From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V12 #334 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, September 5 2003 Volume 12 : Number 334 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: What makes a feg? [UglyNoraGrrl@aol.com] Re: What makes a feg? [UglyNoraGrrl@aol.com] Re: What makes a feg? [Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey ] Re: Thatcher (0% placenta) [steve ] Re: Argh [steve ] Re: What makes a Feg? ["Brian" ] Re: What makes a feg? [Tom Clark ] Re: Now two Halloween Bottom Line shows... ["Danny Lieberman" ] RE: feg-stats ["da9ve stovall" ] Re: Argh ["Jason R. Thornton" ] Re: What makes a feg? ["Maximilian Lang" ] Re: Argh ["Glen Uber" ] Re: What makes a feg? ["Stewart C. Russell" ] robyn touring ["* randi/twofangs.productions *" ] Re: What makes a feg? ["Maximilian Lang" ] Strong fegs also cry. Strong fegs... also cry. ["Rex.Broome" ] RE: What makes a feg? [Catherine Simpson ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 15:53:23 -0400 From: UglyNoraGrrl@aol.com Subject: Re: What makes a feg? Beer: Prefer a good scotch but Fat Tire and PBR are my beers. Library: Yep Glasses: reading glasses Sterilized: Nope, I want to have kids but not as a single mom. Astrological Cuppa Catshit: Sagitarius Married to (Zodiac-wise): dating a capricorn Ethnic background: Jewish Religion: Jewish but not very observant. Best anagram for full name: Acorn Crab Ha Ha! Or Aha Cobra Ranch! Number of times dressed in drag: 4 or 5. Least favorite food/food product: raspberries and blackberries Last three Halloween costumes: Catwoman, Samwise Gamgee, Cabin Boy Is it safe?: Definitely not. What if anything is written/depicted on you shirt/top right now?: "I'm Twee" Feg Doppelganger?: I dunno. How long?: I first told my mom 15 years ago. Last thing you can remember drawing? In your car, on the floor of front passenger seat right now? That new Al Franken book. Favorite arthropod: Praying Mantis Have you ever been Knighted by a Government Official? Depends on what you mean by "knighted"! ;-) Number of records owned with medusae on cover: three I think. I also have a toy jellyfish on my desk at work. Written/depicted on your favorite coffee mug: Some Japanese characters on the outside and on the inside of the bug is a boy holding his breath. Last time entered a WalMart: a few months ago. Number of continents visited: 4 Default browser home page: www.nytimes.com Paper or plastic?: plastic (need them for picking up doggy doo) Typical freeway speed: 70 mph Picture on office wall: Peter Bagge drawing of Mike Love with horns wearing a tank top that says "Be True to Your School, Motherfucker!" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 15:52:19 -0400 From: UglyNoraGrrl@aol.com Subject: Re: What makes a feg? Beer: Prefer a good scotch but Fat Tire and PBR are my beers. Library: Yep Glasses: reading glasses Sterilized: Nope, I want to have kids but not as a single mom. Astrological Cuppa Catshit: Sagitarius Married to (Zodiac-wise): dating a capricorn Ethnic background: Jewish Religion: Jewish but not very observant. Best anagram for full name: Acorn Crab Ha Ha! Or Aha Cobra Ranch! Number of times dressed in drag: 4 or 5. Least favorite food/food product: raspberries and blackberries Last three Halloween costumes: Catwoman, Samwise Gamgee, Cabin Boy Is it safe?: Definitely not. What if anything is written/depicted on you shirt/top right now?: "I'm Twee" Feg Doppelganger?: I dunno. How long?: I first told my mom 15 years ago. Last thing you can remember drawing? In your car, on the floor of front passenger seat right now? That new Al Franken book. Favorite arthropod: Praying Mantis Have you ever been Knighted by a Government Official? Depends on what you mean by "knighted"! ;-) Number of records owned with medusae on cover: three I think. I also have a toy jellyfish on my desk at work. Written/depicted on your favorite coffee mug: Some Japanese characters on the outside and on the inside of the bug is a boy holding his breath. Last time entered a WalMart: a few months ago. Number of continents visited: 4 Default browser home page: www.nytimes.com Paper or plastic?: plastic (need them for picking up doggy doo) Typical freeway speed: 70 mph Picture on office wall: Peter Bagge drawing of Mike Love with horns wearing a tank top that says "Be True to Your School, Motherfucker!" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 15:14:31 -0500 From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: What makes a feg? Quoting "Rex.Broome" : > Beer: yes, although not right now. > Library: I don't work in one - but I do teach writing in college. My students, I think, have no idea what a library is. > Glasses: yes > Sterilized: nope - I drink from 'em dirty. > Astrological Cuppa Catshit: Astrology is insulting to catshit, which our cats inform us is far richer and rarer indeed than any other kind of shit. We still remove it from their litterboxes, however. > Married to (Zodiac-wise): Is that the same as clockwise, or counterclockwise? I have a neighbor named Leo who lives at about 2 o'clock from me if I'm at 6 o'clock - we're not married. > Ethnic background: Dude, "white" isn't an ethnicity. Anyway, I'm a mutt of primarily German and English ancestry. Das Bark! > Religion Nun. I mean, none. > Ill-Advised Facial Hair Used to be - but then I hired an expensive facial-hair consultant, who informed my beard that it would be better off on someone else's face. I refused to let it go. > Best anagram for full name: Fenny forms jeer a jam > Number of times dressed in drag Can't think of any for sure. > Least favorite food/food product: Pickled herring. Not so much for itself, but because once Rose and I were sitting in a little restaurant in the middle of the afternoon, and one of the waitresses took a break at a table near us and consumed an *entire jar* of pickled herring. Then she picked up another one and started in on it...we had to leave. It was us, or our lunches. > CA Gubernatorial Recall Candidate of Choice Official Feg OU Factor: Mary Carey - or Arnold? (http://www.marycareyforgovernor.com/) > Last three Halloween costumes I printed up a large pair of quotation marks, mounted each on a piece of foamcore, and connected them to one of those plastic headbands to hold one's hair back (not the Loverboy sweatband) so the quotes were surrounding my head. I was A Parody Of Myself. Before that, can't remember - one year I couldn't come up with anything (except drinking a lot) and after quite a bit of that activity, retired to the men's, and returned having put on all my clothing inside out in reverse order. I call that costume "Really Drunk Guy." > Is it safe? I'm dancing without hats, so it must be. > What if anything is written/depicted on you shirt/top right now? Photographs taken with the lenscap on of executioner-hooded mimes sneaking around at night during an air-raid blackout. > Feg Doppelganger? Dunno - at one time, Miles and I very sort of looked alike, but we don't anymore. > How long? That's rather a personal question sir! > Last thing you can remember drawing? Gunfire? Hostile glances? I think I drew a silly, sentimental heart-shaped cat on the calendar on the date of our upcoming anniversary (aw...). > In your car, on the floor of front passenger seat right now? How did you know where I'm hiding? > You gonna eat that? How much will you pay me if I do? > Favorite arthropod 1. Dent 2. Lee 3. King Oh - thought you said "favorite Arthur." > Have you ever been Knighted by a Government Official? Knighted? I was in a daze. > jealous? No. (See answer to "how long is it?") > Number of records owned with medusae on cover: I have three with one medusa each but none with multiple medusae. That's not actually true, but it allows me to quibble, one of my chief joys in life. > Knock y'self out! Just about did, trying to get out from under the damned dashboard. ..Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society www.uwm.edu/~jenor/ADS.html :: When the only tool you have is an interociter, you tend to treat :: everything as if it were a fourth-order nanodimensional sub-quantum :: temporo-spatial anomaly. :: --Crow T. Maslow ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 15:17:06 -0500 From: steve Subject: Re: Thatcher (0% placenta) On Wednesday, August 13, 2003, at 09:02 AM, Matt Sewell wrote: > I think she was far-right in that "neo-conservative" sort of way, in > fact > I think she helped to formulate neo-conservatism, the benefits of which > we're reaping to this very day - George 'n' Tony are just following the > model of Ron 'n' Maggie... Strictly speaking, none of the the above are neocons. In the US, the original neo-conservatives were a relatively small group of liberals who changed their ideology about 35 years ago. It is second generation neocons who hold positions of power in the current Bush administration. Ronbo and the Iron Lady would be paleocons. George W. really doesn't have enough intellectual firepower to fit into a school of thought. I'd call him a crafty theocon, although he's really not much more than a dynastic figurehead for the Republican party. I'd still swap you George for Tony in a heartbeat. Blair might not be the avatar of truth that he was once made out to be, but he's 1000 times better than Bush. Third Way liberalism wins by default in a contest with anything that conservatives might come up with. - - Steve __________ I for one, am convinced: I am switching my laptop to Mac OS X. And best of all, you don't have to be ashamed to go to a Linux guru meeting with Mac OS X, because it's just a UNIX with a very nice GUI." - Moshe Bar ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 15:23:10 -0500 From: steve Subject: Re: Argh On Tuesday, August 19, 2003, at 03:56 PM, Iosso, Ken wrote: > 1) Has anyone bought the Polyphonic Spree and what do they think of the > band? Although fairly low budget, the album is worth having. They're at work on a second, although most people say there's no way to come close to capturing their live show. - - Steve __________ The Bushies hail pre-emption as a brilliant innovation by The Man, except when they're downplaying it as nothing new to worry about. - Michael Kinsley ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 12:25:43 -0800 From: "Brian" Subject: Re: What makes a Feg? Sure, why not? > Beer: Yepper. Pale ale. Wheat. Anything but american "light" beers. Draft better than bottles. > Library: Not since the Internet. > Glasses: Nope. 20/10 vision > Sterilized: Not that I'm aware of. Maybe all that acid in my 20's did something. > Astrological Cuppa Catshit: Aquarius > Married to (Zodiac-wise): Not yet, but I avoid Leo's. > Ethnic background: Mutt. German, Scottish, Irish, French, Dutch, English... > Religion: Renounced Catholic. Agnostic. > Ill-Advised Facial Hair: Flavour saver under lower lip. > Best anagram for full name: Beer Run Insistent And Now! > Number of times dressed in drag: Oddly none > Least favorite food/food product: I don't think this is possibly. > CA Gubernatorial Recall Candidate of Choice: Arnold, but I'm not so political. > Last three Halloween costumes: Disco Vulcan, Alex from A Clockwork Orange, A Pig. > Is it safe? Is anything now-a-days? > What if anything is written/depicted on you shirt/top right now? Never. > Feg Doppelganger? Taller male version of Carissa > How long? 15 years. > Last thing you can remember drawing? A smiley face > In your car, on the floor of front passenger seat right now: Alesis Studio Electronics bag. > You gonna eat that? Only if you take the stinger out. > > Favorite arthropod: Lobster > Have you ever been Knighted by a Government Official? In this life? > Number of records owned with medusae on cover: 2? - -Nuppy - -- Brian nightshadecat@mailbolt.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 13:28:06 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: What makes a feg? on 9/5/03 12:02 PM, Elizabeth Brion at elizabeth@fringehead.com wrote: >>>> Ethnic background: > > Irish/English/German. Somehow related to Betsy Ross, but cannot sew. > Eligible for DAR, but... um, no. > > Hey, me too! Well, my daughter is eligible for DAR. Seems an ancestor of mine was Francis Lewis, New York businessman and signer of the Declaration of Independence. Wonder if he knew Betsy? - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 16:51:23 -0400 (EDT) From: "Danny Lieberman" Subject: Re: Now two Halloween Bottom Line shows... Just picked up a voucher for tix - the BL wont have actual tickets they say until about 2 weeks prior. > Just received a correction from the eMail reservation contact for The > Bottom Line - there are now two shows on Oct. 31st, 7:30p and 10:30p > > I wonder if I should see him back-to-back like I did the last Bottom > Line show? At $20 a pop it's still one of the best concert bargains > out there. My Sept. 22nd Elvis Costello Town Hall tickets were $75 a > piece! > > -Steve > - -- Danny Lieberman dfl@panix.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 16:55:12 -0400 From: FSThomas Subject: Re: Now two Halloween Bottom Line shows... > > Just received a correction from the eMail reservation contact for The > > Bottom Line - there are now two shows on Oct. 31st, 7:30p and 10:30p > > > > I wonder if I should see him back-to-back like I did the last Bottom > > Line show? At $20 a pop it's still one of the best concert bargains > > out there. My Sept. 22nd Elvis Costello Town Hall tickets were $75 a > > piece! See, now *this* is a moral dilemma. That gig's on a Friday night. I've got a wedding in Connecticut on November 8th and I was thinking of coming up the Friday before the wedding. Now I'm wondering if I should come up the Friday before the Friday before the wedding... The Halloween gig at the Iron Horse a few years back was *brilliant.* - -ferris ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 17:08:29 -0400 From: Ken Weingold Subject: Re: Argh On Fri, Sep 5, 2003, steve wrote: > On Tuesday, August 19, 2003, at 03:56 PM, Iosso, Ken wrote: > > >1) Has anyone bought the Polyphonic Spree and what do they think of the > >band? > > > Although fairly low budget, the album is worth having. They're at work > on a second, although most people say there's no way to come close to > capturing their live show. Tim Reed and I went to see them recently in Brooklyn. We... ummm... didn't like it. I think the best part of the show was the Polish beer. And Tim also liked the weird Polish sandwiches. - -Ken ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 14:15:59 -0700 From: "da9ve stovall" Subject: RE: feg-stats Beer: Nope, not really. But at least I manage to be a snob about it and can stand to drink, say, Killian's Red or Beck's Dark or a fair assortment of micro- or milli-brews on occasion, and sincerely enjoyed some random Oktoberfest brew at a bar in Terre Haute a few years back. I really just prefer wines (any color) and mixed drinks (extra gay - the more umbrellas, fruit-chunks and color, the better) Library: Nope - Big Pharma. But I had major crushes on at least two Library Science pals in grad school. Glasses: Yes, oh yes. Since 4th grade. Sterilized: Nope, but the g/f is (her idea); she already has a kid and knows she doesn't want any more. Astrological Cuppa Catshit: *blink* Neon. Oh. Pisces. Married to (Zodiac-wise): G/f is, I dunno - born Dec. 11 - whassat? More to the point, she's a Chemist, and I'm an Engineer, and we're supposed to be utterly incompatible on that count. Ethnic background: Euro - the furthest back a genealogically tweaked friend has traced my family is England, 16th Century. Religion: Nope, thankyou, drive through. Ill-Advised Facial Hair: Sometimes (incl. now) goatee, mustache (since age 18); fuller beard in winter, consistently stubbly and neglected. The laissez faire face. Best anagram for full name: working on it, . . . all the anagram-generating programs I've tried seem to choke on the "9", . . . Number of times dressed in drag: At least two, both on Halloweens. Sub-item: Number of times dressed in drag, playing in a band, in front of people, for paid cover-charge: One. I didn't quite have the *ahem* to totally skip underwear, a la Jon Fishman, but wish I had in retrospect. Least favorite food/food product: Sauerkraut. Ptui. CA Gubernatorial Recall Candidate of Choice: My arse. Last three Halloween costumes: Drag, . . . don't remember, and don't remember. Upcoming: Roger Rabbit or Bowling Trophy, depending upon availability of gold lami. Is it safe?: Aw, a little pain never hurt anybody. What if anything is written/depicted on you shirt/top right now?: Boring horizontal stripes in a drab color. Gettin' down to the last of the clean laundry. (Shirt I will don upon arriving home from work: "PIPCO" You Zappa fans will dig.) Feg Doppelganger?: Dunno - but my celebrity look-alikes are Zonker Harris (pre-last Saturday, see below) and Michael Doonesbury. How long?: Two thirds of the way down my back until last Saturday. Now less than two inches. Last thing you can remember drawing?: Egh. Do system overview and data-flow diagrams for process automation systems count? In your car, on the floor of front passenger seat right now?: Receipt and rear-view-mirror-hangin' card from weekend camping trip, possibly some leaves and rocks from same. You gonna eat that?: I'll split it wit' ya. You don't have cooties, do ya? Favorite arthropod: In principle, probably a hissing cockroach, 'cos they're bad-ass. But in practice, more likely big-ass millipede, 'cos I'd sure stomp on any cockroach that hissed at me. Have you ever been Knighted by a Government Official?: Yeah, THAT'll happen. Number of records owned with medusae on cover: None that I know of, but I'd probably not remember anyway. da9ve ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 14:20:04 -0700 From: "Jason R. Thornton" Subject: Re: Argh At 05:08 PM 9/5/2003 -0400, Ken Weingold wrote: >And Tim also liked the weird Polish sandwiches. Meat on the outside, bread on the inside? - --Jason "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 17:21:20 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Re: What makes a feg? >Beer: More please, always up for something new. >Library: No. >Glasses: Yes. >Sterilized: Ouch, hell no....nothing metal gets near there. >Astrological Cuppa Catshit: Gemini. >Married to (Zodiac-wise): Aries. >Ethnic background: Adopted(Yough mary!). My biological mother's last name was Dean and she was a methodist, I assume I am largely of British decent. Parents are Austrian and Polish. >Religion: Jew-lite. >Ill-Advised Facial Hair: Often, my father calls me Che when I grow a beard. >Best anagram for full name: If someone can come up with something decent for Maximilan Edward Lang let me know. >Number of times dressed in drag: none. >Least favorite food/food product: Uni sushi. I try it, people tell me it's great...it makes me ill. >CA Gubernatorial Recall Candidate of Choice: Gary Coleman. >Last three Halloween costumes: Stickman, obnoxious frenchman, stickman. >Is it safe? I avoid the dentist. >What if anything is written/depicted on you shirt/top right now? no shirt, no AC in this room of our house. >Feg Doppelganger? Unaware of any, but I will be played by Keith Ohlberman in the Feg Film. >How long? freshly cut, high and tight. >Last thing you can remember drawing? Overdrawing my checking account. >In your car, on the floor of front passenger seat right now? Pile of CDRs. >You gonna eat that? Why, you wanna split it? >Favorite arthropod: Blue Claws. >Have you ever been Knighted by a Government Official? No, but I was an op on IRC for a while. >Number of records owned with medusae on cover: None. _________________________________________________________________ Get a FREE computer virus scan online from McAfee. http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 14:26:09 -0700 From: "Glen Uber" Subject: Re: Argh Jason earnestly scribbled: >At 05:08 PM 9/5/2003 -0400, Ken Weingold wrote: > >>And Tim also liked the weird Polish sandwiches. > >Meat on the outside, bread on the inside? I haven't laughed so hard in ages. That was priceless! /still laughing, in fact. - -- Cheers! - -g- "You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer." - --Frank Zappa ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:39:28 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: What makes a feg? Beer: Ale, for preference. Balvenie Double Wood, better still. Library: No, but I do have more than my own weight of books on request at Toronto Public Library Glasses: Hell no. My left eye is off tiny bit, but any lens would make it diffract worse. Sterilized: No, despite the best efforts of the Balvenie. Astrological Cuppa Catshit: Cancer, though simple gravitation tells you that a paperclip on your desk has more effect than one of the outer planets. So, yeah, put me down as "Paperclip". Chinese Astrological Cuppa Catshit: Rooster -- loud & brainless Married to (Zodiac-wise): whatever December 31st is Ethnic background: Scottish, but appx. 0.78% West African Religion: Quaker Ill-Advised Facial Hair: All day, every day! Best anagram for full name: Walter Rustless (it all falls apart with my middle name, Caldwell) Number of times dressed in drag: none Least favorite food/food product: natto (Japanese cultured soybeans) CA Gubernatorial Recall Candidate of Choice: None, but "gubernatorial" is a fun word Last three Halloween costumes: Embarrassed Guy Suddenly Remembering it's Halloween and There are no Treats in the House on Opening the Door to a Bunch of Kids (x3) Feg Doppelganger? Rex How long? 8 years this past july Last thing you can remember drawing? an Everton mint, in sketching class In your car, on the floor of front passenger seat right now? I've been carfree for seven years, I'll have you know. You gonna eat that? Not if it looks like somebody already did. Favorite arthropod: no contest -- Jumping Spiders! Have you ever been Knighted by a Government Official? Quakers don't do honours. Number of records owned with medusae on cover: at least one, possibly two if that Elephant6 cover is as I remember it. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 17:41:33 -0400 From: "* randi/twofangs.productions *" Subject: robyn touring Just a heads up about Robyn's upcoming mini-tour. Michele and Robyn are simply doing some travelling, and as has been his practice in the last several years, Robyn is gigging in some of the cities he is hitting during the trip. He will do a more extensive tour come 2004, so all you fegs that get to see Monsieur Hitchcock this time around should count yourselves lucky. :-) fading back into yesterday before tomorrow comes, Randi toronto, ontario, canada *what scares you most will set you free* ~ robyn hitchcock *by endurance we conquer* ~ sir ernest shackleton ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 17:42:46 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Re: What makes a feg? >From: "Maximilian Lang" >To: fegmaniax@smoe.org >Subject: Re: What makes a feg? >Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 17:21:20 -0400 >>Best anagram for full name: >If someone can come up with something decent for Maximilan Edward Lang let >me know. admiring a willed axman. _________________________________________________________________ Get a FREE computer virus scan online from McAfee. http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 15:13:28 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Strong fegs also cry. Strong fegs... also cry. Natalie: >>Carla Bozulich (from the Geraldine Fibbers, yes?) has a beautiful alto voice >>and really good, almost goth-y country-ish songs, but spend a lot of time >>being flustered over flubbing chords, which kind of annoyed me. She's a good 'un, too little known outside LA. Some of us are still impatiently awaiting her album covering "The Red Headed Stranger" with Nels Cline and Willie himself in tow. Anyone heard news of the release on that? Eb? (Whenever you get back, that is...) _______ Ross T: >>Last thing you can remember drawing? My daughter, reading a book. Oh yeah, that reminds me, the octopus *wasn't* the last thing I drew. It was a crayon drawing of Bubbles, the Power Puff Girl, in my daughter's drawing book. Or possibly a sort of generic goofy face in the same context. _____ Ferris's Bonus Questions: Current job: See "library, kind of"... vault guy for various film studios. Dirtiest job ever held: Using the internet to solicit fetishists to talk about to Nick Broomfield about their fetishes; simultaneuosly researching fetishes of well-known historical figures... that kind of thing. 'Twas actually my first exposure to what useta be cyberspace. Dream Job: Rock and roll cult figure, reclusive novelist, stay-at-home dad. Left or Right: Right (handed). Left (wing). Pets/Pets names: One very old cat. Etienne. Needs a bath badly. Longest-Running Purchase Streak Whose Sole Unifying Trait Is Record Label: Again, apparently, and accidentally, Texas Hotel. If asked to play God, which would you audition for?: Poseidon, b'guess. Tom C's: Written/depicted on your favorite coffee mug: I have no fewer than five coffe mugs depicting the Clown Anemone Fish, my totem animal. I bet I can make it six if I go browsing "Finding Nemo" merchandise. Close runner up: Melted-looking number with Joan Miro sketch and the phrase "Questions d'Art". Last time entered a WalMart: A little over a year ago. Number of continents visited: Naught but two. Default browser home page: My employer's rarely functional site. Paper or plastic?: Plastic for groceries. Interestingly they never ask me this question at the grocery store any more. It has been replaced by "do you need any help out?", even if I have one tiny bag containing, like, a bottle of wine and some Altoids. I think maybe someone sued them for only asking little old ladies this question or something. Typical freeway speed: Dunno; my spedometer broke three or four years ago. Picture on office wall: Wife holding daughter at friend's wedding, my dad's band onstage (with me and Dad in cowboy hats). Windham Hill records: Wife has a cassette somewhere of one of those George Winston records named after seasons, but I don't think she intentionally purchased it. Reward credit cards: There's nothing rewarding about my credit cards, that's for damned sure. Elizabeth's: >>Number of ECM titles owned: Zero, although not as a matter of principle or anything. My new one: Elephant Six (or related) Records owned: One, I think-- Beulah's second. Various Apples in Stereo tunes scattered across any number of compilations, the only one of which I can think of will cause me to mention the Power Puff Girls for the second time in this post, and nobody wants that. Tom C: >>CA Gubernatorial Recall Candidate of Choice: No on recall/yes on Busta. Jeezus-- Busta Rhymes is running? I really wanna party with him! - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 15:09:56 -0700 From: "Natalie Jane" Subject: what makes a female feg? OK, I'll bite. Beer: None usually, but sometimes a Mirror Pond Pale Ale or Black Butte Porter Library: I like the Portland Public Library a lot. Glasses: Yes Sterilized: might as well be Astrological Cuppa Catshit: Libra, astrological sign of the lost and flaky Married to (Zodiac-wise): none Ethnic background: Jewish, though it's been suggested that, due to my blonde hair, I'm descended from Vikings or Khazars Religion: Skeptical pagan Ill-Advised Facial Hair: Um... what do you think? Best anagram for full name: I can't be bothered to figure this out Number of times dressed in drag: Male drag? I don't fit into men's clothes very well, my ass is too big. Least favorite food/food product: Banana, cilantro, coffee CA Gubernatorial Recall Candidate of Choice: I don't know, isn't Caligula having a horse run for governor? Last three Halloween costumes: A mad scientist, Louise Brooks, Elizabeth Bathory Is it safe? Probably not What if anything is written/depicted on you shirt/top right now? "Wilco" and a picture of a tiger (vastly over-priced T-shirt from Wednesday night's show) Feg Doppelganger? Eb How long? How soon is now? Last thing you can remember drawing? A doodle of a sentient action figure (character from a stupid story I've been writing) In your car, on the floor of front passenger seat right now? Newspapers, possibly an Old 97's CD You gonna eat that? Yeah, probably Favorite arthropod: The weird grey sand shrimp that burrow in the beach on the Oregon coast. Have you ever been Knighted by a Government Official? No, but I've been benighted Number of records owned with medusae on cover: The Chills, like everyone else n. _________________________________________________________________ Compare Cable, DSL or Satellite plans: As low as $29.95. https://broadband.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 15:10:21 -0700 From: Catherine Simpson Subject: RE: What makes a feg? Beer: Newcastle (though Guinness will do in a pinch!) Library: Never worked in one, but definitely an avid reader. Glasses: Since elementary school Sterilized: No, but my husband is. Astrological Cuppa Catshit: Taurus Married to (Zodiac-wise): Leo Ethnic background: Adopted - don't know. Religion: Raised Southern Baptist, but now I think most organized religion is fairly evil. Unitarian/Universalist when I *do* decide to attend church once or twice a decade ;) Best anagram for full name: "Hi, Insane Comet Spanner!" or possibly "Penis-net Sonar Machine" Number of times dressed in drag: With my figure, male drag would be nigh unto impossible. Least favorite food/food product: Green Bell Pepper and Watermelon tie equally for the "yuck" factor. Last three Halloween costumes: Miriam Blaylock (vampire from the film "The Hunger"); Frau Farbissina (from Austin Powers); Goth-Queen Vampire Slut (oh, wait, those were my normal "going out" clothes) Is it safe?: Does it matter? What if anything is written/depicted on you shirt/top right now?: Blue leopard print. Feg Doppelganger?: The only other Feg I know is Rex, and I assure you he and I look nothing alike. How long?: All night, baby, all night... Last thing you can remember drawing? Flowers - bad flowers at that - doodling while bored on a conference call. In your car, on the floor of front passenger seat right now? Toys, a Shriekback CD case, a digital camera, a basket full of mail, and an Indian scarf. Favorite arthropod: Orb Spider Have you ever been Knighted by a Government Official? No, but I was blessed by the Pope once (no, really!) Number of records owned with medusae on cover: 2 Last time entered a WalMart: 5 weeks ago. Number of continents visited: 2 Paper or plastic?: plastic Picture on office wall: A Kandinsky print and poster of WWII soldier w/coffee mug and phrase "How about a nice cup of shut-the-fuck-up?" ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V12 #334 ********************************