From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V16 #801 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, December 12 2008 Volume 16 : Number 801 Today's Subjects: ----------------- reap (Re: Oliver Postgate) [James Dignan ] Just like Clint Eastwood for a few dollars more ["Jeremy Osner" ] RIP - Betty Page ["m swedene" ] Re: RIP - Betty Page [Tom Clark ] Re: RIP - Betty Page ["kevin studyvin" ] Re: Darth Mercury in Taurus ["kevin studyvin" ] Reap [Poem Lover ] Re: Darth Mercury in Taurus [2fs ] RE: Reap [Maximilian Lang ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:13:38 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: reap (Re: Oliver Postgate) Wile on the subject of British TV past, another reap: Bob Spiers 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: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:10:08 -0500 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Just like Clint Eastwood for a few dollars more Do any of you guys know whether there are torrents of footage available from the RG/GLP tour documented in "Elixirs and Remedies"? I would be very happ to listen to more of this-type music. Regards J If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Josi Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:40:22 -0500 From: "Jeremy Osner" Subject: Grant Lee Hitchcock Ask and ye shall receive! Here the boys are performing "Satellite of Love" in a beautiful negative space: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lirROTLZL-w J If we do not say all words, however absurd, we will never say the essential words. -- Josi Saramago http://www.readin.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:07:57 -0500 From: "m swedene" Subject: RIP - Betty Page http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jJ82vzTJfZkwzNZMVZhni6WG9D5wD950TVAO0 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:47:42 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: RIP - Betty Page On Dec 11, 2008, at 8:07 PM, m swedene wrote: > http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jJ82vzTJfZkwzNZMVZhni6WG9D5wD950TVAO0 An icon of a bygone era. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:44:55 -0800 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: RIP - Betty Page On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:47 PM, Tom Clark wrote: > On Dec 11, 2008, at 8:07 PM, m swedene wrote: > > >> http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jJ82vzTJfZkwzNZMVZhni6WG9D5wD950TVAO0 >> > > An icon of a bygone era. > Ya mean like, the 1990s? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 06:53:27 -0800 From: "kevin studyvin" Subject: Re: Darth Mercury in Taurus On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 3:29 AM, James Dignan wrote: > > Dunno why people get so hung up on whether or not our fates are governed >> by >> > the movement of the heavens (what do you think?), when there's much >> more to >> > the subject than that - an amazing amount of very interesting >> information >> > tied-up in the astrological archetypes - the planets, the signs, the >> houses >> > for a start. Belief isn't a pre-requisite. There again, belief can be a >> lot >> > of >> > fun, especially before breakfast..! >> >> >> I would say that such baby as there is falls under a literary or >> psychological/mythological heading rather than the usual claims re >> personality types, influence, etc. After all, an orange held at arm's >> length >> exerts more gravitational force over me than most the stars...as would a >> crab, a cone, or an overripe tomato. >> > Mmm, or it's a symbolic language based on the assumption that everything in the universe is fundamentally connected, and that the same conditions affecting the movement of the stars will affect the lives of mortals - from which perspective heavenly bodies can be read more or less as indicator lights which can give you an idea of your position, existentially, without actually *ruling* yr destiny any more than the speedometer is determining the speed of your car. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:06:14 -0800 (PST) From: Poem Lover Subject: Reap Van Johnson, 92. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:14:42 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Darth Mercury in Taurus On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 8:53 AM, kevin studyvin wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 3:29 AM, James Dignan >wrote: > > > > Dunno why people get so hung up on whether or not our fates are > governed > >> by > >> > the movement of the heavens (what do you think?), when there's much > >> more to > >> > the subject than that - an amazing amount of very interesting > >> information > >> > tied-up in the astrological archetypes - the planets, the signs, the > >> houses > >> > for a start. Belief isn't a pre-requisite. There again, belief can be > a > >> lot > >> > of > >> > fun, especially before breakfast..! > >> > >> > >> I would say that such baby as there is falls under a literary or > >> psychological/mythological heading rather than the usual claims re > >> personality types, influence, etc. After all, an orange held at arm's > >> length > >> exerts more gravitational force over me than most the stars...as would a > >> crab, a cone, or an overripe tomato. > >> > > > Mmm, or it's a symbolic language based on the assumption that everything in > the universe is fundamentally connected, and that the same conditions > affecting the movement of the stars will affect the lives of mortals - from > which perspective heavenly bodies can be read more or less as indicator > lights which can give you an idea of your position, existentially, without > actually *ruling* yr destiny any more than the speedometer is determining > the speed of your car. > Fact remains that 99.9% of its practitioners and followers are either incredibly gullible or ripoff artists... Of all the literally billions and billions of things in the universe to establish objective correlatives with, why the stars? I mean, all the same arguments mounted above would apply equally well to reading the entrails of goats, parsing tea leaves, or reading the flights of birds. Or of the stock market. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:06:17 -0500 From: Maximilian Lang Subject: RE: Reap Wow, he was alive? > Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:06:14 -0800 > From: poemlover64@yahoo.com > Subject: Reap > To: fegmaniax@smoe.org > > Van Johnson, 92. _________________________________________________________________ You live life online. So we put Windows on the web. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/127032869/direct/01/ ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V16 #801 ********************************