From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V9 #112 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 Tuesday, June 15 2010 Volume 09 : Number 112 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] update for Swami [truepantone293@aol.com] Re: [loud-fans] update for Swami [Dave Walker ] Re: [loud-fans] update for Swami [Andrew Hamlin ] Re: [loud-fans] update for Swami [truepantone293@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:59:55 -0400 (EDT) From: truepantone293@aol.com Subject: [loud-fans] update for Swami Swami, You probably already envisioned this, even though I didn't cross your hand with silver, but the Belinda Carlisle book is quite good. I can't afford it at the moment with the onslaught of other bills (26 dollars! EEK!), but sat down with it yesterday at the Borders in Simi Valley (where Belinda grew up) for two hours. Apparently I'm not the first to do this, as their one copy looked a little shopworn. I didn't realize the extent to how bad her childhood was--the beatings by her alcoholic stepdad, eating oatmeal and bac-o-bit sandwiches for dinner because her stepfather spent their food money on alcohol, her mother, out of necesssity, making most of her clothes growing up (the oversized striped minidress she wore in the "Vacation" era at concerts was made by her mom). Her biological father twenty years her mother's (a teen bride married because of getting pregnant with Belinda) senior, a man, a ("James Dean lookalike") who pumped gas down the street from Hollywood High, where Belinda's mom went, and whom Belinda had not seen since age 7. It's a great book. I especially like how an early chapter ended, when she wrote that her mom made her and her siblings go to church on Sundays as kids, though stepdad stayed home--she said she hated it and didn't believe the stuff she heard in Sunday school--saying she didn't care what happened to her when she died, she wanted to be "saved now." - --Mark ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:29:38 -0400 From: Dave Walker Subject: Re: [loud-fans] update for Swami If you've got access to an e-reader (either a desktop application or one of many standalone devices) it looks like the ebook can be had for $10 (Kindle, B&N/Nook). d.w. Sent from my Wonkavator. On Jun 14, 2010, at 1:59 PM, truepantone293@aol.com wrote: > Swami, > > You probably already envisioned this, even though I didn't cross your hand > with silver, but the Belinda Carlisle book is quite good. I can't afford it > at the moment with the onslaught of other bills (26 dollars! EEK!), but sat > down with it yesterday at the Borders in Simi Valley (where Belinda grew up) > for two hours. Apparently I'm not the first to do this, as their one copy > looked a little shopworn. I didn't realize the extent to how bad her > childhood was--the beatings by her alcoholic stepdad, eating oatmeal and > bac-o-bit sandwiches for dinner because her stepfather spent their food money > on alcohol, her mother, out of necesssity, making most of her clothes growing > up (the oversized striped minidress she wore in the "Vacation" era at concerts > was made by her mom). Her biological father twenty years her mother's (a teen > bride married because of getting pregnant with Belinda) senior, a man, a > ("James Dean lookalike") who pumped gas down the street from Hollywood High, > where Belinda's mom went, and whom Belinda had not seen since age 7. > > It's a great book. I especially like how an early chapter ended, when she > wrote that her mom made her and her siblings go to church on Sundays as kids, > though stepdad stayed home--she said she hated it and didn't believe the stuff > she heard in Sunday school--saying she didn't care what happened to her when > she died, she wanted to be "saved now." > > --Mark ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:41:27 -0700 From: Andrew Hamlin Subject: Re: [loud-fans] update for Swami On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Dave Walker wrote: > If you've got access to an e-reader (either a desktop application or one of many standalone devices) it looks like the ebook can be had for $10 (Kindle, B&N/Nook). I was going to encourage Mark to get a library card (even cheaper), but that works too. Still chucking over seeing Luke Wilson with Greil Marcus' latest book in this week's "Globe" ("Gary Coleman It Was Murder!"), Andy Singer, sausage businessman Jimmy Dean dies at 81 AP By DENA POTTER, Associated Press Writer Dena Potter, Associated Press Writer  Mon Jun 14, 6:11 am ET RICHMOND, Va.  Jimmy Dean, a country music legend for his smash hit about a workingman hero, "Big Bad John," and an entrepreneur known for his sausage brand, died on Sunday. He was 81. His wife, Donna Meade Dean, said her husband died at their Henrico County, Va., home. She told The Associated Press that he had some health problems but was still functioning well, so his death came as a shock. She said he was eating in front of the television. She left the room for a time and came back and he was unresponsive. She said he was pronounced dead at 7:54 p.m. "He was amazing," she said. "He had a lot of talents." Born in 1928, Dean was raised in poverty in Plainview, Texas, and dropped out of high school after the ninth grade. He went on to a successful entertainment career in the 1950s and '60s that included the nationally televised "The Jimmy Dean Show." In 1969, Dean went into the sausage business, starting the Jimmy Dean Meat Co. in his hometown. He sold the company to Sara Lee Corp. in 1984. Dean lived in semiretirement with his wife, who is a songwriter and recording artist, on their 200-acre estate just outside Richmond, where he enjoyed investing, boating and watching the sun set over the James River. [--read more at http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100614/ap_on_en_mu/us_obit_jimmy_dean ] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:09:56 -0400 (EDT) From: truepantone293@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] update for Swami I went to the Simi Valley library right after Borders, but was kind of brow beaten out the door by the Frank Zappa clone behind the circulation desk because it was almost 5. I'm going back over there tonight. I'm in the parking lot of the Borders right now, which is across the street from the library. I don't have a Kindle, but I want a permanent physical copy of the book, and there are some on Amazon cheap. M ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V9 #112 *******************************