From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V7 #202 Reply-To: shindell-list@smoe.org Sender: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk shindell-list-digest Thursday, September 1 2005 Volume 07 : Number 202 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [RS] Money for Floods [] RE: [RS] Money for Floods ["Richard W. Samsel" ] Re: [RS] Money for Floods [Deb Woodell ] [RS] Ticket prices. [Rongrittz@aol.com] Re: [RS] Ticket prices. [Adam Plunkett ] Re: [RS] Ticket prices. [john cleirigh ] [RS] Richard on Che. [Rongrittz@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 06:28:46 -0500 (CDT) From: Subject: Re: [RS] Money for Floods I keep wondering how to help. Send money? Yes I can and will do that but I have this deep seated distrust of sending money to charities so that they can spend some large percentage of it on administrative and "fundraising" expenses. Anyone have any better ideas and/or insight on which charities active in this storm mess are the best ones? Sorry for the off-topic post, but I think thinking and feeling people have to do something and I hope that is us. Joe ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 08:45:31 -0500 From: "Richard W. Samsel" Subject: RE: [RS] Money for Floods Joe: >>I keep wondering how to help. Send money? Yes I can and will do that but I have this deep seated distrust of sending money to charities so that they can spend some large percentage of it on administrative and "fundraising" expenses. I've been thinking the same thing on several counts. For the last year or so, I've been using "Charity Navigator" -- they give you statistics on the efficiency of most major charities, including what fraction goes to fundraising/administration vs what goes to "program expenses" (the people that are supposed to benefit), as well as describing the charity mission and giving links. I'm going to contribute to Americares. American Red Cross: 91% program, 5% administrative, 4% fundraising Americares: 99% program, <1% administrative, <1% fundraising http://www.charitynavigator.org/ - -- Dick ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 08:37:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Deb Woodell Subject: Re: [RS] Money for Floods Joe asked, > I keep wondering how to help. Send money? Yes I can > and will do that but I have this deep seated > distrust of sending money to charities so that they > can spend some large percentage of it on > administrative and "fundraising" expenses. Anyone > have any better ideas and/or insight on which > charities active in this storm mess are the best > ones? - -- I've found it comforting to support my own church's service organizations, particularly the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (think, American Friends Service Committee). My partner, an Episcopal deacon, supports the Episcopal equivalent. But I've also heard that the Charity Navigator site is a good one, especially if one has no church group or any such ties. I get distrustful when the celebrity bandwagon fires up. I can't get fired up by Tom Cruise's telling me I should give. Deb This I have learned: Because we can, we must try to change the world -- fully, wisely, restlessly. -- Rudy Nemser == Life is such a changing art. -- Dar Williams == Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 15:41:25 -0400 From: Rongrittz@aol.com Subject: [RS] Ticket prices. Wow, did I ever just get sticker shock. Dar Williams is coming to the House of Blues here in San Diego in October, and as starved as I am for music (at least until Richard comes here in November), I jumped at it. Until . . . $22 for the ticket. $2 for something called "Building Facility Charge." A whopping $8 "convenience charge," although I'm not sure who it's conveniencing . . . certainly not me. And THEN, a $2.50 delivery charge. Sorry, Dar. Sorry, House of Blues. But I have to draw the line somewhere. Now, to be honest, if the ticket was $32 plus delivery, it might not be so terrible. But that convenience charge . . . which I'm sure ain't getting into Dar's pocket . . . just really pisses me off. RG P.s. I've put the chords to one of the songs from Dar's upcoming CD on my chord site. Her cover of Neil Young's "Everybody Knows This is Nowhere." ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 15:02:44 -0500 (CDT) From: Adam Plunkett Subject: Re: [RS] Ticket prices. That is typical for the House of Blues franchise. They had one in Cambridge MA. I went once to see Kelly Joe Phelps and the fees were as much as the ticket price! That House of Blues, though, is now out of business. Speaking of prices, I noticed that Richard's three shows at Club Passim in the aforementioned Cambridge is five bucks more than last year's show at 30 bucks. I think I will still go to a show on the tour but the cheaper one in New Hampshire. Speaking of Dar, the folk station is playing a track of her with Patty Larkin in the background. Is that from her new album? I like Dar a lot (especially when she performs solo) but haven't paid close attention over the last few years. From: Rongrittz@aol.com Date: Wed Aug 31 14:41:25 CDT 2005 To: shindell-list@smoe.org Subject: [RS] Ticket prices. $22 for the ticket. $2 for something called "Building Facility Charge." A whopping $8 "convenience charge," although I'm not sure who it's conveniencing . . . certainly not me. And THEN, a $2.50 delivery charge. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:30:00 -0700 From: john cleirigh Subject: Re: [RS] Ticket prices. On 8/31/05, Rongrittz@aol.com wrote: > Wow, did I ever just get sticker shock. When Dar comes here two days after your show, the price is $34 (not posted yet, but I called the box office yesterday). Same price for Joan two weeks before. Seems that Dar has finally hit the big time, eh? ;-) The buzz I've heard about the new record is that the show will be worth the price. The band is along for all the dates I can see, so I'm not convinced. john ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 22:47:49 EDT From: Rongrittz@aol.com Subject: [RS] Richard on Che. A few weeks ago, Jim Colbert mentioned that the latest issue of the Taylor Guitar quarterly publication "Wood & Steel" had a nifty little article on Richard. I was reading it again today, and thought y'all might be interested some of it. Here's the section where Richard talks about the writing of "Che Guevara T-Shirt." Interesting stuff. RG _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I was sitting in a cafi overlooking a beach in a little tiny town about five hours south of Buenos aires, a really small town. There was this big cruise ship out on the horizon, and I just got this idea for what was going on in that cruise ship. So I put this guy in a container on a cruise ship, then started to imagine things about him, like what's he got with him and who is he? Where's he going? Does he have a girlfriend? Where is she? What does she look like? And the idea that she was wearing a Che Guevara t-shirt just entered into the song as one of those details that you might imagine when you're trying to figure out what kind of person you're writing about. It's not like you start the song and think, okay, this will be called "Che Guevara T-Shirt" and here's how it's going to begin and here's how it'll end, and that Che Guevara t-shirt will tie the whole thing together. Not at all. You just imagine her standing there -- I've seen millions of people like her in Argentina, because Che was from Argentina, so he's big down there -- and a lot of kids wear t-shirts with him on it. So I just imagine her as that kind of person and imagined him as that kind of person. The idea of having that Che image come back and be the reason why he gets in trouble is just something that I found by accident. It's like, you get to the end and think, how am I going to end this? And, oh, look at this, there's that picture again, and what's she wearing? So it's like the writing has its own momentum. I never would have thought of that in advance. Of course, as a listener or a reader, you think, wow, amazing that you could think of it that way. But nobody thinks of it that way. It's something that comes out in the process of writing. I think it was Dorothy Parker who once said "I never know what I think until I read what I've written." ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V7 #202 ***********************************