From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V17 #293 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, November 18 2009 Volume 17 : Number 293 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: 11/12 [Michael Sweeney ] Re: Who do you know? [Michael Sweeney ] Mission of Burma [bayard ] I dream of Tom Clark with the tawny mane [Jeremy Osner ] Re: Droid vs. iPhone [Bret ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V17 #292 [James Dignan ] In Belle & Sebastian news [Rob Collingwood ] How Fuckin' Cool Is That? ["Nectar At Any Cost!" ] For Lep: early DFW [Jeremy Osner ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:39:40 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: Re: 11/12 Jeff wrote: >Hmm...See, you're right that many have no idea what's going on*, and don't care, and are proud of it...but I don't know that they're any more the problem than the people who are glued to Fox News and Beck and Limbaugh and the like. Those folks think they know what's going on, think they care and know, and are proud of "knowing"...but what they "know" is utter bullshit.< ...Well, absolutely true dat. I guess I should have been a bit more precise about people becoming MORE ACCURATELY and fully informed...and, for that, FOX News and their babbling shouters simply DO NOT count. And...I fear that Jeme's point of: "I think there are enough informed, consistent, coherently-thinking folks out in the world to apply the appropriate peer pressure so that public discourse rises to the highest possible level." ...may be WAY too optimistic. Sadly, it seems to me that most folks are amiable morons at best..with about 10% on the top who are fully worthwhile and 10% on the bottom that are completely irredeemable...and that 80% in the middle can trend and even slightly wiggle different ways, but...they seem to be fairly filler at best (AND, of course and unfortunately, represent a HUGE majority across ALL stripes of philosophy, belief, and occupations)... ...Yeah, or, on the other hand, I suppose I could just be another bitter, too-smart-for-my-own-good elitist, etc. Opinions MAY vary... MLS _________________________________________________________________ Windows 7: I wanted simpler, now it's simpler. I'm a rock star. http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/windows-7/default.aspx?h=myidea?ocid=PID2472 7::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WWL_WIN_myidea:112009 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:44:38 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: Re: Who do you know? David Witzany wrote: >>On the other hand, it's nice to know that only 40% of people know who Glenn Beck is. > >Cubs second baseman in the late 60s, yes? ...Hey, and even into the '70s! (So nice to catch a Glenn Beckert -- good ol' #18! -- reference out here...or, heck!, ANYwhere...) MLS _________________________________________________________________ Windows 7: It works the way you want. Learn more. http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/windows-7/default.aspx?ocid=PID24727::T:WLMT AGL:ON:WL:en-US:WWL_WIN_evergreen:112009v2 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:36:22 -0500 From: bayard Subject: Mission of Burma Does anyone have the new album? What do you think of it? Reviews are positive but I want a real world feg impression. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:09:02 -0500 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: I dream of Tom Clark with the tawny mane Last night's dream consisted of watching a proggy/orchestral rock music video that Mr. Clark had linked to on his FaceBook page... can remember really enjoying the music but not what it sounded like, at all. I remember the action in the video was young boys outside a British public school, dressed mostly in brown and carrying electric violins. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:48:21 -0500 From: lep Subject: Droid vs. iPhone http://xkcd.com/662/ xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:58:08 -0600 From: Bret Subject: Re: Droid vs. iPhone brilliant Sent from my Motorola Droid. On Nov 17, 2009 1:54 PM, "lep" wrote: http://xkcd.com/662/ xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:20:35 +1300 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V17 #292 >Same with me. >- ----- Original Message ----- >From: "Carrie Galbraith" >To: "Singing Policemen" >Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2009 3:47:36 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern >Subject: 11/12 > >I missed the amount of troops in Afghanistan as well... Intriguing - and significant - the number of US fegs saying this. That was one of the easier questions on the quiz, since it's mentioned in most news reports here about Afghanistan. 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: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:37:12 +0000 From: Rob Collingwood Subject: In Belle & Sebastian news "He is also taking part in a Nick Drake tribute show as part of the Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow. This is organised by Joe Boyd and features a band put together by Drakebs bassist, Danny Thompson. Among the others taking part are Green Gartside of Scritti Politti, Teddy Thompson, Vashti Bunyan and Robyn Hitchcock. It is at the Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow on 20th January 2010 and tickets are on sale from the venuebs box office." (He being Stuart Murdoch) Rob ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:10:13 -0800 From: "Nectar At Any Cost!" Subject: How Fuckin' Cool Is That? . ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:03:41 -0500 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: For Lep: early DFW http://paulhabeeb.com/d/the_planet_trillaphon.pdf -- story about antidepressants from his Junior year. Vonnegut's influence is glaringly obvious -- is this true of his later work as well? I haven't noticed it. J ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V17 #293 ********************************