From: owner-rockford-files-digest@smoe.org (The Rockford Files) To: rockford-files-digest@smoe.org Subject: The Rockford Files V1 #244 Reply-To: rockford-files@smoe.org Sender: owner-rockford-files-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-rockford-files-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk The Rockford Files Monday, September 14 1998 Volume 01 : Number 244 Today's Filings: ----------------- wince.... Ginger in the news, Fear of Pop, School is rough, Thai food is good... Giving up the Ghost posting twice... random view askew info watching Extra! pays. . . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 00:55:33 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jordan W." Subject: wince.... heylo well, gee, i spilled last night, people. i can't even remember what i wrote. but, geez, i guess you know more that i meant to write. ouch. well, i guess i make it into the haloed "pisspost" club. hey sandi ;) jess, i love you too, however you have to place the accent, my friend! i resent the pommie crack. i am an australian, and damn proud of it, too. actually, if you trace the ancestry, i go back to the celts. so, english? mot quite... but hey, i still love you i have some good road signs. the personal fave would be last toilet for 500 km. sheep crossings always make me laugh, because i have a friend from nz. and then there is dip. i like that sign! well, however unsober i was, i pretty much was coherent. what i wrote was, as it should be while drunk, both true and vocal. i guess that's the first time i actually worked out what was going on, myself. damn it. this ain't gonna sort itself out. tennis was cool. i'm in the semi finals. first round 6-1, 6-1. second round 6-2, 6-1 and quarters 6-1, 6-0. i was in the zone. next week, me and the no.1 seed go at it in the semi. if i beat him, i've got it won. beasties are cool. them and the prodigy are 'aving a tiff, over the song "smack my bitch up". beasties don't like it. giggle. happy b-day (belatedly), carrie! you rawk! ginger, fuck the shmoos, hey? stupid dumbass maggotzine. i will flame them later. rf, form a square around ginger and march! Jordan _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 01:52:51 -0500 From: "Anoop Ranganath" Subject: Ginger in the news, Fear of Pop, School is rough, Thai food is good... Well, i haven't posted in a while, so I thought I'd just let it rip now... I don't know if it's been mentioned before, and I'm not sure how many of you guys are still on the armchair, but I just noticed the thing on Ginger being in the Philadelphia Enquirer. http://www.phillynews.com/sunmag/913/feature2.shtml Pretty cool thinks me. As for Fear of Pop, does anybody have any clue when this one might be coming out. I'm pretty skeptical of September 15 cause none of the stores I've talked to had a clue what I'm talking about, and these guys are usually on top of things. I overloaded to five classes this semester. Two of them are scheduled at the same time. It's rather interesting, I figured I skip plenty of class anyway, so it won't make much of a difference. Betwen classes and work though, I'm stretched out pretty thin, of course that's no excuse for not posting. I was walking into one of the dorms at 3 in the morning last night, and these two guys were walking out, and one of them just goes, "Hey Sand Negro." Just said it, as if he was saying, "Hey Anoop." This is really weird. Like, I never thought that would happen on my campus. It was kind of disturbing. It made me change my views on a lot of things. (I'm about to get into the big controversial issue of our school from last year, it's rather interesting, but may be long...) Last year, the homosexuals on our campus got together and formed a gay/straight alliance group called Allies. They received support from some members of the faculty and student body, and were the butt of many jokes from the more closed-minded segment of our school. They got a lot of attention and held many open forums in an effort to educate the campus. Well, only members of Allies and their supporters showed up to these forums, so it became a type of preaching to the choir kind of thing. Allies was the talk of campus for a little while, but after the initial hoopla, the supporters continued to go to meetings, and everyone else forgot about them. Until the banner incident. Some people here posted a banner in the school cafeteria showing two guys sitting together in what appeared to be a tub of semen with their arms around each other and voice bubbles with one of them saying "Yum!" and the other one saying "Let's be Allies." Across the top of the banner it said, "Let's Cream the Flamers." This was in reference to the fact that our basketball team was playing a game against a team called the Flames that week. Needless to say, Allies was furious. They brought it to the attention of Student Affairs who brought down the banner and then basically did nothing. Allies waited as long as they could for Student Affairs to take any sort of action to find the people who posted it, but Student Affairs didn't do anything. On the last day they were allowed to, they filed a formal sexual harassment complaint with the school. And thus began the banner incident which is probably one of the most embarassing moments in our school's history. The school tried to cover the whole thing up. First, Student Affairs told the school paper that there should be no articles published on the banner incident. The editor promptly went to the Dean and submitted a resignation saying that he refused to work for a publication which actively censored content. The Dean assured him that they would not censor anything and he could publish whatever he pleased. Then the investigation started. The two guys who did it were eventually found (it's a small school, these things get around fast) and were brough before the honor council. One of them was a senior Theta Chi, and the other was a Theta Chi pledge. The honor council hearings are supposed to be private, but their identities soon spread across campus. The final verdict was that the senior had to issue a written apology to Allies, and the freshman was basically let go. Needless to say, this infuriated Allies even further. Meanwhile, the school is doing it's best to keep everything under wraps, but someone is leaking all the information to a local city paper, that is keeping the rest of the city abreast. In a last ditch attempt to plug the leak, the school brings the head of Allies in front of the honor council under a violation of the gag order. Needless to say, this was total BS, and it doesn't go through. The whole school is in an uproar over this. Some people say free speech, some people talk about the sexual harassment part of it, but their are more sides to each of these coins. The year before last, the head of Allies had fought the administration because they wanted him to take down the confederate flag he hung in his window. He refused arguing free speech. Now, the same person is arguing over a banner that offended him, throwing free speech out the window. The freshman who participated in the banner incident is going to be a part of SGA and a resident advisor next year. This caused an uproar because people were infuriated at the fact that someone who could blatantly display homophobia should be allowed to be a resident advisor (Resident Advisors are like the hall leaders in the dorms. They help the people that live on their hall out with problems). Well, I could keep on rambling on and on about this, because their's so many other things, but basically it went on for months, and it was one snafu on top of another for the school. My take was kind of conflicted. Initially, I wanted the school to take harsher action against the banner. But as I thought about it more, I decided free speech was the way to go. But after being called a "Sand Negro" my first thought was, "This shouldn't be happening on this campus." I thought about the banner, and I realized that that shouldn't be happening either. Anyway, enough rambling. It seems that all I ever tell you guys about is discrimination. I'm really not that hung up on it, it just makes for good stories. I went to a Thai restaurant for dinner today. Good stuff, so Rounders afterwards. Great movie. Thoroughly entertaining. How young is too young. Like, I'm a twenty year old guy that's a junior here, and the freshman girls are just so amazingly cute. I wonder if two years is that much of a difference. But then if I just say one more year younger than that, it's high schoolers, and I just find that repulsive. I know in a few years none of this will matter, but I think I'm too young to be thinking about a relationship that seriously. Oh well, whatever happens, happens, right? Tired, but still willing to party, Anoop ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 12:00:17 +0100 From: Paul May Subject: Giving up the Ghost Hey everybody Well...it's finally happened. I seem to have worn my WaEA CD out of existence. I'm surprised it has lasted this long in fact. I'm actually pretty upset about this....I don't think the newer versions of the album are the same...maybe I'm wrong, but I heard that the talking between tracks had been taken out for later pressings. Have any of you had this happen to you? Well...I'm off to listen to Selfless skipping.....sob. Paul http://www.bigfoot.com/~paulmay ________________________________ http://www.bigfoot.com/~paulmay ________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 10:04:21 EDT From: Sandibrady@aol.com Subject: posting twice... Sorry about that double post....this damn thing has been sending things 2 times alot, seems like it's whenever I do a flashsession. Any of you fellow AOLers have any ideas why? Had a strange dream about Sebastian Bach last night. Woo-hoo! Finally met the other roommate. He seems pretty cool. Sandi ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 17:42:22 -0500 From: Shara_Hoffman@hths.mcvsd.k12.nj.us (Shara Hoffman) Subject: random view askew info with the recent discussion of kevin smith... i live about twenty minutes from red bank, where clerks & chasing amy were filmed. also, my brother's friend was in the background of a scene in chasing amy. the scene where they are playing skee ball, a girl walks in the background holding a large pink stuffed animal. that's her. another one of my brother's friends was an intern for kevin smith & view askew. that's my little brush with fame. i should recieve the new b&s and a jump little children cd from cd now tomorrow. i'm very excited with all the recent talk about both. jordan-i would say go for the girl. if she's been flirty & her friend claims she'll say yes, it sounds pretty good. if you don't you'll probably regret it. but, that's just my opinion. good luck. - -shara - - ______________________________________ Monmouth County Vocational School District High Technology High School P.O. Box 119 Lincroft, New Jersey 07738 http://www.hths.mcvsd.k12.nj.us/ _______________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 01:31:03 -0500 From: luckybastard1@juno.com (Hannah B Kuhlmann) Subject: watching Extra! pays. . . Meg, www.newsaskew.com is like my favorite website! Well, actually, you know, besides my own website that I just load up and stare at every day for an hour or two. . . (?) So unlike Carrie, I haven't started classes yet! That happens on the 24th. I went and partially moved into my swank apartment this weekend, and skulked around in the mall of america with my parents, eating freshens frozen yogurt and catching a late show of Rounders. I like it a lot, especially Malkovich. But when Damon says "let me do the talking, Worm. . ." are we *really* supposed to believe that Norton is going to actually let him do the talking? Whoever said they liked Ed Norton (and how could you not?) -- have you seen Everyone Says I Love You? What a cutie. . . BENTENT: wait, more like NC-tent: The actress cast to play Monica Lewinsky in the upcoming film "The Washington Intern" (production begins next year) is from. . .Winston-Salem, NC! I wonder if they told her about that cigar scene yet. . . - -Hannah p.s. movie tip for this week - THE VANISHING - Kiefer Sutherland, Jeff Bridges, Nancy Travis, Sandra Bullock. . . _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ End of The Rockford Files V1 #244 *********************************