From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #455 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, January 16 2008 Volume 16 : Number 455 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: The 'Verse [lep ] Re: The 'Verse [lep ] Re: The 'Verse ["Sumiko Keay" ] Re: The 'Verse [lep ] Natalie Jane Book [Carrie Galbraith ] Re: Top 10s by decade from 'The Times' [hssmrg@bath.ac.uk] politics and Buffy [Christopher Gross ] politics and Buffy [Christopher Gross ] Top 10s by decade from 'The Times' [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Doctor Lucy ["Terrence Marks" ] Re: Re (extracting the) [Michael Sweeney ] Re: The 'Verse [Rex ] Re: Top 10s by decade from 'The Times' [Rex ] Re: Re (extracting the) [Rex ] Re: Mr. [Me]? and blood tests [Michael Sweeney ] Re: Mr. [Me]? and blood tests [Tom Clark ] Re: Mr. [Me]? and blood tests [Capuchin ] Re: Top 10s by decade from 'The Times' [Michael Sweeney ] RE: Re (extracting the) ["Bachman, Michael" ] Re: Re (extracting the) [Jeff Dwarf ] RE: Re (extracting the) [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Re (extracting the) [2fs ] Re: The 'Verse [Rex ] Re: Re (extracting the) [Rex ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:17:46 -0500 From: lep Subject: Re: The 'Verse Carrie says: > Not to start up this thread again... oh, don't be silly person, whyever not? > Thanks to all of the Fegs (and my nephew) who, through extensive > threading, have encouraged me to go beyond the Browncoat 'Verse and > reach out to Buffy, and Angel. I'm deep in the BuffyVerse now and > have stopped to make sure I watch Angel and BTVS together. > > A lot of great stuff and rich on so many levels. Thanks all of you! well, actually, if you haven't gotten into heavy SPIKE territory, no reason to restart the thread...yet. xo p.s. actually, i have some buffy/angel discussion points that i'll probably bring up in the not-too-distant future. you stand warned. p.p.s. also, i finally watched all of firefly, and ended up really enjoying it. i think it's a better show that buffy or angel in certain ways (details awaiting e-muse.) i will state, though, its Lack Of Spike did *not* go unnoticed. - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:20:06 -0500 From: lep Subject: Re: The 'Verse lep says: > oh, don't be silly person, whyever not? whoops, that should read: > oh, don't be *a* silly person, whyever not? it started out as "silly girl", but that sounded so 1950s. xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:01:22 -0600 From: "Sumiko Keay" Subject: Re: The 'Verse Have you seen any of the clips from Torchwood season 2? Spikey!!!! Also - JM is back on Smallville on the 31st. Sumi On 1/15/08, lep wrote: > Carrie says: > > Not to start up this thread again... > > oh, don't be silly person, whyever not? > > > Thanks to all of the Fegs (and my nephew) who, through extensive > > threading, have encouraged me to go beyond the Browncoat 'Verse and > > reach out to Buffy, and Angel. I'm deep in the BuffyVerse now and > > have stopped to make sure I watch Angel and BTVS together. > > > > A lot of great stuff and rich on so many levels. Thanks all of you! > > well, actually, if you haven't gotten into heavy SPIKE territory, no > reason to restart the thread...yet. > > xo > > p.s. actually, i have some buffy/angel discussion points that i'll > probably bring up in the not-too-distant future. you stand warned. > > p.p.s. also, i finally watched all of firefly, and ended up really > enjoying it. i think it's a better show that buffy or angel in > certain ways (details awaiting e-muse.) i will state, though, its > Lack Of Spike did *not* go unnoticed. > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." > > - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:13:56 -0500 From: lep Subject: Re: The 'Verse Sumi says: > Have you seen any of the clips from Torchwood season 2? > > Spikey!!!! > > Also - JM is back on Smallville on the 31st. a kind feg has offered to send me "torchwood." i hope JM is as cool as spike. xo - -- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People with opinions just go around bothering one another." - The Buddha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:18:41 -0800 (GMT-08:00) From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Natalie Jane Book Dear Fegs, I sent a little book I made of our memorials about Gnat and some photos and a few of her posts to Vivien for the memorial service this past Sunday. Now I am offering a copy to any Feg who requests it. It's a simple book, hand-bound, and includes her infamous "Sailing the Sea of Feg" post. Mail me offlist with requests and I'll get rolling on an "limited feg edition." Be Seeing You, - - c ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:50:24 +0000 From: hssmrg@bath.ac.uk Subject: Re: Top 10s by decade from 'The Times' Quoting 2fs : > One thing quite clear from this article, for Americans: the UK is a > different country. (And in Central America, who knew they had all those > different countries down there?) > Several of these songs I haven't heard of, and while in the last decade or > two I've paid no attention to US chart pop, I've still heard of most of the > artists. I did not know that Lou Reed somehow had a hit with "Perfect Day" > in the '90s! * It was one of those big charity record things with different stars singing each line and the big finish by Lou, as far as I remember. Certainly the biggest ever drug record in the UK, I suspect. > The problem I have with most current chart pop that I've heard is that it's > kind of like glitter poured on a Twinkie: impressive in its own way at > first, but no long-lasting nutritional value and ultimately it's not > entirely clear why its various components should go together. Every record > seems to have some sort of production gimmick (which are often, admittedly, > interesting and creative) - but it's introduced in the first few bars, and > then repeated, nearly w/o variation, for another three minutes. * That's Cher's 'Believe' to a T! > There's > rarely a sense of songcraft, and melody is pretty much forgotten - and I > don't mean because of rapping, I mean what's *sung* is usually just random > explorations of a vaguely blues-like scale. And of course, whatever melody > there might have been is grossly overelaborated by singers who never met a > melisma they didn't love so much they'd do it three times in a few seconds. * How true, Jeff. The few (honest, few) times I have watched these all-conquering 'talent' shows masterminded by Simon Cowell, I have been appalled by the excesses of melisma. I can only think that the voting public equate melisma with vocal ability... of course all those 2000s acts came up that way - Will Young and Gareth Gates in particular; but those same shows apparently dominate the current charts. Occasionally you see Pete Waterman (of Stock Aitken and ...) on those shows and he obviously understands how you write that kind of throwaway pop. And he spends his money on steam trains! - - Mike Godwin PS Thanks to craigie and rob for their comments as well. Do you really mean that no-one knows what a trannie is any more, rob? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:04:47 -0500 (EST) From: Christopher Gross Subject: politics and Buffy In honor of the Republican primary in Michigan and someone here mentioning Buffy (rare, I know): http://www.cogitamusblog.com/2008/01/the-gop-primary.html In other political news: Back in the fall some GWU students created a huge "Vote Ron Paul" sign on the side of a campus building, using scores of sheets of copy paper to form the letters. Sometime during the winter break, a prankster removed certain key bits of paper to change it to "Vote RuPaul." Local right-wing blog has a picture here: http://thegwpatriot.blogspot.com/ . I'm hoping this leads to a serious "draft RuPaul" movement. - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:02:53 -0500 (EST) From: Christopher Gross Subject: politics and Buffy In honor of the Republican primary in Michigan and someone here mentioning Buffy (rare, I know): http://www.cogitamusblog.com/2008/01/the-gop-primary.html In other political news: Back in the fall some GWU students created a huge "Vote Ron Paul" sign on the side of a campus building, using scores of sheets of copy paper to form the letters. Sometime during the winter break, a prankster removed certain key bits of paper to change it to "Vote RuPaul." Local right-wing blog has a picture here: http://thegwpatriot.blogspot.com/ . I'm hoping this leads to a serious "draft RuPaul" movement. - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:27:48 +1300 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Top 10s by decade from 'The Times' >No sign of any of my favourite pop bands, however: no Rolling Stones >or Animals or Kinks or Move or Jimi Hendrix Experience or T Rex or >(weirdly) Slade, or any of the big album bands like the Pink Floyd, >REM, Led Zeppelin, The Doors, The Cream or even Simon and Garfunkel >(the one Garfunkel hit is the Mike Batt-penned ?Bright Eyes?). There are a lot of "Surprising by their absence" ones (not) on that list. The seventies without either Abba or the BeeGees is, like it or not, just wrong. Sales figures may not lie, but they fail to capture the zeitgeist, by the looks of it. Ken Dodd? No offence to the diddyman, but I'm pretty sure that ther were many other singles that captured the sixties far better than anything he ever recorded. 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: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:51:51 -0800 From: "Terrence Marks" Subject: Doctor Lucy There was an unreleased Robyn song (I believe it was on Unhatched Crablings 3). It began "Doctor Lucy's selling bread instead of pins". I was quite sure the title was "Take This In Remembrance", until I heard the TTiR on Middle-Class Hero and it was a completely different song. So, anyhow, was it a cover that I don't recognize? Was this just another one of those songs that was played once and discarded? (which is too bad - I rather liked it). Hmm, after checking The Asking Tree, it's probably called Doctor Lucy. Anyhow, anyone know anything about it? Terrence Marks ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:03:56 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: Re: Re (extracting the) Rex wrpte: >Basically, I just thank god that the Bush administration chose no heir-apparent as their VP. That really helps. ...Eh, at this point, it's more like "indeliably marked for doom," rather than "chose." Even if the current VP weren't (in Obi-Wan's felicitous phrase) "more machine now than man: twisted and evil," the utter wreckage of the current administration has left a trail of potential surrogate heirs in the trash: Colin Powell, Rummy (slightly), Alberto Gonzales, Condi, even Jeb. At this point, watch whoever gets the GOP nomination to, once the convention is over, NEVER mention GWB again. It'll all be "Ronald Reagan" and "Let's make it morning, again, in America" and "Change" and stuff like that... Michael "Remember -- not only the first election w/out an incumbent Prez or VP since 1952...but also first GOP ticket since '72 w/out a 'Bush' or 'Dole' on it..." Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Put your friends on the big screen with Windows Vista. + Windows Live. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/shop/specialoffers.mspx?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_CPC_M ediaCtr_bigscreen_012008 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:26:57 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: The 'Verse On Jan 15, 2008 11:17 AM, lep wrote: > > p.p.s. also, i finally watched all of firefly, and ended up really > enjoying it. i think it's a better show that buffy or angel in > certain ways (details awaiting e-muse.) i will state, though, its > Lack Of Spike did *not* go unnoticed. > Had Kaylee, though. (obligatory bunk reference here) I could never see past Kaylee, but I seem to recall that there was a pretty big River-fanboy contingent here... anyone watching her as the new Terminator on that Sarah Connor thing? It's gotten mixed reviews, but I'm vaguely curious... the lack of Linda Hamilton being a bit of a block. And speaking of nerd-favorite hotties, did anyone catch Gillian Anderson as the new host of Masterpiece Theatre? She looked... really weird, in a way I can't quite describe. I suppose they're actually shooting that X-Files movie now, for some reason. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:33:26 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: Top 10s by decade from 'The Times' On Jan 15, 2008 12:50 PM, wrote: > > > PS Thanks to craigie and rob for their comments as well. Do you really > mean that no-one knows what a trannie is any more, rob? Well, the most common usage of the word these days in the US is to mean "transsexual". Sometimes it seems to mean just plain "transvestite", but generally it seems to be someone who's medically/physically transgendered in some way. So I do believe it was a joke! I chuckled, anyway. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:43:47 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: Re (extracting the) On Jan 15, 2008 8:03 PM, Michael Sweeney wrote: > > Michael "Remember -- not only the first election w/out an incumbent Prez > or VP > since 1952...but also first GOP ticket since '72 w/out a 'Bush' or 'Dole' > on > it..." Sweeney It's pretty strange to think that if Hillary gets two terms, you'll have some 24 years of alternating Bushes and Clintons. And hell, by the time that's over, maybe America will have spaced out on how lame this Bush was, just like they did with the last one. Then again, this one was worse. Way worse. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:44:05 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: Re: Mr. [Me]? and blood tests Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:18:09 -0500 (EST)From: Jill Brand Subject: Mr. Sweeney? and blood tests Michael, why were you in the ER? Are you OK? Um, go 17-0 Pats!! Jill - ----------------------------------- Jill-- Thanks so much for asking. I was quite unwell, in a fluid-amassing-in-the-body-so-Mr.-Heart's-neighborhood-gets-crowded-and-unple asant-and-his-work-starts-to-suffer kind of way. Due to under-medication of the various nasties I already had, suddenly, 45 felt awfully alot like what I would guess 75 might (and a quite unhealthy, not-doing-well-at-all 75, at that) ... But, one purgatory-like-stay through the waiting and the putting-up-with-crap that is sadly inherent in the system, and I'm much better now. In fact, tonight -- Tuesday evening -- I feel about 100% better than I did exactly a week ago at this time. And I'll even trade that over missing 3 out of the 4 weekend football games... Michael "Dreaming of a Green Bay-New England Superb Owl -- for those of us w/out an actual dog in the fight (and I DO mean YOU, Michael Vick), that would be about as perfect of a match-up and a storyline as you could ask..." Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Watch Cause Effect, a show about real people making a real difference. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/MTV/?source=text_watchcause ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:58:06 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Mr. [Me]? and blood tests On Jan 15, 2008, at 8:44 PM, Michael Sweeney wrote: > Michael "Dreaming of a Green Bay-New England Superb Owl -- for those > of us > w/out an actual dog in the fight (and I DO mean YOU, Michael Vick), > that would > be about as perfect of a match-up and a storyline as you could ask..." > Sweeney That would be a great game but only if they played it in Wisconsin or Massachusetts - in the snow! Those two teams playing in Glendale, Arizona reminds me of the postcard showing Santa on a tropical beach. btw - my parents have a timeshare in Scottsdale that they are renting out for Super Bowl week. Tell your fanatical friends. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:10:36 -0600 (CST) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: Mr. [Me]? and blood tests On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Tom Clark wrote: > btw - my parents have a timeshare in Scottsdale that they are renting > out for Super Bowl week. Tell your fanatical friends. That seems... profitable. I considered renting out my place to some of the crazy people coming here for one of the two bowl games we had over the past couple weeks. People are already offering to pay over $100 a night for a few square feet of hardwood floor during Carnival. J. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 05:46:00 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: Re: Top 10s by decade from 'The Times' 2fs jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com wrote: >... I did not know that Lou Reed somehow had a hit with "Perfect Day" in the '90s! [Semi-resident semi-Lou voice chiming in here]...Me neither, until I saw that BBC-produced "Classic Albums" (I think it was called) show focusing on "Transformer" last year. In that episode, they showed parts of the video for the '97 version. It started out as a promo piece for the BBC and was later released as a charity single. Performers on it included Lou himself, Bono, Bowie, Elton (don't call me Reg, it's not my...ooops!, it actually is!), Emmylou Harris, Tammy Wynette, Dr. John, Joan Armatrading, Evan Dando, Laurie Anderson (hey, who saw THAT coming?), and Tom Jones. (It being the UK AND a charity single and all, George Michael must've been triple-booked -- or still in stir over another park-bush-and-drugs lark -- to NOT be on it...) Got to #1 in the UK for a few weeks in '97 / '98...and apparently sold a boat-load. Who knew? It IS a large ocean that separates us... Michael "You're gonna reap just what you sow..." 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Sebastian Hagedorn b Hagedorn@spinfo.uni-koeln.de b' http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 08:34:42 -0500 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Re (extracting the) - -----Original Message----- From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Michael Sweeney Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 11:04 PM To: fegs Subject: Re: Re (extracting the) Rex wrpte: >>Basically, I just thank god that the Bush administration chose no heir-apparent as their VP. That really helps. Michael "Don't call me Todd" Sweeney came back with: >...Eh, at this point, it's more like "indeliably marked for doom," rather than "chose." Even if the current VP weren't >(in Obi-Wan's felicitous phrase) "more machine now than man: twisted and evil," the utter wreckage of the current administration has left a trail of potential surrogate heirs in the trash: Colin Powell, Rummy (slightly), Alberto Gonzales, Condi, even Jeb. Wasn't "Macaca Boy" George Allen going to be the heir-apparent for the Bush crowd before his big mouth got him into trouble? Michael Bachman ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 08:41:35 -0500 From: "Bachman, Michael" Subject: RE: Mr. [Me]? and blood tests - -----Original Message----- From: owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org [mailto:owner-fegmaniax@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Tom Clark Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 11:58 PM To: fegs Subject: Re: Mr. [Me]? and blood tests On Jan 15, 2008, at 8:44 PM, Michael Sweeney wrote: >> Michael "Dreaming of a Green Bay-New England Superb Owl -- for those >> of us w/out an actual dog in the fight (and I DO mean YOU, Michael >> Vick), that would be about as perfect of a match-up and a storyline as >> you could ask..." >> Sweeney >That would be a great game but only if they played it in Wisconsin or Massachusetts - in the snow! > Those two teams playing in Glendale, Arizona reminds me of the postcard showing Santa on a tropical beach. Don't count out the "G" Men, the New York Football Giants. They are on another one of their "every 10 years come out of nowhere and win the whole shebang" runs. The did it in the 80's and 90's remember. Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 08:47:37 -0500 From: Caroline Smith Subject: Re: Top 10s by decade from 'The Times' On 16-Jan-08, at 12:46 AM, Michael Sweeney wrote: > 2fs jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com wrote: >> ... I did not know that Lou Reed somehow had a hit with "Perfect >> Day" in the > '90s! > > Got to #1 in the UK for a few weeks in '97 / '98...and apparently > sold a > boat-load. Who knew? It IS a large ocean that separates us... > It's on the Trainspotting soundtrack (1996). That probably helped popularize it, no? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:11:56 EST From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: REAP 'Client,' 'Sleepers' Actor Brad Renfro Dies _http://news.aol.com/entertainment/movies/movie-news-story/ar/_a/former-child- actor-brad-renfro-dies/20080115185109990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001_ (http://news.aol.com/entertainment/movies/movie-news-story/ar/_a/former-child-actor-brad - -renfro-dies/20080115185109990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001) also - mel brooks has bronchitis (he postponed a planned appearance on howard stern yesterday) **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:28:48 -0600 From: "Sumiko Keay" Subject: Re: The 'Verse I've been enjoying the Sarah Connor Chronicles. I think that the woman playing Sarah is more vulnerable than Linda Hamilton's Sarah but okay. I liked Thomas Dekkar on Heroes and still like him on SCC. Yeah, I watched Persuasian and Gillian Anderson doesn't seem all that comfortable in her role as host of Masterpiece Classic. (Persuasian was okay - but I prefer the one with Amanda Root and Ciaran Hinds. It's an atmospheric thing plus they did something funky with the ending that makes me want to re-read the novel and then rewatch the earlier movie and compare. But I'm really looking forward to Northanger Abbey.) Sumi On 1/16/08, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: > --On 15. Januar 2008 20:26:57 -0800 Rex wrote: > > > I could never see past Kaylee, > > Same here ... perhaps Inara as eye candy .... > > > but I seem to recall that there was a > > pretty big River-fanboy contingent here... anyone watching her as the new > > Terminator on that Sarah Connor thing? > > I saw the pre-air version of the pilot some time ago. Only 4:3. > > > It's gotten mixed reviews, but I'm > > vaguely curious... the lack of Linda Hamilton being a bit of a block. > > Yeah, but it was better than I had feared. Too early to tell where it might > go. Often this kind of series starts with a good premise but then doesn't > hold up. > -- > b . Sebastian Hagedorn > b Hagedorn@spinfo.uni-koeln.de > b ' http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 07:46:35 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Re (extracting the) Rex wrote: > Michael Sweeney wrote: > > Michael "Remember -- not only the first election w/out an > > incumbent Prez or VP since 1952...but also first GOP ticket > > since '72 w/out a 'Bush' or 'Dole' on it..." Sweeney > > It's pretty strange to think that if Hillary gets two terms, you'll > have some 24 years of alternating Bushes and Clintons. 28. 4+8+8+8=28. > And hell, by the time that's over, maybe America will have spaced > out on how lame this Bush was, just like they did with the last > one. > > Then again, this one was worse. Way worse. W makes his father look like Lincoln, both Roosevelts, and Jefferson combined. "I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirize George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporize them." -- Tom Lehrer "The eyes are the groin of the head." -- Dwight Schrute . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 07:50:27 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: RE: Re (extracting the) "Bachman, Michael" wrote: > Wasn't "Macaca Boy" George Allen going to be the heir-apparent for > the Bush crowd before his big mouth got him into trouble? Yeah, back when he was reminiscent of our allegedly beloved W, instead of reminiscent of that dumbfuck W. "I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirize George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporize them." -- Tom Lehrer "The eyes are the groin of the head." -- Dwight Schrute . ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:07:47 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Re (extracting the) On 1/16/08, Bachman, Michael wrote: > > > > Michael "Don't call me Todd" Sweeney came back with: What, you don't like Rundgren? Apropos of nothing, isn't this the second or third time someone's manipulated the subject line into the same Renaldo & the Loaf reference? Not that that's a problem... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:14:30 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: The 'Verse On Jan 16, 2008 7:28 AM, Sumiko Keay wrote: > > Yeah, I watched Persuasian and Gillian Anderson doesn't seem all that > comfortable in her role as host of Masterpiece Classic. Which is weird, because apparently part of her negotiations for the position involved her wanting to write her own spiel. But yeah. > (Persuasian > was okay - but I prefer the one with Amanda Root and Ciaran Hinds. > Me, too, but it's cool that these are all new except for two (one of which is the Kate Beckinsale "Emma", and there's never anything wrong with that, even after all those lame ass-werewolf films she's done). > But I'm really looking forward to > Northanger Abbey.) > I've gotta scramble to read NA before that airs, as it represents my last chance EVAR to see an adaptation of an Austen book I've already read. - -Rex "Any one may know of my regard for her!" Broome ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:18:22 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: Re (extracting the) On Jan 16, 2008 9:07 AM, 2fs wrote: > > > Michael "Don't call me Todd" Sweeney came back with: > > > > What, you don't like Rundgren? No, it's just that it's not his name. Not yet. > > > Apropos of nothing, isn't this the second or third time someone's > manipulated the subject line into the same Renaldo & the Loaf reference? > Not > that that's a problem... I've completely forgotten to what this subject line originally referred, and how it turned into what it is now. Not Lou Reed this time, I don't think, though. - -Rex ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #455 ********************************