From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V2 #168 Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org Sender: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Precedence: bulk seven-seas-digest Wednesday, April 23 2003 Volume 02 : Number 168 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 08:01:29 -0600 From: "K. F. Smith" Subject: Re: seven-seas OT: the uses of June bugs >June bugs, which here hatch in May, are always fun too. > When I was a child, my parents sought to broaden my cultural horizons by taking me to an 'opera in the park' thing in Houston. The star of it was carrying on very operatically, standing mid-stage, arms flung out, mouth wide open....and in flew a great big June bug. Plugged her up nicely. - - K :) ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 11:38:52 -0400 From: Rob Maher Subject: Re: seven-seas OT: the uses of June bugs I heard once that one of the original reasons for building the old Houston Astrodome(indoor baseball stadium, for you guys in the UK) was because of the summertime bug problem. R > From: "K. F. Smith" > Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org > Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 08:01:29 -0600 > To: > Subject: Re: seven-seas OT: the uses of June bugs > >> June bugs, which here hatch in May, are always fun too. >> > When I was a child, my parents sought to broaden my cultural horizons by > taking me to an 'opera in the park' thing in Houston. The star of it was > carrying on very operatically, standing mid-stage, arms flung out, mouth > wide open....and in flew a great big June bug. > Plugged her up nicely. > - K :) > > > > ====================================== > http://www.bunnymenlist.com > > ====================================== ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 16:43:06 +0100 From: "Barry Whiting" Subject: seven-seas NME review of Slideling The NME gives Slideling a postive review... "........Chalk up another impressive comeback for the man inthe big coat. (7/10)" - -- Barry Whiting barry@urquell.freeserve.co.uk ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 10:59:28 -0500 (CDT) From: amyr@jump.net (Amy Moseley Rupp) Subject: Re: seven-seas Back on Sevenseas and Ian'snew album > Hi Matt........did you disappear just before xmas the year before??? > > (Ken sure he remembers Matt........doh!!!!!) Oh no! Another Matt?! Have I had the wrong Matt for a year and a half? Do you remember me? ACK! Unfortunately I'm serious! (Memory completely shot....) - --Amy, surprised to be the only Amy on this list, cos my name is so common! ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 08:45:04 -0600 From: "K. F. Smith" Subject: Re: seven-seas OT: the uses of June bugs > I heard once that one of the original reasons for building the old > Houston Astrodome(indoor baseball stadium, for you guys in the UK) was > because of the summertime bug problem. > It sure made things nicer. I grew up in Texas, but I have never taken a very cheerful attitude toward bugs and bats. But then, I have never taken a very cheerful attitude toward being outside, when civilization has advanced to the point that we have houses. - - K :) ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 11:24:22 -0500 (CDT) From: amyr@jump.net (Amy Moseley Rupp) Subject: Re: seven-seas OT: the uses of June bugs > I heard once that one of the original reasons for building the old > Houston Astrodome(indoor baseball stadium, for you guys in the UK) was > because of the summertime bug problem. It's also just because it's hotter than hell in the summer, especially on Astroturf -- when walking on the outdoor Astroturf here at the university stadium, it's about 120-130 F in August. So they enclosed the Astrodome and there's air conditioning. In one of my finer manipulate-the-system moments, I pretended to be more heat exhausted than I really was while attending the Texxas Jam there one year -- Rush headlined ;-) It got me backstage, something to drink, I got to see all the bands, and I went back out to the front just before it was time for Rush to go on :-) It was so hot that the roadies and stage crew were throwing bags of ice onto the crowd, and the crowd was eating the ice *off the ground* because they were so thirsty and hot. You can't live here and be a weenie or too persnickety about insects or cleanliness or whatever. The weather and the land refuse to be fully tamed and civilised. Just when you think you might have things under control, you'll have drought, flood, hurricane, tornado, or all of the above in the same year. Life here is never boring. :-) Like last night I had to turn the heater back on! at the end of April! after having air conditioning on for weeks! and today I'm wearing a winter dress. Go figure. But tomorrow it's going to be hot again. - --Amy ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 11:30:53 -0500 (CDT) From: amyr@jump.net (Amy Moseley Rupp) Subject: Re: seven-seas OT: the uses of June bugs > It sure made things nicer. I grew up in Texas, but I have never taken a > very cheerful attitude toward bugs and bats. But then, I have never taken a > very cheerful attitude toward being outside, when civilization has advanced > to the point that we have houses. My fair skin and freckles certainly put a damper on being out of doors during the times one can burn -- which are year round but of longer duration during the summer (Kristin has seen me and I am a typical fair-skinned blue-eyed redhead). Sunburn = second-degree burn with blisters for me. But at night I loooooovvvveeeee to be out of doors. I liked it at my grandparents' farm just this side of the Mexican border, where I would catch toads (no, none of them ever turned into princes; I wouldn't have minded kissing them but they always pee on you when you pick them up). My current cool thing is to listen for the few owls that remain in our neighbourhood, surrounded by undeveloped land but being closed in on quickly. When we first moved in, the owls were everywhere, but as the trees died from construction damaeg they left. I have a perfect owl tree, and now and then an owl will grace my house. There's also a particular kind of bug that makes the most joyful rasping racket -- don't know its name but it sounds like a busted accordion wheezing in and out. It's yet to start up this year -- been cooler than average. Should be any time though. Then there are crickets that hatch all at once and cover the sidewalks so that there is eventually a cricket paste everywhere -- gotta watch your step as it's slippery. Poor crickets. - --Amy ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ End of seven-seas-digest V2 #168 ********************************