From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #345 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, September 20 2007 Volume 16 : Number 345 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Breaking news [2fs ] Re: tl;dr: no cure today, only disease [2fs ] Re: tl;dr: no cure today, only disease [Christopher Gross ] Re: My name is "God", and I'm a salty little pisser with Eb's cock in my kisser [Rex ] Re: My name is "God", and I'm a salty little pisser with Eb's cock in my kisser [Michael Sweeney ] Re: tl;dr episode iv: fat bob strikes back [Rex ] Re: tl;dr: no cure today, only disease [Dolph Chaney ] Re: tl;dr: no cure today, only disease [lep ] the air eaters [lep ] Re: the air eaters [lep ] Re: tl;dr episode iv: fat bob strikes back [Rex ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:43:53 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Breaking news On 9/19/07, Rex wrote: > > > > In related news, I noticed at the park this weekend that people still play > hackeysack. Christopher Gross, please explain! "Every time you eat a steak, a hippie's hackeysack goes down the gutter" - --Patton Oswalt, explaining why he loves steak. - ---------------- Now playing: Je Suis France - Wizard Of Points - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:49:04 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: tl;dr: no cure today, only disease On 9/19/07, Rex wrote: > > > The Windbreakers, "Terminal". > more obvious, like the shimmering third track here, which may be called > "You > Won't See Me" in spite of not being a Beatles cover This reminds me: at some point I thought it would be fun to do a mix CD (or a mixed CD, or a boxed CD, or whatever) consisting entirely of songs whose titles are the same as those of more famous songs (despite not being those songs). I haven't done that yet. Nominations now being accepted (to save me the trouble of trawling my database.) - ---------------- Now playing: Kleenex Girl Wonder - Bones And The Smiling Mackerel - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:24:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: tl;dr: no cure today, only disease On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Rex wrote: > PS, I checked my Dead Milkmen compilation... no Ottoman song. What LP am I > looking for? _Metaphysical Graffiti_, 1990. - --Chris np: The Cure, _Faith_ (the only Cure album named after a Buffy character) ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 03:51:33 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: Re: My name is "God", and I'm a salty little pisser with Eb's cock in my kisser Jeff wrote: >That's just a rumor - like the idea that Mr. Green Jeans on Captain >Kangaroo is Frank Zappa's father. Or that Studebacher Hoch can >write the Lord's Prayer on the head of a pin. ...or the one that claims that Phil McCarthy has been dead for years (honestly)...and was replaced in the Hermits (or was it the Five?) by a blokette with one leg (having lost the other one in Billy Zimmer's hovercraft accident)... Michael "I know - now I'm just talkin' crazy talk..." Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Can you find the hidden words? Take a break and play Seekadoo! http://club.live.com/seekadoo.aspx?icid=seek_wlmailtextlink ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 04:08:13 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: Re: tl;dr episode iv: fat bob strikes back kevin said: >>Marcy Playground... > >So I should be glad that I've never to my conscious knowledge heard these guys? ...Yeah, I was just thinking the same thing myself (but maybe I have and just don't know it)... Michael "Not so plugged into mainstream radio / MTV back in the mid-to-late '90s (or even NOW, come to think of it...)" Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ More photos; more messages; more whatever  Get MORE with Windows Live Hotmail.. NOW with 5GB storage. http://imagine-windowslive.com/hotmail/?locale=en-us&ocid=TXT_TAGHM_migration _HM_mini_5G_0907 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 04:24:44 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: Re: tl;dr episode iv: fat bob strikes back Rex wrote: > the only rumor I can recall about Minelli is >far more disturbing, involving the ingestion of cocaine via an orifice other >than the two you'd think of first. ...I had heard similarly about Stevie Nicks (and to think, I once named a guitar after her...well, at least I was 17 at the time)...esp. as it related to taking pity upon the poor underling who had to help, uh, deliver said drug to Ms. Nicks' unsaid certain hard-to-reach-yourself-(when-it-comes-to-efficient-drug-delivery-anyway) orifice... Of course, we may be speaking about different locations (and I don't mean dressing room vs. home)... Michael "And was it Liza in a closet with Bowie and Jagger? Oh, wait - or was that Bette Midler?" Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Kick back and relax with hot games and cool activities at the Messenger Cafi. http://www.cafemessenger.com?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_SeptWLtagline ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:25:45 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: My name is "God", and I'm a salty little pisser with Eb's cock in my kisser On 9/19/07, Michael Sweeney wrote: > > > ...or the one that claims that Phil McCarthy has been dead for years > (honestly)...and was replaced in the Hermits (or was it the Five?) by a > blokette with one leg (having lost the other one in Billy Zimmer's > hovercraft > accident)... ...Or the one where Kevin Richardson had his entire skull replaced. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:44:59 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: tl;dr: no cure today, only disease On 9/19/07, Christopher Gross wrote: > On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Rex wrote: > > > PS, I checked my Dead Milkmen compilation... no Ottoman song. What LP am I > > looking for? > > _Metaphysical Graffiti_, 1990. Thank you. Awesomely, Christopher Gross explained something that I didn't directly ask him to, and not my official "Christopher Gross, Please Explain", which should somehow be part of the rules. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:03:10 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: My name is "God", and I'm a salty little pisser with Eb's cock in my kisser On 9/19/07, Michael Sweeney wrote: > ...or the one that claims that Phil McCarthy has been dead for years > (honestly)...and was replaced in the Hermits (or was it the Five?) by a > blokette with one leg (having lost the other one in Billy Zimmer's hovercraft > accident)... Later on McCarthy was exhumed by Mikey Stipes out of the REMs after he ate one of Zimmer's documents. Sadly, four of the Five are dead, leaving only Dave's brother, Tom, who coincidentally is the mortal foe of Peat Buckler out of the REMs. Barry White quit the REMs to concetrate on playing basketball in his trailer. After that the Floyd went no good and never made any more decent records. Yeah, it switched over the Great Pop Things halfway through. Elementary School homework is friying my brain. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:09:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: tl;dr episode iv: fat bob strikes back Michael Sweeney wrote: > kevin said: > >>Marcy Playground... > > So I should be glad that I've never to my conscious knowledge > > heard these guys? > > ...Yeah, I was just thinking the same thing myself (but maybe I > have and just don't know it)... http://youtube.com/watch?v=CKl_7zK3fbI I always thought of it as more bland than aggressively terrible. I can certainly think of a fair number of one hit wonders from that era I thought of as much worse. Nothing great, but at least it's not Deep Blue Something "Breakfast at Tiffany's." "Children have always enjoyed my movies. They are just not allowed to watch many of them." -- John Waters . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Got a little couch potato? Check out fun summer activities for kids. http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=summer+activities+for+kids&cs=bz ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:16:09 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: tl;dr: no cure today, only disease On 9/19/07, Rex wrote: > > On 9/19/07, Christopher Gross wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Rex wrote: > > > > > PS, I checked my Dead Milkmen compilation... no Ottoman song. What LP > am I > > > looking for? > > > > _Metaphysical Graffiti_, 1990. > > Thank you. > > Awesomely, Christopher Gross explained something that I didn't > directly ask him to, and not my official "Christopher Gross, Please > Explain", which should somehow be part of the rules. It's sorta like in billiards, where you scratch the cue ball - only in this case, the opposite, in that Christopher Gross *wins* a bonus, whereby he's allowed to scratch his own balls. Or whatever it is he does - cuz on the Internet no one knows you're a dog. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 05:18:32 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: Re: My name is "God", and I'm a salty little pisser with Eb's cock in my kisser Rex wrote: >Barry White quit the REMs to >concetrate on playing basketball in his trailer. ...I thought he quit over Bad Brains...(who he later played drums for after learning the Reggie beats [insert rimshot!]) Michael "Reggie Beats? Didn't he used to play centerfield for the Mets?" Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Gear up for Halo. 3 with free downloads and an exclusive offer. Its our way of saying thanks for using Windows Live. http://gethalo3gear.com?ocid=SeptemberWLHalo3_WLHMTxt_2 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:29:17 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: My name is "God", and I'm a salty little pisser with Eb's cock in my kisser On 9/20/07, Rex wrote: > > On 9/19/07, Michael Sweeney wrote: > > > ...or the one that claims that Phil McCarthy has been dead for years > > (honestly)...and was replaced in the Hermits (or was it the Five?) by a > > blokette with one leg (having lost the other one in Billy Zimmer's > hovercraft > > accident)... > > Later on McCarthy was exhumed by Mikey Stipes out of the REMs after he > ate one of Zimmer's documents. That's Mikey STRIPES - who had earlier founded the metal band Candy Striper, whose members were all worshippers of the Grecian God of Formulas, Dr. Zeus. Sadly, four of the Five are dead, > leaving only Dave's brother, Tom, who coincidentally is the mortal foe > of Peat Buckler out of the REMs. Barry White quit the REMs to > concetrate on playing basketball in his trailer. I thought the drummer was named Barry Weiss, and he quit the band to sing bass and make fruit-tinged beers for the Leinenkugel brewery.* (* In the real world, Leinenkugel really does make a beer called Berry Weiss - - and if I were their marketing person I'd look for guys named "Barry Weiss" to appear in ads...where they'd try to cover Barry White songs. As the famous dead comedian Peter Beyers said, "It's all a part of my wife's stitch pattern.") I think that's where REM Speedwagon Christ got the name for their third or fourth album. And wasn't Peat Buckler the bass player for the Sham - the late-seventies British band, strongly influenced by The What Now, whose lead singer Peter Weller went on to become president of film director Paulover Beethoven's Film Style Council, which had a strict list of cinematic rules, like filming must be done underwater, the camera must be held between the photographer's knees, and no musical soundtrack unless a marching band happens to live next door? Or am I thinking of Lars von Biertrink, drummer of Woodenica, the famous freak-folk band? Gawd it's confusing... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 06:43:58 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: =?windows-1256?Q?Re:_My_name_is_"God",_and_I'm_a_salty_little_p isser_with?= =?windows-1256?Q?_Eb's_cock_in_my_kisser=FE?= Me, Rex, and Jeff said: >[various escalating nonsense] Jeff: >the metal band Candy Striper, whose members were all worshippers of the Grecian God of Formulas, Dr. Zeus. ...Not to be confused with Ape's Ex-Twink, who all worship Dr. Zaius... >wasn't Peat Buckler the bass player for the Sham... And didn't he have a magical meta-folkie son, Jeffy, The Boy Who Couldn't Float? >the famous dead comedian Peter Beyers [snip] the late-seventies British band, strongly influenced by The What Now ...and, of course, you may recall that The What Now's wacky drummer, Legs "Kenneth" Luna, appeared with Peter Beyers in the religious-sci-fi-comedy movie, "The Muslim Wizard" in the late '60s... >Gawd it's confusing... ...Yer tellin' me... Michael "Resisted making exhausted Meg White jokes twice - during the Barry White AND Candy Stripers references" Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Gear up for Halo. 3 with free downloads and an exclusive offer. Its our way of saying thanks for using Windows Live. http://gethalo3gear.com?ocid=SeptemberWLHalo3_WLHMTxt_2 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 08:33:43 -0400 From: FSThomas Subject: LOLThulhu http://lolthulhu.com/ - -f. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 06:36:41 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: tl;dr episode iv: fat bob strikes back On 9/19/07, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > Michael Sweeney wrote: > > kevin said: > > >>Marcy Playground... > > > So I should be glad that I've never to my conscious knowledge > > > heard these guys? > > > > ...Yeah, I was just thinking the same thing myself (but maybe I > > have and just don't know it)... > > http://youtube.com/watch?v=CKl_7zK3fbI > > I always thought of it as more bland than aggressively terrible. I > can certainly think of a fair number of one hit wonders from that era > I thought of as much worse. Nothing great, but at least it's not Deep > Blue Something "Breakfast at Tiffany's." Yes, but bland is problematic when this song is STILL IN HEAVY ROTATION at at least one highly rated local station... and so much that was good during that period has vanished. I ranted about this a few months ago and don't want to to repeat myself, but still... WTF, Youth of the '90's, WTF? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 08:18:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: tl;dr episode iv: fat bob strikes back Rex wrote: > > http://youtube.com/watch?v=CKl_7zK3fbI > > > > I always thought of ("Sex and Candy") as more bland than > > aggressively terrible. I can certainly think of a fair number > > of one hit wonders from that era I thought of as much worse. > > Nothing great, but at least it's not Deep > > Blue Something "Breakfast at Tiffany's." > > Yes, but bland is problematic when it is STILL IN HEAVY > ROTATION at at least one highly rated local station... and so much > that was good during that period has vanished. Fair enough, though I don't think I've heard it anywhere but compilation commercials in a while so that could just be LA (and how of the good stuff ever really made it onto the radio that much anyways, even the KROQs and Live 105s of the medium). Or I'm not having to listen to wrong stations (well, I do, just not the wrong stations that still overplay that; it's not a good sign when you walk into work and are happy to heard Madonna "Into the Groove," instead of Fergie or Gwen or ...). And at least "Sex and Candy" is not "Breakfast at Tiffany's." "Children have always enjoyed my movies. They are just not allowed to watch many of them." -- John Waters . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha! Play Monopoly Here and Now (it's updated for today's economy) at Yahoo! Games. http://get.games.yahoo.com/proddesc?gamekey=monopolyherenow ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:52:36 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: ROBYN gets Vicious & Waiting For The Man (on DIME) _http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=163193_ (http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=163193) Another point of VU Vol. 28 -Black Light Black Heat It's the Never Ending Collection.... So I don't deserve to be thanked this time again. I want YOU to thank Per for giving me all these files, without him nothing would have been possible. So I want to read a million times "Thank you Per!!!!"understood???? I've done nothing to the tracks except some little things with Audacity ( removing gaps here and there, fading out...). I've tried to do the best I could. I've included the origin of each track and the sound quality when I knew it. Artwork provided soon by Stephsbear, thanks to him! All tracks have been found , uploaded and allowed on Dime or archive.org Set-List: 01 All tomorrow's parties - Ass Ponys - 2-6-1995 Radio show NYC 02 Femme Fatale - Propaganda - Nottingham England - 30 Oct 1985 03 I'm Sticking With You- Golden Smog - Bowery Ballroom New York - Aug 22 2004 04 I Can't Stand It - Mister Moonlight- Lemberg 1991 05 Pale Blue Eyes - Icicle Works - Doll's House Liverpool - 19 Dec 1984 06 Real good time together - Crack City Rockers - Portland OR White Eagle Saloon - 6 JULY 2007 07 Waiting for the man - Daniel Lanois - 06 feb 1990 - Markthalle Hamburg Ger 08 Sweet Jane ( Loaded version)- Cowboy Junkies- 7-16-04 - The Belcourt Theater Nashville TN 09 What goes on - RAQ - 4-20-07 - Higher Ground Burlington VT 10 White Light White Heat - Meat Puppets - April 18 1993- Slim's SF 11 I'm Waiting For The Man - Robyn Hitchcock - Tokyo - FAB Club - Oct 8th 2006 12 Waiting for the man - The Waterboys - Manchester UK - 3rd May 2007 13 Vicious - Robyn Hitchcock - Clerkenwell London - April 20 2003 14 Sister Ray- Holy toy - Lambrettas galleri Lakkegata Oslo Norway- november 1983 Note to the fans: I know, I know..."Vicious" is NOT a VU song ....but what do you want!!!!! ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:58:14 -0700 (GMT-07:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: tl;dr: no cure today, only disease >This reminds me: at some point I thought it would be fun to do a mix CD (or >a mixed CD, or a boxed CD, or whatever) consisting entirely of songs whose >titles are the same as those of more famous songs (despite not being those >songs). > >I haven't done that yet. Nominations now being accepted (to save me the >trouble of trawling my database.) First thing that comes to mind is Neil Young/Crazy Horse, "Stupid Girl" (orig R. Stones) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:16:18 +0100 From: hssmrg@bath.ac.uk Subject: Fwd: Ed Harcourt - news 20.09.07 Ed Harcourt is touring Britain next month and has a new 'best of double CD' out - MRG - ----- Forwarded message from edharcourt@email.edharcourt.com ----- Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:16:43 -0000 From: Ed Harcourt Reply-To: Ed Harcourt Subject: Ed Harcourt - news 20.09.07 To: hssmrg@bath.ac.uk Hello to one and all, we've got lots to tell you about, so please bear with us... THE TOUR Ed is going on tour throughout October to support the release of his imminent new single and subsequent album. Dates are as follows, for ticket links see the live page on Ed's site at www.edharcourt.com link-http://email.emirecords.co.uk/a/tBG8n9FAQUBzUBZV7BRAuODIvK2/link1 . October Tue 2 - Edinburgh - Liquid Rooms Wed 3 - Glasgow - Oran Mor Thu 4 - Newcastle - Stage 2 Sat 6 - Manchester - Academy 3 Sun 7 - York - Fibbers Tue 9 - Leeds - Brudenell Social Club Wed 10 - Sheffield - Leadmill Thu 11 - Liverpool - Barfly Fri 12 - Cambridge - The Graduate Sun 14 - Norwich - Arts Centre Mon 15 - Nottingham - Rescue Rooms Tue 16 - Birmingham - Barfly Thu 18 - Cardiff - Point Fri 19 - Bristol - Trinity Sat 20 - Oxford - Zodiac Mon 22 - Brighton - Digital Tue 23 - London - Koko THE SINGLE You Put A Spell On Me is released on October 1st as a download and on limited 7" vinyl and CD. The 7" is backed by an exclusive, previously unreleased song titled Bella Donna, whilst the CD has another new song called Sunday. THE ALBUM Following the single release, on October 8 comes "Until Tomorrow Then" - - a collection of some of Ed's finest moments over the last seven years accompanied by the new single and including a previously unreleased version of Whistle Of A Distant Train, which was originally recorded during the sessions for the Here Be Monsters album. The initial pressing of the album CD comes with a bonus disc featuring 16 further previously unreleased tracks - see full 2CD tracklist below. DISC 1: 1. Born In The 70's 2. She Fell Into My Arms 3. Black Dress 4. All Of Your Days Will Be Blessed 5. This One's For You 6. Apple Of My Eye 7. Visit From The Dead Dog 8. Something In My Eye 9. Watching The Sun Come Up 10. Loneliness 11. Fireflies Take Flight 12. Shanghai 13. Shadowboxing 14. Whistle Of A Distant Train 15. Until Tomorrow Then 16. You Put A Spell On Me DISC 2: 1. Hopeless 2. Lord Give Me Fury 3. Skullman 4. Commandante Des Mandrilles 5. In Her Own Eyes 6. Silent Film 7. Lately I've Been Feeling Rather Strange 8. Schifoso 9. My Friends Are Cooler Than Yours 10. Oh Drunken Wastrel 11. One Big Shot 12. A.D.D. 13. The Year We All Split Up 14. Ultraviolent Love 15. People Are Getting Younger 16. I'm Sticking Around And that's about it for today - more news as and when we have it... - ----- End forwarded message ----- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:10:19 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: tl;dr: no cure today, only disease kevin says: > >This reminds me: at some point I thought it would be fun to do a mix CD (or > >a mixed CD, or a boxed CD, or whatever) consisting entirely of songs whose > >titles are the same as those of more famous songs (despite not being those > >songs). > > > >I haven't done that yet. Nominations now being accepted (to save me the > >trouble of trawling my database.) > > First thing that comes to mind is Neil Young/Crazy Horse, "Stupid Girl" (orig R. Stones) garbage has one of those, too. xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:14:55 -0500 From: Dolph Chaney Subject: Re: tl;dr: no cure today, only disease At 01:10 PM 9/20/2007, lep wrote: >kevin says: > > >This reminds me: at some point I thought it would be fun to do a mix > CD (or > > >a mixed CD, or a boxed CD, or whatever) consisting entirely of songs whose > > >titles are the same as those of more famous songs (despite not being those > > >songs). > > > > > >I haven't done that yet. Nominations now being accepted (to save me the > > >trouble of trawling my database.) > > > > First thing that comes to mind is Neil Young/Crazy Horse, "Stupid Girl" > (orig R. Stones) > >garbage has one of those, too. So do I -- track 2 on my NEW BIRD RISE album from '98 I've actually made a continual songwriting project out of re-using re-used titles, including something like 30 songs so far. - -- Dolph ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:54:00 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: tl;dr: no cure today, only disease Dolph says: > So do I -- track 2 on my NEW BIRD RISE album from '98 > so many stupid girls, so little time. xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:13:01 -0400 From: lep Subject: the air eaters hi feglist, well, eddie's link about the plant-eating animals reminded me of an article in spin, i think it was. i tried to find it but failed. it was about this sort of cult of people who claimed to be so highly evolved that they survived by ingesting no food whatsoever, only air. they sort of considered themselves to be at the top of the "i refuse to eat " pyramid (further below them were the fruit people, the vegans, the vegetarians, the regulars, and then i guess the cannibals. i'm particularly fond of a set of people that are between the fruit people and the air people, who are rather a subset of the fruit people: they wouldn't actually pick a piece of fruit, but anything that fell to the ground was fair game. i guess you could say that fruit died of natural causes. not that these grounds-sweepers would eat any roadkill or anything, just plants that had seen their day.) now the article about the air people was a riot (well, to me, at least) because the article ended up spending a lot of time on the issue of how some members of the group thought other members of the group were only pretending to be super-evolved, and when no one was looking, these "member" would sneak off and eat things that were not air. sort of a very lite "lord of the flies" story - that template never seems to wear thin with me. i thought that this article was in an issue of spin that i've had for years, but it turns out that the issue i've had forever is the one that has the article about the people who drill holes in their heads because it makes them feel better. no lie. there's a name for it, and i'm sure some of you even know what it is. the idea is that in evolving to walk upright, there's too much pressure in our skulls or brains, and a little hole is just the right thing. i guess like how when you were a kid, you had to put an extra hole in the top of the hawaiian punch can to make it work right. i try to be tolerant and figure as long as people aren't hurting one another, but then i end up laughing in a little fit of non-tolerance and dare i say snobbery. as mr. devoto says: "my mind ain't so open that anything could fall right in." as ever, lauren - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:26:55 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: the air eaters i say: > they sort of considered themselves to be at the top of the "i refuse > to eat " pyramid now that i'm thinking about it, it would seem there should be a place for buster (blatzy's dog) in this pyramid, perhaps below the air people, although since they're probably all liars, i'll adjust that and say buster should be at the top and the air eaters should bow down and worship buster. he is the thing-in-itself, the serpent eating its own tail (so to speak.) or at least he was before his "cure." he could have been a god. as ever, lauren - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:04:17 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: tl;dr episode iv: fat bob strikes back On 9/20/07, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > > > And at least "Sex and Candy" is not "Breakfast at Tiffany's." I think I missed that being overplayed on the radio, but I had a cow-orker who had it on a mix tape that she liked too much (and which otherwise contained some interesting things that I never would have heard otherwise). I think it has a special life of its own amongst film geeks who aren't otherwise so into music. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:13:41 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: the air eaters On 9/20/07, lep wrote: > > hi feglist, > > well, eddie's link about the plant-eating animals reminded me of an > article in spin, i think it was. i tried to find it but failed. it > was about this sort of cult of people who claimed to be so highly > evolved that they survived by ingesting no food whatsoever, only air. Breatharians... I just saw something about them in the sidebar to some story somewhere about the "history of extreme eating". Well, that was the sidebar; the story itself was about an upcoming competitve eating event. > he is the thing-in-itself, the serpent eating its > own tail (so to speak.) or at least he was before his "cure." he > could have been a god. Ourobouros. Thank god I don't have to pronounce it. There's always the urban legend of the guy stranded on an island (or whatever) without food who slowly eats himself, cooked, body part by body part, while waiting for rescue. That guy could win, too, but he'd have a helluva time getting the trophy home (plus, he could only subsist on himself for so long). - -Rex - -Rex ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #345 ********************************