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fegmaniax-digest      Tuesday, September 8 2009      Volume 17 : Number 240



                               Today's Subjects:
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  My name is "Eb", and my johnson's latest tattoo reads "This machine ills fascists"  ["Nectar At Any Cost!" <etew]
  Walt Disney in the news                 [Jeremy Osner <anacreon@gmail.com>]
  Re: topher, yay! (100% dollhouse)             [lep <softboygirl@gmail.com>]
  Re: topher, yay! (100% dollhouse)           [2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com>]
  Re: topher, yay! (100% dollhouse)             [lep <softboygirl@gmail.com>]
  Re: topher, yay! (100% dollhouse)    [kevin studyvin <kstudyvin@gmail.com>]
  Re: topher, yay! (100% dollhouse)    [kevin studyvin <kstudyvin@gmail.com>]
  Re: Walt Disney in the news          [kevin studyvin <kstudyvin@gmail.com>]
  Re: topher, yay! (100% dollhouse)           [2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com>]
  Re: My name is "Eb", and my johnson's latest tattoo reads "This machine ills fascists"  [2fs <jeffreyw2]
  Re: My name is "Eb", and my johnson's latest tattoo reads "This machine ills fascists"  [2fs <jeffreyw2]
  Re: My name is "Eb", and my johnson's latest tattoo reads "This machine ills fascists"  [lep <softboy]
  Re: My name is "Eb", and my johnson's latest tattoo reads "This machine ills fascists"  [michaeljbach]
  Mellotron in your pocket (NR)        [Steve Schiavo <steveschiavo@mac.com>]
  Re: Mellotron in your pocket (NR)           [2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com>]
  Re: My name is "Eb", and my johnson's latest tattoo reads "This machine ills fascists"  [Jeff Margrave <munki]
  Re: Mellotron in your pocket (NR)    [kevin studyvin <kstudyvin@gmail.com>]
  Re: Mellotron in your pocket (NR)              [Tom Clark <tclark@mac.com>]
  Re: My name is "Eb", and my johnson's latest tattoo reads "This machine ills fascists"  [michaeljbach]
  Cover art                               [Jeremy Osner <anacreon@gmail.com>]

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Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2009 14:44:27 -0700
From: "Nectar At Any Cost!" <etews@inwa.net>
Subject: My name is "Eb", and my johnson's latest tattoo reads "This machine ills fascists"

<How long would you say we've been outside of our niche?  I entirely agree
that this is the case, and that it's only a matter of time until the Big
Correction; question is, when did we go off the rails, so to speak?  The
Industrial Revolution? The invention of agriculture?  The building of
cities?  It's an interesting question.>

agriculture's definitely not sustainable.  but i was thinking, even, of
tools that enabled us to wipe out the north american mega-fauna.

i agree, it's an interesting question to consider.  at the very least, i'd
argue that any of our activities which cause or contribute to extinctions
of plant or animal species must be seriously called into question.


<My current fave is this year's Metric release. Dunno why they are
classified as indie rock, cuz it sounds pretty damned mainstream to me.>

funny.  i love both metric and yeah yeah yeahs; but was disappointed with
their '09 releases.

have y'all heard the new pines disc (*Tremolo*)?  so fucking good...


<My favorite Herzog was the '76-'80 Royals.>

it occurs to me that there were some quite colourful managers in those
days.  whitey, weaver, martin, sparky, lasorda, zimmer, williams...  is
there really anybody like that around now?


<<I probably shouldn't admit to this, but I was a founding member of a band
called "Bloodcopter".>>

<oh, that's so cool.>

agreed.  that fucking *rules*!


i've been happy with <URL:http://www.ultrawebsitehosting.com/>.  if you
search around, you can find a coupon, whose use'll give you unlimited disk
space and bandwidth for $3 per month (if you pay three years in advance).

i guess bluehost is considered the best budget host.  i had signed up with
them, but then my account was canceled because of naughty language (yeah:
i'd checked the "terms of agreement" box without having read them).  oh,
well.

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Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 19:35:10 -0400
From: Jeremy Osner <anacreon@gmail.com>
Subject: Walt Disney in the news

His frozen head has been reanimated by the tech wizards at London
Fieldworks, and grafted onto an animatronic body consisting of Bambi's
forequarters and Thumper's hindquarters. World domination is in sight! But
for now you can watch what they're doing at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB0TlsfysuM

J

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Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 20:05:43 -0400
From: lep <softboygirl@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: topher, yay! (100% dollhouse)

jeff 2fs<jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com> says:
> Resurrecting this ancient thread because, now that *I've* watched
> _Dollhouse_, *I* want to talk about it. (Feel free to ignore me if you
> like.)

somewhere in my brain are plenty of "dollhouse"-related thoughts, but,
for now, i'm thought-less.  just give me time.

BTW, why do we scoff at angry bears?  just wondering.

xo

- -- 
"people with opinions just go around bothering one another."  -- the buddha

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Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 19:12:57 -0500
From: 2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: topher, yay! (100% dollhouse)

BTW, why do we scoff at angry bears?  just wondering.
>


Someone a while back had a post that included something about scoffing at
bears, which were angry.

It amused me.

- -- 

...Jeff Norman

The Architectural Dance Society
http://spanghew.wordpress.com

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Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 20:18:06 -0400
From: lep <softboygirl@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: topher, yay! (100% dollhouse)

Christopher Gross<chrisg@gwu.edu> says:

> (just 'cause I love her doesn't mean I'll remember her name)

how did i miss that first time around?

if i were a guy or a lesbian, i'd have a new catch phrase.  oh well.
fuck you!  i have tenure.

xo

- -- 
"people with opinions just go around bothering one another."  -- the buddha

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Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 17:35:42 -0700
From: kevin studyvin <kstudyvin@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: topher, yay! (100% dollhouse)

On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 5:12 PM, 2fs<jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com> wrote:
> BTW, why do we scoff at angry bears?  just wondering.
>>
>
>
> Someone a while back had a post that included something about scoffing at
> bears, which were angry.
>
> It amused me.

Low on the relevance scale, but in one of John Brunner's novels (maybe
The Reproductive System) there's a whole slew of weird linguistic
gags, low puns, etc.  For some reason one of the characters (and no, I
haven't glanced at the thing since 1973) is contemplating a series of
statements that can be read to reveal more than one reading, and the
one that's stuck in my head ever since (for no real reason at all) is
"She bears each cross patiently."

Thanks for your time.

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Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 17:42:54 -0700
From: kevin studyvin <kstudyvin@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: topher, yay! (100% dollhouse)

On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 5:35 PM, kevin studyvin<kstudyvin@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 5:12 PM, 2fs<jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com> wrote:
>> BTW, why do we scoff at angry bears?  just wondering.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Someone a while back had a post that included something about scoffing at
>> bears, which were angry.
>>
>> It amused me.
>
> Low on the relevance scale, but in one of John Brunner's novels (maybe
> The Reproductive System) there's a whole slew of weird linguistic
> gags, low puns, etc.  For some reason one of the characters (and no, I
> haven't glanced at the thing since 1973) is contemplating a series of
> statements that can be read to reveal more than one reading, and the
> one that's stuck in my head ever since (for no real reason at all) is
> "She bears each cross patiently."
>
> Thanks for your time.


Apologies all around, but that shd have read John *Sladek*, not John
Brunner.  At some point those sixties New Wave sf guys all start to
blur together...

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Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 17:44:45 -0700
From: kevin studyvin <kstudyvin@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Walt Disney in the news

On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Jeremy Osner<anacreon@gmail.com> wrote:
> His frozen head has been reanimated by the tech wizards at London
> Fieldworks, and grafted onto an animatronic body consisting of Bambi's
> forequarters and Thumper's hindquarters. World domination is in sight! But
> for now you can watch what they're doing at:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB0TlsfysuM


Hell, they own Marvel now; why couldn't they give him Ben Grimm's body?

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Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 21:53:03 -0500
From: 2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: topher, yay! (100% dollhouse)

On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 7:35 PM, kevin studyvin <kstudyvin@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> Low on the relevance scale, but in one of John Brunner's novels (maybe
> The Reproductive System) there's a whole slew of weird linguistic
> gags, low puns, etc.  For some reason one of the characters (and no, I
> haven't glanced at the thing since 1973) is contemplating a series of
> statements that can be read to reveal more than one reading, and the
> one that's stuck in my head ever since (for no real reason at all) is
> "She bears each cross patiently."
>

As opposed to darting in a group, right?

John Brunner...there's a name I haven't thought of in years! I read quite a
bit of his stuff when I was in jr. high & high school. I seem to recall _The
Shockwave Rider_ was sort of proto-cyberpunk no?

- -- 

...Jeff Norman

The Architectural Dance Society
http://spanghew.wordpress.com

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Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 22:06:47 -0500
From: 2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and my johnson's latest tattoo reads "This machine ills fascists"

On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 4:44 PM, someone other than Nectar At Any Cost! <
etews@inwa.net> wrote:

>
>
> <My current fave is this year's Metric release. Dunno why they are
> classified as indie rock, cuz it sounds pretty damned mainstream to me.>
>
>
Is there such a thing as "mainstream rock" these days? I mean, it seems
first of all that "rock" per se is pretty much entirely an underground,
subcultural, or outmoded genre - the charts seem full of anything but.

Which bands are "mainstream rock"? (I ask, but it' also true that I'm pretty
unaware of whatever's on the radio or ad campaigns or wherever it is music
defining the "mainstream" lives these days.)


- -- 

...Jeff Norman

The Architectural Dance Society
http://spanghew.wordpress.com

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Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 22:09:44 -0500
From: 2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and my johnson's latest tattoo reads "This machine ills fascists"

On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Nectar At Any Cost! <etews@inwa.net> wrote:

>
>
> i guess bluehost is considered the best budget host.  i had signed up with
> them, but then my account was canceled because of naughty language (yeah:
> i'd checked the "terms of agreement" box without having read them).  oh,
> well.
>

Wait - you actually said "fuck" enough that they *canceled your account*?
Great Smokin Jebus but that's weird.

And now I'm chuckling at the irony that "blue" is an old word for "dirty,"
as in "blue humor"...guess that doesn't apply to "bluehost"...

- -- 

...Jeff Norman

The Architectural Dance Society
http://spanghew.wordpress.com

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Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 02:45:51 -0400
From: lep <softboygirl@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and my johnson's latest tattoo reads "This machine ills fascists"

jeff 2fs<jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com> says:
> Wait - you actually said "fuck" enough that they *canceled your account*?
> Great Smokin Jebus but that's weird.

my guess would be that not that eddie said "fuck" too often, but that
he may have employed it a bit too...creatively.

> And now I'm chuckling at the irony that "blue" is an old word for "dirty,"
> as in "blue humor"...

the new thing i learned to-day.

xo

- -- 
"people with opinions just go around bothering one another."  -- the buddha

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Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 14:01:49 +0000 (UTC)
From: michaeljbachman@comcast.net
Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and my johnson's latest tattoo reads "This machine ills fascists"

<<My favorite Herzog was the '76-'80 Royals.>

<it occurs to me that there were some quite colourful managers in those
<days. B whitey, weaver, martin, sparky, lasorda, zimmer, williams... B is
<there really anybody like that around now?

Jim Leyland of the Detroit Tigers comes to mind.



I remember those Baltimore-Detroit games between Earl W eaver's Orio lesB and
S parky' Anderson's Tigers with a big smile! B Sparky and Earl B seemed to be
in a comeptition as to who could kick more dirt on the home plate umpires
legs!!



Michael B.

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Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2009 08:29:08 -0500
From: Steve Schiavo <steveschiavo@mac.com>
Subject: Mellotron in your pocket (NR)

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlqEJL2EZFA>


- - Steve
__________
I can't resist an anime that includes a small, cute, violence prone  
girl with a scythe. - John

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_6O-xByzRg>

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Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 10:04:21 -0500
From: 2fs <jeffreyw2fs.j@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Mellotron in your pocket (NR)

On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Steve Schiavo <steveschiavo@mac.com> wrote:

> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlqEJL2EZFA>
>
>
>
Interesting...but (a) it would seem like you'd want to be able to connect it
to a real keyboard for better playability, and (b) what's with the weird
(lack of) attack? The notes just *start* as if in the middle of a sound.
That's kind of off-putting.

- -- 

...Jeff Norman

The Architectural Dance Society
http://spanghew.wordpress.com

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Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 09:01:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jeff Margrave <munki1972@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and my johnson's latest tattoo reads "This machine ills fascists"

michaeljbachman@comcast.net wrote:
> "Nectar At Any Cost!" <etews@inwa.net> from:
> > it occurs to me that there were some quite colourful
> > managers in those days. B whitey, weaver, martin, sparky,
> > lasorda, zimmer, williams... B is there really anybody like
> > that around now?
> 
> Jim Leyland of the Detroit Tigers comes to mind.

Lou Piniella, though he's probably at the end of his career.

And, and it's the most obvious answer: OZZIE GUILLEN who is gloriously nuts in all the right ways (and, admittedly, a few of the wrong ones).


"I love how (coffee) makes me feel. It's like my heart is trying to hug my brain!" -- Kenneth Parcell

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Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 11:10:40 -0700
From: kevin studyvin <kstudyvin@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Mellotron in your pocket (NR)

>> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlqEJL2EZFA>
>>
>>
>>
> Interesting...but (a) it would seem like you'd want to be able to connect it
> to a real keyboard for better playability, and (b) what's with the weird
> (lack of) attack? The notes just *start* as if in the middle of a sound.
> That's kind of off-putting.
>

Sounds like your classic Mellotron to me - the only difference I can
hear is that it doesn't have the lo-fi sound of the real thing.
Though I'm sure you can tweak it.

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Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2009 10:23:38 -0700
From: Tom Clark <tclark@mac.com>
Subject: Re: Mellotron in your pocket (NR)

On Sep 6, 2009, at 6:29 AM, Steve Schiavo wrote:

> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlqEJL2EZFA>

Cool - only $2.99

- -tc

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Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 21:30:25 +0000 (UTC)
From: michaeljbachman@comcast.net
Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and my johnson's latest tattoo reads "This machine ills fascists"

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Margrave" <munki1972@yahoo.com>
To: "Kentucky Fried Jesus Christ" <fegmaniax@smoe.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 6, 2009 12:01:12 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: My name is "Eb", and my johnson's latest tattoo reads "This
machine ills fascists"

michaeljbachman@comcast.net wrote:
> "Nectar At Any Cost!" <etews@inwa.net> from:
> > > it occurs to me that there were some quite colourful
> > > managers in those days. whitey, weaver, martin, sparky,
> > > lasorda, zimmer, williams...B  is there really anybody like
> > that around now?
>
> >Jim Leyland of the Detroit Tigers comes to mind.

>Lou Piniella, though he's probably at the end of his career.

>And, and it's the most obvious answer: OZZIE GUILLEN who is gloriously nuts
in all the right ways (and, admittedly, a few of the wrong ones).


Leyland did a masterful job of managing this weekend as the Tigers swept the
Tampa Bay Rays in Tampa. Suddenly they are peaking and starting to win series
away from Comerica Park and now have a 7 game lead over the Twins.



Michael B.

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Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 10:38:10 -0400
From: Jeremy Osner <anacreon@gmail.com>
Subject: Cover art

Here's a nice one:
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2009/09/tom_tomorrow_ro.php

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