From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #457 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, January 18 2008 Volume 16 : Number 457 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: attn lou read fans [Michael Sweeney ] Re: Pop on Trial (again) [Michael Sweeney ] Re: Pop on Trial (again) [Rex ] RE: Pop on Trial (again) [Michael Sweeney ] Filing Nerds to Your Marks! ["Stacked Crooked" ] La Charity [Rex ] Hold on, big boy - think of the ferrets! [djini@voicenet.com] Re: La Charity [2fs ] Re: La Charity [Benjamin Lukoff ] Re: The 'Verse [djini@voicenet.com] reap [FSThomas ] Reap: Chromium (II) oxide [The Great Quail ] Re: The 'Verse [Rex ] Re: La Charity [gaseous clay ] Re: La Charity [Dolph Chaney ] Re: La Charity ["m swedene" ] Re: The 'Verse [2fs ] Re: La Charity [Rex ] Re: La Charity [Rex ] Reap: Richard Knerr, 82; co-founded Wham-O [Steve Schiavo ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:21:08 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: Re: attn lou read fans Rex wrote: >On Jan 16, 2008 7:16 PM, wrote: >>> Feature Story Page 1 of 4>> Standing on the Corner Studying Rules of Verse: A Visit With Sweet Jane>> January 16, 2008> >All of that, and yet no blueprints for a Stutz Bearcat? ...Hey, those were different times... Michael "Listening to RH, reading 'bout Lou, playing online poker -- not a bad way to waste an afternoon!" Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Need to know the score, the latest news, or you need your Hotmail.-get your "fix". http://www.msnmobilefix.com/Default.aspx ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:33:58 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: Re: Pop on Trial (again) Godwin spoke: >PPS re Reg: I gave 'Reg Dwight' as an answer in pub quiz once, and was told 'No, that's wrong, because he has legally changed his name to Elton Hercules John'!< ...Eh, suppose it should be, "Please don't call me 'Reg' - it's not my name (not anymore!)..." now. Michael "Lawrence" Sweeney [one-time, non-ironic answer of actual middle name...] _________________________________________________________________ Need to know the score, the latest news, or you need your Hotmail.-get your "fix". http://www.msnmobilefix.com/Default.aspx ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:51:40 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: Pop on Trial (again) On Jan 17, 2008 12:33 PM, Michael Sweeney wrote: > > Michael "Lawrence" Sweeney [one-time, non-ironic answer of actual middle > name...] Oooh, does it really have quotes around it on your birth certificate? (Can you do that?) - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:20:53 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: RE: Pop on Trial (again) Rex wrote: >On Jan 17, 2008 12:33 PM, Michael Sweeney wrote: >>Michael "Lawrence" Sweeney [one-time, non-ironic answer of actual middlename...]<< >Oooh, does it really have quotes around it on your birth certificate? (Can you do that?) ...Nah -- it's "just" plain. But yer note brings 2 things to mind: 1. The progression -- from original Bonzo Dog credits to appearances elsewhere (I'm paryicularly thinking of Beatle George, who even wrote a song 'bout the dood) as Legs "Larry" Smith (as opposed to "Legs")... 2. A story -- likely of the "laughter is the best medicine" variety from "Reader's Digest" or some other MOR pub: A guy named R. B. Jones, who apparently has only initials (no actual name; see also "B.J. Hunnicutt," "M*A*S*H") was struggling with some entity (Social Security, credit card issuer, insurance company -- something like that) about ONLY IDing himself by initials, while the Entity was insisting he tell them what his full name was...And, so, after Mr. Jones -- cleverly and definitively, he thought -- sought to solve the matter by filling out the Entity's most recent request for his complete info to read: "R. (only) B. (only) Jones," sure enough, his next response from the Entity came back to "Ronly Bonly Jones." Sigh... Michael "Hmm - has this joke / device / PS-equivalent bit worn thin enough yet?" Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Helping your favorite cause is as easy as instant messaging. You IM, we give. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Home/?source=text_hotmail_join ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:30:57 -0800 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: Filing Nerds to Your Marks! . ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:19:55 -0800 From: Rex Subject: La Charity Say, would anyone, and I can't think of a single fucking reason why you should, want a big old box of cassette dubs of, like, whatever I was listening to between 1988 and 1993? I thought that all I had left was mix tapes, but lo and behold, there's a big stash of XL-II 90's of albums I taped from other people, and, eventually, my own CD's and vinyl for car listening. I sure as hell don't need them, but I seem to have put a lot of effort into labeling them (nerd), and I wish I could come up with something to do with them besides just dumping them. Don't think I can even dump 'em at the thrift store-- almost none of them are pre-recorded, and some of them have really weird A-side/B-side juxtapositions. Nothing excitingly rare, or at least not much. It just seems like it would be cool if someone else had them and discovered an artist or two, but I dunno who that someone would be. Has anyone else run into this issue, or been consciously avoiding it? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:01:39 -0500 (EST) From: djini@voicenet.com Subject: Hold on, big boy - think of the ferrets! Fegs, I have spent the last 3 days following the alternately sad, infuriating, and ridiculous plagiarism scandal that is rocking - rocking, I say - the book world. If you haven't heard about it, a 71 year old romance author named Cassie Edwards with 100 published works has been apparently merrily stealing from other people's work for years, including bits of Laughing Boy, which won a Pulitzer in 1930 (which makes me think she wanted to get caught). Anyway, since I started reading lolcatiana because of the list, I wanted to share this lolcatspeak-meets-greek tragedy-meets-blogflamewars encapsulation of the whole sordid kerfuffle: http://rooferauthor.blogspot.com/2008/01/plagiarism-play-or-brain-plaque.html The whole thing is pasted in below. The most absurd aspect of the affair (and thus, what brings it back around to being kind of feggy) is the article on the endangered black-footed ferrets that was "creatively layered" into the book "Shadow Bear." The original author has written a response (of course) that's pretty funny too: "My words did not enhance her novel. They were filler. I can imagine frustrated and horny readers cursing the ferrets and skipping ahead in search of the next nipple." His whole article is here: http://www.newsweek.com/id/94543/page/1 ********************* WARNING: if you hate lolspeak, just stop reading as this will enrage you. ********************** Place: Romancelandia, a magick kingdom on the Internetz, a virtual world where minds communicate Time: A week ago Cast of characters: Smart Bitches, Trashy Books, a romance review site Chorus (Usually a bunch of voices on stage singing the role of the Fates) Google (the Oracle of Romancelandia, invoked to give information, some of which are a bit weird. Like Goatzse, for example, which is NOT part of this story) Bloggers and their grandmas Jenny Crusie, a Big Author, with followers called Cherries Diana Gabaldon, a Big Author, with followers called the Ladies of Lallybroch Nora Roberts, known as La Nora, a Big Author. Her followers chant WWND (What would Nora do?) La Nora is also known as the Voice of Romance. RWA, Romance Writers of America, a powerful guild of 9000 Mrs. Giggles, ancient romance reviewer who has journeyed to and earned a seat in the Westlands of Powerful Voices Black-footed ferret, one of the noted research subjects taken from the text, here symbolizing...something profound, like a B Sci-fi horror movie. (Blue skies. Distant thunder rumbled.) (If you are reading aloud, you have to start soft and get to the top of your voice later....) (A large stage. Very large. Only a few people on it right now. You have to imagine more and more people filling this stage as events rush to a climax.) 1) Smart Bitches explained that they sent examples of good and bad romances to a non-romance reading friend. One of CE's books was in the "bad" romance pile. "Dude, read these and be one of us!" 2. Friend started reading. The language and style of those odd Edwards passages that sound like an encyclopaedia-in-weird-noblesavage-talk seemed odd to her. "Dude, lemme Google some of these passages." 3. Chorus : "Oh Nos! Passages were direct transcription of out-of-print and out-of-copyright research books on Indian and wildlife cultures!" (Rumbling of thunder more distinctive) 4. Smart Bitches called upon Google for the truth about other passages from other books. Chorus: "Oh Nos!! More direct transcriptions from other important research books, some still in copyright!" Smart Bitches: "Ding, ding, ding! Plagiarism, everyone!" (A clap of thunder) (Sounds of feet thumping backstage) 5. 1,001 bloggers and their grandmas expressed horror!! Links to the SB blog brought major SB enemies and haters into the fold. Hate ensued! Chorus (mezzo-loud): "Hate plagiarism! Hate SBs! Hate mean girls! Hate, hate, hate!" 6. Jenny Crusie posted on SB board: "Did Cassie Edwards run over your dog?" 7. Chorus (louder): "Oh Noes!!! 1,000,001 posters and their grandmas dissected Jenny Crusie's comment." Hate ensued. "Hate plagiarism! Hate JC!! Hate mean girls! Hate, hate, hate!!" (People on stage running around, holding their heads) (thunder rumbling away merrily) (drizzling) 8. Meanwhile, SB sent their finds to CE's publisher, Signet. Signet sent back snotty letter: "Yo, iz cool. Romance books aren't like academia, you know. We stand by our author, CE." (Lightning struck. Some of those on stage fall down, clutching their blackened heads) 9. Chorus (screaming): "Oh Noesssssss!!!" 5,000,0001 posters (yes, and their grandmas!) rose up from the darkness in horror, their voices bursting against the seam of bandwidth: "Dissing us????! Did they say romance readers are stupid????! Don't they know what plagiarism is????" Hate! Hate Signet! Let's boycott Signet!!!! (Rrrrroooooooaaaar of apppproval!!!!!) (Stamping of feet!!!!!!!) (A lone Signet author chimed in: Umm...who are you punishing again?) 10. Diana Gabaldon posted somewhere that it was okay to lift words from out-of-copyright public domain works and not cite. Chorus (Screeching): "Oh noooooooes!!!!!!! De Diana Gabaldon?!!!!!!!" Many ///headdesking ensued. Very Loud Sad Elevator Music Booms in the background. More people on stage holding heads, tearing hair. Screams of agony. Suddenly, a gong sounded. 11. Galley Cat picked up the story!!!! Associated Press picked up the story!!!!!!! Explosionzzz!!!!!!! 12. Cassie Edwards answered the phone, said she did nothing wrong, and handed the phone to her husband!!!!!!! 13. Chorus (hysterical): "Oh noessss! She handed the phone to her husband!!!!!!!!" (background screams. Lightning) 14. Yahoo News picked up the story! CNN picked up the story! Another 1,000,0001 posters and their grandmas linked to the SB post. Much hate followed as newbies in different colored clothing rushed onto the stage from the audience, the aisle, the stage sides.... Chorus (so loud you have to cover your ears): "Why are you attacking a 71 year old woman? Why are you always picking on her books? If they are so bad, why is she world famous and you aren't? Why do you have an agenda? What is the meaning of snarkiness and meanness?" (Stage darkened. Sudden quiet. Lone spotlight comes on a woman of power.) 15. At which, Jennifer Crusie goes into deep philosophic shock (posted on her Arrrgh Inc blog): "I wuz a Snark Girl but bad things happened to me. I voweth to snark and be mean no mo! Look at those mean girls, with the blog I shall not name, and see how they are being called mean. Don't hate them for their meanness. Forgive them like you forgive me, because I used to snark so but I shall henceforth snark no more. Because look at the blog that I shall not name, looooooook! Bad things happen. And uh, plagiarism is bad, of course." (breaks the stone tablets...oops, wrong movie) Spotlight jumps from one to other individuals on stage, wearing top hats, each yelling: "Plagiarism is bad!" "Did you hear? Plagiarism is bad!" "I don't believe it, plagiarism is bad!' "Plagiarism is bad?" 16. Yet another 1,000,0001 Cherries and their grandmas linked to the SB to check out the blog and told Her Crusieness that she was indeed right. "Plagiarism is bad. Mean girls are bad. Mean blogs are bad, bad, bad. Let's talk about the mean girls and not plagiarism because plagiarism is already bad." 17. At which, all the SB haters linked to Crusie's blog and declared, "Crusie is da Goddess! Crusie smacks down the SBs!!" Lots of Crusie love. 18. Fox News picked up the story!!!!!!!!!! OMG Publishers Weekly. OMG NYT! This is hugggggge news! Explosionzzzzzz!!!!!!!! (All the lightbulbs on stage explode and glass shards fall down. Everyone runs around on stage, hands still on heads, bumping into each other) 19. RWA put out a grand public statement: "Umm. Ahem. Mumble. Wha..?" 20. La Nora Roberts, also Signet author, lifted her voice. "Silence! This is plagiarism!" 21. Cheers rose from one side. La Nora has spoken! Chorus chanting: "WWND? WWND? WWND?" Confetti. 22. SB haters sneers ensued. "We have Crusie on our side! And we have Mrs. Giggles!" 23. Mrs. Giggles: "Urm. I'm not siding with anyone. Sick of y'all. Leave me alone!" 24. Signet backpedalled with a Public Statement. "Okay, okay! Something needs to be done, okay?" 25. RWA sent out alert to members. "Okay, okay! We fucked up, okay? We'll not mumble any more." More folks are invoking The Oracle of Google (happy, happy Google) and more plagiarized passages are found in other CE books. 26. On stage: 1,000,000,0001 posters and their grandmas alternately cheered, wept, clapped their hands, screeched, shrugged, and scolded. Cassie Edwards fans trolled the different boards, mostly telling off a bunch of people about their need for a job and to go read something else. Academics are pulled in, wandering and wondering (who's Cassie Edwards again? Will she fund our future research?). Lawyers circled around the stage. Experts torpedoed onto the stage. 27. Authors and would-be writers on other boards are horrified at the SB's blog name. "Our image! They done destroy our image!!!! They should have kept all this undercovers, like a Sekret Trial!!!!!!! Wahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!" (((Edited to add: Chorus: Oh NOoOOoOOes!!!!! She plagiarized a Pulitzer Prize novel!!!! WTFBBQ? The Ghost of Sinatra appears in corner of stage, stage-whispersinging: And now, the end is near....))) Clap of thunder. It's raining heavily. Wind. Rain. Woooooooooshhhhhh. Manuscript pages flying in tornado like pattern. Spotlight follows a lone black-footed ferret slinking by. 28. End result so far: Plagiarism is bad. We are all individuals. Cassie Edwards is a 71 year-old woman. Mean girls have no reason to invoke the Oracle of Google unless it's to be mean. Someone ran over someone's dog. Jenny Crusie taught me a lot. Diana Gabaldon not so much. The fear of making fun of CE books is on me. No more making fun of CE books, except with some kind of asterisk ***. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:59:22 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: La Charity On 1/17/08, Rex wrote: > > Say, would anyone, and I can't think of a single fucking reason why you > should, want a big old box of cassette dubs of, like, whatever I was > listening to between 1988 and 1993? Has anyone else run into this issue, or been consciously avoiding it? Like a lot of us, I'm guessing, I too have hundreds of cassette tapes gathering dust (in my case, in basement shelves). Most of them are recorded from friends, etc., back in the pre-disc-burning days (hell, pre-digital days: my earliest cassettes date from like 1974 or '75, when I was 12 or 13). I can't quite imagine getting rid of them - and occasionally, I'll dig one out for a particular track, and they're in surprisingly good shape (this is probably because I'm in the 1% of the population who did not make a habit of leaving cassettes heating on the dashboard of a car, or collecting grot beneath car seats). But I also can't imagine systematically digitizing them: for the effort, it'd be cheaper to buy CDs or, certainly, mp3s...and a lot of them consist of stuff I'm just not that interested in any more. My habit has always been that I'm less picky with what I acquire on lesser media...so back then, I'd tape nearly anything (just like now, I'll download a free mp3 of almost anything). I'm glad i did - there's huge swaths of my music collection that wouldn't exist but for such semi-accidental discoveries - but necessarily a lot of that stuff is...not so good. I have a similar issue with videocassettes... I was one of those people who didn't have a VCR for the longest time (hell, we barely had a TV - we had a portable model with like a 5" screen, which for most of its life had hella ghosting), and so when we finally bought a real TV and VCR (which was probably 1985 or '86?), I went nuts and taped every damned thing. Same story: how much of it do I actually want to watch, and if I do, I'd rather just rent the DVD. There's probably some stuff that isn't on DVD or never will be...but most of it, who cares. (Except, of course, for my complete run of MST3K, mostly complete with now-vintage commercials. Those I really should digitize for posterity, since a lot of that stuff probably won't ever be on DVD due to rights issues.) I think my collections of both of those media are due to be packed in cardboard boxes and hidden away, though... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:38:55 -0800 (PST) From: Benjamin Lukoff Subject: Re: La Charity On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Rex wrote: > I thought that all I had left was mix tapes, but lo and behold, there's a > big stash of XL-II 90's of albums I taped from other people, and, > eventually, my own CD's and vinyl for car listening. I sure as hell don't > need them, but I seem to have put a lot of effort into labeling them (nerd), > and I wish I could come up with something to do with them besides just > dumping them. Don't think I can even dump 'em at the thrift store-- almost > none of them are pre-recorded, and some of them have really weird > A-side/B-side juxtapositions. Nothing excitingly rare, or at least not Funny thing is they probably SOUND better than the pre-recorded tapes they WILL accept--but I guess it'd be illegal for them to sell them. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:33:21 -0500 (EST) From: djini@voicenet.com Subject: Re: The 'Verse Sumi wrote: > 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. Is Thomas Dekkar John? Does anyone else think that he looks like he was someone's attempt to replicate Ashton Kutcher without all the attendant assholery and goofiness and, y'know, personality, such as it is? > 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. I could not finish this version of Persuasion I hated it so much. The wan, limp actress playing Anne kept looking directly into the camera, which is OK - when Jim from The Office does it. In an Austen adaptation it feels jarring and overly winky. It felt like a guided tour of the book rather than an attempt to illuminate it. And I was so hopeful going into it! Giles! Ultra-creepy babe Alice Krige, from Sleepwalkers and Twilight of the Icenymphs and Lonely Hearts (god, what a weird and wonderful career)! Argh, I could go on. I hated the casting on Wentworth too. That guy would not have taken ten years to get over a heartbreak. It would take that guy one six-pack. And yeah, Gillian Anderson seemed a little... off. Her hair is a very strange color now too, which clashed with the drapes. But either she does not age, or the Masterpiece (fullstop) camera and makeup people really know how to flatter a host. Jeanne ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:18:37 -0500 From: FSThomas Subject: reap Bobby Fischer, 64. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a1Wo4XjO_zOc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:48:41 -0500 From: The Great Quail Subject: Reap: Chromium (II) oxide > Has anyone else run into this issue, or been consciously avoiding it? Ha ha ha! I just drove back from Allentown two weeks ago, my car loaded with twelve boxes of cassette tapes from approximately 1977-1990. My grandmother needed to reclaim the space in her attic. Anyone want the lot for $10 and shipping? Heh. - --Quail ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:36:07 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: The 'Verse On Jan 16, 2008 3:33 PM, wrote: > Sumi wrote: > > I could not finish this version of Persuasion I hated it so much. The wan, > limp actress > playing Anne kept looking directly into the camera, which is OK - when Jim > from The > Office does it. In an Austen adaptation it feels jarring and overly winky. It was sort of a retread of the rather strange theatrical version of "Mansfield Park", but in that one it was usually done to punctuate a witticism... not to express eternal goth longing. ! Ultra-creepy babe Alice Krige, from Sleepwalkers and Twilight of > the Icenymphs and Lonely Hearts (god, what a weird and wonderful career)! > A Also the Borg Queen, no? > > And yeah, Gillian Anderson seemed a little... off. Her hair is a very > strange color now > too, which clashed with the drapes. But either she does not age, or the > Masterpiece > (fullstop) camera and makeup people really know how to flatter a host. > Didn't Peter Boyle tell her she would never die in one of the many dropped threads of X-Files willful obfuscation? Rex, nerd ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:02:58 -0500 From: gaseous clay Subject: Re: La Charity one time at band camp, Rex (spottedeagleray@gmail.com) said: >Say, would anyone, and I can't think of a single fucking reason why you >should, want a big old box of cassette dubs of, like, whatever I was >listening to between 1988 and 1993? >Has anyone else run into this issue, or been consciously avoiding it? unconsciously, yes. i've got two weeks to figure it out since we're moving at the end of the month ... into a smaller place. oy. and if you think labelling those tapes was nerdy, i did it *artistically*. oy. woj ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:09:24 -0600 From: Dolph Chaney Subject: Re: La Charity On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 11:02 -0500, gaseous clay wrote: > one time at band camp, Rex (spottedeagleray@gmail.com) said: > > >Say, would anyone, and I can't think of a single fucking reason why you > >should, want a big old box of cassette dubs of, like, whatever I was > >listening to between 1988 and 1993? > > >Has anyone else run into this issue, or been consciously avoiding it? I have, sure. Since I still use my cassette 4-track as my primary recording implement, I've just continued to repurpose the old dubs. It makes for some pretty interesting track bleedthrough sometimes, especially on tracks 3 and 4 (i.e. the opposite side backwards). That said, I've got plenty of my own -- hundreds, all my wife can stand - -- to last me until the Tascam breaks down, and so I won't need any from otherfegs. - -- Dolph "old skool" the Dolphster ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:25:05 -0500 From: "m swedene" Subject: Re: La Charity On 1/18/08, gaseous clay wrote: > one time at band camp, Rex (spottedeagleray@gmail.com) said: > > >Say, would anyone, and I can't think of a single fucking reason why you > >should, want a big old box of cassette dubs of, like, whatever I was > >listening to between 1988 and 1993? > > >Has anyone else run into this issue, or been consciously avoiding it? > When I moved to NYC last year i faced a deluge of old media. I got rid of a lot of videotapes and audio cassettes. I eneded up tossing most of them as the local goodwill wouldnt take them. Some of the older stuff I traded for (boots and such) i have stored for future archeologists to retrieve from my parents' basement. In short, there is no easy answer to this issue. Good luck! Mike ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:33:52 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: The 'Verse On 1/16/08, djini@voicenet.com wrote: > > > And yeah, Gillian Anderson seemed a little... off. Her hair is a very > strange color now > too, which clashed with the drapes. Plus, the full-frontal nudity was distracting. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:50:17 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: La Charity On Jan 18, 2008 8:02 AM, gaseous clay wrote: > > and if you think labelling those tapes was nerdy, i did it *artistically*. They probably look pretty similar then oy. So, uncorrected personality traits that seem whimsical in a child-- hey, that's totally appropriate. You did that on purpose! - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:55:17 -0800 From: Rex Subject: Re: La Charity On Jan 18, 2008 8:09 AM, Dolph Chaney wrote: > On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 11:02 -0500, gaseous clay wrote: > > one time at band camp, Rex (spottedeagleray@gmail.com) said: > > > > >Say, would anyone, and I can't think of a single fucking reason why you > > >should, want a big old box of cassette dubs of, like, whatever I was > > >listening to between 1988 and 1993? > > > > >Has anyone else run into this issue, or been consciously avoiding it? > > I have, sure. Since I still use my cassette 4-track as my primary > recording implement, I've just continued to repurpose the old dubs. It > makes for some pretty interesting track bleedthrough sometimes, > especially on tracks 3 and 4 (i.e. the opposite side backwards). Old skool indeed. Although I do now have a 4-track 1/4" deck, and that gives me backwards multispeed delight aplenty, I've no plans to record with it, and I gave my last Tascam to the bassist in my band a few years back. (The commonalities between you and him continue to pile up; I really should formally introduce you some time.) In the pile are some old 4-track cassette masters which I will probably refurbish and remix in Audacity when I get to them... I'm pretty sure they're all ass, though. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:06:05 -0600 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Reap: Richard Knerr, 82; co-founded Wham-O - - Steve __________ I can't resist an anime that includes a small, cute, violence prone girl with a scythe. - John ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:17:47 -0500 From: "m swedene" Subject: Step aside Spaghetti Monster - .5% RH Content It is time to worship the Trilobyte! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf6TeoUdauA I was waiting to hear Robyn's vocals, but no such luck. eMike ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:22:28 -0500 (EST) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: Reap: Chromium (II) oxide > > Has anyone else run into this issue, or been consciously avoiding it? > > Ha ha ha! I just drove back from Allentown two weeks ago, my car loaded with > twelve boxes of cassette tapes from approximately 1977-1990. My grandmother > needed to reclaim the space in her attic. At least they're your own tapes. Notorious Feg Bayard gave me a whole big box of cassettes, hundreds of them, so that I could pick out the ones I wanted and throw the rest away. I've been stepping around the box ever since, without so much as opening it. It's been a year now. However, I'm still fond of those old tapes I made of the local college radio station back when I was first discovering non-top-40 music. Never listen to them, of course. But I am fond of them. - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #457 ********************************