From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V17 #132 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Sunday, May 3 2009 Volume 17 : Number 132 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: a collection of one-star reviews from Amazon [kevin studyvin ] Re: a collection of one-star reviews from Amazon [kevin studyvin ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 15:56:38 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: a collection of one-star reviews from Amazon So it goes...if you want some great writing, try Ayn Rand. On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 7:19 AM, wrote: > http://www.cynical-c.com/?cat=85 > > my blog is "Yer Blog" > http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ > http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ > > **************Access 350+ FREE radio stations anytime from anywhere on the > web. Get the Radio Toolbar! > (http://toolbar.aol.com/aolradio/download.html?ncid=emlcntusdown00000003) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 01:28:08 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: a collection of one-star reviews from Amazon kevin says: > So it goes...if you want some great writing, try Ayn Rand. indeed. speaking of ms. rand, i recently ran across this: http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/books/04/27/ayn.rand.atlas.shrugged/index.html i especially liked this line re: rand's critics: "More, however, disliked Rand's politics and atheism, not to mention her writing." (my recommendation for reading ayn rand: great stuff -- just, hurry, before you turn 17. around then, higher thought starts to interfere with one's ability to take her seriously.) as ever, lauren - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 01:38:17 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: a collection of one-star reviews from Amazon > speaking of ms. rand, i recently ran across this: > > http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/books/04/27/ayn.rand.atlas.shrugged/index.html > > i especially liked this line re: rand's critics: "More, however, > disliked Rand's politics and atheism, not to mention her writing." > > (my recommendation for reading ayn rand: great stuff -- just, hurry, > before you turn 17. around then, higher thought starts to interfere > with one's ability to take her seriously.) > > as ever, > lauren > Yep, that was pretty much my experience. I just want to go on record at this time as saying, today was one of the most beuatiful days ever. Also, Alan Tudyk rocked on Dollhouse. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 02 May 2009 07:38:40 -0400 From: FSThomas Subject: Re: a collection of one-star reviews from Amazon lep wrote: > (my recommendation for reading ayn rand: great stuff -- just, hurry, > before you turn 17. around then, higher thought starts to interfere > with one's ability to take her seriously. That's the same way I feel about Chomsky! Funny stuff. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 08:11:50 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: a collection of one-star reviews from Amazon FSThomas says: > lep wrote: >> >> (my recommendation for reading ayn rand: great stuff -- just, hurry, >> before you turn 17. around then, higher thought starts to interfere >> with one's ability to take her seriously. > > That's the same way I feel about Chomsky! Funny stuff. oh, chomsky's fine -- as long as he sticks to computer linguistics. as ever, lauren p.s. i should confess that i find chomsky so unbearable that i can't read or listen to him. but, really, anyone who thinks they have something *that* important to say should find a way to at least *appear* not to be such an insufferable ass. - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 14:52:31 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: a collection of one-star reviews from Amazon kevin says: > Also, Alan Tudyk rocked on Dollhouse. yes, he did. the episode was all kinds of fun (especially compared with last week's (the dead woman episode - this put me to actual sleep, and i haven't found the energy to finish watching it yet.)) also, topher's still a twerp, but he got points for using the "f" work (..."frak") as ever, lauren - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 12:38:33 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: The pink rotating elephant http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009161007_seattlesketcher02.html I suppose it's something to do with the opening of boating season: we just had a jet fly-by that was low enough and LOUD ENOUGH that it set off a bunch of car alarms. The love affair with noisy-ass military aircraft around here is one thing I won't miss when the Boeing Era is finally over, tell you what. (Though they have kept my brother employed for the last 28 years...) np: Siouxsie & the Banshees, Hyaena ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 14:30:19 -0700 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: a collection of one-star reviews from Amazon On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 11:52 AM, lep wrote: > kevin says: > > > Also, Alan Tudyk rocked on Dollhouse. > > yes, he did. the episode was all kinds of fun (especially compared > with last week's (the dead woman episode - this put me to actual > sleep, and i haven't found the energy to finish watching it yet.)) My wife got upset about that one - she thinks the loading-the-dead-lady-into-Echo thing was a total violation of the show's premise. I don't entirely agree, but it was kind of an odd move for the cutting-edge sci-fi (love these hyphens) show to suddenly detour into Classical English Country House Murder Mystery territory. I mean they coulda dropped Joan Collins in there and she wouldn't have been a bit out of place... > > also, topher's still a twerp, but he got points for using the "f" work > (..."frak") > > as ever, > lauren > > -- > "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha Just waiting to see what hijinks they get up to next week, and whether there'll actually be a next season or not. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 20:57:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Dwarf Subject: Reap Jack Kemp http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/05/02/national/w191905D15.DTL "I love how (coffee) makes me feel. It's like my heart is trying to hug my brain!" -- Kenneth Parcell ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V17 #132 ********************************