From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V12 #359 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, September 26 2003 Volume 12 : Number 359 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Soft Boys bootleg ["Gene Hopstetter, Jr." ] reap [Christopher Gross ] Talking heads ["Brian" ] Re: Talking heads [Aaron Mandel ] The suckiness of 2003: Does it encompass the music as well? ["Rex.Broome] RE: RW [Eb ] Ridey Day fegmaniax-digest #357 & 356 [Jeff Dwarf ] Rhett Miller's gold tooth and other oddities ["Natalie Jacobs" ] RE: The suckiness of 2003: =?ISO-8859-1?B?oERvZXMgaXQgZW5jb21wYXNzIHRoZSBtdXNpYyBhcyB3ZWxsPw==?= [] Re: Soft Boys bootleg ["Maximilian Lang" ] OS question that WON'T make you want to scratch your eyes out [Scott Hunt] RE: used bins ["da9ve stovall" ] Re: where the &*@! are the prawns? (100% RH content) ["da9ve stovall" ] 5764 [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] reap [steve ] Our Hero photo op [Carrie Galbraith ] Reap ["Maximilian Lang" ] Flies on the Windscreen [Jeff Dwarf ] Today's top story [Eb ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 12:55:33 -0500 From: "Gene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: Re: Soft Boys bootleg > From: "Marc Holden" > Subject: Soft Boys bootleg > > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2560168863&category=1573 "...a fool and his money! Honey! If you want it, here it is, come and get it, but you better hurry 'cause it's going fast!" > Has anyone seen this one before? I've never seen it, either, but then, I already have all the Soft Boys reunion shows and I didn't have to pay for them. The high bidder in that auction, yurayurat, is the person who paid $335 for those live at Largo RH cassettes I pointed out to the list a coupla weeks ago. And I don't think I'd have to pay $335 for those tapes, either. Tee-hee. I wonder what he'd pay for a DVD of a live Soft Boys reunion show? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 14:18:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: reap Palestinian academic, activist and pianist Edward Said, 67. - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 11:00:03 -0800 From: "Brian" Subject: Talking heads While listening to some old vinyl, I've become somewhat addicted to Talking Heads 1980 album "Remain In Light" (obviously better than both Wham's "Make It Big" and Cyndi Lauper's "She's So Unusual.") It appears one can find this on CD for about $6 or so used at Amazon. My question is: Are there plans on releasing Talking Heads reissues? There is nothing worth than buying a CD and then only months later finding out it's been re-released with bonus tracks. This happened to me after I finally tracked down John Lennon's Milk and Honey... - -Nuppy - -- Brian nightshadecat@mailbolt.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 15:24:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: Talking heads On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Brian wrote: > It appears one can find this on CD for about $6 or so used at Amazon. My > question is: Are there plans on releasing Talking Heads reissues? There > is nothing worth than buying a CD and then only months later finding out > it's been re-released with bonus tracks. This happened to me after I > finally tracked down John Lennon's Milk and Honey... I believe there's a box set on the way, which probably moves the horizon for reissues farther out, but I don't specifically know one way or the other. a ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 12:44:09 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: The suckiness of 2003: Does it encompass the music as well? >>>22: Buffalo Tom: Sleepy Eyed >>>I can't even tell you why this is everywhere, since "Sodajerk" (from Big Red >>>Letter Day) is the closest thing to a hit the band ever had. James: >>??? "Treehouse" was a staple of student radio of an eternity here. Weirder still... the only thing by Buffalo Tom I *ever* heard broadcast in any form was "Birdbrain" (the video on 120 Minutes). jbj says: >>>I love The Church's "Priest = Aura", and no one can convince me otherwise. James: >>I'd rate it their second or third best album. Certainly miles ahead of the >>album the reviewer lauded (Gold Afternoon Fix) You'd probably get a third if Drew was still around, but me... I agree that P=A is better than Gold Afternoon Fix by virtue of not having any outright godawful songs (take Terra Nova Cain... please!), but it's still not that engaging. I'm always going to be more enamored of their earlier, hookier stuff... Hologram of Baal is easily my favorite post-Starfish album. ______ Devin: >> I consider ME one of the "Green Albums" along with Trains and Eye, and all >>three the finest the man has ever put out. I'd wedge a few full-band albums in there, too, but it's a damned strong arguement that if he hasn't got a band in tow, he should damned well make the album cover green. Jewels is just never gonna do it for me, though. Too scattershot, and the best aspects of what it was striving for were done soooo much better by the Soft Boys reunion. The stripped-down songs from Jewels & Star might make a good (possibly green?) record together, but the Minus 5 just ain't no Soft Boys, and I can never escape the feeling that Viva Sea-Tac was literally written as the plane was landing and Robyn realized he'd booked more studio time than he had tunes. _________ Okay... almost 3/4 through the year and I don't think I've heard ten albums I've liked enough to rank on my year-end top-ten. You can help! What are your front-runners? What records did I not give enough of a chance? Or do I just need to give up on my current/habitual musical pursuits and try something radically different, like alt-jazz, alt-klezmer, alt-opera, or music featuring actual talented vocalists? - -Rex "hey, I know people who are self described-ly 'really into Psychobilly'-- how does that work?" Broome ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 12:32:50 -0700 From: Eb Subject: RE: RW > >>"Quavery, melodramatic" might apply to Wainwright. "Miserable whine" >>>simply does NOT. > >Not in the Sc*tt M*ller sense, perhaps. But the guy sounds miserable and >he's certainly whining about something. QED. See, this is what's ridiculous. To say Rufus' songwriting perspective is "miserable" is simply WRONG. You're just peeved because even with his first album alone, Wainwright eclipsed Miller's entire career. ;) Eb ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 14:03:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Ridey Day fegmaniax-digest #357 & 356 "Rex.Broome" wrote: > Jeff D: > >>I would also add that Dusk is a pretty damn terrific > record. And while > >>it's certainly significantly inferior to Smile, > Nowhere, and > >>Going Blank Again, Carnival of Light is nowhere near as > bad > >>as he makes it out to be. > > I'd agree on both points-- forgot Dusk among the discs > I'd recommend, good record (is that the only record on > the list that's unpopular enough to have > been, erm, recently *reissued*?) I'm guessing the reissue is the _reason_ it's in so many used bins. > ... and as a Ride fan, I rate Carnival about > equal to Going Blank Again, which I like *less* than many > do. See the > Grasshopper EP for a taste of what it could have been. > Tarantula, however, full on sucks the big one. "OX4" -- the full version with the spacy keyboard intro that's missing on the best of -- is probably their best moment AFAIC, so I consider GBA pretty damn essential. There are probably a couple songs in the middle that drag, but I definitely think it's several notches about CoL though a couple below Nowhere. > The perennial resale bin fixture I missed out on here was > Tripping Daisy. > But I think that's because I really really hate the cover > to that one album > with the guy with the schmutz smeared all over him, to > the point where every > time I see the spine of that record (which is often) I > get kind of squicked. Worst album cover ever. Nothing like a guy douced in red candle wax to make you think "I ain't buying that piece of shit." ===== "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!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 14:16:10 -0700 From: "Natalie Jacobs" Subject: Rhett Miller's gold tooth and other oddities > >Bring back Denise Sharpe! > >I give you points for remembering her name. ;) However, as far as I >know, she has vanished from the Internet. I was following her exploits quite closely for a while. Recently I even mentioned her to the psychiatric nurse at my old job - she was saying there are very few "textbook cases" around, and I said that Ms. Sharpe really was a perfect textbook case of erotomania - I think she fit every criterion in DSM-IV. Rre. Fuzzy Warbles: >I wouldn't say "heavily loaded": there's very little aural doodling >(depending upon your definition), some demos...but mostly stuff that never >got 'round to being released on the real records. I'm still wary. I have a dubbed copy of "Jules Verne's Sketchbook" and I have to say, Andy is not big on quality control. There's some great songs on there (several of which ended up on Fuzzy Warbles, I believe), but there's also stuff that sounds like him getting drunk and playing around with a 4-track. I'm sure he's aware that he could release anything at all and his hardcore fanbase would buy it and proclaim it as genius. >people on the digest form (like me) tend to copy and paste bits for >replying to - and (in my case at least) frequently miss what the original >subject line was. So we either stick with the generic one (as shown above) >or try to create one that is relevant to the subject. I create my own, unless I forget and leave in the generic one. I respond to so many threads in the same post that I can't stick to just one already-used subject line. >Well, word is Rhett is growing his hair out; maybe that affects his >fuckability with the ladies. Oh, and his wife is about to have their baby >-- >maybe they're looking for a midwife? Heh... I should've talked to him after the show about that. ;) Yeah, he's grown his hair out and it's hard to see his eyes, but now he can toss his hair around dramatically. And he's still got the ass-shimmy going. (drool) >He still has the gold tooth, too. Ahem. I couldn't see it from the stage, alas. >Go ahead and buy Rhett's solo album; chances are you can find it in cut-out >bins on the cheap. I quite enjoy the album; my wife, an ardent Rhett >Miller >SuperFan, isn't quite too fond of it -- she thinks Jon Brion gets in the >way >too much; whereas that's the reason I like it. Jon Brion? I don't think he's ever been involved with an album I liked. I'd best just keep away. >I never did, either, until one night while on a long solo drive that >included a lot of mind-wandering, I had "Singular Girl" playing and >started imagining it with Robyn's voice instead of Rhett's. It was >surprisingly easy. I thought "Victoria" with the line about the girl's voice being so soft that she has to talk through a megaphone, seemed rather Robynesque, but I wouldn't have noticed the possible Robynness if I hadn't been listening for it. After seeing Mr. Miller, I bought a copy of "Fight Songs" used, and was delighted to find that it had been autographed by all of the band members. Why someone would sell an autographed record, I don't know... I got my copy of the new Quasi album autographed (Sam Coomes ungrammatically scrawled "Thanks lovely archeopteryx" because of the tinfoil bird I gave him), and subsequently found that I didn't like it, but now I feel like I can't sell it. Feh. n. _________________________________________________________________ Frustrated with dial-up? Get high-speed for as low as $29.95/month (depending on the local service providers in your area). https://broadband.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 16:24:48 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey Subject: Re: Rhett Miller's gold tooth and other oddities On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Natalie Jacobs wrote: > > >Bring back Denise Sharpe! > > > >I give you points for remembering her name. ;) However, as far as I > >know, she has vanished from the Internet. > > I was following her exploits quite closely for a while. Recently I even > mentioned her to the psychiatric nurse at my old job - she was saying there > are very few "textbook cases" around, and I said that Ms. Sharpe really was > a perfect textbook case of erotomania - I think she fit every criterion in > DSM-IV. Err, umm, who? I suppose someone might direct me to the URL for the appropriate archives... > Rre. Fuzzy Warbles: > > I'm still wary. I have a dubbed copy of "Jules Verne's Sketchbook" and I > have to say, Andy is not big on quality control. There's some great songs > on there (several of which ended up on Fuzzy Warbles, I believe), but > there's also stuff that sounds like him getting drunk and playing around > with a 4-track. I'm sure he's aware that he could release anything at all > and his hardcore fanbase would buy it and proclaim it as genius. Well, I bought it because it *is* genius. Oh. Okay, I guess you're right. (There are a handful of tracks that indeed probably are him drunkenly abusing a 4-track, but to me at least there are enough good tracks to make it worth my money. Better if you lived in England, I suppose. Oh, and dumb Q/possible old news: are you the "Natalie Jacobs" interning at Magnet magazine, or has someone stolen your name? - --Jeffrey with 2 Fs Jeffrey J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society ::sex, drugs, revolt, Eskimos, atheism:: ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 14:31:22 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: other oddities >> >Bring back Denise Sharpe! >> >>I give you points for remembering her name. ;) However, as far as I >>know, she has vanished from the Internet. > >I was following her exploits quite closely for a while. Really? I had no idea. I guess she IS still posting, after all: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=author%3Adenigma&ie=ISO-8859-1&hl=en Something notable she wrote about a year ago...she has only mentioned the "Enigma" once, since then: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=author:denigma+enigma&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=4a8d85e1.0209231733.273aacb2%40posting.google.com&rnum=2 >After seeing Mr. Miller, I bought a copy of "Fight Songs" used, and >was delighted to find that it had been autographed by all of the >band members. Why someone would sell an autographed record, I don't >know... I sold an autographed Madder Rose CD once...the band is small enough that I didn't feel there was any point in making an issue of the signature. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 18:16:02 -0400 From: UglyNoraGrrl@aol.com Subject: RE: The suckiness of 2003: =?ISO-8859-1?B?oERvZXMgaXQgZW5jb21wYXNzIHRoZSBtdXNpYyBhcyB3ZWxsPw==?= Eb's brother Rex wrote: > Okay... almost 3/4 through the year and I don't think I've heard ten > albums I've liked enough to rank on my year-end top-ten. You can help! > What are your front-runners? What records did I not give enough of a > chance? I don't know what you have been buying, but I have had a great year listening to music so far and the last couple months have been great particularly great. My top ten so far this year (not in order): Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress Black Box Recorder - Passionoia Britta Phillips and Dean Wareham - L' Avventura Cat Power - You are Free Long Winters - When I Pretend to Fall Outkast - The Love Below Pernice Brothers - Yours, Mine and Ours Puffy AmiYumi - Nice Robyn Hitchcock - Luxor Stephen Malkmus - Pig Lib Other albums I liked a lot. Beulah - Yoko Essex Green - The Long Goodbye Fountains of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers Grandaddy - Sumday Guided By Voices - Earthquake Glue Jon Auer/Ken Stringfellow - Private Sides Lucksmiths - Naturaliste Martin Newell - Songs from the Station Hotel EP Minus 5 - Down With Wilco Neptunes - Clones New Pornographers - Electric Version Phantom Tollbooth - Beard of Lightning Pretty Girls Make Graves - The New Romance Quasi - Hot Shit Shins - Chutes Too Narrow Tall Dwarfs - The Sky Above The Mud Below Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Hearts of Oak Visqueen - King Me Later, Nora Return-Path: Received: from aol.com (mow-m10.webmail.aol.com [64.12.184.138]) by air-id06.mx.aol.com (v96.6) with ESMTP id MAILINID64-3df93f73687fb9; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 18:13:19 -0400 Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 18:13:19 -0400 From: UglyNoraGrrl@aol.com To: fegmaniaz@smoe.org Subject: RE: The suckiness of 2003: Does it encompass the music as well? MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <2B6A7D77.620232CC.4337FF00@aol.com> X-Mailer: Atlas Mailer 2.0 X-AOL-IP: 207.46.228.14 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Eb's brother Rex wrote: > Okay... almost 3/4 through the year and I don't think I've heard ten > albums I've liked enough to rank on my year-end top-ten. You can help! > What are your front-runners? What records did I not give enough of a > chance? I don't know what you have been buying, but I have had a great year listening to music so far and the last couple months have been great particularly great. My top ten so far this year (not in order): Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress Black Box Recorder - Passionoia Britta Phillips and Dean Wareham - L' Avventura Cat Power - You are Free Long Winters - When I Pretend to Fall Outkast - The Love Below Pernice Brothers - Yours, Mine and Ours Puffy AmiYumi - Nice Robyn Hitchcock - Luxor Stephen Malkmus - Pig Lib Other albums I liked a lot. Beulah - Yoko Essex Green - The Long Goodbye Fountains of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers Grandaddy - Sumday Guided By Voices - Earthquake Glue Jon Auer/Ken Stringfellow - Private Sides Lucksmiths - Naturaliste Martin Newell - Songs from the Station Hotel EP Minus 5 - Down With Wilco Neptunes - Clones New Pornographers - Electric Version Phantom Tollbooth - Beard of Lightning Pretty Girls Make Graves - The New Romance Quasi - Hot Shit Shins - Chutes Too Narrow Tall Dwarfs - The Sky Above The Mud Below Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Hearts of Oak Visqueen - King Me Later, Nora ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 19:23:48 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Re: Soft Boys bootleg >From: "Gene Hopstetter, Jr." >Subject: Re: Soft Boys bootleg >Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 12:55:33 -0500 > > From: "Marc Holden" > > Subject: Soft Boys bootleg > > >http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2560168863&category=1573 >"...a fool and his money! Honey! If you want it, here it is, come and get >it, but you better hurry 'cause it's going fast!" > > Has anyone seen this one before? >I've never seen it, either, but then, I already have all the Soft Boys >reunion shows and I didn't have to pay for them. I saw it in NYC some month ago in one of the better bootleg shops. I think it is the Boston recording that circulated here and the KCRW session from 2001. It looked to be a pro job on the cover art not an inkjet cover other than that I know nothing. Max _________________________________________________________________ Frustrated with dial-up? Get high-speed for as low as $29.95/month (depending on the local service providers in your area). https://broadband.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 19:42:38 -0400 From: Scott Hunter McCleary Subject: OS question that WON'T make you want to scratch your eyes out Has anyone else on here seen this nifty little bit of filmmaking from IBM for Linux? http://www-3.ibm.com/e-business/doc/content/lp/prodigy.html?ca=lnxatibm&me=openspot&met=frntpg& I'll admit I haven't been watching much television the last couple months, but somehow this musta just missed me completely. I certainly would have noticed it if I had. - -- ========= "Throughout the 20th century, small groups of men seized control of great nations, built armies and arsenals, and set out to dominate the weak and intimidate the world." - -- George W. Bush, 2003 State of the Union Address SH McCleary Prodigal Dog Communications PO Box 6163 Arlington, VA 22206 shmac@prodigaldog.com www.prodigaldog.com www.1480kHz.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 16:43:47 -0700 From: "da9ve stovall" Subject: RE: used bins >From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) >Subject: Re: cutouts > >a lot of these cut-outs may be world wide, even though the exact make-up >has regional differences. I nodded at recognition of quite a few repeated >cut-out sightings. I've got about 13 of 'em - and the ratings given by the author of the article are about randomly scattered amongst that set. But I give a hearty 'hear hear!' to his praise of Mercury Rev's _Boces_ - helluva rekkid, that, though I'd not go so far as to say they've slid downward since then; _Deserter's Songs_ is genius, and the only real flaw of _All Is Dream_ is that it's too similar. I'm surprised to not see the Flaming Lips _Transmissions from the Satellite Heart_ in there - following their 90210 appearance and the charting of "She Don't Use Jelly," I couldn't turn around without tripping over a stack of used copies of that album. Have they since been snapped up by a new crowd of Lips fans who dig the album deservedly?). da9ve ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 17:01:52 -0700 From: "da9ve stovall" Subject: Re: where the &*@! are the prawns? (100% RH content) >From: Devin Lee Ens >Subject: Re: where the &*@! are the prawns? (100% RH content) ... >Cheese Alarm. Not sure about that last one--I think it's about >opulent overconsumption. At any rate, it's not JUST a list of cheeses. I interpret that the same way you do. The "cheese alarm" itself is what should go off in your head if nod along with the first 90% of the song too easily - how are you helping those worse off, yew fat git? That one hit me like a flounder up-side the face when I first heard it, 'cos I DO have that luxury (though am also charitable, in the good sense). A similar sentiment in a vastly unrelated place: "All around the country, coast to coast, People ask me what do I like most? I don't wanna brag, I don't wanna boast; I just tell 'em, I like toast. Yeah, toast!" - Heywood Banks I'd never figured out how he got around to meaning "brag" and "boast" in that context, but I guess it's the same thing - wallowing opulently in your luxury is sitting on the other half and gloating. da9ve ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 18:50:31 -0700 From: Barbara Soutar Subject: sitar & banjo, also gordon nur said: "I suspect what you heard was Bela Fleck on banjo... not certain who the sitarist might be although Fleck has performed duet shows with different tabla players in the past (Trilok Gurtu, Sandip Burham). I'm thinking that the sitarist may be Krishna Bhatt who also lives in the Bay Area with Fleck. I'm sure they both know each other well given other pockets of musicians they both play with occasionally." Could be. It seemed like an odd combo, but here on the west coast we get everything. To add to my earlier Canadian music comment: Gordon Lightfoot. He's getting honoured here bigtime. I think we're worried he's not going to last much longer after that hospital scare/coma last year. Gotta love Gordon. I do believe Bob Dylan was jealous that he wrote "That's What You Get for Lovin' Me". At least he said it sounded more like a Bob Dylan song. Barbara Soutar Victoria, British Columbia ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 22:34:15 +1200 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: 5764 Happy new year to any of you that follow such festivities. 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: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 08:34:09 -0500 From: steve Subject: reap Robert Palmer - - Steve __________ While still at the Department of Justice, Rehnquist provided the best definition of a strict constructionist I have ever encountered. It was in a memo Rehnquist wrote while he was vetting Judge Clement Haynsworth, one of Nixon's selections who was rejected by the Senate. Rehnquist wrote, in brief, that a strict constructionist was anyone who likes prosecutors and dislikes criminal defendants and who favors civil rights defendants over civil rights plaintiffs. That is as candid and blunt as you can get. And that is the real definition of a strict constructionist. - John Dean ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 18:14:28 +0200 (GMT+02:00) From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Our Hero photo op Haven't been reading diligently so this may have already been posted. - - ethyl ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 12:25:46 -0400 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Reap George Plimpton. - -- Max _________________________________________________________________ Instant message in style with MSN Messenger 6.0. Download it now FREE! http://msnmessenger-download.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 10:53:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Flies on the Windscreen Herb Gardner Also, the guy who played Whitey on "Leave It to Beaver" Couldn't find a link ===== "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!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 12:55:23 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Today's top story ["Ricky never, Glen 4ever!"] Styx gets new bassist LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Bass player Ricky Phillips, who performed with Bad English and The Babys, has joined Styx, replacing departing bassist-vocalist Glen Burtnik. "We're sad to see Glen leave," Styx lead singer James "JY" Young said in a statement. "We wish him well, and I'm looking forward to introducing to the world ... bass player extraordinaire Ricky Phillips." Burtnik said his departure was amicable. He joined Styx in 1991, replacing singer-guitarist Tommy Shaw. Shaw returned to Styx in 1996, and Burtnik rejoined in 1999, stepping in for original bassist Chuck Panozzo, who remains on personal leave. "I've enjoyed performing onstage with this talented group of musicians," he said in a statement Tuesday. "I greatly value the friendship and warmth shown to me by the band, the crew, the staff and the fans. It's time for me to get back to spending more quality time with my family." ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V12 #359 ********************************