From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V12 #345 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, September 13 2003 Volume 12 : Number 345 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: What's in a name? ["Jason Brown \(Echo Services Inc\)" ] Re: oh Ghod - it just goes on and on! [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: What's in a name? [Eb ] FLotos [Eb ] Re: What's in a name? [Jeff Dwarf ] RE: FLotos [Catherine Simpson ] RE: FLotos [Eb ] REAP ["Maximilian Lang" ] Re: Joy Division [Groove Puppy ] RE: your mail [gshell@metronet.com] RE: your mail [gshell@metronet.com] Re: REAP [Eb ] Re: REAP ["Maximilian Lang" ] Re: Joy Division [Jeff Dwarf ] RE: What makes a feg? [gshell@metronet.com] Dwarfism ["Glen Uber" ] Self-indulgence au go-go! ["Rex.Broome" ] John Ritter and I had my 15 minutes of John Lydon fame, too [Jill Brand <] Re: fegmaniax-digest V12 #344 [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] Re: oh Ghod - it just goes on and on! [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Digna] Johnny Cash/key changes [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] Re: John Ritter and Cul de Sac ["Jon Lewis" ] Re: oh Ghod - it just goes on and on! ["Jon Lewis" ] Re: Storkism ["Jon Lewis" ] Nyc, girls, echinoderms, Goese ["Jon Lewis" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 13:29:18 -0700 From: "Jason Brown \(Echo Services Inc\)" Subject: RE: What's in a name? Jeff Dwarf: > All team names with States instead of cities clank. Golden > State Warriors and New England Patriots are even worse > though since one is the state nickname and the other is a > region. I always thought it worked well for Minnesota teams. Minnesota Vikings and Minnesota Twins sound much better than Minneapolis Vikings or Minneapolis-St. Paul Twins. However, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Carolina Panthers have always bugged me. Why not go with Tampa Buccaneers and Charlotte Panthers. And add the Memphis Grizzlies to the makes no geographical sense category ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 16:38:57 -0400 From: Laura Ogar Subject: Who's got all the tunes? http://tinyurl.com/mvsp ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 13:36:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: oh Ghod - it just goes on and on! Favorite playground game: Nine square was much better than four square, especially if you could get one across the square and catch someone off-guard. Favorite Star Wars line: "I've got a bad feeling about this." First album ever owned: Sesame Street Fever. Celebrities you look like: none Favorite joke: the one about buying some powdered water and not knowing what to add. Favorite literary device: the truly evil pun How do you think you will die: see above. Favorite element: light Favorite Ninja Turtle: morrissey Favorite thing your mom threw away without asking: Rickey Henderson rookie cards! Conan O'Brien or Craig Kilborn? Conan The one musical act whose popularity you just don't "get": historically, Billy Joel. Do you like it when I do that? no really, but I don't really dislike it either. Last hat you wore: Oakland Oaks hat! Ax(es): none, though I have a pair of bongos my brother "borrowed" years ago. Able to sleep on airplanes: Never tried. Habitual jewelry: none Favorite curry: none Earliest childhood bedspread you can recall: An apartment in San Mateo that was dark all the time because my mother was really sick while pregnant with my brother. Last living reptile encountered: Wednesday, my sister's boyfriend's albino corn snake aka "the Barbie dream snake" Siblings and your place among them: oldest of three; brother second, sister third Sexual orientation and number of times you've strayed from it: Straight; received a couple knob polishings In old cartoons and stuff whenever the parent is about to spank the kid he always says "This is going to hurt me more than it hurts you"... how does he figure? he's a fucking liar. Grandparents' first names: Sidney and Margaret (deceased); Edwin (though he's always gone by Darrell) and Grace. Thumb: green/black/other? opposable Good friend you wish you'd done it with at least once but never did, and where are they now? none actually. you can read into that whatever you'd like. Snack food you're pissed off they don't make any more: I would have said Chocodiles, but I came across them earlier today. I don't remember the chocolate on them being as waxy. Now probably the Monterey Jack flavored Doritos. ==== weirdest coincidence in a single shopping trip: I bought The Band Music from Big Pink and Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison re-issues, Nick Cave's Kicking Against the Pricks, and the Fred Neil Collector's Choice reissue of his Capitol catalog at the same time (they all have "The Long Black Veil" on them). Who do you think killed JFK? As much as we want to think that a lone whackaloon can't affect our lives, it was Lee Harvey Oswald, and he was probably acting alone. And no, there was no magic bullet: Kennedy was sitting a farther to the left than Connelly, was sitting higher up in the car, and Connelly was turned towards the driver, so the actual trajectory of the bullet was pretty straight with a couple deflections easily explained by contact with bones. Favorite sports team: Oakland Athletics, San Francisco 49ers Childhood athletic idol: Rickey Henderson ===== "Pentagon officials says Americanizing Iraq is difficult because Iraqis have had little to no reliable information for the past 35 years, and have lived on a diet of innuendo, rumor, conspiracy theories, fear, and propaganda. Sounds like the problem is they're too Americanized." -- Bill Maher "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 . __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 12:56:55 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: What's in a name? >All team names with States instead of cities clank. I don't mind the "Texas Rangers." I feel like I saw enough roadkill to last me a lifetime, this week. Including one snake and *two* armadillos. I want to post a few Florida pictures, but my #@*(&&@#*(&*($@#* webspace access isn't working. Grrr. Wasn't working last night...ain't working today. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 13:42:08 -0700 From: Eb Subject: FLotos OK, my Earthlink space finally cooperated. I posted some random photos from my trip at http://home.earthlink.net/~elbroome/florida Quick notes: 1. The "dadhouse" pictures are probably most notable. This is a derelict house (guarded by "No Trespassing" signs, barbed wire and multitudes of yucky giant yellow spiders and their webs) where my then dirt-poor father spent much of his childhood. With as many as seven brothers and sisters. 2. The "manatee" photos are from a distant nature spot called "Manatee Springs," which borders the Suwannee River (pictured elsewhere, along with its curious vulture warning). 3. "lovebugs" -- Check the car grill. I apparently picked one of just a few weeks out of the year when the air is filled with "love bugs," so called because the male and female fly around "linked" at the ass. Weird. 4. "graveghost" photos -- OK, OK, it's probably just a problem with iris reflections. And not mystic spirits. :) But how come I didn't have this problem with any *other* photos? "graveghost2" is especially spooky. ;) 5. "keystoneclubhouse" -- the same location as "cinescope," "dyinglake" and "keystonelake6." A large lake within walking distance of my uncle's house. Here's some info about my aunt/uncle's hometown, where I stayed: http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=8634 That population estimate seems low to me...I'd guess somewhere more in the 10,000 range. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 13:56:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: What's in a name? Eb wrote: > >All team names with States instead of cities clank. > > I don't mind the "Texas Rangers." You're right, as was Minnesota Twins (since it signifies Minneapolis and St. Paul). But Florida Marlins, Arizona Diamondbacks, Colorado Avalanche, Utah Jazz (wrong on every conceivable level), Minnesota Timberworlves, etc all sound like they should be college teams not pro. Colorado Rockies isn't bad either actually. ===== "Pentagon officials says Americanizing Iraq is difficult because Iraqis have had little to no reliable information for the past 35 years, and have lived on a diet of innuendo, rumor, conspiracy theories, fear, and propaganda. Sounds like the problem is they're too Americanized." -- Bill Maher "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 . __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:06:52 -0700 From: Catherine Simpson Subject: RE: FLotos Eb: >>I posted some random photos from my trip at >>http://home.earthlink.net/~elbroome/florida Man, that is just about the most pissed-off looking cat I've ever seen ;) The "manatee" photos are gorgeous, though. Any objection to me using one as a desktop? Catherine ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:37:41 -0700 From: Eb Subject: RE: FLotos > >>I posted some random photos from my trip at > >>http://home.earthlink.net/~elbroome/florida > >Man, that is just about the most pissed-off looking cat I've ever seen ;) Funny you say that, because that was probably the fourth or fifth "friendly" cat I've encountered in my whole life. He/she had a Siamese chum who wouldn't come anywhere near me. Cats...bah! :) My uncle doesn't even know whom the cat belongs to, either. And no collar.... >The "manatee" photos are gorgeous, though. Any objection to me using one as >a desktop? Of course not. :) Eb ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 17:44:51 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: REAP Larry Hovis. Max _________________________________________________________________ Fast, faster, fastest: Upgrade to Cable or DSL today! https://broadband.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:45:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Groove Puppy Subject: Re: Joy Division JamesD sed (of Moby) > or his version of "New dawn fades" on "I like to > score" (same track as on the tribute, perhaps?) Same track. So you hear what I mean? His voice is perfect for it. JeffD sed (af Moby again) > When I told this "joke" to someone else, it was > pointed out that really, there is a Joy Division > reunion since the New Order reunion has been > supposedly fairly liberal in playihng JD songs, so > really Bernard Sumner is the lead singer of the JD > reunion. Tush, but I was serious. I didn't say I like him, just that he sounds very similar to Mr Curtis. So was the reunion a 3 piece effort? Barney doesn't really sound like Ian. (H) np - Squeeze "Play" ===== CHUCKHOLE All that great punk rock taste with only half the calories. http://clix.to/chuckhole http://www.mp3.com/chuckhole __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 07:44:07 -0500 (CDT) From: gshell@metronet.com Subject: RE: your mail On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Iosso, Ken wrote: > The subtler problem with even names like '"Braves" or "Indians" is that > they imply that either the Indian is an animal akin to other sports > names - You mean like Yankees, Cowboys, Texans, Packers, Trail Blazers, Giants, 49ers, Oilers, Vikings etc...? gSs ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 14:58:07 -0500 (CDT) From: gshell@metronet.com Subject: RE: your mail On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Iosso, Ken wrote: > The subtler problem with even names like '"Braves" or "Indians" is that they > imply that either the Indian is an animal akin to other sports names - You mean, like Vikings, Yankees, Cowboys, Texans, Packers, Trail Blazers, Oilers etc...? Yeah, you must be right. gSs ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:54:33 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: REAP >Larry Hovis. Yeah...I heard about that, but didn't bother to post the news. Since I may not have seen even ONE complete Hogan's Heroes episode, Hovis' name makes me think instead of an old gameshow called "The Liars Club." Anyone else remember this? A clever concept, which easily could be resurrected. Hovis was a perennial panel member, as I recall. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 18:09:50 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Re: REAP >From: Eb >Subject: Re: REAP >Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:54:33 -0700 >>Larry Hovis. >Since I may not have seen even ONE complete Hogan's Heroes episode, Hovis' >name makes me think instead of an old gameshow called "The Liars Club." >Anyone else remember this? A clever concept, which easily could be >resurrected. Hovis was a perennial panel member, as I recall. > I thought the same thing, he was always on that. Panel shows don't seem to play anymore. Max _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself with MSN Messenger 6.0 -- download now! http://www.msnmessenger-download.com/tracking/reach_general ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 15:14:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Joy Division - --- Groove Puppy wrote: > JamesD sed (of Moby) > > or his version of "New dawn fades" on "I like to > > score" (same track as on the tribute, perhaps?) > > Same track. So you hear what I mean? His voice is > perfect for it. > > JeffD sed (af Moby again) > > When I told this "joke" to someone else, it was > > pointed out that really, there is a Joy Division > > reunion since the New Order reunion has been > > supposedly fairly liberal in playihng JD songs, so > > really Bernard Sumner is the lead singer of the JD > > reunion. > > Tush, but I was serious. I didn't say I like him, > just that he sounds very similar to Mr Curtis. > > So was the reunion a 3 piece effort? Barney doesn't > really sound like Ian. Gillian isn't involved in the reunion besides making sure Steve packs everything he's going to need. I guess their daughter has some health problems that she would rather tend to than be the other one of The Other Two for the time being. ===== "Pentagon officials says Americanizing Iraq is difficult because Iraqis have had little to no reliable information for the past 35 years, and have lived on a diet of innuendo, rumor, conspiracy theories, fear, and propaganda. Sounds like the problem is they're too Americanized." -- Bill Maher "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 . __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 13:23:01 -0500 (CDT) From: gshell@metronet.com Subject: RE: What makes a feg? Beer: sucks Library: mostly the book store, but i can be seen diddling the hallowed halls especially if it's an old library. i've never worked for one but I have volunteered. i setup a small lan system in the Melissa Public Library about 5 years ago and worked with them a while on the ISP setup and the card catalog. Glasses: suck. i'm cursed with 20/40 in both eyes. Sterilized: only before surgery. Starstuff: i was born april 27. figure it out for yerself if you've been fooled to think it matters. Married to "Zodiac-wise": those last two words just don't read well together Ethnic background: earthborn, earthbound, mostly human. Religion: should all be outlawed. yer trying to piss me off arent' you? facial hair: sometimes Best anagram for full name: a reglet ghost slurry Number of times dressed in drag: a few Least favorite food/food product: beets and organs CA Gubernatorial Recall Candidate of Choice: california is south of canada, right? Is it safe? does it look safe? What if anything is written/depicted on you shirt/top right now? nothing, i'm subjectively nude. How long? normally longer than she can take, at first. Last thing you can remember drawing? a man with a fro that just kept growing and growing. In your car, on the floor of front passenger seat right now? and old pair of vans You gonna eat that? depends where she's been, recently. Left or Right: left Number of continents visited: 2 Default browser home page: california is south of canada, right? Paper or plastic?: plastic. i use it for cat shit and then toss them in the bed of the truck for temporary storage. i refuse to pay for trash service so i burn most trash, use my parents city trash service or just dump it along the highway or in a city park. Typical freeway speed: i'm no fool no sireee. i'm gonna live to be at least 33. i normally drive no more than the "MAXIMUM" posted speed. Picture on office wall: a poster of Akira Yanagawa on a Kawasaki. Dream Job: to preach the virtues of nubility to the nubile. If asked to play God, which would you audition for?: i'd play dylan Reward credit cards: reward for what? Last cd purchased: "love and theft" i fucking lost the other one. this is definately one of the 10 greatest albums in the history of albums. maybe even in the top 3. Favorite arthropod? crickets, but only when coated and quick fried Have you ever been Knighted by a Government Official? as this character or any character from any lifetime? Number of records owned with medusae on cover? none gSs ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 16:34:52 -0700 From: "Glen Uber" Subject: Dwarfism Jeff earnestly scribbled: >weirdest coincidence in a single shopping trip: I bought >The Band Music from Big Pink and Johnny Cash at Folsom >Prison re-issues, Nick Cave's Kicking Against the Pricks, >and the Fred Neil Collector's Choice reissue of his Capitol >catalog at the same time (they all have "The Long Black >Veil" on them). I bought a bottle of Bear Republic's Peter's Brown Ale, a bottle of Anderson Valley ESB and a 6 pack of North Coast Brewing's Red Seal at the same time (they all have beer inside). >Who do you think killed JFK? As much as we want to think >that a lone whackaloon can't affect our lives, it was Lee >Harvey Oswald, and he was probably acting alone. And no, >there was no magic bullet: Kennedy was sitting a farther to >the left than Connelly, was sitting higher up in the car, >and Connelly was turned towards the driver, so the actual >trajectory of the bullet was pretty straight with a couple >deflections easily explained by contact with bones. Jackie did it. >Favorite sports team: Oakland Athletics, San Francisco >49ers Oakland Raiders, Oakland A's, San Jose Sharks >Childhood athletic idol: Rickey Henderson Football: Ted "The Mad Stork" Hendricks, John "Tooz" Matuszak, and Marcus Allen. Baseball: I always wanted to be a catcher so I liked guys like Steve Yeager, Lance Parrish, Carlton Fisk and Johnny Bench. - -- 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, 12 Sep 2003 17:54:50 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Self-indulgence au go-go! James: >>Favorite Star Wars line: "What a lovely smell you've discovered." "Incredible smell", actually. Yeah, I've seen that movie too many times, but mostly "lovely" is just not a Han Solo word. ______ Ferris: >> First CD was Peter Gabriel, Security. Aha. Mine was Dead Letter Office. Pure economics: the CD cost less than buying the cassettes of both Dead Letter and Chronic Town. ________ Eb: >>Regarding other recent Fegposts: Jeez, and you guys call ME self-indulgent. The barrage of questions? I chalk it up more to prurient curiosity than self indulgence. You just gotta give a little to get some. _________ Me then gSs: >>> Some people also assume that it's spelled more esoterically than it is: >>> Meighain, Meagan or worse. Perhaps it's a window into whether people >>> perceive her as Jewish (she's half) or Irish (1/4 with the balance >>> Norwegian). >>half jewish? i she marries a whole catholic how will we classify the >>children? Yeah, but... she's my wife! And even if she wasn't, trust me... she wouldn't marry no Catholic nohow. _____ Glen: >>1959 Fender Telecaster, blonde, completely stock, named "Marilyn" (etc.) Didn't do the names on my list. They exist for most of my axes but aren't used that often. Here they is: Rick 12: "Allison" Tele Deluxe: "Lucinda" Rick 330: "Sally" Epiphone 12: "Bloody" Sigma: As yet unnamed; probably should be called "Nuptial-y" or something because she's been played at so many weddings Hyundai bass: "The Hyundai" Banjo: Also unnamed. Possible "Amy". Didn't mention the harmonicas, the piano, the mandolin (non-functional), the nylon string job (basically a prop), tambourine, Number One Daughter's ukulele and xylophones and musical octopus (key of E), wifey's recorders, the miniature steel drum, various cheap Casio keyboards, and so on. We got a lot of stuff that makes a lot of noise, no doubt about that. - -Rex "I call the big one 'Bitey'" Broome ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 21:31:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Jill Brand Subject: John Ritter and I had my 15 minutes of John Lydon fame, too Oooh, so glad to see other fegs with a soft spot for John Ritter. This is something I would never have dared to mention first. I had a crush on him about 150 years ago. Not quite as long ago as that, I was on the guest list for PIL (but it was still a long time ago - sometime after Flowers of Romance and before that "I could be wrong; I could be right" tripe). My friend Steven was a PIL groupie and got to know Martin Atkins (the drummer at the time) really well (in NYC). Martin was in a pretty awful band called Brian Brain, but I used to go see them and bring him food and champagne and stuff. So when PIL came to town, I was on the guest list, much to the disbelief of the couple safety-pinned together who were trying to get in to no avail. Not as cool as Marc's story, though. Anyone heard of a very strange band called Cul de Sac? Jill ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 14:15:42 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V12 #344 >>Oh, and today's flag was? The Gadsden. so - last representation of a reptile encountered...? >A friend of mine married a guy with the same first name as her dad, but that >wasn't quite as weird (although her dad then married someone younger than >her, which adds some bonus weirdness). a friend of mine has been married twice, both times to people called Doug. She used to go out with someone called Martyn at the same time that her sister was going out with a (different) person called Martyn. >Probably derives from however the parents said it. It's a name with many >permutations. My Megan is definitely a "Mehh-gun" but would answer to >"May-gun", but there are also people who tend to say "Mee-gun" despite the >fact that they've never heard anyone use that pronunciation. I was surprised to hear there were other pronunciations than MEEgun. It's the only one you regularly hear here (I think I once heard MEGGun, but that's a distinct rarity). As for MAYgun though, that's just plain weird. 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") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 14:16:39 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Re: oh Ghod - it just goes on and on! >Favorite playground game: Nine square was much better than >four square, especially if you could get one across the >square and catch someone off-guard. you mean that this isn't a NZ-only game?! We used to play an evil variant called line square, where all the squares were, erm, arranged in a line. Any number of people could play, and it was deadly! >Who do you think killed JFK? "Grassy" Noel Edmunds >Favorite sports team: Oakland Athletics, San Francisco >49ers Otago Highlanders, Otago Volts, Arsenal, and Barnet FC >>Childhood athletic idol: Rickey Henderson hmmmm... contemporary - Charlie George, Clive Lloyd, Graham Hill. Historical - Bert Trautmann, Emil Zatopek. 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") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 18:27:37 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: Johnny Cash/key changes Just realised while thinking about the late great man in black that one of his best known songs is an example of that 'key change with every verse' thing. Did anyone mention "I walk the line" in that thread? 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") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 10:06:15 -0400 From: "Jon Lewis" Subject: Re: John Ritter and Cul de Sac > Anyone heard of a very strange band called Cul de Sac? > Yes! I like them a lot, esp. China Gate. It's as if Can played surf-rock. The synth player is my favorite "outside" synther since Allen Ravenstine. Got to see them play as Damo Suzuki's backing band, in fact, which wasn't as great as I'd hoped (sound problems, partially). I think Cul have a record out in the last year that I haven't heard. Didn't get their record w/John Fahey either cause it sounded not up my alley. JPL ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 10:09:06 -0400 From: "Jon Lewis" Subject: Re: oh Ghod - it just goes on and on! > >Who do you think killed JFK? > > "Grassy" Noel Edmunds > I have been obsessed for a couple of years with having a mysterious character appear in one of my comics named Noel de Grassi. I also want to have an uppercrust British woman named Leslie Rotating-Speaker, and a spooky child-abducting alderman named Earl King. (points to anyone who gets that last one). ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 10:16:14 -0400 From: "Jon Lewis" Subject: Re: Storkism > Football: Ted "The Mad Stork" Hendricks, John "Tooz" Matuszak, and Marcus > Allen. > The Mad Stork! That was such a perfect nickname for him. Still stands as the best sports nickname ever, with the poss. exception of a late 19c ballplayer known by the handle "Death To Flying Things". Ah for that literate age in which nicknames could comprise complete phrases. I haven't paid attention to sports in years, but I still have one baseball card: a 1979 of Mark "The Bird" Fidrych, who was notorious for talking privately to the ball before each pitch. JPL ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 10:36:27 -0400 From: "Jon Lewis" Subject: Nyc, girls, echinoderms, Goese Rex and Elizabeth had commented on my ~~romantic interlude~~ in Bethesda last week. Elizabeth, after you informed me that the girl in question's a Scorpio, I couldn't get that Grandmaster Flash single out of my head. "SCORPIO--SHAKE IT--SHAKE IT BABY". My rather Otto-esque school bus driver in 1983 (7th grade) would play that song on his boombox every day while driving. It was the first time I had EVER heard a vocoder and I was quite astounded by that, and by the beat which was totally from outside my realm. Never heard it again until buying a Grandmaster "Best Of" CD in 1997. Anyway, I forgot to mention that about a week before heading to Bethesda for that convention, I had made up my mind to get out of the Southeast and move to NYC, where all my old Seattle cartoonist friends are now, and where I can personally throttle editors by their throats over lunch til they give me work. The gal I met in Bethesda lives in NYC. It didn't make my moving decision any harder. But please note that I AM NOT SLICK, am in fact a complete dork, and can only speculate that this may be happening because I spent the whole summer being shit on by the gods. Patience=payback! Rex, I am deeply ashamed that I forgot urchins were echinoderms. What the hell am I doing on a Robyn list when I don't have my sea-creature taxonomy straight? I like your evil scheme of consuming by mouth something from every branch of the evolutuonary tree, though. Nice to see that a lot of people bought the Mimi Goese album. I had never heard of it before I saw it used-- in fact, I thought she'd had to permanently retire because of "nodes" in her throat or something. (Are "nodes" echinoderms or cephalopods?) That first Hugo Largo ep's a perennial with me. "Coyote af-ter-noooooooonnnnn...." I got to see them live between that and Mettle at the Walker Art Center in Mpls. Great show. The fiddler complained in the lobby after about how he could never get his violin to sound loud enough. JPL ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V12 #345 ********************************