From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #418 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, December 4 2007 Volume 16 : Number 418 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: lolwasteland/casting call [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: casting call [Dolph Chaney ] Re: lolwasteland [Michael Sweeney ] Re: casting call [Michael Sweeney ] movie talk/Grizzly Man [Stony ] Re: lolwasteland [lep ] Re: casting call [2fs ] Re: casting call [kevin ] Re: casting call [2fs ] Re: lolwasteland [Rex ] Re: lolwasteland [2fs ] that's odd... [lep ] Re: that's odd... [lep ] Re: that's odd... [2fs ] Re: that's odd... ["Stewart C. Russell" ] RE: lolwasteland [Michael Sweeney ] RoByN interview ["WUGA's Just Off The Radar" ] more syd/robyn [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] when geeks sing [lep ] Fall mention on Feg! [matt sewell ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 01:55:16 +1300 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: lolwasteland/casting call > >it's been too long since i read it so i can't tell if this is funny. > >here's hoping: > >http://www.corprew.org/content/lolcat-wasteland/ > >ehh...nice try. probably couldn't be done really well by anybody >not writing @ eliot's level. So... when will the Great Quail be finished working on his lolcat version of Finnegan's Wake? >is there some postmodern version of trivial pursuit that i haven't >heard about? Well, maybe, maybe not.... but Surrealist Pursuit is fun if you're drunk enough. Read one question, and couple it with whichever is the most oddly appropriate of the other five answers on the other side of the card. Best combination I remember was: Q: What did Thor Heyerdahl's crew spot in the sea every day during their trip to Easter island?" A: Mark Spitz James (the "real" answer was "pollution") - -- 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, 03 Dec 2007 09:06:39 -0600 From: Dolph Chaney Subject: Re: casting call On Sun, 2007-12-02 at 21:06 -0800, Tom Clark wrote: > Alice Kramden: Ann Magnuson > Trixie Norton: Toyah Wilcox Oh, come on -- no fair choosing actual experienced sitcom actresses! ("Anything But Love" and "Barmy Aunt Boomerang" respectively...) - -- Dolph ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 17:22:51 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: Re: lolwasteland Lauren said: >it's been too long since i read it so i can't tell if this is funny.here's hoping:http://www.corprew.org/content/lolcat-wasteland/< >if they'd done prufrock, i'd have a better idea. for no particularreason, at one point, i decided it would be worthwhile to memorize apoem. kind of a dumb choice.< ...Not at all. Having referenced it semi-obliquely in at least 2 of my own works, I consider knowledge of and familiarity with Prufrock to be part of upper-level cultural currency. "Prufrock Cat is in yr roomz Talking boutz Michelangelo with all yr doodz LOLKTHXBYE!" Michael "For postmodern fun, consider translating 'Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats' into lolspeak -- 'Myz kitty branez, they hertz!'" Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Share life as it happens with the new Windows Live.Download today it's FREE! http://www.windowslive.com/share.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_Wave2_sharelife_112007 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 17:28:49 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: Re: casting call Jeff wrote: >Okay, so if we were remaking "The Honeymooners" with sorta avant-garde rockguys, obviously Pere Ubu's David Thomas would play the Jackie Gleason role.< >So - going by physical type and impression - which avant-garde rock guywould play the Art Carney/Ed Norton role? (No, not Edward Norton...)< ...Whew -- just in time! Wasn't sure we were gonna get the definitive "Year's Randomly Strangest Post From a Regular Contributor" before December expired. Congrats, Mr. 2fs! Your trophy commemorating this award will be available at locker 27C at the Toledo bus station; ask the guy at the southwest entrance newsstand (no, the OTHER guy, next to him) for the locker key... Michael "...and, for Ed Norton, it shoulda been David Byrne or somebody" Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Connect and share in new ways with Windows Live. http://www.windowslive.com/connect.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_Wave2_newways_112007 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 04:08:21 +1100 (EST) From: Stony Subject: movie talk/Grizzly Man I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only one who found Grizzly Man amusing. To be honest I found it downright hilarious. There was one segment that made me laugh harder than I have in many years. During the scenes in which Treadwell's second girlfriend is introduced, there is a narration from Herzog that I'll paraphrase: "Very little is known about (girlfriend), but from her diary we know she was deathly afraid of bears." I rolled on the floor, tears streaming from my eyes. Definitely the best laugh I'd had in years. I mean, come on. Is this guy kidding? or what? There's nothing in the future and there's nothing in the past. There is only this one moment and you gotta make it last. -Robyn Hitchcock - --------------------------------- Make the switch to the world's best email. Get the new Yahoo!7 Mail now. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 13:01:58 -0500 From: lep Subject: Re: lolwasteland Sweeney says: > ...Not at all. Having referenced it semi-obliquely in at least 2 of my own > works, I consider knowledge of and familiarity with Prufrock to be part of > upper-level cultural currency. well, i do love it. it was more that i was wondering why i was so slow to memorize a poem. the boyfriend-at-the-time told me perhaps there's something a bit easier out there (i don't think i could ever consistently get the order of the "yellow smoke" vs. the "yellow fog.") xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 12:19:20 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: casting call On 12/3/07, Michael Sweeney wrote: > > Jeff wrote: > > >Okay, so if we were remaking "The Honeymooners" with sorta avant-garde > rock > guys, obviously Pere Ubu's David Thomas would play the Jackie Gleason > role.< > > >So - going by physical type and impression - which avant-garde rock guy > would play the Art Carney/Ed Norton role? (No, not Edward Norton...)< > > > ...Whew -- just in time! Wasn't sure we were gonna get the definitive > "Year's Randomly Strangest Post From a Regular Contributor" before December > expired. > I was looking at one of the four Ubu reissues I bought recently (actually, six - but two haven't arrived yet), and there's a shot of David Thomas on, I think it was, _The Tenement Year_ where he looks very Gleason-esque. Follow that by a chance viewing in a bar of part of a movie with Gleason in it, and you can see my train of thought... > > Michael "...and, for Ed Norton, it shoulda been David Byrne or somebody" > Sweeney > Ha. That's good! - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 10:24:19 -0800 (GMT-08:00) From: kevin Subject: Re: casting call >Michael "...and, for Ed Norton, it shoulda been David Byrne or somebody" >Sweeney I dunno, I thought nominating Klaus Nomi was pretty hip. I'd forgotten all about him until the big wedding sequence of the Venture Bros. Sheer genius. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 12:26:22 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: casting call On 12/3/07, kevin wrote: > > >Michael "...and, for Ed Norton, it shoulda been David Byrne or somebody" > >Sweeney > > I dunno, I thought nominating Klaus Nomi was pretty hip. I'd forgotten > all about him until the big wedding sequence of the Venture Bros. Sheer > genius. Oh, it is that - but in terms of character I'm not sure it fits. Then again I haven't seen that Nomi movie, so I know very little about him. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 11:22:45 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: lolwasteland On Dec 3, 2007 9:22 AM, Michael Sweeney wrote: > Lauren said: >it's been too long since i read it so i can't tell if this > is > funny.here's hoping:http://www.corprew.org/content/lolcat-wasteland/< > >if they'd done prufrock, i'd have a better idea. for no particularreason, > at > one point, i decided it would be worthwhile to memorize apoem. kind of a > dumb > choice.< > > ...Not at all. Having referenced it semi-obliquely in at least 2 of my > own > works, I consider knowledge of and familiarity with Prufrock to be part of > upper-level cultural currency. > Probably the longest thing I have memorized is "Visions of Johanna", which is a great lol-candidate. No time now, though... batin'. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 14:23:35 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: lolwasteland On 12/3/07, Rex wrote: > > > Probably the longest thing I have memorized is "Visions of Johanna", which > is a great lol-candidate. No time now, though... batin'. Oh yeah? You know what the longest thing my wife has memorized is? That's right. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 17:08:03 -0500 From: lep Subject: that's odd... http://www.reuters.com/news/pictures/slideshow?collectionId=1324 xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 17:14:14 -0500 From: lep Subject: Re: that's odd... btw, i wonder whether that pepsi bottle story is true. i bet they hear that "oh, they took two cows and left a pepsi bottle in my butt" story all the time. xo p.s. there seems to be a fairly high percentage of butt-related humour in the photographs. i counted three without trying. - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 16:55:56 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: that's odd... On 12/3/07, lep wrote: > > btw, i wonder whether that pepsi bottle story is true. i bet they hear > that "oh, they took two cows and left a pepsi bottle in my butt" story > all the time. It also figures in the lyrics of many an old country-western song. p.s. there seems to be a fairly high percentage of butt-related humour > in the photographs. i counted three without trying. The "ice cream shaped like feces" one? At least they knew that's what they were doing: I really wish I'd had my camera with me, but a local grocery store's bakery section had "turkey" cookies on sale for Thanksgiving, for which they'd modeled the turkey body out of brown-colored version of whatever it is that builds up areas on such cookies (some sort of semi-solidified sugar thing)...but the color choice, and the general roundedness of the turkey body, made the cookies decidedly unappetizing... Unless, it seems, you're Chinese...in which putting together the concepts of poop and food is apparently no barrier to the enjoyment of the latter. (Also: I can't be the only one who can't see the word "Reuters" without thinking of the Wire song, can I?) - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:11:02 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: that's odd... lep wrote: > http://www.reuters.com/news/pictures/slideshow?collectionId=1324 coulda done without #9 so soon after dinner; it's papilloma a gogo. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 03:05:35 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: RE: lolwasteland Rex wrote: >On Dec 3, 2007 9:22 AM, Michael Sweeney wrote: Lauren said: >it's been too long since i read it so i can't tell if this is funny.here's hoping:http://www.corprew.org/content/lolcat-wasteland/< >if they'd done prufrock, i'd have a better idea. for no particularreason, at one point, i decided it would be worthwhile to memorize apoem. kind of a dumbchoice.<...Not at all. Having referenced it semi-obliquely in at least 2 of my ownworks, I consider knowledge of and familiarity with Prufrock to be part of upper-level cultural currency. >Probably the longest thing I have memorized is "Visions of Johanna", which is a great lol-candidate. No time now, though... batin'.< "Im insidez yr muzeumz Puttingz yr infinty on trialz!" Michael "If we're seriously gonna tackle 'lolzimmy,' I'm gonna need a bigger thesaurus..." Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Share life as it happens with the new Windows Live.Download today it's FREE! http://www.windowslive.com/share.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_Wave2_sharelife_112007 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:00:29 -0800 (PST) From: "WUGA's Just Off The Radar" Subject: RoByN interview Robyn's appearing on my program this week here on the NPR affiliate in Athens. You can listen online live Sat, 1 Dec at 9PM EST here: http://wuga.org/listen_online.html Or you can check out our site sometime early next week and catch it there: www.justofftheradar.com JoE - --------------------------------- Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 23:44:22 EST From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: more syd/robyn _Syd Barrett_ (http://www.furious.com/perfect/sydbarrett.html) Early days of the crazy diamond _Barrett-Hitckcock_ (http://www.furious.com/perfect/barretthitchcock.html) The Syd & Robyn connection _http://www.furious.com/perfect/articles.html_ (http://www.furious.com/perfect/articles.html) **************************************Check out AOL's list of 2007's hottest products. (http://money.aol.com/special/hot-products-2007?NCID=aoltop00030000000001) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 06:50:41 -0500 From: lep Subject: when geeks sing there's been a mention or two of tom lehrer lately. i came across this: http://www.haverford.edu/physics-astro/songs/lehrer/physrev.htm#songs scroll to the bottom to find links for mp3s (and lyrics) of songs. (warning: sound quality is rated "historic".) also, sing along to "the element song": http://www.privatehand.com/flash/elements.html and if you feel inspired to dust off your slide rule, here's how: http://www.sliderule.ca/cleaning.htm as ever, lauren - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 15:12:37 +0000 From: matt sewell Subject: Fall mention on Feg! Rex said "One thing that really alarms co-workers is lots and lots of The Fall.No Xmas for John Quays, motherfuckers." Strange to hear this specific song mentioned - I couldn't make the Fall gig in London last week, but a friend who went said they finished with NXFJQ - now that's what I call festive... also along the same lines, last year Pat Fish's band Wilson ( www.myspace.com/wilsondub ) covered A Junkie's Christmas by William Burroughs for a seasonal compilation... CHeers Matt PS - I wonder if I could convince anyoyers to have a wander over to www.myspace.com/thenewmoonnews and appraise the music I've got there...? No? Oh, ok... _________________________________________________________________ Celeb spotting  Play CelebMashup and win cool prizes https://www.celebmashup.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #418 ********************************