From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #262 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, July 13 2007 Volume 16 : Number 262 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: bumper stickers = tattoos for your car ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: bumper stickers = tattoos for your car [Carrie Galbraith ] copyright questions [2fs ] Re: Reap [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: bumper stickers [Rex ] Feg holiday? [2fs ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:30:22 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: bumper stickers = tattoos for your car n. says: > My favorite sticker spotted in Austin - "WHAT WOULD G.G. ALLIN DO?" oh those innocent times before yesterday when i'd never heard of g.g. allin. this from his wikipedia entry at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GG_Allin: "In his last show he did a few songs before the power went out, after which he trashed the venue and walked the streets of New York naked and covered in blood and feces, surrounded by fans whom he openly embraced. On VH1's recent Freakiest Concert Moments, Allin's final show ranked at number four." ...makes me curious what came in for the top three. xo p.s. i liked the sonic youth bumpersticker story. - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:04:37 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: bumper stickers = tattoos for your car Tom Clarked: >On Jul 10, 2007, at 8:56 AM, natalie jacobs wrote: > >>>Now that raises a question: what bumper stickers do various fegs sport? >> >>My favorite sticker spotted in Austin - "WHAT WOULD G.G. ALLIN DO?" > >Just today I saw "What Would Scooby Do?" > >Mine are, from left to right: >SomaFM, A white Apple sticker (required), and KFJC > >Then of course there's the license plate... No current stickers, but an old sticker story and a plate story... My younger brother's first car sported a Dark Horse Records logo (the many-headed horse, rather than the Aum also sometimes used) that we picked up at an early Beatles convention. After the car was junked, I convinced him I spotted the recycled bumper (including fairly rare sticker) being driven around locally on another car...Not sure why we thought this was funny at the time... The license plate story involves our sorta 2nd car / junker, a squat red Honda, that we bothered to spend the $ for a vanity plate -- TMSERVO, since we were big "Mystery Science Theater" fans, and, well, the "little red car" (as we called it) sorta resembled Tom Servo from MST3K (actually, we've had it for years, so it wasn't ALWAYS a junker and we've just kept renewing the plate). Two observed reactions: A) A car full of 20somethings honking and waving at us, pulling over at the next light and yelling "MST rocks!" and "Tom Servo!" at us...good times; B) At a weekend at a bed-and-breakfast (when we hadn't taken the bigger car) overhearing a middle-aged guy sneering over breakfast, "I think we have an ex-convict staying here this weekend -- I saw a license plate in the lot that said 'TIME SERVED.' I wonder who it is...?" I decided to interrupt, tell him he was wrong ("that's an 'O,' not a 'D' at the end...and I wouldn't expect you to get what it meant"), and let him know to be careful what he said, cuz you never know who is listening. He sputtered over his muffin as we walked away, laughing. Hey, still good times, come to think of it! Michael "In the same time period, my GF's computer was 'named' Crow T. Robot" Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ http://newlivehotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:58:56 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: Long, lost cat-name thread (50% RH content!) Update! Our Cat-Formerly-Known-As-"Elsa" (stupid, "Born Free"-inspired name, forced on her / us by my soon-to-be-ex-brother-in-law who originally found her) is now called Sophia / Sophie. I say it's "Sophia," from "Jewels For Sophia;" my GF says it's "Sophie," because (lovingly) the very large cat just sits on the sofa all day. She's a very chatty Maine Coon Cat...and already seems much more enamored of the newer name -- actually seeming to respond to it more readily (we were already using "Sophie" as a sofa-loving nickname, so the transition was smoothed)... You may now return to your regularly-scheduled lives... Michael Sweeney ...We also thought that "Lord Fluff Ginger Silicone Pusscat" didn't necessarily fit her as well... _________________________________________________________________ http://newlivehotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:59:25 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: bumper stickers = tattoos for your car On 7/11/07, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > > n. says: > > My favorite sticker spotted in Austin - "WHAT WOULD G.G. ALLIN DO?" > > oh those innocent times before yesterday when i'd never heard of g.g. > allin. > > this from his wikipedia entry at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GG_Allin: > "In his last show he did a few songs before the power went out, after > which he trashed the venue and walked the streets of New York naked > and covered in blood and feces, surrounded by fans whom he openly > embraced. On VH1's recent Freakiest Concert Moments, Allin's final > show ranked at number four." The "popularity" of G.G. Allin is sort of an indictment of a particularly idiotic moment in rock history - hell, cultural history - wherein a sociopathic bozo with a shriveled walnut for a brain became a celebrity mostly for acting like a complete and utter asshole wherever he went, and passing it all off as "rebellion" and "reality, ma-aan." Yes, shit is in reality. No, in reality people do not throw shit at you...unless you're at a G.G. Allin show. He got arrested here in Milwaukee, and a lot of misguided "punks" were all "freedom of speech, freedom of speech!" Last I heard, flinging shit isn't speech. Particularly not when, as was likely given that a lot of folks just go to particular clubs to see whoever's playing, if they're music fans, numbers of the audience probably were unprepared for Allin's "show." He claimed he was going to kill himself onstage, too. (Oh! what integrity and intense, dark, coolness!) Instead, he died the proper stupid man's death: OD'd on heroin. Did I mention he was a rapist, kidnapper, and torturer too? Or is that cool now as well? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:19:34 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Re: bumper stickers = tattoos for your car Spotted recently: "Cheney/Satan 08" My recent car is the first one I've owned that doesn't have a "Kill Your Television" sticker on it. Mostly because I haven't found one lately. - - carrie, who could have lived a lifetime without knowing who GG Allin was ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:39:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Reap Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson, 94 http://www.slate.com/id/2129373/slideshow /2129415/fs/0//entry/2129409/ "Children have always enjoyed my movies. They are just not allowed to watch many of them." -- John Waters . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Bored stiff? Loosen up... Download and play hundreds of games for free on Yahoo! Games. http://games.yahoo.com/games/front ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:54:19 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: copyright questions My brother-in-law, a performing musician who's made a few recordings, was talking about copyright the other day when we got together, and he realized he really didn't know that much about the various rights that attach to various aspects of music (the song itself, recordings, physical media, live performance, broadcast, etc.). Anyone here more or less an expert on this and who'd care to explicate it all a bit? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:07:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Reap That's the wrong link, obviously. Though I suspect ol' Lady Bird might have liked a bit of Calvin & Hobbes here and there. Actual Lady Bird link: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/07/11/national/a145024D26.DTL Jeff Dwarf wrote: > Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson, 94 > > http://www.slate.com/id/2129373/slideshow/2129415/fs/0//entry/2129409/ > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better Heartthrob. Get better relationship answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545433 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:34:01 -0400 From: Rex Subject: Re: bumper stickers On 7/11/07, Jason Brown wrote: > > Now that raises a question: what bumper stickers do various fegs sport? I think the only ones surviving are PADI and Fender stickers, the last because, hee, Fender bumper sticker, right? Will probably pick up a WV logo sticker to replace the previous two. Once had the sticker that came with "Jewels for Sophia" on there, but it rotted off... guess it wasn't meant to be a bumber sticker after all. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 08:27:57 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Feg holiday? Is everyone lounging by the pool then? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #262 ********************************