From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V13 #177 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, June 18 2004 Volume 13 : Number 177 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Nickelback [Jeff Dwarf ] Spam [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Spam [tanter@tarleton.edu] Re: Spam [fingerpuppets ] News From The Museum [fingerpuppets ] RE: News From The Museum ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: News From The Museum [Eb ] Re: What's your incisor length? ["Jonathan Fetter" ] Re: News From The Museum ["Rex Broome" ] Re: Nickelback [Capuchin ] Re: Coins of the realm [James Dignan ] The Culture of Cute (may contain gross generalizations, but NR) [steve ] For Mac Fegs (NR) [steve ] Caution, ominous music (NR) [steve ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 06:26:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Nickelback http://www.nintendorks.com/brandon/archives/000475.php ===== "Life is just a series of dogs." -- George Carlin "I'm going to keep playing music until somebody shoots me." -- Scott McCaughey "It would not now surprise me in the least if, one night on TV, right there during The Memo, [Bill] O'Reilly declared himself to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia." -- Charles Pierce on MSNBC.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 07:01:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Spam Has anyone else been getting occasional spam labelled as being from smoe.org, with some feg-related addy? ===== "Life is just a series of dogs." -- George Carlin "I'm going to keep playing music until somebody shoots me." -- Scott McCaughey "It would not now surprise me in the least if, one night on TV, right there during The Memo, [Bill] O'Reilly declared himself to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia." -- Charles Pierce on MSNBC.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 09:08:20 -0500 (CDT) From: tanter@tarleton.edu Subject: Re: Spam not me. Marcy ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 10:53:14 -0400 From: fingerpuppets Subject: Re: Spam one time at band camp, Jeff Dwarf (munki1972@yahoo.com) said: >Has anyone else been getting occasional spam labelled as >being from smoe.org, with some feg-related addy? i get a lot but don't look closely at much of it since it's mostly forged anyway. chances are good that i have gotten some that qualifies though. if you or anyone does and you're curious, you can always forward it to me (with full headers please, if at all possible) and i'll take a look at it. woj ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 10:57:25 -0400 From: fingerpuppets Subject: News From The Museum thanks to tulloch for pointing this out! woj - ----- Forwarded message from Tulloch ----- To: VegetableFriends@yahoogroups.com From: "Tulloch" Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 14:50:36 -0000 Subject: [VegFriends] News From The Museum On August 7 and 8, Robyn Hitchcock & Heavy Friends will be performing the entire Beatles White Album, in aid of Medecins Sans Frontihres, at the 3 Kings in Clerkenwell, London EC1. The show is for two nights only, and tickets are #20, available now from the bar at the 3 Kings. Telephone number is 44 207 253 0483. On June 26th, Robyn will make a guest appearance with the Sadies at 3:00 pm in the acoustic tent at Glastonbury. He's also on their new Yep Roc album singing the song "Why Would Anybody Live Here?", for which he wrote the lyrics. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 11:25:56 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: News From The Museum >On August 7 and 8, Robyn Hitchcock & Heavy Friends will be performing >the entire Beatles White Album, in aid of Medecins Sans Frontihres, >at the 3 Kings in Clerkenwell, London EC1. The show is for two nights >only, and tickets are #20, available now from the bar at the 3 Kings. >Telephone number is 44 207 253 0483. And how will they be able to do Revolution #9? Maybe the midget from Twin Peaks that could talk backwards, Michael Anderson, could teach Robyn how to sing backwards. He explains how to do it on a Twin Peaks DVD that I have. Or maybe Michael could do the backwards parts himself? Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 09:33:59 -0700 From: "Rex.Broome" Subject: Spoonman... Michael Wells: >>Anyway, what will Delayed Suburban Departures* be charging for their >>big soiree? Has a setlist been fleshed out yet, perhaps on a bar napkin? >>What's on draft? Has anyone been contacted about playing spoons? Well, not that it's any surpise now that I've unleashed my "banjo" "playing" unto the world (erm, the list), I guess it wouldn't surprise much of anyone that I'd be the best bet for the spoons. I've played them for sizeable crowds while backing up my brother-in-law at his ad-hoc Cajun gigs from time to time. I usually play guitar for him, but from time to time the vibe at the Santa Barbara French Festival (or whatever) demands a tune we haven't had time to rehearse, so down goes the 12-string and out come the spoons... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 10:56:50 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: News From The Museum > On August 7 and 8, Robyn Hitchcock & Heavy Friends will be performing > the entire Beatles White Album, in aid of Medecins Sans Frontihres, > at the 3 Kings in Clerkenwell, London EC1. The show is for two nights > only, and tickets are #20, available now from the bar at the 3 Kings. > Telephone number is 44 207 253 0483. Who gets to be the one who chants "number nine...number nine...number nine"? Eb ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 14:20:44 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jonathan Fetter" Subject: Re: What's your incisor length? Many Taiwanese are also into the Blood type/personality type, and by extension the mainland Chinese probably are too, and maybe also the other Chinese scattered around SE Asia. I don't know which culture borrowed the concept from the other. I have yet to figure out why some condoms in Taiwan are marked with blood types. Not really too curious about that, though. Jon > We're not doing sociology here. What I forwarded is the observation of > an American who has lived in Japan for a number of years, first as a > teacher of English and now as the owner of a company that sells > Japanese pop culture stuff to overseas buyers. I hardly think anything > in that piece is racist or even insulting. > > And we have had corroboration of the belief in "Affective Blood Type" > (I coin a phrase) by one Feg. > > I don't know the absolute degree of belief, but I have often seen blood > type listed in the bios of Japanese pop culture celebrities. It was > just a passing notice, as I'm not really interested in anything other > than anime and movies, but I never knew exactly what meaning it was > supposed to have. > > Unfortunately, I didn't keep the piece on why "the Japanese" take their > shoes off in the house. But that's a cultural practice, rather than a > belief. > > > Just saiyan. > > > > > - Steve > __________ > Steepen, devil knows what's, combustion, as the door, protein, thing > was that, vernal, least believe that, autumn, but suddenly spring. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 11:25:40 -0700 From: "Rex Broome" Subject: Re: News From The Museum >>On June 26th, Robyn will make a guest >>appearance with the Sadies at 3:00 pm in >>the acoustic tent at Glastonbury. He's also on >>their new Yep Roc album singing the song "Why >>Would Anybody Live Here?", for which he wrote >>the lyrics. Hmm. The Sadies are also the backing band on Neko Case's forthcoming live set of new material. So maybe I need to be checking that out anyhow. Unfortunately Neko herself seems not to show up on the new Sadies record itself. Back to Spooky, about which we don't seem to know much... we've speculated about the Welsh/Rawlings sessions, but wasn't some recording done in Arizona as well, during the filming of The Return of the Living Manchurian Candidate? Involving Gelb, maybe, just to keep it in the family of collaborations-with-Neko-Case-collaborators? Any other sessions along the line which might be woven in there? Oh, and I saw the one sheet for the Manchurian Candidate... Robyn's name did not make it on there amongst the supporting cast, for what that's worth... - -Rex Need a new email address that people can remember Check out the new EudoraMail at http://www.eudoramail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 11:34:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Nickelback On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > http://www.nintendorks.com/brandon/archives/000475.php That's just about the funniest fucking thing I've heard this year.[1] This is one more reason[2] why fine art shouldn't be covered by copyright law. A vital culture depends on self-reflection. J. [1] This may well be usurped by the soundtrack to "Wizard People, Dear Reader" that I just downloaded and will watch with appropriate video accompaniment as soon as I get the right crowd together. [2] The immediately preceding is another. - -- _______________________________________________ Capuchin capuchin@bitmine.net Jeme A Brelin ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 12:54:32 +1200 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: Coins of the realm >Don't get me started on old Scots coins: bodles, nonsunts, bawbees ... Jersey's the weird one - they valued their shilling at some point to 13 pence, so pennies from jersey always had "one twelfth of a shilling" or "one thirteenth of a shilling" written on them! 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: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 22:28:58 -0500 From: steve Subject: The Culture of Cute (may contain gross generalizations, but NR) From the "Ask John" column at AnimeNation. Question: I heard about something called OS Tans and Trouble Windows. Are these the Microsoft mascots in Japan? Could there be an anime? Answer: Japanese culture is often referred to as the "culture of cute." Contemporary Japanese culture has quite a fascination with creating and idolizing cute mascot characters for virtually any and everything. Probably the best known of all Japanese mascot characters is Hello Kitty, but other well known ones include Domo-kun, Terepanda, Afroken, Ecoco Ice and even the characters of Di-Gi-Charat, who were all originally created as the mascots for the Gamers chain of anime retail stores in Japan. In fact, the prevalence of cute mascot characters in Japanese culture and consciousness is so prolific that anime director Satoshi Kon made the influence of this phenomena a primary theme in his anime TV series Paranoia Agent. (Note: Satoshi Kon directed the feature films Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress, and Tokyo Godfathers. He is considered to be something of an outrider in the anime world. - Steve) Within the past year or two a number of new mascot characters have begun to make a name for themselves in the Japanese fan community. The most significant "new generation" mascots include Biske-tan, Ink-chan, Habanero-tan, Binchou-tan and the OS Girls. Biske-tan, the unofficial fan created mascot for KFC restaurants, is a cute young girl usually dressed in a nightgown who wears a KFC biscuit with butter and syrup on her head. Her name is a pun on "biscuit" and the honorific "-tan," which is a "cute" alternate version of "-chan." It's sometimes difficult to find image galleries of Bisque-tan which don't include any nudity or erotic images, since her sweet, delicious and fluid covered nature make her rather sexually suggestive. Here's a link to the homepage of a "Bisque-tan Only Event", basically a gathering of Japanese Bisque-tan fans, and another fan page of Bisque-tan themed illustrations. Ink-chan is the cute young schoolgirl mascot of the famous Moetan Japanese-English "otaku" dictionary published by Sansai Books. She's also the star of several Japanese fan produced doujinshi comics. Habanero-tan is the unofficial mascot of Tohato Habanero snacks. Habanero-tan and her companions such as Jalapeno-chan are all cute and sometimes sexy little girl spices, created by Japanese fan artist Shigatake. Ironically Habanero-tan and company can't stomach spicy habanero flavored snack chips. Habanero-tan's popularity has led to renditions (some of them risque) by other Japanese fan artists. Binchou-tan is the pint-sized mascot of Japanese adult anime PC game development studio Alchemist. She and her companions have been the star of multiple short comics published in Japan's Megami Magazine. A Binchou-tan anime is now in development. Finally, the "OS-tans," possibly the most well known of all the fan created mascots, are attractive human female personifications of various computer operating systems, thus the name "OS." The free, online Wikipedia Encyclopedia includes an extensive entry on the OS-tans and a link to the now semi-famous fan produced "Troubled Windows" Flash animation. Devoted and diligent fans that search the internet may even be able to find an extended fan produced erotic illustrated story that features Ghost in the Shell's Motoko Kusanagi hacking (in very sexually suggestive ways) into the OS girls! While all of these mascot characters are undeniably cute and popular in Japan's anime and manga fan community, since they're unofficial, and especially because the OS girl "ME-tan" satirizes the Windows ME operating system in a humorous but not favorable light, it's highly unlikely that official copyright owners such as Microsoft would ever approve of official anime adaptations of these unofficial mascots. - - Steve __________ In press conferences, TV ads, and interviews this year, President Bush has manifested a series of psychopathologies: an abstract notion of reality, confidence unhinged from facts and circumstances, and a conception of credibility that requires no correspondence to the external world. - William Saletan ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 22:44:37 -0500 (CDT) From: tanter@tarleton.edu Subject: North Texas folks... Fahrenheit 911 is showing at Grapevine Mills!! Anyone want to meet up next weekend maybe..? Marcy ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 20:56:33 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: North Texas folks... > Fahrenheit 911 is showing at Grapevine Mills!! Anyone want to meet up > next weekend maybe..? > Maybe...but didn't Texas permanently close its borders to visitors, sometime during GW Bush's reign? Eb ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 23:37:19 -0500 From: steve Subject: For Mac Fegs (NR) Here you go - amaze or horrify your friends with Mac OS anime mascot girls. - - Steve __________ Pat Robertson's resignation this month as president of the Christian Coalition confirmed the ascendance of a new leader of the religious right in America: George W. Bush. - Dana Milbank ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 08:29:06 -0500 From: steve Subject: Caution, ominous music (NR) I'm not sure it this link will work for everybody, but here's a future double bill candidate for Fahrenheit 9/11. http://anon.salon.speedera.net/anon.salon/media/2004/06/ HuntingPresident_EPK_300k.qt - - Steve __________ One of the president's close acquaintances outside the White House said Mr. Bush clearly feels he has encountered his reason for being, a conviction informed and shaped by the president's own strain of Christianity. "I think, in his frame, this is what God has asked him to do," the acquaintance said. - Frank Bruni, NYT, on Bush's new war ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V13 #177 ********************************