From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V7 #131 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Wednesday, June 6 2007 Volume 07 : Number 131 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] Music and Lyrics [Scout82667@aol.com] Re: [loud-fans] Music and Lyrics [zoom@muppetlabs.com] Re: [loud-fans] Music and Lyrics ["Tim Walters" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 13:23:15 EDT From: Scout82667@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Music and Lyrics In a message dated 6/4/2007 4:02:53 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, glarbleflarb@yahoo.com writes: while Drew Barrymore acts more or less like I imagine she would everywhere else -- clumsy, oblivious, disconnected from reality, overly emotional... Watch it, West. She may lose her temper and get in touch with her inner child and torch your CD collection. Thanks for the review. I'm going to rent it. I did like ABOUT A BOY, especially the scene where they freeze frame it, and Grant's character narrates that he'd gone and done it, one of his pet peeves--closed his eyes while playing electric guitar. I thought that was priceless. Andy, the movies through the mail thing sounds good, but I only watch about one movie a month, maybe two at the most, and I like to read the DVD boxes before renting, check out the artwork, etc. I can tell a lot about a book by its cover, actually. I passed again last night on M&L (and rented QUEER DUCK, THE MOVIE--predictable in a different way--but I simply had to see a cartoon with a character named Bi-polar Bear), but I'll definitely get M&L next week when I get the tonsillectomy--I'm going to need lots to read and watch to pass the time. I just picked up the Dave Eggers paperback HOW WE ARE HUNGRY, and intend to finish the Augusten Burroughs catalogue by reading DRY. - --Mark, who had a tooth extracted last week--damn that surgery is primitive--they almost stopped it and were going to send me to a surgeon, because I have high bone density and they couldn't get the bastard to come out, and my eyes were watering with the pain, which I wasn't supposed to have, and I demanded them to finish, so I could be done with it--you can reach another dimension if you're in a lot of pain, though it's not a fun one np: The Magic Numbers THOSE THE BROKES ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 15:33:33 -0700 (PDT) From: zoom@muppetlabs.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Music and Lyrics > I just picked up the Dave Eggers paperback HOW WE ARE > HUNGRY, > and intend to finish the Augusten Burroughs catalogue by reading DRY. You might consider Austin Grossman's novel SOON I WILL BE INVINCIBLE. After all, Coupland blurbed it. And Coupland's THE GUM THIEF comes out in October, Andy PORTLAND, Ore. - A mushroom found embedded in a 100-million-year-old piece of amber is about 20 million years older than other known mushroom fossils, an Oregon scientist says. The ancient mushroom is especially interesting because it contains two parasites, one feeding on the mushroom and the other feeding on its fellow parasite. "I was amazed enough with the mushroom," said George Poinar, a retired entomology professor in Corvallis. "But then seeing the parasites was astonishing. No one has ever seen this three-tier association before." Poinar, formerly of the University of California at Berkeley, said the mushroom was spotted about a year ago in Burma by Ron Buckley, a registered nurse, photographer and collector of amber fossils from Florence, Ky. Amber is fossilized tree resin, a sticky substance that oozes from certain pine and legume trees. The resin has chemical properties that act as a natural embalming agent for the ancient creatures that become trapped in it. Buckley sent the amber specimen to Poinar, who confirmed the discovery and found the parasites. "This shows how far back mushrooms  and the parasites that infect them  go," Poinar said. The ancient specimen is similar to pinwheel mushrooms that grow on the bark of modern trees, he said. "They dotted the trees 100 million years ago, so they probably were tasty treats for the dinosaurs to nibble on," said Poinar. He received attention last year for his discovery of what is considered the oldest bee ever found  a 100-million-year-old specimen from the same area in northern Burma where the amber is mined. Four kinds of flowers also were embedded in the amber. Joseph Spatafora, a fungi specialist and a professor of botany and plant pathology at Oregon State University, said the amber discovery is significant because mushroom fossils are rare. Ancient mushrooms  the fruiting bodies of fungi  lack bones or shells, so few survive. "So the amber specimen can give us a lot of insight to what fungal diversity was at this time in the past," Spatafora said, and gives scientists an idea about fungi's role in forest ecosystems. Poinar and Buckley reported their discovery in the journal Mycological Research. [--from http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070605/ap_on_sc/ancient_mushroom ] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 15:45:08 -0700 (PDT) From: "Tim Walters" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Music and Lyrics > The ancient mushroom is especially interesting because it contains two > parasites, one feeding on the mushroom and the other feeding on its fellow > parasite. "So nat'ralists observe, a flea Hath smaller fleas that on him prey, And these have smaller fleas that bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum." - --Jonathan Swift - -- Tim Walters | http://doubtfulpalace.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 18:35:47 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Music and Lyrics On 6/5/07, Tim Walters wrote: > > > The ancient mushroom is especially interesting because it contains two > > parasites, one feeding on the mushroom and the other feeding on its > fellow > > parasite. > > "So nat'ralists observe, a flea > Hath smaller fleas that on him prey, > And these have smaller fleas that bite 'em, > And so proceed ad infinitum." Or it's sorta like Joe Perry on Keith Richards on Chuck Berry... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V7 #131 *******************************