From: owner-small-repairs-digest@smoe.org (small-repairs-digest) To: small-repairs-digest@smoe.org Subject: small-repairs-digest V1 #83 Reply-To: $SENDER,small-repairs@smoe.org Sender: owner-small-repairs-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-small-repairs-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk small-repairs-digest Sunday, September 7 1997 Volume 01 : Number 083 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [s-r] Princess Diana [eireann ] [s-r] Mary Lou Lord/"New Thing Now" [Mademoiselle Rachel Subject: Re: [s-r] Princess Diana At 09:22 AM 9/4/97 -0400, you wrote: >I have been wanting to write something about the loss of Diana, but have >been having difficulty knowing what to say. Mimi, I think you said Perhaps I'm simply insensitive, but I really don't understand why so many people seem to be affected so deeply by the loss of a woman hundreds of thousands of people seemed to greatly admire but none of them truly knew other than from interviews or articles or news stories about her. Her death was a shame, I suppose, being so young, but don't most deaths seem unjust? What sort of effect did Diana have on your lives to make her death have such an impact upon you? I know when William S. Burroughs died, I grieved, sure, I mourned; because his writing really affected me, it spoke to me in a way no other writer's work ever has. But Diana... did I miss something? I must have. I didn't follow her life at all; I was too young to notice when she got married, and haven't paid much attention to the events that have followed, other than snippets on Headline News or screaming headlines on the cover of supermarket tabloids while standing in the checkout line. What sort of a role model was she for you? Why did she mean so much to so many people? I have so many people whose work affects me and I respect them, the choices they make, and the work they present usually strikes some kind of chord in me or gives me a role model, or maybe simply entertains me; like Shawn, or MCC, or Judy Davis, Diane Keaton, et al--but Diana seemed to be an ordinary person who did some humanitarian work, and married and divorced a prince. Does an admirer of hers want to clue me in? eb - ----- "That's life. Whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you." -Al (Tom Neal), "Detour" - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo@smoe.org with 'unsub scribe small-repairs' in the message body. FAQ & other info: http://www. tisd.net/~casey/shawn/small_repairs.html *REMEMBER* all posts not directly related to Shawn must have the tag 'NSC:' is their subject line - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Sep 1997 19:38:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Mademoiselle Rachel Subject: [s-r] Mary Lou Lord/"New Thing Now" This was in allstar magazine... singer/ songwriter Mary Lou Lord covered Shawn Colvin's "New Thing Now" (about women in rock in 1994), saying beforehand, "I dont know, I think this is about some woman who used to live in Seattle." Lord, who has had several much- publicized bitter run-ins with a certain rock widow, drew lots of laughs and murmurs of "Courtney, right?" and even more when she sang the lines "a prom dress and a sneer, the woman of the year, but not lots of laughs and murmurs of "Courtney, right?" and even more when she sang the lines "a prom dress and a sneer, the woman of the year, but not quite... and don't you love the leader of the band, equal parts Butt-head and Peter Pan?" Apparently, Shawn wrote it about Courtney, her and Mary Lou are friends. Mary Lou played it last night and the sarcasm was pretty biting but she did it really well. - --rachel "I'm not a social butterfly I am a social firefly" -- blast off country style - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- my Mary Lou Lord page is at http://pages.nyu.edu/~rkb200/ To join Some Jingle Jangle List, the Mary Lou Lord mailing list, email me your with your name and email address. :) Also email me to get a copy of my zine I'M NOT WAITING. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo@smoe.org with 'unsub scribe small-repairs' in the message body. FAQ & other info: http://www. tisd.net/~casey/shawn/small_repairs.html *REMEMBER* all posts not directly related to Shawn must have the tag 'NSC:' is their subject line - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Sep 1997 22:42:21 -0500 (CDT) From: kizntime@ix.netcom.com Subject: Re: [s-r] Princess Diana On 09/06/97 09:28:15 you wrote: > Perhaps I'm simply insensitive, but I really don't understand why so >many people seem to be affected so deeply by the loss of a woman hundreds of >thousands of people seemed to greatly admire but none of them truly knew >other than from interviews or articles or news stories about her. I think you hit the nail squarely on the head. You are indeed insensitve to anyone's emotions that have been shaken with the death of Diana in the last week. Its not my job nor anyone elses to determine what moves others spiritually, logically, or individually. That is what makes us all so important in the whole existance of humanity. Your position here is not to judge what each of should grieve or not grieve. Those are emotions that we as individuals clearly make on our own, not by others. I can only say that I was personally hit with a void in my soul upon hearing of the tragic accident just minutes after it happened. Did I know her? No. But still the same she played an importance in my life that generated a faith and joy that now can be nothing more than a memory. But that memory is mine and if I choose to love it, cry with it, share it or do whatever with it, it is still mine and not something that I was told what to do with, and more to the point not something I was told NOT to endure. One of the worst things any of us can do is question why someone loves someone. To love is a natural emotion of being human, just as natural as mourning a loved one them when they leave. Gary Garbett editor, KISSIN' TIME, USA - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo@smoe.org with 'unsub scribe small-repairs' in the message body. FAQ & other info: http://www. tisd.net/~casey/shawn/small_repairs.html *REMEMBER* all posts not directly related to Shawn must have the tag 'NSC:' is their subject line - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ End of small-repairs-digest V1 #83 ********************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo@smoe.org with 'unsub scribe small-repairs-digest' in the message body. 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