From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V17 #307 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, December 12 2009 Volume 17 : Number 307 Today's Subjects: ----------------- More off topic noise [kevin studyvin ] TSA and the miracle of Xmas [kevin studyvin ] Re: More off topic noise [kevin studyvin ] Re: More off topic noise [Sebastian Hagedorn ] okay, something we might be able to agree on ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: TSA and the miracle of Xmas ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Re: TSA and the miracle of Xmas [Caroline Smith ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:57:40 -0800 From: kevin studyvin Subject: More off topic noise OK, nobody but me likes Fringe, but still - the evil frozen-head guy who was messing with Walter's brain is named Thomas Jerome Newton? I busted out laughing when we got that tidbit, and had to explain what was funny to the wife. Bowie contingent, initiate discussion... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:48:51 -0800 From: kevin studyvin Subject: TSA and the miracle of Xmas All y'all SF fegs might be interested in this infuriating story about Canadian biologist/writer Peter Watts, who if nothing else is one of the most interesting authors on the scene at present (even if he does have an unseemly love of Jethro Tull): *http://tinyurl.com/y95jp34* ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:34:29 -0800 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: More off topic noise On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 12:31 AM, Sebastian Hagedorn < Hagedorn@spinfo.uni-koeln.de> wrote: > -- kevin studyvin is rumored to have mumbled on 11. > Dezember 2009 18:57:40 -0800 regarding More off topic noise: > > > OK, nobody but me likes Fringe, >> > > I do! I'm not a fan, as with other series, but I like it well enough. > > > but still - the evil frozen-head guy who >> was messing with Walter's brain is named Thomas Jerome Newton? I busted >> out laughing when we got that tidbit, and had to explain what was funny >> to the wife. >> > > To me as well, please? > Bowie's character in The Man Who Fell To Earth had the same name. The audacity of the idea gave me a chuckle. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 09:31:09 +0100 From: Sebastian Hagedorn Subject: Re: More off topic noise - -- kevin studyvin is rumored to have mumbled on 11. Dezember 2009 18:57:40 -0800 regarding More off topic noise: > OK, nobody but me likes Fringe, I do! I'm not a fan, as with other series, but I like it well enough. > but still - the evil frozen-head guy who > was messing with Walter's brain is named Thomas Jerome Newton? I busted > out laughing when we got that tidbit, and had to explain what was funny > to the wife. To me as well, please? - -- Sebastian Hagedorn Am alten Stellwerk 22, 50733 Kvln, Germany http://www.uni-koeln.de/~a0620/ "Being just contaminates the void" - Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 08:41:16 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: TSA and the miracle of Xmas Weird thing is, this appears to be at the Sarnia/Port Huron crossing, which I've found to be the most mellow one possible. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:06:50 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: okay, something we might be able to agree on YOU WON'T SEE ME as performed on the five string banjo by Mr. Billy Faier: I've just spent the last two hours lost in Billy's website updates. He's had a complex life: http://billyfaier.com/ Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:32:27 -0500 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: okay, something we might be able to agree on His "I've just seen a face" rocks pretty hard. On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > Thanks -- that is pleasant. > > On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: >> YOU WON'T SEE ME as performed on the five string banjo by Mr. Billy >> Faier: >> >> I've just spent the last two hours lost in Billy's website updates. He's >> had a complex life: http://billyfaier.com/ >> >> Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:28:29 -0500 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: okay, something we might be able to agree on Thanks -- that is pleasant. On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > YOU WON'T SEE ME as performed on the five string banjo by Mr. Billy > Faier: > > I've just spent the last two hours lost in Billy's website updates. He's > had a complex life: http://billyfaier.com/ > > Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:38:09 EST From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Re: okay, something we might be able to agree on Fascinating ! My Bob Dylan Examiner Column http://www.examiner.com/x-21829-Bob-Dylan-Examiner Fun music news http://f52stations.blogspot.com/ my blog is "Yer Blog" http://fab4yerblog.blogspot.com/ http://robotsarestealingmyluggage.blogspot.com/ In a message dated 12/12/2009 10:10:16 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, scruss@gmail.com writes: YOU WON'T SEE ME as performed on the five string banjo by Mr. Billy Faier: I've just spent the last two hours lost in Billy's website updates. He's had a complex life: http://billyfaier.com/ Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 12:03:53 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: okay, something we might be able to agree on He's the John Fahey of the banjo. Apparently phoning him up results in a very friendly chat (so he's quite unlike John Fahey, then). Never plucked up courage to do so. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:57:48 -0800 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: TSA and the miracle of Xmas On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 5:41 AM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > Weird thing is, this appears to be at the Sarnia/Port Huron crossing, > which I've found to be the most mellow one possible. > > Stewart > Judging from the content of Watts' fiction I could see where he might be capable of provoking a confrontation. On the other hand we have the testimony of Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross assuring us that he's the last guy to ever start a fight with anybody. Either way it's pretty sucky. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 14:48:09 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: TSA and the miracle of Xmas On 2009-12-12, at 13:57, kevin studyvin wrote: > On the other hand we have the testimony of Cory Doctorow and > Charles Stross assuring us that he's the last guy to ever start a > fight with anybody. Either way it's pretty sucky. Mind you, when I met Charlie in 1996 or so, he'd be the last person I'd expect to write a book ... ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 14:56:44 -0500 From: Caroline Smith Subject: Re: TSA and the miracle of Xmas On 2009-12-11, at 11:48 PM, kevin studyvin wrote: > All y'all SF fegs might be interested in this infuriating story about > Canadian biologist/writer Peter Watts, who if nothing else is one of > the > most interesting authors on the scene at present (even if he does > have an > unseemly love of Jethro Tull): > > *http://tinyurl.com/y95jp34* Interesting. My experiences with this border crossing has not been as mellow as Stewart's. In fact, this story doesn't surprise me all all. My in-laws live near this border crossing and so we cross here 5-6 times a year. I've always thought that these border guards were vicious and unnecessarily hostile. Reminds me of this recent news story about an American author on her way to a speaking engagement in Vancouver. She was held up over concerns that she was going to criticize the 2010 Olympics. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/11/26/bc-amy-goodman-border-incident.html ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:10:00 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: top 12 for 2009 # Spoils b Alasdair Roberts # Banjo b Billy Faier # Old Dog b Chris Coole # Signal Morning b Circulatory System # Clifton Hicks b Clifton Hicks # Hypersomnia b entertainment for the braindead # Sing the Greys b Frightened Rabbit # Yours Truly, The Commuter b Jason Lytle # Lord Cut-Glass b Lord Cut-Glass # Waxing Gibbous b Malcolm Middleton # Love It Love It b Nana Grizol # These Four Walls b We Were Promised Jetpacks ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V17 #307 ********************************