From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #671 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, July 29 2008 Volume 16 : Number 671 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: reap [2fs ] Re: so true [2fs ] Re: REAP [Poem Lover ] Re: REAP ["Jeremy Osner" ] Re: DETOURS - The Strangest Albums From the Biggest Artists [2fs ] Dear Mr. President ["Benjamin Lukoff" ] Re: so true ["Stacked Crooked" ] Re: so cal fegs -- you okay? [Carrie Galbraith ] Re: so true ["Jeremy Osner" ] Re: so cal fegs -- you okay? PLUS BONUS CTHULHU (really, how can you resist?) [Steve Talkowski ] Re: so cal fegs -- you okay? PLUS BONUS CTHULHU (really, how can you resist?) ["Jeremy Osner" ] Re:REAP [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] More songs about women and food [grutness@slingshot.co.nz] Fwd: Hex Enduction Hour by Flannery O'Connor [2fs ] Re: so cal fegs -- you okay? [Tom Clark ] Re: More songs about women and food [2fs ] Re: so cal fegs -- you okay? [2fs ] Re: so true ["Jeremy Osner" ] Re: so true ["Jason Brown" ] Re: REAP [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re: DETOURS - The Strangest Albums From the Biggest Artists [HwyCDRrev@ao] Re: so true [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re: More songs about women and food [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Feg on the move... ["Marc Alberts" ] Re: so true [2fs ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:07:34 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: reap On 7/29/08, Jason Brown wrote: > > Senator Ted Steven's Political Career > http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/washington/30stevens.html > > Let me be the 9,375th person to say something like - oh, he had a series of tubes running to his home from the various contractors & gift-givers, etc. (Needs work.) - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:16:30 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: so true On 7/29/08, Jill Brand wrote: > > Someone wrote (and I'm really not sure who): "In other words, being 'real' > or authentic is utterly overrated." That was me. (I wasn't thinking of the problem that sincerity can still lead to badness - but yes, that's true too) This reveals itself completely in a song by the Indigo Girls that my > daughter has on some mixed CD that her dance teacher gave her. I probably > agree with every sentiment expressed in the song "Dear Mr. President", but > every time I hear it, I want to vomit. [lyrics omitted in interests of national security - would overextend National Guard vomit cleanup duties] I mean, really, just how bad is that. Very. The irony is that while deploring "the President"'s supposed sense of superiority and entitlement, the narrator of the song simply cannot conceive that anyone could feel different from herself - that if only Bush would just *look*, would *feel*, he'd agree with her...and everything would be okay. (Same attitude underlies "latte-sipping" etc.: those people can't *really* like anything but plain ol' diner coffee; they're only faking it to try to seem better than us.) That's monumentally self-centered. Bush and people like him have a zillion arguments, most of which they believe, that justify social inequality, war, restrictions on abortion, etc. And - horrors! - in many such cases, their arguments are relatively strong (obviously, I think opposing arguments are stronger on most things Bush believes in - but it's naive to imagine there are no such arguments, or that they'd disappear like darkness if only someone would turn on the light). 'Course, any number of country songs belaboring the beauty, wonder, and power of the Grand Ol' Flag, America, and NASCAR are equally dopey - this is by no means a left-wing franchise (although right-wingers are generally less likely to believe that lefties would see the light if only they'd open their eyes...we're lost causes, mostly - damned hippies). - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:22:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Poem Lover Subject: Re: REAP Yes, but not only for obits of people. - --- On Tue, 7/29/08, Jeremy Osner wrote: From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: REAP To: "Poem Lover" Cc: fegmaniax@smoe.org Date: Tuesday, July 29, 2008, 6:40 PM The REAP heading is for obituaries, is that right? A reference to "As ye sow, so shall ye reap"? On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Poem Lover wrote: > Scrabulous on Facebook. > > *sigh* > - -- READIN 2.0 http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:28:06 -0400 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Re: REAP Hey! Things are people too, you know. On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Poem Lover wrote: > Yes, but not only for obits of people. > > --- On Tue, 7/29/08, Jeremy Osner wrote: > From: Jeremy Osner > Subject: Re: REAP > To: "Poem Lover" > Cc: fegmaniax@smoe.org > Date: Tuesday, July 29, 2008, 6:40 PM > > > The REAP heading is for obituaries, is that right? A reference to "As > ye sow, so shall ye reap"? > > > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Poem Lover > wrote: >> Scrabulous on Facebook. >> >> *sigh* >> > > > > -- > READIN 2.0 > http://www.readin.com/blog/ > - -- READIN 2.0 http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:31:04 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: DETOURS - The Strangest Albums From the Biggest Artists On 7/29/08, HwyCDRrev@aol.com wrote: > > http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/61268/the-icons Actually more interesting than I thought it would be...in that the writers (generally) at least *attempt* to salvage wht might be valuable in these (often maligned) albums. Of course, the guy who reviewed McCartney's first "Fireman" album (the second one is better, not being derived from the same small handful of samples) repeats the annoying and false notion that McCartney's the "most musically conservative" ex-Beatle. Actually, in the mid-60s McCartney was the most into the contemporary avant-garde, and he was quite enthusiastic about sound experimentation (his tracks during this period are just as experimental in production as Lennon's or Harrison's, even if his melodic sense remains distinctive). The other nitpick is that the cover of _Metal Machine Music_ is not a "full orchestral" cover - it's by a small ensemble. (I wrote about it here: < http://spanghew.blogspot.com/2008/02/metal-valentines.html>) I hate it when music critics pretend to know more about music than they actually do. For some reason, terms for vocal ranges are particularly abused. Drives me bats when critics use "soprano" or "alto" to describe a male singer's voice, without any apparent awareness that these terms almost exclusively describe female voices. Also: why does every critic love the term "baritone" even for what are clearly just-plain *bass* voices? Someone like Stephin Merritt, whose lowest notes are lower than the lowest note of a guitar, is not a "baritone"; he's a bass. (Of course, technically, none of those terms is quite right, in that aside from generally describing range they also describe voice characteristics, which are generally not applicable to rock & pop singers. But that's quite different from just plain getting it wrong.) - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:13:12 -0700 (PDT) From: JBJ Subject: so cal fegs -- you okay? i'm seeing some twitter updates about a pretty big earthquake down there. are you all alright? =jbj= ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:58:46 -0700 From: "Benjamin Lukoff" Subject: Dear Mr. President Good God, for a second there I thought you were talking about "Dear Mr. *Jesus*" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTTdkG8eUWQ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:26:39 -0700 From: "Stacked Crooked" Subject: Re: so true really? robyn is the only artist from whom you'll purchase each new release, no matter what? if i still purchased physical media, TOOL and the new pornos would head up my list -- but even with both of them, i'd probably wait until a used copy turned up. more like, "1-800-Reaper, ask for Dean", i'd say. but that's kind of an interesting connection... not only the usage, but the practice as well. the biggest (possibly the only) black mark upon eb's legacy. see : "Subject: supplying all your Reaping needs" from which the current usage evolved. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:42:18 -0700 From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Re: so cal fegs -- you okay? On Jul 29, 2008, at 12:13 PM, JBJ wrote: > i'm seeing some twitter updates about a pretty big earthquake down > there. > > are you all alright? > > =jbj= 5.4 and pretty damn close to where I grew up. Please do check in when you get a chance! - - c "All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. " - - Thomas Jefferson ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:52:25 -0400 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Re: so true Oh *right*, the Reaper, forgot all about him -- I should never forget the Reaper! (ObVegetationAndDimes: am I alone in thinking, every time I hear Robyn singing this song, that the singer is Bob Dylan? The illusion usually lasts about 2 lines in and I'm not sure what to make of it.) J On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Stacked Crooked wrote: > > more like, "1-800-Reaper, ask for Dean", i'd say. but that's kind of an > interesting connection... > - -- READIN 2.0 http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:02:21 -0400 From: Steve Talkowski Subject: Re: so cal fegs -- you okay? PLUS BONUS CTHULHU (really, how can you resist?) My girlfriend called from LAX an hour ago and sent me two iPhone images of minor interior damage (ceiling opened up a bit with a busted water pipe spewing out) at the United terminal. Flight delayed about 1/2 an hour, so it appears it wasn't too bad - she overheard it was reported as a 5.8. - -Steve, back in town myself at 5:30am from San Diego (my flight was cancelled on Sunday night due to "weather conditions" here on the East Coast) Oh yeah, I took these pictures solely for you guys: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevetalkowski/2710477075/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevetalkowski/2711288186/ On Jul 29, 2008, at 3:13 PM, JBJ wrote: > i'm seeing some twitter updates about a pretty big earthquake down > there. > > are you all alright? > > =jbj= Steve Talkowski, Character Design | Animation Director Email stevetalkowski@mac.com | Web http://sketchbot.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:26:47 -0400 From: "(0% rh)" Subject: Re: so true Stacked Crooked says: > > > really? robyn is the only artist from whom you'll purchase each new > release, no matter what? no, no - i was just pointing out that there are CDs that take me less than 30 seconds to decide to buy, but that those CDs correlate to the ones that i don't think of not buying (i.e. there's no decision process involved.) > sow, so shall ye reap"?> > > more like, "1-800-Reaper, ask for Dean", i'd say. but that's kind of an > interesting connection... the meaning of "reap" was brought up not that long ago. there was much conjecture. i figured it was a giant secret (i had personally always assumed that "reap" was a verb to go with the grim reaper's activities**, i.e. runner's run, the grim reaper reaps.) ** plural is probably not correct here as i imagine the grim reaper doesn't have numerous daily activities. he probably has only one activity. although maybe sometimes he just scares people or warns them by hovering in a doorway instead of reaping. but i'm just guessing here. as ever, lauren - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:28:44 -0400 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Re: so cal fegs -- you okay? PLUS BONUS CTHULHU (really, how can you resist?) > For all you H.P. Lovecraft (and, yes, Robyn Hitchcock) fans. What's the Hitchcock tie-in? I mean I could see how there would be a substantial overlap between the fan bases but not sure otherwise... Is it because of the tentacled squidular nature of That Which Can Eternal Lie? J (The first time I ever wrote a story was in fourth-or-so grade when the teacher assigned us all to write a short story. I handed in (I forget now which) one of the Elder Gods stories with new proper nouns and adjectives. Got me a stern talking-to as I recall. Also: I never looked at a photo of Lovecraft before but I'm quite charmed by this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Lovecraft1934.jpg) On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Steve Talkowski wrote: > My girlfriend called from LAX an hour ago and sent me two iPhone > images of minor interior damage (ceiling opened up a bit with a busted > water pipe spewing out) at the United terminal. Flight delayed about > 1/2 an hour, so it appears it wasn't too bad - she overheard it was > reported as a 5.8. > > -Steve, back in town myself at 5:30am from San Diego (my flight was > cancelled on Sunday night due to "weather conditions" here on the East > Coast) > > Oh yeah, I took these pictures solely for you guys: > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevetalkowski/2710477075/ > http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevetalkowski/2711288186/ > > > On Jul 29, 2008, at 3:13 PM, JBJ wrote: > >> i'm seeing some twitter updates about a pretty big earthquake down >> there. >> >> are you all alright? >> >> =jbj= > > > > Steve Talkowski, Character Design | Animation Director > Email stevetalkowski@mac.com | Web http://sketchbot.blogspot.com > - -- READIN 2.0 http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:38:19 -0400 From: "(0% rh)" Subject: move along, nothing to see here (was Re: Love Songs) re: the ms. wurtzel quote, i made a typo that's really irking me. i thought the irk would have gone away by now, but it seems i'm a little too neurotic for that to happen. so for anyone who cares (i.e. me), here's the correct quote: ``It's just Nick and the piano, his voice is as soothing as everything else about the show and I just sit and listen. [My friend] knows that I can't talk now. \begin{verse} I don't believe in an interventionist god But I know darling that you do But if I did I would kneel down and ask him Not to change a thing when it comes to you Not to change a hair on your head Leave you as you are If he had to direct you then direct you into my arms Into my arms, oh Lord Into my arms. \end{verse} The idea that someone out there ever felt that way about someone else out there seems like a reason to live at the moment. Such a purity and clarity of feeling has to be a gift from God. [...] Just let me know something about the things Nick Cave is talking about.'' - -- E. Wurtzel, ``More, Now Again", 2002 (the typo (or at least the one i noticed) was that i typed "girl from God" instead of "gift from God".) as ever, lauren - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:56:15 -0400 From: "(0% rh)" Subject: Re: so cal fegs -- you okay? PLUS BONUS CTHULHU (really, how can you resist?) Jeremy says: >> For all you H.P. Lovecraft (and, yes, Robyn Hitchcock) fans. > > What's the Hitchcock tie-in? i always just figured it was just because hitchock fans are kind of weird. xo p.s. that is, of course, the *good* kind of weird. p.p.s. to jeremy: since you started posting more, i've had a hankering to play "jeremy" (the magnetic fields) but i kept forgetting to. i've finally remembered to play it, and i'm listening to a live version of it even as we speak. p.p.p.s. and now that that's over, i really want to hear "candy"... - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:50:16 -0700 From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Re: so true > On Jul 29, 2008, at 2:26 PM, (0% rh) wrote: >> >> ** plural is probably not correct here as i imagine the grim reaper >> doesn't have numerous daily activities. he probably has only one >> activity. although maybe sometimes he just scares people or warns >> them by hovering in a doorway instead of reaping. but i'm just >> guessing here. >> > > I have a passage from one of my all time favorite books* that fits > this quite well: > "They sat still as the painted dogs now, silent, oddly unable to > touch. Death has come to the pantry door; stands watching them, > iron and patient, with a look that says "try to tickle me." > * Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon > > Of course there is always the Firesign Theater: > MC: "He's coming around folks. He's going to be OK and ready to > play symptom six on BEEEEAT THE REAPER!" - - c "All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. " - - Thomas Jefferson ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:59:38 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: Re:REAP > > > > The REAP heading is for obituaries, is that right? A reference to "As > > ye sow, so shall ye reap"? > > > >Yep. I think it was actually a sort of meld inspired jointly by the word >reap and the abbreviation RIP (which can be pronounced like "reap" if one >is so inclined). Not everyone capitalizes it. Was it Eb who started this >useage? He no longer posts here, but you newbies may still see him >referenced in occasional subject lines. More inspired by a cross between RIP and the Grim Reaper, I would have thought. And it may well have been Eb who started it, but it'd need a good archive search to discover for certain. 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: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:02:42 +1200 From: grutness@slingshot.co.nz Subject: More songs about women and food > But it is one of the few songs written about cunnilingus. Are there > any others? Though not strictly a cunnilingus song, I take it from that lack of a mention here that all of you still think Bryan Adams' "Summer of 69" is about a year? 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, 29 Jul 2008 18:14:43 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Fwd: Hex Enduction Hour by Flannery O'Connor - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Paula Date: Jul 29, 2008 3:41 PM http://www.powells.com/blog/?p=3463 _ - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:23:10 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: so true On 7/29/08, (0% rh) wrote: > > > the meaning of "reap" was brought up not that long ago. there was > much conjecture. i figured it was a giant secret (i had personally > always assumed that "reap" was a verb to go with the grim reaper's > activities**, i.e. runner's run, the grim reaper reaps.) > > ** plural is probably not correct here as i imagine the grim reaper > doesn't have numerous daily activities. he probably has only one > activity. > Not at all. First, it's a misimpression that there's only one Grim Reaper. There are many of them - they belong to a guild. Typical Reaper leisure activities include scything (but you knew that), reading (they tend to be fond of woodcuts in Germanic type), boating (but not sailing - they prefer to row), and playing the piano (they're partial to early jazz). Oddly, while Reapers are generally rather open-minded sorts, lawn tennis is highly frowned upon in the Reaper community. No one knows why. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:01:35 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: so cal fegs -- you okay? On Jul 29, 2008, at 12:13 PM, JBJ wrote: > i'm seeing some twitter updates about a pretty big earthquake down > there. > > are you all alright? > One of Eb's CD racks fell over, so the National Guard has been deployed. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:24:12 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: More songs about women and food On 7/29/08, grutness@slingshot.co.nz wrote: > > But it is one of the few songs written about cunnilingus. Are there >> any others? >> > > Though not strictly a cunnilingus song, I take it from that lack of a > mention here that all of you still think Bryan Adams' "Summer of 69" is > about a year? No, we've just been trying to repress all memory of Bryan Adams. Thanks a lot. It cuts like a knife, you know. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:31:22 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: so cal fegs -- you okay? On 7/29/08, Tom Clark wrote: > > On Jul 29, 2008, at 12:13 PM, JBJ wrote: > > i'm seeing some twitter updates about a pretty big earthquake down there. >> >> are you all alright? >> >> > One of Eb's CD racks fell over, so the National Guard has been deployed. I heard he'd been propping it up with his johnson. Pity the National Guard. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:35:41 -0400 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Re: so true OK well here is how the "as ye sow so shall ye reap" thing came to me: I had been seeing REAP posts for a couple of days, and gradually came to understand they were associated with a person (or personified thing) passing on, and I thought: "Ok, he/she/it is dead and now is going to reap as he/she/it has sown." FWIW. Yeah, if the image of Mr. Grim Reaper (of Demons and Reapers Local #2413) had been before my eyes I might never have happened on that incorrect explanation. Still I am going to hang onto it for a while. Also happy to see Carrie claiming GR as her fave; it is a lovely book. J - -- READIN 2.0 http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:10:31 -0700 From: "Jason Brown" Subject: Re: so true On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 4:23 PM, 2fs wrote: > Typical Reaper leisure activities include scything (but you knew that), > reading (they tend to be fond of woodcuts in Germanic type), boating (but > not sailing - they prefer to row), and playing the piano (they're partial to > early jazz). Bah! I saw that TV show with Mandy Patkin and his gang of reapers and they did nothing of the sort. They seemed to mostly hang out in diner and drink coffee and then mildly grope folks before the bit it. They also shamelessly pretended that Vancouver is actually Seattle much to my consternation. - -- "IGNORE ME!!!!!!!" - The Grand Galactic Inquisitor ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:16:41 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Re: REAP i asked this last year . . . it seems to stand for REST ETERNALLY AT PEACE these seem to be posted every day :-( my blog is "Yer Blog" http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ In a message dated 7/29/2008 2:43:21 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, anacreon@gmail.com writes: The REAP heading is for obituaries, is that right? A reference to "As ye sow, so shall ye reap"? **************Get fantasy football with free live scoring. Sign up for FanHouse Fantasy Football today. (http://www.fanhouse.com/fantasyaffair?ncid=aolspr00050000000020) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:26:26 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Re: DETOURS - The Strangest Albums From the Biggest Artists but would you say that macca was more of a dilettante ? john + george seem to get it paul just seems to like it and knew when to use it (and when not to over-indulge) lennon - avant garde is french for bullshit harrison - avant garde is short for avant garde clue my blog is "Yer Blog" http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ In a message dated 7/29/2008 3:31:28 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com writes: Of course, the guy who reviewed McCartney's first "Fireman" album (the second one is better, not being derived from the same small handful of samples) repeats the annoying and false notion that McCartney's the "most musically conservative" ex-Beatle. Actually, in the mid-60s McCartney was the most into the contemporary avant-garde, and he was quite enthusiastic about sound experimentation (his tracks during this period are just as experimental in production as Lennon's or Harrison's, even if his melodic sense remains distinctive **************Get fantasy football with free live scoring. Sign up for FanHouse Fantasy Football today. (http://www.fanhouse.com/fantasyaffair?ncid=aolspr00050000000020) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:29:06 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Re: so true don't fear him/her, either ! my blog is "Yer Blog" _http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/_ (http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/) _http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/_ (http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/) In a message dated 7/29/2008 5:11:19 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, anacreon@gmail.com writes: Oh *right*, the Reaper, forgot all about him -- I should never forget the Reaper! **************Get fantasy football with free live scoring. Sign up for FanHouse Fantasy Football today. (http://www.fanhouse.com/fantasyaffair?ncid=aolspr00050000000020) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:36:53 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Re: More songs about women and food rolling stones have sang about it more than once : LET'S SPEND THE NIGHT TOGETHER I'm in no hurry I can take my time (Oh my) I'm going red and my tongue's getting tired (tongues's getting tired) I'm off my head and my mouth's getting dry. I'm high, But I try, try, try (Oh my) and LADY JANE is the female equivalent of a JOHN THOMAS there are probably others . . :-D my blog is "Yer Blog" http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ In a message dated 7/29/2008 7:04:27 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, grutness@slingshot.co.nz writes: > But it is one of the few songs written about cunnilingus. Are there > any others? **************Get fantasy football with free live scoring. Sign up for FanHouse Fantasy Football today. (http://www.fanhouse.com/fantasyaffair?ncid=aolspr00050000000020) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:47:59 -0700 From: "Marc Alberts" Subject: Feg on the move... I am pleased to announce that this Feg is on the move. I just accepted a new job within my company where I will be leaving the Seattle area and moving to Washington, DC. Ben, Jason, Mark and the rest of the Seattle Fegs that I have met at one time or another-I'll be back at some point, and I'll try my best to time it to a Robyn show so we can have a beer or two before making a pilgrimage to the pink rotating elephant for shouting out all the place names in "Belltown Ramble" at the tops of our lungs. On the plus side, I'd love to hear offline from any of the DC area Fegs about places to live. I'm leaning heavily towards the Arlington/Alexandria side of the Potomac at the moment as the amount of space I need seems prohibitive in the District itself. Even though I'm pretty familiar with the area, I never lived there, but only stayed at friends' houses, stayed in hotels, and visited with customers, so relocation advice will be very welcome. And Lauren-don't think you'll get away from me as I'll be sure to be up in Malvern probably once a month if not more, and that diner we went to had meat loaf too good to not try a second time. Marc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:49:35 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: so true On 7/29/08, Jason Brown wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 4:23 PM, 2fs wrote: > > Typical Reaper leisure activities include scything (but you knew that), > > reading (they tend to be fond of woodcuts in Germanic type), boating (but > > not sailing - they prefer to row), and playing the piano (they're partial > to > > early jazz). > > > Bah! I saw that TV show with Mandy Patkin and his gang of reapers and > they did nothing of the sort. They seemed to mostly hang out in diner > and drink coffee and then mildly grope folks before the bit it. They > also shamelessly pretended that Vancouver is actually Seattle much to > my consternation. I'm unfamiliar with the TV show in question (oh wait - you're not talking about that one episode of _Millennium_ are you?) - but I'd forgotten about the infamous Reaper Schism, which led to the group of Reapers you describe and their coffee fetish. Pastry, too. And Mandy Patinkin (kind of an homage, you see). Reapers are a bit iffy on geography - it's not how they travel. People are rather like cell phones in that their location isn't inherent in their identity, so Reapers just hone in on a person's being-signature when the time comes. Amusingly, and relatedly, one of our long-time list-members just found out he was dead. Seems someone in some bureaucracy or other mistakenly listed him as deceased. He can chime in with the full story if he reads this & feels like doing so... (Come to think of it, though, he has been known to wear a strong perfume, and at times he never leaves his very small room...so maybe there's something to it...) - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #671 ********************************