From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V8 #43 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 Friday, February 27 2009 Volume 08 : Number 043 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] Randall Bewley (of Pylon) RIP ["Tim Walters" Subject: [loud-fans] Randall Bewley (of Pylon) RIP http://tinyurl.com/cs42nn - -- Tim Walters | http://doubtfulpalace.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:49:22 -0700 From: Tom Marcinko Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Randall Bewley (of Pylon) RIP Sad. They were a great band. Saw them open for Gang of Four at the Emerald City in NJ. Wasn't that a time? On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Tim Walters wrote: > http://tinyurl.com/cs42nn > > -- > Tim Walters | http://doubtfulpalace.com > - -- http://tomaq.livejournal.com/ "In a world so redolent with wonder, how can we allow ourselves to conduct our daily lives with so little insight, such absence of dignity?" Bruno Argento http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2009/01/the_true_21st_century_begins.php ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:04:01 -0800 From: Andrew Hamlin Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Randall Bewley (of Pylon) RIP On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Tom Marcinko wrote: > Sad. They were a great band. Saw them open for Gang of Four at the Emerald > City in NJ. Wasn't that a time? I'm assuming this is, indeed, the end for what many people call the most underrated band to ever emerge from Athens. With the possible exception of the Zombies, I can't think of another act that so consistently sent back the Superstardom Platter. I'm hoping that CHOMP reissue goes through. I've still got a long way to go with the Pylon catalog, but the live reunion stuff I've caught on YouTube intrigues me. If you can ignore all those savage jibes about the singer's weight... Andy [Authors Name & Address] 23 December 1995 To: Washington State Department of Transportation Washington State Ferries Colman Dock/Pier 52 801 Alaska Way Seattle, WA 98104-1487 Greetings: Yesterday I had occasion, as I am wont, to travel over to Bainbridge [Island, WA], this time for a bit of Christmas shopping. As I hurried over the gangplank at the very last minute, an unidentified sailor with a Santa cap and ponytail told me I could not bring my dog inside the cabin. I identified my animal as a service animal. He asked, as he really had no right to do, what service the dog provided. I mentioned he was my mobility aid. The elfin creature added he didnt get it, and I remarked the beauty was he didnt have to. Thus, I was not terribly surprised to see Elfman appear with a person later identified as a second mate on this, the westbound run of the Kleeton, on about the tenth hour of the morning. This rather overfed example of your officer corps insisted I leave the galley through the nearest door, despite having identified myself as disabled and the dog as a service animal. I added [that] if I was forced to go through those doors, I would sue. After huffing and puffing a bit, he was departing, and leaving me to the recreation I so dearly sought, when Captain Dan appeared. We explained to Captain Dan the situation. These gentlemen appeared convinced I needed some sort of identification for all this. I insisted [that] beyond identifying myself as disabled and the dog as my service animal, I did not, and they too appeared on the verge of letting me go, especially after I repeated that, if I was forced to exit through the then-hinder doors of the rustbucket Kleetons galleyreally such a disgrace on the most lucrative run in the [ferry] systemIm sure that, yes, in fact, I would sue, when the odd thought crossed my mind to show these buffoons my ADA [American Disability Association/Americans with Disabilities Act] card. Now, as you are doubtless aware, METRO [Municipality of Metropolitan Seattle/Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority] cards are not identifyingthey signal no more than a certain level of agreement by a medically knowledgeable person concerning the fact of a disability. I am not required to possess or show any such thing, but clods like these often think theyre Holy Writ, sometimes. At others, one would think one had brought a bit of The True Cross before basest of infidels; one never knows, so it was with a bit of shading my eyes [that] I produced the card, and cast some magic aspersions like Nazi functionaries and, lo, they appeared to smile. At which juncture Captain Dan reminded me [that] many persons are disabled; he himself complained about a sore foot which, with the extra fifty or so pounds he has packed around his heart, may or may not impair his ability as a Captain, as may or may not the conspicuously dilated capillaries in his nose, suggestive of a bibulous leisure hour or two. But then no one, in his apparently rather limited experience amongst disabled persons, had quite my attitude. I was about to ask him what bland, blanket and in effect prejudicial, bigoted, sweeping generalizations he may entertain, when he and the runner-up for Pillsbury Doughboy [see below] turned about, remarking as a merely face-saving gesture [that] I had the proper ID, and resigned themselves to growling a bit with the kind of commando-dressed, sunglass-wearing people who lounge in ferry galleys these days. As I began my return from Bainbridge, I encountered a gorilla named John working the docks who was really subhuman in his savagerythreatening to have the Police meet me in Seattle, a five hundred dollar fine, and all kinds of reparations for the mishaps of his ancestors. In short, gentle people, as amusing as all this was, an apology is owed me. If I encounter anything like this again, I certainly will sue your lily-livered asses all over the newspapers, as well as Federal Court, where I can anticipate ample assistance from the Justice Department, as Im sure you are well aware. Oh yes, a Wes Brown, second mate on the return, was rather conspicuously helpful, a fact I promised to mention. Promptly, your reply is anticipated, [Signature] [Authors Typed Name] - --uncovered by a friend of mine whilst housecleaning ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:08:33 EST From: AWeiss4338@aol.com Subject: [loud-fans] Kelly Groucutt RIP I was an ELO fan too. _http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/26/arts/music/26groucutt.html?_r=1_ (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/26/arts/music/26groucutt.html?_r=1) Andrea **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1218822736x1201267884/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Fwww.freecreditreport.com%2Fpm%2Fdefault.aspx%3Fsc%3D668072%26hmpgID %3D62%26bcd%3DfebemailfooterNO62) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:20:14 -0800 (PST) From: Gil Ray Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Randall Bewley (of Pylon) RIP - --- On Thu, 2/26/09, Tom Marcinko wrote: > Sad. They were a great band. Saw them open for Gang of Four > at the Emerald > City in NJ. Wasn't that a time? I saw them on that same tour (I assume) in Atlanta. Loved them. R.I.P. Gil ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V8 #43 ******************************