From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V18 #40 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, February 24 2010 Volume 18 : Number 040 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: It looks like "Propellor" will be spinning stateside after all... [2f] Rocker Josh Ritter to release first novel via Random House ["Nectar At An] Re: Rocker Josh Ritter to release first novel via Random House [2fs ] Re: quirk? ["Stewart C. Russell" ] Youth Wants To Know ["Nectar At Any Cost!" ] Re: quirk? [2fs ] Reap [Jeff Margrave ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:12:06 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: It looks like "Propellor" will be spinning stateside after all... On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Steve Sonoras wrote: > I found a little surprise when I checked out the YepRoc website today: take > a > look under the new releases bar on the left edge of the screen. When I > clicked > on the album's pre-order link (as of noon today) an error message came up, > but > this is clearly enough indication they are going to release the record > after > all. Perhaps the Facebook coup really worked. > And now it appears to be gone... Weird. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:38:18 -0800 From: "Nectar At Any Cost!" Subject: Rocker Josh Ritter to release first novel via Random House . he lists his fave authors as: >> Muriel Spark, Pete Dexter, Dennis Lehane Stephen King, Mordecai Richler, Philip Roth and Daphne du Maurier and Flannery OConnor. I like anyone who is willing to burn their own dollhouses down. << particularly like that last sentence, even though i'm not sure i understand what he means. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:38:10 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: Rocker Josh Ritter to release first novel via Random House On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Nectar At Any Cost! wrote: > . > > he lists his fave authors as: > > >> Muriel Spark, Pete Dexter, Dennis Lehane Stephen King, Mordecai Richler, > Philip Roth and Daphne du Maurier and Flannery O Connor. I like anyone > who is willing to burn their own dollhouses down. << > > > particularly like that last sentence, even though i'm not sure i understand > what he means. > I'm amused by the use of "rocker" - no disrespect to Ritter, since what I've heard of his stuff has been pretty good, but "rocking" is not exactly what he's typically up to. The funny thing is that this descriptor misleads the *less* you know about Ritter (or about rock), which seems the opposite of what a descriptor should do (inform the relatively uninformed). - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:40:51 -0800 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: quirk? On Feb 21, 2010, at 9:30 AM, John B. Jones wrote: > I like leaving mix cd-r's in rental cars and vacation rentals. What a great idea! I'm going to do this from now on. - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:22:01 -0500 From: "Stewart C. Russell" Subject: Re: quirk? >> I like leaving mix cd-r's in rental cars and vacation rentals. Yeah, I'd leave mix CDs from the Conet project for extra lulz. Stewart ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:34:57 -0800 From: "Nectar At Any Cost!" Subject: Youth Wants To Know i'm wondering whether, at 8:32, "American Pie" is the lenghtiest song to ever hit #1 on the u.s. pop chart? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:16:57 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: quirk? On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: > >> I like leaving mix cd-r's in rental cars and vacation rentals. > > Yeah, I'd leave mix CDs from the Conet project for extra lulz. > > Heh-heh. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:21:19 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Margrave Subject: Reap Mosi Tatupu http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/02/24/sports/s085310S33.DTL&tsp=1 "I love how (coffee) makes me feel. It's like my heart is trying to hug my brain!" -- Kenneth Parcell ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V18 #40 *******************************