From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V14 #89 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, April 5 2005 Volume 14 : Number 089 Today's Subjects: ----------------- meta-reap [Jeff ] RE: meta-reap ["Marc Alberts" ] Re: meta-reap [Jeff ] FW: [Tallulah] The rest of the 2005 US dates ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: meta-reap ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Write a caption for this picture, and 3 April RH Lafayette teaser ["David] Pope Kong II [The Great Quail ] that darned pope! [Jeff ] Setlist From Duncan Hall, LaFayette 4/3/05 [Casey Menninger ] Re: Setlist From Duncan Hall, LaFayette 4/3/05 [Tom Clark ] Re: meta-reap [Jeff ] Re: meta-reap [Tom Clark ] Eno question [The Great Quail ] Re: meta-reap [Christopher Gross ] Re: meta-reap [Tom Clark ] Re: meta-reap ["Lauren Elizabeth (gmail)" ] Re: meta-reap [Christopher Gross ] Re: meta-reap [Jeff ] Re: JL/POB [James Dignan ] Re: meta-reap [2and2makes5@comcast.net] Re: meta-reap [Jeff ] Re: Write a caption for this picture [James Dignan ] Re: Rush dorks, unite! ["Randalljr" ] Re: meta-reap ["Lauren Elizabeth (gmail)" ] reap ["michael wells" ] RE: meta-reap ["michael wells" ] Re: meta-reap [Eb ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 00:03:30 -0500 From: Jeff Subject: meta-reap Dumb question: so which of the many recent reaps is the flag being flown at half-mast for? (U.S. fegs here) Also: is there some national network of flagraisers and lowerers that's informed as to when the flag is supposed to be at half-mast or whatever? "Good morning. As a member of the Flag-Raisers' National Alert Network, know that from today until April 15, the flag should be flown at half-mast to commemorate the death of Nanker Phelge, underassistant junior secretary to Bundt County, Nebraska Dog Catcher"... - -- ...Jeff The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 22:30:57 -0700 From: "Marc Alberts" Subject: RE: meta-reap Jeff wrote: > Dumb question: so which of the many recent reaps is the flag being flown > at > half-mast for? (U.S. fegs here) JPII. > Also: is there some national network of flagraisers and lowerers that's > informed as to when the flag is supposed to be at half-mast or whatever? > "Good morning. As a member of the Flag-Raisers' National Alert Network, > know > that from today until April 15, the flag should be flown at half-mast to > commemorate the death of Nanker Phelge, underassistant junior secretary to > Bundt County, Nebraska Dog Catcher"... Half-staff orders are proclamations coming from the President's office or by Congressional law (more often the former). State and local governments can also order this independently, but they must do so in a manner consistent with federal laws. Not sure how they get the order out, other than presidential proclamations are released to the press and generally reported, and I'm guessing private flag-raisers either hear the news or they learn when folks tell them their flag should be at half-staff. Marc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 06:58:15 -0500 From: Jeff Subject: Re: meta-reap On Apr 5, 2005 12:30 AM, Marc Alberts wrote: > > Jeff wrote: > > Dumb question: so which of the many recent reaps is the flag being flown > > at > > half-mast for? (U.S. fegs here) > > JPII. > That was my guess - but it seemed odd, what with that pesky separation of church and state thing. Yes, I know; technically the Pope was also a head of state...but I don't recall flags being flown at half-mast every time the leader of (to be all Fukuyama) Burkina-Faso dies. Grumble. - -- ...Jeff The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 08:32:18 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: FW: [Tallulah] The rest of the 2005 US dates Go-Betweens US tour dates Friday 10th June Mercury Lounge, New York, NY Saturday 11th June Southpaw, Brooklyn, NY Sunday 12th June Cat's Cradle, Carrboro, NC Tuesday 14th June Abbey Pub, Chicago, IL Thursday 16th June Triple Door, Seattle, WA Friday 17th June Slims, San Francisco, CA Saturday 18th June Troubador, Los Angeles, CA ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 05:57:43 -0700 From: "Marc Alberts" Subject: RE: meta-reap Jeff wrote: > > > Dumb question: so which of the many recent reaps is the flag being > flown > > > at > > > half-mast for? (U.S. fegs here) > > > > JPII. > > > > That was my guess - but it seemed odd, what with that pesky separation of > church and state thing. I can't see how honoring the passing of any man by lowering the flag to half-staff, religious leader or not, could actually be seen as a state establishment of religion. > Yes, I know; technically the Pope was also a head > of > state... More than technically ;-) > but I don't recall flags being flown at half-mast every time the > leader of (to be all Fukuyama) Burkina-Faso dies. The last half-staff proclamation before the death of JPII was for the tsunami victims. Prior to that, Ronald Reagan, and prior to that it was Bob Hope. > > Grumble. Among the countries flying at half-staff for JPII are the US, Italy, Poland, Thailand, Australia, The Philippines, Cuba (they're athiesti!), Bolivia, Chile, Jordan, Greece, and New Zealand, not to mention the EU and the Arab League. I would venture to say not all of these countries were respecting the establishment of a state church in the process. Marc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 09:25:13 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: meta-reap Marc Alberts wrote: > > Among the countries flying at half-staff for JPII are ... and Canada. One forgets how high a percentage of the population here is Roman Catholic. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 07:34:57 -0700 From: "David Stovall" Subject: Write a caption for this picture, and 3 April RH Lafayette teaser http://www.tombstones.org.uk/~ankman/acu1/richard_1980.jpg "Dude, have you ever really looked at your, uh, hair?" The 3 April Robyn show was goofy fun. Shirt: White with big *bright* swirls of red and lime green, untucked. Pants: Too-skinny, roughly mediterranean blue, looked to be of the polymer family. Hair: We have a phrase around my house describing the look of various occupants when they've just been roused from sleep and show the effects from head to tail: Bedcat. Opening song: Uncorrected Personality Traits Highlight of the show for me: Freeze, followed closely by I Often Dream of Trains and Rain (Beatles), the latter of which was performed with Scott Ligon. Also in the running, Wichita Lineman, performed with Kelly and Scott, Robyn playing slide on the Tele. One gripe: Sleeping With Your Devil Mask really requires a backup singer to avoid the "guy singing all the vocal parts along with the song on the radio as he drives down the road" effect. Extemporization: A couple amusing bits of talk about just having emerged from a barn after 35 years to play this show, and another circuitous explanation of the purpose (or maybe just effect) that the unavoidable guitar-tuning that's part of any acoustic/folkie show has on the audience members and then indirectly on pet rodents owned by audience members. Robyn was looking for the word "nutria" - - the large rodent common in the swamps of Louisiana - but couldn't remember it quite, and eventually settled on "neutrinos" which lent a strange quarky charm to the story. Tape: Seems to have turned out mostly OK, but there are a few digital fuckups in at least one track (Chinese Bones, which was the second or third of the set). My DAT is in dire need of cleaning and alignment. The part of the tape with the openers Kelly Hogan and Scott Ligon is unusable, but the planets aligned and apparently kept those effects mostly at bay for Robyn's set. During the walkabout section, he walked directly past me, and boy can you tell exactly when that happened. There was at least one other taper, running a MiniDisc on a soundboard patch. I was on the aisle about seven rows back, and overall quality should be pretty decent, but this is one time when I'm rather tempted to mix the two sources together. Autographs: Being a fanboy and all, I got Kelly's first solo disc, The Whistle Only Dogs Can Hear, signed. The dog whose picture appears in the album was at the show, and was even onstage during Kelly and Scott's sit-in late in Robyn's set. Robyn signed the Matador reissue Underwater Moonlight booklet, Live at the Portland Arms cover and the cover for the promo 12" of "Flesh No. 1." Sorry to the other folks on the list whom I managed to miss meeting - - I didn't get to the venue quite as early as I'd hoped, and got involved talking to another friend I hadn't expected to see. da9ve ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 11:23:15 -0400 From: The Great Quail Subject: Pope Kong II Regarding the Peter Jackson spoof -- it may put things in perspective to know that one of his entire movies was a spoof, a "mockumentary" about a fictional New Zealand film director that was played on Kiwi television: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116344/ And about the damn Pope. Come on, it's hardly surprising to fly the flag at half-mast. No matter what you may think of the Church, Pope John Paul II was a head of state, the leader of one of the world's most popular religions for over a quarter of a decade, and a hero to many people all over the globe. It's not fair to compare him to the "leader of Burkina-Faso" and quibble (erroneously, by the way) about "church and state." And just for the record, I am not a Pope-fan! But I do like all that stained glass. - --Quail ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 11:41:46 -0500 From: Jeff Subject: that darned pope! On Apr 5, 2005 10:23 AM, The Great Quail wrote: > > > And about the damn Pope. Come on, it's hardly surprising to fly the flag > at > half-mast. No matter what you may think of the Church, Pope John Paul II > was > a head of state, the leader of one of the world's most popular religions > for > over a quarter of a decade, and a hero to many people all over the globe. > It's not fair to compare him to the "leader of Burkina-Faso" and quibble > (erroneously, by the way) about "church and state." I think you meant "facetiously" rather than "erroneously" ;) Anyway - I'm just being grumpy because of the non-stop media display of pious solemnity. It's like some rule that when a religious figure is in the news (in a non-grabby event) the media has to bend over backwards with stories of simple everyday folk and their weepy gratitude for everything Jesus done gived 'em. You'd never know something like 10 or 15 percent of Americans are atheists. I mean, sorry: we've had like six days of Pope headlines in the daily paper. He died; that's certainly news. But (like Generalissimo Francisco Franco) he's still dead, and has been for a few days now; until the new Pope's chosen, there really isn't a news story out there. It's just platitude city... Okay, I admit it: I'm just jealous cuz he got to wear that wicked-cool robe. - -- ...Jeff The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 10:16:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Casey Menninger Subject: Setlist From Duncan Hall, LaFayette 4/3/05 Hello, Can anyone who was at this gig tell me what the name of the song that Robyn sang (near the encore, I believe) that talked about Elvis Presley's mama making him a shirt for TV and about Elvis shaking his hips? I realize that isn't much in the way of clues, but the song was very moving to me and I couldn't figure out what it was... Thanks in advance, Casey __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! 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Sell Vatican City, feed the world. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 10:29:38 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Setlist From Duncan Hall, LaFayette 4/3/05 On Apr 5, 2005, at 10:16 AM, Casey Menninger wrote: > Hello, > > Can anyone who was at this gig tell me what the name > of the song that Robyn sang (near the encore, I > believe) that talked about Elvis Presley's mama making > him a shirt for TV and about Elvis shaking his hips? > That was probably "Elvis Presley Blues" by Gillian Welch. > Thanks in advance, > Yer welcome. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 13:47:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: meta-reap On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Tom Clark wrote: > I don't keep track of these things, but was the flag lowered for > Arafat? Milosovich? Milosevic is still alive. > How about Johnny Cochran? Maybe he didn't defend > as many criminals as the pope did, but still... Obviously you didn't care for the Pope. Understandable. But are you saying that they shouldn't lower flags to half-mast for him, in protest of his policies? THAT sounds like a nice recipe for endless bitter conflict anytime a major politician or religious figure dies. I'll pass. - --Chris np: the guy at the next desk constanty sniffing and sneezing ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 13:08:46 -0500 From: Jeff Subject: Re: meta-reap On Apr 5, 2005 12:47 PM, Christopher Gross wrote: > > On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Tom Clark wrote: > > > Obviously you didn't care for the Pope. Understandable. But are you > saying that they shouldn't lower flags to half-mast for him, in protest > of his policies? THAT sounds like a nice recipe for endless bitter > conflict anytime a major politician or religious figure dies. I'll pass. But the fact that (as far as I remember) the flags weren't lowered for Arafat in the US suggests that, already, someone is choosing whether to lower flags based at least in part on disagreement with his policies - since pretty clearly he was a major world figure. The choice of who should be honored is already policitized - it's not something that anyone needs to propose doing. - -- ...Jeff The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 11:29:03 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: meta-reap On Apr 5, 2005, at 10:47 AM, Christopher Gross wrote: > Obviously you didn't care for the Pope. Understandable. But are you > saying that they shouldn't lower flags to half-mast for him, in protest > of his policies? THAT sounds like a nice recipe for endless bitter > conflict anytime a major politician or religious figure dies. I'll > pass. > No, I'm saying that if you mandate the flag be lowered for one prominent individual, you should lower it for all prominent individuals. Why wasn't it lowered for Johnny Carson? Arguably millions of people loved him, and he wore funny hats too! - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 14:34:37 -0400 From: The Great Quail Subject: Eno question Does anyone out there have a copy of "My Squelchy Life," the CD that Brian Eno released only as a promo? I would be willing to trade a few of my own Eno rarities.... - --Quail ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 15:24:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: meta-reap On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Jeff wrote: > > Obviously you didn't care for the Pope. Understandable. But are you > > saying that they shouldn't lower flags to half-mast for him, in protest > > of his policies? THAT sounds like a nice recipe for endless bitter > > conflict anytime a major politician or religious figure dies. I'll pass. > > But the fact that (as far as I remember) the flags weren't lowered for > Arafat in the US suggests that, already, someone is choosing whether to > lower flags based at least in part on disagreement with his policies - since > pretty clearly he was a major world figure. I think the Pope got the flag-lowered treatment because he was the head of a religion that 70 million of *our* citizens belong to, not because he was a major world figure. But even as a world figure, Arafat wasn't really in the Pope's class. The Pope was the spiritual leader of 1.2 billion Roman Catholics; Arafat was the semi-leader of one small nation, albeit one that's embroiled in a bitter and very well-publicized conflict. That said, I'm sure there is a political element to choosing who gets honored, and how much. No doubt about it. But honoring the Pope was a justifiable decision on objective grounds, them grounds bein' his leadership of a religion so many Americans belong to, as mentioned above. On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Tom Clark wrote: > No, I'm saying that if you mandate the flag be lowered for one > prominent individual, you should lower it for all prominent > individuals. Why wasn't it lowered for Johnny Carson? Arguably > millions of people loved him, and he wore funny hats too! Again, I think it's more than simple prominence. But if Carson deserved the same treatment, then I say so did Frank Perdue! He had a major effect on the way Americans eat, and he gave the whole country a great catch phrase: "But I'm 42!" I mean, "It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken." Or whatever it was. And he looked much like one of his own plucked, shrink-wrapped products. Who didn't love those commercials? - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 12:47:13 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: meta-reap On Apr 5, 2005, at 12:24 PM, Christopher Gross wrote: > I think the Pope got the flag-lowered treatment because he was the > head of > a religion that 70 million of *our* citizens belong to, not because he > was > a major world figure. But even as a world figure, Arafat wasn't > really in > the Pope's class. The Pope was the spiritual leader of 1.2 billion > Roman > Catholics; Arafat was the semi-leader of one small nation, albeit one > that's embroiled in a bitter and very well-publicized conflict. > So it's a matter of quantity then. The feelings of the Arafat followers in the U.S. can be ignored because there aren't as many of them as there are pope-heads. In a country that preaches equality, we sure don't practice it. - -tc, atheist & apparently second class citizen. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 16:02:42 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth (gmail)" Subject: Re: meta-reap On Apr 5, 2005 3:47 PM, Tom Clark wrote: > In a country that preaches equality, we > sure don't practice it. This idea taken to its conclusion would seem to preclude elections. At least elections in which the most votes wins. ...which seems to create some sort of inherent problem when simultaneously preaching equality, but I would rather shrug and say 'things don't always make sense' than try to wrap my head around that one right now. Or just go back to my new book on Godel. I'll get the same kind of headache, but at least it will seem worth it. xo Lauren - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "I hate all music. Except 'Roadrunner' by The Modern Lovers." - John Lydon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 16:04:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: meta-reap On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Tom Clark wrote: > So it's a matter of quantity then. The feelings of the Arafat > followers in the U.S. can be ignored because there aren't as many of > them as there are pope-heads. Well, basically, yeah. If the flags were lowered anytime anyone loved by one or more Americans died, we could just nail them at half mast and leave them there. - --Chris, an agnostic leaning strongly towards "no, there ain't," but not one who sees relgious figures in black-or-white terms ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 15:58:32 -0500 From: Jeff Subject: Re: meta-reap On Apr 5, 2005 3:02 PM, Lauren Elizabeth (gmail) wrote: > > On Apr 5, 2005 3:47 PM, Tom Clark wrote: > > > In a country that preaches equality, we > > sure don't practice it. > > This idea taken to its conclusion would seem to preclude elections. > At least elections in which the most votes wins. Actually, there *are* many arguments that winner-take-all, 50-percent-plus-one-vote elections do discourage democracy in all senses except that of "majority rule." Parliamentary systems, for one - or systems in which voters are allowed to vote more than once with weighting attached (or, if you prefer, they divide their one vote proportionately). If democracy is about ensuring that everyone's voice is heard, and no one's is preemptively squashed, then yeah - that's a problem. (FWIW, I was never arguing that the flag shouldn't be at half-mast for the Pope - only that the fact that it is, and it wasn't for Arafat - or even was for Bob Hope, but wasn't for Johnny Carson - indicates that political considerations already enter into it and aren't some strange distracting virus introduced by squawking controversialists. Like me.) The best solution is to ditch the damned flag and honor principles - and even, dare one say it, actual people - instead of pieces of cloth. - -- ...Jeff The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 09:12:03 +1200 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: JL/POB "Marc Hewson" coreected me: >>that's half the story. According to legend, the JL/POB album was >>accidentally sent out to reviewers in acetate form, with side one's >>songs on one side and the second side containing just a test tone - >>one long constant hum. Several >>reviewers, not realising what it actually was, reviewed this hum as if it >>was the second side of the album. Some of the reviews were apparently >>very positive. James > >The album was The Wedding Album and was reviewed in Melody Maker by >Richard Williams: "Sides two and four consist entirely of single >tones maintained throughout, presumably produced electronically. >This might sound arid, to say the least, but in fact constanr >listening reveals a curious point: the pitch of the tone alters >frequently, but only by micro-tones or, at most, a semi-tone. This >oacillation produces an almost subliminal, uneven 'beat' which >maintains interest". Tulloch Ahhh. Right. I *knew* there was something wrong in what I'd written, but I couldn't put my finger on it - wrong album. Sigh. 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: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 21:36:48 +0000 From: 2and2makes5@comcast.net Subject: Re: meta-reap > I don't keep track of these things, but was the flag lowered for > Arafat? Milosovich? How about Johnny Cochran? Maybe he didn't defend > as many criminals as the pope did, but still... They didn't lower the flag when Vonnegut died? >You'd never know something like 10 or 15 percent of >Americans are atheists. Because all Americans believe in the Rapture. >I mean, sorry: we've had like six days of Pope headlines in the daily paper. >He died; that's certainly news. But (like Generalissimo Francisco Franco) >he's still dead, and has been for a few days now; until the new Pope's >chosen, there really isn't a news story out there. It's just platitude >city... I like all the "live" coverage from the Vatican--like something is going to happen other than a long procession of mourners. Wolf Blitzer: The square is packed with people, all here to ...My God! Did the Pope's finger just move? Jon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 16:46:53 -0500 From: Jeff Subject: Re: meta-reap On Apr 5, 2005 4:36 PM, 2and2makes5@comcast.net <2and2makes5@comcast.net> wrote: > > > They didn't lower the flag when Vonnegut died? Nah...but Eddie raised his. >You'd never know something like 10 or 15 percent of > >Americans are atheists. > Because all Americans believe in the Rapture. > > I like all the "live" coverage from the Vatican--like something is going > to happen other than a long procession of mourners. > > Wolf Blitzer: The square is packed with people, all here to ...My God! Did > the Pope's finger just move? Now there's an idea...Zombie Pope: The Movie! I am the resurrection! ...and your life! This is your body... ...whosoever eateth of it shall have eternal life...at least, if he's a zombie like me. This is your blood...yada-yada-yada, you know the drill... - --Jeff, trying to offend everybody The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 09:54:24 +1200 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: Write a caption for this picture >I don't know...but I'm trying to think of an appropriate architect's >work on which to use a really bad pun that's been floating around in >my head for a while... someone who designs buildings that sort of look >like Prairie School on acid; bright colors, or distorted forms...all >just so someone can describe the building as looking "like it was >designed by Pink Floyd Wright." > >Sorry. No worse than a T-shirt I used to own. Featured a magenta portrait of that Psychoanalyst guy Sigmund Whatsisname. I guess you can figure out the two word caption... James (then there was the other one with old scared looking guy and the wraith-like dreadlocked rasta - "Scrooge visited by the ghost of Marley") - -- 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: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 15:15:20 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Rush dorks, unite! http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/30/music_poll_results/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 16:48:45 -0700 From: "Randalljr" Subject: Re: Rush dorks, unite! From: "Eb" http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07/30/music_poll_results/ I heard TGQ voted 200 times and chased all the Metallica and Radiohead fans away, like he did with Rex. Vince ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 20:21:03 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth (gmail)" Subject: Re: meta-reap Jeff says: > Now there's an idea...Zombie Pope: The Movie! > I am the resurrection! off>...and your life! > This is your body... > ...whosoever eateth of it shall have eternal life...at least, if he's a > zombie like me. drinking the blood> This is your blood...yada-yada-yada, you know the > drill... Peter Jackson could get back to his roots by taking this one on. After he's finished up with the Kong trilogy, I mean. xo Lauren - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "I hate all music. Except 'Roadrunner' by The Modern Lovers." - John Lydon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 19:31:53 -0700 From: "michael wells" Subject: reap Saul Bellow, 89 (I thought he was already dead) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 19:36:47 -0700 From: "michael wells" Subject: RE: meta-reap Lauren regarding killer zombie Popes: > Peter Jackson could get back to his roots by taking this one on. I see it as more of a David Cronenberg comeback starring Mr. T, Natalie Portman, and the late Saul Bellow as the body of the Pope, with a title sequence by Kyle Cooper that is better than the film. Michael "we're making movies over here" Wells ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 17:41:52 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: meta-reap > I see it as more of a David Cronenberg comeback starring Mr. T, Natalie > Portman, and the late Saul Bellow as the body of the Pope, with a title > sequence by Kyle Cooper that is better than the film. > Surely, the Pope's upcoming year-long world tour could incorporate a brief acting gig. His handlers could consult Terry Kiser for tips. I just hope JP2's remains won't have started to "turn" by the time he gets out here. Eb ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V14 #89 *******************************