From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V5 #88 Reply-To: lucy-list@smoe.org Sender: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk lucy-list-digest Friday, April 18 2003 Volume 05 : Number 088 In this issue: [lucy-list] Lucy on the Radio -- a REAL Radio [lucy-list] Oh, no! She's BACK! Re: [lucy-list] Lucy on the Radio -- a REAL Radio ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 21:29:16 -0400 From: Jsluckey@aol.com Subject: [lucy-list] Lucy on the Radio -- a REAL Radio Dear Lucy-listers, I am pleased to report that I will be able to listen to LUCY/Indigo Girls on WFUV when it airs this Friday on a real radio as I am currently visiting my family in New York for Passover. I am enjoying being home and with my family because it's been 4 or 5 years since I flew home to N.Y. I almost tried to coordinate the trip to coincide with Lucy's Huntington show 'cuz we are on Long Island. Thanks to Jeff, again, for a reliable WFUV update -- he's well connected, it seems. I'm also glad to be here because I hear it's raining (what a suprise!) in Eugene, Oregon & yesterday it was beautiful as we strolled on the boardwalk in Long Beach, Long Island. Wishing all you Lucy-listers and Ms. Kaplansky & family, a happy Passover! I love how much you Lucy-listers love Lucy and how cool & nice you all are . . . dedicated fans traveling to see her whenever you all possibly can -- even without a car as the case may be! The Statute of Liberty is still watching over Manhattan, I can confirm, because I saw her today as we crossed the Verrazano Bridge. "This is Home." Best wishes, Joyce Long Island, New York ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 21:43:18 -0400 From: "Benay Bubar" Subject: [lucy-list] Oh, no! She's BACK! Greetings, all! You will be relieved---or perhaps, in some cases, appalled---to find out that I seem to have emerged from Verizon Hell, albeit not without emotional scars. Yes, I am once again in possession of a working home phone line. And I could easily give a half-hour discourse on what I think of Verizon to anyone who would care to listen, but for now let me just say that should I ever apply for a job with Verizon, I will now have a leg up on the competition because I have absorbed the central tenets of Verizon's customer service philosophy, part of which runs as follows: 1. When customer (a.k.a. "victim") calls to report a problem, deny flatly that there is any problem. (This will weed out the many people who call the phone company and lie about having no dial tone just for kicks.) 2. If customer still insists that there is a problem, blame the customer. Threaten to charge large amounts of money if a technician has to visit. 3. If customer insists on having a technician come, refuse to specify a window of time less than an entire day, even if it's the third time a technician has been requested and customer has a full-time day job. When sending a technician, send anybody you want, experienced or not...all the person has to do is look serious for five minutes, fiddle with a gadget or two, disappear to "do work on the box at the corner," and flee with the bogus claim that the phone will work in two hours. Do not fear reprisals, as the customer will never be able to contact either the technician or the service rep again. 4. Whether or not customer's service has ever returned, erase all record of there ever having been a problem with the customer's phone. 5. When customer calls again, start over with rule #1. But here I am...somehow I broke the cycle at last, and am back in touch with the world. To celebrate, I decided tonight that I was going to go and buy a CD at a major chain bookstore, something I almost never do...but I had the dregs of a gift card to use up (hence a bookstore and not a music store). It was a remarkable experience. This major chain store had a large music area including a decently sized and not totally hidden folk section...but that folk section contained the single WORST folk selection I'd ever seen. I went in thinking I'd be happy to get Patty Larkin...or Patty Griffin...or Lucinda Williams...or Roseanne Cash. NONE of them were there (and I checked the pop section too---no dice). The paucity of choices, especially in such a big store in such a big city, was stunning. Some Joan Baez was there. Some Bob Morrissey, from which I learned the grammatically important fact that what I thought of as Love Song New York has a slash: Love Song/New York. A bunch of random singers I hadn't heard of. They had Dar, but only Beauty of the Rain. They had Richard Shindell, but only one copy of Courier... Yet HERE was the weird part. In this store with so little folk selection, this store that was missing all those big names entirely and most of the medium names...they had Lucy. And not just a lone copy of Every Single Day...they had ALL FOUR of Lucy's CDs! (Of course I know because I had to compulsively paw through them, as if there might suddenly be a Lucy CD I didn't already own!) Now I guess this could mean simply that all those other artists sold out at that store and Lucy was left behind...but somehow it didn't look that way. In a sense this actually impressed me more than when Every Single Day made it to #1 on Amazon.com. When the store with the worst folk selection in New York (of stores that HAVE a folk selection, that is) still manages to carry Lucy's entire oeuvre...well, how much clearer a signal could there be that Lucy has made it to the highest echelons? I still owe those who are interested a couple of reviews, I'm afraid...I fear they will seem very dated...but I have to put things off a little further because time's been short and work's been long... Anyway, it's good to be back (and I hope at least MOST of the rest of you will agree!). Benay ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 22:08:34 -0400 From: "Benay Bubar" Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Lucy on the Radio -- a REAL Radio Welcome back to the New York area, Joyce, and a happy Passover to you, too...and thanks for the reminder about Mountain Stage! I will be trying to listen and tape (albeit fuzzily) at work tomorrow, and giving menacing glares to anyone who tries to distract me with work that requires concentration while it's on (OK, maybe not VERY menacing glares...I do need to keep the job...and hard as I've tried, I have not yet really perfected the menacing glare in any case). And if somebody is able to get me a CD of this Mountain Stage one of these days, I will...I will...how hard it is to make good offers when one does not have a CD burner!...I will...dedicate my next original guitar song (song #3, or perhaps #2 1/2 depending on how you look at it---but more on that later, maybe) to that kind soul! OK, I admit that said song might not be ABOUT that person in any way...but it will be DEDICATED to that person. And it might even have...TWO chords! Benay making up for lost time ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V5 #88 ****************************** This has been a posting from the Lucy Kaplansky mail list digest To unsubscribe send mail to Majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe lucy-list-digest" in the body of the message