From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V15 #222 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, September 23 2006 Volume 15 : Number 222 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Nooz [Eb ] Re: My name is "Eb", and my peenis is always hard [2fs ] Re: reap ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Fuck me, baby, I'm a trolley bus! [J ] Re: Last Warbles pre-order (NR) [Alfred Masciocchi ] RE: Fuck me, baby, I'm a trolley bus! ["Marc Alberts" ] Re: Last Warbles pre-order (NR) [Benjamin Lukoff ] Re: Ghastly [wojbearpig ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 17:30:57 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Nooz http://www.thesun.co.uk Garrett to Play Irwin in Biopic? By BECI WOOD September 22, 2006 FORMER MIDNIGHT OIL SINGER Peter Garrett wants to play Steve Irwin in a film based on the life of the Crocodile Hunter. Steve was killed earlier this month when a stingray barb stabbed him in the heart while he filmed off the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. According to reports in the US, Garrett, a fellow Australian, is already in talks with Universal Studios about making a biopic. The singer was so touched by Steve's enthusiasm for his job and feels a movie would be a fitting tribute to the wildlife expert's life. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 19:55:16 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and my peenis is always hard On 9/22/06, Spotted Eagle Ray wrote: > > > > On 9/22/06, 2fs wrote: > > > > > > Can I evoke whatever variant of Godwin's Law it is that relates to > > using > > WWII as an analogy? > > > Since Gene Clark and the Byrds have come up a few times lately, it's kind > of interesting that I was trying to remember what the hell song "Underground > Sun" reminded me of, and I just pegged it: it's "The Day Walk", the last > lost song that Gene ever cut with the original Byrds, which remained > unreleased until it was unearthed for the "Never Before" compilation, at > which time Gene had forgotten its original title and renamed it "Never > Before", hence the compilation's title. > Peenis! Anyway: there's something about AMGKHLBriggs that reminds me of SIOMWTMemphis Blues Again (and it's not just that their titles are too damned long to type). Does anyone else hear this? Also: Rex (I think) commented that on the live version of "Briggs," it sounds as if Rieflin still hadn't decided what the drum part should be. Could be - it also seems like his tempo is a bit shaky. Sometimes it seems he's dragging the beat, other times pushing it - in neither case for any compelling musical reason. Stands to reason, though, that if he was still figuring out what kind of part to play, his time might be shakier than if he knew exactly what he was playing. Stingray! - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 21:19:48 -0700 From: Eb Subject: Ever notice... ...how many of AllMusic's capsule biographies open with calling the artist "one of the..." something? "one of the top-selling soul acts of the '80s" "one of the most unlikely success stories of the late '90s" "one of the most influential prog bands ever" Etc.... Dismayingly formulaic. And...HA! For kicks, I just looked up Robyn Hitchcock and...whaddya know? He's "one of England's most enduring contemporary singer/songwriters and live performers." When I started writing this post, I didn't even know RH's bio was yet another example. Eb (but my nipples are entirely flaccid) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 08:35:33 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: reap Bachman, Michael wrote: > > Yeah, they were all on Shakespeare rods and reels in the Fishing Department at the > local Bass Pro Shop. Hey, diss not the Bass Pro. Hemingway's, in the Springfield store, is one of the best restaurants I've been to. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 15:01:50 -0700 (PDT) From: J Subject: Re: Fuck me, baby, I'm a trolley bus! I love the new album. Phew! Seems like we've all been needing him to get with a band for a while. I love Spooked, but this is up there with Jewels For Sophia for me. I don't seen San Francisco on the tour list yet. Surely we will be the next stop after Seattle, dontcha think? Off topic, check out the new Tickle-Me Elmo doll. wow. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4x-VW_rCSE Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 09:45:25 -0400 From: Alfred Masciocchi Subject: Re: Last Warbles pre-order (NR) Do you know if ordering this set gets you the 9th bonus disc? I can't find any mention of that on the site. Thanks, Al Steve Schiavo wrote: > > > The last 2 Fuzzy Warbles and the box are up for pre-order. The first > 6 are on sale. > > > - Steve > __________ > No matter where you go, there you are. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 08:27:57 -0700 From: "Marc Alberts" Subject: RE: Fuck me, baby, I'm a trolley bus! J wrote: > I love the new album. Phew! Seems like we've all > been needing him to get with a band for a while. I > love Spooked, but this is up there with Jewels For > Sophia for me. Definitely two thumbs up for me, although my first impression is that NY Doll wasn't a good choice to end the album with. Granted, I've only listened once so opinions may change, but it seemed that it was a bit out of character with the rest of the album and then left me looking for a bookend song that never came. Minor quibble, though. Marc ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 12:52:05 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and my peenis is always hard i had assumed that you knew what i meant when i said: >>but what amazes me is that he doesn't feel the need to hide behind a mask...or even to refrain from riding in airplanes. that may be the signal indicator of the bush administration's impotence.<< apologies if i didn't state it clearly enough. but now i'm curious what you had thought i meant. and also still curious what your line of thinking was with your enigmatic response: >>It's because he's arguably *insane*.<< anyway, it's not pushing the envelope a bit (especially considering the region; and, of course, especially considering that the bush administration already tried to rub him out once before) as you very well know. <> yes: the recall referendum. it was the carter center *and* the OAS, by the way. that's not what carter said. he said that he *didn't* see compelling evidence of fraud. which doesn't necessarily mean there wasn't (or that he didn't). but that's what he said -- and gaviria, the OAS monitor, agreed with him. a better indicator that the referendum reflected the popular will is, as i say, the bush administration's quick acceptance of the results, not to mention that there weren't spontaneous mass uprisings as there have been following other recent plebiscites...and, of course, chavez' current 70% approval rating among venezuelans. poor people, especially in the third world, work *much* harder than the rich, as, again, you're very well aware. if somebody tries to help them get some sort of decent return for their work, yeah, that somebody is going to be popular -- especially if able to deliver more than rhetoric. but you've a logical failing to. the something-for-nothing scenario you decry is, of course, precisely that promised by g.w. bush: just keep running up credit card debt and taking out exotic mortages indefinitely, and you'll live happily ever after. so why is he, by your reasoning, not popular? uh, geez, how's your klan robe fitting these days? another option: get organised, and run the fat-assed sonofabitch out of town. did the united states just bend over and take it when mossadegh nationalised iran's oil? when saddam began denominating oil-for-food proceeds in euros? when guatemala told united fruit to get lost? when castro and allende did similar? hell, the u.s. even invaded friggin' *russia* when it tried to withdraw from the world economy. so why is chavez still standing? because the bush administration, bogged down in the sands of iraq, is impotent to deal with the masses in, not just venezuela, but *all* of south america, telling it to go fuck itself. <> again, a miscommunication. that was my interpretation of your "it's because he's arguable insane" comment. and, also again, i'd be interested to know what you *did* mean by the comment. <> . but this doesn't even include the military budget (which comprises half of the discretionary budget). it also doesn't include "legacy" giveaways, such as the airwaves, or the forests, or the resources under the ground. <> check, on the first part. now: back to denouncing social programmes for the poor. <> now *how* did i know you were going to say that? "personal responsibility" begins with...somebody else. and until some highly unlikely condition is met, you're content to continue leeching off the state for all you're worth. i'm not the one running my mouth off about "personal responsibility". even so, i'll hazard a guess that i'm much less a ward of the state than yourself. <> that's your m.o., dude (i should've added to the list your ignorance -- willful or not -- of facts). if you can find even one counter-example from the archives, i'll send you a prize. so, if you don't think it's a charming description, perhaps you should change your methods. instead, 50,000 people perish every day from hunger and poverty-related diseases. thank god "democracy" prevailed! actually, the proportion of civilian casualties is *higher* to-day than it was in world war ii (though slightly less than in vietnam). but, can you say what it is that you wish the military were politically able to do, were it not so "preoccupied with civilian loss of life"? what, there are *too many* buildings left standing in fallujah? cluster bombs and radiological munitions aren't effective enough for you? "only" a couple hundred thousand civilians slaughtered is putting a crimp in your style? our torture methods are just too, y'know, fraternity-grade? first of all, there's no evidence that this is the case (or, if you've got some, feel free to cite it). but more importantly, as jeff mentioned, we shouldn't be occupying iraq, and israel shouldn't be occupying palestine any more that saddam should've been occupying kuwait or the soviets should've been occupying afghanistan. right, and the deaths of scores of millions of americas-indians, and tens of millions of subcontinent-indians, and millions upon millions more indigenous people at the hands of the western "democracies" indicates just how precious we consider life, and just how peace-loving we are. anyway, the united states was well aware of the ongoing extermination of the jews, but delayed opening a second front for political reasons -- which essentially amounts to the same thing, doesn't it? there is, of course, no indciation whatever that iran will launch an attack upon israel. ahmedinejad might (or might not) desire it, but he's not calling the shots. anyhow, knowing that any attack would result in a massive retaliation in kind, iran is, obviously, not going to do anything of that sort. does iran have a nuclear weapons programme? probably. would it be willing to give it up in return for israel dismantling all of its nukes? probably. is that offer ever going to be made? probably not. <(No, I am not saying WWII was the Allies' fault.)> it was imperialism's fault. and so long as the west was unwilling to renounce imperialism, it was as culpable for the bloodshed as were germany and japan. <1.) There has been a violent attack by enemy combatants (lifting the definition from the GC whereby they are not uniformed military of any state; a militia organization, for example). You know where there training camps/leaders/base of operations is.> remove the army from saudi arabia, discontinue the sanctions on iraq, and discontinue military and political support for israel's occupation of the west bank and gaza. not because bin laden said so, but because, no matter what you think of his methods, bin laden's grievances (shared by the entirety of the muslim world) were legitimate. and here's *another* bonus question: what would you do about a country that spends more on its military than the rest of the world combined; that regularly uses its military to interfere in others' business, killing millions of people while immiserating billions; that maintains huge stockpiles of nuclear weapons (and other weapons of mass destruction), while officially holding the position that it arrogates to itself the right to conduct a nuclear first-strike if it feels like doing so; that refuses to abide international law, if the law doesn't suit its purposes; that is developing a new generation of nuclear weapons, as well as space-based weapons? would you "bend over" and let the country "roger" you from here to kingdom come? or would you fight back? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 16:48:50 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and my peenis is always hard On 9/23/06, Stacked Crooked wrote: > > > Who's going to win the popularity contest: the guy who will pay you $100 > if > you work for the money, or the one who will give you $20 for doing > fuck-all > nothing?> > > but you've a logical failing to. the something-for-nothing scenario you > decry is, of course, precisely that promised by g.w. bush: just keep > running up credit card debt and taking out exotic mortages indefinitely, > and you'll live happily ever after. so why is he, by your reasoning, not > popular? Of course, he probably is still popular among the citizens who most benefit from his policies. But the other logical problem in Ferris' position is this: many powerful, wealthy people preach endlessly on the virtues of self-reliance, responsibility, and hard work, and against the evils of handouts, "dependency," and lack of incentive that supposedly result therefrom. Yet huge percentages of them have inherited vast amounts of their wealth; they protest vigorously against the "death tax" (which affects only the very wealthiest); and their own children get handout after handout (as do many of their wives: the percentage of non-working women is, I would hazard, far higher among the wealthy than among any other class), yet rather than eliminate inheritance entirely - on the grounds that compelling the children of the wealthy to foster those virtues I mention above and not fall victim to the evils listed above - they fight tooth and nail to keep and enhance those benefits. And of course there are all the various money-market means of capital increase, which do not result from any sort of labor but merely arise as an effect of ownership (as laws and regulations are currently structured...to whose benefit...): again, a lack of self-reliance and the absence of any connection between work and gain. Reduce the capital gains tax while refusing to raise the minimum wage? We're just encouraging self-reliance...among people who can't already afford to not have to earn another penny the rest of their lives and live solely off interest, dividends, and capital gains. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 18:44:46 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: And here it is again! Spotted Eagle Ray wrote: > http://chardman.blogspot.com/ Akshully, I was grooving on the Bob Log III video lower down the blog. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 16:15:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Benjamin Lukoff Subject: Re: Last Warbles pre-order (NR) It does indeed. It's called "Hinges." On Sat, 23 Sep 2006, Alfred Masciocchi wrote: > Do you know if ordering this set gets you the 9th bonus disc? I can't > find any mention of that on the site. > > Thanks, > Al > > Steve Schiavo wrote: > > > > > > > The last 2 Fuzzy Warbles and the box are up for pre-order. The first > > 6 are on sale. > > > > > > - Steve > > __________ > > No matter where you go, there you are. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 22:57:36 -0400 From: wojbearpig Subject: Re: Ghastly one time at band camp, Christopher Hintz said: > haven't popped in the bonus CD yet > > last time they were hand-burned, this time it's all promo-y this makes me happy. selling hand-made cd-rs makes my brain 'splode -- primarily because i don't really trust people to burn cd-rs anymore; too many crap burns from trades and record labels aren't anymore careful in my experience. woj ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V15 #222 ********************************