From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #137 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, April 6 2007 Volume 16 : Number 137 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Florida houses "old perverts" per Robyn's instructions [Rex ] Re: Florida houses "old perverts" per Robyn's instructions [2fs ] Re: Feg [Jeff Dwarf ] Go Fug Yourself Website ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: Go Fug Yourself Website ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: Feg [Rex ] Re: Feg [2fs ] Re: what was that band name again? [djini@voicenet.com] Re: My name is Mike Godwin and you will surrender to my superior psychic powers ["Crazy Unca' Nick" ] Primavera Sound Festival BARCELONA May 31-June 2 [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Egyptians on YouTube [Tulloch ] Re: I hope he didn't sneeze... ["Michael Sweeney" ] Tuesday's SF Show [Tom Clark ] That Explains It... ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: [sfbayfegs] Tuesday's SF Show [Carrie Galbraith ] Re: That Explains It... [Rex ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 18:19:38 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Florida houses "old perverts" per Robyn's instructions http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/04/05/bridge.sex.offenders/index.html?eref=rss_topstories ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 18:38:15 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: want an axe to break the ice On 4/4/07, ken ostrander wrote: > > > it was nice to see his london pad and to find out that the mystery girl > from the 'adventure rocket ship' video was his niece. and the whole bit > between them about how "unprofessional" he is tickled me. like when gillian > and david observed that his creativity cannot be reconstituted. i've only > recently become aware that uncle bobby likes to do live takes in the > studio. has this always been the case? Robyn or Dylan? Both, I imagine... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 21:01:21 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Florida houses "old perverts" per Robyn's instructions On 4/5/07, Rex wrote: > > > http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/04/05/bridge.sex.offenders/index.html?eref=rss_topstories "Also under investigation are the contents of several refrigerators found onsite." - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 21:01:47 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Feg Feap! Reg! On 4/5/07, Rex wrote: > > On 4/5/07, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > > > Darryl Stingley > > > > http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2826562 > > > Whoa, do we now post "feg" for "reap"? Scary! > > -Rex > - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 20:10:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Feg Rex wrote: > On 4/5/07, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > > > Darryl Stingley > > > > http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2826562 > > > Whoa, do we now post "feg" for "reap"? Scary! Only when i screw up and type in the same thing under subject as I under "To:" ("Feg" being the nickname I have in my addresses for you fuckers). "Children have always enjoyed my movies. They are just not allowed to watch many of them." -- John Waters . ____________________________________________________________________________________ We won't tell. Get more on shows you hate to love (and love to hate): Yahoo! TV's Guilty Pleasures list. http://tv.yahoo.com/collections/265 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 23:18:13 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Go Fug Yourself Website dear j9, http://gofugyourself.typepad.com/ one of my faves: http://gofugyourself.typepad.com/go_fug_yourself/2006/11/the_fugstige.html xo lp - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 23:21:06 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: Go Fug Yourself Website Ugh. I knew that would happen one of these days. I'll go fug myself. xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 20:52:13 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Feg On 4/5/07, 2fs wrote: > > Feap! Reg! Please don't call me Reg... it's not my name. (Only one letter off, though.) - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 23:25:37 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Feg On 4/5/07, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > > > Whoa, do we now post "feg" for "reap"? Scary! > > Only when i screw up and type in the same thing under subject as I > under "To:" ("Feg" being the nickname I have in my addresses for you > fuckers). Ah, thank you - I've been needing a new list nickname... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 08:29:09 -0400 (EDT) From: djini@voicenet.com Subject: Re: what was that band name again? Sebastian exclaimed: > Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 17:04:10 +0200 > From: Sebastian Hagedorn > Subject: Re: what was that band name again? > > - -- Michael Wells is rumored to have mumbled on > 2. April 2007 09:25:34 -0500 regarding Re: what was that band name again?: > >>> That info wasn't, by any chance, bearing today's date, was it? >> >> OK, guilty. I did like the bit about the restraining order though. > > I read it on April 2 and actually believed it for a few moments until I > read the reply. And I was kinda looking forward to hearing them, too! I > don't even know Mike Doughty and Mike Portnoy, but the other three Mikes > together could be fun! Oh man, Mike Doughty's old band Soul Coughing fucking rocked. The album Irresistible Bliss, in particular, saved my sanity at The Worst Job I Ever Had*. I listened to it every single day for months. I saw them live once, at the Electric Factory in Philly, and it was a great show. Doughty's solo stuff is pretty good too - he has a nice eccentric sense of language and a syncopated delivery that is crazily hypnotic. *speaking of the publishing industry, there's a pretty interesting insider blog detailing the bankruptcy of one of the bigger distributers, and what's happening to the small publishers it represented: Radio Free PGW http://radiofreepgw.blogspot.com/ Jeanne ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 20:48:38 -0700 From: "Crazy Unca' Nick" Subject: Re: My name is Mike Godwin and you will surrender to my superior psychic powers Holy sweet chocolate Jesus (thanks Lauren) ...do you know how many digests are sitting in my Fegmaniax folder unread? Well trust me, you'd be a long time a-countin'. So, lo after all this time, I randomly decide to read one and ...whaddya know? My name! Right there in the middle of Godwin's post! What is this, the Internet version of that thing where you turn around because someone's staring at the back of your neck? >> hssmrg@bath.ac.uk wrote: > * Good question, Jeff. He must have done a gig or two to promote 'Great > Central' and 'Bible of Bop', mustn't he? Otherwise we are going to have > to turn to Nick Winkworth for memories of the Waves in the pre-Katrina > era. Yeah, yeah ...pre Soft Boys Waves. Sure I remember - I'm as old as dirt (though not as old as Mike. Ha!). If anyone comes to the Slims show next week I'll be the one who looks like he's accidentally wandered in from the old peoples' home across the street while looking for the spectacles that are on top of his head. It's been a rapid decline though. Only a year ago someone* might have easily have mistaken me for a slightly more manly version of John Travolta, but unfortunately I took a recommendation for a building contractor from Tom Clark... Anyway, the Waves last played in Cambridge in 1978. http://njaz.com/sboys.htm (see the bottom of the page) See you at Slims! ~N *Wish I could find that person. PS If anyone wants to pick up the Fegfotos page (yes it's still there, just neglected), drop me a note. PPS Fuck you, Tom Clark! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 00:52:17 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: movie talk hi fegs, recently it was pledge week (well, pledge *month* it seemed) on pbs and they seem to be reaching out to the old folks with even more showings of aging rock stars and how to be empowered by money. i caught only the tail end of this documentary called "guerrilla: the taking of patty hearst" and so i rented it from netflix. i really enjoyed this one. it's strange, the story of patty hearst is so bizarre that sometimes i forget whether it actually happened. rather like mount rushmore. i was too young when it was going on, but kind of grew up with talk about her here and there but never knew much about the story. for a long time, i thought the symbionese liberation army were trying to help the downtrowden of symbiona. and for all i knew, it was tied in with that concert for bangla desh. i've got to hand to these sla folks. i love how they're talking about their reconnaissance units and field units and there's actually like all of six people. what a bunch of bullshitters. as the saying goes, lord help me seek the truth but spare me the company of those who have found it. oh a subtle southern vs. northern california point was brought up in the movie by tim finley (the san franciscan who is sort of the sla "expert") in regards to the los angeles shoot out when the cops tell the sla members to give up and get out of the house: "maybe the people inside the house are thinking that's like when the sfpd says give up - it means you don't have to right away but in la, it meant you to right away." no shit. the shootout played out all over the networks. so it goes. television news starts its short march towards entertainment. the audio commentary by the director, robert stone, was nearly as interesting as the movie. in particular, he talks about his decisions about what to include and what to leave out of the movie and fills in some of the history from more of a personal perspective. the director made an earlier movie about the bomb tests at the bikini atoll and that one's in the netq now. oh, i also watched "metropolitan" which was a bit different than this one. it hasn't quite settled; i'll post about it later. xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 01:12:47 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Primavera Sound Festival BARCELONA May 31-June 2 Primavera Sound Festival BARCELONA May 31-June 2 More than 80 acts are scheduled for this massive show in the port area of Barcelona. There's an emphasis on the founders of alternative rock, with sets from old timers such as Robyn Hitchcock, Patti Smith, the Durutti Column, Buzzcocks, Billy Bragg, Jonathan Richman, and Sonic Youth. A three-day pass is available for $150. _http://www.boston.com/travel/articles/2007/03/18/starting_to_sound_like_sprin g/_ (http://www.boston.com/travel/articles/2007/03/18/starting_to_sound_like_spring/) ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 14:12:28 +0100 (BST) From: Tulloch Subject: Egyptians on YouTube There's a nice bit of footage of Robyn and the Egyptians perfoming the rarely played I Got A Message For You, Uncorrected Personality Traits and Listening To The Higsons (with the traditional instrument swapping) from the St Andrews Hall, Detroit, April 7th 1988 up on YouTube. Here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5tS2T8oSy0 The Purple Bottle - "Howling without symmetry" http://thepurplebottle.blogspot.com/ - --------------------------------- How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos. Get Yahoo! Photos ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 16:32:35 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: I hope he didn't sneeze... Jeff sez: >...Mick let's the piss be taken out of his public image on the failed Donal >Logue sitcom. I'll give you that one -- the first episode was funny with the "Lifestyles of the Mick and Fatuous" sorta stuff...(although I agree with the local critic who said the original title - "Let's Rob Mick Jagger" was INFINITELY better than the generic and pointless "Knights of Prosperity") >And really, don't we all know that Charlie Watts is the one who's >actually cool anyways? Charlie WAS the cool one. These days maybe Mick Taylor (aka The First Man to Get Out of the Rolling Stones Alive) or even Stew might be the new Charlie...(nah - j/k: Charlie is still my darling...) ...And, sure, I wince over the "faling out of the tree" or "snorting dad" stories, but, really, to me Ketih is the equivalent of the old Chicago bluesmen carrying on the true spirit of the music. I have this fantasy image of an (even more) wizened Keith (long after Mick has retired to his estate and gardening or raising polo ponies or whatever) being driven from town to town (by his son Marlon), with a supply of Maker's Mark and Marlboros in the back, setting up with pick up bands to play blues and rock in clubs, like a latterday Muddy Waters or John Lee Hooker. "Y'all know this one -- fellas, it's an open G tunin' and in the key of B...'Well, I never kept a dollar past sunset...'" Michael "Once named a cat 'Keef' after the REAL king of rock and roll" Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Cant afford to quit your job?  Earn your AS, BS, or MS degree online in 1 year. http://www.classesusa.com/clickcount.cfm?id=866145&goto=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.classesusa.com%2Ffeaturedschools%2Fonlinedegreesmp%2Fform-dyn1.html%3Fsplovr%3D866143 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 12:57:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Quail Day Tomorrow, April 7, is the ancient Aztec holiday of Zolincualiztli, or Quail Day. This year's Quail Day will be an especially significant one, marking the end of the current 4,000 year Quail Cycle. The Aztecs feared that this date would be marked by various unspecified but horrific disasters, perhaps even the end of the world. Fortunately we modern Westerners are too sophisticated to have any such fears.... At any rate, as a slightly lazy way of celebrating Quail Day, I'm including a brief essay I posted to the Feg List on Quail Day 2000. THE FESTIVAL OF ZOLINCUALIZTLI Literally, Zolincualiztli means "The Eating of the Small Round Irritating Bird." However, it should be remembered that the Aztecs, like most Native American peoples, regarded the quail not merely as an irritation but also as a symbol of evil. This helps explain the traditional Aztec rituals performed on Quail Day: each family would take the quails it had collected over the year and not only kill them (as anyone might do), but kill them in various cruel and hilarious ways. Some quails would be flattened with a single blow of the zoleuctl, or quail-mallet, and the tiny corpses flung into the neighborhood zolechtameh, or quail-pits. Archaeologists have excavated some zolechtameh on the old shoreline of Lake Texcoco eight meters in diameter and three meters deep, full to the brim with tiny crushed quail skeletons. Meanwhile, other quails would be force-fed popcorn and then tossed live into the family fire; it was considered good luck if the corn popped quickly, bursting the quail asunder before it burned to death. This was called zolintepehuah, the quail-tearing. If zolintepehuah occurred the popcorn would be eaten and the quail's body used to fertilize the Aztecs' famous chinampa, the fertile plots of land built up from swamp. Meanwhile, priests stationed atop the Great Temple and the Temple of Quetzalcoatl would perform the ceremony of iuh zolmeh patlaninih, "thus fly quails," in which a priest would tie a live quail's wings down with string, toss it up in the air to about shoulder height, then strike it a tremendous blow with the omemaquahuitl (two-handed club), knocking it far out over the sacred precincts, much like a little league baseball coach hitting balls to the outfield during practice. These and many other rituals would be performed from dawn to dusk every Quail Day, followed at sunset by the greatest feast of the year, centering on quitzilipochtli (the quail taco), with much drinking of pulque, dancing in the streets, and uninhibited sex. Quail Day was followed by Tzonochpaniztli, "The Sweeping Up of Feathers." The origins of Quail Day are obscure, but it seems to have been celebrated since before the Aztecs settled in the Valley of Mexico. Scholars see some connection to the great Aztec epic poem "Texcalco in Tlacati," wherein the legendary Cuauhtemoc says Ayaotl yoli pehuazqueh onimitimacoc anteyaochihuaniya nohuehtcuah. Otimitzahciqueh tzoyahc, tlamcazqueh, otitlaminilah. Ca cenquizca quitzilipochtli motlanequiliaya. Telchitl! [And having vanquished the foe-bird I wisely commanded that he be butchered. Therefore my servitors (advisors? cultists?) minced the foul creature and spiced (salted?) it and cooked it. The quail taco was indeed delicious and satisfying. It served him right!] Anyway, however you celebrate it, have a great Quail Day! - --Chris SOURCES: Andrews, J. Richard. Introduction to Classical Nahuatl. University of Texas Press, 1975. Carrasco, David and Scott Sessions. Daily Life of the Aztecs. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998. Heritage Foundation, The. Toward a Quail-Free America. With an Introduction by Nancy Reagan. Washington, DC: Heritage Press, 1986. Leon-Portilla, Miguel. Fifteen Poets of the Aztec World. University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 13:27:56 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Tuesday's SF Show Who's going? Are we meeting up for a bite beforehand? Anybody want to carpool from the south bay? - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 18:36:37 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: That Explains It... http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,21517293-5006003,00.html# I like this part: "Doctors are trying to find more McCoy relatives to warn them of the risk." Then further down a McCoy descendant says: "They (the doctors) called it madness disease. Our family would just go off - even on the doctors." xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 18:51:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Re: [sfbayfegs] Tuesday's SF Show - -----Original Message----- >From: Tom Clark >Sent: Apr 6, 2007 4:27 PM >To: Bay Area Fegs , The Authority Box >Subject: [sfbayfegs] Tuesday's SF Show > >Who's going? Are we meeting up for a bite beforehand? Anybody want >to carpool from the south bay? > >-tc I am so there! Bringing my nephew. OK, have a dental appointment that afternoon so can meet anytime after 5:30 or 6. Somewhere close? It's been ages since I was at Slims so your call. - - c ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 18:54:11 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: This pretty much sums it up (NR) > The Usual Gang of Idiots strikes again as DC Comics rush solicits > THE MAD WAR ON BUSH Mad magazine goes one better than The Nation. - - Steve _______________ Interaction with cosmic intelligence may be influence by Penrose noncomputable Platonic wisdom embedded in Planck scale geometry. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 18:19:48 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: That Explains It... On 4/6/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > > http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,21517293-5006003,00.html# > > I like this part: > "Doctors are trying to find more McCoy relatives to warn them of the > risk." > > Then further down a McCoy descendant says: > "They (the doctors) called it madness disease. Our family would just > go off - even on the doctors." You know, I did go to elementary school with a McCoy. And he *did* totally spaz out from time to time in a dramatic way that brought the whole class to a halt... two or three times a year, seems like. Innaresting. - -Rex ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #137 ********************************