From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #564 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, April 7 2008 Volume 16 : Number 564 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: yet more iTunes bizarreness ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: yet more iTunes bizarreness ["David Stovall" ] Maui [Jill Brand ] Re: yet more iTunes bizarreness [2fs ] Re: 40 yrs ago today [Capuchin ] Another pathetic cry for help ["kevin studyvin" ] Another pathetic cry for help ["kevin studyvin" ] Re: 40 yrs ago today [Steve Talkowski ] Re: 40 yrs ago today [Capuchin ] Re: Can '08 top '06? Maybe! ["Stacked Crooked" ] Re: Can '08 top '06? Maybe! ["Stacked Crooked" ] Re: Another pathetic cry for help [Rex ] Re: Can '08 top '06? Maybe! [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Can '08 top '06? Maybe! [Rex ] Re: Can '08 top '06? Maybe! ["kevin studyvin" ] Re: Can '08 top '06? Maybe! [Rex ] Re: Can '08 top '06? Maybe! ["kevin studyvin" ] Re: Maui [Tom Clark ] Re: Can '08 top '06? Maybe! ["kevin studyvin" ] Re: Can '08 top '06? Maybe! [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re: Can '08 top '06? Maybe! [Rex ] A good year for music, indeed. [The Great Quail ] Re: AirPort Express? [2fs ] re: starfucking [xx ] RE: Maui ["michael wells" ] Re: starfucking [Rex ] Re: starfucking [Rex ] Bob's new paperweight [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Maui [Tom Clark ] Re: Maui [Carrie Galbraith ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 06:01:37 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: yet more iTunes bizarreness 2fs wrote: > > Could well be - but that just punts the question to: "I can't imagine some > person inanely in putting '192' in the BPM field for CD after CD and then > entering them into CDDB" or whatever it's called these days... The BPM thing might be the same as the dumb old Xing encoder that set every track's genre to Blues. There's probably still a bunch of CDDB data that it "inherited" from its free days, but that wouldn't have BPM information. CDDB1 didn't support it. > Incidentally, it's too bad the online CD databases aren't organized like > Wikipedia...so that you could actually get rid of bad information Both Freedb and MusicBrainz allow open editing. CDDB in theory allows you to submit changes ("Send track names to iTunes", or similar), but I haven't seen any changes reflect back in the database. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 08:53:04 -0400 From: "David Stovall" Subject: Re: yet more iTunes bizarreness > Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 13:00:01 -0500 > From: 2fs > Subject: yet more iTunes bizarreness > > For some reason, periodically I'll notice that *entire CDs* are listed as > having the same BPM...and it's always the same number of beats: 192. > > I can't imagine that this results from some person inanely inputting "192" > in the BPM field for CD after CD...so I conclude it's a weirdo quirk in > iTunes. > > Anyone else run into this? Dunt have iTunes, dunt use MP3s, but could this be a case of semi-sensible information just being in the wrong place? Like, could that 192 refer to a 192 kbps sampling rate for an MP3? Is that a standard quality for purchased downloaded MP3s? da9ve /professional geek - can't help debugging ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 07:30:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Jill Brand Subject: Maui Michael, I don't know who Robert Patrick is. I'm much more impressed with the fact that you went to Maui. Jill ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 08:06:42 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: yet more iTunes bizarreness On 4/7/08, David Stovall wrote: > > > Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 13:00:01 -0500 > > From: 2fs > > > > Dunt have iTunes, dunt use MP3s, but could this be a case of > semi-sensible information just being in the wrong place? Like, could > that 192 refer to a 192 kbps sampling rate for an MP3? Is that a > standard quality for purchased downloaded MP3s? Dunt know...but as I mentioned in a later e-mail, these are CDs I'm encoding to mp3 myself (at a higher bitrate fwiw). Also: Incidentally, it's too bad the online CD databases aren't organized like > Wikipedia...so that you could actually get rid of bad information > > Both Freedb and MusicBrainz allow open editing. CDDB in theory allows you to submit > changes ("Send track names to iTunes", or similar), but I haven't seen any changes > reflect back in the database. Yes...but what those things don't allow is for me to decide who lives and who dies. That is, I don't want merely to be able to submit a correct description of a CD, which may or may not eventually show up and be chosen by someone from a couple of alternatives (the others of which have errors), I want to be able to remove the incorrect info from circulation. When someone edits a Wikipedia entry, yeah the old, bad info remains in the history...but the general public now sees only the new and presumably correct info. It's the iteration of this process, and the belief that over time more knowledgeable and interested people will be likelier to input good info than ignorant or moronic ones input bad, that makes Wikipedia generally accurate (and it is). If we went to Wikipedia, and were given a choice between "Robyn Hitchcock is a musician born in London..." "Robyn Hitchcock is a former Miss Ohio" and "Robyn Hitchcock is a crustacean," it wouldn't be very useful...because unless we already knew the correct answer (3, of course), we'd have no means to decide. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 12:58:43 -0500 (CDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: 40 yrs ago today On Sat, 5 Apr 2008, HwyCDRrev@aol.com wrote: > _http://thephoenix.com/article_ektid25544.aspx_ > (http://thephoenix.com/article_ektid25544.aspx) > > Soul control > James Brown rescues Boston, and a whole lot more On a related note, I was in Memphis this weekend and it was pretty amazing. I've never been there before, but got a very positive impression from the city, overall. I'm actually a little afraid to look under the covers and see what's going on. I will say, though, that the museum that has been made from the old Lorraine Motel where Dr. King was killed is appropriate and moving in its depiction of a certain aspect of the history of civil rights in America, but calling it the National Civil Rights Museum, while only barely glossing over Reconstruction events, not mentioning the Civil Rights Act of 1875 at all, and devoting a square foot to Ms. Ida B. Wells who successfully sued a railroad for discrimination in 1880 when she was forced (by four burly men) to give up her seat -- 75 years before Rosa Parks sparked the Montgomery boycott and then ran a radical newspaper in Memphis for another 50 years and completely ignoring issues of women's suffrage, Native American Rights, Gay Rights, etc., is at the very best deeply naive and at the worst an afront to civil rights generally. It's really not that far from here, so I suspect I'll take another opportunity to ride up there at some point. I'll definitely be keeping my ticket from the museum which is clearly marked with a large date stamp. OK, back to the mathematical grindstone. Je. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 12:07:10 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Another pathetic cry for help So I have this nifty library CD of Hawaiian music from the 30s I wanted to burn a copy of. Tragically a few of the tracks are scratched & skippy, and this is the only copy of this (rare, out-of-print, expensive if you can find it in the first place) CD in the collection. Question is, does anybody know of a safe, reliable way to repair damaged discs that actually works? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 12:07:10 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Another pathetic cry for help So I have this nifty library CD of Hawaiian music from the 30s I wanted to burn a copy of. Tragically a few of the tracks are scratched & skippy, and this is the only copy of this (rare, out-of-print, expensive if you can find it in the first place) CD in the collection. Question is, does anybody know of a safe, reliable way to repair damaged discs that actually works? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 15:20:42 -0400 From: Steve Talkowski Subject: Re: 40 yrs ago today On Apr 7, 2008, at 1:58 PM, Capuchin wrote: > I will say, though, that the museum that has been made from the old > Lorraine Motel where Dr. King was killed is appropriate and moving > in its depiction of a certain aspect of the history of civil rights > in America, but calling it the National Civil Rights Museum, while > only barely glossing over Reconstruction events, not mentioning the > Civil Rights Act of 1875 at all, and devoting a square foot to Ms. > Ida B. Wells who successfully sued a railroad for discrimination in > 1880 when she was forced (by four burly men) to give up her seat -- > 75 years before Rosa Parks sparked the Montgomery boycott and then > ran a radical newspaper in Memphis for another 50 years and > completely ignoring issues of women's suffrage, Native American > Rights, Gay Rights, etc., is at the very best deeply naive and at > the worst an afront to civil rights generally. So, In addition to informing the feg community about this terrible oversight, you also enlightened the 'naive' organizers responsible for the museum itself? Wow, you go Cappy! - -Steve, constantly dumbfounded, appalled and disgusted with how backwards America was during that time and, as always, shocked re- watching the violent footage last night on the 2-hour King documentary on the History Channel. - -- Steve Talkowski Character Design & Animation http://sketchbot.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:26:56 -0500 (CDT) From: Capuchin Subject: Re: 40 yrs ago today On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Steve Talkowski wrote: > So, In addition to informing the feg community about this terrible > oversight, you also enlightened the 'naive' organizers responsible for > the museum itself? Wow, you go Cappy! I did bring it up with the staff, but they were somewhat appalled by the notion that there is a Greater civil rights cause than that of African Americans in the 1950s and 60s. They thought their coverage of Ms. Wells was adequate becaues "lots of important people weren't mentioned at all." I was told by nearby museum-goers that an exhibit dedicated to gay rights would "dishonor Dr. King and all that he stood for" which I found ignorant and horrible. > -Steve, constantly dumbfounded, appalled and disgusted with how > backwards America was during that time and, as always, shocked > re-watching the violent footage last night on the 2-hour King > documentary on the History Channel. I got super worked-up on my way over to the museum and was near tears for much of it... but the people at the museum and the narrow focus kind of diverted my attention and made me sad in a different way. J. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:29:04 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: Re: Can '08 top '06? Maybe! how about (get ready for it)...*Underwater Moonlight* --> *Nextdoorland*. if they were to release an album in '08, MBV would beat them (i.e., the b-52s) by one year. the eagles have it over the soft boys by six years...except they're missing one member from the 1979 album. i love topics like these, so hopefully some more examples will be in the offing! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:29:04 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: Re: Can '08 top '06? Maybe! how about (get ready for it)...*Underwater Moonlight* --> *Nextdoorland*. if they were to release an album in '08, MBV would beat them (i.e., the b-52s) by one year. the eagles have it over the soft boys by six years...except they're missing one member from the 1979 album. i love topics like these, so hopefully some more examples will be in the offing! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 13:33:26 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Another pathetic cry for help On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 12:07 PM, kevin studyvin wrote: > So I have this nifty library CD of Hawaiian music from the 30s I wanted to > burn a copy of. Tragically a few of the tracks are scratched & skippy, > and > this is the only copy of this (rare, out-of-print, expensive if you can > find > it in the first place) CD in the collection. Question is, does anybody > know > of a safe, reliable way to repair damaged discs that actually works? Not really. But a lot of times when I run into this, I find the skips can be repaired by a little strategic editing (copying and pasting similar sections of the performance, etc.)... no, you don't wind up with a bonafide historical document of a real performance anymore, but you might be able to produce something that, upon casual listening, does not disturb the listener with the hoppity skippity sureness that they're listening to a messed up disc... For such purposes, you might try ripping the disc more than once or twice-- with CD's, sometimes the skips occur in different places on subsequent playbacks, so you might get lucky and wind up with a complete take, spliceable in the middle. It's happened to me, anyway! - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 13:36:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Re: Can '08 top '06? Maybe! Stacked Crooked wrote: >> It's gotta be up there with the longest time between releases from >> a band with the same lineup (loss of Ricky notwithstanding).> > > how about (get ready for it)...*Underwater Moonlight* --> > *Nextdoorland*. > > if they were to release an album in '08, MBV would beat them > (i.e., the b-52s) by one year. Except Cindy wasn't on Good Stuff, so The B-52's don't actually qualify. Not that anyone (understandably) really wants to acknowledge that turd's existance. > the eagles have it over the soft boys by six years...except they're > missing one member from the 1979 album. If only they were missing the rest of them.... > i love topics like these, so hopefully some more examples will be > in the offing! > > > "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 > . > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of > Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost. > http://tc.deals.yahoo.com/tc/blockbuster/text5.com > "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 . ____________________________________________________________________________________ You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost. http://tc.deals.yahoo.com/tc/blockbuster/text5.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 13:49:58 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Can '08 top '06? Maybe! On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Stacked Crooked wrote: > with the same lineup (loss of Ricky notwithstanding).> > > how about (get ready for it)...*Underwater Moonlight* --> *Nextdoorland*. > > if they were to release an album in '08, MBV would beat them (i.e., the > b-52s) by one year. > > the eagles have it over the soft boys by six years...except they're > missing > one member from the 1979 album. > > i love topics like these, so hopefully some more examples will be in the > offing! I assume we're talking breaks between studio releases of new material, right? So... Big Star? I mean, there were stopgap live releases, and the reunion record fucking ate it, but... Did the reunited Monks ever issue anything new? I assume not, or I would pwn it (okay, should). - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 13:52:49 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: Can '08 top '06? Maybe! On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Stacked Crooked wrote: > with the same lineup (loss of Ricky notwithstanding).> > > how about (get ready for it)...*Underwater Moonlight* --> *Nextdoorland*. > > if they were to release an album in '08, MBV would beat them (i.e., the > b-52s) by one year. > > the eagles have it over the soft boys by six years...except they're > missing > one member from the 1979 album. But Felder was still an employee when they regrouped for the unforgettable Hell Freezes Over project that one of our local PBS affiliates still shows about eight times a year as part of their Never-Ending Pledge Drive. I don't know how that affects the calculation but thought it might be worth mentioning... > > > i love topics like these, so hopefully some more examples will be in the > offing! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 13:58:46 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Can '08 top '06? Maybe! On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Jeff Dwarf wrote: > Stacked Crooked wrote: > >> It's gotta be up there with the longest time between releases from > >> a band with the same lineup (loss of Ricky notwithstanding).> > > > > how about (get ready for it)...*Underwater Moonlight* --> > > *Nextdoorland*. > > > > if they were to release an album in '08, MBV would beat them > > (i.e., the b-52s) by one year. > > Except Cindy wasn't on Good Stuff, so The B-52's don't actually > qualify. Not that anyone (understandably) really wants to acknowledge > that turd's existance. > > > the eagles have it over the soft boys by six years...except they're > > missing one member from the 1979 album. > > If only they were missing the rest of them.... > That would be awesome. "The Eagles Play Cage". I bet it would somehow still sound unlistenably smug, though. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:03:54 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: Can '08 top '06? Maybe! > Big Star? I mean, there were stopgap live releases, and the reunion > record > fucking ate it, but... > As a sidebar, has anybody heard/seen/know anything about the reunited Box Tops? I know they have a website that gives the impression that they're more or less working again, touring occasionally, etc. Seems like this would give Alex the dubious distinction of fronting two separate oldies acts. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 13:58:19 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Maui On Apr 7, 2008, at 4:30 AM, Jill Brand wrote: > Michael, I don't know who Robert Patrick is. I'm much more > impressed with the fact that you went to Maui. Really? Is it so unusual? Seriously, I'm curious. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:20:49 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: Can '08 top '06? Maybe! > > > the eagles have it over the soft boys by six years...except they're > > > missing one member from the 1979 album. > > > > If only they were missing the rest of them.... > > > That would be awesome. "The Eagles Play Cage". > Now that really made me laugh. Just the idea of the ultimate granddad rock band (if Joe Walsh doesn't look like your grandpa these days, look again) solemnly addressing 4'33" and trying to make it a sermon about something is beyond funny. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 17:21:12 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Re: Can '08 top '06? Maybe! only partially following this thread : does this count ? The (original pre-fab four) Monkees - The HEAD soundtrack 1968 until JUSTUS 1996 - 28 years plus- not full fledged albums (such an antiquated concept anyway), but still : The Sex Pistols - Never Mind 1978* > Guitar Hero 2008 - 20 years * Swindle doesn't count, i don't think Simon & Garfunkel - My Little Town (1975) > Citizen Of The Planet (2004) - 29 years Van Halen with David Lee Roth (too uninterested to look up) In a message dated 4/7/2008 4:46:58 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, munki1972@yahoo.com writes: It's gotta be up there with the longest time between releases from >> a band with the same lineup **************Planning your summer road trip? Check out AOL Travel Guides. (http://travel.aol.com/travel-guide/united-states?ncid=aoltrv00030000000016) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:24:01 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Can '08 top '06? Maybe! On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 2:20 PM, kevin studyvin wrote: > > > the eagles have it over the soft boys by six years...except they're > > > > missing one member from the 1979 album. > > > > > > If only they were missing the rest of them.... > > > > > That would be awesome. "The Eagles Play Cage". > > > > Now that really made me laugh. Just the idea of the ultimate granddad > rock band (if Joe Walsh doesn't look like your grandpa these days, look > again) > He'd have to be slightly deader, but not by much. One thing they have in common: he lost his license, and now he can't drive. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:36:53 -0400 From: The Great Quail Subject: A good year for music, indeed. Not only do we have the Stephen Malkmus album, a return to form by REM, the promise of a Brain-Eno produced U2 album, a tight little Iraqi concept album from Black 47, a great sophomore effort from Black Mountain, a great CD from Nick Cave, a pretty good Mountain Goats album, a best-recording-from-them-yet album by Mars Volta, and a reunion curiosity from Bauhaus, but -- This Raconteurs album fucking rocks. And I mean, wow does it fucking rock. It blows the first one well out of the water. I cannot stop listening to it. - --Quail ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 17:37:04 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: AirPort Express? On 4/4/08, Tom Clark wrote: > > On Apr 4, 2008, at 5:40 PM, 2fs wrote: > > As long as we're discussing various Apple products... > > > > Does anyone have this little widget? > > > > The newest one uses 802.11n (which will be the name of a band in ten > > years) > > - will that play nice w/my current wireless setup which is 802.11g? As I > > said: I don't need to use its networking capabilities, I'm interested > > only > > in interfacing wit my home stereo. > > > > Its primary purpose is as a WiFi extender, so to use it to push music > around your house you need to grab the appropriate connector: analog L/R or > digital SPDIF. > The Express' 802.11n is backward compatible with 802.11a/b/g so that's not > an issue. > > I have two of them in my house and they function flawlessly. Okay, so I bought an Airport Express and the appropriate connectors, unpacked 'em, hooked everything up...and, although I needed to restart and fiddle with a few things, it seems as if everything was working fine. I'd set up the APE (hey...) as a client network to my existing wireless network (at least, that's what I thought I was trying to do)...everything was fine, and then... blip. ITunes stopped playing, an error message came up saying it couldn't connect w/my APE, and I also didn't have an internet connection. Okay, fiddled around trying to get the usual wireless network up...and then I realized that an e-mail I'd been trying to send and which had stalled in the midst of this messup had, in fact, gone through. I continued to read my e-mail...when I realized that my 'puter was still saying it wasn't/couldn't connect(ed) to my wireless network. Obviously I was connected to something, or I couldn't be reading my e-mail. On a hunch, I went to iTunes and changed the option back to using the external speaker - and it worked. It seems my computer's just using the APE as a network. This'd be fine if it were stable - but just as I was typing this, it pooted out again. Oh...uh, I'm in WinXP. WTF? - -tc > - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 15:53:47 -0700 (PDT) From: xx Subject: re: starfucking Last week, I picked up my wife at the Bob Hope Airport in Burbank (CA, in case you didn't know). To avoid the traffic, we decided to grab an early dinner at 'The Smokehouse' - which happens to be right across the street from the Warner Bros. lot. As we were seated, my wife spotted 3 cast members of the NBC show 'er'. I looked to my right, and seated in the bar were Maura Tierny, Scott Grimes, and Linda Cardellini (I'm sure these are incorrect spellings). It was weird hearing them talk. Of course when they get up to leave, I can see that they are dressed as their characters, wearing scrubs, lab coats, etc. My wife one-upped me on starfucking that day - she saw Hilary Clinton in San Francisco that morning. - -g I'm on a starfucking roll.... spotted Mike Campbell at Whole Foods Market the week before, and saw Nikki Sixx (with family) at the Canyon Club in Agoura Hills over the weekend. Still waiting to run into Jenna Fischer at Target..... ____________________________________________________________________________________ You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost. http://tc.deals.yahoo.com/tc/blockbuster/text5.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 18:21:52 -0700 From: "michael wells" Subject: RE: Maui Tom: > Really? Is it so unusual? Seriously, I'm curious. There's a pretty strong California > Maui connection, but Hawaii is a much less common destination the further East in the US you get. The flights just get too long; it took us a full 9.5 hrs air time on the way there, then we had to hop over from Honolulu. Plus I think there's still the whole Blue Hawaii-Pearl Harbor-Waikiki Beach-romantic honeymoon destination thing that draws people to the other islands. Michael Side note: I was this/close to buying a six-string ukulele with Elvis' face laminated on pineapple-shaped body. I seriously should have gotten it. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 16:32:37 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: starfucking On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 3:53 PM, xx wrote: > Last week, I picked up my wife at the Bob Hope Airport > in Burbank (CA, in case you didn't know). I'm about two blocks from it right now, and every work day. And yet I've never run into Maura Tierney, whom I adore. In fact there's no new starfuckery to report on my end since the Melanie-Griffith's-mom-thinks-Obama-is-Muslim incident. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 16:32:37 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: starfucking On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 3:53 PM, xx wrote: > Last week, I picked up my wife at the Bob Hope Airport > in Burbank (CA, in case you didn't know). I'm about two blocks from it right now, and every work day. And yet I've never run into Maura Tierney, whom I adore. In fact there's no new starfuckery to report on my end since the Melanie-Griffith's-mom-thinks-Obama-is-Muslim incident. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 17:03:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Bob's new paperweight http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080407/ap_en_ot/pulitzers_arts "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 . ____________________________________________________________________________________ You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost. http://tc.deals.yahoo.com/tc/blockbuster/text5.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 17:43:16 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Maui On Apr 7, 2008, at 6:21 PM, michael wells wrote: > Tom: >> Really? Is it so unusual? Seriously, I'm curious. > > There's a pretty strong California > Maui connection, but Hawaii is > a much > less common destination the further East in the US you get. The > flights just > get too long; it took us a full 9.5 hrs air time on the way there, > then we > had to hop over from Honolulu. > Yeah, I thought about that this afternoon. I grew up on the east coast and now as I recall everyone went to the Caribbean or Florida for 'exotic' vacations. Guess I'm finally a Californian! > > Side note: I was this/close to buying a six-string ukulele with > Elvis' face > laminated on pineapple-shaped body. I seriously should have gotten it. Duuuuuude.... - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 18:29:26 -0700 From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Re: Maui On Apr 7, 2008, at 5:43 PM, Tom Clark wrote: > On Apr 7, 2008, at 6:21 PM, michael wells wrote: > >> Tom: >>> Really? Is it so unusual? Seriously, I'm curious. >> >> There's a pretty strong California > Maui connection, but Hawaii >> is a much >> less common destination the further East in the US you get. The >> flights just >> get too long; it took us a full 9.5 hrs air time on the way there, >> then we >> had to hop over from Honolulu. >> > > Yeah, I thought about that this afternoon. I grew up on the east > coast and now as I recall everyone went to the Caribbean or Florida > for 'exotic' vacations. Guess I'm finally a Californian! > >> >> Side note: I was this/close to buying a six-string ukulele with >> Elvis' face >> laminated on pineapple-shaped body. I seriously should have gotten >> it. > > Duuuuuude.... > When I was 19 I moved to Hawaii - first to Oahu and the next year to Maui. Lived between the 2 for roughly 18 months. On Oahu I lived in the yacht harbor in Honolulu and taught sailing, but on Maui I got a job in a tourist bar in Lahaina - nightly music shows and tiki drinks. To this day I can't drink rum. Anyway, most of the tourists were from the midwest - Kansas, Oklahoma, Illinois, those states. They used to ask me why I moved to Hawaii and being a native Southern Californian, my answer was simple: "more sun, bigger waves." btw - there is a huge connection between Alaska and Mauii. Half the bar owners on Maui also own bars in Alaska it seems. How did I get there the first time? Crewed on a 36' sloop across the Pacific. It was the Bicentennial year and we were in the middle of the ocean on July 4th. It took 21 days and we landed smack on to Hilo which, given that all we had in those days was a sextant, some trig and charts, still amazes me. Haven't been back to Oahu or Maui since. I've been told it would break my heart. Have been to the Big Island and it still has bits of real Hawaii. - - c ps: Starfucking moment: I was in a juice bar in Honolulu when I met Dr. Bronner - you know, the All-In-One-God-Faith Peppermint soap dude! ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #564 ********************************