From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V17 #188 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Tuesday, July 7 2009 Volume 17 : Number 188 Today's Subjects: ----------------- reap [lep ] REAP [Sebastian Hagedorn ] Re: News Alert: Roger Federer Wins Wimbledon [2fs ] REAP [Poem Lover ] Needed: 600 artists [Rex ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 09:36:04 -0400 From: lep Subject: reap robert mcnamara, 93 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/us/07mcnamara.html?_r=2&hp=&pagewanted=all if i had more grace, i'd let someone else reap him. oh, well. xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:46:51 +0200 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: REAP Robert McNamara, 93 - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 10:37:43 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: News Alert: Roger Federer Wins Wimbledon On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 1:46 AM, lep wrote: > i have no interest in tennis, but, sheesh, i do wish david wallace > were around to be happy about the news. or not be happy about it as > may have been the case. > > likely any wallace fan has read this, but here's a link to wallace's > 2005 article "federer as religious experience": > > http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/sports/playmagazine/20federer.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all > > (one of my highest praises for wallace's writing is that i actually > read (and very much enjoyed) his essays on tennis and tennis players.) I hadn't - I like his writing, but I was never one to fanatically seek it out. But thank you: I agree very much with your last paragraph, and Wallace's first paragraph exemplifies this. Sure, I'd have gotten a bit more out of it if I knew more about tennis (the terminology both enhances the visual qualities of the paragraph if you're a tennis fan and diminishes it if you're not), but overall it captures very well what the best sports writing does: the sense of sheer wonder, amazement, and joy at what some human bodies can do. (In this it shares something in common with the best music writing, although of course music probably reverses the proportion of spiritual/emotional skill to physical: both require both, of course.) And it was also funny without being distractingly so - and the phrase "two-inch pipe of space" is beautiful: apt as a metaphor in both its slight oddness (echoing the impossibility of the shot described) and homely in its origins, befitting the way a player like Federer makes the impossible look nearly effortless. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 10:38:32 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: News Alert: Roger Federer Wins Wimbledon Second paragraph. (Forehead slap.) On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 10:37 AM, 2fs wrote: > On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 1:46 AM, lep wrote: > >> i have no interest in tennis, but, sheesh, i do wish david wallace >> were around to be happy about the news. or not be happy about it as >> may have been the case. >> >> likely any wallace fan has read this, but here's a link to wallace's >> 2005 article "federer as religious experience": >> >> http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/sports/playmagazine/20federer.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all >> >> (one of my highest praises for wallace's writing is that i actually >> read (and very much enjoyed) his essays on tennis and tennis players.) > > > I hadn't - I like his writing, but I was never one to fanatically seek it > out. > > But thank you: I agree very much with your last paragraph, and Wallace's > first paragraph exemplifies this. Sure, I'd have gotten a bit more out of it > if I knew more about tennis (the terminology both enhances the visual > qualities of the paragraph if you're a tennis fan and diminishes it if > you're not), but overall it captures very well what the best sports writing > does: the sense of sheer wonder, amazement, and joy at what some human > bodies can do. (In this it shares something in common with the best music > writing, although of course music probably reverses the proportion of > spiritual/emotional skill to physical: both require both, of course.) And it > was also funny without being distractingly so - and the phrase "two-inch > pipe of space" is beautiful: apt as a metaphor in both its slight oddness > (echoing the impossibility of the shot described) and homely in its origins, > befitting the way a player like Federer makes the impossible look nearly > effortless. > > -- > > ...Jeff Norman > > The Architectural Dance Society > http://spanghew.wordpress.com > - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 10:24:41 +1200 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: Fwd: News Alert: Roger Federer Wins Wimbledon >i have no interest in tennis, but, sheesh, i do wish david wallace >were around to be happy about the news. or not be happy about it as >may have been the case. I have a small but fairly blah interest in the sport, but I'm getting pissed off with all this "Federer is the greatest tennis player ever" headlining. Two words, gentlemen of the press - add "men's". One more word for you, gentlement - Navratilova. On the subject of sport, I am now hooked again on my annual odd, slightly guilty pleasure - hypnotically watching a wonderful travelogue about France which curiously seems to have 180 cyclists charging through it. 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: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 19:05:58 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Fwd: News Alert: Roger Federer Wins Wimbledon On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 5:24 PM, James Dignan wrote: > i have no interest in tennis, but, sheesh, i do wish david wallace >> were around to be happy about the news. or not be happy about it as >> may have been the case. >> > > I have a small but fairly blah interest in the sport, but I'm getting > pissed off with all this "Federer is the greatest tennis player ever" > headlining. Two words, gentlemen of the press - add "men's". One more word > for you, gentlement - Navratilova. To be fair, Wallace is pretty clear that he's discussing men's tennis throughout. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 01:22:48 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: un REAP 40th anniversary Monty Python reunion without John Cleese but with Neil Innes + Carol Cleveland Royal Albert Hall - - Eric Idle said it on Craig Ferguson just now ! my blog is "Yer Blog" http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ **************An Excellent Credit Score is 750. See Yours in Just 2 Easy Steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1222585089x1201462806/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072&hmpgID=62&bcd=Jul yExcfooterNO62) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 01:32:56 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Re: un REAP more info http://pythonline.com/celebrate In a message dated 7/7/2009 1:31:22 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, HwyCDRrev@aol.com writes: 40th anniversary Monty Python reunion without John Cleese but with Neil Innes + Carol Cleveland Royal Albert Hall - - Eric Idle said it on Craig Ferguson just now ! **************An Excellent Credit Score is 750. See Yours in Just 2 Easy Steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1222585089x1201462806/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072&hmpgID=62&bcd=Jul yExcfooterNO62) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 07:52:48 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: un REAP And rather obviously, without Graham Chapman. Unless they've dug him up and propped his skeleton in the corner, of course. On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:22 AM, wrote: > 40th anniversary Monty Python reunion > without John Cleese > but with Neil Innes + Carol Cleveland > Royal Albert Hall > > - Eric Idle said it on Craig Ferguson just now ! > > my blog is "Yer Blog" > http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ > http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ > > **************An Excellent Credit Score is 750. See Yours in Just 2 Easy > Steps! > ( > http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1222585089x1201462806/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072&hmpgID=62&bcd=Jul > yExcfooterNO62 > ) > - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 06:28:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Poem Lover Subject: REAP Mollie Sugden, 86. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 07:35:40 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Needed: 600 artists Hi Fegs... Yeah, my iTunes has topped out at 9,400 artists, and it seems a damned shame not to break quintuple digits. Send me some mp3's. Whatever you got that I probably don't have. Spoken word, soundbites, instructional discs, stuff you don't know what it is or how you got it either, whatever. The less like something one would normally listen to, the better. Please no Journey. - -Rex ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V17 #188 ********************************