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Date:
Wed, 17 Nov 2004 15:23:48 -0800
Subject:
RDT Right Now #1923
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Really Deep Thoughts Right Now Volume 04 : Issue #1923
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Tori Amos, "Thoughts"
In this issue:
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Politics and stuff [ "Beth Coulter" <betheqt@voicenet.co ]
team america sucked. [ "jessica parsons" <fullblownlife@ho ]
new album news! [ bisontentacle <woj@smoe.org> ]
beekeeper press release [ bisontentacle <woj@smoe.org> ]
Unidentified subject! [ Simon Booth <simonbooth@mac.com> ]
replies [ Simon Booth <simonbooth@mac.com> ]
LBW Seeks Art Director/Layout Artist [ Angela Reid <angela.reid@gmail.com> ]
TORI AMOS [ COSMICBUB@webtv.net (RONALD S. GROT ]
Little Blue World Upcoming Issue [ Angela Reid <angela.reid@gmail.com> ]
Missed a digest? Pick up a copy at the RDTRN archives:
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Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 22:49:30 -0400
From: "Beth Coulter" <betheqt@voicenet.com>
To: "RDT Right Now" <rdtrn@torithoughts.org>
Subject: Politics and stuff
Hey All,
If you aren't on campus, thus can't grab a paper, can I ask that you hit my
page and then hit the link for the Crestiad and read this issue's column of
"Just blowin' my mind"? It's about the election and has some interesting
factoids and thoughts. If you can't access for any reason, please drop me a
note and let me know and I'll send it to you.
Peace in our Lifetime,
Beth
My country right or wrong:
When Right to be kept Right;
When Wrong to be made Right.
www.bethcoulter.com
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Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 22:32:59 -0700
From: "jessica parsons" <fullblownlife@hotmail.com>
To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org
Subject: team america sucked.
so, if the whole purpose of bidding on these corsets at frederick's of
hollywood/ebay is to raise money for RAINN, don't you think they could have
thought of a more comfortable piece of clothing?! a bra, a shirt, underwear?
any? have you ever seen anyone wearing one of these? they look so
uncomfortable. really uncomfortable piece of clothing designed to squish
women so they can barely breathe and shove and smash the boobs so they look
fantasic and this will raise money to fight incest and abuse. they should
have designed jewelry or something.
on another point, beth coulter, i think that you should write something on
here or your site about how things are in pennsylvania right now. i mean, if
it's getting irritating living here in oregon getting 5 recorded messages a
day on the ans. machine, getting letters in the mail constantly saying who
to vote for and 15 election commercials every hour, it must be REALLY
irritating/fascinating there. interestingly enough, there is a measure on
the ballot here for medical marijuana and a constitutional amendment to
define marriage as between a man and a woman. that will DEFINITELY fail.
yay.
jessica
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow for tomorrow will worry about itself.
Each day has enough trouble of its own.
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Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 09:29:45 -0400
From: bisontentacle <woj@smoe.org>
To: torinews@smoe.org, fiercest clams <precious-things@smoe.org>,
rdtrn@torithoughts.org, toriphery@groups.msn.com
Subject: new album news!
first, mtv.com reports that the new record, which the dent says has a
release date of february 22, 2005, has a title. the blurb is buried in
a few paragraphs down:
<url:
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1493225/20041028/index.jhtml?headlines=true >
... Meanwhile, Tori Amos' upcoming book, "Tori Amos: Piece by
Piece,"
co-written with music journalist Ann Powers, has just been finished.
The tome offers a rare look inside the singer's mind, her personal
history, her muses and her artistic process. The book's release in
February will coincide with Amos' eighth album, The Beekeeper. ...
and then there is this short article in usa today. the print edition
reportedly includes a small photo or tori as well:
<url: http://www.usatoday.com/life/2004-10-28-coming-attractions_x.htm >
Tori Amos, piecemeal: New album, book
More than 14 years after shaking up the pop world with Little
Earthquakes, Tori Amos returns in February with a new album and her
first book.
Working with drummer Matt Chamberlain and bassist Jon Evans, the
singer/songwriter is producing and recording The Beekeeper, due Feb.
23, in her U.K. studio, Marian Engineering. For her first release since
Scarlet's Walk two years ago, she's incorporating vintage organs,
Afro-Cuban percussion and gospel choirs in such tunes as Sweet the
Sting, Sleeps With Butterflies and Ribbons Undone.
Due Feb. 8 from Broadway/Doubleday, Tori Amos, Piece by Piece was
co-written with music journalist Ann Powers and chronicles the singer's
private life and career path, which tend to commingle in confessional
music that draws comparisons to Kate Bush and Joni Mitchell.
.Edna Gundersen
woj
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Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 09:57:23 -0400
From: bisontentacle <woj@smoe.org>
To: torinews@smoe.org, fiercest clams <precious-things@smoe.org>,
rdtrn@torithoughts.org, toriphery@groups.msn.com
Subject: beekeeper press release
<url: http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041029/nyf021_1.html >
Press Release Source: Sony Music Entertainment
Tori Amos Readies New Album The Beekeeper
Friday October 29, 9:42 am ET
Acclaimed Artist to Publish First Book Entitled Tori Amos: Piece by
Piece
NEW YORK, Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- It has been over two years since
musical force Tori Amos has brought new music to her ever-growing
foundation of dedicated fans. On February 22nd Tori Amos will unveil
two exciting projects- a new CD entitled The Beekeeper and her first
book Tori Amos: Piece by Piece, co-written with journalist Ann Powers.
Currently, Tori is putting the finishing touches on The Beekeeper,
which she's recording and self-producing in her UK studio Martian
Engineering. On songs like "Sweet the Sting," "Sleeps with
Butterflies," and "Ribbons Undone," Tori incorporates vintage organs,
Afro-Cuban drums and Gospel choirs, working once again with longtime
partners, drummer Matt Chamberlain and bassist Jon Evans.
Tori Amos explains, "The Beekeeper is musically inspired by the fact
that the piano has realized that she has an organ. With my right hand
on her organ and my left hand on her piano keys, I have been changed
by the relationship between these two beautiful creatures, the
Bosendorfer piano and the B3 Hammond organ."
In the book Tori Amos: Piece by Piece co-penned with writer Ann
Powers, the usually private Tori gives a rare inside look into many
intimacies of her life as both a private individual and a very public
performing musician. The book, published by Broadway Books (a division
of Random House), will be released on February 8th. On Thursday,
February 24, Tori and Ann will make a special appearance at the 92nd
Street Y in New York City.
Tori Amos, whose career skyrocketed with the release of the 1992
multi- platinum breakthrough Little Earthquakes, has led the charge in
rejuvenating the era of the female singer songwriter. With worldwide
record sales topping 12 million and multiple Grammy nominations, Tori
continues to be one of the most intriguing and respected artists of
our time.
Press Contacts:
Lois Najarian 212-833-7983 Lois_Najarian@sonymusic.com
Lisa Markowitz 212-833-5483 Lisa_Markowitz@sonymusic.com
_________________________________________________________________
Source: Sony Music Entertainment
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Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 21:16:52 -0600
From: Simon Booth <simonbooth@mac.com>
To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org
Subject:
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From: Simon Booth <simonbooth@mac.com>
Date: Wed Nov 3, 2004 9:12:24 PM US/Central
To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org
Subject: replies
Hello again!
linda wrote:
"I hope everyone is enjoying the summer (or winter, for
you backwards Aussies and other southern
hemispherers)."
Makes for some interesting christmas songs in December! Although as a
space and astronomy fanatic the night sky from the southern hemisphere
seems far more interesting that what we here in the northern hemisphere
see.
re: Olympics:
"Even in this country, I feel like the games have been
much better advertised in the past. For instance, I
knew all about the women's gymnastics teams the last
few times around, but this year, I didn't know the
name of a single one of them, much less any
heartwarming story that they might have."
During the weeks leading up the games I noticed the same thing- not
much about people in one sport or another, but *lots* of bragging on
the part of the network about how yet again, they've got the Olympics.
NBC shows the Olympic logo as part of their normal on-screen logo at
least a year prior to the actual games.
I got the distinct impression that the network had planned in advance
to really focus on swimming and track-and-field based on what happened
during those events four years ago in Sydney.
"Sunshine and puppy dogs,"
sounds like my usual mornings. With Juno around, I never need the
alarm clock!
brian wrote:
"It's that time of the year again... cat rutting season. They were at it
again this morning at 6am just outside my bedroom window."
Where I live I think the cats reproduce by cloning- I swear there are
more cats from one day to the next, and no one seems to know which are
the strays and which ones actually belong to tenants in the complex.
All I know is that it makes things really interesting when I'm out
taking Juno for a walk.
got to get those Red Dwarf DVDs, if they're available for region 1
(compatible on US DVD players)
"Simon also returned with:
""Subject: Fly me to the Moon...
""35 years ago, that was possible.""
"Don't you know it was all staged in a studio?"
A guy in Los Angeles got his ass kicked confronting a former astronaut
about that. Which former astronaut carried out the ass-kicking? Buzz
Aldrin.
One of those things on the "must never do" list: go to the co-pilot on
the first moon landing and tell him the whole thing was faked.
I've never understood just how they could have faked the landings when
real rockets were launched- and it's even funnier when the hoax twits
cite photos of astronauts practicing on earth as proof.
Halloween costume idea: wear a NASA uniform and boxing gloves and tell
everyone you're going as Buzz Aldrin! ;)
re: bad cities:
"While my original comments were about Sydney vs. Melbourne,
there's little surface you need to scratch with Melbourne due to all the
gangland killings. "
I always figured those cities had a low crime rate. People in the US
cite the lower crime rate of cities outside the US as examples to
compare with how bad things are here.
"Qantas is an acronym so it's allowed to drop the "U".
Bonus points for telling me what it stands for without looking it up."
Queensland and Northern Territories Air Service.
Actually something I knew from an aviation history book I read a long
time ago.
Do they still use the depressed koala in the ads?
""was the anniversary of the moon landing given much press in
Australia?""
"It gets a small mention every year regarding the fact we received the
first
intact signal."
So do Aussie history books have the landing on the 20th or 21st of July
1969?
The background of how the flights were tracked is IMHO as interesting
as the actual history of those flights.
With the US election coming up in November, I think Republicans should
have a better way of identifying themselves. I recommend that they all
wear a large red letter R.
from brian:
> Simon pondered in digest 1913:
>> And for all the stink about Iraqi WMDs, I'm truly amazed that there's
>> no uproar about the very blatant WMD projects being worked on openly
>> by
>> the Iranians and the North Koreans.
>
> It's not a case of "no uproar", as it creates enough disturbance in the
> region on its own. I know I said this a long time ago, probably even
> before
> the war on Iraq. The reason the U.S. doesn't go after these countries
> is
> they can hurt back bad.
Makes sense, but it ends up making the war with Iraq look like a
diversion to avoid having to deal with the real threats.
> They haven't been pounded into the stone age by a
> previous war and 10 years of sanctions. Of the two, North Korea is the
> biggest risk to world peace as their leadership is insane.
Kim Jong-Il is more insane than his father. The concept of nuclear
deterrence is lost on despots.
>
>> like the press in a perverse way is having way
>> too much fun covering war and destruction- what happens when something
>> big happens that shows humanity at its best takes place?
>
> If you're lucky, it gets a 30 second grab at the end of the news. You
> can't
> sell copy on good news.
>
The local news here is notorious for making any amount of bad weather
sound like the coming apocalypse. In July of 2002 we did have storms
and heavy rain enough to cause flooding, but news coverage kept
steadily playing up the real severity of situation- coverage getting
more and more out of hand until at one point exaggerated reports of a
nearby lake rising became reports of the dam at the lake being close to
collapsing. The reality of it was that while the flooding that week
was bad, we weren't facing the spectre of a tsunami tearing through the
countryside.
And you know when it's ratings sweeps time in the fall and spring
because the local TV news does lots of in-depth reports about all the
things the police vice units have uncovered.
riaa:
> But
> when does amateur piracy in the form of file sharing become worth
> prosecuting? I'm sure the record companies have worked it out. But it
> shouldn't matter if it's one track, 100 albums or 1000 albums, the law
> is
> the same.
Perhaps it's more about how the industry has handled things. The RIAA
didn't seem to do much when Napster and other file-sharing systems came
along about 5 years ago, and the attempts at copy-protection on audio
CDs has so far been half-assed at best. I recall Bethany posting
something about this back in 2001 around the time SLG came out-
basically getting customer complaints at a Border's store she worked at
about "defective CDs" when it turned out that it was customers getting
a copy-protected disc that was *really* inconsistent about where it
could be played- people bought some discs and played them on the drive
home on their car stereos and they sounded fine, only to play them
later on their home stereo or their computer CD drive and have them
skip or lock up the player- or else the disc is only playable on one CD
player out of the many someone might actually attempt to play the disc
on.
Reminds me of the similarly half-assed copy-guard on VHS cassette
copies of movies. Great to thwart the bootleggers, but I had numerous
experiences over the years of bringing home a rented tape only to find
that it's unwatchable because the copy-guard blurs and garbles the
picture when you're just playing the tape straight from one VCR to the
TV.
Perhaps I'm missing something technical here, but I was always thinking
that digital technology made it possible to have an anti-piracy system
in place that didn't ruin the listening experience. I've never heard
of DVDs giving people the same problems.
I guess with anything it's always going to be an on-going race between
the industry implementing anti-piracy measures and the pirates and
hackers countering it.
> Of all the file sharing pirates I've read about that have been
> prosecuted, they've all had extraordinary amounts of material.
>
I guess it's more of a matter of the smaller-scale pirates getting lots
of publicity because it looks like only the smaller ones are targeted.
One story that was going around made it sound like kids who downloaded
a few songs were getting treated the same as the large-scale pirates.
Of course, there have been many examples of people who have been
downloading music illegally since Napster started and are very smug
about the how and why of it.
The usual justification is that since CDs cost so much that it's ok to
pirate music. I totally agree that the prices are too high but it's
like the assinine logic of trying to say a burglar was right in robbing
someone because the victim has better things than everyone else.
Same thing with software: Yeah, it pisses me off that Photoshop and
Illustrator are so damned expensive, but I still refuse to go the
bootleg route. I'd love to have the software on my iMac at home, at
least to practice graphics work outside of the classes I'm taking, but
I've found out that the software is also available under a student
discount. And yet I still have classmates telling me how to get a
pirate copy!
Overall, I've wondered why the music industry didn't simply get into
the online side of things in 1998 and '99 to pre-empt Napster and the
piracy that came later on.
jim- good to hear about your daughter's recovery. I hope no offense
was taken from some of my prior postings.
> *** Just Plead The Fifth. Or Drink It. Either Way. digest ***
Yet another funny one from Violet :)
happy birthday cheefooska and Nury!
thanks to estraven for that excellent technical posting about HDTV.
lavs wrote:
>Are you caught up yet Simon?
getting there! welcome back! :)
congrats jim!
brian- that was a good commentary about the Belsan attack and terrorism
in general. I worry that the "War on Terrorism" will become something
more like the never-ending world war in "1984".
john b: good posting about remembering 9/11. Sucks indeed that a
*baseball game* was somehow considered to be on the same level.
For me Sept. 11th used to simply be my father's birthday. The day of
the attacks, I was actually getting ready to call him at work with
birthday greetings when the news of the attacks broke.
welcome Alex from Russia. (Perm in the Ural Mountains). Last weekend
you might have seen a cool nighttime light show (re-entering Soyuz).
:)
I'm glad my comments on jobs and disabilities resonated with you.
Sometimes I get carried away with a rant then later worry that I've
gone too far. One thing I'm trying to overcome nowadays is the
hesitation where creativity is concerned- I'm working towards a
computer graphic arts degree and my commitment hasn't wavered, but at
the same time there's this real uneasiness because more and more the
creativity I'm expressing by design has to be seen by more and more
people, and I can't help but wonder how future creative works and
myself will be perceived. Over the past 11 years there have been more
than a few instances where my situation is seen as "cheating" because
I'm disabled and for the most part still get to pursue what I want, and
my pre-disability pursuits weren't totally compromised. I'm trying to
*not* feel like success is the proverbial ill-gotten gain but it's
difficult considering past experiences. I'd like to be in a position
to promote disability awareness and show the positive things one can do
despite their limitations but I fear the accusations of doing it purely
for self-serving reasons- even though that's *not* why I'd do it.
For that matter, I've always been reluctant to even talk about being
inspired by the accounts of other disabled persons because in the past
it was drilled into me that what I'm doing isn't drawing inspiration
but "stealing" from someone who actually endured extreme difficulty.
Like I'm a poser or interloper merely because my condition didn't
result from a single event and I didn't "lose" much as things got worse.
anyway-
I hope the comments about US/Soviet relations and the Cold War didn't
offend you. How is that period in history discussed in Russia?
And don't be deterred by the non-torphiles in your midst (referred to
as "heathens"). The music of the Goddess takes us all on a most unique
journey.
happy birthday Gaba and tait :)
cyndi wrote:
"-but when it comes down to stuff like what
Tori was saying.. "I'd rather not be stickered and limit my audience
because kids need to hear the message in this particular song, and that
message REALLY isn't 'I like to say cuss words'."
If it comes down to it, IMHO it would be better if two versions can be
released, instead of one version that's stickered and thus not carried
in some stores. The choice should be with the individual whether or
not they want the PG or R version of a CD.
later!
wwtd?
Simon
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Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 21:17:42 -0600
From: Simon Booth <simonbooth@mac.com>
To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org
Subject: replies
welcome theresa :)
brian wrote:
Jumping to Simon on the media:
> Fox News Channel: wasn't Rupert Murdoch who said "Tell a lie often
> enough and people with believe it"?
I don't know about that, but it seems to be one of his personal mottos
and
it's something all politicians hold dear to their hearts.
Fox News here in the US doesn't even hide the right-wing slant in their
coverage. And their commentators parrot the right-wing radio talk show
hosts and act as if they're somehow the lone voice in the wilderness.
Right-wingers get lots of airtime- to complain about being "censored"
by the "liberal media".
If one day I tuned in to Fox News and they adopt "Oceania 'Tis For
Thee" as their theme music, I really wouldn't be suprised.
Like I said a while back, think about how the propaganda machine in
"1984" was called the "Ministry of Truth".
Interesting comments on health care- and how national health care
coverage isn't as great as some of the hype would suggest.
>The only thing I found amusing about drug commercials in the U.S. was
that
>more than half the ad seemed to be devoted to possible side effects.
That has become fodder for comedians in this country, along with the
endless Viagra jokes.
re: 1978 vs. 2003 versions of "Galactica"
>Can't say I've seen the remake and I probably never will.
I've been looking for it on DVD myself and I'm suprised that it hasn't
yet been released. The 2003 remake was a two-part (4 hours total)
airing on the Sci Fi Channel back in December, and it turns out that it
was the starting point for a new "Galactica" series starting in
January, so perhaps it might make it to Australian TV.
I know the use of
>nukes in sci-fi is mainly for the purpose of special effects,
I've suspected it's because for many filmmakers it was a simple matter
of using old nuclear weapons test footage in lieu of doing their own
original effects work for any destruction scenes in their films. And
it isn't just a problem with the nuke footage either- I suspect a lot
of money has been saved on production over the years by having the
filmmakers pilfer previous films and TV shows, news footage, archival
material, etc. to get around budget restrictions on actual special
effects work. Sometimes they don't do a very good job of merging the
pilfered material with the film it's been integrated into.
> but you could
>achieve the same result by pushing a few decent sized asteroids at a
>planet.
Like the Centauri did in their attack on the Narn homeworld in B5.
It's an interesting scenario- and I'm surpised it hasn't been used more
often in sci fi. Mass destruction without radiation. The right size
asteroid impact would be enough for a "nuclear winter" without
destroying everything on the surface- and invade after the dust clears
from the atmosphere.
>One thing that gave me chills about the original when I was a kid
>was when they stopped off for supplies at a planet which I think was
called
>Carillon, people were being snatched for food by the local aliens. I
wonder
>how they treated that in the remake.
The remake is a whole new interpretation of the story but it maintains
the essence of the original. Last year's miniseries didn't depict
Carrilon, but the might be in the episodes of the new series.
One negative thing about "Galactica": a very loud faction of purists
who think the original show is the *only* show, including claims that
despite the advances in effects technology over the past 25 years, the
remake is somehow inferior.
From what I've read online, it seems that the remake is seen as a
threat to some revival of the original show that is supposed to be just
around the corner. The producer of the original has had 25 years to do
that and after that much time IMHO it was inevitable that someone else
would do an updated retelling of the story, with a reworking of the
dated style of the original and today's CGI effects and filming
techniques.
Sure, I thought the original show in 1978 was the coolest thing on TV,
but I was 8 at the time. Today I can look at those episodes and
appreciate that they were great for their time and still are fun to
watch, but I was also *really* blown away with the remake and I look
forward to the new series.
The problem with the "Galactica" purists, and the hardcore purists of
other old shows for that matter, is that from reading their various
sites, it's as if those old shows are still in production in some
parallel universe.
re: e-books. Too bad PDF isn't adopted as the universal format for
e-books. Would solve the multiple platform issue.
and thanks for the info about the "Mad Max" interceptor. I'm suprised
Ford didn't market a similar car in the US- it would have fit right in
the with other "muscle cars" that were popular at that time. Of course
the US version of that car would have had the steering wheel on the
correct side ;)
cell phones:
>Not a day goes by on the train when I can't help
>but hear someone's banal conversation.
even those of us with cell phones get irked by things like that. Most
people I know use their phones for short calls, but on a daily basis I
see someone standing around yaking away on their phone like they're the
only ones standing outside the building or in the hall between classes.
> *** Cthulhu For President -- Why Vote For A Lesser Evil? digest
***
I'm reminded of a joke someone once made: "Campus Crusade for
Cthulhu".happy birthday loria :) running from the sandmen for a year!
:)
bethey- interesting garrison posting.
and roxanne, I am catching up :)
>I'm thinking of cutting my schedule down to half-time enrollment..I am
>so burnt out right now and a lighter schedule would do me a world of
>good.
I had to do the same thing after the fall '03 semester- I've enjoyed
the art and graphics classes I've had so far but I needed to cut things
back because it was a matter of each class interfering with each other.
Too busy to get any work done ;)
welcome Carrie and welcome back heidi :)
happy birthday Bethey :)
welcome johnny :)
brian wrote:
>I don't have anything terribly amusing to say as I've been bored by
>elections, irritated by computers with design flaws
you mean PCs running Winblows.
why is MSN's mascot a butterfly?
Because a creature with horns, tail, and cloven feet would have been
too obvious.
john wrote:
>Some things are not for children. but it is much better to risk
>children seeing a few things not designed for them
I totally agree. Aggressively trying to stop kids from seeing something
"bad" merely increases the "illicit thrill" of something that the
adults around them are calling taboo.
happy birthday Rebecca, Cyndi, and gelsey :)
estraven- interesting Jensen car info.
> I recall cars in _Romeo and Juliet_ with names like "Executioner" and
such, >which were clearly one-off customs.
I can just imagine the looks on the faces of the auto company execs if
a designer came to them with a proposal for a vehicle with a name like
that.
or "Dodge Devastator", for example. The ads would go something like:
"DEVASTATOR: A new dimension in road rage anger management!"
here's a cool site about the Mad Max movies and the vehicles.
According to this, it is indeed an Aussie Ford:
http://www.madmaxmovies.com/cars/interceptor/history1.html
more from brian:
>You know what I hate? I hate it when my lawn is perfectly manicured
and a
>dog just comes along and dumps on it. What is it about dogs and fresh
>grass? I'm sure the dog's owners wouldn't appreciate me doing the same
in
>return.
get yourself a dog and train it to go on everyone else's lawns!
>Anyway, I've got a couple of weeks off work to chill out and frustrate
>myself over new flooring.
I wish the management here would switch out the carpet with wood or
tile flooring. Carpet gets dirty too easily, is hard to clean, and
during the winter causes my chair to generate massive amounts of
static. And you think shuffling feet on carpet is bad!
Sometimes it happens even when wheeling on tile in a building. A few
times I've gotten a zap pushing an elevator button and for a split
second thought the elevator was malfunctioning.
and I agree with you about the electoral process in the US. Some
provision for more than two parties- runoff elections for example-
needs to be put into place.
speaking of elections: after Tuesday of this week- I never thought hell
could freeze over *twice*.
One lingering effect from my past hiding in plain sight: my family
seems to think I'll "still" a conservative. Redefining clueless:
hiding in plain sight meant I *never* was a conservative, but I played
the part well and no one suspected otherwise. The problem is that it
took on a life of its own and I've never been able to completely get
away from it.
happy birthday Dawn, Tara and Davidray
from winterlion:
>X PRIZE WON! Now let's see who wins next year.... Another step
closer to
>a BIG step... *humm* step by step the longest march...
Amazing how they did it so much cheaper than it would have cost NASA to
do. Slow and steady evolution towards something *really* cool.
*switch topics*
>Simon Says the List is Mother, the List is Father and made a couple of
>comments that I couldn't help but answer *G*
>PS: wouldn't it be fun to wear one of those uniforms? Perhaps a
little tiny
>fairie as a 'logo'...
cool....and who would be the Toriphile version of Bester? ;)
We'd be piloting craft called "StarFaeires" ;)
from beth:
>Which reminds me, has anyone read "Hell Bent for Leather" yet?
A book about Judas Priest?
so brian, it sounds like the reunion was interesting- but no stories of
classmates talking of the past like it was yesterday? No reunion is
complete without someone who was a sports star in high school and 20
years later....
that's still their only claim to fame.
happy birthday Eric :)
Musings about technology:
I've come to the conclusion that society is far behind where it should
be in various technological areas.
Aircraft/Space technology: 25 years behind where it should be.
Computers/electronics: 30 years behind.
Medical Science: 40 years behind.
and that's it for now.
We live for The One, We die for The One.
Simon
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Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 19:48:43 -0500
From: Angela Reid <angela.reid@gmail.com>
To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org
Subject: LBW Seeks Art Director/Layout Artist
The quarterly fanzine Little Blue World (www.little-blue-world.org) is
in search of an art director to process artwork submissions to Little
Blue World and layout the zine for publication. Familiarity with
Quark for Mac and basic Photoshop required. Own equipment and
software essential. Must be skilled in design.
Little Blue World's staff is volunteer; after the costs of production
are paid, all revenues raised by the fanzine are donated to the Rape,
Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN). Though the position is
unpaid, LBW is a professionally published fanzine that would make a
good addition to anyone's design portfolio. The Art Director/Layout
Artist receives 5 copies per issue.
Please e-mail a cover letter to artwork@little-blue-world.org telling
us a bit about yourself and your qualifications and providing either a
web link or samples of previous design experience. Questions about
the position may be directed to Fastrada at that address.
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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 14:35:07 -0500
From: COSMICBUB@webtv.net (RONALD S. GROTTANELLI)
To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org
Subject: TORI AMOS
I am brand new to this list. I want to just say that I think TORI is
unparalleled. I really love to talk about her. (cosmicbub@webtv.net)
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Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 10:24:11 -0500
From: Angela Reid <angela.reid@gmail.com>
To: rdtrn@torithoughts.org
Subject: Little Blue World Upcoming Issue
The Tori Amos fanzine Little Blue World will be shipping our next
issue in December. Here's some of what's included:
* The Path to Healing: How Tori's personal experience of healing after
rape inspired the founding of RAINN.
* Silent No More: RAINN's efforts bear fruit as sexual assault rates
fall and reporting goes up.
* Things are Pretty Good for a Calendar Girl: LBW interviews five of
the artists featured in the 2005 RAINN calendar.
* Walking With Scarlet: The best of the bootlegs from Scarlet's tours.
* When Old Loves Return: Our reviewer falls in and out of love with
the work of Melissa Ferrick.
* Plus regular features, like Ask the Expert, Puzzle, Reader
Submissions and more.
For more information about this issue and how to subscribe, go to
<http://www.little-blue-world.org>
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