From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #732 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, October 5 2008 Volume 16 : Number 732 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: varia ["kevin studyvin" ] Re: Maverick ["kevin studyvin" ] Re: Robyn's Cape Farewell blog & flickr photostream [djini@voicenet.com] *Family Guy* Haters Know This: ["Nectar At Any Cost!" ] Re: Robyn's Cape Farewell blog & flickr photostream [Rex ] Re: Robyn's Cape Farewell blog & flickr photostream ["Stewart Russell" ] Re: *Family Guy* Haters Know This: ["Miles Goosens" ] Re: *Family Guy* Haters Know This: ["Miles Goosens" ] Soft Boys / Robyn Hitchcock special tomorrow AM [JBJ ] Re: Soft Boys / Robyn Hitchcock special tomorrow AM ["Jeremy Osner" ] Re: Palin (NR) ["kevin studyvin" ] Re: i had a dream, i had an awesome mike mills dream [michaeljbachman@com] Re: *Family Guy* Haters Know This: [Rex ] Re: This be the verse [Rex ] Re: Palin (NR) [Poem Lover ] Re: Palin (NR) [Rex ] Re: i had a dream, i had an awesome mike mills dream [Rex ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 18:34:20 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: varia > Thoth Gang? Wasn't that a novel by Tibor Fischer? (Also the "band" that > performed "The Black Dog Runs At Night" from the _Twin Peaks: Fire Walk > With > Me_ soundtrack...) > Not to mention "The Pink Room," which is like a working definition of badditude. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 18:36:20 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: Maverick > > Perfect t-shirt: VAN VLIET '08 > > > > "What this nation needs is a squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag!" > > "Fast 'n' bulbous! Fast 'n' bulbous!" > > -- > > ...Jeff Norman > > The Architectural Dance Society > http://spanghew.blogspot.com > > ps: bulbous also tapered > Also, a tin teardrop. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 12:48:00 -0400 (EDT) From: djini@voicenet.com Subject: Re: Robyn's Cape Farewell blog & flickr photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/capefarewell/2897940668/ Robyn can has bench! Jeanne > > Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:21:36 -0400 > From: Caroline Smith > Subject: Re: Robyn's Cape Farewell blog & flickr photostream > > It looks like they're having such a great time! > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/capefarewell/2898470915/ > > > On 30-Sep-08, at 11:16 AM, Caroline Smith wrote: > >> He's blogging (and his writing is beautiful and awesome). Other >> bloggers include Jarvis Cocker, Laurie Anderson and lots more... >> >> http://www.capefarewell.com/diskobay/about/crew/ >> >> (really sorry if this has been posted already!) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2008 19:03:34 -0700 From: "Nectar At Any Cost!" Subject: *Family Guy* Haters Know This: that bayard enjoys the show as much as, or more than, myself. objective proof that y'all are in the wrong on this matter. so, nyah. although i've gotta give it to y' for holding it in greater disdain than do i for *Buffy*. i surely don't consider *Buffy* "loathsome". an idiotic waste of time, sure. but that's a far bit better that "loathsome". ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 20:43:20 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Robyn's Cape Farewell blog & flickr photostream On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 9:48 AM, wrote: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/capefarewell/2897940668/ > > Robyn can has bench! Damn... dead link. This must've been good. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 20:48:12 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: *Family Guy* Haters Know This: On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Nectar At Any Cost! wrote: > that bayard enjoys the show as much as, or more than, myself. objective > proof that y'all are in the wrong on this matter. so, nyah. > > although i've gotta give it to y' for holding it in greater disdain than do > i for *Buffy*. i surely don't consider *Buffy* "loathsome". an idiotic > waste of time, sure. but that's a far bit better that "loathsome". For the record, I remain Buffy-agnostic (buffignostic?); I remain uncertain as to whether Miles' "loathsome" or my "sucks" is more damning. Please not that my triple "sucks" was in response to the triple invocation of the show's name, not to imply that it sucks three times over. (It does of course "triple eat it", but probably no more than "double sucks".) Lots of perfectly intelligent people with otherwise impeccable taste love the FG. I can't explain it. It happens. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 00:06:12 -0400 From: "Stewart Russell" Subject: Re: Robyn's Cape Farewell blog & flickr photostream Well, y'know, it's Cape Farewell, so it's pretty transient ... - -- http://scruss.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 21:13:51 -0700 From: "Jason Brown" Subject: Re: *Family Guy* Haters Know This: > Lots of perfectly intelligent people with otherwise impeccable taste love > the FG. I can't explain it. It happens. I used to vehemently hate Family guy. But we it came back from the dead i watched it again and found that it really grew on me. And the use of death on Family guy is really hilarious and was one of the first things that clicked with me. - -- "IGNORE ME!!!!!!!" - The Grand Galactic Inquisitor ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 23:23:14 -0500 From: "Miles Goosens" Subject: Re: *Family Guy* Haters Know This: On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 10:48 PM, Rex wrote: > For the record, I remain Buffy-agnostic (buffignostic?); I remain uncertain > as to whether Miles' "loathsome" or my "sucks" is more damning. I mean my loathsome to be as damning as any epithet possibly can be. Seriously, I'd rather watch ACCORDING TO JIM, which is like taking a melon baller to your eyes. > Please not > that my triple "sucks" was in response to the triple invocation of the > show's name, not to imply that it sucks three times over. (It does of course > "triple eat it", but probably no more than "double sucks".) My favorite MACBETH line is when the weird sisters are saying things three times for what seems like the thousandth time in the play, and ol' Macca sez "Had I three ears, I'ld hear thee." Deliciously self-referential. > Lots of perfectly intelligent people with otherwise impeccable taste love > the FG. I can't explain it. It happens. Eddie and Bayard are blowing my theory that you had to be a callow youth of under 30 to like the damn thing. later, Miles - -- now with blogspot retsin! http://readingpronunciation.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 02:32:22 -0400 From: "(0% rh)" Subject: Re: *Family Guy* Haters Know This: Rex says: > On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Nectar At Any Cost! wrote: > >> that bayard enjoys the show as much as, or more than, myself. objective >> proof that y'all are in the wrong on this matter. so, nyah. >> >> although i've gotta give it to y' for holding it in greater disdain than do >> i for *Buffy*. i surely don't consider *Buffy* "loathsome". an idiotic >> waste of time, sure. but that's a far bit better that "loathsome". > > > For the record, I remain Buffy-agnostic (buffignostic?); but don't you have to watch it before you get to not care about it? since i'm not likely to give "famiily guy" a try, i'll have to wait until eddie weighs in on BSG. to a certain extent, i share his opinion on "buffy" (we seem to differ more on how willing we are to part with our time.) a lot of what attracts to stories is whether they manage to get to the truth of the matter (which admittedly seems kind of stupid, being how there's all of non-fiction to handle "the truth" and such.) and "buffy", for me, is way more story than truth. this didn't occur to me until after i had bought the box(ed?) "buffy" dvd set, and noticed that it had gone unwatched for months. not so for BSG, which, for me, operates on a level that's nearly unrelated to entertainment. although maybe one's taste BSG can be directly correlated by how many times they've watched "bladerunner"?** xo ** (i'd guess five here (although, more importantly, i once made it through the entire novel (this is rumoured to be more than ridley scott can say.))) - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 08:34:05 -0500 From: "Miles Goosens" Subject: Re: *Family Guy* Haters Know This: On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 1:32 AM, (0% rh) wrote: > since i'm not likely to give "famiily guy" a try, i'll have to wait > until eddie weighs in on BSG. to a certain extent, i share his > opinion on "buffy" (we seem to differ more on how willing we are to > part with our time.) a lot of what attracts to stories is whether > they manage to get to the truth of the matter (which admittedly seems > kind of stupid, being how there's all of non-fiction to handle "the > truth" and such.) and "buffy", for me, is way more story than truth. > this didn't occur to me until after i had bought the box(ed?) "buffy" > dvd set, and noticed that it had gone unwatched for months. I'll buy that BSG is in some ways a more grounded show - I keep telling the folks in my life who automatically pooh-pooh anything science fiction that it's more like HOMICIDE than anything else, what with the documentary-style way it's shot, the show's very very analog look, and the relentless focus on the characters above all else. But BUFFY seemed to me to be equally as deft about its characters, especially as time went on. > although maybe one's taste BSG can be directly correlated by how many > times they've watched "bladerunner"?** I'm thinking my count is at 4 or 5, which is a lot for me. I think the movie's great; I'm just never going to be one of those people who can watch the same movie, however great it is, over and over and over and over. later, Miles - -- now with blogspot retsin! http://readingpronunciation.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 06:54:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Poem Lover Subject: Re: Palin (NR) What gets me about this, is not that she is "one of us," it's that she's NOT one of us yet she has fooled people into thinking she is. She is a millionaire, she has a nanny taking care of her disabled infant. Her husband takes part in "sports" that require one to be wealthy. She is nothing like me or anyone I know. Yesterday, I had an argument with an older woman about Palin. This woman is in her late 60s and thinks Palin is "darling," should be VP, doesn't understand that the person running for VP is also running, de facto, for POTUS, and couldn't tell me ONE reason why Palin deserves the job. It's being "darling" that makes her so perfect. I think they must be putting stupid pills in the our nation's water supplies. What else can it be??? Marcy - --- On Sat, 10/4/08, Steve Schiavo wrote: From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Palin (NR) To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Date: Saturday, October 4, 2008, 4:43 PM > The blot on the Alaskan landscape that is Wasilla is the natural > consequence of a mindset that mistakes Ivana Trump for culture. - - Steve __________ I can't resist an anime that includes a small, cute, violence prone girl with a scythe. - John ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 06:37:46 -0700 (PDT) From: JBJ Subject: Soft Boys / Robyn Hitchcock special tomorrow AM Hi Fegs - Tomorrow's the day! I've been working on this thing for awhile now, and I hope you enjoy it. Soft Boys / Robyn Hitchcock retrospective on KBOO-FM Monday, October 6th 3 to 5:30am (Pacific Time) 90.7fm if you live in Portland or Corvallis (both in Oregon) http://www.kboo.fm everywhere else The goal was simply to make something chronological that flows along nicely. It's mostly stuff off the studio albums, but so far there's a track off "Raw Cuts" and one from "Oscar". Thanks to Eddie for sending me the big-ass discography on a DVD. It's been a godsend to have this all on one disc. And thanks to Mitchell Dickerman for sending me all the fan comps (Netsurfer Ghost, Uncarved Pumpkins, Unhatched Crablings). He sent them to me via Rapidshare, so if you don't have these and want to check them out, I can send you the links, if they're still up. Just email me. While I'm thanking people, thanks to all of you on this mailing list. I've been a member since 1994 and really enjoy seeing you in my inbox every day. JBJ ("Lobsterman" to some) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 10:17:32 -0400 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Re: Soft Boys / Robyn Hitchcock special tomorrow AM On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 9:37 AM, JBJ wrote: > Soft Boys / Robyn Hitchcock retrospective on KBOO-FM > Monday, October 6th > 3 to 5:30am (Pacific Time) I'd love to hear this but won't be able to listen to it tomorrow morning -- will it be archived for listening later on? - -- If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Jose Saramgo http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 10:21:37 -0400 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Re: Soft Boys / Robyn Hitchcock special tomorrow AM BTW about your "The Soft Boys were a punk band" (on the program schedule page) -- hasn't Robyn rejected that label in pretty strong terms? J On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 9:37 AM, JBJ wrote: > Hi Fegs - > > Tomorrow's the day! I've been working on this thing for awhile now, and I > hope you enjoy it. > > Soft Boys / Robyn Hitchcock retrospective on KBOO-FM > Monday, October 6th > 3 to 5:30am (Pacific Time) > 90.7fm if you live in Portland or Corvallis (both in Oregon) > http://www.kboo.fm everywhere else > > The goal was simply to make something chronological that flows along nicely. > It's mostly stuff off the studio albums, but so far there's a track off "Raw > Cuts" and one from "Oscar". > > Thanks to Eddie for sending me the big-ass discography on a DVD. It's been a > godsend to have this all on one disc. And thanks to Mitchell Dickerman for > sending me all the fan comps (Netsurfer Ghost, Uncarved Pumpkins, Unhatched > Crablings). He sent them to me via Rapidshare, so if you don't have these > and want to check them out, I can send you the links, if they're still up. > Just email me. > > While I'm thanking people, thanks to all of you on this mailing list. I've > been a member since 1994 and really enjoy seeing you in my inbox every day. > > JBJ ("Lobsterman" to some) > - -- If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Jose Saramgo http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 09:41:24 -0500 From: "Miles Goosens" Subject: i had a dream, i had an awesome mike mills dream On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 7:21 PM, Rex wrote: > Dream Department: it's no patch on Miles' Styx dream, and I can't say how it > stacks up against the as-yet-undisclosed Mike Mills night-terror, but I had > a dream that was for some reason a behind-the-scenes promo for a forthcoming > U2 album.... > Neither the dream nor my recollection of it were colored with any > kind of judgment on the project or the band... it was just sort of a > Unconscious Press Kit for something that doesn't really exist. I like this dream. I've had similar ones in the past. Also, I once dreamed the album art and all of side 1 of TATTOO YOU some months before it was released - when I went to turn the album over, I woke up. I didn't mean for it to be this long of a teaser on the Mike Mills dreams; it had slipped my mind since I asked if I'd told about them before. So here goes. I don't think they're as funny as the Styx dream, but I like them. In *both* dreams, I was Mike Mills. Not me at all. First-person viewpoint, inside his skin. Able to play bass, sing harmonies, and tousle my hair at the same time. Not wearing a Nudie suit in either dream. DREAM #1: I think I had this dream in early 1995, just before the MONSTER tour started. In the dream, we (R.E.M.) had just gone onstage, with the lights still down. I glanced at the setlist at my feet and it was what turned out to be a typical MONSTER tour setlist, with "What's the Frequency, Kenneth" as the opener. However, as I ran my hands along the bass, for some reason I started playing the bassline to "Welcome to the Occupation." Michael Stipe looked back at me, initially with an "are you nuts?" face which quickly melted into a grin, and then the rest of the band kicked in on cue and we did "Occupation"! Then without even talking about it, we decided it felt so good that we segued into "Disturbance at the Heron House," and then, just like we'd planned this little three-songs no-transition action, into the actual planned opener, "Kenneth." It was a totally fun dream. DREAM #2: I think I had this dream c. 1998-1999. Again, onstage with the band, on tour, in front of an audience. Instead of the dream starting at the beginning of the show, this was totally in medias re, the regular programming already in progress. We were doing an extended vamp at the end of a song when Flea walked onstage. I didn't know about this guest appearance, but Michael and Peter obviously did, and after Michael introduced Flea, they launched into something they'd all planned. I was confused when he first came out, but then I got angry: Flea was not only playing my bass part, the sound guy had turned off my bass and mic! Then it dawned on me: I was being replaced MID-SET. Not after the show, not after the tour, but right here, on stage! I'm convinced the second dream was connected to my shifting view of the band,. To me, REM in the post-Berry era, Mills included, got way too smug and, in their own way, showbizzy, so replacing a band member with an established star wouldn't have seemed as beyond the pale as it would have in 1984 or even 1995. That's it. That's all I got. Jay Tarseses Throughout the Decades series up at my blog. Goodnight, Gracie! later, Miles - -- now with blogspot retsin! http://readingpronunciation.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 12:07:16 -0400 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: This be the verse I was listening to "Raining Twilight Coast" yesterday and thinking about how the last lines of the three verses really encapsulate the whole song. (Also: really enjoying the instrumental intro. This and "Chinese Water Python" are maybe the most beautiful sounds on "Eye".) But anyway, "There's so many ways you can screw up a child" brought to mind Larkin's "This be the verse" which brought to mind Ben Wolfson's hilarious close reading of that poem from 3 years ago. Anyone in need of a little laughter ought to go read Wolfson's essay and the comments thread thereto (which goes on even to this day!): he is a master of tipping his hat *just enough* to keep people coming back. http://waste.typepad.com/waste/2005/11/this_be_close_r.html J - -- If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Jose Saramgo http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 09:16:18 -0700 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: Palin (NR) > It's being "darling" that makes her so perfect. I think they must be > putting stupid pills in the our nation's water supplies. What else can it > be??? > Speaking as a product of the culture that produced Governor Darling, let me repeat: you want to understand why they're like that read Joe Bageant's Deer Hunting With Jesus. He's a product of the dirt-poor red state culture and he knows what he's talking about. > > > The blot on the Alaskan landscape that is Wasilla is the natural > consequence of a mindset that mistakes Ivana Trump for culture. > On another note, wouldn't it have been even more fun if the fine-de-siecle Soft Boys reunion had included Andy as well as Matthew? Two words: keyboards. OK with both Buffy and Family Guy / KS. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 18:33:42 +0000 From: michaeljbachman@comcast.net Subject: Re: i had a dream, i had an awesome mike mills dream - -------------- Original message -------------- From: "Miles Goosens" > On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 7:21 PM, Rex wrote: > > Dream Department: it's no patch on Miles' Styx dream, and I can't say how it > > stacks up against the as-yet-undisclosed Mike Mills night-terror, but I had > > a dream that was for some reason a behind-the-scenes promo for a forthcoming > > U2 album.... > > Neither the dream nor my recollection of it were colored with any > > kind of judgment on the project or the band... it was just sort of a > > Unconscious Press Kit for something that doesn't really exist. > > I like this dream. I've had similar ones in the past. > > Also, I once dreamed the album art and all of side 1 of TATTOO YOU > some months before it was released - when I went to turn the album > over, I woke up. > > I didn't mean for it to be this long of a teaser on the Mike Mills > dreams; it had slipped my mind since I asked if I'd told about them > before. So here goes. I don't think they're as funny as the Styx > dream, but I like them. > > In *both* dreams, I was Mike Mills. Not me at all. First-person > viewpoint, inside his skin. Able to play bass, sing harmonies, and > tousle my hair at the same time. Not wearing a Nudie suit in either > dream. > > DREAM #1: I think I had this dream in early 1995, just before the > MONSTER tour started. In the dream, we (R.E.M.) had just gone > onstage, with the lights still down. I glanced at the setlist at my > feet and it was what turned out to be a typical MONSTER tour setlist, > with "What's the Frequency, Kenneth" as the opener. However, as I ran > my hands along the bass, for some reason I started playing the > bassline to "Welcome to the Occupation." Michael Stipe looked back at > me, initially with an "are you nuts?" face which quickly melted into a > grin, and then the rest of the band kicked in on cue and we did > "Occupation"! Then without even talking about it, we decided it felt > so good that we segued into "Disturbance at the Heron House," and > then, just like we'd planned this little three-songs no-transition > action, into the actual planned opener, "Kenneth." It was a totally > fun dream. > > DREAM #2: I think I had this dream c. 1998-1999. Again, onstage with > the band, on tour, in front of an audience. Instead of the dream > starting at the beginning of the show, this was totally in medias re, > the regular programming already in progress. We were doing an > extended vamp at the end of a song when Flea walked onstage. I didn't > know about this guest appearance, but Michael and Peter obviously did, > and after Michael introduced Flea, they launched into something they'd > all planned. I was confused when he first came out, but then I got > angry: Flea was not only playing my bass part, the sound guy had > turned off my bass and mic! Then it dawned on me: I was being > replaced MID-SET. Not after the show, not after the tour, but right > here, on stage! > > I'm convinced the second dream was connected to my shifting view of > the band,. To me, REM in the post-Berry era, Mills included, got way > too smug and, in their own way, showbizzy, so replacing a band member > with an established star wouldn't have seemed as beyond the pale as it > would have in 1984 or even 1995. > > That's it. That's all I got. Jay Tarseses Throughout the Decades > series up at my blog. Goodnight, Gracie! > REM was pretty good on Austin City Limits last night. Although it made me long for another Venus 3 tour and album more then wanting to see this era of REM. Michael B. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 11:46:44 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: *Family Guy* Haters Know This: On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 11:32 PM, (0% rh) wrote: > > > For the record, I remain Buffy-agnostic (buffignostic?); > > but don't you have to watch it before you get to not care about it? Perhaps (I have seen bits and pieces of the show). But sure hope I don't have to have tried out all the major religions to be a "real" agnostic! > > > although maybe one's taste BSG can be directly correlated by how many > times they've watched "bladerunner"?** > I've seen it bunches, in its many iterations-- does that mean I would like BSG? I'm unlikely to ever get over the fact that, for not much apparent reason, it has the same name as the sucky '70's show-- which would matter less if I hadn't bean a rabid obsessive fan of said sucky show when it was originally on, and I was 7. (And now that I think of it, really, my inital block against both BSG and Buffy has to do with their titles, which is also why I've never gotten into Built to Spill. Hmm.) - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 11:50:48 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: This be the verse On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > I was listening to "Raining Twilight Coast" yesterday and thinking > about how the last lines of the three verses really encapsulate the > whole song. (Also: really enjoying the instrumental intro. This and > "Chinese Water Python" are maybe the most beautiful sounds on "Eye".) > But anyway, "There's so many ways you can screw up a child" brought to > mind Larkin's "This be the verse" which brought to mind Ben Wolfson's > hilarious close reading of that poem from 3 years ago. One of my very favorite Robyn couplets. Reminds me of the north of France. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 11:50:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Poem Lover Subject: Re: Palin (NR) I don't think there is any understanding....I cannot understand a woman who said she'd want her daughter to carry a baby to full term if that baby was the product of a rape. - --- On Sun, 10/5/08, kevin studyvin wrote: From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: Palin (NR) To: "Poem Lover" Cc: fegmaniax@smoe.org, "Steve Schiavo" Date: Sunday, October 5, 2008, 4:16 PM It's being "darling" that makes her so perfect. I think they must be putting stupid pills in the our nation's water supplies. What else can it be??? Speaking as a product of the culture that produced Governor Darling, let me repeat: you want to understand why they're like that read Joe Bageant's Deer Hunting With Jesus. He's a product of the dirt-poor red state culture and he knows what he's talking about. > The blot on the Alaskan landscape that is Wasilla is the natural consequence of a mindset that mistakes Ivana Trump for culture. On another note, wouldn't it have been even more fun if the fine-de-siecle Soft Boys reunion had included Andy as well as Matthew? Two words: keyboards. OK with both Buffy and Family Guy / KS. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 11:54:18 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Palin (NR) On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 9:16 AM, kevin studyvin wrote: > > It's being "darling" that makes her so perfect. I think they must be > > putting stupid pills in the our nation's water supplies. What else can > it > > be??? > I'm pretty sure we'll be able to forget about this Republican ticket in a month-- Palin has no attraction to anyone other than those who don't need pills to be stupid, and McCain is obviously, increasingly, increasingly obviously batshit insane. Until then, try to look at as something we'll all be able to laugh about for years to come. That's what I'm doing. - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 11:55:57 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: i had a dream, i had an awesome mike mills dream On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 11:33 AM, wrote: > -------------- Original message -------------- > REM was pretty good on Austin City Limits last night. Although it made me > long for another Venus 3 tour and album more then wanting to see this era of > REM. I had the same reaction to seeing them live: good on them for getting back some of their old spark, but what the hell is holding up the V3 record that was started like three years ago along with OT? - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 11:56:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Poem Lover Subject: Re: Palin (NR) If I didn't live in a ruby red county, that would be a lot easier for me. There are McCain/Palin signs everywhere. My Obama sign is the only one in my neighborhood! - --- On Sun, 10/5/08, Rex wrote: From: Rex Subject: Re: Palin (NR) To: "kevin studyvin" Cc: "Poem Lover" , fegmaniax@smoe.org, "Steve Schiavo" Date: Sunday, October 5, 2008, 6:54 PM On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 9:16 AM, kevin studyvin wrote: > It's being "darling" that makes her so perfect. I think they must be > putting stupid pills in the our nation's water supplies. What else can it > be??? I'm pretty sure we'll be able to forget about this Republican ticket in a month-- Palin has no attraction to anyone other than those who don't need pills to be stupid, and McCain is obviously, increasingly, increasingly obviously batshit insane. Until then, try to look at as something we'll all be able to laugh about for years to come. That's what I'm doing. - -Rex ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #732 ********************************