From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V15 #96 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, May 2 2006 Volume 15 : Number 096 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: reap [Carrie Galbraith ] RE: Currently Uploading ["Bachman, Michael" ] Reap [Jeff Dwarf ] My name is "Eb", and I've got botox in my asscheeks! ["Stacked Crooked" <] Re: My name is "Eb", and I've got botox in my asscheeks! [2fs Subject: Re: reap On Apr 30, 2006, at 5:34 AM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > John Kenneth Galbraith, 97 > > I read it today in the obits. If I had a nickel for every time someone has asked me if I am related in my lifetime.... Funny thing is - he was a distant cousin of my father, who was also a John - John Mark Galbraith. JK was one of the Canadian Galbraiths. When they arrived in the late 1600s, they split and some went north and the others moved west with the frontier. I come from the frontier stock of course. Homesteading and inter-marrying (to touch on the recent racial topic) as they went... Be Seeing You, - - c ps: how was it that my Irish-Cop Grandfather was a Mason and my Scottish-Protestant-Father was anti-Mason? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 09:57:58 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Currently Uploading Carrie wtote: >Or if you don't get it while it's hot, I have the Criterion edition and >would be happy to back it up for anyone on the list. I've also Picnic >at Hanging Rock, Gallipoli and Walkabout for a collection of vintage >Australian film. I'm still looking for The Last Wave so a trade would >be grand. Breaker Morant is another vintage Austrailian movie that's available on DVD with better sound and bonus features than the previous version. Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 12:38:32 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Well, this is hardly a surprise (reap) Guy who camps out for a movie for 4.5 months runs out of reasons to live. Whodathunk? Eb John Guth, famed for "Star Wars" stunt By Mark Rahner Seattle Times staff reporter http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/obituaries/ 2002941357_guthobit20.html http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ABPub/2006/04/19/2002941081.jpg John Guth made news around the world by camping outside a Seattle theater for months to see a "Star Wars" movie. Wednesday, friends and family gathered to celebrate the spirit that led such a stunt and to mark his April 13 death, a suicide. Mr. Guth, 36, died of toxic asphyxia from inhaling carbon monoxide, according to the King County Medical Examiner's Office. He had been president of the Seattle Star Wars Society, and in 2002, he achieved planetary notoriety for camping outside the Cinerama for 4 1/2 months with club member Jeff Tweiten to be first in line for "Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones." "Not everybody's going to understand this," Mr. Guth said at the time. "A lot of people, just because they're not doing it, they think it's weird." What he called their "performance-art project" landed Mr. Guth and Tweiten on the "Today" show, CNN, "The Daily Show," and countless radio broadcasts worldwide. While the stunt drew ridicule and even pies in the face, Mr. Guth's upbeat attitude disarmed many, inspiring stunning acts of kindness as well, and recognition from "Star Wars" creator George Lucas. "It just amazes me how much global interest there is in two guys sitting on a sidewalk waiting for a movie," Mr. Guth had said. Mr. Guth operated his own small multimedia-production company for a living. He's survived by his partner, Bryan Barron. He was an animal lover who called their three dogs and two cats their "kids"; a movie buff who took pride in his decked-out home theater; a lover of good cigars and Scotch whisky; and an aspiring actor who had landed bit parts in a couple of sitcoms and had been active in theater productions. Mr. Guth also is survived by his parents, Barry and Janice Guth of Greenville, S.C., and a brother, Chris Guth of Deltona, Fla. Barron said the waiting stunt for which Mr. Guth was best known didn't change his life, "because John was always doing it just for the experience of it." "One of the things that attracted people to John was his quality of always being willing to try something new. It was a powerful way for him to interact with the general public and work on one of the things which he always prided himself on, which was the ability to change people's perceptions." Tweiten called the packed service Wednesday at Kent's Edline-Yahn & Covington Funeral Chapel "uplifting." "It just reminded me of all the good times I had with John and how I'm going to miss him. He was one of the guys that made this city a special place. "For a short time when we were in line, the entire world saw that, and he really enjoyed saying to the world, 'This is how you should be. Be a nice guy. Be a nice human being.' John loved the zany. He loved the extraordinary. He wasn't afraid to be bold." The memorial service, Tweiten said, reminded him of their favorite movies. "I feel like Luke seeing Obi-Wan die by the hand of Darth Vader. I know John's out there, you know? And now I kind of understand, and will always look at that scene differently," Tweiten said. Barron said he'll maintain Mr. Guth's personal Web site, www.johnguth.com, because Mr. Guth said in a note that he wanted it to stand as a lasting legacy "to prove my existence in this world." ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 14:24:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Reap Former, Giant, Mariners left-handed reliever Russ Swan "A severed foot is the ultimate stocking stuffer." -- Mitch Hedberg . Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 20:26:03 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: My name is "Eb", and I've got botox in my asscheeks! have y'all noticed that the "literally" mania seems to be morphing into a "quite literally" mania? still almost always used incorrectly, of course. but what i'm wondering is whether it even *can* be used correctly? what would be the difference in meaning, for example, in the following two sentences? - -- literally, my ship has sprung a leak. - -- quite literally, my ship has sprung a leak. and the newest misused-language mania for me to lie awake nights seething over: "every sense of the word". i think i hate this one even more that i hated the "devolve" mania (but not nearly so much as the "literally" mania). ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 23:15:16 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and I've got botox in my asscheeks! On 5/1/06, Stacked Crooked wrote: > > have y'all noticed that the "literally" mania seems to be morphing into a > "quite literally" mania? still almost always used incorrectly, of course. > > but what i'm wondering is whether it even *can* be used correctly? what > would be the difference in meaning, for example, in the following two > sentences? > > -- literally, my ship has sprung a leak. > > -- quite literally, my ship has sprung a leak. "Quite" is just an intensifier. Of course, how something can have degrees of "literally" is a question for the philosophers. I think it's an attempt to bypass the idiots who use "literally" metaphorically. and the newest misused-language mania for me to lie awake nights seething > over: "every sense of the word". This one doesn't bother me as much - just because there isn't any literal (!) usage of the phrase that's being cheapened by the metaphorical one. I mean, I suppose there could be: guy gets home early from work, sees his wife on their bed being rogered by the paperboy - husband walks out vowing never to return and that she'll never see a dime of alimony - she says, "Boy, I am fucked - in every sense of the word." - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 23:47:13 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and I've got botox in my asscheeks! Stacked Crooked wrote: > and the newest misused-language mania for me to lie awake nights > seething > over: "every sense of the word". i think i hate this one even more > that i > hated the "devolve" mania (but not nearly so much as the "literally" > mania). And yet, Eb mania remains your #1 concern. And, hey, I *like* having a tiny ass and have worked very hard to get it. Why would I get botox injections? Methinks you're just peeved because I keep ignoring your email requests for steamy pix. Meanwhile, previously uninitiated me downloaded a *pile* of Scott Walker tracks the other night (mostly the early stuff), and am trying to figure out if I can get "into" him. He's a hard nut to crack, because he's certainly an (cue fanfare) "Artiste" yet defies some typical rules for "Artiste"-hood (such as using easy-listening arrangements, relying quite a bit on outside songwriters and offering a woefully inconsistent catalog of varying commercial motives). A really unusual niche. I guess my own closest reference points might be Serge Gainsbourg and Van Dyke Parks? Hrm. So far, I guess my viewpoint hasn't turned much more enthusiastic than "Well, I do like him better than Leonard Cohen," but he's certainly an interesting character all the same. And I'm trying to sift through the early period (especially the "big four" albums) before I even begin to tackle Tilt and the more hardcore, out-there stuff. Any thoughts? Tomorrow on TCM: "The Birth of a Nation"...showing on cable for the first time in this DECADE? Can't wait, because I've never, ever managed to see this. Seen the other big Griffith films, but not this one. On the other hand, I saw the recent "Bewitched" remake over the weekend and WOW did this screenplay botch an easy cash-in. Craaaaaap. Sure are a lot of folks buzzing about this new USB turntable. Pick a topic...any topic. Eb PS I love this: http://thankyoustephencolbert.org ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 09:46:03 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and I've got botox in my asscheeks! - --On 1. Mai 2006 20:26:03 -0700 Stacked Crooked wrote: > but what i'm wondering is whether it even *can* be used correctly? what > would be the difference in meaning, for example, in the following two > sentences? > > -- literally, my ship has sprung a leak. > > -- quite literally, my ship has sprung a leak. Not a native speaker here, but sure, it *can* be used correctly: - -- ... and then he literally pulled my leg Unless there is an idiom "my ship has sprung a leak"(,) that I'm not aware of, the use of "literally" above is unnecessary. In my example it serves a purpose. In most cases contextual disambiguation would probably suffice, but I wouldn't call the explicit disambiguation "incorrect". - -- Sebastian Hagedorn http://www.spinfo.uni-koeln.de/~hgd/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 07:29:12 -0500 From: Dolph Chaney Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and I've got botox in my asscheeks! At 01:47 AM 5/2/2006, Eb wrote: >Meanwhile, previously uninitiated me downloaded a *pile* of Scott >Walker tracks the other night (mostly the early stuff), and am trying >to figure out if I can get "into" him. ... And I'm trying to sift through >the early >period (especially the "big four" albums) before I even begin to >tackle Tilt and the more hardcore, out-there stuff. Any thoughts? I did the same a few years ago, and so far Tilt is the only thing I really like. But for about a year, I was obsessed with Tilt -- it's completely engrossing. ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V15 #96 *******************************