From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V12 #144 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, April 17 2003 Volume 12 : Number 144 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: kissin' right there on the CTA [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey ] The Spike (of Greedy Prongs) Network ["Rex.Broome" ] Re: the left hand of duckness ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: the ginger hand of silliness ["Michael Wells" ] Re: Accentuated sinister therapy (no RH references) [Michael R Godwin ] Re: Seriously ["Jason R. Thornton" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 16:33:21 -0500 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: kissin' right there on the CTA Quoting Natalie Jane : > So I'm thinking that the battered vinyl copy of "Lolita Nation" that I > held > in my hands and played on WCBN was actually a consensual hallucination > caused by a reality-altering drug that had been put in the Vernors > "ginger" > ale (a vile Midwestern brew) which I frequently and inexplicably drank > during my radio show. Who actually put the drug in the Vernors is a > mystery, but I suspect my Midwestern compatriot who has two F's in his > name. I deny this vehemently. Even though I rather like Vernor's, and even though I did live in your town for a while (although I'm not sure if I did so at the same time you were there). Vernor's needs no augmentation. ..Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html :: we make everything you need, and you need everything we make ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 14:38:09 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Next week: Matchbox 20 as the Velvet Underground!!! on 4/16/03 2:30 PM, Rex.Broome at Rex.Broome@preferredmedia.com wrote: > Well, all you fans of the TV series "American Dream"... > > (sound effects: crickets chirping) > > ...wil be happy to know that alt-rock titans Third Eye Blind have been > booked to appear on the show, portraying the Kinks! > > (sound effects: crickets wretching) > Third Eye Blind: Quickly entering the "We had an alt-rock hit once and now we're milking it for all it's worth" file, ala Smashmouth, Gin Blossoms, and Goo Goo Dolls. - -tc np - Diamanda Galas - "The Sporting Life" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 16:40:07 -0500 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: Next week: Matchbox 20 as the Velvet Underground!!! Quoting "Rex.Broome" : > Well, all you fans of the TV series "American Dream"... > > (sound effects: crickets chirping) > > ...wil be happy to know that alt-rock titans Third Eye Blind have been > booked to appear on the show, portraying the Kinks! > > (sound effects: crickets wretching) Uh...what exactly is this show, and why would the Kinks appear on it (even if portrayed by a lame-ass "alt-rock" band - and what does "alt-rock" mean anymore anyway?)? Speaking of, why *were* the Kinks banned from the US for several years in the late sixties? Everyone mentions it, but no one seems to offer any reasons, even speculation, as to why they might have been banned... - --Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society http://www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html :: Empire is incompatible with democracy. Democracy is founded on the :: rule of law, empire on the rule of force. Democracy is a system of :: self-determination, empire a system of military conquest. :: --Jonathan Schell np: me banging on my cheap electric keyboard ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 18:06:47 -0400 From: Eric Loehr Subject: Re: Next week: Matchbox 20 as the Velvet Underground!!! At 04:40 PM 4/16/2003 -0500, Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey wrote: > >Speaking of, why *were* the Kinks banned from the US for several years in >the late sixties? Everyone mentions it, but no one seems to offer any >reasons, even speculation, as to why they might have been banned... Somehow on one of their early U.S. tours they really pissed off the musician's union and got blacklisted (or at least that's the speculation that I've always read). Eric with no K ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 15:47:26 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Chimes of Frenchness Flashing Brian H: >>Can I be lame too? Of my two electrics, I prefer the right handed Tokai >>strat which has been restrung to be played left handed. But that's not lame at all! Why wouldn't you do that? The real question is why you would a right-handed person buy a right-handed guitar with the headstock upside down because that's what Hendrix's headstock looked like when he did just what you do for the same reason. (The snark was on the marketing geniuses that came up with that design, not people who use normal guitars normally... did not mean to offend.) ___ Miles, then Chris G.: >>> waiting to see if the entire > FIREFLY cast makes it to > BtVS/Angel by the season > finales, >>Jewel Staite! Oh, please, Jewel Staite! When I read Miles' statement about "cute slayers" dying followed by the Firefly reference, I was afraid I had already *missed* Jewel S. on Buffy. Can anyone confirm that she's not going to appear, so I don't have to start watching Buffy with just three episodes left or whatever? "24" was pretty damned grisley, too, but naked-puking-torture was a small price to pay for a **completely Kim-free episode**... _____ Eb: >>I have never heard this term "freedom kisses," of which you speak. It was a riff on "freedom fries". I don't blame you for blotting it out! - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 16:12:50 -0700 From: "Natalie Jane" Subject: the left hand of duckness >I explained why many lefties do this, but is it actually more common >than not? I write "normally", as in the same position as a >right-handed person, but with my left hand. Yeah, me too, and I get ink all over the side of my hand. I always assumed that the reason lefties often write with their hand above the point of the pen is that they were taught to do that, to avoid ink smears. I play guitar right-handed, but I do my Bob Pollard impersonation with my left leg - I can't seem to kick high enough with my right leg. > > Vernors "ginger" ale (a vile Midwestern brew) > >Hey, steady on there. It's one of my favourites, >and is only sporadically available here in >Ontario. Its only vague resemblance to anything ginger-like is what makes it vile. I drank it because I try to avoid caffeine, and University of Michigan vending machines offer Vernors as the only caffeine-free alternative. >Damn! That reminds me, Natalie. I still owe you that dollar. Do you > >take PayPal? You did pay me, with a dollar bill that said "In Gnome We Trust" on it. >It would have been very a "masculine," tough-guy act, had it not >been for the huge grin on his face. I could tell he wanted to kiss me, >though. You had but to ask. >I have never heard this term "freedom kisses," of which you speak. Freedom fries, freedom toast, freedom kisses. >Amy C. is coming back to town on the 23rd -- I suppose that I should >seek counsel from you on how to extract a wet one from her. As >yet...unsuccessful. You have but to ask. >If I hung out with Schneider today, I'd be curious to ask him about >all the advertising royalties which the band is suddenly raking in. Huh, I didn't think of asking. Maybe next time. n. p.s. Miles, Jane the Timeline Chick says she can make you a T-shirt that says "I am Tweedy's bitch" on it, if you want one. :P _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 16:53:14 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: The Spike (of Greedy Prongs) Network Miles: >>Basically there's no Nashville connection anymore: the Ambiguously Gay >>Company, Gaylord Entertainment, sold TNN to CBS, who then launched this >>whole National-instead-of-Nashville rebranding thing. Strangely, it's far more >>"The Redneck Channel" now than when it was the Nashville Network. Except that oddly isn't their other main feature/cash cow besides that there Pro Wrasslin'... ...STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION reruns??? Not way manly, especially, but are they going to drop it in order to be Spikier? They seem to run it a lot... the wife tunes into the weekend marathons and likes to bitch about how they only ever show the one where everyone but Wesley and Ashley Judd gets hypnotized by the game where the CG trumpets suck the little tiddly-winks out of the air... >>I guess I'm tired from the many hours I've been putting into the next "Loud >>Family" project, which will be a record whose titles will consist entirely of >>anagrams of lines from THE DUCHESS OF MALFI. Playing the role of >>"Donnette Thayer" this time will be Ian McCulloch's girlfriend from 1983. Oh, she'll be much better than Lalla Ward. Next time let's try to get Steve Kilbey's girlfriend from 1989! - -Rex np: Hex, "Vast Halos" (just kidding, it's really Jack Frost with Kilbey & his other girlfriend, Grant MacLennan, portrayed by Julie McCulloch, Julian Cope's girlfriend from 1981) (actually that's not true, either, but my CD carousel at home does keep cueing up "Horsebreaker Star" over and over again (for reasons too too stupid to enumerate) and it's really so great, better than I remembered, especially the Syd Straw duets, so I let it play and have probably heard it more times this year than any records I've bought recently) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 16:58:25 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Irony, Coincidence, or a Mystery of the Subconscious? Kinda weird... I falsely claimed to be listening to Jack Frost, but it just now registered that I was and am in fact listening to... ...Hank Snow. So you see how that works. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 16:50:24 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: Next week: Matchbox 20 as the Velvet Underground!!! >...wil be happy to know that alt-rock titans Third Eye Blind have been >booked to appear on the show, portraying the Kinks! Aieeeeeeeeeee! Eb, ever wondering why a sentimental nostalgia show is photographed like friggin' SCHINDLER'S LIST...I expected to like this show, but I find almost totally unwatchable ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 21:43:50 -0400 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: the left hand of duckness On Wed, Apr 16, 2003, Natalie Jane wrote: > >I explained why many lefties do this, but is it actually more common > >than not? I write "normally", as in the same position as a > >right-handed person, but with my left hand. > > Yeah, me too, and I get ink all over the side of my hand. I always assumed > that the reason lefties often write with their hand above the point of the > pen is that they were taught to do that, to avoid ink smears. That's why lefties are often experts on the fastest drying pens. My personal favorite is the Uni-Ball Vision Micro. It rocks. - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 22:27:13 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: the left hand of duckness Natalie Jane wrote: > > Its only vague resemblance to anything ginger-like is what makes it > vile. wot? It's one of the gingeriest ginger ales going. If you want gingerless, try Canada Dry. Stewart (who thinks that "gingembre" is the secret French month after September) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 21:47:38 -0500 From: "Michael Wells" Subject: Re: the ginger hand of silliness > (who thinks that "gingembre" is the secret French month after September) Wow, I thought it was a supermonster that battle Mothra. Or was it MechaGodzilla? "Aieee! le gingembre effrayant!" Michael "or is it part of the spleen?" Wells ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 23:07:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: The Spike (of Greedy Prongs) Network "Rex.Broome" wrote: > Except that oddly isn't their other main feature/cash cow > besides that there Pro Wrasslin'... > > ...STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION reruns??? > > Not way manly, especially, but are they going to drop it in > order to be Spikier? Doesn't ST has a somewhat disproportionately male audience though? Granted it does lack the homoerotio-homophobic energy of the WWE. > Julie McCulloch, Julian Cope's girlfriend from 1981) hmm, would that have something to do with why Mac and Copey loathe each other so? ===== "Being accused of hating America by people like Ann Coulter or Laura Ingraham is like being accused of hating children by Michael Jackson or (Cardinal) Bernard Law." -- anonymous The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo http://search.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 18:57:41 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Accentuated sinister therapy (fleeting RH references) >>I am left-handed, but do almost everything else right-handed. >>Probably why I always sucked at sports. Only things I do left-handed >>are write, eat, and play pool. There is one more thing but I always >>forget it until I'm doing it. And no, it's not THAT. Only thing I >>can do equally as well with both hands is using chopsticks. oddly, though golf may not favour left handers, cricket certainly does. A disproportionately large proprtion of the world's top batsmen are southpaws, and most teams at a top level deliberately include at least one left-armed bowler in the line up to vary the attack. As for me, I'm righthanded for most things, but use things like screwdrivers and canopeners* lefthanded, due to an undiagnosed wrist fracture when I was a kid**. I play darts ambidextrously, though I'm better with my right, and I paint with my right. And I'm definitely right footed at soccer. >> I hold my pen in my left hand, w/ the point aimed pretty much at my >> left elbow. I can write in reverse w/ my right hand almost as fast >> as I write normally w/ my left. > >I explained why many lefties do this, but is it actually more common >than not? actually, the explanation you gave is not the commonly accepted one. A large proportion of lefties do write this way, and it's largely becuase at one time lefties were taught to write that way to avoid smudging what they had just written. I've no evidence for it, but I'd guess a lot of right-handed Arabic and Hebrew writers write this way too. - --- >> >He said that Jeff Mangum is in Canada making music for music therapy >> >>What exactly does *that* mean? > >Well, he's north of the US-Canadian border, and... I'm not really sure what >music therapy is - my sister might know, I can ask her - but I think it >might be used for treating children, maybe? Does anyone else know? it's a kind of ambiguous comment though. Does it mean that he's gone away to just make music for himself away from the recording industry, as a form of therapy for himself, or does it mean that he is recording music that others can use in music therapy? The latter is the more likely, I'd admit - the idea of a professional musician taking time off from the stress by playing music is a little odd. - --- >My theory on how that that last one happened is that some poor >non-alt-music-savvy assistant PR person ended up calling Ian McCulloch to >finalize the details on the artwork: > >"And your band's name is what?" > >"Aiko 'n' duh Booneymun." completely irrelevant fact: this is how one of England's greatest ever footballers, Sir Stanley Matthews, ended up being listed in one census as a fruit boiler. True. - --- Admit it Jeffrey, you're Kansan, aren't you? James * It sailed away quite quickly to a hiding place near Leith ** I finished what I did 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") ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 18:58:00 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: actual Robyn Hitchcock question shock horror. Just thinking about Robyn's song titles: When I was a kid; When I was dead; Sometimes I wish I was a pretty girl; I wanna be an anglepoise lamp... I get the feeling Robyn is often very uncomfortabble with who he actually is. Especially when other titles are considered like "I'm only you; I am not me; Man with a woman's shadow; 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") ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 10:25:30 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: the left hand of duckness On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > (who thinks that "gingembre" is the secret French month after September) Is Lobster Thermidor the only remaining current usage of the revolutionary months? I couldn't understand why they didn't switch to a 10-month year (5 months of 36 days and 5 months of 37) while they were at it. - - Mike "yet another left-handed asthmatic veggie feg" Godwin n.p. Captain Beefheart "Old folks boogie" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 10:35:15 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: Accentuated sinister therapy (no RH references) On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, James Dignan wrote: > oddly, though golf may not favour left handers, cricket certainly does. A > disproportionately large proprtion of the world's top batsmen are > southpaws, and most teams at a top level deliberately include at least one > left-armed bowler in the line up to vary the attack. Remember that chapter in 'Gamesmanship' where Odoreida learns to bat ambidextrously, and changes hands each ball, so that the fielders keep having to cross over and back again? I'd like to see someone try that in a first class match. - - MRG PS I write and bowl left-handed, but bat and play the guitar right-handed. I'd definitely like to have a left-handed piano with the notes getting tinklier to the left... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 04:38:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: actual Robyn Hitchcock question shock horror. On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, James Dignan wrote: > When I was a kid; When I was dead; Sometimes I wish I was a pretty girl; > I wanna be an anglepoise lamp... I get the feeling Robyn is often very > uncomfortabble with who he actually is. And I'm insanely jealous of the people that aren't me. The guy's clearly not comfortable with who he really is. He can be really great and creative and interesting as an artist, even when he wears his influences on his sleeve. But often I think he's just trying to BE Syd Barrett or Bob Dylan and rejects those things that are uniquely his. This is when he fails as an artist, entertainer, and person, in my opinion. It's ugly and sad. I also suspect that this is a cause for friction in his long-term collaborations and possibly the reason for some of the splits we've seen. It's always been fairly clear to me that he doesn't know what his best material is. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 07:55:53 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Accentuated sinister therapy (fleeting RH references) James Dignan wrote: > > A large proportion of lefties do write this way, and it's largely becuase at > one time lefties were taught to write that way to avoid smudging what they > had just written. at one time (not that long ago -- about 3-4 generations), lefties in Scotland got the tawse [leather strap] on the left hand, then got their left arm tied behind their back until they fell in line and used their right hand. My great-grandfather, for one ... Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 08:46:49 -0500 (CDT) From: gshell@metronet.com Subject: Re: Seriously On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Maximilian Lang wrote: > It was me, I made the commment about my fears concerning one's right of free > speech. I have no idea what the hell my fearing the blacklisting of artists > has to do with Iran, I guess I should consider the source. I would think > that is where the blacklisting creeps would be more comfortable, in a > restrictive society. yeah we remember who it was, but what difference should that make? blaklists made by individuals or organizations are not new or unusual. governments, clerics, knitting circles etc.. make exclusion or shit lists all the time. my point was that if this "society" scares someone specifically for this reason, maybe they should leave. that's what i would do. think about it this way, don't you have a blacklist of your own? gSs ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 08:56:08 -0500 (CDT) From: gshell@metronet.com Subject: Re: Irony, Coincidence, or a Mystery of the Subconscious? On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Rex.Broome wrote: > ...Hank Snow. i've been pulling out hank snow/chet atkins duos and trying to get my band to do some. they won't do any freddy frender either. tasteless motherfuckers. gSs ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 15:03:03 +0100 (BST) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: Irony, Coincidence, or a Mystery of the Subconscious? On Thu, 17 Apr 2003 gshell@metronet.com wrote: > i've been pulling out hank snow/chet atkins duos and trying to get my band > to do some. they won't do any freddy frender either. tasteless > motherfuckers. Do you know that 'Chester and Lester' album featuring Chet Atkins duetting with Les Paul? There are some nifty little guitar licks on that, even if the choice of material is on the fromagey side. - - MRG n.p. Chester and Lester: 'Caravan' ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 09:26:15 -0500 (CDT) From: gshell@metronet.com Subject: Re: Seriously On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Jason R. Thornton wrote: > Oh dear. Were you not the one assuming to understand this person's fears > when you suggested he move to another country? i didn't assume anything. i just read what he wrote. you on the other replied for him. > In fact, you assumed to know what country this person might be more > comfortable in. > To quote, you told them to "leach yourself to a society in > which you are more comfortable, like iran, the ukraine or syria." i made a suggestion. the absudity of which should have been obvious, though maybe not. those particular countries were listed because they could be classified as being on the opposite end of the spectrum as far as free speech, education, tolerance and blacklists. > And I wasn't even necessarily drawing a conclusion about this person's home > nation. I was merely saying that if this person is afraid of his home > country, running to another country might not get him away from the active > reach of that nation, which may well extend beyond its borders. better that than iran, syria or the ukraine reaching beyond their borders. or should we argue that point? > But, of course, I did this in a wonderfully colorful and entertaining > way that expresses a few of my own political leanings. jeez, is that like courting yourself? > >that is completely out of balance when compared to the number of > >unjustifed deaths, injuries and incarcerations carried out by the Baath > >party. the point of your statement in fact regarding the invasion of iraq. > > The name of the game is not to kill a few less people than the other guy, > it's to avoid the killing at all. not only impractical but also impossible. how about a few hundred thousand less? we could start washing each other's feet. maybe that would stop the killing. gSs ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 09:32:56 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: kissin' right there on the CTA At 04:38 PM 4/16/2003 -0400, Christopher Gross wrote: >Yeek! That one really had me squirming. Though in a way it was a relief, >because an instant before that I thought Xander was going to *die*. (And >maybe he still will -- it's always been possible for major characters to >die on Buffy, and doubly so now that the show is about to end Xander is overdue for a major karmic comeuppance (one of this season's best internal-consistency moments was when Xander let slip a little more about his role in Angel's death at the end of Season 2, plus there's the whole unrequited Buffy-lust thing that essentially made him leave Anya at the altar and always has driven him), so I'm hoping that some sort of reckoning with his character will occur. Maybe the eyepoke is the beginning of that. >-- but if >anyone already knows, don't tell me! Same here. >Miles: >> Not to mention at least two Slayerettes, including my pick for cutest >(Molly). > >Molly *looked* cute, but her fake Cockney accent really turned me off. Hrmph. I didn't think it was *that* fake, plus a cute, pale-skinned British brunette in fancy tights is something I find irresistible. God bless the Sock Shoppe. >If I've really been attracted to any of the pseudo-teenage girls on BtVS >this season, they were Kit from the season premiere and Cassie, the girl >who had a premonition of her own death. With Molly presumably out of the picture, I'm leaning toward the Chinese girl. >> waiting to see if the entire >> FIREFLY cast makes it to >> BtVS/Angel by the season >> finales, > >Jewel Staite! Oh, please, Jewel Staite! I had meant to say this a while back the last time we mentioned the women of FIREFLY: It may sound like Eb ehhh'ing the general Feg/"Internet" dismissal of one Ms. Julia Roberts, but there's something sadly predictable about how Jewel Staite would be the FIREFLY babe o' choice among Fegfolk. I remember watching the first aired episode of the show and saying to Melissa "she's the Willow of this show -- which means she's the one that guys on my mailing lists will be drooling over the most." Don't get me wrong, if there was some sort of universe where I could add Jewel Staite and Alyson Hanningan to my happy lil' harem, I'd be tee-totally thrilled to have 'em. They're appealing and adorable, and at least on-screen they project intelligence and personality. But the easy nerd-chic preferences strike me as a little too reflexive for comfort. later, Miles "Charisma/Morena/Eliza" Goosens ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 09:31:54 -0500 (CDT) From: gshell@metronet.com Subject: Re: Irony, Coincidence, or a Mystery of the Subconscious? On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, Michael R Godwin wrote: > Do you know that 'Chester and Lester' album featuring Chet Atkins duetting > with Les Paul? There are some nifty little guitar licks on that, even if > the choice of material is on the fromagey side. yeah i love that album. take a listen to 'neck and neck', atkins/knopfler, if you haven't yet. gSs np - tears, atkins/knopfler by django reinhardt ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 09:40:39 -0500 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: the left hand of duckness At 04:12 PM 4/16/2003 -0700, Natalie Jane wrote: >p.s. Miles, Jane the Timeline Chick says she can make you a T-shirt that >says "I am Tweedy's bitch" on it, if you want one. :P Problem is that I would never wear it, though the idea of having an actual Jane the Timeline Chick artifact has near-irresistible appeal. If she makes an "I am Joss Whedon's Bitch" shirt for Chris, I'd be willing to pose for a picture with both of us sporting our t-shirts. And since I'm getting ready to trade my copy of DOWN WITH WILCO, looks like I'm not quite as Tweedy-submissive as the shirt implies. I do like the Loose Fur record a lot, though. later, Miles ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 08:00:57 -0700 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: the left hand of duckness At 04:12 PM 4/16/2003 -0700, Natalie Jane wrote: >>Damn! That reminds me, Natalie. I still owe you that dollar. Do >>you >take PayPal? > >You did pay me, with a dollar bill that said "In Gnome We Trust" on it. Huh. I was wondering where that federal note got to. You don't have my Andrew Merman twenty too, do you? - --Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 08:21:43 -0700 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: Seriously At 09:26 AM 4/17/2003 -0500, gshell@metronet.com wrote: >i didn't assume anything. i just read what he wrote. you on the other >replied for him. I did absolutely no such thing. I gave you a possible reason why your "love it or leave it" suggestion MIGHT not be a good one - namely that while someone is afraid of their own society, they MIGHT be more afraid of every other society. I never actually, in any way, stated that this was how Max felt. >i made a suggestion. the absudity of which should have been obvious, though >maybe not. those particular countries were listed because they could be >classified as being on the opposite end of the spectrum as far as free >speech, education, tolerance and blacklists. I got the joke. But just because there are other, more scary societies out there does not mean that one should not be fearful if one's own society is beginning to move in that direction. >better that than iran, syria or the ukraine reaching beyond their borders. >or should we argue that point? Why should we argue it? "Better," yes. "Good," no. A greater wrong does not make a lesser wrong right. - --Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V12 #144 ********************************