From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #441 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, December 31 2007 Volume 16 : Number 441 Today's Subjects: ----------------- More of me (not necessarily a good thing) [Michael Sweeney ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #440 [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #440 [2fs ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #440 [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Are Libertarians only allowed to listen to crappy rock and pop music? [St] It's not my name (not yet) [2fs ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 15:43:50 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: More of me (not necessarily a good thing) Like I recently said, I apparently need a blog to spew out my non-revenue writing. In the meantime, I'll be doing a usually-weekly 700-1,200-wd. e-mail column called "And, In the News..." riffing humorously / thoughtfully on something currently in the news...a la my "Jewels for..." post (about the top baby names for 2007) that appeared in Fegmaniax Digest #439 (http://tinyurl.com/23rxdg). That one had some tenuous Robyn connections (the whole "Sophia" thing), so I posted it here...but to get the future ones (starting on 12/31, with a rumination on ambiguous movies, such as "No Country For Old Men"), drop me an e-mail at m_l_sweeney@hotmail.com and I can add you to my list. As I say at the top of the post, it's guaranteed no spam, no FWD crap -- just original, hopefully entertaining writing. Thanks, all my co-Feggy friends... Michael "Like Donald Sutherland in 'Animal House,' 'I'm not joking - this is my job!'" Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Get the power of Windows + Web with the new Windows Live. http://www.windowslive.com?ocid=TXT_TAGHM_Wave2_powerofwindows_122007 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 12:45:36 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: daring to be... On 12/30/07, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > > > > > also, another "movie i saw with female friends with claire danes" was > > "the hours". oh, boy, did i not like that one. i can't even remember > > ms. danes through all the drone. > > I missed that one. I know many women who liked it a lot. I don't think I > know any guys who've even seen it I did. Not terrible, not great. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:51:54 +1300 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #440 >Sign of aging: In the A.V. Club this week (or maybe it was last - it's >online so what difference does it make anyway) the list of "least essential >CDs of 2007" was released. One of them was by Perry Farrell's latest project >- - and the aging thing is this: the lede for that one is something like "it's >hard to believe something so irrelevant can come from someone who was once >relevant." Well, I'd agree with the comment about his relevance. If it wasn't for Farrell, we probably wouldn't have had Lollapalooza. 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: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 16:58:58 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #440 On 12/30/07, grutness@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > > >Sign of aging: In the A.V. Club this week (or maybe it was last - it's > >online so what difference does it make anyway) the list of "least > essential > >CDs of 2007" was released. One of them was by Perry Farrell's latest > project > >- - and the aging thing is this: the lede for that one is something like > "it's > >hard to believe something so irrelevant can come from someone who was > once > >relevant." > > Well, I'd agree with the comment about his relevance. If it wasn't > for Farrell, we probably wouldn't have had Lollapalooza. True. I'm just trying to figure out what difference that might have made. Fewer tattoos? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:43:15 +1300 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #440 >Sign of aging: In the A.V. Club this week (or maybe it was last - it's >online so what difference does it make anyway) the list of "least essential >CDs of 2007" was released. One of them was by Perry Farrell's latest project >- - and the aging thing is this: the lede for that one is something like "it's >hard to believe something so irrelevant can come from someone who was once >relevant." Well, I'd agree with the comment about his relevance. If it wasn't for Farrell, we probably wouldn't have had Lollapalooza. 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: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 19:14:25 -0600 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Are Libertarians only allowed to listen to crappy rock and pop music? Some readers not so quietly resist the best of 2007 lists at Reason - - - Steve _______________ Interconnectedness among living beings can be accounted for by nonlocal quantum entanglement. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 17:50:44 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: It's not my name (not yet) Ha. Here's a picture of Robyn < http://www.abbymcdonald.com/poptext%20images/robyn.jpg> - that is, Swedish pop star Robyn. I think it would be amusing for our Robyn to pose in exactly the same fashion, with similar outfit and enormous shades. (I think it was the blonde/grey hair conversion that made me think that...) - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #441 ********************************