From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V13 #51 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, February 20 2004 Volume 13 : Number 051 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: For you bikers [Eb ] Re: A sign from above? [Capuchin ] Re: For you bikers [Capuchin ] Not a "new" fad per se... ["Rex.Broome" ] tooting my own horn, toot toot! ["Natalie Jacobs" ] Re: For you bikers ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Not a "new" fad per se... ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Not a "new" fad per se... [Eb ] Re: For you bikers [Capuchin ] Re: Not a "new" fad per se... [Capuchin ] Re: A sign from above? [steve ] Re: A sign from above? [Capuchin ] Re: For you bikers ["Danny Lieberman" ] Re: For you bikers [Eb ] RE: A sign from above? [grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan)] Re: A sign from above? ["Matt Sewell" ] Re: A sign from above? ["Matt Sewell" ] Smile ["Maximilian Lang" ] Peter Weir movies and Mel Gibson in the day [Jill Brand ] RE: For you bikers ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: Peter Weir movies and Mel Gibson in the day [Jeff Dwarf ] bid now for a copy of Tintern Abbey's single ["Eugene Hopstetter, Jr." ] RH 50th b'day at sharingthegroove.org ["Christopher Carville" ] reap [Jeff Dwarf ] Paging Sebastian! ["Rex.Broome" ] Re: RH 50th b'day at sharingthegroove.org [fingerpuppets ] Re: A sign from above? ["Palle Hoffstein" ] RE: For you bikers [Capuchin ] Re: A sign from above? [Tom Clark ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 17:01:02 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: For you bikers >On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Eb wrote: >> A teenage guy riding a bike...but it was practically a "circus bike." >> The wheels were only about six inches in diameter, and the back wheel >> axle had two thick silver protrusions which probably were intended to >> serve as foot pegs while coasting? And then there was a tall, uh, "seat >> stem" to add elevation for non-kiddie leg length. > >Was it the seat post or the seat tube that was quite long? The post goes >into the tube and clamps to the saddle, if you get my meaning. Mmmm...I didn't see it closely enough to really know. >Was it REALLY tiny? Six inch diameter wheels would be... really tiny. >Were they perhaps sixteen? No! Like six. Seven? They were more like wheels you'd see on the bottom of a portable barbecue! > What would you guess would be the wheelbase of >this thing (distance from axle to axle)? Uhhh...three feet? And the seat was *less* than three feet off the ground. Would have asked the guy about the bike, but the group was, well, a bit "gangland"-looking. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 17:28:08 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: A sign from above? On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Steve Talkowski wrote: > On Feb 19, 2004, at 7:55 PM, Jon Lewis wrote: > > > It didn't work for Dave Sim and Jeff Smith... > > Cool. Is this the first time a Cerebus reference makes an appearance on > Feglist? Oh GOODNESS NO! See the archives for posts by Hal Brandt (and a few others). I sure do miss Hal... and pictures of his wife (woo). J. [OK... that came out way creepier than I intended it... all in good fun, gents.] - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 17:41:16 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: For you bikers On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Eb wrote: > >Was it REALLY tiny? Six inch diameter wheels would be... really tiny. > >Were they perhaps sixteen? > > No! Like six. Seven? They were more like wheels you'd see on the bottom > of a portable barbecue! Crazy. I think this is the bike I saw in the store... I'll keep looking. > > What would you guess would be the wheelbase of this thing (distance > >from axle to axle)? > > Uhhh...three feet? And the seat was *less* than three feet off the > ground. OK... with the extension it was still quite low. Got it. > Would have asked the guy about the bike, but the group was, well, a bit > "gangland"-looking. And what kind of bikes were they on? Were they on those tiny trick bikes that it's so absurd to watch a grown person try to ride where their knees are practically hitting them in the chest or what? If the other guys were on freestyle bikes, then I think I know what you mean. I'll post a picture if I find one. It ain't normal though... no how. J... very happy on his fixed-gear road bike with bullhorn bars, a Brooks saddle, and bright yellow fenders. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 17:48:17 -0800 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Not a "new" fad per se... JeFFrey: >>(BTW: the most evil organ is Keith Emerson's) So that's why he was always throwing knives at it... it was BAD and deserved it! Jeme: >> I was in a situation where I was certain that I was going to die in a few >>moments and I had a similar sort of moment of, for lack of a better word, >>acceptance. In the ten years since then I've perhaps become slightly less >>cognizant of my own mortality and also slightly less comfortable with it Odd. Complex. My own brush with death made ma a lot *more* cognizant of my mortality, but it sounds like your experience was quick whereas mine was kind of an in-the-hospital-for-days, not-sure-if-you're-leaving thing. I guess the lingering nature of it makes the difference. I could abstractly imagine being dead beforehand, but I sure as hell never thought about dying (the process) as a thing to experience. Anyway. The lack of comfort part tracks, though. Eb: >>I saw something very strange outside a Mexican fast-food place, two days ago. >>A teenage guy riding a bike... Goddammit! I did this thread EXACTLY A YEAR AND A DAY AGO! What are you playing at here, Eb? http://www.smoe.org/lists/fegmaniax/v12.n058 ...the relevant bit being: >>Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 11:44:36 -0800 >>From: "Rex.Broome" >>Subject: Parenting, Valentine's Day, and No Geopolitics >>Ross O: >>> Never mind that; it's just talk. Don't you folks care about yard- >>> long shoelaces? >>I haven't seen that, but the thing in recent years that has puzzled me is >>huge guys riding, or just sitting around astride, tiny little kid bicycles. >>Otherwise "cool" looking gangsta-types. Just looks dumb. The huge pants I >>could understand, but the tiny bike thing is precisely where I part company >>with modern "style" and start getting old. I'm just sayin'... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 17:46:07 -0800 From: "Natalie Jacobs" Subject: tooting my own horn, toot toot! >Subject: Tinfoil Thoths: The Album (shipping soon) Gosh, I guess I should get a copy of this for the title alone. If you haven't done a cover design yet, you should use the picture of the tinfoil Thoth and the Iron Giant that's on the Soft Boys website. The URL is http://www.thesoftboys.com/underwatermoonlight/images/photos/tour/monsters.jpg >Oh, and as for other great new-fangled cycling traditions in Portland, >there's the zoobomb. At the Portland Zine Symposium last year, an eccentric lady was spotted wandering around wearing a "Zoobomber" helmet whilst clutching a handful of tinfoil sculptures.... My pal the Reverend Phil offered to let me wear the helmet home, but I felt like a hypocrite wearing it when I'm waaaayyyy too chicken to attempt the "zoobomb" myself. Speaking of self-promotion, Portland fegs might be interested to know that on Monday, February 23rd, I am playing a show at Meow Meow, at 302 SE 2nd Street in Portland. I'm being billed as The 45th Parallel (my sensitive singer-songwriter band name) and I'm playing first. I'm supposed to be there at 8:00 so I suspect it will begin soon after that. C'mon and watch me tremble! If you're lucky, I might tell my mohel joke to pad out my set! n. np: Sonic Yoof _________________________________________________________________ Get fast, reliable access with MSN 9 Dial-up. Click here for Special Offer! http://click.atdmt.com/AVE/go/onm00200361ave/direct/01/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 18:29:53 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: For you bikers >Jeme: > > Would have asked the guy about the bike, but the group was, well, a bit >> "gangland"-looking. > >And what kind of bikes were they on? Were they on those tiny trick bikes >that it's so absurd to watch a grown person try to ride where their knees >are practically hitting them in the chest or what? The other two bikes didn't make much impression on me. The usual. Not ten-speeds, but...typical "multi-terrain" bikes which I see around. Sorry. Obviously, I don't know proper bicycle terminology. I didn't remember that Rex observed the same circus-bike phenomenon awhile back. Strange. Even down to the owner having a gang-like orientation. Speaking of non-combustible transportation, here's where I mention that I'll be running in an official 10K on Saturday morning. My first one since last July. At the time I signed up, I was running my fastest times *ever* (5.5 miles in 43:13!), but I apparently overextended myself because I hit an aches-and-pains stretch immediately afterwards and have been slow (or even inactive) throughout the past week. As a result, my expectations for the race have dropped by a minute or so. Drat. Initially had dreams of finishing in under 50 minutes. >Steve: >Cool. Is this the first time a Cerebus reference makes an >appearance on Feglist? Oh god. If only. I was half-planning to go up to Hollywood tonight and see a special showing of the new Jandek documentary film (http://www.jandekoncorwood.com), but I think simple time logistics have made it impossible. Starts in precisely a hour...shower, eat, dress, drive? No. :( Eb, freshly back from 4.8 miles at a mediocre pace ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 21:48:29 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: For you bikers They are called minibikes. They are v silly. And I say that as a Brompton and sometime recumbent rider. Capuchin wrote: > > J... very happy on his fixed-gear road bike with bullhorn bars, a Brooks > saddle, and bright yellow fenders. Gotta wait until the snow's gone until I can drag out Stumpy, my grey-primer 1983 Stumpjumper singlespeed. Brooks saddle, of course. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 21:52:10 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Not a "new" fad per se... Rex.Broome wrote: > > Goddammit! I did this thread EXACTLY A YEAR AND A DAY AGO! I think maybe they were lowrider bicycles you saw: ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 19:00:29 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Not a "new" fad per se... >Rex.Broome wrote: >> >>Goddammit! I did this thread EXACTLY A YEAR AND A DAY AGO! > >I think maybe they were lowrider bicycles you saw: > Maybe I didn't look in the right place on the site, but those bikes don't look anything like what I saw. Like I said...TINY wheels. Eb ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 19:53:05 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: For you bikers On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > They are called minibikes. They are v silly. And I say that as a I've never seen them quite as small as Eb describes, though... he's talkin' TINY. > Brompton and sometime recumbent > rider. Most of the folders you see around here are Bike Friday or Birdy. I prefer the Fridays, myself... they also make a recumbent folder as well as a tandem (which is uberweird). > Capuchin wrote: > > J... very happy on his fixed-gear road bike with bullhorn bars, a > > Brooks saddle, and bright yellow fenders. > > Gotta wait until the snow's gone until I can drag out Stumpy, my > grey-primer 1983 Stumpjumper singlespeed. Brooks saddle, of course. Seems like that's exactly what you'd want in the snow. We don't get much snow here. Three or four days a year. You can just stay in and nobody will notice. I rode the fixie on one snowy day this year. It was no less pleasant than I imagine riding anything else would have been. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 20:10:09 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Not a "new" fad per se... On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Eb wrote: > >Rex.Broome wrote: > >> > >>Goddammit! I did this thread EXACTLY A YEAR AND A DAY AGO! > > > >I think maybe they were lowrider bicycles you saw: > > > > Maybe I didn't look in the right place on the site, but those bikes > don't look anything like what I saw. > > Like I said...TINY wheels. I think Stewart was referring to what Rex saw. You saw a runt bike or a mini bike... not a lowrider. Though perhaps not a deluxe suspension model like this one. Rex probably saw some freestyle bikes. These usually have 20 inch wheels. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 23:24:16 -0600 From: steve Subject: Re: A sign from above? On Feb 19, 2004, at 5:29 PM, James Dignan wrote: > um, no - sorry. Lightning starts at the ground and travels up to the > cloud. You'd think Fegs would watch more Discovery/TLC. Maybe it's because monster this and makeover that have crowded out all the shows with actual information. - - Steve __________ The White House backed away Wednesday from its own prediction that the economy will add 2.6 million new jobs before the end of this year, saying the forecast was the work of number-crunchers and that President Bush was not a statistician. - CNN ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 21:50:12 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: A sign from above? On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, steve wrote: > You'd think Fegs would watch more Discovery/TLC. Maybe it's because > monster this and makeover that have crowded out all the shows with > actual information. And maybe that's because the public airwaves are given to for-profit organizations with no obligation to (and, indeed, a negative interest in) public service. J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 00:45:31 -0500 (EST) From: "Danny Lieberman" Subject: Re: For you bikers > I saw something very strange outside a Mexican fast-food place, two days ago. > > A teenage guy riding a bike...but it was practically a "circus bike." > The wheels were only about six inches in diameter, and the back wheel > axle had two thick silver protrusions which probably were intended to > serve as foot pegs while coasting? And then there was a tall, uh, > "seat stem" to add elevation for non-kiddie leg length. > > Is this some new fad? What the hell? Web evidence of this beast? These were marketed about 2-3 years ago as a novelty. A friend bought one at the time for $99, I think. I dont remember if it was a tv promo or web marketing gimmick but a froogle search for the terms "clown bike" gave me this: http://www.toysinthemail.com/trick-bikes/punk-and-runt-mini-bikes/runt-bike-blue.htm - -- Danny Lieberman dfl@panix.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 21:53:56 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: For you bikers >I dont remember if it was a tv promo or web marketing gimmick >but a froogle search for the terms "clown bike" gave me this: >http://www.toysinthemail.com/trick-bikes/punk-and-runt-mini-bikes/runt-bike-blue.htm THAT looks like what I saw. Though the pictured bikie doesn't have those strange foot pegs on the back axle (about three inches in diameter...almost like two tin cans sticking outward on either side of the tire). Eb ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 20:46:17 +1300 From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) Subject: RE: A sign from above? > I liked Braveheart, until I read a book about William Wallace >and realized that Mel outdid Oliver Stone's JFK. > > My favorite Mel Gibson movie is probably Gallopoli at this point >in time. maybe you need to read a book about Gallipoli too. He outdid Braveheart on that one. 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, 20 Feb 2004 10:35:38 +0000 From: "Matt Sewell" Subject: Re: A sign from above? Damn you Dignan! Is this really true, though? I know that before lightning strikes streamers go from the ground towards the lightning, but surely this doesn't necessarily mean that electricity is generated from the ground...? I'll bet you'll be telling me god's not a woman next! Cheers Matt >From: grutness@surf4nix.com (James Dignan) > >> 5. Lightning tends to come from above, unless you have evidence to the > >> contrary. >um, no - sorry. Lightning starts at the ground and travels up to the cloud. > >James > > James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Find out more about the new range of Premium Web services from MSN. Click here for more information. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:46:33 +0000 From: "Matt Sewell" Subject: Re: A sign from above? Monster truck makeover for Mr Brelin! Monster truck makeover: Presented by Rupert Murdoch and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Each week Rupe and Arnie take delapidated socialists and, with a little TV magic and *just three days*, turn them into top-of-the-range SUVs! Gotta get me one o'them Capuchineros... garaunteed a clear 2' higher than your standard humvee! Cheers Matt >From: Capuchin >On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, steve wrote: > > You'd think Fegs would watch more Discovery/TLC. Maybe it's because > > monster this and makeover that have crowded out all the shows with > > actual information. > >And maybe that's because the public airwaves are given to for-profit >organizations with no obligation to (and, indeed, a negative interest in) >public service. > >J. >-- >_______________________________________________ > >Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Find out more about the new range of Premium Web services from MSN. Click here for more information. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 07:49:21 -0500 From: "Maximilian Lang" Subject: Smile I don't know if I am the only one here interested but tonight, in London, Brian Wilson performs Smile in public for the first time. Max _________________________________________________________________ Dream of owning a home? Find out how in the First-time Home Buying Guide. http://special.msn.com/home/firsthome.armx ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 08:38:29 -0500 (EST) From: Jill Brand Subject: Peter Weir movies and Mel Gibson in the day Peter Weir has made great movies. He's also made The Dead Poet Society, which, for my money, was solid piffle. We got Robin Williams in another of his impassioned "whose gag reflex is going to get triggered first" roles (his roles in Patch Adams and Good Will Hunting do the same). And guess what, youngsters. Mel Gibson was considered quite the actor until he went Yankee. He was really fine in The Year of Living Dangerously and in Gallipoli (and the movies were really good, too). But when he realized that there wasn't a blockbuster he couldn't refuse it was all down- hill from there. Jill ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 09:05:27 -0500 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: For you bikers Capuchin wrote: > >> J... very happy on his fixed-gear road bike with bullhorn bars, a Brooks >> saddle, and bright yellow fenders. Stewart replied: >Gotta wait until the snow's gone until I can drag out Stumpy, my >grey-primer 1983 Stumpjumper singlespeed. Brooks saddle, of course. I had a Brooks saddle on my 1972 Peugeot PX-10 when I bought it new. It gave way to a lighter saddle some years later. French bikes were all over the place when I lived in Stockton, CA during the Summer of 1971 to Summer of 1973. Peugeots, Merciers, Gitanes. Now you hardly see one. I still have my PX-10 though. Although it has a lot of Campagnola parts on it now. Michael B. NP David Bowie Heroes ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 08:31:29 -0600 From: steve Subject: Re: Smile On Feb 20, 2004, at 6:49 AM, Maximilian Lang wrote: > I don't know if I am the only one here interested but tonight, in > London, Brian Wilson performs Smile in public for the first time. If only Brian would come out and "conduct", and let other people do the singing. - - Steve __________ There were brief interludes during the news conference - especially the long languid pauses -when some viewers might have flashed back to the presidency of Richard Nixon. That is, the Nixon Years at their most tumultuous and Twilight Zoney, when the old Trickster would come on TV and you'd sit there not just fascinated but a trifle terrified of what he might say, who he'd accuse of persecuting him, and whether he might come completely unglued or just melt into a hideous puddle right before your horrified eyes. - Tom Shales, on Bush. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 06:35:32 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Peter Weir movies and Mel Gibson in the day Jill Brand wrote: > Peter Weir has made great movies. He's also made The > Dead Poet Society, which, for my money, was solid > piffle. We got Robin Williams in another of his > impassioned "whose gag reflex is going to get > triggered first" roles (his roles in Patch Adams and Good > Will Hunting do the same). Patch Adams makes Dead Poets Society look like Citizen Kane though. And Williams is a million times worse in it; in DPS he's merely vaguely annoying whereas in PA you just hope someone will "accidently" knock him into a huge cauldron of boiling oil. > And guess what, youngsters. Mel Gibson was considered > quite the actor until he went Yankee. Or rather, when he was "pretending" to be Australian (he was born in New York state, and only moved to Australia when his whackjob father decided to have the whole family dodge the draft re: Vietnam (though that's not why dad's a whackjob). ===== "Life is just a series of dogs." -- George Carlin __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 9:38:56 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: Smile Maximilian Lang wrote: > > I don't know if I am the only one here interested but > tonight, in London, Brian Wilson performs Smile in public > for the first time. Now *that* would be a show to tape. Don't forget that, as an E6 fan, I have to idolize Brian above all others. Everyone else was just copying the sounds in Brian's head. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 09:09:16 -0600 From: "Eugene Hopstetter, Jr." Subject: bid now for a copy of Tintern Abbey's single If you're a fan of English psychedelica, no doubt you've heard Tintern Abbey's two masterpieces, "Vaccum Cleaner" and "Beeside." I've long considered these my most favorite psychedelic songs ever recorded, but have had to settle for reissues. I never thought I'd even see a picture of a copy of this single. Well, there's a copy of the 45rpm 7-incher (Deram DM 164) on ebay right now. Bidding is currently at $1,500US. Wow. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:39:40 -0500 From: hb Subject: NOW SEEDING : Robyn's 50th Birthday Carville is now seeding the London 50th Birthday gig from last year: http://www.sharingthegroove.org/msgboard/showthread.php?s=&threadid=43859 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:54:44 -0500 From: "Christopher Carville" Subject: RH 50th b'day at sharingthegroove.org Hi- I am seeding the 3/2/03 show at sharingthegroove. OK sound, nice show. If anyone has a better copy, please share it. C link: http://www.sharingthegroove.org/msgboard/showthread.php?s=&threadid=43859 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 07:55:50 -0800 (PST) From: John Barrington Jones Subject: Re: NOW SEEDING : Robyn's 50th Birthday On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, hb wrote: > Carville is now seeding the London 50th Birthday gig from last year: Hal? Is that you? Long time no see! So answer the question that's been on our lips for so long now: How's your lovely wife? :) =jbj= ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 12:05:30 -0500 From: Jon Lewis Subject: On the Tellies I'm guessing it'll be of interest to a good portion of y'all that Television are playing in New York City on the 25th and 26th of March, at Irving Plaza. Tickets are $26.50 preorder. Ouch, but it hurts so good. I've been waiting for three years for a chance to see 'em... well, 19 years, since I first heard MM, but it's only been an earthly possibility for the last 3. I knew moving North was a good idea! Hopefully they'll be hawking that damn elusive Live At the Academy disc at the shows as well. Jon Lewis ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 09:09:49 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: reap Eddie Clontz, editor of the greatest American newspaper, The Weekly World News ===== "Life is just a series of dogs." -- George Carlin __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 09:35:21 -0800 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Paging Sebastian! Hey Sebastian-- I replied to your offlist question yesterday but I'm not sure if it got through... need to chat with you about your compilation contribution and make sure I get it on there in an acceptable form. Contact me when you can... Thanks! Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 12:37:25 -0500 From: fingerpuppets Subject: Re: RH 50th b'day at sharingthegroove.org one time at band camp, Christopher Carville (carville1@comcast.net) said: > I am seeding the 3/2/03 show at sharingthegroove. > OK sound, nice show. If anyone has a better copy, please share it. > C >link: >http://www.sharingthegroove.org/msgboard/showthread.php?s=&threadid=43859 as i posted in the thread at stg, i think there is a reasonable chance that these shns are sourced from a recording of the show which was only circulated as two big untracked mp3 files. i should be getting said mp3s shortly so we should be able to tell if these shns are the same or not. has any other recording of this show surfaced? woj ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 12:55:57 -0800 From: "Palle Hoffstein" Subject: Re: A sign from above? From: "steve" > You'd think Fegs would watch more Discovery/TLC. Maybe it's because > monster this and makeover that have crowded out all the shows with > actual information. > I've given up on those two, once fine, channels. It sounds like the American versions of those channels have gone much like their Canadian editions. TLC Canada shows endless home renovation and makeover shows, between lurid stuff like 10 MOST EXTREME MUMMIES! Discovery Canada shows ROSWELL SOLVED! and 10 MOST EXTREME MUMMIES! Then there's the History Channel, which is 90% World War II documentaries, movies like "Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves" (because that's history) and 10 MOST EXTREME MUMMIES! I preferred Mummies when they were less extreme. TV at the dawn of the new Dark Ages. Time to get BBC Digital. Palle ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 13:02:22 -0800 (PST) From: Capuchin Subject: RE: For you bikers On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Bachman, Michael wrote: > I had a Brooks saddle on my 1972 Peugeot PX-10 when I bought it new. It > gave way to a lighter saddle some years later. French bikes were all > over the place when I lived in Stockton, CA during the Summer of 1971 to > Summer of 1973. Peugeots, Merciers, Gitanes. Now you hardly see one. I've been buildings lots of french fixies for folks around town in the past six or seven months (OK, like three or four, but that's lots). I'm not sure why except for perhaps the deep drop-outs and readily available steel frames. (Though many of the dropouts are stamped and I wouldn't use 'em myself.) The bitch is, of course, the bottom bracket. Nobody really makes french threaded cups and cones anymore. So you can make due with used parts (which are in abundance, but sometimes sketchy) or you can order a fancy french sealed cartridge bottom bracket from Harris Cyclery. Damn, those guys have every weird out of stock thing you can imagine. > I still have my PX-10 though. Although it has a lot of Campagnola parts > on it now. Seriously... replace that BB with a sealed model. Maintenance free and not available much longer. [Hopefully triggering Godders' trainspotting pastiche reflex.] J. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 15:31:05 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: A sign from above? on 2/20/04 12:55 PM, Palle Hoffstein at palleh@digitaleclipse.com wrote: > From: "steve" > You'd think Fegs would watch more Discovery/TLC. Maybe it's > because >> monster this and makeover that have crowded out all the shows with >> actual information. >> > > I've given up on those two, once fine, channels. It sounds like the American > versions of those channels have gone much like their Canadian editions. TLC > Canada shows endless home renovation and makeover shows, between lurid stuff > like 10 MOST EXTREME MUMMIES! Discovery Canada shows ROSWELL SOLVED! and 10 > MOST EXTREME MUMMIES! Then there's the History Channel, which is 90% World > War II documentaries, movies like "Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves" (because > that's history) and 10 MOST EXTREME MUMMIES! > It's common practice to call The History Channel "The Hitler Channel" for just that reason. I think it's TLC that has the "Inside..." series. That one's fairly informative, like the episode about Air Force One where they showed the plane that flew JFK back from Dallas after Lee Harvey had his way with him. Otherwise, I just watch the occasional Monster House episode to get my fill of Monster and home renovation shows. - -tc n.p. - RH "Gravy Deco" ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V13 #51 *******************************