From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V17 #311 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Thursday, December 17 2009 Volume 17 : Number 311 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Bored now. [Tom Clark ] Re: ferguson 1000th episode tonight . . .spoiler [kevin studyvin ] Re: Site Renovations [2fs ] Re: Site Renovations [Jeremy Osner ] Re: JESUS! (100% faux-savior-free...) [2fs ] Re: JESUS! (100% faux-savior-free...) [Carrie Galbraith ] Re: Site Renovations [Carrie Galbraith ] Robyn At Carnegie Hall Feb 28th? [m swedene ] Accents (was Re: Bored now) [lep ] Middle Cyclone [lep ] Re: Middle Cyclone [lep ] Re: Bored now. [Miles Goosens ] Re: Robyn At Carnegie Hall Feb 28th? [m swedene ] Re: Robyn At Carnegie Hall Feb 28th? [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] Re: Bored now. [kevin studyvin ] Dwight speaks [Tom Clark ] in recent to ancient trilobite news... [lep ] Re: Dwight speaks [lep ] Lou Reed Designs iPhone App [hwycdrre] Re: Lou Reed Designs iPhone App [kevin studyvin ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:52:31 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: Bored now. On Dec 15, 2009, at 3:21 PM, 2fs wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Tom Clark wrote: > >> omniscience? Humans are no more special than a quasar. We just >> fuck more. >> >> > I dunno...I knew this quasar once that might cause you to question > that > theory. That's hot. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:10:57 -0800 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: ferguson 1000th episode tonight . . .spoiler On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 9:54 PM, wrote: > looks like it's all Wavy - all the time tonight > > > Bob Dylan Examiner Column > http://www.examiner.com/x-21829-Bob-Dylan-Examiner > > In a message dated 12/16/2009 12:42:10 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, > HwyCDRrev@aol.com writes: > looks like the opening is a musical number with > dancers and puppets. > > YES ! This goes on my personal list of all-time favorite TV events, up there with the all-Alice Cooper 1973 episode of Rock Concert, Elvis Costello on SNL '77, Dick Shawn's freak-out on the Tonight Show and the Doors on Mike Douglas, shortly after the Big Bang. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:40:39 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: JESUS! (100% faux-savior-free...) ...two NEARLY ENTIRE digests IN A ROW that I "merely" scroll through, reading only the same few randomly popping words: "Whedon," "Willow," "Dollhouse," "NPH," "HIMYM"...(oh well -- as (47-yr-old) I often remark to my (53-yr-old) GF (usually about TV or pop culture elements), we're apparently just NOT in the target demo...) MLS _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/171222984/direct/01/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:12:47 -0600 From: "gene@hopstetter.com" Subject: Where is Rush? > From: Randall Riebe > > Where the FUCK (apologies to eddie) is RUSH? They're prepping for a new album and a tour in summer of 2010. That's if Pratt can get away from his new baby and Aston Martin DB5, Dirk can get away from his wine cellar and baseball cards, and Lerxst can get away from playing cross-dressing cops in movies. Oh, and fuck that Rockunroll Halloufaim bullshit. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:59:17 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Site Renovations On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 1:24 AM, lep wrote: > tc says: > > > > > Welcome Steve! RH and film studies sounds like the perfect life path. > > > > -tc > > well said, tc**. > Lauren's being polite. Around here we usually preface Tom Clark's name with two different words. (I like to think of it as channeling Peter Buck.) BTW, i saw "a serious man" for the second time in the theatre this > evening. I'm just amused that in theaters at the same time are movies called "A Serious Man" and "A Single Man." Theaters showing both could save letters on their marquee by just putting a large set of brackets around the words "Serious/Single." - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:02:58 -0500 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: Site Renovations On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 12:59 PM, 2fs wrote: > I'm just amused that in theaters at the same time are movies called "A > Serious Man" and "A Single Man." Theaters showing both could save letters on > their marquee by just putting a large set of brackets around the words > "Serious/Single." These two could be mashed up either as "A Serious Single Man" (romantic comedy) or "A Single Serious Man" (high-tension drama, or slapstick send-up of "12 Angry Men"). ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:03:57 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: JESUS! (100% faux-savior-free...) On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Michael Sweeney wrote: > ...two NEARLY ENTIRE digests IN A ROW that I "merely" scroll through, > reading > only the same few randomly popping words: "Whedon," "Willow," "Dollhouse," > "NPH," "HIMYM"...(oh well -- as (47-yr-old) I often remark to my > (53-yr-old) > GF (usually about TV or pop culture elements), we're apparently just NOT in > the target demo...) > Hey! I'm 47, and I wrote a few of those posts. Although I have no idea what HIMYM stands for: is it a new ultrastable polycarbonate metaplasma? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:35:53 -0800 From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Re: JESUS! (100% faux-savior-free...) On Dec 16, 2009, at 10:03 AM, 2fs wrote: > On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Michael Sweeney > wrote: > >> ...two NEARLY ENTIRE digests IN A ROW that I "merely" scroll through, >> reading >> only the same few randomly popping words: "Whedon," "Willow," >> "Dollhouse," >> "NPH," "HIMYM"...(oh well -- as (47-yr-old) I often remark to my >> (53-yr-old) >> GF (usually about TV or pop culture elements), we're apparently >> just NOT in >> the target demo...) >> > > > Hey! I'm 47, and I wrote a few of those posts. > > Although I have no idea what HIMYM stands for: is it a new ultrastable > polycarbonate metaplasma? > I just turned 53! And I even get the HIMYM reference (although I've never seen said show)! And I don't own a TV. Go figure... - - carrie, joss is boss, the carriester ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:01:22 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Bored now. On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:37 PM, kevin studyvin wrote: > > > Critics often complain about Ralph Fiennes's "bad fake upper-class > English > > accent" - Fiennes is eighth cousin of the Prince of Wales and descended > from > > the Baronetcy of Saye and Sele. Nothing bad and fake about it. > > > > Actress of my acquaintance went into a killing snit when a reviewer was > snarky about her "homemade Irish accent," which she went to considerable > lengths to explain was nothing of the kind, since she was born and raised > over there, way the hell out in the country someplace > Reminds me of the time in college, a woman of my acquaintance was in a local theatrical production, and a critic had some sneering comment about her "fake accent": she was, in fact, from South Africa, and that was her actual real voice. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:59:34 -0800 From: Carrie Galbraith Subject: Re: Site Renovations On Dec 15, 2009, at 11:24 PM, lep wrote: > tc says: >> On Dec 15, 2009, at 5:57 PM, Steve Sonoras wrote: >>> >>> By the way, I'd better introduce myself briefly. My name's >>> Steven, and I'm >>> a >>> 21-year-old film studies major at Eastern Michigan University. >>> I've been a >>> rabid fan of all things RH since the fall of 2005... >> >> Welcome Steve! RH and film studies sounds like the perfect life >> path. >> >> -tc > > well said, tc**. welcome to the list, steve. feel free to talk about > robyn even when this doesn't seem like you're on a robyn hitchcock > list. > > and if you don't feel like talking about robyn, talk about film > studies. i'm a movie junkie myself and i'd be glad to have some to > either confirm my wonderful taste in movies, or to bicker with, > whichever may be the case. > > BTW, i saw "a serious man" for the second time in the theatre this > evening. i can't recall the last time i saw a movie twice on the big > screen during its first run. although i do remember my friend, dave > (a huge hitchcock fan) saw barton fink twice in one week. that still > impresses me, regardless of the fact that he was writing a paper on > it. > > another BTW, do "the coen brothers" *** remind anyone of david lynch? > i'd say i was talking about the cinematography if i knew what that > meant. > > xo > lauren > > ** although it never hurts to throw some mathematics into the mix if > you want to make sure you don't run out things to think about in life. > > *** am i supposed to cross-post this shit from FB or am i already > friends with everyFeg on FB? > Hey Steve! Welcome! Fegland is a mix of wonderfully interesting folk from all corners of the Earth. And Lauren is right - we talk about film as much as Robyn. Unless we're talking about Joss Whedon... - - c ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:28:53 -0500 From: m swedene Subject: Robyn At Carnegie Hall Feb 28th? There is a poster outside of Carnegie Hall saying that he is playing there on 2/28. The WHO thing is March 2nd. Any one else see this? There is nothing on their website about it yet. Mike "not Wells" Swedene ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:45:19 -0500 From: lep Subject: Accents (was Re: Bored now) jeff 2fs says: > Google "TA foreign accent." Students complain *endlessly* about not being > able to understand their foreign TAs...but rarely about their Texan TAs > (although Texas is essentially a foreign country)...and if they ever had a > TA with a Cockney accent, would doubtless be all how cute his/her accent is. i'm not sure whether i've lost the meaning here**, but i'll comment nevertheless... ** i.e. i'm not sure whether you're commenting on the students, or judging them. while getting my masters, i had a huge problem with the accents of students from india, and, to a lesser extent, china. fortunately, they were students and not T.A.s. many of the students from india simply spoke too fast for me, and i would have uncomfortable asking them constantly to slow down their speech. on the other hand, i had a russian jew as my algorithm teacher - he was difficult to understand at first (and he left the soviet union in 1968!), but i quickly adapted to his accent - kind of like watching "eastenders" (is that still on?) i had a georgian (i.e. soviet, not southern) as a teacher and had no problem with his accent. he has been here for 10 years and speaks with a fairly heavy accent, but speak slowly. and, lastly, the teacher i had the most difficultly with was from india; he has been here for many years, and speaks much more slowly than the students from india. but i still had to concentrate quite a bit to get each word. i guess my thought is that certain accents are somehow more easily processed by americans (with, you know, my huge statistical sample of one.) and, no, jeff, i *wouldn't* be all over that T.A. he needs a london accent or a manchester accent, silly. or scotttish. or welsh. not so sure about the irish, but i'm certainly willing to investigate the matter. - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:06:09 -0500 From: lep Subject: Middle Cyclone i don't know what a glicee print** is, but this *is* the greatest album cover ever, right? http://www.kingsroadmerch.com/anti-records/view/?id=967&cid=60 ** i'm hoping carrie knows. my dad is in the printing business, but it's screenprinting. he doesn't do "millions of colors". it's damn fancy if he does 4. xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:09:11 -0500 From: lep Subject: Re: Middle Cyclone i say: > i don't know what a glicee print** is, but this *is* the greatest > album cover ever, right? > http://www.kingsroadmerch.com/anti-records/view/?id=967&cid=60 i meant to add that i am now (technically) the proud owner of. but i trust you guys suspected as much. xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:24:57 -0600 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: Bored now. On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:44 PM, kevin studyvin wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > >> lep wrote: >> > >> > i'm assuming "wobbly" be used for both hardware and software? >> >> Yes, and people too - in the conniption/hissy fit sense, as was the >> original usage. > > > > Around these parts it used to refer to a member of the IWW, though they > haven't drawn a lot of press since the Everett Massacre... Well, to be fair to the Wobblies, they got a lot of headlines in 1917-1918 with wartime repression of the U.S. left, and the trials that made Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis* famous. later, Miles, whose long-abandoned doctoral dissertation was going to be on the decline of the IWW after the Great War *Landis became the first Commissioner of Baseball in the wake of the "Black Sox" scandal of 1919. His appointment was directly correlated to the fame he gained while presiding over the trial of over 100 Wobblies in 1918. - -- over a year of feeling guilty about not blogging enough! http://readingpronunciation.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:31:59 -0500 From: m swedene Subject: Re: Robyn At Carnegie Hall Feb 28th? Yup. Aware of this show. This attached photo is what I am talking about... since the Who thing is on March 2nd... On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 3:25 PM, wrote: > http://www.carnegiewho.com/ > also : > > Arts, Briefly > A Who Tribute at Carnegie Hall > Compiled by JULIE BLOOM > Published: December 9, 2009 > =93My Generation,=94 =93The Kids Are Alright,=94 =93Pinball Wizard,=94 = =93Baba O=92Riley=94 =97 > on March 2 fans of the Who can hear such songs performed by an eclectic m= ix > of musicians at a tribute concert for the band at Carnegie Hall. Frank Bl= ack > of the Pixies, Bobby McFerrin, Bob Mould, Gaslight Anthem, Matt Nathanson= , > Sondre Lerche, the Postelles, Warren Haynes & Gov=92t Mule, Living Colour= , > Robyn Hitchcock and the Smithereens are among the artists scheduled to > perform. The show is being presented by the music impresario Michael Dorf= , > founder of the Knitting Factory and the owner of City Winery, and is the > sixth concert in a series. Previous concerts have celebrated Bob Dylan, J= oni > Mitchell, R.E.M., Elton John and Bruce Springsteen. Proceeds will be > distributed to six music education nonprofit organizations More informati= on > is available at carnegiewho.com. > > http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/arts/music/10arts-AWHOTRIBUTEA_BRF.html= ?_r=3D1 > > Bob Dylan Examiner Column > http://www.examiner.com/x-21829-Bob-Dylan-Examiner > > > > > In a message dated 12/16/2009 2:31:13 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, > m.swedene@gmail.com writes: > There is a poster outside of Carnegie Hall saying that he is playing ther= e > on 2/28. The WHO thing is March 2nd. > > Any one else see this? > There is nothing on their website about it yet. > > > Mike "not Wells" Swedene [demime 0.97c-p1 removed an attachment of type image/jpeg which had a name of photo.jpg] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:25:01 EST From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: Re: Robyn At Carnegie Hall Feb 28th? http://www.carnegiewho.com/ also : Arts, Briefly A Who Tribute at Carnegie Hall Compiled by JULIE BLOOM Published: December 9, 2009 bMy Generation,b bThe Kids Are Alright,b bPinball Wizard,b bBaba Ob Rileyb b on March 2 fans of the Who can hear such songs performed by an eclectic mix of musicians at a tribute concert for the band at Carnegie Hall. Frank Black of the Pixies, Bobby McFerrin, Bob Mould, Gaslight Anthem, Matt Nathanson, Sondre Lerche, the Postelles, Warren Haynes & Govbt Mule, Living Colour, Robyn Hitchcock and the Smithereens are among the artists scheduled to perform. The show is being presented by the music impresario Michael Dorf, founder of the Knitting Factory and the owner of City Winery, and is the sixth concert in a series. Previous concerts have celebrated Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, R.E.M., Elton John and Bruce Springsteen. Proceeds will be distributed to six music education nonprofit organizations More information is available at carnegiewho.com. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/arts/music/10arts-AWHOTRIBUTEA_BRF.html?_r =1 Bob Dylan Examiner Column http://www.examiner.com/x-21829-Bob-Dylan-Examiner In a message dated 12/16/2009 2:31:13 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, m.swedene@gmail.com writes: There is a poster outside of Carnegie Hall saying that he is playing there on 2/28. The WHO thing is March 2nd. Any one else see this? There is nothing on their website about it yet. Mike "not Wells" Swedene ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:18:38 -0800 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: Bored now. > > Around these parts it used to refer to a member of the IWW, though they > > haven't drawn a lot of press since the Everett Massacre... > > Well, to be fair to the Wobblies, they got a lot of headlines in > 1917-1918 with wartime repression of the U.S. left, and the trials > that made Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis* famous. > > later, > > Miles, > whose long-abandoned doctoral dissertation was going to be on the > decline of the IWW after the Great War > > *Landis became the first Commissioner of Baseball in the wake of the > "Black Sox" scandal of 1919. His appointment was directly correlated > to the fame he gained while presiding over the trial of over 100 > Wobblies in 1918. Good catch. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:23:03 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Dwight speaks http://www.theonion.com/content/news/evolution_going_great_reports - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:33:58 -0500 From: lep Subject: in recent to ancient trilobite news... trilobite cookie recipe**: http://www.georgehart.com/trilobites/trilobite.html "even easier" trilobite cookie recipe: http://www.uky.edu/KGS/education/trilobitecookies2.html this week's onion - "Evolution Going Great, Reports Trilobite" http://www.theonion.com/content/news/evolution_going_great_reports xo ** way cooler, IMO, is dr. hunt's double-twist mobius strip bagels: http://www.georgehart.com/bagel/bagel.html actually, for folks that can visual things in their heads, he has some very interesting geometry sculptures which he's made, and also some other interesting links: http://www.georgehart.com/index.html (3D-geometry is SO not my thing...) - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:36:06 -0500 From: lep Subject: Re: Dwight speaks tc says: > http://www.theonion.com/content/news/evolution_going_great_reports touche. i don't know if you win on time, but hands down on "Subject:" xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:00:14 EST From: hwycdrrev@aol.com Subject: Lou Reed Designs iPhone App Lou Reed Designs iPhone App http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/12/lou-reed-designs-iphone-app/ Bob Dylan Examiner Column http://www.examiner.com/x-21829-Bob-Dylan-Examiner ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:27:46 -0800 From: kevin studyvin Subject: Re: Lou Reed Designs iPhone App And six weeks from now he'll be giving interviews announcing that he designed and coded the whole thing in spite of all the interference from those other guys who have their names all over it for some reason. And it's the most fantastic fucking app anybody's come up with yet, and you can kiss his ass. And Metal Machine was supposed to sound like that. On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 11:00 PM, wrote: > Lou Reed Designs iPhone App > http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/12/lou-reed-designs-iphone-app/ > > Bob Dylan Examiner Column > http://www.examiner.com/x-21829-Bob-Dylan-Examiner ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V17 #311 ********************************