From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #224 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, June 4 2007 Volume 16 : Number 224 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: The most glorious baseball temper tantrum in years..... [2fs ] Re: 1967 [2fs ] and in today's crab news... ["michael wells" ] Southern Cross [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: Southern Cross [Benjamin Lukoff ] TB lawyer guy ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2007 22:55:03 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: The most glorious baseball temper tantrum in years..... On 6/2/07, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > Even if you don't care about baseball, this is truly something to > behold. > > http://broadband.espn.go.com/ivp/splash2?ceid=2891243 That's funny - he *looked* like a fully grown adult. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 10:21:00 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: And Now the Quiz Sensation That's Sweeping America like Billy Corgan's Meatloaf Recipe... Only got 5 out of 12. I feel so out of touch. - -----Original Message----- >From: Rex >Sent: Jun 2, 2007 5:29 PM >To: Jeff Dwarf , the big Ebowski >Subject: Re: And Now the Quiz Sensation That's Sweeping America like Billy Corgan's Meatloaf Recipe... > >On 6/2/07, Jeff Dwarf wrote: >> >> Porn Star or My Little Pony!!!!! >> >> >> http://www.brunching.com/pornorpony.html > > >Ah, Brunching Shuttlecocks. It was a sad day when they closed down. > >Personally I fucking hate "Southern Cross". The song, at least. The anime >was okay. > >-Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 11:12:04 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: 1967 >Article in the paper today mentions other 40 year olds this year: >"Disraeli Gears" >"Are You Experienced?" >"The Velvet Underground and Nico" >"The Doors" >"Surrealistic Pillow" >"The Who Sell Out" >"Axis: Bold as Love" > And a few others. including: Younger Than Yesterday After Bathing At Baxter's John Wesley Harding Between the Buttons/Satanic Majesties Something Else By the Kinks Smiley Smile Songs By Leonard Cohen Fred Neil Absolutely Free Pandemonium Shadow Show Strange Days Magical Mystery Tour (US LP anyway) 5000 Spirits Or the Layers Of the Onion Safe As Milk Gorilla and the end-of the-line Yardbirds' Little Games ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 13:20:22 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: 1967 Curiously, the easiest way to determine which albums celebrate their 40th anniversary this year is to find a list of albums released in 1967 - which, by coincidence, is 40 years ago! This amazing mathematical oddity might save you hours of time looking at release dates of albums, wondering, "hmm...is that 40 years old?" and then looking to see if some publication is celebrating the 40th anniversary of that album. Anyway: yeah, a lot of good stuff came out in '67 dinnit. On 6/3/07, kevin wrote: > > >Article in the paper today mentions other 40 year olds this year: > >"Disraeli Gears" > >"Are You Experienced?" > >"The Velvet Underground and Nico" > >"The Doors" > >"Surrealistic Pillow" > >"The Who Sell Out" > >"Axis: Bold as Love" > > > And a few others. including: > > Younger Than Yesterday > After Bathing At Baxter's > John Wesley Harding > Between the Buttons/Satanic Majesties > Something Else By the Kinks > Smiley Smile > Songs By Leonard Cohen > Fred Neil > Absolutely Free > Pandemonium Shadow Show > Strange Days > Magical Mystery Tour (US LP anyway) > 5000 Spirits Or the Layers Of the Onion > Safe As Milk > Gorilla > and the end-of the-line Yardbirds' Little Games > - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 15:58:57 -0700 From: "michael wells" Subject: and in today's crab news... Headline: Who knew? Freshwater crabs thrive in Roman ruins http://tinyurl.com/29sqej ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 12:41:39 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Southern Cross >PS - When "Southern Cross" came out, I, who still luvvvvvvs the '77 "CSN" >album (and likes most of their prior output), dismissed it as fluff...but, >now, since all of DC's further trevails (absolutely self-inflicted, I know, >but, still...), I actually really like the song now and even get a bit teary >every time the line "Think about how many times I have fallen..." comes >around. Just getting older, I guess...and can better identify with it than >when it came out and I was 20... I'm the same. Actually picked up a cut-out of the album "Daylight Again" on the strength of that song, and was surprised how fine several of the other tracks are. Not a classic, but certainly not what I'd expected given its low standing. >Wasn't "Southern Cross" a Stills song, though? Indeed so. The yacht imagery fools a lot of people. That song has some resonance for me personally, since I can still remember seeing the Southern Cross for the first time, at age eleven, and waving goodbye to the Plough, which I haven't seen since around the same time. BTW, is it my imagination, or has David Crosby come more and more to resemble a walrus as the years have gone on? James (if I stand on a hill at the right time of night I can just make out Alula Australis - Zeta UMa - skirting the horizon) - -- 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: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 20:49:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Benjamin Lukoff Subject: Re: Southern Cross On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 grutness@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > >Wasn't "Southern Cross" a Stills song, though? > > Indeed so. The yacht imagery fools a lot of people. That song has > some resonance for me personally, since I can still remember seeing > the Southern Cross for the first time, at age eleven, and waving > goodbye to the Plough, which I haven't seen since around the same > time. "What on earth is the Plough?" I thought, and then I Googled "plough constellation" and find out that it's the Big Dipper as Brits (and apparently New Zealanders) call it. Is "Big Dipper" US and Canada only, then? Or even US only? Ben ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 01:26:13 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: TB lawyer guy i admit it; i'm having a little fascination with the story of the TB lawyer guy (clearly, the TB-lawyer-guy-gene is linked with the "cold case files" gene.) there's just these weird facts that don't make much sense. maybe it's just bad reporting. regardless, here goes: why would TB lawyer guy bring his lawyer father to meet with CDC folks? well, the real question is why would the father *record* the meeting if they didn't have the sense that traveling might not be the best idea? http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article1872165.ece is TB lawyer guy even married to TB lawyer guy's "wife"? http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/conditions/06/01/tb.flight/index.html are TB lawyer guy and TB lawyer guy's "wife" a little confused about who gets to wear the mask? or is it an odd-day, even-day sort of thing? or are they so blandly attractive they want to share the non-mask spotlight? TB lawyer guy's day: http://a.abcnews.com/images/US/abc_gma_speakers_070601_ms.jpg TB lawyer guy "wife" 's day: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/dayart/aponline/60790.49Tuberculosis-Infection.sff.jpg do TB lawyer guy's friends think they are helping the world's impression of him: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6679077,00.html choice quotes from TB lawyer guy's friends: " 'If you subtract this TB thing from Drew Speaker, he's really a pillar of the community,' Rich [a friend] said. " " '[TB lawyer guy's "wife"]'s very gracious, she's very accommodating. And she backs that up with smart,' said Fansler. 'Normally people TiVo things like 'Lost.' She TiVos things like '60 Minutes.''' " [friend of TB lawyer guy's "wife"] (it's true - nothing says smarts like tivo + "60 minutes.") and this one i'll leave to jeff 2fs to do justice: " 'Greece was picked sort of location-wise for where they wanted to be for their honeymoon,' said Ryan Prescott, Speaker's law school classmate and one of his closest friends. and in this one, TB-lawyer guy says he might have picked it up doing (did i read that right?) charity work in vietnam? http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/OnCall/Story?id=3234168&page=1 now i'm just be a cynical ass, but if this is true, i will apologize to TB lawyer guy right on this here feglist for questioning the probability that this guy ever did charity work in vietnam. and finally, is being known as TB lawyer guy for the rest of his life the extent of this guy's karma? shouldn't there at least be an onion article or an snl skit or something? xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #224 ********************************