From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V10 #15 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 Tuesday, February 10 2009 Volume 10 : Number 015 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] State of the Union [G Evans ] Re: [RS] State of the Union [Chris Foxwell ] [RS] list problems [Vanessa Wills ] [RS] Re: shindell-list-digest V10 #14 ["E. Wolke" ] Re: [RS] State of the Union [rongrittz@aol.com] Re: [RS] State of the Union ["Matthew Bullis" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 02:36:04 -0800 (PST) From: G Evans Subject: [RS] State of the Union "Who was it said 'State of The Union' wasn't going to make it onto the album?" From: rongrittz@aol.com "Um, Richard" Which leaves us with several possible explanations 1. He was over-ruled! 2. It's on there by mistake. All pressed copies will be recalled and the release will be delayed six months. 3. He reconsidered (possibly even after seeing the reaction on this list) 4. His pants are on fire :-) Whatever...I think it's a very good song and it's place on the album is thoroughly deserved and entirely appropriate! gerry ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 13:07:42 +0200 From: Chris Foxwell Subject: Re: [RS] State of the Union On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 12:36 PM, G Evans wrote: > Which leaves us with several possible explanations > > 1. He was over-ruled! > > 2. It's on there by mistake. All pressed copies will be recalled and the > release will be delayed six months. > > 3. He reconsidered (possibly even after seeing the reaction on this list) > > 4. His pants are on fire I'm going to go with #5: he likes to keep us guessing. :) Chris - -- "We were born in a dark age out of due time (for us). But there is this comfort: otherwise we should not know, or so much love, what we do love. I imagine the fish out of water is the only fish to have an inkling of water." - --J.R.R. Tolkien ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 08:17:45 -0500 From: Vanessa Wills Subject: [RS] list problems Is anyone else receiving posts to the list only intermittently? - --Vanessa - -- "True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring." - --Martin Luther King ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 10:30:31 -0500 From: "E. Wolke" Subject: [RS] Re: shindell-list-digest V10 #14 "State of the Union" is just too damn good a song! Glad he reconsidered, even if its 'shelf life', as Tom Paxton calls it, is (hopefully) waning. Unfortunately, it will take years to resolve all the filthy little messes in corners that the last administration left, since it was averse to taking any responsibility for its actions. After having seen President Obama's "Buck Stops Here" tirade, let us hope he really means it. Damn, I haven't heard the word "accountability" out of a prez for 8 years! Could be because Da Shrub couldn't pronounce it, or maybe it BUUUURNED... Sorry. Back into the corner and lurking, Evelyn. No more politics, really... Cheers, Evelyn Wolke ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:35:03 -0500 From: rongrittz@aol.com Subject: Re: [RS] State of the Union >> 3. He reconsidered (possibly even after seeing the reaction on this list) << That's my guess, probably in conjunction with the fact that if he'd left it off, he might have had to write another song to help fill out the CD. RG ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 10:54:37 -0700 From: "Matthew Bullis" Subject: Re: [RS] State of the Union If he had left the song off, he may not have had to write another, as he did write one called Walden Well, which is quite good. Perhaps that one is a song which he thinks isn't quite finished yet, but it sounds fine to me. I wonder what will be on the bonus cd which comes with the pre-financed copies? Thanks a lot. Matthew ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V10 #15 ***********************************