From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #710 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Monday, September 15 2008 Volume 16 : Number 710 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #708 ["kevin studyvin" ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #708 ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: Reap [2fs ] I love cows (NR) [Steve Schiavo ] Re: I love cows (NR) [2fs ] Re: I love cows (NR) ["kevin studyvin" ] Re: I love cows (NR) [2fs ] Re: iTunes Genius + regional dialectology [Rex ] david wallace ["(0% rh)" ] Re: david wallace ["Jeremy Osner" ] Re: david wallace [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 10:16:54 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #708 > Illogical given spelling yes, but then so is "iron" (eye-urn) There are those among the Murkins who pronounce the word "arn," too. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 13:57:16 -0400 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V16 #708 kevin studyvin wrote: > > There are those among the Murkins who pronounce the word "arn," too. Hence the inability of some to tell the difference between Arnie and irony. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 14:13:45 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Reap On 9/14/08, Jeremy Osner wrote: > > David Foster Wallace hanged himself on Friday. > > http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-wallace14-2008sep14,0,4713013.story That sucks. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 14:50:49 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: I love cows (NR) - - Steve __________ I can't resist an anime that includes a small, cute, violence prone girl with a scythe. - John ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:03:58 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: I love cows (NR) On 9/14/08, Steve Schiavo wrote: > > > > In other words, low-budget Cheneyism with bad hair and glasses. Ooh goody. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 15:16:01 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: I love cows (NR) It just keeps getting funnier. She's really turning out to be a female version of Dubya, only better-looking, more articulate and, you know, not a gin-soaked snow-nose. On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Steve Schiavo wrote: > > > > > - Steve > __________ > I can't resist an anime that includes a small, cute, violence prone girl > with a scythe. - John > > ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:32:40 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: I love cows (NR) On 9/14/08, kevin studyvin wrote: > > It just keeps getting funnier. She's really turning out to be a female > version of Dubya, only better-looking, more articulate and, you know, not a > gin-soaked snow-nose. So far as we know. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:27:29 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: iTunes Genius + regional dialectology On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 10:12 AM, kevin studyvin wrote: > I thought they were looking for bosuns? > They should just go down in the hold and have a look. They're probably next to the sticky things. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:44:22 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: iTunes Genius + regional dialectology On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 11:16 AM, kevin studyvin wrote: > The Palin charade is finally wearing thin, even among the lowfalutin > folks,... right? Right? > > We can only hope. I fear the moist and clammy hand of Rove, weaving its > vile spell once more... > Ah, but check out *this* shit: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/14/14524/9249/454/598561 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:57:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: reap Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright, 65. - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:48:38 -0400 From: "(0% rh)" Subject: david wallace hi fegs [reading department [postmodern subdivision]], i don't think i've posted this before -- i know i've thought about it numerous times -- but, aside from the words i don't have for my love of wallace's writing (i could only ever describe as it felt like there might as well have been an actual wire going from his pages to my brain), are the words i don't have for david markson's novel "wittgenstein's mistress." at some point, looking for interviews for interviews with wallace, i came across this: http://www.salon.com/books/bag/1999/04/12/wallace/ i'm not much of a fiction reader, especially these days, but, regardless, markson's novel is, hands down, the most stunning, and probably the most unusual novel i've read. i was nearly hypnotized by the damn thing -- it barely left my side for 3 years (it's still pretty damn close.) my father (who IS a fiction reader, to put it mildly) was probably even more compelled. it's definitely not for everyone (it's even pretty infuriating in a way that actually becomes charming with a lot of patience) but if you're inclined towards postmodern fiction, sometime take a look for it. i don't know fegs tastes enough, mostly because of the my not-reading-any-fiction thing, but i can't imagine kevin not loving this book, and i think, by all that is holy, quail needs to read it AND review it on his wonderful website, if he hasn't done so already. actually, what wallace says on the salon piece doesn't do the book nearly the justice which his recommendation on the back on the novel does: "A work of genius...an erudite, breathtaking cerebral novel whose prose is crystal and whose voice rivets and whose conclusion defies you not to cry." (and i love ann beatie's blurb that starts off: "I can't think of the last time I held my breath when I read a book, waiting for the author to make one slip.") publisher's link: http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/catalog/show/318 also from dalkey: http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/catalog/show_review/32 which has numourous essays (one of the best essays being by wallace) on "wittgenstein's mistress" and markson's writing in general. it also has a really interesting early version of the novel. as ever, lauren p.s. re: recent reaps:, i just wrote to a friend: "they say things come in threes, so i pray to god -- who hopefully will bother to pay to attention to one more heathen, who, on her best days, is on the fence about his existence -- will be watching over robyn hitchcock, david lynch, and most of all, my father." i kind of wish elliott smith could just go re-kill himself, and i'd be spared the third heartache. p.p.s. i'm not quite sure why i've just gone all PostModern Fundamentalist Psycho on you guys. i guess i need my distractions these days. - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:14:48 -0400 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Re: david wallace I've been rounding up some links relevant to Mr. Wallace over the past couple of days. I found myself just intensely moved by this warning, which was part of a commencement address he gave at Kenyon College in 2005: >Worship power, you will end up feeling weak and afraid, and you >will need ever more power over others to numb you to your own fear. >Worship your intellect, being seen as smart, you will end up feeling >stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out. But the >insidious thing about these forms of worship is not that they're evil >or sinful, it's that they're unconscious. They are default settings. More links and reflections here: http://readin.com/blog/?k=book:author:dfw I'm a little sad that I've only read Infinite Jest (and never reread it, which it really needed), and thinking I will start on his essays soon. J On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 12:48 PM, (0% rh) wrote: > hi fegs [reading department [postmodern subdivision]], > > i don't think i've posted this before -- i know i've thought about it > numerous times -- but, aside from the words i don't have for my love > of wallace's writing (i could only ever describe as it felt like there > might as well have been an actual wire going from his pages to my > brain), are the words i don't have for david markson's novel > "wittgenstein's mistress." > > at some point, looking for interviews for interviews with wallace, i > came across this: > http://www.salon.com/books/bag/1999/04/12/wallace/ > > i'm not much of a fiction reader, especially these days, but, > regardless, markson's novel is, hands down, the most stunning, and > probably the most unusual novel i've read. i was nearly hypnotized by > the damn thing -- it barely left my side for 3 years (it's still > pretty damn close.) my father (who IS a fiction reader, to put it > mildly) was probably even more compelled. it's definitely not for > everyone (it's even pretty infuriating in a way that actually becomes > charming with a lot of patience) but if you're inclined towards > postmodern fiction, sometime take a look for it. i don't know fegs > tastes enough, mostly because of the my not-reading-any-fiction thing, > but i can't imagine kevin not loving this book, and i think, by all > that is holy, quail needs to read it AND review it on his wonderful > website, if he hasn't done so already. > > actually, what wallace says on the salon piece doesn't do the book > nearly the justice which his recommendation on the back on the novel > does: > "A work of genius...an erudite, breathtaking cerebral novel whose > prose is crystal and whose voice rivets and whose conclusion defies > you not to cry." (and i love ann beatie's blurb that starts off: "I > can't think of the last time I held my breath when I read a book, > waiting for the author to make one slip.") > > publisher's link: > http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/catalog/show/318 > > also from dalkey: > http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/catalog/show_review/32 > > which has numourous essays (one of the best essays being by wallace) > on "wittgenstein's mistress" and markson's writing in general. it > also has a really interesting early version of the novel. > > as ever, > lauren > > p.s. re: recent reaps:, i just wrote to a friend: > > "they say things come in threes, so i pray to god -- who hopefully will > bother to pay to attention to one more heathen, who, on her best days, > is on the fence about his existence -- will be watching over robyn > hitchcock, david lynch, and most of all, my father." > > i kind of wish elliott smith could just go re-kill himself, and i'd be > spared the third heartache. > > > p.p.s. i'm not quite sure why i've just gone all PostModern > Fundamentalist Psycho on you guys. i guess i need my distractions > these days. > > > -- > "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha > - -- READIN 2.0 http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:19:39 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Re: david wallace you may be interested in this ? http://archive.salon.com/09/features/wallace1.html (i don't think it's the same thing . . . ) and http://andywhitman.blogspot.com/2008/09/david-foster-wallace.html my blog is "Yer Blog" http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ In a message dated 9/15/2008 1:06:08 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, softboygirl@gmail.com writes: at some point, looking for interviews for interviews with wallace, i came across this: http://www.salon.com/books/bag/1999/04/12/wallace/ **************Psssst...Have you heard the news? There's a new fashion blog, plus the latest fall trends and hair styles at StyleList.com. (http://www.stylelist.com/trends?ncid=aolsty00050000000014) ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #710 ********************************