From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #307 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, August 29 2007 Volume 16 : Number 307 Today's Subjects: ----------------- tattoos ["natalie jacobs" ] Re: 1-800-FEG-HELP ext. BUFFY [Benjamin Lukoff ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #306 [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: 1-800-FEG-HELP ext. BUFFY ["Jason Brown" ] Re: 1-800-FEG-HELP ext. BUFFY ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] Re: 1-800-FEG-HELP ext. BUFFY [Benjamin Lukoff ] Re: tattoos ["Michael Sweeney" ] Total Eclipse [Carrie Galbraith ] lying about the New Pornographers [Jill Brand ] new on DIME : The Soft Boys 21 November 1978 Leicester University, Leicester, [HwyCDRrev] Re: tattoos [kevin ] Re: My name is [kevin ] Re: My name is [2fs ] Fantasy Football 2: I swear I'm not going to keep doing this [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Awesome thread idea! [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: My name is [kevin ] The Lives Of Others ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: The Lives Of Others [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: My name is ["Lauren Elizabeth" ] RE: My name is ["Marc Alberts" ] Re: tattoos ["Melissa Higuchi" ] Re: My name is [2fs ] Re: My name is [Rex ] Re: tattoos [2fs ] Re: lying about the New Pornographers [Rex ] Re: lying about the New Pornographers [2fs ] Re: My name is [2fs ] RE: Total Eclipse ["michael wells" ] Re: Total Eclipse [Carrie Galbraith ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:13:32 -0500 From: "natalie jacobs" Subject: tattoos > While I'm on a roll of writing frivously uninteresting posts, I thought > I'd ask this: do fegs have tattoos? Here's a photo of both of mine: http://i19.tinypic.com/4xkwtx1.jpg The one on my upper arm is from a tarot card (The Star), the one around my wrist is a needlepoint design I found online. (Not because I'm way into needlepoint - I just liked the design.) n. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:32:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Benjamin Lukoff Subject: Re: 1-800-FEG-HELP ext. BUFFY On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > i say: > > 2fs says: > > > Is that the one where he was oiled up and working out, or the other one? > > > > oh frack you too. after i get back from chris' post, i'll be in my bunk. > > p.s. to dear jeff 2fs: > http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/154/925/1024/Scarlett_Johansson_34775934.jpg What's that from? Problem is now it just makes me think of "The Nanny Diaries." NOT sexy. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:53:36 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #306 >Hmm. (I sure hope you meant that you *have* finished watching the whole >thing, because I proceed from here on out w/o spoiler warnings.) > hm. very meta. Ceci n'est pas un spoiler warning? James - -- 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: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 23:02:38 -0700 From: "Jason Brown" Subject: Re: 1-800-FEG-HELP ext. BUFFY > > p.s. to dear jeff 2fs: > > http://photos1.blogger.com/hello/154/925/1024/Scarlett_Johansson_34775934.jpg > > What's that from? > Problem is now it just makes me think of "The Nanny Diaries." NOT sexy. I believe that is from the Woody Allen film "Scoop". ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 02:10:45 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: 1-800-FEG-HELP ext. BUFFY Benjamin says: > What's that from? "Scoop." I had a longer answer but whoops, hit some weird combination of keys, and so you get the short answer. > Problem is now it just makes me think of "The Nanny Diaries." NOT sexy. I haven't seen but isn't that some kind of teenaged-girl movie? Is the "NOT sexy" referring to the picture of Ms. Johansson or your "Nanny Diaries" memories? as ever, Lauren - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 23:18:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Benjamin Lukoff Subject: Re: 1-800-FEG-HELP ext. BUFFY On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Lauren Elizabeth wrote: > Benjamin says: > > What's that from? > > "Scoop." I had a longer answer but whoops, hit some weird combination > of keys, and so you get the short answer. Ah, Woody Allen! > > Problem is now it just makes me think of "The Nanny Diaries." NOT sexy. > > I haven't seen but isn't that some kind of teenaged-girl movie? Is > the "NOT sexy" referring to the picture of Ms. Johansson or your > "Nanny Diaries" memories? No, she's hot in the picture--but the trailer for "Nanny Diaries" makes it look like a pretty bad movie, and I've read a number of bad reviews. (I'm not sure who the target audience is, but I think it's for middle-aged women..) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 07:08:58 +0000 From: "Michael Sweeney" Subject: Re: tattoos On 8/27/07, Jill Brand wrote: >While I'm on a roll of writing frivously uninteresting posts, I thought >I'd ask this: do fegs have tattoos? Nope -- none here, either...and never even contemplated one. Michael "Semi-needless to say, no piercings either" Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ See what youre getting intobefore you go there http://newlivehotmail.com/?ocid=TXT_TAGHM_migration_HM_viral_preview_0507 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 03:17:34 -0700 From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Total Eclipse Yeah, it's 3:12 AM, Yeah, I'm still up. But I believe James would agree with me - it''s worth it! Wow - a blood-red moon. Must have scared the s*^t out of folks back in the middle ages or before. It's pretty spectacular from here, in Northern California. Let's see if my digital SLR got any of it on camera... Yeah, we're talking eclipse here. Be Seeing You, - - c Patagonia is what's left. Patagonia, and a trip to the south seas. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:29:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Jill Brand Subject: lying about the New Pornographers Rex wrote: "Rather on the opposite side of the age divide, I was listening to The New Pornographers in the car the other day when the 9-year-old asked what the name of the band was (presumaby because she liked it), and I ... was pretty sure I shouldn't tell her, but I made sort of a mumbly hash of it. Lying to kids is just not my strong suit, as it turns out." Reverend Chris, don't your kids call the New Pornographers "The Cool Guys"? My daughter was 14 when she saw them, and I told her to keep the name to herself when she was with her Mormon friends. And on a related note (in my life, all things are related to of Montreal these days), the New Pornographers show here in October is an 18+ show for no particular reason, it seems. However, the of Montreal show (at the same venue) is all ages, even though Kevin Barnes might be parading around in a leather g-string. Go figure. Anyway, I'd rather have Melanie see Kevin Barnes displaying himself than have her watch High School Musical II one more time. Jill ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:39:38 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: new on DIME : The Soft Boys 21 November 1978 Leicester University, Leicester, _http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=160093_ (http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=160093) I don't believe I've seen this one on DIME before, and a search revealed nothing currently seeded. It's solid for 1978 and Robyn is right in the mix - listen to the sample below. Hope you all enjoy... Cheers, Cyrus The Soft Boys 21 November 1978 Leicester University, Leicester, England 44:05 minutes - AUD > ? > cdr > EAC Secure > FLAC Frontend > flac 1. Do the Chisel 2. The Return of the Sacred Crab 3. Mystery Train 4. Blues in the Dark 5. Sandra's Having Her Brain Out 6. The Pigworker 7. Skool Dinner Blues 8. The Rat's Prayer 9. Give it to the Soft Boys 10. Hear My Brane 11. Leppo and the Jooves 12. Have a Heart, Betty (I'm Not Fireproof) ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:59:40 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: tattoos I still have plans of getting Rita Hayworth inked on my shoulder but so far my wife has vetoed the idea. One of these days, though... >> I'd ask this: do fegs have tattoos? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:54:42 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: My name is >is, it's not fanaticism to oppose killing the planet - but it probably is >fanaticism to decide to detonate one hundred neutron bombs to kill off >human vermin and give the planet a chance to survive.> > >of course, in this case, the primitivsts would go in for an "inverse" >neutron bomb: one that would leave all living beings unharmed, but would >vaporise the structures and the machines. But these extreme measures are so unnecessary...since the pandemic diseases and warfare that will result from (a) overconcentration of human population in urban centers whose infrastructure isn't adequate to support them, and (b) increasing degradation of arable land, water, air and forest habitat, not to mention the direct effects of the latter on humanity, should do a grand job over the next few generations of knocking the population down to a level commensurate to the existing resources. Moms Nature is great at engineering solutions to these problems (what they used to call "the balance of nature" back in my schooldays) even if her methods sometimes seem a little harsh. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:11:32 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: My name is On 8/28/07, kevin wrote: > > > >is, it's not fanaticism to oppose killing the planet - but it probably is > >fanaticism to decide to detonate one hundred neutron bombs to kill off > >human vermin and give the planet a chance to survive.> > > > >of course, in this case, the primitivsts would go in for an "inverse" > >neutron bomb: one that would leave all living beings unharmed, but would > >vaporise the structures and the machines. > > But these extreme measures are so unnecessary...since the pandemic > diseases and warfare that will result from (a) overconcentration of human > population in urban centers whose infrastructure isn't adequate to support > them, and (b) increasing degradation of arable land, water, air and forest > habitat, not to mention the direct effects of the latter on humanity, should > do a grand job over the next few generations of knocking the population down > to a level commensurate to the existing resources. Aw, you sure know how to sweet-talk a guy. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:18:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Fantasy Football 2: I swear I'm not going to keep doing this Just reposting this in case anyone's who's interested missed it the first time. Actual knowledge of how football (or, whatever non-Americans call it -- soccer?) is no prerequisite and not necessarily any help. We have 4 people which is cool, but 6 or 8 is a bit better. You know Willow would if she could. (Or not. But Alyson Hannigan does usually play characters that are game for anything, right?) http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1 In order to join the league, follow the link above or go to game front page, click the "Sign Up Now" or "Get Another Team" button and follow the links to "Join a Custom League". When prompted, enter the League ID# and password below. League ID#: 393436 Password: 666 We will send you a confirmation with further details once you have completed the registration process. - --Fantasy Football Commissioner "Children have always enjoyed my movies. They are just not allowed to watch many of them." -- John Waters . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sick sense of humor? Visit Yahoo! TV's Comedy with an Edge to see what's on, when. http://tv.yahoo.com/collections/222 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:23:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Awesome thread idea! Stacked Crooked wrote: > nicked from > . Since I don't have any tattoos or particular need to re-dub The New Pornographers for kids (though the word does look close enough to Photographers that you could maybe bluff younger kids a bit with that; or just The New P's).... Pigfucker Motherfucker Batshit Prick Asshole "Children have always enjoyed my movies. They are just not allowed to watch many of them." -- John Waters . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Luggage? GPS? Comic books? Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=graduation+gifts&cs=bz ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:47:40 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: My name is >Aw, you sure know how to sweet-talk a guy. > >-- > >...Jeff Norman > >The Architectural Dance Society >http://spanghew.blogspot.com Dood. A new-agey acquaintance of mine back in the Awful Eighties who was learning, he said, to read human auras told me that mine was black. I laughed and laughed. np: Cream / Goodbye ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:08:35 -0400 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: The Lives Of Others I popped for the DVD on the above, it arrived yesterday and watched it last night. A wonderful movie that beats 99.44% of the crap that comes out of Hollywood these days. I liked the pacing of it, and it definitely had overtones of a great Fassbinder movie. Michael B. NP Cocteau Twins - The Pink Opaque ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:04:23 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: The Lives Of Others Michael B. says: > I popped for the DVD on the above, it arrived yesterday and watched it > last night. A wonderful movie that beats 99.44% of the crap that comes > out of Hollywood these days. I liked the pacing of it, and it definitely > had overtones of a great Fassbinder movie. Agreed. I really enjoyed that one. Everyone I know who's seen it has really liked it. Well, except my parents' friend Bob who, when I asked him how he liked it, said "It had fucking _subtitles_!" (he has cataracts and can't read them well plus maybe wouldn't want to anyway.) That was one I actually got out to the theatre to see it (and the theatre was our little theatre in the centre of town which is always a plus.) as ever, Lauren - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 22:27:22 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: The Lives Of Others - -- "Bachman, Michael" is rumored to have mumbled on 28. August 2007 14:08:35 -0400 regarding The Lives Of Others: > I popped for the DVD on the above, it arrived yesterday and watched it > last night. A wonderful movie that beats 99.44% of the crap that comes > out of Hollywood these days. I liked it as well, but there are those here who say that it was actually produced for the American market, i.e. using Hollywood sensibilities as opposed to European ones. Which doesn't contradict what you wrote :-) > I liked the pacing of it, and it definitely > had overtones of a great Fassbinder movie. Hm, I can't say I'm seeing that. I'm no Fassbinder expert, though. - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:28:04 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: Awesome thread idea! Stacked Crooked says: > > nicked from > > > . Fuck Fucking Fucked Fucker Frack (Sorry, I like to keep it simple.) This reminds me of a personal-family-history story I'm sure you're all dying for me to share with you. It's probably a "you had to be there" kind of thing, but, ha, that's your problem, not mine. My father, born and raised in Pittsburgh by Irish Catholics, did a stint in the Army to see Europe, has always had a sort of overarching characteristic of a rather F. Scott Fitzgerald kind of class. But he's a curser - a sort of uncreative one, but still a curser. At any rate, my sister and I to this day love this one. My father's very patient but also has the rage of a patient person, and it comes out mainly in his attempt to re-educate 95% of the drivers in the left lane of a highway. When he would get really pissed at a driver, he would yell "PRICK WITH EARS!" Sometimes (probably if there was a chance the driver could hear him) it was "YOU FUCKIN' PRICK WITH EARS!" It's never been the imagery that cracked me it up...it was more like, if you're calling someone a prick, what's the point of adding the "with ears"? It's very surreal I guess which is why I think my sister and I always loved that one. as ever, Lauren - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:05:02 -0400 From: "Lauren Elizabeth" Subject: Re: My name is kevin says: > Dood. A new-agey acquaintance of mine back in the Awful Eighties who was learning, he said, to read human auras told me that mine was black. I laughed and laughed. i don't know what's cooler: the black aura or that it made you laugh. as ever, lauren - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:47:43 -0700 From: "Marc Alberts" Subject: RE: My name is Kevin wrote: > But these extreme measures are so unnecessary...since the pandemic > diseases and warfare that will result from (a) overconcentration of > human population in urban centers whose infrastructure isn't adequate > to support them, and (b) increasing degradation of arable land, water, > air and forest habitat, not to mention the direct effects of the latter > on humanity, should do a grand job over the next few generations of > knocking the population down to a level commensurate to the existing > resources. Moms Nature is great at engineering solutions to these > problems (what they used to call "the balance of nature" back in my > schooldays) even if her methods sometimes seem a little harsh. Every generation, a Malthusian suggests that there will be mass starvation because of the increasing "stress on the planet" due to overpopulation. Every generation, however, crop capacities increase at a rate faster than population due to technology. Now, I am not saying we won't hit that wall at some point. I am saying that I find it hard to take overpopulation threats seriously when those who claim to care the most about the planet refuse to take the logical anti-overpopulation step and off themselves for the good of the Earth. Marc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:28:12 -0000 (GMT) From: "Melissa Higuchi" Subject: Re: tattoos no tatoos yet but living in San Francisco makes me want one. I've seen so many really lovely pieces and many employers don't seem to have as many issues with tatoos and piercing as they do other in other places. I'll probably never get one because I wouldn't be able to decide what to get done and most of my favorite art does not lend itself to tatoos. some of paul's friends have this one: http://swissmiss.typepad.com/weblog/2007/08/tattoo-moustach.html ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:06:32 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: My name is On 8/28/07, Marc Alberts wrote: > Every generation, a Malthusian suggests that there will be mass starvation > because of the increasing "stress on the planet" due to > overpopulation. Every generation, however, crop capacities increase at a > rate faster than population due to technology. > > Now, I am not saying we won't hit that wall at some point. I am saying > that I find it hard to take overpopulation threats seriously when those who > claim to care the most about the planet refuse to take the logical > anti-overpopulation step and off themselves for the good of the Earth. Oddly enough, there are those who'd make that last statement seriously. And yet, they wouldn't have killed themselves: the classic "if someone points out a problem, they get held to a higher moral standard than those who either are ignorant of it or ignore it." You know: Al Gore's house isn't energy-efficient! He's a hypocrite! With no word from said finger-pointers about their own energy usage. (Not to mention its utter irrelevance to the actual question of whether energy usage *ought* to be minimized.) - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:09:17 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: My name is On 8/28/07, Marc Alberts wrote: > > > Now, I am not saying we won't hit that wall at some point. I am saying > that I find it hard to take overpopulation threats seriously when those who > claim to care the most about the planet refuse to take the logical > anti-overpopulation step and off themselves for the good of the Earth. No way-- that only decreases the population by *one*. The real obvious course of action for any conscientious envoironmentalist is of course genocide. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:09:59 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: tattoos On 8/28/07, Melissa Higuchi wrote: > > > some of paul's friends have this one: > http://swissmiss.typepad.com/weblog/2007/08/tattoo-moustach.html > Small world: the reference in that post to "Milwaukee HD" people rung a bell...and sure enough, "Swiss Miss"'s site is linked from that of a woman I know locally* at . ("HD" is *not* "Harley-Davidson" - it's Hanson Dodge Creative, a local design firm.) * I say I know her - but in fact, we've never met - though we have friends in common and a scary amount of coincidental likes, dislikes, and quirks...to the extent that one day we discovered that we'd each taken nearly the same photograph, four hours apart. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:15:26 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: lying about the New Pornographers On 8/28/07, Jill Brand wrote: > > > Reverend Chris, don't your kids call the New Pornographers "The Cool > Guys"? I can get behind that. Hell, if we all agree to the same pseudonym, we can even have cross-generational conversations about the band where everyone actually knows what's being discussed. "TNP" won't do, since the kids would never know whether you meant The New Pornographers or The Negro Problem. Or someone else can start yet a third band called Terrible Name Phenomenon for teh hat trick. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:26:01 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: lying about the New Pornographers On 8/28/07, Rex wrote: > > On 8/28/07, Jill Brand wrote: > > > > > > Reverend Chris, don't your kids call the New Pornographers "The Cool > > Guys"? > > > I can get behind that. > > "TNP" won't do, since the kids would never know whether you meant The New > Pornographers or The Negro Problem. Which, as a band name, presents its own sticky problems for the young ones. I think "The New Phonographers" works pretty well, too. Or "The Nude Stenographers." Oh - wait... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:31:05 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: My name is On 8/28/07, Rex wrote: > > On 8/28/07, Marc Alberts wrote: > > > > > > Now, I am not saying we won't hit that wall at some point. I am saying > > that I find it hard to take overpopulation threats seriously when those > who > > claim to care the most about the planet refuse to take the logical > > anti-overpopulation step and off themselves for the good of the Earth. > > > No way-- that only decreases the population by *one*. The real > obvious course of action for any conscientious envoironmentalist is of > course genocide. I can see it now, the headline: HITLER: 'I DID IT FOR THE TREES' - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:32:24 -0700 From: "michael wells" Subject: RE: Total Eclipse Carrie: > Yeah, it's 3:12 AM, Yeah, I'm still up. But I believe James would agree with me - it''s worth it! We got about the first half clear before some high clouds moved in...but yeah, very cool! Woke up at 4:15 and paid with a few bug bites. > Wow - a blood-red moon. Must have scared the s*^t out of folks back in the middle ages or before. That's exactly what I was thinking - and the fact that it was probably the only night I could safely be out with binoculars at 4:30 in the morning and not get arrested. I think the weirdest part was moon disappearing from the top down. It just looked so...unnatural. Because of the clouds we didn't get the full color show, but the burnt crimson and dark orange with a crescent brilliant white light coming off the bottom was still spectacular. Kind of like a deranged Rothko painting hanging way up there. Michael ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 02:37:26 -0700 From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Re: Total Eclipse On Aug 28, 2007, at 9:32 PM, michael wells wrote: > Carrie: >> Yeah, it's 3:12 AM, Yeah, I'm still up. But I believe James would >> agree > with me - it''s worth it! > > We got about the first half clear before some high clouds moved > in...but > yeah, very cool! Woke up at 4:15 and paid with a few bug bites. > > >> Wow - a blood-red moon. Must have scared the s*^t out of folks >> back in the > middle ages or before. > > > That's exactly what I was thinking - and the fact that it was > probably the > only night I could safely be out with binoculars at 4:30 in the > morning and > not get arrested. I think the weirdest part was moon disappearing > from the > top down. It just looked so...unnatural. > > Because of the clouds we didn't get the full color show, but the burnt > crimson and dark orange with a crescent brilliant white light > coming off the > bottom was still spectacular. Kind of like a deranged Rothko painting > hanging way up there. > You described it so well Michael. It was exactly like that. And being up here inland just enough to not get the fog cover, I had a clear view all night. Spectacular! There are a few pages out there for folks interested. - - c ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #307 ********************************