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g Tuesday, August 9th 2005 - 08:51:55 PM http://www.steelydan.com/whackreviews.html either way, it's 11 years after these reviews of whack... kind of preparing for next year... East Coast (New York) and West Coast (Los Angeles)...

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C Tuesday, August 9th 2005 - 08:50:50 PM Kamakiriad, strange. I was sure it ment "journey" or something. Was about to ask the girl on the Aja cover, but she must be in her 60's now. Too old.

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Daddy G. Tuesday, August 9th 2005 - 08:49:28 PM A Google Web search on "kamakiri" and "praying mantis" brings up more than just the Fagen reference, so it appears that the translation as "praying mantis" has some basis. I'm guessing either someone's playing a little loose with the word kamakiri or perhaps there's some subtle difference in the original Japanese that gets lost in the changeover to English. Hmm, I wonder if DF will get royalties from Ford? If not, maybe he should look into that. :-)

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g Tuesday, August 9th 2005 - 08:42:01 PM http://www.yugioh-cards.net/Merchant2/store/psv-048-unl.html lol. oh what confusion :-) well, the link above says flying kamakiri, a flying mantis. and i use 'image google' a lot... wow. LIKE THIS

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Daddy G. Tuesday, August 9th 2005 - 08:40:39 PM G, How do you find this stuff???? "Scythe sword", "praying mantis"... Eh, pretty much the same, I guess. (Shrugs) OK, who around here speaks Japanese and can sort this out as to which interpretation is correct?...

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g Tuesday, August 9th 2005 - 08:35:43 PM nope. if you is slow, than me too. whenever there's mantid talk in here, i figured it started with Katy Lied and its cover. It being Angel's fav disc, Nigey also liking them and well, the same reasons you had for bringing it up, either here or in Mizar. And i found a totally different meaning of the word kamakiri... Now what...?

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Daddy G. Tuesday, August 9th 2005 - 08:13:39 PM Angel typed: "I glanced up at this calendar we have from Galpin Ford and this month's car is called 'Mantis'. That serendipity thing at work again." ____________________ Indeed. And it's amazing just how brain dead I can be at times, but it wasn't until I read your entry quoted above, Angel, that I remembered "Kamakiri" has a bug derivation. So I went to the Sweet bio and found it... "He [Fagen] explained his choice of title by saying that he looked in a Japanese dictionary and discovered the word 'kamakiri' which meant praying mantis and which he thought was a great name for his protagonist's mythical, steam-powered, custom-tooled car." (p. 194) Of course, I'm sure y'all probably realized this all along in the various mantis postings. I'm just slow. :-) (And it's very possible it even came up during the various bug/mantis discussions, but I doesn't always remember stuff.)

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you Got mail Tuesday, August 9th 2005 - 08:08:51 PM Hi LP... Yes, would love to have sailed to your island but it is difficult as it is to decide where to go and what to skip "this time around"... we got a month and nearly not enough time as it seems to travel everywhere we like to! Got this from someone who doesn't live in Angel's neck of the woods: So as to not be outdone by all the redneck, hillbilly, and Texan jokes, you know you're from California if:   1.  Your coworker has eight body piercings and none are visible. 2.  You make over $300,000 and still can't afford a house. 3.  You take a bus and are shocked at two people carrying on a conversation in English. 4.  Your child's third-grade teacher has purple hair, a nose ring, and is named Breeze. 5.  You can't remember . . . is pot illegal?  6.  You've been to a baby shower that has two mothers and a sperm donor. 7.  You have a very strong opinion about where your coffee beans are grown, and you can taste the difference between Sumatran and Ethiopian.  8.  You know which restaurant serves the freshest arugula.  9.  You can't remember .. . is all pot illegal?  10.  A really great parking space can totally move you to tears. 11.  A low speed police pursuit will interrupt ANY TV broadcast. 12.  Gas costs $1.00 per gallon more than anywhere else in the U.S. 13.  A man gets on the bus in full leather regalia and crotchless chaps, and you don't even notice (what's there to notice?).    14.  Unlike back home, the guy at 8:30 am at Starbucks' wearing the baseball cap and sunglasses who looks like George Clooney really       -     IS  George Clooney. 15.  Your car insurance costs as much as your house payment. 16.  Your hairdresser is straight, your plumber is gay, the woman who delivers your mail is into S & M, and your Mary Kay rep is a -     -     guy in drag.  17.  You still can't remember . . . is pot illegal?  18.  It's barely sprinkling rain and there's a report on every news station:  "STORM WATCH". 19.  You have to leave the big company meeting early because Billy Blanks himself is teaching the 4:00 pm Tae Bo class. 20.  You pass an elementary school playground and the children are all busy with their cells or pagers. 21.  It's barely sprinkling rain outside, so you leave for work an hour early to avoid all the weather-related accidents. 22.  Hey!!!!  Is Pot Illegal???? 23.  Both you AND your dog have therapists.  .  . . and lastly,  24.  The Terminator is your governor.

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lp Tuesday, August 9th 2005 - 08:02:20 PM i love the appraising brothers on that show - i have never watched the brit version, that must be monty python hilarious - you are so lucky to be there, angel, i'm sure it's total chaos and giddy greed! civil war stuff, wow - i do have a vase dated from then that i would love appraised too someday gina - the month of may totally works, especially where you are going - it will be nice and warm but not too hot in ny - wish you could come up here, but alas, geography works against me being out of the statistical metropolitan area now

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angel Tuesday, August 9th 2005 - 07:42:47 PM http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/roadshow/series/highlights/2006/losangeles/index.html More info on the event.

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angel Tuesday, August 9th 2005 - 07:36:51 PM Gina: That's a great time to come to America! You will have probably perfect weather, both sides of the Country. You get all kinds of stuff at an Antiques Roadshow appraisal, but to me the difference between the British Show and the American is the way the American's get so excited, when they are told the price. The British are so cute, in their restrained way and I find that so nice to watch.

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vintaGe Tuesday, August 9th 2005 - 07:03:51 PM howdy lp... did someone say antiques roadshow? real curious about america's 'brocante' legacy and whether the stuff people sell & buy is all american or also perhaps european. and we kind of nailed down when we are coming to the USA (if all goes well)... would be the sweet month of May. Starting in the New York area. And then the West Coast and maybe even some of Mexico. So we're doing the Scrooge thang now :-)

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angel Tuesday, August 9th 2005 - 06:42:46 PM LP: A little Dutch birdie added that image. :-) I was online last night, checking work at home and such stuff and I glanced up at this calendar we have from Galpin Ford and this months car is called "Mantis". That serendipity thing at work again. -- If all works out, Hubby and I will be volunteering at the Antiques Roadshow event this weekend. Looking forward to seeing all that chaos again. All those people and all their stuff! It was hysterical last time and I am sure (minus more up front security) that it will be the same this time. Last time my Hubby volunteered and we had some wall sconces appraised at the end of the day. We found out that they were actually antique carriage decorations, from the Civil War era. We were suitably impressed. :-)

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luckless pedestrian Tuesday, August 9th 2005 - 04:34:48 PM wow angel - that's great! whatta pic too!

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g Tuesday, August 9th 2005 - 03:50:59 PM hi ange... some wake up call indeed! can understand everyone's glad all went well.

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angel Tuesday, August 9th 2005 - 03:01:12 PM First sonic boom awakening in many years. Gets that old heart jumping something fierce. :-) My son waited up on Sunday night, using all at his disposal to watch the shuttle land, only to have it aborted at around 2:30AM our time. So today we got the sign from above, that gave us the hint that the shuttle was landing at Edwards. He was happy.

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much obliGed Tuesday, August 9th 2005 - 12:05:28 PM what's also interesting, it has almost 1300 members from all over the globe and currently (as i write) 63 users online. the perfect pit for social studies, (comic) relief and the sensation of shock. it's what the word "ruthless" means: cruel, without pity, showing no mercy. Hm. Maybe even rumpus will do...?

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Tuesday, August 9th 2005 - 11:54:52 AM although that forum is interesting. It's where the anon assholes meet to trade slam tricks and tips. Thanks for the link. b

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cheese Tuesday, August 9th 2005 - 11:54:25 AM "your" Nietzsche link below. The Antichrist piece. Translated by H.L. Mencken. You were into the contents more than the ditties on top. And you're right to do so :-)

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not my translator Tuesday, August 9th 2005 - 11:52:03 AM huh?

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not me Tuesday, August 9th 2005 - 11:50:44 AM "With the veneration of super-comfort, spectaculars; super-shaken flatnesses, with super-super-smokings, super-cocktails, super-motors, finally all super-dumbass mechanizing and robotizing obscure rooms, of these caves a hundred and thousand times more numbing than the worst idolatric catacombs of the first centuries. All these paupers, these delirious serfs, completely wormeaten by the "ideolochic" propaganda of radio operators, of film and the "cancan" are delirious now of material desires with militant boorishness. The unemployed rent smokings!"

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oh Goodie Tuesday, August 9th 2005 - 11:43:55 AM http://ruthlessreviews.com/forum/index.php ßonjour! The link above may warp a question what nihilism, porn and heavy metal have in common. Oh, and scroll down to the POLITICS section, "your" Nietzsche translator H.L. Mencken is quoted...OK. some visuals now. Click the image below for a video on the music of Joni Mitchell: And Joni says, "Sex Kills"... I pulled up behind a Cadillac; We were waiting for the light; And I took a look at his license plate- It said, "Just Ice." Is justice just ice? Governed by greed and lust? Just the strong doing what they can And the weak suffering what they must? And the gas leaks And the oil spills And sex sells everything And sex kills ... Sex kills ... Doctors' pills give you brand new ills And the bills bury you like an avalanche And lawyers haven't been this popular Since Robespierre slaughtered half of France! And Indian chiefs with their old beliefs know The balance is undone-crazy ions- You can feel it out in traffic; Everyone hates everyone! And the gas leaks And the oil spills And sex sells everything And sex kills ... Sex kills ... All these jackoffs at the office The rapist in the pool Oh and the tragedies in the nurseries- Little kids packin' guns to school The ulcerated ozone These tumors of the skin- This hostile sun beating down on This massive mess we're in! And the gas leaks And the oil spills And sex sells everything And sex kills ... Sex kills ... Sex kills ... Sex kills ... Sex kills ...

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unless otherwise specified Tuesday, August 9th 2005 - 11:32:12 AM "The damned of the Earth on a side, the upper-class men on the other, they have, at the bottom, that only one idea, to become rich and it to remain, heads are worth the tails, same currency, same coin, in the hearts no difference. It is all guts and company. All for the buffet! Some more avid, nimbler, more tenacious, others lazier, more stupid, those which have the luck on one side, those without on the other. Question of chance, birth. But it is all the same feeling, the same disease, equal horror. The "boa" ideal, of the fifteen days digestions. All that rolls, rolls all venom, lukewarm, does not exceed 39°, it is a misfortune worse than all, the poor man's hell, the hell without flames. "The people it do not have an ideal, it only has needs. It is what of the needs? These are that the prisoners return, that there be no more unemployment, that one finds the so-so job, that one has the safety, that one is insured against all, the cold, the hunger, the fire, that one has the paid holidays, the retirement, the consideration, the cheap thrills and the liquor, plus the cinema and the bois de rose, the sober-styled smoking and the used petrolette for family trips. It is a program made all of matter, good eating and less effort. It is embryonic bourgeoisie which hasn't found its lot yet. And the most terrible upheavals, horrendous catastrophies will not change its program."

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when in rome give to caesar Tuesday, August 9th 2005 - 11:26:48 AM Always remember that "voulez-vous coucher avec moi?" is either a polite way to ask a complete stranger for sex OR a blunt way to ask the same of a group, a threesome or more.

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G ucci Monday, August 8th 2005 - 10:44:46 PM ahem t... did i say tux? may just as well be a line here: "your watch or mine...?" (ps, i don't have a Gucci btw, just a pic i found on the net) and this what i found when image googling for vintage watch

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t Monday, August 8th 2005 - 09:53:35 PM Because I like you and you have such a eye for fine jewelry, I'll cut you a deal - $35, or 2 for $50. Authentic replicas of original knock-offs. Accept no substitutes.

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C Monday, August 8th 2005 - 09:32:55 PM "They just get better and deeper, until technique is so second nature that creating is like breathing, and the 'show biz' part of performing/creating is unnecessary." Well put. Maybe I buy a watch of you after all. If it's an authentic Hongkong Rolex.

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tones - shaken, not stirred Monday, August 8th 2005 - 09:23:45 PM A tux? jeez... suddenly I feel horribly underdressed. Besides, I only wear my tux when I'm out doing my 007-ing. Gee, that Buena Vista Social Club movie is great. It really made an impression around these parts, and the resulting interest in the cd kept us afloat in late '97 and early '98. And personally it made me realise that real musicians, like most painters, don't lose anything after middle age. They just get better and deeper, until technique is so second nature that creating is like breathing, and the "show biz" part of performing/creating is unnecessary. Anyway... where was I? Oh yeah... I think you'll like it when you get there G...

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C Monday, August 8th 2005 - 01:05:39 PM i quote for john & petee

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C Monday, August 8th 2005 - 01:04:42 PM http://www.latimes.com M Monroes secret tapes.

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quote for petee Monday, August 8th 2005 - 01:02:46 PM Scroll a little lower now... "The weak and the botched shall perish". Alrighty then... who goes first? My dude here's got a funny mustache, gets on my nerves, turns out he's raving mad from syphillis. If he wasn't dead already, I'd kick his ass on that one. b

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Ha! Monday, August 8th 2005 - 01:02:43 PM "Mankind surely does not represent an evolution toward a better or stronger or higher level, as progress is now understood. This 'progress' is merely a modern idea, which is to say, a false idea. The US citizen* of today, in his essential worth, falls far below the European of the Renaissance; the process of evolution does not necessarily mean elevation, enhancement, strengthening." Should be; the European of today :-) //C

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g Monday, August 8th 2005 - 01:00:44 PM Nietzsche? whatever happened to your x cups of coffee in the morning, ß? Clas, sorry. maybe windows media player works, i dunno. but thanks for trying. About synchronicity. Wrote something about it in Mizar5, but it got better. Jeff "Skunk" Baxter was in the Blues Brothers 2000 movie too, the best part of the movie because it's all about music. The all stars Louisiana Gator Boys band. Eric Clapton, Bo Diddley, Joshua Redman, Steve Winwood, Billy Preston, Isaac Hayes, Lou Rawls, Dr. John, Grover Washington jr etc etc. And Lou Marini in the Blues Brothers band. Fun to watch indeed.

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who wrote the book on nietzsche quotes Monday, August 8th 2005 - 12:52:28 PM http://www.fns.org.uk/ac.htm Have your pick. Oh here's one, first paragraph already: "some men are born posthumously". That didn't take too long, eh? And it's something you can always use to inspire yourself, a real morning picker upper. And turns out he was right, in his own case, for what it's worth... Didn't the caveman they found have that one tatooed? Aww... Whatever... Now I don't know what I'm talking about. What? good day b

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No Monday, August 8th 2005 - 12:50:15 PM It doesn't work, I installed that quicktime realplayer and everything. It's apple-shit. C

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aGain Monday, August 8th 2005 - 12:31:56 PM http://www.afrocubaweb.com/ibrahimferrer.html (grin) oh yes ß, my ears my eyes, one big mess now. ok. you were referring to the Mother Ship. actually, we have that Wim Wenders Bueno Vista Social Club/Ry Cooder DVD here, haven't seen it yet/again. one of those things you can't pass up when reeled in by D I S C O U N T signs. what appeals may also be the romantic notion of L I F E, something authentic. music and life, people, living, culture and R O O T S. not to make big bucks out of it. or sell for the purpose of fame and fortune. something sincere. i can see that. Clas, aha, Finnish you say. But i'm shocked by the lack of respect for your elders :-) although it is funny.

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b bop a deja Monday, August 8th 2005 - 12:04:40 PM But I was talking about the real Mother Ship, gee. ahem... you know... And do keep my pants on, most of the times. ma So that old brazilian singer died. And there just came out a Wim Wenders movie about the guy. I don't want to get cynical again, that'd be easy. Btw, after having seen a report on the movie and the man, I can better dig how Fagen could see this musical genre as lively. There is a soul there that we're missing, as soccer moms. And now a major piece of it has gone silent. hey... respects.

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C Monday, August 8th 2005 - 11:55:00 AM My family, on my mothers side, spoke finnish. The old folks. My grandmother never learned a Swedish word. And she was an angry old woman with no teeth. My brother used to stick a peg up her ass (thru the back shutter) when she visited the outhouse. Damn she got mad.

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g Monday, August 8th 2005 - 10:50:18 AM howdy C... i say 'you're welcome' or 'graag gedaan' or indonesian: 'kembali'... pronounced as 'kum' sort of. usually it's 'thank you'='terima kasih' and then as reply 'kembali'. ah, those courtesy thingies :-) not that my knowledge of the language is superfluent, it's more recognizing words than actually knowing. when we were kids and my folks and company wanted to discuss grown-up stuff, they spoke indonesian so us kids couldn't understand. my grandmother also spoke indonesian most of the time. but ofcourse, i don't know how exactly, somehow we learned to understand the words and it was useless for them to switch languages. like some friends here now switch to english so their toddlers can't follow what they say. oh, and here (4 km down the road and back on Dutch soil) most also speak the local dialect, Maastrichts or Mestreechs, some mistake it for Swedish even... ß, personally i think this is a comfy quiet corner and what the heck, almost feels like old yellow times way back when, lots of personal notes then, yes, things sure did change over time (grin), kind of. all in the course of finding a new equilibrium that is... and oh, forget about your pants. don't you know you need a tux in here?

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C Monday, August 8th 2005 - 09:11:17 AM Thanks Gee. Copied and pasted in my notbook. My goal in life has always been a water buffalo and a rice field. And I am coming closer, I can feel it. Thanks babe.

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whatever doesn't kill me bores me to death Monday, August 8th 2005 - 02:37:29 AM Oh yeah tony, my man, it's incredible. But still nothing like the old mother ship, where we really let the knuckles fly, in keyboard speak. I'm amazed at the level of concision some achieve here in comparison. Such economy in the expression of the bestest of sentiments in the healthiest of environment. And personal notes... To think hoopsie may be reading this... jeezus where's my pants?! Clas, check your e. Oh he's sleeping... sorry I was out almost all weekend to some hick town for a footie tournament. Couldn't keep abreast of things. But now people will know you email, possibly exchange potential volumes of sensitive data with a suspected amateur of vintage poltically incorrect propagandist litterature, in a word, someone not fit to mingle with on one's fine way to the milk and honey. And you know how the evil word spreads fast in this neighborhood. This is not exactly you making a case for yourself. ha b

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tones Sunday, August 7th 2005 - 11:54:45 PM wow... horticulture, interior design, and DOG RACES!!! This place keeps getting better and better. Oh, and Indonesian language CLASses too...

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g Sunday, August 7th 2005 - 07:29:11 PM hi Ange... yes, skylight, it's directly under the roof of the house. the movie is an avi file, can be played using Quicktime Player Clas, if you like i can whisper some nice indonesian words in your ears so you can get on even grounds with the "Borneo gal", like the Indonesian equivalent of Do It Again. It would go like this: Sekali Lagi. Or 'terima kasih' which means 'thank you'. Counting 1,2,3,4,5 would be satu, dua, tiga, ampat, lima. And yellow is 'kuning', sounds like 'kooning'. Blue is 'biru'. The g in 'tiga' is like the first GGGGorgeous g. on another note... is it a weed or a flower or as Nigey put it: a flower is just a weed in the right place. See picture above. It's what grows out there in the wild, the wind carries the seeds and it settles to please us. This is a Long Island flower near a Centerport mailbox... Does anyone know its name or origin perhaps?

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C Sunday, August 7th 2005 - 06:56:01 PM What's the matter with that Borneo gal, is she seriously believing I am hitting on her? Flirting? I don't understand certain people. And I have for christs sakes not accused HER for the Brunei dictatorship? No, it's time for some food. And a life. MEG! Where are you?

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angel Sunday, August 7th 2005 - 05:07:09 PM Yes, Clas. A Public forum. :-) I think ponton in english is pontoon, but I could be wrong. I believe St. Al has one up in Seattle. It was a strange bridge between Mercer Island and the mainland Seattle area. Gina: I couldn't see that video either. I always love pictures of your work space and you have lovely flowers there today. Nice light coming in the window (is it a skylight?). By the way, hope you feel better. Nothing worse then being disoriented. Working on a Sunday. Yikes! Kidlet has to register for school tomorrow and I get Mommy duty. But the show must go on at work, so I get to do put it in today.

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C Sunday, August 7th 2005 - 03:28:11 PM Run Time error, unvalid media format. Shit. Can'r t look at it. Email me now B, as I asked a couple of blocks down. I aint got your emailaddress, or, I have it, I have several, but don't know which one to use.

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ps III Sunday, August 7th 2005 - 03:06:09 PM hey, that has a nice ring to it. Staircase Pimps. Make it Staircase Pimps on Pumps and you got yourself the next drag queen hit of 2006!

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ps II Sunday, August 7th 2005 - 03:04:00 PM wow. couldn't help but check out the backups from my virgin days online. turns out i have this webcam movie saved, it's in the old house, way back when in 2001. books all over the place. It takes a while to upload, so in the meantime i be writing this, ha! You can see Gaucho and his neighbour doggyfriend Mup run back and forth. Just click HERE and let the sideshow begin...

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Ahh Sunday, August 7th 2005 - 03:00:52 PM Dogs, yes. Before I got myself one I never cared for them. Now, walking the streets I wanna say hi to every dog I meet. And I wanna strangle that cat! Nice pics Gee. Woman has a tendency to make it nice around them. My working place looks like world war 2. And we spell it "sutenör" - pimp. But it's a pretty old word now, seldom used. My brother call the postmen Staircase Pimps, especially when he's waiting for a letter that never arrives. It doesn't make sense but I think it's very funny :-)

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ps Sunday, August 7th 2005 - 02:38:50 PM one more for the couch. it never really ceases to amaze me how these creatures we call dogs and pets can so totally have a personality of their own with their own quirky habits and such. Gaucho was here yesterday and wanted to sit on the bed, but it's the way he sits that had me laugh out loud. he sat there and posed like a model. oh, and to see the difference. one puppy pic from 2001! Anyway, last visual for the day. i promise! ciao!

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g Sunday, August 7th 2005 - 02:26:32 PM hi ß en C! it's a nice word, 'ponton'. entrepreneur too, although it makes me think of a pimp. which is 'souteneur'. and 'sou' is also used in dutch as in 'ik geef er geen sou voor' meaning 'i don't want to spend a dime on it'. but 'sou' is also a french word with its origin in the latin 'solidus' meaning golden coin. and in dutch, 'teneur' means the ideas, views behind something, its meaning, like 'de teneur van het artikel', the idea, view or meaning of an article... ok. i notice this mind of mine is running full speed again. gotto slow it down some. here's some more pics. i so love the digital macro ditty on the camera. and the other one is where i am when here and there and anywhere in cyberspace (grin). well, me goes offline now. enjoy your Sundays. and yes, mr Cook's passing on to another world. is it fair to say that politics and a not so optimistic view on the world of today did him in? a lesson for us then to not let the crazed stuff out there get to us. or our health.

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C Sunday, August 7th 2005 - 01:55:23 PM Ponton? We use that too. Reminds me when Bush said that those French are so strange, they aint got their own word for entrepreneur. We use entrepreneur too, spells entreprenör. Get better soon Gina.

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C Sunday, August 7th 2005 - 01:51:44 PM Sinusitis - had to look it up; bihåleinflammation - bihåla = sinus That's painful. George Weah - at least he can kick some asses. --- John is pissed. Very touchy. He... Yes, I almost forgot, B, could you email at pompesbodega@hotmail.com?

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g Sunday, August 7th 2005 - 01:49:02 PM hey there. thanks Daddy G but if anything won't make me feel better it's 2 SD albums. Don't get me wrong, still like the music but it's not what thrills me these days. What does, is the de- and reconstruction of the old and new bridge they're building just a few steps away from where i live. The new bridge was semi-officially opened last Friday and i was just in time to take a pic for the newspaper. The old one is gonna be demolished the next weekend, they got this huge 'ponton' (it's a french word but we use it too), a platform alongside the Albertcanal now, but each time a ship passes by, the waves hit the ponton and the ponton hits land so all the houses move like jello. kind of. very annoying, especially now the ears and equilibrium department are susceptible. and no antibiotics yet. an anti allergetic treatment first to try and dry the fluids inside my ear and if that doesn't work, i might allow those antibodies in my system. i am up and about, but fatigued easier.

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sunday mornings of history Sunday, August 7th 2005 - 12:30:55 PM George Weah, now that was something. Yes, president of Liberia... and why not? He's got something the leaders of the free world don't have: a talent for something, anything. Yeah, what he said, pretty much, w/o the two Steely Dans in the morning. Not proven very effective and may make you blind. Sounds like sinusitis, if I'm to play doctor. And that may require some antibiotics cocktail. But hopefully it is just a cold. Let freedom ring in the rubbles of Gaza! Hear that? it just goes boom! b

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C Sunday, August 7th 2005 - 11:49:55 AM RIP - Robin Cook

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C Sunday, August 7th 2005 - 11:34:10 AM What? Are you sick Gee? An ordinary flu or something else?

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Daddy G. Saturday, August 6th 2005 - 03:12:56 AM Gina, I just wanted to say simply that I hope you feel better soon. An offered remedy: Play two Steely Dan CDs and check back in the morning! :-)

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C Friday, August 5th 2005 - 09:57:03 PM I was about to write something not mentioned for everybodies ears, I forgot this is a public place. Dangerous shit. I better jog on home and and take a light workout and swallow it down with icecream, eggs and protein powder. And then Halcion and gone... I am about to create a new litter. And have to look somewhat in shape. //Clas, the Yuppie of the New Century

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g Friday, August 5th 2005 - 07:17:00 PM just in for a quick scan :-) TV themes... to stay in the LA Law area, Mike Post=Hill Street Blues. And there was this show with John Travolta as a teacher, or a sub. Welcome Back Kotter... and Taxi... Ange, package on its way. No time to hunt down nice mints and such, but i hope something else arrives in a mint condition :-) Politics. Just watched a news item about the country Liberia and an interview with soccerplayer GEORGE WEAH who's now running for presidente... And that's about it. Got equilibrium trouble because of a cold or an infection, so heavy into ear- and nosedrops and a lot of noise that doesn't belong up there in my head. Gotto keep the mind in slow, slower mode :-) Have a good weekend y'all.

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angel Friday, August 5th 2005 - 06:46:33 PM I'll take TV Themes for $20. My guys watch Perry Mason each evening at 7P. I get home around 7:45P and am there just in time for the closing theme song. Those strings still inspire, all these years later. :-)

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casus belli blawg Friday, August 5th 2005 - 01:22:35 PM As we speak, it's still very much the object of political combat, this medium here. I read blogs about blogs and they tell me how Capital is working hard at orienting talk so it doesn't slip into something unmanageable for business. This state of relative freedom of speech we're still enjoying here is fragile and under fierce attack, as people have been hired to clean up their corporate consumerist blogs and message boards. They run a huge but tight ship where not everything goes at all. What they want are communities of yes men to help their fuzzy dream of a future where man becomes machine instead of machines helping men to further free themselves. Because if you follow the Gates argument, the "Road Ahead" to its ultimate logical conclusion, you'd objectively spend your whole life behind a screen, going from XBox Live for fun to XP for work. That's when you wouldn't be at your favorite virtual "Cafe" for some jive and java. That's the future offered. And the power to give shape to the future is all the power of money. I couldn't say that on Microsoft chat lines, as sure as I couldn't let out a fuck. It wouldn't even print, a pure non-entity, yes, much like a failed fart. TV themes, Clas, for a hundred... tv themes are often cool because it's usually performed by the finest. They get the jingle gigs. From Henry Mancini to Morricone and that guy who did the cop shows, fine fine stuff. I saw Fagen admit to be inspired by tv music and the vice versa may be true, as a lot of pop music from the eighties sounded kinda Gaucho-esque in tone. I dunno what else to say... ha b

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PS/ Thursday, August 4th 2005 - 02:08:06 PM Letterman is still funny. And crazy.

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Öh? Thursday, August 4th 2005 - 02:06:21 PM Letterman aside for a while; don't you remember the LA Law theme? We discussed it over here, or over "there", maybe a year ago. How Mike Post's music was pretty much Steely Danish? Hill Street Blues, NYPD and others, don't you remember?

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beuh Thursday, August 4th 2005 - 01:30:26 PM http:// No, Clas, not particularly, it does ring familiar, but now I can't shake that NYPD Blue music... argh, why ask?... you did mention Letterman the other day and it got me curious because that I remember well from the eighties. That used to be funny. I used to tape it all the time and watch it over breakfast, at the height of my geekdom. In the days of NBC, with Charles Grodin, Harvey Pekar, Chris Elliot, Marv Albert, before he got arrested... anyways... those days, 1984 and on, hilarious, golden moments of yankee television, looking back. That is until the much-publicized lost of Tonight to Jay Leno (hep funny how this was the type of prime media concerns pre-nine eleven) and the move to CBS, after which he definitely lost some edge, got soft, I thought. He used to play the bad conscience of the american media in general and NBC in particular back in the old days, using direct slurs and insults towards management, politicians, guests and lame celebrities at large. Like some "Howard Stern light", yes, in a way, but without all the tits and ass. Now I just see him at the race track (at Indy, was the last time, teaming up with Bobby Rahal, who he used to poke fun of back in the days), whenever the kid watches that dreadful ovale racing from down south. Letterman owns an IRL "stable", three or four cars, including the one with young female driver Danika Patrick in it. I'm sleeping that hour of the night these days. Has he gotten the mojo back? May check it out, if I find the VCR remote. Some things you can't do w/o the device. now the person who finds a way for people never to lose the damn remote is the next Bill Gates, no doubt. It is so totally irritating over time... people have tried, failed and indeed a god we may need, if only to fix that. aww well... happy day

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C Thursday, August 4th 2005 - 08:42:07 AM http://www.blue-rabbit.com/polyphonics/lalaw_theme.html B - remember this theme? http://www.blue-rabbit.com/polyphonics/lalaw_theme.html

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g Thursday, August 4th 2005 - 07:23:46 AM can't resist this pendent talk... Daddy G, here's mine!

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angel Wednesday, August 3rd 2005 - 08:45:24 PM Hey Daddy G! My pendant hangs here at work, so at this point, I don't wear it. But I saw Nigey wearing her's, when she and I met in Hicksville. :-) I am currently rereading Brian Sweet's book (no surprise there, right Nigey). I borrowed it from my Steely Dan work friend and the last time I saw the book was in 2000, so to say the least, there are many things I did not connect or remember. I know that Brian added an addendum to the book, after 2VN, but I hope he does add in EMG and Fagen's new solo effort. That would be real nice. I can't wait to hear how Donald connects up musically to Nightfly and Kamikiriad.

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Daddy G. Wednesday, August 3rd 2005 - 08:06:01 PM Sounds cool, Angel. Yes, please let us know if/when they do that. I'll be curious to see how they present them online. I also wanted to ask what you ended up doing with yours, specifically you talked of making it into a pin. Were you able to do that? Just curious. Hope you like it regardless. Also, it's great to finally hear some sort of "meaty" news on the new DF CD! Not that the release date info is anywhere close to set in stone, but it's nice just to have the beginnings of real info trickling out. I keep hoping that the DF.com Albums page will show the new CD artwork one of these days, but that's probably a long way off and just wishful thinking on my part.

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angel Wednesday, August 3rd 2005 - 06:20:20 PM I got a call yesterday from the Humane Society of San Bernardino asking me about those Praying Mantis pendents, that Daddy G brought to our attention a few months ago. It seems that the Humane Society is thinking of putting the pendents up on their website and were looking for some information. If they do put them up on their website, I will let you know. She said she would email me, if it did occur.

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HTML tags from hell... Wednesday, August 3rd 2005 - 06:15:26 PM (snip)But Fagen does have his odd guilty pleasures. When Asher came off the stage, a nice looking blonde in her mid-50s came over to say hello. "I don't know if you remember me," she said, "but I'm Mary Weiss, lead singer of the Shangri-Las. We opened for you once." Asher was happy to see her, but not nearly has much as Fagen. "I had a terrible crush on you," he told Weiss, who said she was shaking as she met him. (end snip)

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third time is the charm Wednesday, August 3rd 2005 - 06:10:54 PM (This was somehow cut off from the previous post)< "I don't know if you remember me," she said, "but I'm Mary Weiss, lead singer of the Shangri-Las. We opened for you once." Asher was happy to see her, but not nearly has much as Fagen. "I had a terrible crush on you," he told Weiss, who said she was shaking as she met him. >> (From a Fox News report which stated Fagen's solo album is slated for release in January '06) Probably back in the Jay and the Americans days...

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Is this "Strictly From Hicksville, Phase II"? Wednesday, August 3rd 2005 - 06:08:35 PM < "I don't know if you remember me," she said, "but I'm Mary Weiss, lead singer of the Shangri-Las. We opened for you once." Asher was happy to see her, but not nearly has much as Fagen. "I had a terrible crush on you," he told Weiss, who said she was shaking as she met him. >> (From a Fox News report which stated Fagen's solo album is slated for release in January '06) Probably back in the Jay and the Americans days...

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Is this "Strictly From Hicksville, Phase II"? Wednesday, August 3rd 2005 - 06:07:43 PM < "I don't know if you remember me," she said, "but I'm Mary Weiss, lead singer of the Shangri-Las. We opened for you once." Asher was happy to see her, but not nearly has much as Fagen. "I had a terrible crush on you," he told Weiss, who said she was shaking as she met him. >> (From a Fox News report which stated Fagen's solo album is slated for release in January '06) Probably back in the Jay and the Americans days...

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UUUHUHUHUUUHUHU! Wednesday, August 3rd 2005 - 12:52:44 PM I can't find no pics from Cincinnati dan-fest!

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angel Wednesday, August 3rd 2005 - 02:10:42 AM For those keeping track of the mundane. The third baby ended up being born on the 28th and thus missed your birthday, Blaise.

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g auto reply Monday, August 1st 2005 - 04:13:49 PM "due to realtime life obligations me is forced to take all of this slow for at least a week. and as the ß-man usually says then: "carry on"... and hold the fort!

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i hear ya Monday, August 1st 2005 - 12:51:20 PM http://www.stylusmagazine.com/feature.php?ID=1654 "And so there's an implicit critique in "I.G.Y." of the sort of lulling acquiescence that's often associated with utopian societies. But in draping this commentary with the sounds of smooth jazz, Fagen can't help turning the song into an ironic self-critique as well. I mean, smooth jazz as a genre is itself a descendant of the easy listening, or "beautiful music," phenomenon of the I.G.Y. era, which was often sold as music for relaxing at the end of a productive workday—not too far, really, from the tranquilizing "labyrinth of sonorous colors" that made up the music in Brave New World."

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thru travels facts unravel Monday, August 1st 2005 - 11:47:59 AM http://music4.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/musice/1112903640 scroll down to item 5. It's a cute piece of ascii art.

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Daddy G. Monday, August 1st 2005 - 03:49:45 AM Borderline obsession or not, I enjoyed seeing the pics and reading about Hicksville where the seeds of Steely Dan were sown. Thanks Angel and Nigey. I usually find it interesting to see the humble beginnings of "stars" and realize that, yes indeed, they once were "normal" just like you and me. Well, you anyway, I guess. Anyone who knows me knows I've never really been normal! :-)

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g Sunday, July 31st 2005 - 10:44:28 PM http://www.simpsoncrazy.com/episodeguide/season8/4f08.shtml one more before i check out of the online world to 'get real'. lol. the link above, about the Simpsons episode, when Yellow was all about synchronicity and such. maybe we're spreading it all over, because i feel i'm in a continuum of it :-)

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g Sunday, July 31st 2005 - 07:10:38 PM http://www.writingaffairs.com/mizar5net/index.php?cat=13 hi C ... you haven't checked Mizar5 today or else you would have known. it's the link above! and N... i was wondering about that 'borderline obsession' remark but when i checked the Blue, the mystery was solved. had me a real good and hard laugh when reading the comment. that ph person probably checked his or her parents into a mental hospital for keeping baby albums and other memorabilia around long after he/she has left home :-) oh, and he/she must have flunked beyond flunkable level, in history class!

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we had an accomplice... Sunday, July 31st 2005 - 05:46:10 PM It would be very remiss of me not to offer a tip o'the porkpie hat to Angel for aiding and abetting us on our "borderline obsession" tour of Hicksville...thanks, Angel, we couldn't have done it without you! --N.

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UHM! Sunday, July 31st 2005 - 05:14:20 PM I'm tired, gottogo home. I don't understand what you're talking about anyway. //C

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g Sunday, July 31st 2005 - 02:26:42 PM hey, good day to ya monsieur canadien. yes, ditto, liked the way how Nigey phrased it all. going back to the actual roots of Steely Dan this way was one great idea of her. it also enriches when listening to their demo songs, the Catalyst tracks and such. yep.

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gotta say Sunday, July 31st 2005 - 01:19:59 PM I like the way it is suggested in the Hicksville story that the environment pictured, sort of "anytown suburban", likely has contributed in shaping the songwriting. And how... IGY, etc. yes... originating out of the dull concrete landscape and the bungalows. Nice steely ditty. b

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Sunday, July 31st 2005 - 12:41:27 PM http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5010.htm

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modern i-ching Sunday, July 31st 2005 - 08:13:53 AM http://www.rtqe.net/ObliqueStrategies/Acquire.html#download the mac download works rather well...

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synchronistic chaos Sunday, July 31st 2005 - 08:07:23 AM http://www.rtqe.net/ObliqueStrategies/OSintro.html sometimes the quickest way between two points is to do nothing

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howdy doody says Saturday, July 30th 2005 - 12:03:14 PM http://edition.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/03/05/bush.radio/ And now I know for sure where it's coming from. Yep... Anyone heard any good music lately? lol

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pentagon briefs Saturday, July 30th 2005 - 11:45:27 AM Yes, I could finally doze off, so to speak, because an apparent contradiction was just lifted in my mind. There was indeed a real-time snail mail correspondance that took place over some years between Leo Strauss and Alexandre Kojeve. And Kojeve is considered the foremost Hegel commmentator of the last century. All was made clearer then and this sense of familiarity between the Bush doctrine of the "march of Freedom" and the hegelian idea of a "march of Reason" (the Enlightenments' "freedom, equality, fraternity"), and how the former appeared to present itself as a moment in the latter. Unbeknownst to Bush, of course, him remaining a dumb puppet, an embodiement of a certain idea of the average american, in the process. But Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz, etc., after Strauss and the Straussians, which they studied under, understand all this perfectly and put it into practice. Between Bush and yours truly there's merely a difference in the interpretation of Hegel. Subtle detail, which may cost yet again millions of lives... indeed the power of ideas... And now I can move on, sort of. Thank you all for your patience. lol b

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g Saturday, July 30th 2005 - 08:45:59 AM cool visuals, ß. good morning. and did i spot ygk in here? Howdy ygk, how's life in Manhattan? gotto go, but will have the new latest Nigey Lennon WITH A GUN article online later this day... it's G O O D !

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t Friday, July 29th 2005 - 07:33:19 PM god... Beleive me, I don't have a handle on any of this either. I'm usually the first person throwing a fit because of something out of my control. And lord knows I could use a lot more *positive* structure in my life. I think I've overcompensated to the other extreme, so please don't assume I think I'm any kind of authority, lol... I've just got ideas, mostly unsubstantiated, and I try to fit my "reality" into what most people see as "reality" and hope nobody notices I'm faking it... lol!! Maybe I'm giving too much away... lol... :-/ And anyway... I agree with everything you said. I was just trying to explain my chaos fetish... Sweet dreams.

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you can trust me Friday, July 29th 2005 - 07:11:05 PM I am nobody. lol tones, that is the question... I understand there's a tone of conviction in what I'm saying, in the way it is said, but there really isn't much in the way strong, unshakable conviction here. And for me either, obviously it's not all figured out, as it is rather complex. Theories are seductive, but that's all the extent to which I'm willing to go in making them mine. And so it appears disjointed in structure, cutting corners, full of typos, presented all lazyass-like. Nature of the medium. I'm not writing a thesis here, nor do I want to convert anyone to any clear doctrine, I'm just shooting the shit about what I hear, about how things seem to be shaping up, from my perspective. And that's really all there is to it. I'm not expecting any feedback but it is true that I'm rather talkative these days, don't know why... some things need to be expressed in some way. I'm not sure if I want to debate them at lenght. It is tiring doing that and the people you engage with in talks, as it is often the case, they eventually just disappear into the night. And you end up feeling like it's not worth it to carry that rock back up the mountain again. I used to have that energy to push points across when we was young, wild and free. ha Or maybe I just need to get some sleep... toddles now moi

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tones Friday, July 29th 2005 - 06:13:46 PM gotta be a bit quick here (on my way to work...), but I wanted to say a bit chaotically... B, I agree, the social structure of this particular society doesn't leave a lot of *real* wiggle room. Can't really get away with not participating in the war machine on some level without starving or ending up in jail, unless you *completely* detach. And personally I kinda like running water and indoor plumbing. But I see chaos as a natural occurance that frustrates a lot of poeple who try to control it, and that makes for high blood pressure and bad art, imho. Chaos as in the car breaking down, naturals disasters, lost car keys, playing the "wrong" note, etc. When "shit happens" it's seens as mistake, when more and more I think it's natures way of balanceing our tendancy to micro-control. When nature is left to it's own devices, the randomness of nature is balanced by its natural structure. It seems to work pretty well. The opposite of that to the extreme is sending troops halfway across the world to "subdue" the terrorists. And surprise surprise, all that created was more chaos. It's a totally predictable outcome imho. Chaos in art - if the artist is open to the whim of their muse, then the possiblities are endless. The natural randomness of their muse added to the structure of technique will produce something unexpected and real, not contrived. But the tendency is to "produce", giving little room for spontanaity. And in most cases if inspiration does seep in, most artists take credit for it as their own "genius", instead of the possibility of chaos and their reaction to it. That's the quick version of my on-going chaotic observations. All imho, of course. Sorry for the typos, but that's part of the process, right? :-)

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Friday, July 29th 2005 - 05:39:27 PM http://www.claremont.org/writings/crb/summer2004/west.html?FORMAT=print

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ygk Friday, July 29th 2005 - 03:46:22 PM greetings cafe folks, or should I just say, greetings, snail? I've been pondering deeply lately, such as the plural of moose? (mess) and other such assorted trivia...... hope everyone is well regards, ygk

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whatever... Friday, July 29th 2005 - 01:20:02 PM http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/07/25/hansisland050725.html Clas, us canadiens may go at it with Denmark, no less over ownership of some piece of arctic land. Talks are heating up. Any advice on how to tame these people? lol

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footnote Friday, July 29th 2005 - 12:33:39 PM I know... it's Lyndon Larouche... and the second part of the article reveals some limitations... but still if Wolfowitz and the likes studied under Strauss, he's got his share of influence, if only as mentor. b

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re: what I heard Friday, July 29th 2005 - 12:13:52 PM http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2003/3011profile_strauss.html

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note Friday, July 29th 2005 - 12:00:26 PM You know even cushy old men, when push comes to shove, end up to the frontlines. No matter what your status at home. In 1944 Germany, even university rectors had to go and fight. We're another nine eleven away from this and you know it. May peace be with you. I mean that.

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le petit canajun Friday, July 29th 2005 - 11:41:43 AM Oh my kid has been handled since his early infancy. It was just extra services, overkill with kindness... shouldn't talk about that anymore. My faux pas. So chaos... okay... fly shit... but I don't think so. First, the type of events which can happen are historically determined and finite. I think I made that clear enough, you may surf the internet but hunting deer with your bare hands... not very likely and etc. It'd have to get real chaotic out there. There's nothing more organized than our nowdays existence. Every possible social or individual practice, from file sharing to fist f***ing is considered, codified by law. Read your whole body of laws, there's your possible "chaos", and the extent of your freedom. I cannot be anymore straightforward. You guys are obscure, not me. "Holy Ghost", the fuck is that, really? "Chaos", certainly describes the chain of events over time but how does it apply as a social theory just when life is getting all the more predictable every day? Fly theories, they are, interesting, cosmic stuff!... but which bring little working understanding of existence, just more chaos in yo own head, aporia, obviously. Meanwhile a ruling class, followers of Leo Strauss (what I heard) are leading your country into international chaos and there's nothing you can do. And obviously what american philosophy and science deems important as objects of study (fractals, logical paradoxes, chaos, nuclear fruit fly mating), by its utter practical vaccuity, allows this to happen. And meanwhile people find their ethics in cheap "self-help books on how to succeed"... that may be a problem. As long as you and a couple of reputedly important chaps to recognize your greatness - survive, things remain peachy going forward. Kid next door went over to Iraq Yellow ribbons but he never came back I am trying to teach anal sex to fruit flies... The phone rings now, they're running out of kids They want you... oohh ooh toodle-oo Not so far-fetched. Not if this goes on for decades, as suggested.

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tzg Thursday, July 28th 2005 - 09:11:37 PM angel, you naughty girl! Keep up the good work... :-P

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angel Thursday, July 28th 2005 - 08:23:05 PM Looks like a threesome to me. ;-)

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tzg Thursday, July 28th 2005 - 08:07:40 PM btw... another reason I like 6:19 is it's like a double wide yin-yang...

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time zone guru Thursday, July 28th 2005 - 08:05:23 PM My favorite time is 6:19... it's the same upside down as it is downside up, as is 11:11. Synchronicity? Oh that's just a little game we time zone gurus play to keep things interesting among ourselves. It happens more often than most people notice. As a matter of fact, we were over doing it with the synchronicity a while back (hey, we were bored; it's been a slow millennium so far...) and the Society of time zone gurus and Golf Caddies made us reel it in a little. Funny thing was we had just decided to ease up when the memo came down. Not sure who pulled that one off... b - it took them *two years* to get around to disrupting your life for nothing? Next time you need assistance be sure to call a couple years ahead of time. yeesh...

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angel Thursday, July 28th 2005 - 07:06:17 PM My favorite time is 11:11. Again that Serendipity thing going on here. Yesterday I was listening to a Police CD I borrowed from my son. The title of the album got me Googling the meaning of Zenyatta Mondatta and found out in my travels what each of The Police titles mean, including Synchronicity. Just to save you the time, Zenyatta Mondatta means absolutely nothing! Totally made up words that include Zen and Monde (world) and sound interesting together. Synchronicity means doing the exact same thing at the exact same time. Like synchronizing your watches. -- Baby 2 turned up yesterday (the 2nd child in a set of twins), still waiting for news of number 3. Suddenly baby busy here at work, a new generation me thinks.

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ps Thursday, July 28th 2005 - 04:16:45 PM oh yeah. i look at the clock just now and it says 16.16.

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g Thursday, July 28th 2005 - 04:16:07 PM http://www.planetizen.com/oped/item.php?id=155 have to pull the laughable dog catcher's work in here... fun article to read indeed. gotta love the wordisms, so ßude, don't worry about "moise" either being or not being. i so don't wish to associate the phenomenon with the song, but i can't help seeing the word (digital clockwise, right?), black cover red letters right? hm. there's this slight neurotic itch involved with a clock.. like 12.12 or 11.44 or it being 14.14. There seems to be something real magical about it, or peaceful. As if it's perfect timing then. Ah well...

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lp @ coffee and air conditioning Thursday, July 28th 2005 - 03:51:00 PM i've gotten so musty in my brain that when i see the word synchronicity, the start of the song immediately runs into my brain so i guess i need to clear my head more and go for a longer swim today at lunch - mixing my swimming and walk/running gig

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btw Thursday, July 28th 2005 - 03:09:31 PM It's frightening - the word is not too strong here - to think that some out there so readily embrace having to sell themselves on the market as a mere commodity, furthermore make it their lifelong goal! the accomplishments of american philosophy for ya... Marx'd be spinning dizzy in his grave right now, if he gave a ... Granted most of us have to bear with the condition of having to sell ourselves. Embracing it as an ideal is a whole other matter. that is all now. salut bien.

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Thursday, July 28th 2005 - 12:37:25 PM The tension between the idea of the cow in general and a particular sample of the beast, the dialectical movement between them, is illustrated in art as well. All at once being represented as one, the tension between the general and the particular is pictured as resolved. And that's what I find particularly brilliant about that particular Clas painting, or series of paintings. The reflexion it inspires runs pretty deep. petit b

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what I meant then was Thursday, July 28th 2005 - 12:18:40 PM much like mumu over there, I believe the perception of synchronicity is more acute the more you are exposed to certain shared sets of cultural elements. It happens more now than in nineteen ninety, say. Because there is Internet, and 500 more channels, and a more homogenous culture across the board and generally more leisure time to explore... al of which leads to a heigthened point cultural ebullition. This angle would cover not only synchronicity, but the sense of deja vu (because you likely did live through a strangely similar sequence of events before) and serendipity (because elements will inevitable meet, especially in a finite context). and bla bla...

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on a lighter note... Thursday, July 28th 2005 - 12:03:32 PM Hegel knew a great deal about law. I suspect that's where he got his whole concept of the dialectical movement of History. Existence being coded by law, the latter's text constantly sees amendements over time, modifications through debates, until it is relatively fixed, and reaches a certain perfection in covering all possible instances of a given phenomenon. It then reaches the synthetical moment, when all contradictions have been mended between the representation and the real. A law is unjust in an advanced modern State? matter of time (though it can take a while and move backwards a lifetime or more in order to jump forward) before it is made right through opposition, conflict or debate. Reason prevails, always in the end. The whole System is there in a nutshell... And teleological, it is. And Marx in his own way made his this idea of a perfect society in the making, free of division. Since following this argumentation we can see an eventual end to conflict and with that, a novel relationship to Time, other than linear... *shut uuuup!*

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g Thursday, July 28th 2005 - 11:44:26 AM whatever moises ya, dude :-) the more i think of it, the more i feel the word synchronicity is so misleading in a way. a series of meaningful coincidences as in pinpointed by C. Jung. but when i hear synchronicity it makes me think of things happening at the same time, different things maybe even... like an old guy stumbling on the pavement, and at the exact same time a kid stumbling like that old guy, but then across the street. if i were to witness such an event, i'd sharpen my pencil and note it down as synchronicity. but that would be a spontaneous act of synchronization occurring. there's an example given in the Carl Jung synchronicity theory. about the rational woman and the golden scarab, the tapping on the window. a scarab-like bug. and there you have it, the SUBJECTIVE approach in all of this. there's fact and imaginative interpretation of an event, a moment, a thought. oh and most certainly what you say, ß. about the imagery of planes heading for skyscrapers, no way a medieval could have these images in mind. alas, gotto go now. keywords in all of this? awareness, harmony, perfection, gratification, fantasy, reality, senses, serendipity (again, the faculty of mind in making fortunate discoveries by chance) and perhaps some pagan old-fashioned sense of religion, superstition, ancient believes, forces of nature reigning stuff etc etc. oh yes, culture for sure. Carl Jung was a western guy. Referring to the ancient Egypts and their belief. Well, just take a look at some of the bugs on that bugs website down here somewhere ... Some of them have features and looks that are amazing in shape and sense. Even if they are small, i couldn't help but a little voice telling me to respect even the littlest creature we share this planet with. I mean, it's tiny cells, virusses and bacteria doing mankind in, right? laters

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ps Thursday, July 28th 2005 - 11:05:42 AM I know "moise" is not a word. But maybe it should be a verb, signifying "frenetic moisturizing", since that's not nearly as elegant a way to put it. First I moise. Then I palm. Then I'm poised, feeling calm. dig it? lol

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Ma-a, it's too early Thursday, July 28th 2005 - 10:56:40 AM Each epoch being characterized by a certain finite transcendantal horizon of meaning*, it is inevitable that constitutive symbolic elements and/or their referent will organize and re-organize themselves, time and again show and hide and reoccur through us like Deleuzian flows, often times in a seemingly chaotic way, sometimes, and that's the crux of the biscuit here, with perceived harmony. But each time always strictly appearing as such within the given realm of the possible for a period. And it seems, the more intense the exposure to the constitutive elements of culture, the higher likelihood of that phenomenon being noted, perceived, rising to consciousness. With the moise level being what it is now, with the mass media and the generalized chatter over "shared interests", it becomes even more likely, since, much like exciting electrons through heat exposure, the whole process appears thereby accelerated. Synchronicity, oh but that happens all the time now... yes. And it seems more often that it used to. I huh... agree? *It is impossible, say, that a dream about airplanes crashing into skycrapers occurs to a medieval man. Indeed, the idea could never have dawned on Muhammad. Planes, trains and automobiles.... Paris Hilton could have never been elements of apparent synchronicity for a human of his time, naturally. And in turn, neither could entities which were lost to history (which you will understand i can't possibly name, be an element in our own perception of coincidence. That's for one: the idea of finitude, of a closed circuit-type era, where signifiers are boxed in for a while, then kept or released, sort of at the mercy of whimsical winds. But non-entity, on the other hand, the stuff of fables in its own time, could enter that dance. Yeah... like a creature crawling to the surface from the bottom of a dark Scottish lake. God? ditto... As long as it's a signifier. Even a pure signifier with no real referent works. Ask Keith to ask Sting. b

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C Wednesday, July 27th 2005 - 10:03:56 PM Goodnight babes.

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angel Wednesday, July 27th 2005 - 08:37:33 PM Popular day to be born. I have 1 picture in my in box already and am waiting for the birth of possibly 2 more today. Hmmmmm....must be that cooling off of the summer heat thing. ;-)

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g Wednesday, July 27th 2005 - 07:27:54 PM grin. smelled nice :-) made me think of a commercial i saw the other day. so your little rainman put up a show, eh? and yes, so much music so ample time. as well as many movies, too few pairs of eyes. or something like that.

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angel Wednesday, July 27th 2005 - 07:25:23 PM Blaise: Glad we gave you the good tidings early. What a nightmare of a birthday for you.

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b have ya Wednesday, July 27th 2005 - 05:10:35 PM Well at least she smelled nice... but all of a sudden, at first, just as she had arrived, the kid starts going into one of his trimestrial intense crisis mode. I had put on his shoes, he so thought he was going for a car ride... pissed off monumentally... starts punching me in the back, a couple times on the head and screaming and squeezing my skin, while I'm sitting at the table talking to this woman, who's interested in his behavior... trying to remain cool. I let out "this is a nightmare"... this hardly ever happens. Ask people... she said not to worry that she understood, etc. but... you know... Eventually, after a good ten minutes of this ape shit, he calmed down again. But for a while there, I thought this kid was going away in a vest... on my birthday! Well, now it's done with. Und Danke shun fur das! I'll have to get back to you on the music. So much music, so little time, right?... isn't that the word out these days amongst the pen pals? You don't say...

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g Wednesday, July 27th 2005 - 03:31:07 PM http://www.berklee.edu/bt/163/alum_profile1.html It was in Blue. Hoops mentioned what he'd read in an article, about WB playing bass and co-producing a Krishna Das album, for Artemis Records (RLJ also released albums there). The search engines come up with a number of links to musicians who were involved. Interesting, because Kit Walker also has ties to Krishna Das. (We interviewed Kit Walker, located in San Franscisco, for Mizar5). Matt Kilmer is a young drummer and percussionist, other musicians involved are David Nichtern ( see link above, he wrote the Maria Muldaur hit Midnight at the Oasis), Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen, Ty Burhoe on tabla, Jay Messina (Aerosmith) and a choir... Ha. How eclectic can ya get, right?

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uh? Wednesday, July 27th 2005 - 02:59:21 PM Krishna Das project? What's that? //C

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g Wednesday, July 27th 2005 - 02:16:31 PM yep. found it. also, on a Walter Becker note.. i contacted the drummer Matt Kilmer for more info on the Krishna Das project... we'll see how it goes, right?

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C Wednesday, July 27th 2005 - 01:33:29 PM Gee, check your inbox.

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ps Wednesday, July 27th 2005 - 01:27:19 PM yes, a British movie. but it's heavy. N and i were on opposite camps afterwards, it sure stirs the emotions around :-)

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g Wednesday, July 27th 2005 - 01:26:02 PM hey C... i know what you mean. maybe you should just start and smile at your keyboards. imagine you're young again and feel it up like it's a woman......

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C Wednesday, July 27th 2005 - 01:24:18 PM Ladybird Ladybird, is it a British movie? Read about it. It's on my list now.

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C Wednesday, July 27th 2005 - 01:20:27 PM Ah, know what you're talking about B. They've been around our apartment, and my neighbours´, too. Too much loud music and drunk madness. A little woman came to our place and looked kind of surprised the place didn't look like a joint. ... Oh Gina, I wish we could do some music. My creativity is drying out here.

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oh Wednesday, July 27th 2005 - 10:38:16 AM sorry they will be in yer face on a day like today. but things could NEVER be as bad as in a film recently seen on tv.. directed by Ken Loach: Ladybird, ladybird

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ineffingcredible Wednesday, July 27th 2005 - 10:09:48 AM Two years ago, I was sort of talked into making a demand for services. And just now, it's made its way to some dumbfuck social operator. Called yesterday, wanted a meeting in my home at 8:30 this morning, to discuss things that they "may not be able to do anyway". It's just an excuse to sniff around my place and report... And here I am wondering if there's a stain left on the walls somewhere and such... eff this. Write this down now: much of the stress involved in this type of situation is caused by dealing with the giant, ineffective yet self-congratulory network of "social services" out there. People sitting on their hands, preying on the "needy", imposing their often idiotic petty bourgeois standards and demands upon the parent. I could go on... but there's laundry everywhere... happy day!

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b Wednesday, July 27th 2005 - 09:55:16 AM ... directly flame people, sometimes for no reason. fine by me. That is, 'less it is me being flamed. Then the lights go out. I like that policy, very sound and plain, no bullshit. Woh... you trying to scare me this morning won't work. That is rather fugly but my love, it runs deeper than that. argh Visitors from the State, governement in my home, 8:30 am, no less. Oh, it's a wondy day so far. The effing nerve of some people... ravaging the layman's nervous ystem with their politburo crap... won't let me sleep.

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JOYEUX ANNIVERSAIRE, ßßßßßßß Wednesday, July 27th 2005 - 09:09:16 AM

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angel Tuesday, July 26th 2005 - 10:41:27 PM Tones: I truly thought the PM was the sweetest thing and actually made me and the kidlet try one more time to make it happen. As I said though, it is gone, gone, gone. Proud to call you friend. :-)

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C Tuesday, July 26th 2005 - 10:30:59 PM I like that chair, could be used by Jay Graydon and his band (ch)airplay. Goodnight.

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tones Tuesday, July 26th 2005 - 08:49:28 PM angel... disregard the pm, lol... I was so worried about the Palm for some reason... couldn't sleep... couldn't eat (I wish... lol)... always room for cake though... Glad you were able to salvage most everything. lp I really love that first picture of Gabriel... He looks so aware with the knowing smile. He looks like a little game show host, lol... Hope everyone is having a good day...

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lp @ water cooler Tuesday, July 26th 2005 - 08:49:08 PM so today is your un-birthday my favorite scene form disney's version of alice in wonderland today is saint anne's day - i forgot to go to church - when i was a kid, my mom used to take me to the novena - she always picked a church that had no air conditioning - but the old ladies would smile approvingly at my mom as she marched me up to light a candle

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there's music sitting down Tuesday, July 26th 2005 - 08:48:49 PM

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G Tuesday, July 26th 2005 - 08:45:32 PM Hey C. Yes, i saw Pompe's picture on the gallery page and that's a great pic. i only met him once (!), but i still remember him standing real close to me, standing so perfectly still, his eyes never blinked once... his bad breath right in my face while i was sitting on the couch in your livingroom :-). exactly there where he is oozing off into Pompe's Slumberland of Dreams in that pic. but at least he had a long long life and some real wild moments before he passed on...

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C Tuesday, July 26th 2005 - 08:41:39 PM Gee - yeah, I have told him. But the subject is a little sensitive on his part. Don't know why. He's changing girlfriends as often it's almost impossible to keep up with them. --- For the first time I am starting to miss the dog. For real. It's so sad. He's gone.

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ok. like this: Tuesday, July 26th 2005 - 07:15:54 PM decorated chair

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g Tuesday, July 26th 2005 - 07:09:55 PM mmmmmm, your cake tasted just fine, angel. what i really wanted to find, was a chair, a photograph of a chair with ribbons and such... but how on earth do you describe a thing like that in image google?

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angel Tuesday, July 26th 2005 - 06:56:11 PM 1st off, the Palm is just fine. Kidlet crashed it at least 10 times last night, but it is finally doing its "Docs to Go" stuff again. Unfortunately, Dennydias.doc is toast, totally absolutely. End of the story. I am moving on and I will definitely not name the file the same name, the 2nd time around. Maybe something like "He who can't be named" will work for me. Sort of treat him like Lord Voldmort from Harry Potter. :-) -- Blaise: I thought I would mention your birthday early, my Palm shows the 27th, but you view early in the day and I wanted you to see it prior to the big day. I believe I worded it something like "since this is coming up". Glad to see others being creative, especially after my cake disaster. :-)

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g Tuesday, July 26th 2005 - 06:40:44 PM influenza, influenza... i hear Todd Rundgren sing this, the inner jukebox, his With A Twist cd... time to hop out of bed for some food. added the Blue for a shortcut, been scrollreading both the yellow and blue and even after all these years forum communicating remains amusing :-) C, does Jonas know you want grandchildren?

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