From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V18 #85 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Wednesday, April 28 2010 Volume 18 : Number 085 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: In the beginning, God created progressive rock... [Stewart Russell ] Re: Prop Time Reviews [Rex ] Because I do a bit of recording these days... [Rex ] RH News: Radio Appearances [HwyCDRrev@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:31:51 -0400 From: Stewart Russell Subject: Re: In the beginning, God created progressive rock... On 27 April 2010 14:00, Jeremy Osner wrote: > > http://www.villagevoice.com/slideshow/the-band-genesis-illustrated-by-r-crumb-29724447 > Page blocked; Category: Entertainment;Nudity Man, I love work ... Stewart - -- http://scruss.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:36:47 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: In the beginning, God created progressive rock... Have you taken a look at the real Crumb Genesis? It is fantastic, though not generally hilarious. On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Tom Clark wrote: > On Apr 27, 2010, at 11:00 AM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > >> http://www.villagevoice.com/slideshow/the-band-genesis-illustrated-by-r-crumb-29724447 > > Hilarious. I love Crumb. > > -tc ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:41:21 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: In the beginning, God created progressive rock... Those two are a perfect match -- why, they go together like entertainment and nudity! On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Stewart Russell wrote: > On 27 April 2010 14:00, Jeremy Osner wrote: > >> >> http://www.villagevoice.com/slideshow/the-band-genesis-illustrated-by-r-crumb-29724447 >> > > Page blocked; Category: Entertainment;Nudity > > Man, I love work ... > > Stewart > > -- > http://scruss.com/blog/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:09:29 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: In the beginning, God created progressive rock... On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Stewart Russell wrote: > On 27 April 2010 14:00, Jeremy Osner wrote: > > > > > > http://www.villagevoice.com/slideshow/the-band-genesis-illustrated-by-r-crumb-29724447 > > > > Page blocked; Category: Entertainment;Nudity > > Man, I love work ... > Yeah, but it should be okay if the viewer is naked too, right? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:07:03 -0400 From: lep Subject: I wish that I were bulletproof (OT - fegGeek Department) NYT article: "We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint" Sample quote: "PowerPoint makes us stupid, Gen. James N. Mattis of the Marine Corps, the Joint Forces commander, said this month at a military conference in North Carolina." http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/world/27powerpoint.html?nl=technology&emc=techupdateema1 650 comments so far. At least the people who make the damn presentations understand the problem. But it's a far cry from killing the idiot desire to make an itemized list which explains the world. Which, note, includes such I might understand, if only properly bulletized, i.e. relativity. xo P.S. But is anyone listening? P.P.S. Anyone who is forced to make Powerpoint presentations would do well to get himself a copy of Edward Tufte's "The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within": http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_pp (have to click on book #6) - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:09:42 -0400 From: lep Subject: Re: I wish that I were bulletproof (OT - fegGeek Department) i say: > NYT article: "We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint" favourite comment i've gotten to so far: <<"Warsaw Pact officers long ago commented on PowerPoint to the US Military at a conference.... "While you are doing your PowerPoint presentations we would be killing you">> xo - -- "people with opinions just go around bothering one another." -- the buddha ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:21:12 -0700 From: Tom Clark Subject: Re: I wish that I were bulletproof (OT - fegGeek Department) On Apr 27, 2010, at 3:07 PM, lep wrote: > P.P.S. Anyone who is forced to make Powerpoint presentations would do > well to get himself a copy of Edward Tufte's "The Cognitive Style of > Powerpoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within": Let me fix that for you: Anyone who is forced to make Powerpoint presentations would do well to get himself a copy of Keynote. ;) - -tc ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:56:23 +0000 From: Michael Sweeney Subject: Re: all hail...uh, SOMEBODY - some Feg in or around the NE IL metro area... Jefffffffff (9 Efs?) wrote: >You know, some year I'll have to get down to Chicago and meet all the fegs named "Michael."< ...Well, you know, at least I DID hear you inadvertently set a drink on a tilted rail - and then it come crashing down - at a Shank Hall RH show a few years back (didn't know it was YOU at the time, but...that's still gotta count for SUMPTIN')...(eh, what it counts for is probably a $5, $6 draft refill...) MLS _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy is not the old busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL :en-US:WM_HMP:042010_3 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 21:01:12 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: all hail...uh, SOMEBODY - some Feg in or around the NE IL metro area... On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Michael Sweeney wrote: > Jefffffffff (9 Efs?) wrote: > > >You know, some year I'll have to get down to Chicago and meet all the fegs > named "Michael."< > > > > ...Well, you know, at least I DID hear you inadvertently set a drink on a > tilted rail - and then it come crashing down - at a Shank Hall RH show a > few > years back (didn't know it was YOU at the time, but...that's still gotta > count > for SUMPTIN')...(eh, what it counts for is probably a $5, $6 draft > refill...) > Ha - that's right. How did that work - did I not know you were going to be there? I wouldn't have recognized you visually (this was pre-Facebook)... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 21:14:36 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Re: In the beginning, God created progressive rock... On Apr 27, 2010, at 1:00 PM, Jeremy Osner wrote: > http://www.villagevoice.com/slideshow/the-band-genesis-illustrated-by-r-crumb-29724447 Would have gotten extra points for Anthony Phillips, but couldn't even manage Steve Hackett. - - Steve _______________ Interaction with cosmic intelligence may be influenced by Penrose noncomputable Platonic wisdom embedded in Planck scale geometry. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 01:30:42 -0400 From: ross Subject: Re: A quick note to my Feglist friends... Tom Clark wrote: > On Apr 22, 2010, at 6:43 AM, Michael Sweeney wrote: > > >> But it struck me yesterday that maybe 1/3 of my Facebook friends are >> Fegs.. >> > > Close to that for me too. It has been weird to mix the strangeness of you lot with the the relatively humdrum lives of my high school friends and the high tech world of my work friends. Fuck Me! > > -tc > > Mostly fegs, in my case, and about the same time period. My "normal" friends sometimes get a little weirded out by you feggies. FB is the main list for me lately, with smoe available for occasional bursts of relative long-windedness. PS: I would be most grateful to any male willing to submit 15 seconds of monk-like Latin singing for my GFIV contribution. Serious chops not required, just reverent delivery. Please write me for details. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:41:49 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Re: Prop Time Reviews On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 7:52 AM, 2fs wrote: > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Steve Sonoras >wrote: > What, Goodnight Oslo is chopped liver? > > Regardless: this definitely seems a weirdly sub-rosa release. I don't think > Yep Roc is actually releasing it so much as distributing it, and of course > Sartorial is hardly a major force in the industry... > > And of course it actually predates GO in some respects...seems one of those > "fan-only" not-quite-official releases almost... > Yeah... like LUXOR! Oh wait, it's just in my mind that Luxor wasn't a major release. Anyway, yeah, the handling of the record seems weird. It should be a major release (hell, there was a whole documentary teaser for it years ago), and yet... Has our man addressed the rationale behind delaying it? Did the band just get more excited about Oslo or something? God knows PT is nothing to be ashamed of... - -Rex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:44:59 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Because I do a bit of recording these days... So has anyone ever lost loops in GarageBand? I just made a whole bunch and suddenly they're nowhere to be found (like not even by searching for their names on my drive). Any clue as to where they went or why? Fanks! Rex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:44:33 -0700 From: Rex Subject: Fwd: Best spam scam in ages: "We are giving you a shitload of money. Um, who the hell are you?" - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Queen Elizabeth Foundation Date: Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 4:02 AM Subject: To: Congratulations The Queen Elizabeth's Foundation has awarded you cash Grant/Donation of #250,000.00. send us your Names...Country....Address....Tel....Age...Occupation ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:42:59 EDT From: HwyCDRrev@aol.com Subject: RH News: Radio Appearances Radio Appearances http://www.robynhitchcock.com/category/news/ The following are upcoming radio appearances with Robyn b take a listen! - - Robyn talks to Andrew Collins sitting in for Nemone on BBC 6 Music Thursday April 29th at 2.15pm - - Robyn is on the Mark Radcliffe show BBC Radio 2 on May 10th - - Robyn and his band play live on the Janis Long Show BBC Radio 2 on May 27th By Tomato April 28, 2010, 4:20 pm Bob Dylan Examiner Column http://www.examiner.com/x-21829-Bob-Dylan-Examiner Twitter - @DylanExaminer also on Facebook ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V18 #85 *******************************