From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #663 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, July 22 2008 Volume 16 : Number 663 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Not one word???? ["Sumiko Keay" ] SDCC Anyone? (No RH) [Steve Talkowski ] Grey Gardens [Jill Brand ] Re: Join my Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Football league [Michael Sweeney ] reap ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: SDCC Anyone? (No RH) [Tom Clark ] Re: Everything must GO! But, erm... how? ["Jason Brown" ] Lots of fish! [Steve Schiavo ] Westerberg's new album for 49 cents (0% RH/ 0% RUSH) ["m swedene" ] Reap [Jeff Dwarf ] Re: Westerberg's new album for 49 cents (0% RH/ 0% RUSH) [Rex Subject: Re: Not one word???? The dvd is going to have singing commentary - as well as regular commentary! Sumi On 7/18/08, djini@voicenet.com wrote: > Carrie queried: > > > Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:58:53 -0700 > > From: Carrie Galbraith > > Subject: Not one word???? > > > > ...or I should say "Joss is Boss." > > > > Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along-Blog. > > > > > > Watched it at about 3am last night and annoyed the cat with my snickering. Background to > subsequent dreams was TMBG's "Mr. Horrible." > > "Look at my wrist! I have to go!" > > Jeanne ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:46:25 -0400 From: Steve Talkowski Subject: SDCC Anyone? (No RH) Anyone attending San Diego Comic Con this week? If so, track me down for some free Sketchbot swag (stickers, buttons, postcards), and get a first-hand look at my recently completed Sketchbot prototype that I'll be pimping at the show! http://sketchbot.blogspot.com/2008/07/sketchbot-prototype-sculpt-completed.html This shameless self-promotion brought to you by the letter "T." - -Steve Steve Talkowski, Character Design | Animation Director 57 Front St, Apt 305, Brooklyn, NY 11201 Mobile (646) 239-3871 Email stevetalkowski@mac.com | Web http://sketchbot.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:43:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Jill Brand Subject: Grey Gardens Tom Clark wanted to know why I wanted to kill myself after seeing Grey Gardens. Well, uh, I found the Beale women intriguing but also thoroughly depressing. I'm also feeling very old. Jill ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:14:24 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: Re: Join my Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Football league ...I'm in (again)! After an exciting season and a giant truck-crush of a playoffs, Leppo and the Jooves are back to compete in the Feg-oriented Fantasy Football League. (Now, if I can just get Adrian Peterson again...and NOT the one on the Bears...) Michael "More Bill Walsh than Mike Ditka (although I always thought it was funny when Dit sarcastically referred to Walsh as the 'White-Haired Wizard' and threatened to put things (apparently game-plans, but perhaps also cleats, helmets, etc.) 'up his ass')" Sweeney _________________________________________________________________ Use video conversation to talk face-to-face with Windows Live Messenger. http://www.windowslive.com/messenger/connect_your_way.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_ Refresh_messenger_video_072008 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:38:36 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Everything must GO! But, erm... how? Yeah, kids, times are tough, so the moment has come. Gotta sell all the records. Has anyone ever tried doing this en masse? We're talking about more than 2000 CD's of, you know, the kind of stuff I listen to (so some of it is valuable and rare, and some of it is like 99-cent-bin trash). I just don't have the time to sell it all individually, and yet I'm told that if I dump it all off at Amoeba I'll get royally screwed. I know a few of you have gone post-physical-media... any tips? (I put out a Craigslist post as an experiment; is there any eBay market for stuff this voluminous?) Love, Rex ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:03:13 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: reap Artie Traum ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:08:02 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: SDCC Anyone? (No RH) On Jul 21, 2008, at 3:46 PM, Steve Talkowski wrote: > Anyone attending San Diego Comic Con this week? > No, but I know who is. I was following the owner of San Francisco's "Comic Outpost" through LA on I-5 yesterday. Tell him the driver of the FEGMNIA minivan says hi. > http://sketchbot.blogspot.com/2008/07/sketchbot-prototype-sculpt-completed.html Nice! - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:30:02 -0700 From: "Jason Brown" Subject: Re: Everything must GO! But, erm... how? On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Rex wrote: > Yeah, kids, times are tough, so the moment has come. > Gotta sell all the records. Has anyone ever tried doing this en masse? I just sold $2500+ worth of CDs to my local shop, Sonic Boom Records. I eventually brought everything in. they were pretty picky and i found that it was best to come in on certain days depending on when the more generous buyers where there. Im very happy with my decision to go that route. it wasnt very labor intensive and it was great getting quick $300 to $500 everytime i brought in a box. i've mostly spent the earnings on a new TV and paying down some debt. Far better than continuing to collect dust. i still need to take all the rejects to second tier stores or half-price books and whats left after that will go to Friends of the Library book sale. i have a bunch of vinyl to sell as well. There isn't much of a market on ebay for cds anymore outside of rare collector stuff. I got $175 for an out of print Jellyfish box set for example. Selling on amazon can be more useful for regular stuff but it can often be a race to the bottom price wise. I figure its better to get $1 to $5 a disc from the shop then endlessly hassling with mailers and what not for individual sales. Otherwise i highly recommend backing up everything multiple times. i have my music triply backed up on drives at home an backed up on a drive at my brothers place as well. - -- "IGNORE ME!!!!!!!" - The Grand Galactic Inquisitor ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:59:22 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Everything must GO! But, erm... how? On 7/21/08, Jason Brown wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Rex wrote: > > Yeah, kids, times are tough, so the moment has come. > > Gotta sell all the records. Has anyone ever tried doing this en masse? > > > I just sold $2500+ worth of CDs to my local shop, Sonic Boom Records. > I eventually brought everything in. they were pretty picky and i > found that it was best to come in on certain days depending on when > the more generous buyers where there. > I haven't tried to do this...but at some point, I'm guessing, you'll need to recognize that any efforts you might make to earn X more dollars are going to cost you Y dollars of your own time/effort/fuel/etc...where Y is greater than X. In other words, if you find a situation where you're getting reasonably decent money, I wouldn't waste much energy thinking maybe possibly you could get even more. Depressingly, if you'd done this 15 years ago, I'm sure you would have gotten oodles more...but it seems digital music has massively devalued CDs (except, as someone noted, for rarities and the like). If you have vinyl that's in good shape, that's actually probably worth more, I'm guessing. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:04:40 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Lots of fish! Well, it's actually another Ponyo trailer (without Yukie Nakama, sorry). No computer assisted animation this time. - - Steve __________ I can't resist an anime that includes a small, cute, violence prone girl with a scythe. - John ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:25:46 -0400 From: "m swedene" Subject: Westerberg's new album for 49 cents (0% RH/ 0% RUSH) Interesting move. new album is on Amazon for 49 cents. story: http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003829871 Link: http://www.amazon.com/49-00/dp/B001CZCBEA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1216736161&sr=8-1 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:46:51 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Westerberg's new album for 49 cents (0% RH/ 0% RUSH) On 7/22/08, m swedene wrote: > > Interesting move. > > new album is on Amazon for 49 cents. > > story: > > > http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003829871 Sadly, at this point I'm not sure a Westerberg album is worth 49 cents... Anyway, this sentence puzzled me: "'49' has no track list or lyrics, keeping with a long-standing Westerberg tradition." Westerberg has a tradition of not listing tracks? That's odd. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:43:24 -0400 From: "m swedene" Subject: RIP - Sophia (aka Estelle Getty) http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080722/ap_on_en_tv/obit_getty ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:10:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Reap Estelle Getty http://www.avclub.com/content/newswire/rip_estelle_getty ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:13:47 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Westerberg's new album for 49 cents (0% RH/ 0% RUSH) On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 8:46 AM, 2fs wrote: > Anyway, this sentence puzzled me: "'49' has no track list or lyrics, > keeping > with a long-standing Westerberg tradition." Westerberg has a tradition of > not listing tracks? > That just goes to show how long it's been since we paid attention-- I guess that "long-standing traditions" could legtimately have commenced since the turn of the centure (or the mid-nineties, YMMV)... - -Rex ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #663 ********************************