@nimbus.demon.co.uk>]
  Re: hidden tracks [or one I wished was]  ["Stewart C. Russell" <stewart@re]
  Re: David Byrne (No RH content, but some Jim White)  ["Stewart C. Russell"]
  Re: Secret tracks        ["Stewart C. Russell" <stewart@ref.collins.co.uk>]
  Re: douglas adams dead?          [Stephen Mahoney <stephenm@multcolib.org>]
  Re: pedants'r'us                 [Stephen Mahoney <stephenm@multcolib.org>]
  It's alright ma, it's only feg fan fiction  ["ross taylor" <protay2@eudora]
  Re: hidden tracks [or one I wished was]       [Glen Uber <uberg@sonic.net>]
  Re: New OS's                          [Tom Clark <tclark@reardensteel.com>]
  newz                    ["Motherfucking Asshole" <asshole@feedthefish.org>]
  Re: WanderLust                                        [JH3 <jh3@winco.net>]
  Re: newz                                   [Eric Loehr <loehr@charter.net>]
  no more shall we part           ["Andrew D. Simchik" <drew@stormgreen.com>]
  Re: Adams                         ["Mike wells" <mwells@imageworksmfg.com>]
  RE: Adams                ["Thomas, Ferris" <Ferris_Thomas@mcgraw-hill.com>]
  Re: Adams                        [Stephen Mahoney <stephenm@multcolib.org>]
  trials and difibulations           [Mark Gloster <rubrshrk@harborside.com>]
  RE: Adams                        [Stephen Mahoney <stephenm@multcolib.org>]
  Robyn joins the NHL                   [Tom Clark <tclark@reardensteel.com>]
  Re: Robyn joins the NHL                       [Glen Uber <uberg@sonic.net>]
  so many concerts, so little money         [Ken Ostrander <kenster@MIT.EDU>]
  Apple Question (NO RH%)                 [Mike Swedene <pulp_101@yahoo.com>]
  Silence: music's original alternative (100% Todd Snider content)  [Glen Ub]
  small rant about Douglas Adams       [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)]

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Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 09:07:19 -0700
From: The Great Quail <quail@libyrinth.com>
Subject: Re: WanderLust

>The End

No, no! Say it ain't so! What about the Tool concert??? Does he get 
there? How does Eb use his tele-fuckin'-kinesis to bust outta the Big 
House? Does he get help from Brother Maynard? And -- and what about 
the *bees,* man, the bees????

- --Quail

------------------------------

Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 09:07:16 -0700
From: The Great Quail <quail@libyrinth.com>
Subject: Re: dot dot dot

doug writes,

>am i the only one here who remembers how culture club were elitist
>hipster cult darlings for about a month before the hit the mainstream?

Oh, no -- I was thinking the exact same thing! In fact, I first heard 
of Culture Club from my friend Geoff Perry, who was *always* into the 
hipster cult sort of things long before I was, and had the uncanny 
knack of cooly bailing from an obsession exactly twenty-three seconds 
before it went mainstream. It was Geoff who introduced me to the 
Smiths, the Mission UK, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, and Oscar Wilde.

I got him into...um....nothing, I suppose. Well, he made fun of Rush 
a lot, and seemed to learn a few lyrics here and there....

- --Quail

PS: Regarding the recent strain of U2 bashing.....

I love U2. They are a tremendously talented and canny band, who have 
never released a disappointing album, and more than any other band on 
earth, their artistic growth and development feels linked to my own 
life. I may be the only person on earth who can say, "My favorite two 
bands are U2 and King Crimson," but there ya go.

Mmmmm.... think of the crossover potential.....
- -- 
+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+

The Great Quail, K.S.C.
(riverrun Discordian Society, Kibroth-hattaavah Branch)

For fun with postmodern literature, New York vampires,
and Fegmania, visit Sarnath: http://www.rpg.net/quail

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability
of the human mind to correlate all its contents."
     -- H.P. Lovecraft

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 14:24:03 +0100
From: "Rob" <rob@nimbus.demon.co.uk>
Subject: DNA related stuff

One of the things Douglas Adams was involved with before his untimely death 
was the h2g2 website, currently hosted by the BBC. It's described as 'an 
unconventional guide to {HYPERLINK "C72"}life, the {HYPERLINK "C73"}universe and {HYPERLINK "C74"}everything.' DNA was one of 
its founders.
Take a look at this description of the Hangar Lane Gyratory System to get a 
feel of what it's about:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A303346

- -
Rob

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Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 14:40:23 +0100
From: "Stewart C. Russell" <stewart@ref.collins.co.uk>
Subject: Re: hidden tracks [or one I wished was]

Glen Uber wrote:
> 
> The Clash -- "Train In Vain" from _London Calling_

...etc

I'd like to nominate "The Beta Band Rap" as a first track they really
should've kept hidden.

> "To ask permission is to seek denial."
> - --Steve Jobs, co-founder, Apple Computer

Grace Murray Hopper said it better, earlier:  "When in doubt, do it. 
It's much easier to apologize than to get permission."

(quite how someone who said that also invented COBOL, I'll never know.)

 Stewart

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 14:52:49 +0100
From: "Stewart C. Russell" <stewart@ref.collins.co.uk>
Subject: Re: David Byrne (No RH content, but some Jim White)

Mike Swedene wrote:
> 
> Now I just need to pick up the
> Nick Cave album, and I think all will be right in the
> universe.

[belated, I know]

All will be right with the world if you buy Jim White's "No Such Place"
as well/instead. We saw Jim play Glasgow last Thursday, and it was a
great night out. He's a really personable chap.

(I have a signed CD cover and the ticket if there are any
hypercompletists out there...)

Oh, and No Such Place is on David Byrne's label.

 Stewart

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 15:06:27 +0100
From: "Stewart C. Russell" <stewart@ref.collins.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Secret tracks

steve wrote:
> 
> Well then, Mr. Jobs has a real nice new OS for you.

and I forgot to add that the system needs at least three mouse buttons
as well.

Our Intranet people -- 100% Mac -- have just discovered the command
line. Every time they show me something they've written in Perl, I pat
'em on the head, give 'em a barley sugar, and show 'em we did it better
10 years ago...

"Here's a nickel, kid..."

 Stewart

- -- 
Stewart C. Russell		Senior Analyst Programmer
stewart@ref.collins.co.uk	Collins Dictionaries
use Disclaimer; my $opinion;	Bishopbriggs, Scotland

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 08:34:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: Stephen Mahoney <stephenm@multcolib.org>
Subject: Re: douglas adams dead?

2*3*7=42
hmmmm
didnt know the answer was that simple!


On Sat, 12 May 2001 Robcow@aol.com wrote:

> "It's...well, it's a long story, but the question I would like to know, is 
> the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything.  All we know 
> about it is that the Answer is Forty-two, which is a little aggravating."    
> Douglas Adams
> 


   Gallons by which daily U.S. oil consumption would drop if SUVs average
fuel efficiency increased by 3 mpg : 49,000,000

                                      Source: Sierra Club (Washington)


    Gallons per day that the proposed drilling of Alaskas Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge is projected to yield : 42,000,000

                                         Source: The White House

Stephen Mahoney                                   
Multnomah County Library at Rockwood branch clerk 
stephenm@nethost.multnomah.lib.or.us              
503-988-5396                                      
fax 503-988-5178                                      

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Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 08:37:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: Stephen Mahoney <stephenm@multcolib.org>
Subject: Re: pedants'r'us

makes sense
if you break down the word
mis-
anthropic.



On Mon, 14 May 2001, James Dignan wrote:

> >It's rancidly misanthropic (in the sense of "anti-male").
> 
> the word you're looking for, if I'm not mistaken, is misoandrist.
> Misanthropic means anti-people-in-general.
> 
> Someone (maybe in Scotland) may well tell me I am mistaken, and provide the
> correct word.
> 
> James
> 
>    James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand. =-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=
>    -=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-
>    .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- You talk to me as if from a distance
>    -.-=-.- And I reply with impressions chosen from another time
>    =-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-. (Brian Eno - "By this River")
> 


   Gallons by which daily U.S. oil consumption would drop if SUVs average
fuel efficiency increased by 3 mpg : 49,000,000

                                      Source: Sierra Club (Washington)


    Gallons per day that the proposed drilling of Alaskas Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge is projected to yield : 42,000,000

                                         Source: The White House

Stephen Mahoney                                   
Multnomah County Library at Rockwood branch clerk 
stephenm@nethost.multnomah.lib.or.us              
503-988-5396                                      
fax 503-988-5178                                      

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 11:40:20 -0400
From: "ross taylor" <protay2@eudoramail.com>
Subject: It's alright ma, it's only feg fan fiction

Following in the footsteps of Scary Mary and (I
look around nervously) etews, here's something
that's partly a lame pastiche of Robyn's 
excellent story "Moose Mark and the Prince of 
Cones," found inside Respect, and partly a
rumination on wishing Robyn was anything like
as famous as Bawb, and then wondering if that's
a nice thing to wish on anyone, including Bawb. 


RELATIVISTIC SMACKDOWN! THE PRINCE OF CONES TAKES ON JOKERMAN!


It would have to happen in  a strange venue.  A gaslit, late 19th century seedy entertainment palace perhaps.  So it would have to be boxing.  A big, balconied building, with the bustle of crowds of illicit activity, and in the middle,  in a patch of light, an old, canvass-floored boxing ring with hemp ropes.  

The Prince of Cones is of course concerned about Jokerman, an  older and *much* shorter man who has been in ill health recently, and the Prince is quietly but insistently negotiating that he not be required to actually strike Jokerman, just go a few rounds with him and remain standing.   Jokerman is sitting at a table nearby, his gloves and a bottle of hooch standing on it.  His handler, a one-eyed midget, is rubbing his lower back, while Jokerman sits face down like the Jack of Hearts.

The Prince warms up with some shadow boxing, then is distracted as the shadow shapes turn into animals.  While prancing around thus, he accidentally treads on Jokerman's arthritic pet Tarantula, which has been wandering about blindly.  Looking down at the crippled critter like a rose about to eat a goat, the Prince says "Oh my god.   I've never seen a tarantula with white hair before."

The Prince has a sudden imagining in which he runs round and round the ring before an increasingly tired Jokerman, singing "Tra la, can't catch me, tra la."  Jokerman, dressed as a gladiator, suddenly clutches his chest, mumbles "Oh-having a heart attack!" and falls down.  Thinking of this, the Prince's prominent eyebrow knits in the middle and he looks rather evil.

At this moment Jokerman looks up from his table, straightens his vest and stands.  "Uh, excuse me, I had not noticed you had arrived."  By way of greeting, with one hand he casually makes the sign of the Tower Struck by Lightning.

"mmmmYour last record was something of a return to form," says the Prince
using his backwards voice.  He bows so deeply that his cone points directly at Jokerman and he suddenly appears to be a black disk.  Jokerman leans forward raising one eyebrow to inspect the track listing on the disk.  He stretches across the space and his face gets huge like Mr. Magoo.  "Huh.  Folk music," he mutters.  Then he grins a little, puts his arms forward and jumps at the Prince.  He gets whirled around the black disk like Charlie Chaplin in the factory in Modern Times, then lands lightly on his feet.  

"mmmmYer pretty spry for a geezer," says the Prince, a cone again.

"Oughta let somebody adjust your reverb buddy" says Jokerman.  "You sound like a highschool PA system."

Now the Prince is dancing to a subterranean beat and the Light of the Moment glares upon both of them.  It blasts great shadows behind them.  In Jokerman's shadow The Sad Eyed Lady lays a long, pale hand on the hilt of her sword.  In the Prince's shadow The Queen of Eyes swivels her shiny head into position and locks it.

But Jokerman's gloves are still on the table.  Their leather is cracked and chipped, very dark brown from grease and blood.  And in the vast darkness is an audience of thousands of other anxious contestants, some lithe, others burly, some rotting but unable to fall, others babies with wet umbilicals still protruding from their bellies.  The Prince looks at Jokerman and Jokerman looks at his gloves.  They wait for the one who will eventually beat them and win the prize.

The prize is a personalized, life-sized, rocket-propelled cross, accompanied by four centurions, two surgeons, an anesthesiologist, a navigator, a press agent and an infinite sky full of graduate students.

Ross Taylor



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Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 10:17:17 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glen Uber <uberg@sonic.net>
Subject: Re: hidden tracks [or one I wished was]

On Tue, 15 May 2001, Stewart C. Russell wrote:

>Grace Murray Hopper said it better, earlier:  "When in doubt, do it. 
>It's much easier to apologize than to get permission."
>
>(quite how someone who said that also invented COBOL, I'll never know.)

There's a radio talk-show host here in San Francisco who signs off each
night with, "Remember: It's easier to ask for forgiveness than it is
permission."

Cheers!
- -g-

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 10:25:04 -0700
From: Tom Clark <tclark@reardensteel.com>
Subject: Re: New OS's

on 5/15/01 7:06 AM, Stewart C. Russell at stewart@ref.collins.co.uk wrote:

> steve wrote:
>> 
>> Well then, Mr. Jobs has a real nice new OS for you.
> 
> and I forgot to add that the system needs at least three mouse buttons
> as well.
> 

Since Macs now have full support for USB mice, they can handle any number of
buttons, hat controls, wheels, etc...  At Apple, we always referred to this
type of situation as "a good third party opportunity."


> Our Intranet people -- 100% Mac -- have just discovered the command
> line. Every time they show me something they've written in Perl, I pat
> 'em on the head, give 'em a barley sugar, and show 'em we did it better
> 10 years ago...

When I started at Apple in 1991 I was working on A/UX, which was the Mac OS
running on top of a BSD/SysV hybrid Unix.  It was actually fairly successful
until Michael Spindler decided to kill it.  Now ten years and countless
billions of dollars later (Copland, anyone?), Jobs gives us the
"revolutionary" OS X - Mac OS running on top of Mach.  Ironic, no?

- -tc

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 10:57:32 -0700
From: "Motherfucking Asshole" <asshole@feedthefish.org>
Subject: newz

watched the Fast Forward interview the other night.  robyn said that the
band intended to play spain after the uk, then take the summer off, and tour
europe in the autumn.  when asked specifically which countries in europe, he
said, basically, wherever they're asked.  (though i believe i read in
matthew's diary that they're too pooped to try for spain right now.)  robyn
says his project for the summer is to finish off his novel (he's said that
before...), and that he thinks it'd be nice for the soft boys to work
together one or two months out of each year.


<No, no! Say it ain't so! What about the Tool concert??? Does he get  there?
How does Eb use his tele-fuckin'-kinesis to bust outta the Big
House? Does he get help from Brother Maynard? And -- and what about  the
*bees,* man, the bees????>

funny you should mention the bees, as i was thinking that if there were to
have been another installment (which there shall not); then a kind-of
interesting plotline would be for eb to use (abuse?) his new-found
telekinetic powers to "lure" a mess o' bees onto his pelvis (or, perhaps,
his natal cleft), agitate them into stinging the shit out of him, and
gaining pleasure therefrom.


as for brother maynard, et al.: don't forget, the dissectional site opens
today.  <http://www.dissectional.com/>.  also, june's Spin cover story
(archived at
<http://toolshed.down.net/articles/text/spinmag.jun.2001.html>), mentions:
zeppelin, ozzy, alice in chains, soundgarden, nirvana, helmet, rage against
the machine, black sabbath, king crimson, bowie (and here's your robyn
connection: apparently tool, like robyn, have covered Ashes To Ashes),
queen, judas priest, and megadeath, among others (for what it's worth).


and one more link, to keep eb happy.  the current monthly review
<http://www.monthlyreview.org/> features the best analysis i've yet read on
"Plan Colombia".  alas, it's not currently archived at the site.

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 13:11:50 -0500
From: JH3 <jh3@winco.net>
Subject: Re: WanderLust

>No, no! Say it ain't so! What about the Tool concert??? Does he get 
>there? How does Eb use his tele-fuckin'-kinesis to bust outta the Big 
>House? Does he get help from Brother Maynard? And -- and what about 
>the *bees,* man, the bees????

I dunno, I think this might actually be a good time to end the series,
before there's any risk of it becoming "stale" and ultimately collapsing
under the enormous weight of its own massive popular appeal...

What's more, while I've never been to a Tool concert myself,
I *suspect* that such things are best left to the imagination!

On the other hand, maybe Eddie is just setting us up for the
blockbuster sequel, "WanderLust II: Gondoliers From the Crab
Nebula".

John H.

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 14:23:44 -0400
From: Eric Loehr <loehr@charter.net>
Subject: Re: newz

At 10:57 AM 5/15/01 -0700, e.f. tews wrote:
>funny you should mention the bees, as i was thinking that if there were to
>have been another installment (which there shall not); then a kind-of
>interesting plotline would be for eb to use (abuse?) his new-found
>telekinetic powers to "lure" a mess o' bees onto his pelvis (or, perhaps,
>his natal cleft), agitate them into stinging the shit out of him, and
>gaining pleasure therefrom.

Presumably this would be a good kind of annoying? 

>as for brother maynard, et al.: don't forget, the dissectional site opens
>today.  <http://www.dissectional.com/>.  also, june's Spin cover story
>(archived at
><http://toolshed.down.net/articles/text/spinmag.jun.2001.html>), 

And here I thought that the Brother Maynard reference was to the "Holy
Handgrenade of Antioch"  Brother Maynard....guess that happens when you
wear Grail-shaped glasses.

Eric "that rabbit's dynamite!" L.

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 12:33:33 -0700
From: "Andrew D. Simchik" <drew@stormgreen.com>
Subject: no more shall we part

I'm nearly done with my first listen.  It seems quite beautiful
so far, but I can't get my head around many of the songs yet.
It's also not going to be a very casual album -- I'll have to be
in the mood for melancholy for sure.  But I see where the raves
are coming from.

Now I have to pick up the new REM and Kirsty MacColl tomorrow.

From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan):
[I tried:]
 >> It's rancidly misanthropic (in the sense of "anti-male").
[James corrected:]
 > the word you're looking for, if I'm not mistaken, is misoandrist.
 > Misanthropic means anti-people-in-general.

I can't pronounce "misoandrist" ("misandrist" is not much easier)
and so I tend to avoid using it.  But you're quite right that I
can't appropriate "misanthropic" that way.  I was echoing someone
else -- perhaps one of the women whose essays Hal posted links to.

 > From: "ross taylor"
[Hitchhiker's]
 > Hope the movie still comes out.

Hope it doesn't.  I'm scared of how it might turn out.

Drew, taking further Cerebus discussion offlist




- --
Andrew D. Simchik, drew at stormgreen dot com
http://www.stormgreen.com/

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 15:11:56 -0500
From: "Mike wells" <mwells@imageworksmfg.com>
Subject: Re: Adams

>  > From: "ross taylor"
> [Hitchhiker's]
>  > Hope the movie still comes out.
> 
> Hope it doesn't.  I'm scared of how it might turn out.

Motion seconded - would like to leave this one to the imagination. 

Would like Lord of the Rings to left alone as well, but...

Michael
who wishes he could fit "Slartibartfast" on a license plate

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 16:24:08 -0400
From: "Thomas, Ferris" <Ferris_Thomas@mcgraw-hill.com>
Subject: RE: Adams

Aww, c'mon!  The new version looks pretty slick (as does the new Planet of
the Apes, IMHO.)

It was high time someone took LOTR to film and it's only been recently that
the technology's been available to do it.

An animated one would have been a good idea but all that ever came out was
that dreadful (and I mean wretched) Bashki thing.

Utter crap for the most part.  Some nice visuals but the intermingling of
colorized film was horrid.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike wells [mailto:mwells@imageworksmfg.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 4:12 PM
> To: fegmaniax@smoe.org
> Subject: Re: Adams
> 
> 
> >  > From: "ross taylor"
> > [Hitchhiker's]
> >  > Hope the movie still comes out.
> > 
> > Hope it doesn't.  I'm scared of how it might turn out.
> 
> Motion seconded - would like to leave this one to the imagination. 
> 
> Would like Lord of the Rings to left alone as well, but...
> 
> Michael
> who wishes he could fit "Slartibartfast" on a license plate

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 13:43:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: Stephen Mahoney <stephenm@multcolib.org>
Subject: Re: Adams

lord of the rings was made into a fine animated film by mr. "fritz the
cat"- Ralph Belski.


On Tue, 15 May 2001, Mike wells wrote:

> >  > From: "ross taylor"
> > [Hitchhiker's]
> >  > Hope the movie still comes out.
> > 
> > Hope it doesn't.  I'm scared of how it might turn out.
> 
> Motion seconded - would like to leave this one to the imagination. 
> 
> Would like Lord of the Rings to left alone as well, but...
> 
> Michael
> who wishes he could fit "Slartibartfast" on a license plate
> 


   Gallons by which daily U.S. oil consumption would drop if SUVs average
fuel efficiency increased by 3 mpg : 49,000,000

                                      Source: Sierra Club (Washington)


    Gallons per day that the proposed drilling of Alaskas Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge is projected to yield : 42,000,000

                                         Source: The White House

Stephen Mahoney                                   
Multnomah County Library at Rockwood branch clerk 
stephenm@nethost.multnomah.lib.or.us              
503-988-5396                                      
fax 503-988-5178                                      

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 13:46:42 -0700
From: Mark Gloster <rubrshrk@harborside.com>
Subject: trials and difibulations

> Gloster--where can I get a solar difibulator? Can I use my own ass(easier,
> cheaper, possibly cleaner;-)?

Difibulator: I got mine at "Shop smart: shop" SMart. It was supposed to
have gummi bears included, but it just had little red and green blobs
in it. I'm guessing it had been sitting in the sun.

"Using Eb's ass," is apparently the recommended manner of doing anything,
according to the manufacturer, Eddief Uckint Ews Megalo Corporate 
Worldwide Marketing LLC.

> Does Unca Nicka have a picture of Eb's ass on his fegphoto site? For so many
> people to comment it must be a sight to see(or am I the only
> totally-confused-by-this-whole-thread feg)?
> 
A two dimensional rendering is not sufficient. Please think of that
place of a state of mind and avoid going there except to make mp3's. 
If you are trapped by its winking, charms, begging and promises: seek 
professional counseling. Amtold that if you are highly motivated you
may 
retain your purity. Under no circumstances should you ever attempt a
vulcan mind meld with Eb's ass.

I'm getting most of this information from the manual that came with
my solar difubulator. I can't seem to find anything else about it
outside the chatrooms for people who have a serious _thing_ for 
appliances, buttermilk, and anchovy paste.

This post was for information purposes only. Any entertainment value
is merely coincidental.

Hope this helps,
- -Markg

------------------------------

Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 13:51:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: Stephen Mahoney <stephenm@multcolib.org>
Subject: RE: Adams

On Tue, 15 May 2001, Thomas, Ferris wrote:
> 
> An animated one would have been a good idea but all that ever came out was
> that dreadful (and I mean wretched) Bashki thing.
> 
> Utter crap for the most part.  Some nice visuals but the intermingling of
> colorized film was horrid.

ralph is one of the best character animators in the biz!(if not the best!)
INHO!!!!

I suppose you like those dreadful new (anti)disney pieces of shiet
(that is including anything AFTER the first rescuers(1977) to the present)
they must cause walt to turn over in his grave!!!!!
- -Mahoney

> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mike wells [mailto:mwells@imageworksmfg.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 4:12 PM
> > To: fegmaniax@smoe.org
> > Subject: Re: Adams
> > 
> > 
> > >  > From: "ross taylor"
> > > [Hitchhiker's]
> > >  > Hope the movie still comes out.
> > > 
> > > Hope it doesn't.  I'm scared of how it might turn out.
> > 
> > Motion seconded - would like to leave this one to the imagination. 
> > 
> > Would like Lord of the Rings to left alone as well, but...
> > 
> > Michael
> > who wishes he could fit "Slartibartfast" on a license plate
> 


   Gallons by which daily U.S. oil consumption would drop if SUVs average
fuel efficiency increased by 3 mpg : 49,000,000

                                      Source: Sierra Club (Washington)


    Gallons per day that the proposed drilling of Alaskas Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge is projected to yield : 42,000,000

                                         Source: The White House

Stephen Mahoney                                   
Multnomah County Library at Rockwood branch clerk 
stephenm@nethost.multnomah.lib.or.us              
503-988-5396                                      
fax 503-988-5178                                      

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Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 14:06:02 -0700
From: Tom Clark <tclark@reardensteel.com>
Subject: Robyn joins the NHL

Labatt McHitchcockchuk  (Canadian)
Patrick La Hitchcockeau (French-Canadian)
Czar Hitchcockov (Russian)

Find your own hockey name, eh!
<URL: http://maximonline.com/sports/hockey_name/index.asp >



- -tc aka "Denis La Clarkieux "

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Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 14:16:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glen Uber <uberg@sonic.net>
Subject: Re: Robyn joins the NHL

On Tue, 15 May 2001, Tom Clark wrote:

>Labatt McHitchcockchuk  (Canadian)

Dougie McUberdyk

>Patrick La Hitchcockeau (French-Canadian)

Guy La Uberieux

>Czar Hitchcockov (Russian)

Czar Uberov

Cheers!
- -g-

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Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 17:37:17 -0400
From: Ken Ostrander <kenster@MIT.EDU>
Subject: so many concerts, so little money

this past weekend was an exhausting series of street cleanups, radio shows,
drinking, smoking, debating, and concerts.  there are so many great shows going
on that i have to maintain a schedule to deep track of them all.  i even
remembered mother's day.

friday night i saw david byrne at the paradise with joe henry.  mr byrne had a
phenomenal rhythm section with a brazilian percussionist and was joined on
stage by a stringed sextet.  they played quite a lot of heads material.  i
really like the new album.  it's more diverse than what i've heard of his other
solo albums.

saturday night at avalon i saw the psychedelic furs finish up their american
tour.  they sounded great and played just about every song i wanted to hear.  a
lot from _talk talk talk_.  anyone notice how mr hitchcock always changes the
words to 'the ghost in you' from "it don't fade" to "it goes on"?

sunday night it was back to the paradise for the last show on patti smith's
tour.  there was no opening act and she played a long raucous show.  the band
really sounded fantastic.  she told the story about her first gig here had
seven people, four people working at the venue and three people in the band.  a
far cry from this sold out show.

so far this year i've seen five stellar shows at the paradise (david byrne/joe
henry, soft boys/fresh young fellows, frank black/house of large sizes, patti
smith, and guided by voices/spoon) and i am going to have a lot of trouble
figuring out which was my favorite.  this friday it's rufus...uh...mr
wainwright & co.  

check out the front page article that my local paper did on our local group:

http://townonline.com/metro/allston/13115208.htm

i have to remember not to let this go to my head.


ken  "green=clean"  the kenster

np       a gilded eternity          loop 

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Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 14:44:55 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mike Swedene <pulp_101@yahoo.com>
Subject: Apple Question (NO RH%)

Is there a patch I need to get Final Cut pro to run on
an iMac?  Just curious, sorry to bother the group with
this.


Herbie
Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices
http://auctions.yahoo.com/

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Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 16:53:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glen Uber <uberg@sonic.net>
Subject: Silence: music's original alternative (100% Todd Snider content)

I don't know if this is a dead thread or not, but I'd like to chime in
with one more hidden track.

I don't know how I forgot "Talkin' Seattle Grunge Rock Blues" by Todd
Snider on his _Songs For The Daily Planet_ album. If it's not one of the
greatest hidden tracks ever, certainly it is one of the most humorous.

==

From UBL.com:

"Snider released his debut album, _Songs for the Daily Planet_ in the fall
of 1994; "Talkin' Seattle Grunge Rock Blues'' was added to the album as an
afterthought only after intense lobbying by a Canadian music critic, and
ultimately became a minor hit."

==

According to his biography on UBL.com, Snider lived for a short time in my
hometown during his formative years. Now I know why he's got such a skewed
and cynical worldview.

Cheers!
- -g-

"Hey hey my my,
Rock and roll will never die,
Hang your hair down in your eyes,
You'll make a million dollars."
- --Todd Snider

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Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 11:57:01 +1200
From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)
Subject: small rant about Douglas Adams

>Got the news about Douglas Adams from this list.
>Thanks, I guess.
>
>Ugh.  I had been cheering myself up w/ tapes
>of Hitchhiker.  I was also looking forward to
>much more and different from him.

I agree that it is a great pity about Douglas Adams, and that his books
(especially the first couple of Hitchhikers Guides) will be long remembered
(and rightly so). But I have read an awful lot of bollocks about his
contribution to science fiction since his death. Even the BBC online ran an
article about how he was the first author to combine Science Fiction and
humour - an article from an author who claimed to have read a lot of Isaac
Asimov, no less! There was tons of humour in science fiction before Adams -
Asimov, Bretnor/Briarton, Pratt & De Camp, Garrett, Bester, and Sladek, to
name just several.

Adams contribution was great, but he didn't introduce comedy to science
fiction any more than, say, Monty Python was the first TV comedy show. As
with Python, he simply took it to a higher, more surreal level.

And if you want a fitting epitaph for Adams work, simply look at the
authors who are currently writing that particular style of comedy/science
fiction. Get yourself some Terry Pratchett or Tom Holt. The trend towards
comedy in science fiction that was extended, but not started, by Adams,
continues.

James

   James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand. =-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=
   -=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-
   .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- You talk to me as if from a distance
   -.-=-.- And I reply with impressions chosen from another time
   =-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-. (Brian Eno - "By this River")

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