From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V13 #16 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, January 19 2004 Volume 13 : Number 016 Today's Subjects: ----------------- getting laid off [Jill Brand ] sunday morning junk food madness ["Natalie Jacobs" ] Re: getting laid off [Tom Clark ] Need help with gig info! ["Roberta Cowan" ] Re: Need help with gig info! [Eclipse ] Re: Need help with gig info! [Eclipse ] Storefront semi-review. [Capuchin ] RE: A Confession and A Happy Ending ["Matt Sewell" ] Monochrome Set ["Brian" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 12:29:39 -0500 (EST) From: Jill Brand Subject: getting laid off Tom, you shouldn't have been embarrassed about getting laid off. I wake up daily in a state of incredulity because I still have job. A third of my department at Boston University has been laid off over the last year, and many of these people had been here for over 10 years. The job market is getting better for people working in the fast food industry, but hardly anywhwer else. Anyway CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BTW, is there anyone else on this list who just doesn't like donuts? Don't get me wrong; there's lots of junk food that I like and try not to eat (like Twinkies and Oreos). I just don't get the allure of donuts. Fried dough is another story. Jill ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 10:53:11 -0800 From: "Natalie Jacobs" Subject: sunday morning junk food madness >Nothing like Donut Queen on Burnside (is that what it's called?) or the >newly openned and blazingly glorious Voodoo Donut on 2nd Avenue downtown Voodoo Donut rules! But more for the novelty shapes/flavors than the donuts themselves, which are good but not great. Krispy Kremes are OK but only when fresh - ten paces from the fryer and they turn into typical supermarket chewy yeast balls. And Dunkin?? Forget it. Down with mass-produced donuts!!! Without a doubt (and maybe a few of you can back me up on this) the best donuts I've ever had are from the Washtenaw Dairy in Ann Arbor. The maple ones are my favorites. I haven't had them for a few years... I was actually thinking of freezing some and bringing them back to Portland with me, but my friend Erin, expert in the ways of donuts, assures me that donuts don't travel well. I also really, really miss paczkis (pronounced "punch-keys"), the big rich jelly donuts sold in Polish communities around Mardi Gras. There's a large Polish population in the Detroit area, so fresh, locally-made paczkis were a hot commodity and very easily available, but you can't get them around here! It's sad. >I like Krispy Kreme, but I don't really think of their stuff as >"donuts." It's like they're...something else. Donuts can be a meal -- >Krispy Kreme donuts are more like snack food. :) My dad is a potato chip connoisseur, and I used to argue with him about the merits of Pringles, which he turned up his nose at. I explained similarly that Pringles are not really potato chips and should not be regarded as such - - they're just another variety of snack food. Interesting fact!! Like donuts, potato chips don't travel well either, which is why there are so many local varieties. (Frito Lay has factories all over the country, which is why you can get them anywhere.) I'm especially fond of Tim's Cascade, from Washington state, and my dad (before he turned into a fanatical dieter) was a big supporter of an east coast brand, Wyse. The good news >is that as of this coming Monday, I will once again be an employee of >Apple. Huzzah!!! n. (wait... apples aren't junk food...) _________________________________________________________________ There are now three new levels of MSN Hotmail Extra Storage! Learn more. http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-us&page=hotmail/es2&ST=1 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 14:26:53 -0500 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: RE: sunday morning junk food madness >From: "Natalie Jacobs" >To: fegmaniax@smoe.org >Subject: sunday morning junk food madness >Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 10:53:11 -0800 >my dad (before he turned into a fanatical dieter) was a big supporter of an >east coast brand, Wyse. Very, very salty. If you ever wondered how much money is in chips, it's a lot. We are building 8 stairways for the Utz family's(the Rice's are the family, Utz is their brand of chips) new mansion. The one condition from the family to the architect was that they have a 50' long corridor to display their 18'th century mural, which I think is about 45' in length. Max _________________________________________________________________ Check out the new MSN 9 Dial-up  fast & reliable Internet access with prime features! http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-us&page=dialup/home&ST=1 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 14:14:10 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Kansan comments on a (deleted) HK news story (10% spermatazoa content) The story confirms that Heidi is five months pregnant. She is taking good care of our baby by going to bed early and wearing furs to be protected from the cold. Apparently, if she were five months pregnant on Thursday, January 15, 2003, the night of this birthday party, she must have conceived some time between August 15 and September 15, 2003. On Thursday, August 14, 2003, Heidi was at a restaurant in the Hamptons of Long Island, New York, with Flavio Briatore, the manager of Renault's Formula 1 team, and "another couple". I think that "other couple" were Heidi's good friend and publicist Desiree Gruber and her husband, the distinguished actor Kyle MacLachlan. Then, the four of them took Briatore's private jet and flew to his hide-out in Malindi, Kenya, on the Indian Ocean coast, for a few days' vacation. On Friday, August 22, Heidi was in Budapest, Hungary, for the Grand Prix there, with Briatore. They stayed there until Sunday, August 24, when Renault's Fernado Alonso won the Hungarian Grand Prix, becoming the youngest driver to ever win a Formula 1 Grand Prix. Then, in the beginning of the following week Briatore, Heidi, Desiree, and Kyle went to Warsaw, Poland, to publicize the Renault Formula 1 team. On Saturday, August 30, Heidi and Briatore were in Forte dei Marmi, near Pisa, Italy, at his nightclub there. On Tuesday, September 2, Heidi, Briatore, Desiree, and Kyle were in London, where Heidi accepted the "Woman of the Year" award from "GQ" magazine. On Wednesday, September 3, Heidi, Desiree, and Kyle were supposed to be back in Manhattan to attend a special screening of Woody Allen's movie "Annie Hall" in Central Park. On Monday, September 8, Heidi, Desiree, and their friend Monica Mitro, Victoria's Secret Executive Vice President for Public Relations, were at singer Gwen Stefani's presentation of her fashion line in New York. On Tuesday, September 9, Heidi was at a reception for famed shoe designer Manolo Blahnik in New York. On Friday, September 12, Heidi appeared at an event for Katie Couric's colon cancer research foundation in New York. Heidi became aware of colon cancer thanks to my colonoscopy on February 5, 2003. Also, she supports Katie Couric, because she has the same first name as my older daughter Caterina and Heidi herself plays the character "Katya" in the new James Bond videogame "Everything or Nothing", to be released next month. On Sunday, September 14, Heidi appeared in a fashion show by "Imitation of Christ", as part of New York's Fashion Week. On Monday, September 15, Heidi attended the Marc Jacobs fashion show in New York. Others in attendance were Desiree Gruber, the British singer Seal, Anthony Kiedis of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Guy Oseary, the singer Madonna's partner in "Maverick Records" and a good friend of Kiedis. Oseary also attended the Richard Johnson birthday party on January 15, as can be seen in the news item above. Oseary is also involved with videogame production and promotion and seems to have been Heidi's connection in getting the James Bond videogame part. Early in the morning of Tuesday, September 16, Heidi and Kiedis were seen in the lobby of his Manhattan hotel. During that time of the New York Fashion Week in early September 2003 Heidi was also seen in the company of singer John Mayer. However, out of all these famous men, music stars, like Kiedis, Seal, and Mayer, show business executives, like Harvey Weinstein of Miramax and Guy Oseary, business tycoons, like Donald Trump and Flavio Briatore, etc., Heidi had figured out that my sperm was the most desirable of all and had obtained it on July 14, 2003, when I was visiting Bergisch Gladbach, her German hometown, near Cologne. She then carried it frozen in liquid nitrogen in a Dewar flask to Malindi, Kenya, the Cradle of Life, where she had herself impregnated with it, some time between August 15 and August 21. Flavio Briatore, too, had recognized my genius and gave Heidi his private jet to hurriedly fly back from Sardinia to Bergisch Gladbach to obtain my sperm in July. This way, he can develop a team of Nobel Prize winning male and female supermodels from my frozen sperm and Heidi's extarordinary eggs. My single ejaculation of July 14 contains tens of millions of spermatozoa, more than enough to provide much needed leadership in the New World to come. When Heidi announced her pregnancy on December 16, the feast day of St. Adelheid ("Heidi"), on her name day, Briatore let it leak out that he was asking for a DNA test to establish the identity of the baby's father. That was his way of letting me know that I am the real father and that, therefore, I should support Heidi's baby. Later on, Briatore has pretended that he is the baby's father, like St. Joseph, the fiance of the Virgin Mary, to provide the baby with a plausible paternity. It is not time yet to acknowledge me as the real father in public. It is just a matter of time, as in AOL/Time Warner. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 16:28:51 -0600 From: "Fortissimo" Subject: Re: getting laid off On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 12:29:39 -0500 (EST), "Jill Brand" said: > Tom, you shouldn't have been embarrassed about getting laid off. I agree - you shouldn't be embarrassed to tell us when you get laid. I mean, honestly, it's what we all want - so why not talk about it? Oh wait - you said "laid off." Never mind. ...forgetting exactly the words Rex used to describe what this year would be here but getting the gist of it, - ------------------------------- ...Jeff J e f f r e y N o r m a n The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com/ :: Solipsism is its own reward :: :: --Crow T. Robot ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 14:45:32 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: getting laid off on 1/18/04 2:28 PM, Fortissimo at tonerbomb@warpmail.net wrote: >> Tom, you shouldn't have been embarrassed about getting laid off. > > I agree - you shouldn't be embarrassed to tell us when you get laid. I > mean, honestly, it's what we all want - so why not talk about it? I'll tell you one good thing about being unemployed: afternoon sex - and lots of it. Our two year old daughter naps for about two hours during the afternoon. Delight indeed! - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 23:30:57 -0500 From: "Roberta Cowan" Subject: Need help with gig info! Hello-- Apologies for the crosspost but I need to solicit help from as many parts of the Robyn Hitchcock world as possible. I am working on updating The Asking Tree aka Robynbase http://www.jh3.com/robyn/base/. There are several years worth of gigs to be added and I've made good progress on filling them in but need help with some dates. If you have reliable information concerning the setlists of any of these shows I would be grateful if you could send them to me. I know there are recordings of many of these gigs floating around. Thank you Thank you Thank you!! Roberta (send any robynbase corrections to brenda_sledge at earthlink.net) RH=Robyn Hitchcock solo SB=Soft Boys Missing setlists: RH 11/24/03 Largo, Hollywood, CA RH 9/8/03 Hotel du Nord, Paris, France RH 4/5/03 Teatro El Albeitar, Leon, Spain RH 4/4/03 Razzmataz 3 Barcelona, Spain RH 4/3/03 Roxy Club Valencia, Spain RH 4/1/03 Escuela Politecnica Algeciras, Spain RH 3/28/03 Sala Suristan Madrid, Spain SB 3/11/03 Aden Festival, Elysee Montmartre Paris, France (final Soft Boys gig, Lee Cave-Berry played bass) RH 2/21/03 Largo, Hollywood, CA (Jon Brion's show) SB 1/28/03 Concorde 2 Brighton, England SB 1/23/03 Triskell Arts Centre Cork, Ireland SB 1/22/03 Music Centre Dublin, Ireland SB 1/17/03 Babylonia Biella, Italy SB 1/16/03 (?) Jux Tap Sarzana, Italy ** some discrepancies have shown up with a couple of the Italian dates so if anyone has any information on any of them, PLEASE let me know** RH 11/20/02 Les Etoiles Paris, France RH 7/30/02 West End Cultural Centre Winnipeg, Canada RH 6/19/02 Glee Club Birmingham, England RH 6/12/02 Fritz Corner Stockholm, Sweden RH 6/11/02 Kulturbolaget Malmo, Sweden RH 6/10/02 Bommens Salonger Gothenburg, Sweden RH 5/2/02 Largo, Hollywood, CA (Rhett Miller's show) RH 1/23/02 The Pressure Point Brighton, England SB 12/5/01 Roadmenders Northampton, England RH 11/11/01 Dingwall's London, England (w/Mike Mills, Scott McCaughey, Ken Stringfellow) SB 9/25/01 Notting Hill Arts Club London, England (last minute gig/Radio4 club night) SB 3/11/01 Three Kings Clerkenwell, England (UM re-release party) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 20:41:43 -0800 From: Eclipse Subject: Re: Need help with gig info! Roberta, I may have some information in my own archives - I'll dig around and see what I can find. However, you might also ask the folks at Yahoo Groups' RobynHitchcockClub (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RobynHitchcockClub/) - they have international members, including an active Italian member, who might be able to help you out. also, less likely but still possible, is that some of these gigs are listed at http://db.etree.org, so you might be able to find setlists there. thanks for working on Asking Tree! please let me know if i can help you out at all. Eclipse At 11:30 PM 1/18/2004 -0500, Roberta Cowan wrote: >Hello-- >Apologies for the crosspost but I need to solicit help from as many parts of >the Robyn Hitchcock world as possible. I am working on updating The Asking >Tree aka Robynbase http://www.jh3.com/robyn/base/. There are several years >worth of gigs to be added and I've made good progress on filling them in but >need help with some dates. If you have reliable information concerning the >setlists of any of these shows I would be grateful if you could send them to >me. I know there are recordings of many of these gigs floating around. >Thank you >Thank you >Thank you!! > >Roberta >(send any robynbase corrections to brenda_sledge at earthlink.net) :: eclipse at tuliphead dot com :: kindness towards all things is the true religion - buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 20:48:12 -0800 From: Eclipse Subject: Re: Need help with gig info! duh, i hate it when i don't read headers. i see you already thought of RHC. :) best of luck! Eclipse >At 11:30 PM 1/18/2004 -0500, Roberta Cowan wrote: >>Hello-- >>Apologies for the crosspost but I need to solicit help from as many parts of >>the Robyn Hitchcock world as possible. I am working on updating The Asking >>Tree aka Robynbase http://www.jh3.com/robyn/base/. There are several years >>worth of gigs to be added and I've made good progress on filling them in but >>need help with some dates. If you have reliable information concerning the >>setlists of any of these shows I would be grateful if you could send them to >>me. I know there are recordings of many of these gigs floating around. >>Thank you >>Thank you >>Thank you!! >> >>Roberta >>(send any robynbase corrections to brenda_sledge at earthlink.net) > > >:: eclipse at tuliphead dot com > >:: kindness towards all things is the true religion - buddha :: eclipse at tuliphead dot com :: kindness towards all things is the true religion - buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 21:07:38 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Storefront semi-review. Ran into this this morning whilst perusing the antics of fascist pho eaters: J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 10:38:40 +0000 From: "Matt Sewell" Subject: RE: A Confession and A Happy Ending I love a happy ending - congratulations, Tom - hope you enjoy your new job, hope also you enjoyed the time at home with your family - something we all need every now and again! Cheers Matt >From: Tom Clark >So there you go. I'm a happy guy again. > >-tc - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subscribe to MSN 8 today for a better internet experience and save over 25% on the usual price! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 08:43:00 -0600 From: tanter Subject: REAP Molly Kelly, 87, in Jigalong, Australia. She was the inspiration behind the fabulous book and film _Rabbit Proof Fence_. Marcy Marcy L. Tanter Assistant Professor of English Tarleton State University Stephenville, TX 76401 254-968-9892 (9039 to leave a message) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 16:30:59 -0500 From: "Brian" Subject: Monochrome Set - -Interuption- If there are any musician Monochrome Set fans out there, who wouldn't mind playing out with Bid, please contact me off list. You can now return to your regular silence. - -Nuppy - -- Brian nightshadecat@mailbolt.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V13 #16 *******************************