From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #577 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, April 21 2008 Volume 16 : Number 577 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Now this is frightening (0% Hitchcock) ["Stacked Crooked" ] Black Postcards [djini@voicenet.com] Re: Ed Lorenz [craigie* ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 08:30:43 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: Re: Now this is frightening (0% Hitchcock) the production office (i guess that's what it is) is a few blocks from my house. i was not aware, though, that the movie had already been completed and released. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 10:47:53 -0400 (EDT) From: djini@voicenet.com Subject: Re: Ed Lorenz Jill Brand wrote: > >> Weather wanker--is that like a roadgeek? > > All kinds of people (that means Benjamin and Stewart so far) are asking me > about this. It's just what I've always called them because they can be > complete > > a) geeks > b) anoraks (for all you Brits) > c) nerds > d) weather hysterics > > As I wrote to Stewart, I have seen meteorologists nearly achieve climax > over a particularly sweet synoptic weather map. Totally! At Penn State, they were known as weather weenies. I think these days a lot of people have discovered their inner weather weenie, thanks to the Weather Channel. It was bemusedly affectionate, not derogatory. Unlike an entomology student we called "that needle-dick bug-fucker". That was just him. He was an asshole. Jeanne ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:04:53 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: the single dehumanizing term On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Jill Brand wrote: > Here it is, Rex.... > > Eagles fan (and I don't mean a supporter of a Boston College team) Ouch. > > But let me tell you, Ray Davies was truly great at the Orpheum two weeks > ago, and I expected to be bored. Double ouch. Shoulda gone. I guess I should look up some set lists... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:50:20 -0400 (EDT) From: djini@voicenet.com Subject: Black Postcards You can add Black Postcards to the pile of books that mention Robyn (y'know, if you have one). On page 56, Wareham talks about RH playing "Rain" with Galaxie 500, "the only song we were sure we all knew". It's a fascinating book - Warehams's really insightful and matter-of-fact about a lot of very complicated relationships, not just the most infamous one from the excerpt that came out a couple months ago. While he had a hell of a lot of fun, it's obvious how exhausting a life it is, and how isolating it can be. He's also quite blunt about his own failings and all the petty annoyances within a band (when he's mad at Damon for being such a control freak that no one else is allowed to drive but him, he has this little chant in his head that goes "Crash crash crash. I hope you crash the van.") He must have been journaling madly, because it's incredibly detailed as to names, dates, other bands, and all of the bad behavior in which everyone was indulging - some of it guaranteed to cloud remembrance. Definitely worth reading! Jeanne ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:20:07 +0100 From: craigie* Subject: Re: Ed Lorenz I concur, although should make it clear that 'readies' is a coruption of the phrase 'ready cash'. just to be clear, and all. ;-) c* On 19/04/2008, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > > Rex wrote: > > > > > "Readies"? At first I thought it was "roadies" as the text is over a > > fold > > in the paper, but no... "readies". Who are these folks? > > > > > Readies = money. $$$. Moolah. Sponds. Ackers. > > As in "I haven't got the ..." > > Stewart > - -- first things first, but not necessarily in that order... I like my girls to be the same as my records - independent, attractively packaged and in black vinyl (if at all possible)... Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc (the motto of the Addams Family: "We gladly feast on those who would subdue us") ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #577 ********************************