Conference rdvax::grateful

    
    I'm heading to Cancun early 1/1 so it's home tonight .. but
    nothing left to do but smile smile smile .. til I come back
    to work 1/9.
    
    Peace and rock and roll.
    
    Sloan

    
    
    
     
    I'll take the first note in  1996  thank  you.........
    
    
    
    
    Peace~

    happy new year grateful noters
    :^)

	hey! you're back.
	someone said you quit and went on tour with Phish!
	
	;-)
	

	yow, chris, I've been gone for a week and a few days, didn't even
	notice you were gone ;-) - but sure am glad you're back!!

	Debess

    
    heez back! (and on his old node, no less...)
    
    (rage!)
    
    
    

    anyone else working today besides deane and i?

    I'm here...Hey Chris and Deano
    
    Wes

    
    yep,  I am a working at home today.  How much snow did you get at AKO?
    We only got 4 HEAVY inches.  Real wet stuff.
    
    	Mark

    Yeah I'm back to work today too. Doing all that back-from-2-weeks-off
    crap like catching up on my email and GRATEFUL (of course)
    
    Looks like it'll probably be a quick day though - don't wanna rush
    right back in to it ya know - plus the weather's a good excuse ;^)

    I'm here in Colo....our quick moving storm was on New Years Day and
    yesterday, 40 degrees today and  chinook winds at 40 mph gusts or
    better. 
    
    Our Xmas was grate, but New Years sucked....we lost another good, dear
    friend on New Years Eve day at noon....
    
    
    rfb

Sorry to hear that Randy....

As for here today - Rae didn't work so I stole her car(4wd) and came in.
Otherwise I'd be shoveling ...  Had 7 or 8 inches when I 1st went out this
a.m. and another 2 by the time I left the house and it's still snowing
so .....

bob

    rfb 
    sorry to hear about that....
    holidays blow for me too
    lost 1 grandma on xmas eve
    lost the otha 1 week before xmas
    lost 1 grandpa the day after xmas
    
    
    ...oh yeah...got canned a week before xmas too once
    :^)
         

    
    hey rfb,
      soothing vibes headin your way, man.  Is this the friend you
    mentioned right before the holidaze?  Sad news, whoever.  I think 
    there is way too much pressure near the holidaze.  stresses folks out.
    
                 mark

    
    Sorry to hear about your losses Chris and rfb. 
    
    I'm here, but not for long.  Turns out I need a chest X-ray cause the
    meds I got aren't working....gonna leave at 3:00.   We got almost 10"
    of fluff here at LKG.  Sure wish I were healthy....I'd be hiking up Mt
    Watatic with my skis.  Oh well, this snow ain't going anywhere for a
    while.  May perhaps?  :-)

    HoliDAZE = Stress fersher...it's a nice time of year, well, 'sposed to
    be anyway, but I'm kinda glad it's over...a fresh start, a positive
    attitude for 1996, and MUSIC comin' outta my ears...my 1st gig with 
    Drama is this Saturday, they'll be keeping me Bizzee, we're playin 4
    out of the next 5 weekends, so Slipknotting etc will be the rare thing,
    but it will Fun to get back on the other side of the mic :)))
    
    Wes

    Hey deano,
      take care there dude.  Hope yer feelin bettah soon.  Respitory probs
    can be a major drag. 
    
    	Mark

    Yeah
    not inhaling can really SUCK sometimes!
    
    
    :^)

    
    Thanks mon.  I'm starting to get used to it....been troubled with chronic 
    athsma all my life.  Luckly, 1995 was an athsma free year for me.  96,
    however, is not going as well.  >:-/  
    
    Wes, Post some of your gig locations and dates.  DECheads will show
    up and holler requests from the rear.

    well Deano, holler all ya want :)))  I'm still learnin' many toonz,
    before I get to that Scarlet>Fire request from someone we all know...
    
    :)))

    Logged in from home.  Not quite sure you can call it working with the
    rug rats hanging all over me, but in quiet momments I get some things
    done.
    
    PeterT
    

    so who's the person with the Dead stickers on their car here in the
    PK2 parking lot? This place is massively conservative compared with
    HLO; I'm amazed to see any deadheads amongst all the senior mamagers
    around here.

    hang in there Dean...I had a nasty chest cold/bronchit-ass a couple of
    months ago that kicked my ass good! New "wonder drugs" that my PPO
    didn't cover fully cost me 65$ and I threw them all away after a couple
    of days on them....adrinalin based drugs for the lungs that made me feel
    worse, etc. 
    
    Yep MNELSON, Pat Calicino was the one that left us on New Years Eve
    day, willow bender extrodinare, single father, mountain man....he was
    thrown from a horse about 6 months ago and impaled by a stick...speared
    him right thru the belly, messing up his guts pretty good...I guess he
    only had 5-7 years left because of that anyway, but still.......we
    loved him....thanks all for the vibes
    
    rfb

    
    
    Um...  That would be my car in the PKO2 lot.
    
    You caught me before I could say hello...  I'm back!
    
    Anyway...  Hello everyone...  I'm back!  For a while
    at least.  Finished up my BS in Psych this past
    December and now I'm temping to make some money
    while I figure out what I wanna be when I grow up!
    
    Actually planning on Grad School in the fall...  so
    I may be here for a while!
    
    Hope all is well round here.
    
    MJ

    BS in Psych.......%^)   found that funny for some warped reason
    
    so, MJ,  can we all now be analized over the tube by our own grateful
    shrink???   %^)  I DEFINITELY need some help!
    
    rfb_whacked out

    
    be glad to help you with some on-line analysis rfb!  ;-)
    
    regarding the humor of my degree..  I think the same
    thing whenever anyone asks me what it's in...  BS in Psych..
    rather suiting!  ;-)
    
    Hopefully I'll feel better with an MA!  :-)
    
    

    A BS in Psych?  I have a BA in Psych, what is the difference?

    
    Not really sure...  something mundane I suppose.
    
    

    RE: 
    A BS in Psych?  I have a BA in Psych, what is the difference?
    
    it's not funny when you say " I have a BA in Psych..."
      %^)
    
    
    rfb

    well any type of medical degree would be a b of science wouldn't it?
    
    strobel may help here
    I know that at UNH Economics is a BA while all other Whittimore
    Businees degrees are BS's
    
    weird............

    hey MJ welcome back!
    
    

	HEY! Welcome Back MJ!!!  (did you know I was back too?)

	Debess

    
    Thanks Carol & Debess!
    
    No, Debess I didn't know you were back too!  :-)
    
    It's nice to be back in here...  I really missed everyone!
    
    MJ

well, No More New Notes


see ya'll in a bit.
and, if ya'll are doing DRINKS, pls send me mail
jc

    
    Some folks will be heading to the Ragency Thursdays after woik.  
    Seems like it could be a good day for a brew, if the snow ever stops 
    
    Any takers
    
    

    
    C ya there!

    possible, possible...what's the earliest NE1 gets there?

    7:00 a.m.
    
    oh sorry that would be work
    
    see you there if my battery doesn't sh*t the bed again

    
    I'll be there at 4:15.
    
    	Mark

    
    I'm ready for happy hour. Had a blast in Mexico! I feel like I've
    returned to a B&W movie after all the colors of the Carribean.
    
    See whom ever shows up at where ever the place du jour is tomorrow.
    
    Cath

    Any vacation review?

	i'll be at da rage. around 4:30.

    cathysloan!  you're back !   i love your description about B&W movie
    

    
    Good get together last night.  The Wachusett Nut Brown was delicous.
    Seemed like everyone was having a good time.  Musta been in the stars.
    
    	Mark

    
    Bummer that I couldn't get out last night. Raged with my niece on
    weds and we missed her bus on thurs morning.  Mostly due to
    495 traffic. So we had to stay in and recooperate to make sure
    I got her to the bus station in Worcester heading back to NY
    this morning -- in time to miss the storm hopefully.
    
    We had a blast in Mexico. It was fun hanging out with 
    Crystal (my niece) where she could legally drink (she's 19). Mexico's
    drinking age is 18.   
    
    Cancun is very Americanized now - lots of trendy stuff.. Hard Rock cafe
    Planet Hollywood, Denny's, McDonalds, KFC, etc.   It was a great
    vacation .. lots of fun times and funny things to laugh about trying
    to take day trips with very little spanish to guide us. We enjoyed
    the Raggae bars in the evenings.
    
    Hope to see you guys soon though. Maybe next week I'll be caught
    up here at work, etc. so I can get out for a brew.
    
    Cath                                              

    
    oh ya -
    welcome back ChristOpher and MJ.
    
    Sloan

    Grate Rage last night fersher...
    
    WO

    I've got one of those rare thursdays next week when I don't have
    school or at the moment any other obligations - anyone up for drinks 
    in like MKO area right after work ?
    
    c

	Yup. how about the bier haus?
	mark your calendar!

    cool - that's the former Nickels near exit 10 in Merrimack?
    
    

	yes, it is.
	
>                       -< just as long as you are there >-

	we'll be there. but, we'll be inside. not dancing in the streets.

    due to slipknot engagements and the fact that i am going to go north
    sat night, the Manchester housewarming bash has been postponed and will
    be rescheduled at a later date with a date convenient for all.
    
    

    
    Since Leblanc is not having his bash. I'll offer my place as
    a pre and post party pad for slipknot at whitehorse this saturday
    1/20 -- send mail if you think you'll stop by.
    
    Cath 

    
    So for LeBlanc's housewarming, should we all bring a piece of furniture
    instead of food?
    

	naaaah.
	for leblanc's housewarming we'll burn the furniture.
	
	;-)
	

    scratch one Jollimore from the guest list.

<------	you mean i can't bring my wife???

    your wife, your daughter, your dog, your hamster.....
    
    
    No you.
    
    

>   a pre and post party pad for slipknot at whitehorse this saturday

Is this Whitehorse the one in Milford NH, near Shaws supermarket?

    dan
    right off 101a there past the funkin gonuts
            and ther eis a shopping center right before it

    I forget where we were talkin about The Complete Last Waltz, but I got
    this note today from Chris Fields, posted here with his permission...
    
    Wes
    
From:	MPGS::DGW::QGW::SLOHAN::FIELDS       "He's Gone but the Music Never Stopped...." 17-JAN-1996 08:32:53.72
To:	61953::DGW::MPGS::WILLEE::OSTIGUY
CC:	FIELDS
Subj:	The Band - The Last Waltz Complete

Hey !

	Got a nice boot yesterday in the mail, it s the Last Waltz Complete...
below is the write up I saw in the slowhand digest...(btw mine is a 1gen tape 
of the CD)...

It's a nice 4 CD package included a 36 page booklet. This
booklet begins with the announcement that was printed on a
special hand-out received upon entering the show.
This 4 CD set from Cool Daddy Productions is an individually
numbered edition (my copy was 1384/3000) and presents THE
COMPLETE LAST WALTZ concert the way it was originally
performed by THE BAND, ET AL. In both the 1978 LP and film,
the concert was considerably edited and abbreviated, with
songs being randomly shuffled in each release. In addition,
many of the songs were re-recorded in the studio for no
apparent reason. This 4 CD set is the complete FOUR HOUR PLUS
concert!!! The soundquality is excellent!

The following is an abstract of the 36 page booklet!!! 

The Band- Jaime (Robbie) Robertsen, Rick Danko, Levon Helm,
Garth Hudson and Richard Manual- decided that this would be
their last concert. Common sense told them to turn this
concert into what Robbie Robertsen had come to call THE LAST
WALTZ. It was an all-in-one concert and Thanksgiving dinner.
The Band put together a list of friends, associates and
influences from accross America and Canada (and from our side
of the pond, Van Morrison and Eric Clapton).
The Band's farewell concert was on Thanksgiving Day 1976 at
Winterland Ballroom, Winterland, San Francisco, Ca. There were
5,000 fortunate ticket holders.

Disc One contains the first songs which The Band played that
night, songs played without special guests, beginning with a
rousing version of "Up On Cripple Creek" and concluding with a
rambunctious version of "Rag Mama Rag", with Howard Johnson on
tuba.
The parade of guests artists began fittingly with Ronnie
Hawkins. The American's Souths' Dr. John (formerly Mac
Rebenneck) was next along with fellow Louisianan Bobby
Charles. Paul Butterfield supplied the harmonica, and Muddy
Waters took the crowd completely by storm. Eric Clapton came
out next; Robbie Robertsen had to cover the solo on "Further
On Up The Road" when Clapton's guitar strap broke. The two of
them exchanging guitar licks offered an interesting study in
contrasts, with Clapton cool and poised and Robbie as spirited
as ever. Fellow Canadian Neil Young performed "Helpless", Joni
Mitchell contributed a few songs and Neil Diamond came in with
a tune he and Robbie wrote together. Than Van Morrison came in
with an Irish Lullaby. After "Arcadian Driftwood", at
midnight, The Band began the second set with "Chest Fever".
Feeling confident they then played selections from "The Last
Waltz Suite", some of which had been composed that very 
morning. Bob Dylan was next with "Baby, Let Me Follow You
Down". He and The Band harkened all the way back to 1965 when
Dylan first went electric. "Hazel" came off of 1974's Planet
Waves. With "I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have
Met)", they again looked back to those tremendous electric
shows that began eleven years earlier. Robbie invited Dylan to
stay on and lead the finale of "I Shall Be Released". The
guests slowly gathered round the few microphones. Ringo Starr,
Ron Wood and Steven Stills were all late arrivals. Of course,
there were all sorts of party favours backstage. Later it was
Ringo and Levon Helm who fired up the jam session. Wood,
Clapton, Butterfield, Young, Stills and others traded extended
solos for thirty minutes. The evening came to a close, The
Band wrapping it up with "Don't Do It".

Warner Brothers released THE LAST WALTZ in 1978 and at the
same time, Martin Scorsese's film arrived. It is now regarded
as one of the most brilliant concert films ever, weaving
footage of the performances with backstage and other
interviews later conducted with members of The Band. Producers
of the record and the film cut and edited extensively, opting
to shuffle the order of the songs to suit their own aesthetic,
as well as their need for comparative brevity. This 4 CD set
presents all the songs in the order in which they were
actually performed !!!


TRACKLIST:
THE COMPLETE LAST WALTZ - THE BAND, ET AL
Cool Daddy Productions (individually numbered edition)

*****     DISC ONE    (57:41 min.):     *****
* Up On Cripple Creek - The Band (5:51)
* The Shape I'm In - The Band (4:27)
* It Makes No Difference - The Band (7:30)
* Life Is A Carnival - The Band (5:00)
* This Wheel's On Fire - The Band (4:29)
* The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show - The Band (4:30)
* Georgia On My Mind - The Band (4:32)
* Ophelia - The Band (4:32)
* King Harvest {Has Surely Come} - The Band (4:50)
* The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - The Band (4:39)
* Stage Fright - The Band (4:21)
* Rag Mama Rag - The Band (4:16)

*****     DISC TWO     (55:35 min.)     *****
* Who Do You Love? - with Ronnie Hawkins (5:10)
* Such A Night - with Dr. John (4:37)
* Down South In New Orleans - with Bobby Charles, Dr. John
(3:38)
* Mystery Train - with Paul Butterfield (7:00)
* Caledonia - with Muddy Waters (7:27)
* Mannish Boy - with Muddy Waters (6:26)
* All Our Past Times - with Eric Clapton (5:16)
* Further On Up The Road - with Eric Clapton (5:19)
* Helpless - with Neil Young, Joni Mitchell (6:10)
* Four Strong Winds - with Neil Young (4:32)

*****     DISC THREE     (63:37 min.)     *****
* Coyote - with Joni Mitchell, Dr. John (6:26)
* Shadows And Light - with Joni Mitchell (5:41)
* Furry Sings The Blues - with Joni Mitchell (6:04)
* Dry Your Eyes - with Neil Diamond (4:38)
* Tura Lura Lura {That's An Irish Lullaby} - with Van Morrison
(4:30)
* Caravan - with Van Morrison (5:57)
* Acadian Driftwood - with Neil Young, Joni Mitchell (8:03)
* INTRODUCTION (5:56)
* Chest Fever - The Band (5:29)
* Evangeline - The Band & Orchestra (6:00)
* The Weight - The Band (4:53)

*****     DISC FOUR     (65:16 min.)     *****
* Baby Let Me Follow You Down - with Bob Dylan (4:09)
* Hazel - with Bob Dylan (4:00)
* I Don't Believe You {She Acts Like We Never Have Met} - with
Bob Dylan (4:52)
* Forever Young - with Bob Dylan (5:24)
* Baby Let Me Follow You Down Reprise - with Bob Dylan (2:47)
* I Shall Be Released - with all the artists, including Ringo
Starr and Ron Wood (7:16)
* Instrumental Jam #1 (12:27)
* Instrumental Jam #2 (17:28)
* Don't Do It - The Band (6:53)


    

    who all is knotting this saturday?
    If the snow washes out I may just go......if so see you at Sloan's

	me

I'll probably go...

	ayuh.

    
        does anyone remember the theme song for felix the cat?
    
             felix the cat
             the wonderful wonderful cat
             ???????????????????????????
             ???????????????????????????
    
                                      8^)  ^dave

    whenever he gets in a fix 
    he reaches into his bag of tricks...
    
    	felix the cat 
    	the wonderful wonderful cat
    
    you'll laugh so much your sides will ache
    	blahbloahblah...  :^)

    your heart will go pitty-pat
    
    watching felix!  the wonderful cat!!!!!

    so did i solve a nagging problem?  can you return to a normal life?
    
    think nothing of it...  :^)  
    
    	now where's that good deed note?  :^)
    
    					da ve

	my brother has a cat named Felix...

	and I thought I'd just put this out there, cause, who knows...

	my brother has actually 2 8 year old indoor cats (declawed) that
	he must find a home for soon - his daughter has severe asthma,
	which seems to get much worse when the house is closed up for 
	the winter.

	anyways, anyone interested, PLEASE get in touch with me.

    
       thanx da ve....you know how it is when you get a song in your 
     head but you can't remember the words....i had everyone around
     here afflicted with the same syndrome, too!
                                                         ^dave

    no problem dave... :^)
    
    anyone for a rousing chorus of the theme from f-troop now?  :^)

I think every third cat in the english speaking world is named Felix.

My ex-girlfriend, Karin (whom some of you have met) had three cats,
one of whom was named Felix, despite the fact that it was female.
Felix was a perfect &sshole, a nasty, venomous beast, part Tabby, 
part Tasmanian Devil.  When we moved into the house where I still live
now, Felix tried to take a chunk out of my hand, but only managed to
make it swell to the size of a grapefruit for a week.

As far as I was concerned, Felix was the reason God gave us the
microwave oven...but Karin and her three animals moved out before
I had the chance to 'splain this to Felix.

Good riddance.

tim

    HA!! nice seein yer notes again Mr Grady!
    rfb

    
    TIM
    
     Don't you rememeber your days down south....
    
    They use cats for Gator bait down there....
    
    
    Divide Dave

    Tim Grady=bitter

    he he he....  some dogs better than others at least... :^)

	i saw bruce laru last nite at the bierhaus and was reminded of a
	note he started in here back in '92 when jerry was ill.
	
	i just went back and read 287.*   :-(

Allow me to quote USA Today, Life section, Page 2D:

POLICE WING BUFFETT'S PLANE

        Jimmy Buffett was almost wasted in Margaritaville (as the song goes)
Tuesday when Jamaican police opened fire on his seaplane.
        Buffett, U2's Bono and Island Records chairman Chris Blackwell had
jumped into Montego Bay after the plan, named The Flying Boat, landed.
Blackwell was hosting them at his Jamaican estate.
        Responding to an anonymous call that an aircraft had landed carrying
drugs, police opened fire as the plane took off, Jamaican police
commissioner Trevor MacMillan said Wednesday.
        No one was hurt and no drugs were found, he said.  Bullets pierced
the aircraft.
        Buffett was not available for comment; Blackwell said he was
"pleased" authorities made "such a quick public apology."

credited to Ann Oldenburg

	inside back cover of Time magazine 15-Jan-1996 is an essay by
	John Perry Barlow entitled _Thinkig Locally, Acting Globally_.

	while searching Time Magazine online I came across this helpful
	searching hint:			;-)
	
(2) Describe what you're looking for.

Enter any word or words you're interested in. Write the way you think;
the computer will do its job. If you are looking for a phrase
like Grateful Dead, enter Grateful-Dead to keep the computer from finding
documents that happen to use the word `dead'.

Click here for searching tips. 

Ok,  for all you old farts....

which TV show was Festus from?  Gunsmoke or Rawhide...??

	Uncle Festus was from the Addams Family.... er Fester 8-)

	Gunsmoke of course...


	Toby

>>	Gunsmoke of course...

>>	Toby


Thanks Toby - I thought it was Gunsmoke but wasn't sure....
\

bob

    musta been those USMC haircuts, eh bob???   %^)
    
    
    rfb_father 30 yrs in airforce, knew the haircut routine well...

                     <<< Note 90.2539 by SPECXN::BARNES >>>

>    musta been those USMC haircuts, eh bob???   %^)
    
Terrible!

kickin' and screamin' all the way.  And then they'd set you in the chair and
the guy giving the haircuts had the ____s to ask you how you wanted it when
he KNEW he only knew how to cut it one and only one way :) :) :) And after
a couple of those you KNEW he only could cut it one way too....

haha!

    I know we discussed this briefly before but not sure where this belongs. 
    Anyway - saw this post on the net and heard from a friend at work here 
    that he's heard similar things on TV.
    
    This from some paper in Long Island named "The Flash" (sounds suspicious
    already!):
    
        Jerry Garcia
        DEAD BROKE?
           Jerry Garcia did not leave enough money behind to pay off the
    $35 million in claims filed against his estate, his widow's attorney
    said during a probate hearing.  So a consultant--who worked for the
    estate of Janis Joplin--has been hired to increase the estate's value by
    peddling Garcia's music rights, artwork and film and TV projects.
    Garcia, the Grateful Dead guitarist, died Aug. 9 of a heart attack.
    The estate's value is undertermined.
    
       
    ************************************************************************
    So are we to believe we'll be hearing Franklin's Tower in the
    background of a TV commercial for Mountain Dew or something??
    
    Seems like if the estate was in trouble the rest of the band would
    help out or at least Deadheads would be willing. I know I'd send a bit
    of support in order to keep a little dignity.
    
    

    I don't know how to answer this or what to say/think....It's bound to
    happen. If there are that many people Jerry owed monies to, then we
    are in for Sugar MAg on a candy commercial....I'm not sure I wouldn't
    be against hearing jerry-jingles on commercials....it might lend a
    little more "respectability" to deadheads..not that I give a sh*T. On
    the other hand I probably would groan if I heard "Walk Me Out" on a Dew
    commercial or any song on any commercial the first few times. 
    
    35Mill is alot of dough...

	from the snippets of info I've been reading here and there:

	Jerry is being used by some professor/financial planner type/?
	as a case of how -not- to do correct financial planning.  He should 
	have set up trusts and stuff like that for his kids.  So, say his 
	estate was valued at 10 million, he's going to be taxed about 3.5 
	million right off the top.

	it seems that all sorts of folks are coming forward and making claims
	on his estate - how many will actually hold up in court, remains to
	be seen.

	I was pleased to see it mentioned that he included Mountain Girl
	and her&Kesey's daughter Sunshine in his will.


	...


	
	can you sue an estate for more than it's worth?

	man, I hope you're wrong too, cause it seems like this sort of thing
	is exactly the opposite of what he stood for in life...

	Debess	

    
    Yes, all this money crap sounds pretty disgusting.  Very much against
    what I would imagine Jerry to support.

	hmmm, seems like the golf balls is only the begining.
	
	i smell greed.
	

    Mailed some 12k max points on Dec 30, this week got back no fewer
    than 34 individually wrapped and individually mailed 90 minute 
    tapes!

    Still waiting on the recoton headphones... should make walking
    around the office easier, when the wire from the headphones 
    doesn't yank the workstation off the desk!  (well, almost!)

    As the electrician is rewiring the house for the next week straight and 
    other repairs will be taking place the first annual "Bright lights, 
    Big City" housewarming in lovely downtown Manchester NH  will be taking 
    place on March 2..,.
    plan accordingly and bring furniture
    :^)

	ran into Bruce Laru at a release party/lunch today...he came up
	to me and commented into my ear "so, where's the band?"  The
	man definately has his priorities in order!

	Debess

    is it just me or is anyone else hesitant to flip their GD calendar over
    to the month of February tomorrow night?

	why? is it because it's turning back a page full of Jerry's?
	or do you mean by the long,long,etc month, that you don't want to
	look at Vince that long?

	personally, I'm gonna cut out the happy smiling Jerry's and probably
	stick 'em up on my wall here so I can continue to see him as I like
	to remember him - happy.

	Debess

    much more the latter than the former.......
    
    i am looking forward to march
    :^)
    
    chris_who's_mom_was_born_on_the_exact_same_day_as_Phil

    March rooooolz...it starts to get warmer, spring training for the Red
    Sox and The Hunters gets into full swing...and a plethora of b-days 
    in March...
    
    Wes

	the boat goes back in the water in march! <60 days!!!!!
	:-)    :-)     :-)

	stop wishing away winter already!  I'm going skiing this weekend !!!

	Debess

    the bike goes back out on the road in March!!!! ;^)

    
    There will be aplenty of snow! :-)
    

    I went to the Driving range this past weekend, little cold and
    windy, but I could still hit golf balls. Spring soon......
    
    

	"can you feel it, now that spring has found
		that it's time to live 
	 		in scattered sun"
	

	this is a bad news/good news goods news/bad news story.
	
	my wife was away in NY over the weekend and was supposed to come
	home yesterday. i got a call at work about 1:45. it was penny,
	and she was crying. she had broken down on the mass pike, but
	fortunately, right at the toll booth in lee. the car had no
	compression, and was making a loud sucking sound attempting to
	start it. she wanted to know what to do: leave the car and drive
	home in a rental, or tow the car home. yikes! don't tow the car
	home it'll cost a fortune! the nice folks at the toll booth had
	already called for towing for her, and i told her to stay with
	the car, find out what's wrong with it, and get it fixed. all she
	had was a credit card, but that's all she needed. i told her to
	call back when she knew what was wrong, and if they couldn't fix
	it today, to get a hotel room and stay overnite.
	
	we she hung up i thought "it sounds like she blew out the #1
	spark plug". why did i think that? i'm not sure, but from what
	she described to me it sounded like she was running on only 3
	cylinders. but, what was wrong with the car?  ;-) anyway, it
	seemed like if that was the problem, it'd be easy to fix and not
	too expensive and she'd be on her way.
	
	about an hour and a half later she called back. it *was* the
	spark plug, and the #1 too! i couldn't believe it. so, they fixed
	it and it only cost about $60, including towing. (she was lucky
	she got an honest towing/service company!)
	
	so, i left work about 4:15 and when i got home there was a phone
	message from baybank taken at 3:45. they wanted to verify a
	transaction on my credit card. it seems when my wife called, she
	had only a visa card. not being able to call collect, she charged
	the call to the visa. baybank noticed the two transactions posted
	to a communication company in western mass, and wanted to know if
	it was us, or if someone had got ahold of our credit card.
	
	so, the bad news was the breakdown, but the good news was it was
	taken care of. and the good news was that baybank watches for
	certain transactions to prevent card fraud, but the bad news is
	big brother is watching.  ;-)
	

    Jay,
    
    i like stories with happy endings...  :^)  
    
    had to laugh when you wrote "sounds like she blew out the #1 spark
    plug...  but what's wrong with the car?!?" :^)
    
    glad for Penny (and you) that it all worked out...
    
    					da ve

     <<< Note 90.2559 by MKOTS3::JOLLIMORE "On the threshold of a dream" >>>

>>  was making a loud sucking sound ....

Jay,

Are you sure this wasn't all the jobs heading south of the border???

:)

glad all is well.

    Get AAA , it helps, I hear your concern about Big Brother, I am
    surprised BayBank would act that quickly on a transaction like
    that, maybe your already being watched.....

>    Get AAA , it helps, I hear your concern about Big Brother, I am

    Except on the Pike!  They have their own rules, you must use
    their tow companies.  

	yeah, we got AAA last year. now we need a cell fone.
	there's places on the pike that are not near fones!!
	
	the tow guy sed AAA would reimburse us for the tow, he provided
	his id#. i think my wife sed she was given a choice of making her
	own arrangements or having them call for next_in_line. she let
	them call. 

    
    Anyone want to meet up for a brew today or tomorrow? Perhaps
    the Ragency?
    
    Cath 

    2nite's not good for me, 2morrow is possible...
    
    WO

    do it tomorrow and i'm there

    
    tomorrow I will go

    beer?
    someone say beer?

    
    So ragency this evening for all you funsters.  
    
    Cath

  I think it's kind of cool that a member of Pere Ubu works for Digital...
  Not that I'm necessarily their biggest fan.  But their latest CD lists the
  band members' Internet addresses and, sure enough, there's a .dec.com.

  Lots of professional musicians work at DEC, but it's nice that this one
  actually pokes his head into music conferences now and again.  Until he
  can afford to lose the day job, at least...  - JayC.

    I'll show, if there's any kind of quorum at all.  Gotta
    get some buffet.

    
    heading to ragency .. there by 4:45 . JJ's coming and who knows
    who else.
    
    sloan

    
    I swing by at 5:15

	No.
	use note 355!
	
	
	;-)  ;-)
	

    
    Ahhhhh...overtime!

    The local song dog just came over the hill here at CXO. Watched him for
    awhile, but didn't see him catch any mice. He headed up to the
    elementary school, so maybe he'll have kid for lunch. 
    
    rfb

    
    "song dog?"
    
    

    Wily E. Coyote

All day long yesterday, Valentines day, I kept hearing the same Steve
Goodman song in my head, over and over:

"You don't have to call me Darlin', Darlin'
 but you never even call me by my name"

    
    Jay Jollimore, me and DC meeting at the horseshoe pub after
    work today.
    
    Then, funsters that we are, we're heading to tammany hall in
    Worcester next to see Bruce Mandaro band.
    
    Join us if you can. 
    
    Doing it again at the Plantation Club tomorrow if the snow
    does not keep me away.
    
    Sloan

    i'll probably see you at tammany later on...  but i can't make the shoe
    tonight after work...
    
    					da ve

    
    >"You don't have to call me Darlin', Darlin'
    > but you never even call me by my name"
    
    I kareoke'd this song when I was in South Carolina for Chistmas...a
    drunken moment to say the least.

    
    Words of advice from the (stupidly) experienced...
    
    Never, ever, ever, try to karaoke "She Talk to Angels (Black Crowes)"
    unless you're REALLY good. I'm just a little bit worse than really bad,
    and it was completely painful.
    

    Most of the Barnes' family (Patty, me and future Univ student
    Tiffany) spent Sunday and Monday in Fort COllins Colo checking out
    Colorado State Univ. Sunday we checked out the town; breweries,
    headshops, eateries, things for college kids to do, old town section and 
    drove around the campus. 
    Saturday we started at 7;45AM with the univ staff going thru intro's and 
    seminars about CSU. This was a special invitation only day for High 
    School grads with honors that have the grade point avg, ACT scores and 
    other special criteria that the CSU Honors Program is looking for. 
    ended with a guided tour (we already did a self-guided tour) of 
    the campus at 5pm. beers and lunch at a brewery then a 2 hour drive home 
    in the famous winds of the Front Range. Very special time for us. 
    Patty and even Tiffany had some tears in their eyes when they realized 
    that very soon, our time with Tiffany as a child is over. 
    
    Me, I'm still in denial....
    
    
    rfb

    
    Any heads in the Alpharetta area interested in meeting for a beer
    tonight, tomorrow night or Thursday?  I'll be down for a few days.  
    I'll be at the Hampton in Roswell.  Who's down there nowadays? or
    should I say " who all is down there nowadays" ;^)
    
    	Mark

Randy Switts was, but I think he's moved on to DG

    ok - I'll ASK !   why is Wiley a song dog 

I think it has more to do with coyotes in general and not Wile E. in
particular.  Something to do with their long lonesome howls late
at night...

PeterT

    yep....coyotes are called song dogs out here in the west, because they
    love to get together before the evening hunt and "sing". And the more
    of them, the more and longer they sing.
    
    speaking of Wile E. Coyote, ever notice that he never sings? 
    
    the state of colorado, after a massive revamp of our trapping laws,
    caused by input from every special interest group interested in
    trapping from the anti-hunters/trappers to hunters/trappers/
    environmentalist groups and farmers and ranchers has now a bill,
    already passed by the Senate, that would take the power of trapping
    away from the Div of Wildlife and give it to the Dept of Agriculture.
    Which essentially means that farmers and ranchers could kill any
    depredating animal at will. That  means coyetes, bear, lions, beaver,
    skunk, foxes, muskrats, wolves, coons, ...but not limited to these
    species. 
    
    Stupid f*^#ers! The DOW has a job of managing wildlife in this state.
    We, some of the public and our lawmakers,  keep taking more and more of
    that job away from the DOW. 
    
    rfb_seeing red
    rfb

	got my 20 yr gift catalogue.
	i can order a 26" HUFFY "BLADES" mountain bike.  cool.
	but, after a couple of rides, it downsizes to 14"   ;-)

    WOW 20 years with Digital, they should give you a life supply
    of Peptic AC also. What other gift suggestions are there?
    
    
    

	nah, no heartburn here.  ;-)
	
	other gifts include: Wittnauer goldtone watch with swiss movement,
	Tasco portable telescope 8x36x50 zoom, a two-piece gift set which
	includes a watch and a (get this) genuine leather tri-fold wallet
	(which would be a keepsake cuz i never have any money to put in
	it ;-) a mahogany wall clock, and art deco mantel clock, a couple
	of rings with black onyx, a genuine leather carry-on bag, and a
	(this makes no sense) Chantal seven-piece cookware set: enamel on
	steel (huh?  ;-) and of course, all the women's stuff.

    I notice they no longer offer knifes....too many slit wrist and stabbed
    managers.
    
    rfb_who always opted for a knife, except once, when a friend and I
    offered to split the ear rings to save DEC (we were DEC then) some
    money but personell didn't see the humor in the suggestion

    I always got the Knifes only.. strange minds think alike?

    
    RE:
        I always got the Knifes only.. strange minds think alike?
    
    obviously.. %^)
    
    I could never see the use of the other sh*t they offered. At
    the end, right before the ax fell, We opted for the totally useless,
    stupid, and ugly indoor themomater and humidity registering thing,
    whatever that's called. How stupid...it's always dry in Colo and always
    dry in our house (of humidity that is). I'm thinking of useing it as a
    target next time I go shooting, along with all my service awards that I
    got from DEC over the last 19 years. 
    
    rfb  

    I got the 5 year knife too. Real nice quality 4" blade or so.

    And to think I actually considered the business card holder 
    for a moment, back when I used bs cards ;-)

    /Ken

	i was always a pen man, myself. pen for my 5th (can't find it now)
	knife/money clip for my 10th (digital logo fell off a week after
	i got it, still got the logo, can't find the knife) 
	cross pen/pencil/felt_tip_pen set for my 15th. 

    that money clip was the stupidest gift I ever selected from DEC, if it
    wasn't for the cheap knife on the thing it would have been totally
    worthless.....can't even slit yer wrist with the cheap thing...
    
    rfb

	i got it for my 5th.
	i planned on using it for all the [ahem] money i was gonna make.
	the |d|i|g|i|t|a|l| logo was glued on crooked.
	shudda taken that as a sign   ;-)
	

    just a quick note to say I had a grAATE! time celebrateing our aniv.,
    and Deb and JC helped! We saw them Sat morning the 17th for an hour,
    then Friday nite the 23rd at the Shakedown gig. Thanks for the beer, Deb!!
    needless to say I was in a near coma, but I do remember alot, err,
    some, OK,OK!!  I had to be reminded!!!!
    
    rfb_good to see JC and Deb anytime

Anyone know Ruby's (of GDTS fame) last name? I want to drop her a note to 
thank her for all of my help tracking down my Boston Garden refund, that 
arrived yesterday.

jeff

	just send it to Ruby (no-last-name) - I'm sure she'll get it...

	Debess

            <<< Note 90.2604 by AOSG::connor.zk3.dec.com::strobel >>>

FINALLY!

Jeff should be sainted for waiting so patiently :)
bobo

Wine, women, song.
Drugs, sex, rock'n'roll.
Bud, wife and kids, the Dead.

We come a long way, buddy.

8)

    eat, drink, and be........fat and drunk!

	last night I met up with a friend of mine from college who happened
	to be up in this neck o' the woods...at one point he invited me to
	his annual February party ("it'll be March 16th this year" ...I
	guess lots of my friends are always a little bit behind ;-) -
	oh sorry can't make it this year that's the night we're going to the
	Best of Jerry party... what's more important?he asks me !

	then, after a little bit of talk about Jerry, he's saying well, the
	rest of them are still gonna play together, right?  No, they're not,
	they disbanded in December.  A shrug of the shoulders from him.
	Like, oh well.

	some people never got it.  some people will never understand.

	Debess

    
    So who's going to Ragency tonight? Covington's going to be in Acton
    so he'd swing by lata if we're there (it's his last week at DEC).
    
    Can the birthday bud man make it?
    
    Cath

	[raises hand]
	

    
    Me too.  mmmm Beer.
    
    Anyone up for going to Nick's comedy stop tonite.  The free tix are for
    the early show and a free buffet dinner.  A guy I work with won a party
    for 30 and has had several cancellations.  There might be 5 seats
    available.  
    
    		Mark

	(i won't be here tomorrow)

	Goodbye Jim
	Goodbye Jeff

	fare thee well...

	Debess

Yipes... time flies.  Makin' rounds, packin' up my toys, and throwin' out 3
1/2 years worth of cra...  err ... work takes longer than ya think!

I'm really gonna miss all the grate ::GRATEFUL and many other DECpeople that
I've met, worked, laughed, and cried with over the last 3 1/2 years.  Wow time
flies.  Y'all take care, and always, Always, ALWAYS stand up for what you
believe in!  ...dammit! ;-)

Thanks for all the well wishes, and send more postcard requests!  Priority
goes to the folks with scanners who'll put 'em up on the web for everyone! :-)

I'll be in the area for another 2 weeks packing up the apartment and packing
up our bags.  My email account:  jgm@ultra.net  will stay active while we're
gone.  Dunno why, 'cause they ain't got telnet in Zambia, but wtf.  Probably
so that the DAT-head community doesn't throw a fit at the 404 errors :-)   

I'll be at the horseshoe after work tonite for a couple.  


- jeff

	Jeff,
	
	RAGE. have a grate trip. be safe.
	
>I'll be at the horseshoe after work tonite for a couple.  

	damn, can't make it. :-(

    Looks like Wall St. found out you're outta here Jeff!! ;^)
    
    DEC 65 5/8, change -7 ; DJIA 5508.38, change 22.76 at 14:45.
    
    
    Take care pal!

    jeff -
    keep da faith!
    
    rfb

	Jeff,

	Good luck  and enjoy the trip!

	Peace,

	Toby


	BTW I'll be at the Shoe after work (8pm)
	I'll buy ya a brew if'n U R there

Unofficial Trip Report from DECUS/Canada, Vancouver.

Vancouver is a real gem - it took me completely by surprise, really.  In
many ways, it reminded me of San Francisco, but without the hookers.

First of all, the city is gorgeous - spotless, and on the waterfront with
colossal snow-capped mountains to the north.  You can actually see a ski
area, must be fifty miles away, and lit up at night.  One of the
conference rooms on the 34th floor of the Hyatt where the Symposium was
being held had a full wall of picture windows facing the harbor and the
mountains beyond - don't know how anyone could pay attention with a view
like that: simply breathtaking.

The weather was a bit chilly, in the 30's and 40's, but certainly nothing
daunting by Boston standards, and no snow - they rarely get any.

My first night there, I decided to roam around and find some music, and
naturally got lost.  I quickly discovered that Vancouver has a very open
and lively gay community, apparently having wandered into that part of
town...what I found interesting was that the gay bars commonly had signs
at the door saying, "Yes, this is a GAY establishment." Not something
you'd see in the States in most towns, and I thought it was refreshing
that things were that open there...no hassles.

Eventually I did find a place with live music and dancing (does every
town in North America have a place called "The Roxy?")  This place was
jumping, with a live band every night and a packed house to match it -
even on Monday night.  Impressive.

After a couple of days of wandering around, when I wasn't working, I
began to notice more about the people too  - at first I thought it was
just my imagination, but in time it became obvious that Vancouver has an
extraordinary number of extremely attractive women - far beyond the
typical cross-section of the population (and needless to say, much
appreciated by the spectating public, i.e. me).  The ratio was way off
the scale...

In the past six months, I've been to Stockholm, Dublin, New Orleans, San
Francisco and now Vancouver.   Every one of them has been an intriguing
and exciting place to visit, but right now, if I was to choose just one
(and mind you, like many of us here I'm a BIG fan of San Francisco), I'd
probably choose Vancouver.  I highly recommend it.

tim

P.S. Oh yeah, DECUS was cool too. ;-)

I love Vancouver. We made many a road trip there when I was in grad school 
at UW in Seattle.

simply put...Canada Rooolz

Tim, when you get to Montreal, you'll like that too...

WO

    
    >just my imagination, but in time it became obvious that Vancouver has an
    >extraordinary number of extremely attractive women - far beyond the
    >typical cross-section of the population (and needless to say, much
    
    And congenial too????  my o' my.  
    
    bags being packed and tickets purchased.

    little heavy in here this morning, so I'll try to lighten things up
    with a weekend story...
    
    Patty and I took off Sat morning for the Mt. Princeton Hotsprings. 
    We had heard that the wind had been clocked at a constant 50MPH with
    gusts up to 75MPH in the high country. Right outside of Lake George, we
    saw our first Bald Eagle of the winter. This time of year they are
    migrateing back to the rivers and streams looking for fish in the low
    water before spring run-off begins (that's right folks, spring run-off
    time is right around the corner again!) This eagle was perched on top
    of a dead tree (where we have seen the same? eagle for years every
    winter) about 1/2 mile away, but stood out like a diamond as the sun 
    reflected off his white head. We stopped in Buena Vista at Casa Del 
    Sol for some grate mexican food and decided to check out a small hot
    springs we used to frequent about 10 years ago up CottonWood Creek/Pass.
     The owners have changed since then and with the 3 small plastic-type
    hottubs they had years ago, they've built 3 large rock pools. The
    springs comes out of the side of the mountain at 110 degrees, runs thru
    the 3 small "private" plastic tubs at about 105, into the first large
    rock tub at 102, to the next at 100 and the last at about 98 degrees.
    Then the water flows into 3 large goldfish ponds that have koi stocked
    in them. The water would have been hotter if the wind wasn't blowing at
    50 MPH. No way could you get out and lounge around the pool without
    freezing. In a way that was cool, Patty and I had the top large pool
    all to ourselves for about 1/2 hr. before others got brave enough. Neck
    deep all the time with wool hats on, staying right in front of where
    the hottest water entered the pool. The neatest thing about these rock
    pools is the design. Out of nothing but large river rocks and concrete,
    they constructed these ponds with loungers, seats, jets, etc, just like
    a real, vinal/plastic hottub, and the rocks and concrete-work was as
    smooth as a baby's but. Really nice. Patty got soaked out in about 1.5
    hours, I could stayed all day. We went for a *REAL* quick dip in one
    plastic pool where the water was probably 108...Patty lasted about 15
    seconds. again I could stayed all day. Got dressed, had a few beers,
    and hit the road for TumbleDown, driven by the wind. ANd what a wind!
    We'd be driving along at 60 MPH. fighting a side wind of 50MPH on dry
    roads, suddenly, for 25 yards, the road was in whiteout conditions with
    an ice/snow drift across the road. Scary stuff. This is when we saw our
    second Eagle, a *HUGE* Golden about 20 yards off the side of the road
    eating a rabbit. We whipped the Donkey around and snapped about 6-8
    pictures of him scarfing down his lunch before he got wary and took
    off. Amazing animal at that close. Into Tumbledown, met Tom Lawlor and
    Glen Ingalls who had back-country skiied Loveland  Mt. above ALMA.
    Brook Trout and Filiet Mignon for supper, couple of cases of beer. Tom
    and Glen pass out, Patty and I stayed up and played games %^) for awhile. 
    Next morning Tom and Glen take off early to downhill somewhere, we
    sleep till 11, breakfast, clean up and leave for Colo Spgs. In the
    middle of South Park, on the ground about 40 yards off the raod, we see
    our third eagle, another bald eagle, about half the size of the Golden,
    perched on his prey (prob. a dead cow, did ya know that balds are
    basically scavengers and oppotunists where Goldens are actuall
    hunters??) Three eagles in 2 days. The wind must be keeping them low
    and exposing prey. Home and slept like a baby!
    
    rfb
    

	I saw my first bald eagle last year when I was canoeing on a lake
	that we had to carry the canoe over land a bit to get to 
	(i.e. very isolated) - that was such a spectacular sight - it
	was sitting up in the top of a pine and we could see it clear
	across the lake - they are so distinctive, there is no doubt when
	you see one.  We paddled over closer, and THEN, it took off - and
	MAN, those birds are HUGE!  I bet the wingspan was 5-6 feet.  Whoa!

	There's a waterfall near where I live that is such a cool water
	playground.  In some places where the water has been beating into
	the rocks over the years, it has created these deep holes which you
	can actually get into and stand up and lay your arms and shoulders
	over the edge and have the waterfall massage your back.  You can
	get in back of the falls in spots.  Some of the rocks are moss-covered,
	and they're great fun to use as a waterslide.  There's a beautiful
	deep pool at the bottom.  Hot springs sound extremely nice - this water
	I'm talking about is COOOOOLD!

	Debess

    got home early the other day, grabed a beer and got ready for a star
    trek I hadn't seen. Caught the last 10 mins of Montel, about mix-race
    babies and the non-acceptance of them by some whites *AND* blacks. 
    Immediately after Montel, the "flat-earth" guy (I KNOW who he is now!
    %^) ) had a political ad on touting the need to get back to good ole
    american basic values, etc, with fade in shots of americans socializing
    at work, at school, at play, at church, just about everywhere....not a
    single face of color in the ad. Either a real good trick by the
    Democrats or some really poor planning by the right-wing nazi
    republicans!!! 
    
    rfb

    I don't know why that non-acceptance of mix race children by blacks is
    so shocking rfb...my buddy royce only dates white women, but if you
    bring up the subject of marriage and children he refuses to reproduce
    inter racially....
    
    not that shocking, in fact it could be as strong if not stronger among
    African Americans

    No, no, no....i didn't find the Montel show so shocking...I've seen my
    share of racism, on both sides of the color line. what I found more
    ironic than shocking was the Bucky advert *after* a show watched by a
    large amount of black people that didn't show a single person of color
    in the advert....see?
    
    and, cris, yer friend royce needs a slap up side da head.....
    
    
    rfb

    we've slapped him numerous times rfb...just won't set in

    it SURE would be good to be going to a show soon.  I need a dead fix in
    a bad way.  I miss that feeling of togetherness, bad.  
    
    
    Just a thought.
    
    Peace and love
    	Mark

    re: .2630
    
    :^(  yeah...
    
    glad i was able to BE at those few shows.  if i had stumbled onto the scene a
    couple years later, well, it woulda been too late.

    right about now the jones factor would be on high as the spring tour
    would kick off in a coupla day

	I'm feeling this too lately...big time...

    Never thought I'd say this but...
    
    "I miss MOSS"

    
    I talked about MOSS with Jay Jolls awhile ago.  For all yous out there
    that have been missing MOSS,  I have an alternative.  Send me some
    money and a 3x5 card very carefully spelling out what shows you want
    tickets to.  I'll return it in 2 to 6 weeks with commemorative tickets
    or something.  Just to keep it real feeling, I'll hang onto a few for
    an extra long time.  
    
    Whaddya think?
    
    

     <<< Note 90.2635 by USOPS::MNELSON "Inspiration, move me Brightly" >>>
                                -< psuedo moss >-    
>    I talked about MOSS with Jay Jolls awhile ago.  For all yous out there
>    that have been missing MOSS,  I have an alternative.  Send me some
>    money and a 3x5 card very carefully spelling out what shows you want
>    tickets to.  I'll return it in 2 to 6 weeks with commemorative tickets
>    or something.  Just to keep it real feeling, I'll hang onto a few for
>    an extra long time.  
    
>    Whaddya think?
       
HA!  too funny!

    M.O. and 3x5 in the mail!!!!
    
    
    rfb

    The notes about Carter dredged up a random memory from some dark corner
    of my brain.  I was pretty young when he was president, but I
    distinctly remember the signing ceremony for the Camp David peace
    accords.  Now I remember why: the signing ceremony interrupted the 2
    hour premier of Battlestar Galactica.  :-)
    
    Jamie

    Jimmie is a great man, in fact my wife and I went to Plains, Georgia
    last year as a side trip to visit Army son at Ft. Benning.
    It was interesting, we saw Jimmie's house ( right on the road),
    it now has a little guard house and black Chevy Suburbans amid
    the peanut fields.
    

	some info of possible interest to this group, from r.m.gd recently:

	the Allman Bros. did at least a one minute jam of the Other One
	during a recent show, as reported by more than one in attendance.
	The rest of the show was reported to have been -full- of tripped-out,
	spacey jams...

	Old and In the Way will be performing together again (with Pederson?
	on banjo) for 2 shows this month at the Warfield, I believe it was.

	speaking of the Allman Bros...I was watching David Letterman last
	week and they were on and he introduced them as playing their
	new Grammy award winning instrumental-of-the-year - and then they
	played "Jessica"!  New?!?  That song is 20+ years old now...and
	-now- they're winning an award for it?

    I thought that was interesting too.  I gather it was on a released
    album last year, probably a live one.
    
    PeterT

    The Allman Brothers played a NYC stretch recently (last week I think).  
    Rumor has it, during one of the shows Greg Allman was incapable of 
    playing so Page (from Phish) took over and played the rest of the show.  
    Duane sang all the vocals.

    HA! sounds like the Greg I met!

    yeah he busted his ribs in a bike accident...
    they are doing a 12 show stand at the beacon i think

    the allmans seem to never learn....STAY OFF OF BIKES!!!

re                     <<< Note 90.2603 by SPECXN::BARNES >>>

>    rfb_good to see JC and Deb anytime

hi rfb, it me-deb...hey it was grate see'in you guys and we had a lot of 
fun check'in out shake down street.  the thanks is all ours :) we  
definitely hope to be out that way again soon.  maybe we'll party with you at
your mountain get-a-way...tumbledown! 

take care, 

deb & jc

Duane sang all the vocals????

>    Duane sang all the vocals.

	now, if they could get him to play guitar too...

    maybe mr betts sang them all.....
    
    or butch trucks' nephew duane

    Hi Deb! ya'll come out this way anytime...sometimes I'm even coherant!
    
    rfb

    <---------
    likely story barned

    
    
    
                  IT'S SPRINGTIME In COLORADO SPRINGS!! 
    
    It may still be winter in the high country, but the flowers and birds 
    have made a comeback here in the city and the surrounding foothills. The 
    first male robins showed up this last weekend, for once not during a 
    spring snowstorm too! The Magpies are making nests and making "love" 
    sounds to each other. We have crocus in our front yard blooming...yellow, 
    blue, purple and white. The wild honeysuckle have tiny green buds coming 
    out, the wild bushes up on the mesa have tiny buds too, the daffadils are 
    a couple of days away from blooming and the tulips are a couple of 
    inches high. I saw a samll heard of does yesterday down low near the 
    Garden of the Gods, getting ready to drop their fawns soon. The Redtail 
    and Gosh Hawks are back and getting ready to nest as are the Kestrels or 
    Sparrow hawks. I saw a male Kestrel the day before yesterday in his mating 
    colors, his back rusty red and his cheeks that pale blue. With all the 
    birds of prey, you know the mice and voles are pumping out the babies. 
    The male red wing blackbirds are back and staking out their territory
    on the nearby ponds, warning each other to stay away from their own
    particular cattail patch, trying to attract females that are
    still a state away. The brown hillsides are starting to show a
    slight touch of green to them. I can feel the trout stirring in rivers, 
    lakes and streams still mostly covered by snow and ice. My mind turns
    to memories of aspen groves with bright shining leaves quaking in the
    wind.....but that's summer...let's not rush spring.
    
    
    rfb

	ahhhhhh, it's springtime in colo springs ....
	... barnes is starting to sound like marty stoufer  ;-)
	
	siriusly, it ain't that way here, yet.
	piles of dirty snow!  yuck.  ponds still froze solid. and not a
	robin heard yet. but, it's gettin closer.
	
	"have you ever waken to the sounds, of magpies makin love?"
	;-)

Yabut J,

this is gorgeous weather we are having.  Possibly my favorite time of year
when we get nice, clear, crisp, cold nights and warm 35-50ish degree days.

I love it.

Then again,  I love summer and fall.  Just don't like extreme cold.

bob

    
    No sign of spring what-so-ever yet here aside from some welcome 
    40+ degree temps this week.
    
    My Mom, in Myrtle Beach SC, says spring has begin and the days are 
    averaging about 60-70 degrees.  She's been in the ocean 3 times
    already.  I think I'll give her another surprised visit from her
    loving son.

     <<< Note 90.2655 by MKOTS3::JOLLIMORE "On the threshold of a dream" >>>

>>	... barnes is starting to sound like marty stoufer  ;-)

Ha!  I watch this guy on TV all the time;  like his show. 

bob

>this is gorgeous weather we are having. 
	
	ya. right. it only snowed twice last week. once for 3 days and
	once for 4 days  ;-)
	
	
	i know, the last couple of days has been outstanding.
	

    re:
    ... barnes is starting to sound like marty stoufer  ;-)
    
    
    actually I think I'm more like a liberal, long-haired Orlando Wilson or
    Roland Martin..."OOOOOOWWWWEEEE! lukkit that lunker!"
    
    
    rfb_nature boy

Actually, I've been hearing springtime birds a-whistling and singin, that
I didn't hear last week, like Phoebes.  Saw my first 1996 cardinal this am,
too.

 Josh

	phew - I'm HOT! - took my lunch hour to do some cross country skiing
	and it is wicked warm out there - GO OUTSIDE IF YOU HAVEN'T TODAY -
	you won't regret it - it is so beautiful - the sky is so blue...

	spring is coming!

	Debess

    Back to the Allman Bros.
    
    They're doing a 14 night run at the Beacon Theatre in NYC.  Opening
    night (which I was at) Dickie came out and said that Greg won't be
    playing too much because he hurt his ribs in a bike accident the week
    before.  Greg only sang two songs and didn't play the whole 2nd set. 
    Yes, Page from Phish came out to play Greg's B3 and keyboard, also the
    women from David Letterman's band came out at one one.  Warren sang
    about 4-5 songs (you know many blues tunes!).
    
    I liked the show, but the people I was with thought they were
    inconsistent (wonder why?).
    
    Also went last Wednesday and have ticket for this Sunday.  I think they
    are on a roll.  But, then they rarely have a truly bad show in my book!
    
    The tour heads down south after NYC, however, they'll be back for a
    shed tour this summer~!
    
    Fredda 

    " "The Way Things Aren't: Rush Limbaugh's Reign of Error" ....exposes
    more than 100 distortions, lies, and contradictions - the very heart
    of Limbaugh's propaganda. His attempt to defend his credibility may be
    the funniets part of the book. ...get a copy  for yourself or for your
    Dittohead brother-in-law. It's cheaper than Limbaugh's books and it's
    been fact checked!"
    
    
    sounds grate...need to  check this out

  I spotted somewhere that Al Franken's book ("Rush Limbaugh is a ??? and
  Other...???") is the #4 selling hard cover book.  Anyone know if it's any
  good?
  
  Always thought he was one of the better SN Live and National Lampoon
  project sorts (esp. behind the scenes, early on, as a writer).  - JayC.

    
    Just checking in to say Hello!   I am out in Reno this week.  I am
    about 3/4 through Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot an other
    observations.   I love the way it reveals how many of these
    conservatives positions lived lives with loaded with conservative 
    inconsistencies.  
     
    Off to Lake Tahoe for skiing this weekend.  Yeehaw!
    
    
    	Mark
    

LAKE TAHOE !!!  RAGE indeed...awesome place, I'll always be happy to say Karen
and I were married in California, at Lake Tahoe, on a boat...Tahoe roolz

Mark, try to get up Eagle Falls...you won't regret it...

Wes

    Okay, I can't believe I'm going to ask this...
    
    Does anyone have copies of boyz in Egypt?  I met someone who's
    interested in those tapes.  I explained they weren't very good, but,
    you know some people have to hear it for themselves.
    
    Also, does anyone have the Thursday, Seattle, WA show (5/25/95)?  This
    was one of the most awsome shows I was ever priviledged to be at! 
    
    Oh yeah, went to see the Allman Bros. Sunday night at the Beacon
    Theatre in NYC.  These boys are on a roll.  To close the first set,
    they did a semi-old song called True Gravity into an extended jam,
    which lead to one of the best drum solos ever (and I'm not a big fan of
    drum solos) into a bass solo into (now hold your hats) major hints of
    St. Stephen into The Other One!  Complete that with different shots 
    of Jerry up on the video screen.  I nearly cried!
    
    Later.
    
    Fredda 

>    drum solos) into a bass solo into (now hold your hats) major hints of
>    St. Stephen into The Other One!  Complete that with different shots 
>    of Jerry up on the video screen.  I nearly cried!
    

	this is -so- cool of them!  I had been reading little snippets
	of people saying that they heard bits of this GD song or that
	in the Allman Bros' jams lately - and while I believed that they
	did indeed hear them, I wondered how intentional it was on the
	musicians' part - ya know what I mean?  (and that's only because
	I didn't hear it myself, it was probably -very- obvious)...
	but anyways, with these pix of Jerry, there is no doubt!  Cool!

	Debess

	coming in today and seeing the announcement for the Leguna Seca
	shows with Ratdog and Mickey Hart's new band, amongst others,
	is a great way to begin the week - even though I won't be going -
	it just feels good to see these events being planned.

	it also is totally excellent to see the GDTS is going to be doing
	a mailorder for this - let me repeat - TOTALLY EXCELLENT!

	I just dealt with Ticketmaster for Dylan tickets on Saturday.
	(am I allowed to badmouth another company here?!?) - man, they
	s*ck!  For $25 tickets, they added a $5 service fee PER TICKET.
	And then, for good measure, they added another couple bucks as
	a handling fee for the order.  Then had the gall to ask me if
	I'd like to buy a Dylan tshirt from them - what's the service
	charge I asked - he didn't get it!

	I am extremely happy to see GDTS is still in business...

	Debess

	

    Debess -
    	I went thru the same sh!t with TM Saturday morning. The person on
    the phone says "Tix are $25 with a $4.75 convenience charge each." I said
    "So, how's that convenient?" They didn't get that either. Then tack on
    $.90 per ticket for the phone processiong and a $25 ticket turns out to
    be $30.65!! Then I too got asked to buy a Dylan T-shirt and a Beatles
    Anthology II CD. WTF?
    
    	After being screwed over by them for Johnny Cash - the person with
    will-call tix never showed up! - and then this weekend, I really hope
    this NEXT thing takes off and creates some competition for TM.
    
    

	Regarding the comments earlier about NEXT. Same as TM just a different  
	name. The same experience. Shed tickets for Jimmy Buffett $50...plus a 	
	$5.00 service charge. Tried for over an hour on the phone never got 	
        tickets. Imediately after tickets were sold out for 2 nights, wrist     
        bands were given out for 2 more nights at the same outlets where the    
        people who just got tickets were. 

Chris

NEXT = New England's eXpense Tickets

I got through for lawn tickets for Buffett (assuming they get my address 
right. I put in the correct one, the system mumbled something then it went 
on). 

Except for "Deadapolousa" which will hopefully go through GDTS, Slip Into 
Summer and the Vermont Reggae Festival, I think any other shows I attend 
will be small venues at the door.

FWIW, I hate Don Law

jeff

  A note in the Blues and R&B conference (DEMON::AFTER_HOURS) is collecting
  ideas for "blues to rock the house".  Blues/rock fans might want to check
  it out, add your favorites...
  
  Fwiw, I sprinkled in over a dozen from the Dead's repertoire
  (kinda long cross-posting follows the form feed...)    - JayC.

                       -< BLUES and R&B Interest Group >-
================================================================================
Note 521.6                  Blues to Rock the House!                      6 of 6
HELIX::CLARK                                        255 lines  27-MAR-1996 16:33
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  I used a couple of coffee breaks to combine a bunch of my (now-deleted)
  replies w/ others.  Just a quick/dirty grouping by performer.
  
  Btw, my contributions to this are mainly blues/rock staples.
  Some great soul/blues staples are definitely MIA.
...
=====================================================================
Mustang Sally                           (Wilson Pickett)

One Bourbon, one scotch, one beer       (John Lee Hooker)
Boom Boom
Boogie Chillun
Serves Me Right to Suffer
Dimples
I'm in the Mood
Bottle Up & Go

Crawling King Snake                     (Big Joe Williams, JL Hooker)
Baby Please Don't Go                    (Big Joe Williams)

Mary Had a Little Lamb 		        (Buddy Guy, Otis Redding, SRV)
First Time I Met the Blues              (Buddy Guy)
Stone Crazy
Fever                                   (Little Willie John, Buddy Guy)
You Don't Love Me                       (Junior Wells & Buddy Guy)
Messin' with the Kid                    (Junior Wells)

Statesboro Blues			(Willie McTell, Allman Bros.)

Hide Away                               (Freddie King)
Have You Ever Loved a Woman
Love Her With a Feeling
Tore Down				(Freddie King, Eric Clapton)

Tore Up                                 (Hank Ballard)
Work with Me Annie
The Twist
Sugaree

Bo Diddley                              (Bo Diddley)
Who Do you Love
I'm a Man (aka Mannish Boy)
Before You Accuse Me

Crossroad Blues                         (Robert Johnson, Cream)
Sweet Home Chicago                      (Robert Johnson)
Love in Vain
Rambling on My Mind
Come On in My Kitchen
Steady Rolling Man
Stop Breaking Down
Hellhound on My Trail

Dust My Broom                           (Robert Johnson, Elmore James)
Shake your Moneymaker                   (Elmore James)
Sky is Crying
Talk to Me Baby (aka I Can't hold out)
Done Somebody Wrong
It Hurts Me Too
Madison Blues

One Way Out                             (Sonny Boy Williamson II, Elmore James)
Don't Start Me to Talkin'               (Sonny Boy Williamson II)
Bring it On Home to Me
Help Me
Nine Below Zero

Good Morning Little Schoolgirl          (Sonny Boy Williamson I)

Steppin Out                             (?)
Going Away Baby                         (?)
Mellow Down Easy                        (?)

I Just Want to Make Love to You         (Muddy Waters)
Hoochie Coochie Man
Got My Mojo Working
I'm Ready
Trouble No More
Can't Lose What You Never Had
Rolling Stone
Honey Bee
Champagne & Reefer
My Eyes Keep Me In Trouble
Rollin' and Tumblin'                    (John Estes, Muddy Waters, Elmore James)

What's the Matter with the Mill         (Memphis Minnie, Muddy Waters)
Bumble Bee Blues                        (Memphis Minnie)

All Your Love I miss lovin'             (Otis Rush)
I Can't Quit You Baby
So Many Roads
Double Trouble
Homework                                (Otis Rush, J Geils)

Spoonful                                (Howlin' Wolf)
Back Door Man
Smokestack Lightning
Going Down Slow
Red Rooster
I Ain't Superstitious
You Shook Me
Rockin' Daddy
Wang Dang Doodle                        (Howlin' Wolf, Koko Taylor & Willie D.)
Sittin' On Top of the World             (Mississippi Sheiks, Howlin' Wolf)

Big Boss Man                            (Jimmy Reed)
Baby What You Want Me to Do
Bright Lights Big City
I Ain't Got You
Ain't That Lovin' You

I'm a King Bee                          (Slim Harpo)
Baby Scratch My Back
Shake Your Hips
Got Love (If You Need It)

Farther Up the Road                     (Bobby Bland)
Turn on Your Lovelight
I Pity the Fool

Thrill is Gone                          (BB King)
Rock Me Baby
More More More
Sweet Sixteen
It's My Own Fault
Sweet Little Angel
How Blue Can You Get                    (BB - Bonnie Raitt should cover this!)
Everyday I Have the Blues               (Memphis Slim, Lowell Fulson, Jr Parker,
                                         BB King, Joe Williams)

Stormy Monday                           (T Bone Walker)
T-Bone Blues
Mean Old World                          (T-Bone Walker, Little Walter, Prof.Lh)

My Babe                                 (Little Walter)
Juke

Key to the Highway                      (Broonzy, Little Walter arr. used by EC)
Outskirts of Town                       (Big Bill Broonzy, Louis Jordan, JReed)

Born Under a Bad Sign                   (Albert King)
Crosscut Saw

Blues Before Sunrise                    (Leroy Carr, Albert King)
How Long Blues                          (Leroy Carr)

I'd Rather Go Blind                     (Etta James)
I Prefer You
Damn Your Eyes
Tell Mama
Something's Got a Hold on Me

Shake Rattle & Roll                     (Joe Turner)
Roll 'Em Pete
Cherry Red                              (Joe Turner, Eddie Vinson)

Mystery Train                           (Junior Parker)
Next Time You See Me
Driving Wheel                           (Roosevelt Sykes, Junior Parker)

CC Rider                                (Chuck Willis)
It's Too Late

Send Me To the Electric Chair           (Bessie Smith)
Downhearted Blues
St. Louis Blues
Nobody Knows You When You're Down & Out (Bessie Smith, Otis Redding)

Hard to Handle                          (Otis Redding)
Can't Turn You Loose

Tramp                                   (Lowell Fulson, Otis Redding)
Reconsider Baby                         (Lowell Fulson)

Minglewood Blues                        (Cannon's Jug Stompers)
Viola Lee Blues
Big Railroad Blues

Stack O Lee Blues                       (Miss. John Hurt)
Salty Dog Blues
Candy Man Blues

Motherless Children                     (Blind Willie Johnson)
Nobody's Falut But Mine
If I Had My Way (aka Samson & Delilah)  (BW Johnson, Gary Davis)

Caldonia                                (Louis Jordan)
Let the Good Times Roll                 (Louis Jordan, Ray Charles)

I Got a Woman                           (Ray Charles)
What'd I Say
Lonely Avenue
Rockhouse
Night Time is the Right Time
I Believe to My Soul
Mess Around                             (Ray Charles, Prof. Longhair)

Tipitina                                (Prof. Longhair)
Bald Head

Good Rockin' Tonight                    (Wynonie Harris)
Destination: Love

That's All Right                        (Big Boy Crudup)
My Baby Left Me

Black Cat Bone                          (Lightnin' Hopkins)
Chicken Shack
Mojo Hand

I Smell Trouble                         (Ike & Tina Turner)
Rocket '88                              (Ike Turner)

Red House                               (Jimi Hendrix)
Voodoo Child

Bad Bad Whiskey                         (Amos Milburn)
Let's Have a Party

Driftin' Blues                          (Charles Brown)
Frosty                                  (Albert Collins)
Somebody Loan Me a Dime                 (Fenton Robinson)
Matchbox Blues                          (BL Jefferson)
Train Kept a Rollin'                    (Tiny Bradshaw)
Willie and the Hand Jive                (Johnny Otis)
Ain't Got no Home                       (Frogman Henry)
Midnight Special                        (Leadbelly)
We're Gonna Make It                     (Little Milton)
Down Home Blues                         (ZZ Hill)
Part Time Love                          (Johnny Taylors everywhere)
Green Onions                            (Booker T)
Milk Cow Blues                          (Sleepy John Estes, RJ)
Hound Dog                               (Big Mama Thornton)
Walkin' Blues                           (Willie Brown, Son House, RJ)
Big Road Blues                          (Tommy Johnson)
Time Gettin' Tougher Than Tough         (Jimmy Witherspoon)
Cocaine Blues                           (Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee)
Since I Met You Baby                    (Ivory Joe Hunter)
It's All Over Now                       (Bobby Womack)
Kansas City Blues                       (Jim Jackson, Willie Littlefield, etc.)
After Midnight                          (JJ Cale)
Some Kind of Wonderful                  (Brothers 6, GFunk)
...
=====================================================================

	that's along list ;-)
	
	my pers_name comes from the begining of Red Rooster on the
	Howlin' Wolf London Sessions CD.  grate disc!
	
	JayJols

    
    Rage at the Horseshoe after work tonight. DC's calling a meeting.
    
    See ya there?
    
    Cath

    Does anyone know of a good vegetarian restuarant in the
    Boston/Cambridge area? Even a good Indian restaurant would
    be cool.
    
    Thanks!
    
    Mike

    
    what's going on this afternoon for beveragizers????
    
    could really use a drink.

	da 'shoe!
	
	rage.

    
    Very good chance I may be moving to Hudson Ma.  Any 
    other DECheads live in Hudson Marlboro area? 

    hope everyone had a grate holiday, Easter, beginning of spring,
    sacraficial day or whatever you celebrate this last weekend. We started
    out Friday nite with Shakedown Street...good tunes; an Operator,
    Special requested They Love Each Other for Patty and I, China-->rider, 
    Woke up Sunday morning and some sick friends of mine (turned out to be
    Hoot and Toad) had set up a crucifiction scene in our front yard...
    a larger marshmellow rabbit on a cross surrounded by smaller
    marshmellow bunnies and chickens, with a "roman soldier" bunny with a
    sword that had beheaded one of the other bunnies. Plus bunnies placed
    under our windshild wipers, on the car antennas, etc....pretty freakin
    funny, i must say. Took us all day to figger out who had done this.
    
    
    rfb

    Didja know . . .
    
    The lead singer for Hootie and the Blowfish is the son of the lead
    singer for the Village People.  And every bit as talented as Dad.

     <<< Note 90.2682 by ASDG::IDE "My mind's lost in a household fog." >>>
                                -< fun factoid >-
    
>    The lead singer for Hootie and the Blowfish is the son of the lead
>    singer for the Village People.  And every bit as talented as Dad.


Rilly?  ya gotta be pulling my leg....

really!!!!!
??  I like your "every bit as talented" comparison....
bob

    
    Laughin my butt off!!!!

the mind boggles at what it might be like to have one of
The Village People as a parent...

i didn't think it was possible... :^)

				da ve

>the mind boggles at what it might be like to have one of
>The Village People as a parent...

YOUNG MAN  
	you better go to your room.

I SAID

YOUNG MAN 
	you better clean up that room...

:) :) :)

>i didn't think it was possible... :^)

me neither :)  sounds like a "world weekly news" headline....

	got my fishing license yesterday!!!!  :-)  :-)
	
	:-(  :-(  it cost 57% more than last year!!
	
	17.50    --->   27.50  
	
	

>	got my fishing license yesterday!!!!  :-)  :-)
	

	we had fresh stream-caught trout for dinner Tuesday night :-)

    Tell Bill Weld you want your fishing license for life!
    
    End big government; shut down Fish & Game!
    
    smile, smile, smile...
    
    /bruce

    
    Let me know when we're head'n out Jay....I've got that fishing
    yearning.

    re:
    we had fresh stream-caught trout for dinner Tuesday night :-)
    
    cutts, bows, browns, brookies?????
    
    I had forgotten that Guntis was a fisherperson...did he catch them from
    the stream that I hear runs thru yer property???
    
    me, i go this weekend.
    
    rfb

	whatta I know about what kinda trout they were?!?  (my guess is
	brookie or brown)

	where he went - I don't know that either - and even though the
	little crik on our property is at its all-year high, I'm sure there's 
	no fish innit...

	Debess

> ....I've got that fishing yearning.

	what you need is $27.50!  8-P
	
	the boat goes in the water sunday for a test run.
	i'm going to the quabbin monday. rain or shine.  :-) :-) :-)
	

    this weekend while Lindsey and I were doin her b-day shopping, I saw a
    couple of CD's of Dead Interviews...one for 8$ and one for 11$..
    One called "Still Truckin" from 92 and the other I can't remember, but
    both say "These CD's contain no music and are not aprt of the regular
    Arista recordings" or some such sh8t. I came that close to buying both
    but had alredy spent about 400$ on Lindsey and I at the outdoor shop..
    (new heavy duty hiking boots for both of us)
    anyone have a CLUE  as to what is on either of these disks and, stupid
    question, ARE THEY WORTH GETTING??
    
    rfb
    rfb 

    rfb -
    	I have "Still Truckin'" - fell in to the trap! It's mostly Mickey
    talking. Listened to it once but that was about it. Nothing
    Earth-shattering for sure. Not sure what the other one is?!?
    
    						Jeff

    that's what i thought...so i didn't buy until i got the  "word" from
    ya'll....thanks
    
    on another CD note..what about Hunters CD that is all hunter/dead
    stuff??, more like stuff you'd hear ata dead show instead of a Hunter show
    
    
    rfb

    >>on another CD note..what about Hunters CD that is all hunter/dead
    >>stuff??, more like stuff you'd hear ata dead show instead of a
    >>Hunter show
    
    If you're referring to "Box of Rain" I have that as well. I like it
    alot! Interesting to see how Hunter imagined the songs as he wrote
    them. Some old familiars on that CD don't sound anything like what
    we're used to.

    ya, I belive that is what it was called....every song is one you've
    heard at a  show and none of the "obscure" stuff Hunter does on other
    CDs. Maybe I'll get it....
    
    rfb

    Patty and I dropped off ours, her stores', Lindsey's and a friends tax
    fileings last nite at 7:30 pm...cutting it a Little close...but before
    Patty licked the envelopes, she showed me Lindsey's return...she gets a
    whoppin 9 bucks back from the State...3$ went to the Prevent Demostic Abuse
    Fund, 3$ went to the non-game wildlife fund and the last 3$ went to
    some other fund (NOT the political donation fund, I garuntee it!!)
    made me feel real proud of her that she's into *good* 
    charity instead of the 9$.
    
    rfb

    
    Anyone heard that song on the radio yet..."Let's go smoke some pot"
    
    It's pretty good.

    Hey deano
      Heard it the other day.  Funny stuff.  What is the name of the tune
    it parodies?  I think it was "let's go to the hop" or something .
    
    	Mark
    

>    it parodies?  I think it was "let's go to the hop" or something .

I haven't heard the parody, but "Lets Go To The Hop" was by, uhhh..
Danny <someone> and the Juniors?  A late-50's/early 60's fast doo-woop/almost
rock'n'roll tune.

 -Josh

    what's it about?
    

    
    It's cutting edge.

    On the cover of today's Boston Herald is an article about Timothy 
    Leary. 
    
    He's planning on committing suicide, and broadcasting it live on 
    the internet.

    re.-1
    last I heard he planned on going out with a big dose too....somehow i
    just don't see the two goin together...maybe a rather large snort of
    the big H, but not the other....another end of an era..the mind boggles
    at some of the "quests" Jerry and Tiny Dr. Tim had in the past....

>    last I heard he planned on going out with a big dose too....somehow i

    That's the plan from what I read previously (in The Herald ;-)
    He has terminal cancer, and figures dying tripping would be the way to go.
    I guess he has nothing to lose, but it sure seems a bit strange.

    Now what could possibly be broadcast on the internet ?  

	I'm feeling _it_ coming on...
	OK, here comes the cyanide...
	[...silence...]
	
    And thats all folks.

    /Ken

Dying dosed...hard to fathom that.  It's a rare human being that
could find lasting peace in that state of mind.

tim

    >>     Now what could possibly be broadcast on the internet ?
    >>
    >>        I'm feeling _it_ coming on...
    >>        OK, here comes the cyanide...
    >>        [...silence...]
    >>
    >>    And thats all folks.
    
    I was thinking the same thing :-), but when I scanned the article (I was 
    in a store) I got the gist that maybe he was planning on having it
    broadcast in video format over the internet.  The article was giving
    statistics on how only such-and-such percentage of people have internet
    access, and how only a small percentage of those people have internet 
    access with video capabilities.  
    
    If he _is_ planning on going out with a big dose, and dying tripping,
    how much would that have to be for a person like Timothy Leary? 
    (to have an enormous effect) 
    
    "He is now sucking down one bottle of LSD..."

    re;It's a rare human being that
    could find lasting peace in that state of mind.
    
    i beg to differ...
    
    it's a rare human being that would want to die in that state of
    mind...why kick when yer havin a good time!! 
    
    rfb

    I read about this in paper several weeks ago, I couldn't figure
    out why over the internet, considering so many people have do not
    have access, I agree with RFB why split then???

    >>     I read about this in paper several weeks ago, I couldn't figure
    >>    out why over the internet, considering so many people have do not
    >>    have access, I agree with RFB why split then???
     
    something about combining two of the most controversial things of 
    our time:  suicide and the internet.
    
    I'll have to get the paper and bring it in, then I won't be relying 
    on my memory.  
    
    The article also mentioned his website at http://www.leary.com .
    
    You should see his "average daily intake" of certain foods/drugs (!)

    If I remember my history correctly, Tim is following in the footsteps
    of the estimable Aldous Huxley (author of "The Doors of Perception").
    
    Fwiw, I think the guy's got guts.  

    Tom

    Aldous Huxley committed suicide???

    No, and I don't think he broadcast it on the internet, either.
    
    Tom

    If you ask me it's kind of seedy. And Leary must have an
    enormous ego to contemplate doing something like this.

    seedy??
    
    i thought we were talking doses???
    
    
                        %^)

    Tim's always thought a lot of his own ideas.  He's an iconoclast,
    at least he's going out according to his own principles.  Death
    is the last great frontier, if you choose to look at it that way.
    He's going out on his own terms and he's making it an adventure,
    however gruesome that may seem.  What should he do, pine away,
    griefstricken and immobilized?  He's going to die anyway.  He's
    trying to do it as consciously as possible.

    The way I see him, he's a cutting edge kind of guy.  Which
    explains the internet.  He's always been interested in 
    setting back the frontiers of consciousness, group or 
    individual, and for that I respect him (even if I don't
    often know what that means!  I have enough trouble with
    my own extremely limited consciousness!!)

    He wrote an autobiography called Flashback, by the way, if
    you feel like delving into his monstrous ego a bit further.

    Tom

This brings back to mind when I saw Leary, Hunter Thompson & G. Gordon Liddy 
on the same stage in 86/87. I still can't figure out what went on.

jeff

    I read how Gordon busted Leary in NY, many years ago....
    I would have like to see that show...., if it's like Liddy's
    radio show (daily Clinton bashing) some of it could be entertaining.
    
    Sometimes Liddy is good, most of the time boring right wing propaganda
    (IMHO of course)

    
    Does anyone else work at this obnoxiously early hour????
    
    Couldn't sleep this AM and I heard about possible 60+ degree temps 
    for the next few days so here I am rotting away early.

Dean,

	I'm here at 6:00!

Chris

                     
    How do you do it without having to go to bed while it's still 
    light out???  
    
    If I want to start biking to work, I need to be up at 6:15.  ouch!

I've been able to get in for 7:30 most of this week. I used to do it regularly 
and many years ago even earlier. Especially when the weather's nice I like 
early because I can get out early. But normally I get in for 8:00 these 
days because I get Megann on the bus each morning before I go to work. This 
week, however, it's school vacation so I get to come in early.

	Remember getting a week long vacation just because Monday was a sorta 
holiday!!??

	But I'm not wanting to be in grade school again

Goeff

    
    
    Talk about late sleepers!!
    
     I'm up every workday at 5:30 so I can be here by 7:00, of course early
    rising is not for everyone. I like getting up early and getting down
    the mountian before all the flatlanders who have moved up the mountain
    get started, the trip would be an hour instead of the 30-40 minutes it
    takes now, and I would be in a pi%%ed off mood after fighting the
    traffic..
    
    
    Divde Dave here today at 6:45!
    

 I generally Intensly Despise those who are incredibly early risers and who
get to work when I'm still asleep, since I think they all make me look
bad, and like a sloth.  :-)

that said, this winter I've been getting up earlier on weekends than on
weekdays, to go teleskiing up north.

Yawn... Josh

    re Huxley
    
    Huxley was on his death bed and when he knew it was time, he asked a
    friend to provide him with either mescaline or LSD (I forget which) to
    open the Doors of Perception one last time. Somewhere in my eclectic
    library are the details; I'll dig them out if anyone is interested
    (probably in "Storming Heaven").
    
    re morning people
    
    If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing it after lunch.
    
    gary

>    If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing it after lunch.

Words to live by...;-)

    
    >    If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing it after lunch.
    
    Depends on what just exactly it is your doing I guess....aye?  :-)
    

    If things are goin in my favor, I usually *REALLY* like the first half hour 
    of each morning. %^) or if I'm goin fishin it's always
    easyier to get up earlyier, for some reason. 
    
    more on Huxley , when you have the time please.
    
    rfb

The fact that the early bird gets the worm just goes to show that
the worm should have slept in...

Dan

    
    :-)

    
    Huh.  Where have all the people gone today?
    
    Suppose it wouldn't have much to do with the cutting edge weather
    outside in the northeast?

	i guess they all called in 'well'...it suuuuuure is beautiful
	out there...just noticed my first flowering tree of the year
	while I was out at lunch...

	Debess

    
    Yeah. :-)
    
    I noticed yesterday how green the grass is and some of the flowers 
    outside LKG are almost ready to bloom.
    
    BTW: Are you going to be able to get any tapes of that Dylan show
    	 with FOTD?
    

	I don't know...I'm not a Dylan tape trader...if someone offers,
	I take them up on it, otherwise I don't ask...but I too would
	be very interested in that one (like, was it just me?!? - I don't
	think so though - Guntis and my friend both thought the same as
	me)
	
	Debess

a friend I used to work with & carpool with to Burlington last year, 
sent me this:

There's a new small restaurant in Stoneham (near Burlington) run by a couple 
of Deadheads.  The name of the place is Grateful Bread, and there's a place 
setting set aside for Jerry.

		Cinco De Mayo  (5th of May) Party 
		Mexican Independence Day Celebration


		DATE: 4 MAY 1995
		TIME: 6pm - after midnight (so it includes 5/5)
	       PLACE: Sinoritta Sloan's Casa
		      Nashua (north of the border)

	       Theme: Mexican food, Tequila, Margaritta's
		      hot peppers, pinatta's, etc.

	       Sombrero's Optional

		
	       Send me mail or call if you're coming and to get directions.

	
		Cathy

Well, Hannah definitely has canoe-phobia.  We tried to go canoeing at the 
same spot as last year, and she's joking, laughing, making believe she's
a penguin in the life jacket.  But the minute we get in the canoe and
shove off from the shore, she's white knuckled holding onto the
thwarts, crying, shaking in fear, asking to go back to shore.  The
only time she calms down is when we're heading back in, and if we go too
slow, she starts getting antsy again.  Sigh...  At least this time we
put her on shore with mom, and me and Dan headed out a bit more.  Of course,
with me sitting in the stern, and Dan close to me, the bow of the canoe
is sticking out of the water and we're getting blown in circles!  I finally
convinced Dan to scoot up a bit, and I sat where he had been, but with choppy
water, a good stiff breeze, and only one paddler, we didn't have much luck
getting much of any place.  It appears that if we are going to go, it will
have to be Sunday mornings, when Hannah is in Hebrew school, and we have
a few hours to kill.  Maybe someday, right now I think it would take
behavior modification to get over it.  Or if anybody out there feels a 
need to do some canoeing...

PeterT

	PeterT,
	
	my inclination would be to let Hannah get over this at her own
	pace. given time, she may overcome it but it appears she has a
	real fear for now. probably not worth pushing it, imo.
	
	as for control of the canoe: when i used to fish from my canoe,
	i'd troll with an electric motor. in the back of the canoe would
	be me, a battery and the motor. i'd turn the canoe around so my
	seat was closer to the center and put a small cinder block and 3
	window weight strapped together (which i used as an anchor) in
	the front, to keep the nose down. this, in fishing circles, is
	lovingly known as a dead wife. or so i've been told ;-)
	
	jayj

    
    Who wrote Valerie?  
    
    Listened to it on my way to work..hadn't heard it in a while.
    Intense tune!

         <<< Note 90.2741 by DELNI::DSMITH "Can you see the real me" >>>
    
>    Who wrote Valerie?  
    
>    Listened to it on my way to work..hadn't heard it in a while.
>    Intense tune!

Winwood?  He did a Valerie....
was it on the Arc of A Diver record?

bobo

	I thought the one Jerry did was written by him and Hunter?

    definitely NOT Steve Winwood...the Jerry Valaire goes way back...the
    Lonesome Prison Blues tape has Jerry and Kahn doing Valarie.
    
    rfb

I Digress...Acoustic Junction will be performing at the PARADISE on Friday 5/3,
NOT Somerville Theatre as previously posted... $10 tix for the Paradise, and
it's an 18 and over show...

AJ tix are also $10 for their Wednesday 5/22 show at OVK in Westboro...

Wes

    Hey Sloan
    Is clothing optional at this shindig too?

	OhMygawd! i thought we FIRED you!
	
	

whoooops!  

Forgot about the JG tune and the Winwood Valerie popped into my head....
Should've thought JG though;  it's a different tune for sure...

:)
bob

    RE: 2746
    
    anything goes.. or is it everything goes... just be careful not
    to get hot sauce on any sensitive areas.........
    
    ha cha cha!

	ah, so it's a party that brings leBlanc out of the shadows...
	or is it talk of nudity that brings him out ;-)

	welcome back Chris, I missed ya!

	Debess

    
    
    I am nude and I am out...
    WHooaaaaaaaa
    let me rephrase that
    
    I am nude...

    
    ...it's gotta be the nudity.

	the nudity didn't staht until ::leblancc showed up.
	and, quite frankly, he ain't the nudity i'm lookin' fer.  ;-)
	

    as ernest p worell would say...."EEeeeeewwwww"

let it all hang out....  :^)

		da ve

don't forget, it is secretary's day today (or admin asst day today).
i got some flowers for my admin asst!
rage!

    Kent and Tom from Mission:Wolf did  presentations yesterday here in
    COlo SPgs. one during the day at Palmer High (Where Tiffany and Lindsey 
    go to school) and one at Colorado College later that evening. Patty
    and I and a friend went to the CC presentation. Tiffany manned the
    vending table, of course, for both. 
    
    Kent talked about Mission:WOlf's philosophy on keeping any wild
    animal, muchless wolves, how M:W's goal was to let these wolves live
    out their lives as naturally as possible, and how M:W has turned away
    3,000 unwanted wolves in the last couple of years. M:W is the only
    wolf refuge in the world..all other facilities, and there's a bunch in
    Minnasota, Michagan, etc, are reserach centers only...their goal is
    research, not the benifit of the wolf. Mission:Wolf even has some of
    the research wolfs from these centers that were no longer needed.
    
    There was slide show showing the area M:W is located in and a bunch of
    cool shots of the wolves themselves. As an added attraction, Kent had
    some shots of the WOlf efforts in Idaho and Montana...shots of
    Yellowstone with a herd of Bison in the background, a herd of elk off
    to the left and a pack of wolves in the middle. Biologists had thought
    that when these wolves were released, they'd split and never be seen, to
    the contrary, there's so much food and habitat, the wolves have become
    roadside attractions just like the herds of bison and elk. 
    
    Then the highlite...
    Sila, 7 year old Alpha female and Guiness, 2 year old pup, 
    stole the show. EVen though this is about the 5th or 6th time i've seen
    these particular wolves, I got this weird, giddy feeling when they
    came into the room. Guiness was first, he walked around the room and
    said hi to everyone, either thryu eye-contact, licking of the face, or
    submitting by rolling over on his back..then regal, beautiful 135 lb Sila
    came in and put Guiness in his place with one snarl and by putting her
    mouth ( a VERY large mouth!) over his head. Then she went around the
    room and said hi to everyone. Of 50 wolves, these are the only two
    that want to have some kind oif contact with humans. 2/3 of the wolves
    don't want ANY contact. Sila gets bored in her 30 acre pen when she's
    of the road for ahwile. The only time these wolves see a leash is when
    they are on the road, and SIla is worse than a dog when she hears Kent
    coming to her pen with her leash...she drags him to the bus. Guinnes
    has started not wanting to leave the presentations when they are over
    and he did that last nite. Remember, these are totally wild
    wolves...they are not dominated at all by the humans around them...they
    are friends with them, but the wolves do what they want. If 90 lb
    Guiness doesn't want to leave the room ....he doesn't. If he wants yer
    backpack...he get's it. He grabbed a log from the fireplace there and
    destroyed most of it...wolves have twice the jaw pressure as a german
    shepard...finally Guiness had had enough of the colloege kids laughing
    at his antics and he headed for the door with Kent following...
    
    can ya tell I like these guys???
    
    rfb
    
    

>    can ya tell I like these guys???

	what's not to like!! :-)
	i feel the same way with large birds of prey.
	i think it's cool. but, i'd be nervous around the wolves ;-)
	probably not good, since i bet they can sense the nervousness.
	
>Tiffany manned the vending table, of course, for both. 
	
	Do M:W have t-shirts and stuff? I'd love to get some.

    While channel surfing last nite during the Bruins Beating (tm) at
    the hands of the Panthers (that hockey team from Florida ;-), I stopped
    by PBS channel 2, and it was about wolves.  I didn't see much of it, 
    but what I saw and heard sounds *exactly* like what you described rfb.
    They have a huge area where the wolves basically run free.  Do they do 
    a lot of photography of the wolves ?  

    One of the 2 described a scene in Yellowstone where there was a wolf 
    family they were studying.  The wolf pups were checking out a mule deer
    or somesuch and its fawn, especially the fawn, when a whole herd of Bison
    followed the photographers.  A herd of huge bison behind him, wolves    
    in front of them stalking a deer - sounds similar ? 

    They were gorgeous animals!  I think I even know which one Guinness 
    would be ;-)

    /Ken

    Lot's of T-shirts and sweat-shirts with pictures of the real wolves of
    M:W on them, another neat thing and I bought one last nite but it's too
    small, are bracelets made of braded wolf hair that the wolves have
    shed. 15$ for t's and bracelets, sweatshirts are i think 20$
    
    re:i'd be nervous around the wolves ;-)
            probably not good, since i bet they can sense the nervousness
    
    there's NOTHING to be afraid of as an adult...these guys would never
    hurt you unless you tryed to take food from them...then they'd chomp ya
    a good one! The little kids that have been hurt by wolves are an
    accident...they wolf treats a little kid like it would a pup...picks
    it up by the head or shoulders, that's how wolves "hug"...but it don't
    work so well on a little kid. and if the wolves sense something weird
    about you or just plain don't like you, they'll have nothing to do
    with you. 
    
    Tiffany, that rat, gets to live down there in Gardner with the wolves
    all this summer. 
    
    rfb

	Tiffany: rat amongst wolves!!  ;-)
	
	

    that could be the same place, Ken. They've become quite well known over
    the past 3-4 years. I know that this summer they are
    going into a co-oporative effort with Malikite Farms down near
    Gardner. Malikite Frams has taken an old Pioneer fort and turned it
    into an organic gardening/education about such stuff center. M:W
    original place is 15 miles up a dirt sometimes immpassible road with no
    signs...only 75% of the people who set out to find it actually do. The
    ghosttown of Malikite is only 1 mile off the paved road. This way M:W
    will be able to reach many more "subburban" types and thus spread the
    word...plus they are getting concerned abouth the environmental 
    impact done to the original area by the traffic. 
    
    can you imagine butchering 2000 lbs of meat for 3 hours and then
    watching it dissapear in literally minutes down the throats of 135 lb
    animals??? this happens every couple of weeks at M:W.
    
    rfb

	There's a place in Ipswich MA that has wolves on rt 133, called Wolf
Hollow. We went there in a year ago. Kind f neat in that the people running the
place give an educational talk on the wolves from inside the enclosed area while
one plays with the wolves. The wolves are raised from pups and treat the people
as one of the pack.

Chris

    Oh yeah, there was one other thing about the "wolf folks" for lack
    of a better phrase ;-).   They felt it would be better to actually
    live *with* the wolves, so they built some sort of hut structure
    in the middle of the wolf's domain.  Pretty cool looking setup!

    /Ken

    A recent e-mail mentioned "defacilitation" (moving equipment out) and
    bringing benches and file cabinets "back on-line."
    
    

    yeah - and how about the 'densification' going on at LJO2.
    
    Webster is spinning
    
    

I'm part of the "densification" program at LJO.
8x10 offices.
much,much shorter walls.

oh, and while they're squeezing us to no end, they're
building an executive suite @ LJO2...

we don't even know where we will land at ljo2 yet.
there is this one area in the middle of the building, no
daylight in site...if i go there, i won't be psyched!

>8x10 offices.

welcome to the Machine, Headcount (xref: Dilbert, a few weeks back).

 - Josh

furnature, i don't care much.
i like the 4-high that locks..
i do not use a desk.
i like a table and a bookshelf.
everythign else is on those roling stands that came with the old
nautilus VVAX systems...
but... i need space!
i have 3 systsmes, and sometimes it grows to 4!

>but... i need space!
>i have 3 systsmes, and sometimes it grows to 4!

	too many systems. they probly cost money besides taking up space.
	we'll get you a nice laptop.
	
	;-)
	

    
    Can someone tell me when Bread And Puppet is this year?  
    
    

Clapton's Crossroads 2 is out - I've heard that Strawberry's has it for $55.
Anybody seen it for cheaper (especially in tax-free New Hampshire)?

Jim

    
>    Can someone tell me when Bread And Puppet is this year?  

	pay attention, dammit ;-)...the B&P Circus will be the weekend
	of Aug 24th

	Debess

	ps we missed you and JohnShep at the White Horse, carol...

    
    

    
    thank you debess .   i missed us at the white horse too!  better daze
    are a'comin.
    
    

    Rockit Records has Crossroads 2 (quote from the mgr... I've learned not
    to under order these things). I don't recall the price, but I think it
    was around $50. I've noticed in the past that RR often have the
    collections at a lower price than the surrounding stores, at least for
    the first week or two. If you have a WGBH card, check out Strawberries
    too. That discount can make a difference.
    
    It is a VERY good collection btw.
     
    Since I left most of my vinyl in Australia and my R2R died a few years
    ago I've become a big fan of boxed "instant record collections".
    
    gary

    BTW- Price Club has EC - Crossroads II for $39.99
    
    Fredda

Price Club is one of those outfits that requires you to buy a membership,
right?   I have a 30 day card for BJ's.  Does BJ's sell this sort of thing?

jim

  I bought Crossroads II because I was at the Providence show represented on
  Disc 2, and wanted a partial record of the event...  Also for the remixes
  of the "EC Was Here" cuts, since I lost my LP of that.
  
  One of the interesting things about it for me:  I think Disc 4, where he
  ditches the 2nd guitarist and takes over additional duties himself, might
  wind up being my favorite slice.  (Minus the studio cuts they tacked on.)
     JMO, JayC.

    Yes, you do need a membership for Price Club.  BJ's does also carry
    CD's.
    
    FTf

    The BJs in Nashua would probably not have it...  the store is seriously
    challenged when it comes to A&E.
    
    /bruce

	Guntis is having cataract surgery in a few minutes...
	send those collective good vibes his way!

	Debess

    on their way......

    
    More western vibes on there way..
    
    Divide Dave

Lots o' good vibes to Guntis - don't forget to remind
him of everyone's favorite home remedy for
cataracts..;-)

tim

Good sight to you Guntis!  

PeterT

> don't forget to remind him of everyone's favorite home remedy for
>cataracts..;-)

That thought crossed my mind too, but it seemed wrong.  I think what
you are thinking of is glaucoma, Tim.  Of course, something else
in my mind is thinking that maybe glaucoma could lead to cataracts,
but that is a tenuous thread that I'm not sure about...

PeterT

	vibes!!
	
	let us know how it went.
	
	speedy recovery. 
	
	i'll prescribe some medication if he needs it.    ;-)
	
	Dr Jay

    
    I'm hoping Guntis can see out of both eyes now! 
    
    Cath

vibrating away in my little cube....

			da ve

	Vibes of good luck on there way.....

	aaaaahhhhuuuummmmm....

	Hope the surgery is successful

	Peace

	Toby

    
    Vibes to Guntis!!!
    
    he may want to request the full medication!

    
    Good vibes to guntis!  
    
    (I originally typed "bives"...  so.. good
    bives to guntis too while I'm at it!  ;-)  
    
    
    
    (Tim... the commute isn't too bad.... better than I thought it would
     be.  Takes about an hour but the traffic moves right along.)
    
    
    MJ  (Now, does that look like M.L. to you?)  ;-)
    

    what was zat song "Hello Mary Lou, Good bye Love..." and who did it.?
    
    thanks ya'll for getting yet another stupid song stuck in my head....
    
    
    
    Debess...be sure and let us know how everything went...
    
    rfb

	yesterday after getting the little rugrat to bed for his
	afternoon nap  I was relaxin and reading Scully's book
	when out of the corner of my eye I see this BIG birdtail
	out the back window. i figured it was one of the big crows
	that wander the neighborhood. I creep up to the window and 
	to my suprise it's a wild turkey! at first I thought it might
	be a phesant but it was bigger and not as colorful and matched
	the picture on my bottle of WT  8-)  it walked through my yard to 
	under my neighbors deck for a while and then back to my yard up
	and through another neighbor's and finally off into the woods behind my 	
	house.  I wonder if it's living back there (woods)  anyways quite a
	sight to see in the big city  


	Toby

>    what was zat song "Hello Mary Lou, Good bye Love..." and who did it.?

    I think it's "hello mary lou, goodbye heart" but I could be wrong.
    I think it's the Everly Brothers but I could be wrong.

    "bye bye Love" I think is a different song and I recall
    Simon and Garfarkel doing it.

    Tom

    Tell Guntis we're pulling for him.  'THEY' say it's relatively simple
    surgery (as they stand on the other side of the laserbeam).  Also that
    the recovery time is usually fast and that the improvement to vision
    is remarkable.  Best to you Debess - take care of yourself too
    
    vibes and hugs
    carol & john
    

    I thought it was vice versa Tom
    Bye Bye Love was the Everly's wasn't it?
    
    Bye Bye Love
    Bye Bye Happiness
    Hello Lonliness
    I think I'm a gonna die
    goodbye my love godbye

vibes to Guntis   iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiz

jeff

hello Mary Lou (goodbye heart)
and bye bye love were both Everly Brothers tunes....

    once again I thank ya'll for making me sing STUPID SONGS AS I'M WALKING
    DOWN THE HALLWAYS!!!

    
    hey alright...I got one:
    
    We have joy 
    we have fun 
    we have seasons in the sun!  :-)

Good vibes to Guntis !!!  get well...

Hello Mary Lou...hmm, didn't the NRPS cover it as well?  

Wes

    Rick[y] Nelson had a "hit" with "Hello Mary Lou."
    
    btw, if anybody remembers seeing RN & his band on the old
    Oz&Harriet show, the lead guitarist in that band went on
    to play in Elvis' band...

Well, now that we've not-settled the question of the
day, i.e. who did "Hello Mary Lou", I'd say it's about
time that we voted whether or not we should change MJ's
name to it...

;-)

Glad to hear yer commute's bearable - when they move ya
back to TAY we should do another Kimball's run...

tim

    me n you 'n a dog named boo  ;-)

	_Hello Mary Lou_
	words and music by Gene Pitney.
	Recorded in 1961 by Ricky Nelson.
	

    thank god we've got an historian ;-) ;-)

    well he *IS* as old as the hills...........

	i realy didn't know the answer.
	i asked some of the older folks in my group.
	

    
    
    AUGH!  Tim!  No need for a vote on what "my" name will be 
    thank you very much!  Besides, I've become accustomed to 
    the initials MJ!  ;-)  :-)  :-)
    
    It's funny how much people screw up a double name...  I mean,
    it's really not that hard!  
    
    MaryAnne, AnneMarie, JoAnne, MaryBell (that sounds like a COW name!)
    
    oh well...  ya get used to it!
    
    signed,
    
    M_whatever!
    
    ;-)

  I remembered it was Ricky Nelson, but had no idea Gene Pitney wrote it...

  (Nelson & his family were before my time, but I checked 'im out because
  musicologists seem to consider him a credible musician.  I thought he
  mighta been the Mike Nesmith of his day.  [I don't consider his day to
  extend beyond the Beatles.]  As for Pitney, bought a single of his back in
  elementary school...  I guess I was dimly aware he has a few songwriting
  credits, including country hits.)    - JayC.

:-)

>    M_whatever!

...how about M* 

;-)

tim_in_full_geek_mode

    Rick Nelson
    
    third cousin once removed from one MNelson

>    third cousin once removed from one MNelson

  Small world.  There was a double album out, 2 decades ago, red/silver
  cover I believe, that was on every critic's list of
  good-stuff-between-Elvis-&-Beatles.
  
  Kinda like, after ya check out girl groups, Spector, Beach Boys, and
  instrumentals, here's a teen idol who really could rock.  There were a
  couple of obscure mid-tempo numbers that were not hits but legitimate
  gems, plus the hits.  I think I loaned it to someone who never returned
  it...   - JayC.

    >   I remembered it was Ricky Nelson, but had no idea Gene Pitney wrote
    > it...
    
    > As for Pitney, bought a single of his back in elementary school...
    > I guess I was dimly aware he has a few songwriting credits, 
    > including country hits.)
    
    During one of the old New Year's Eve shows, commentary was being added
    by Father Guido Sarducci.  At one point they ran an interview between
    the good father and Jerry, in which Jerry talked about many things,
    including "an unusual occurence in the sky" (he was careful not to
    say UFO, had to respect that ;-)  and out of the blue, Father 
    Guido asked Jerry, "What's your favorite Gene Pitney song?"
    Jerry, without missing a beat, answered "Town Without Pity".
    
    PeterT

re: a couple back,

Yes, NRPS _DID_ cover "Mary Lou".  In fact they did it on 10-30-71, in their
opening set for the Dead.

 - Josh

Guido Sarducci...an inspiration :)
Town Without Pity...Jerry sher did know his music, it's a nice little guitar
number...Drama performs it, that's how I happen to know it

Jay Clark,  

Ricky Nelson before your time?  Didn't he sing recently?  70's and 80's? 
Before his plane wreck (they once thought he was freebasing and caused
the plane to catch fire...they'll probably never know...).

I went to a garden party,
to reminisce with my old friends....

As for Pitney's "Town Without Pity",  now he was before my time :) and
I really couldn't name any other song he wrote except for that one...
And didja ever hear Ronnie Montrose play that one on solo guitar ??? 
Gene would be proud...Montrose played it very nicely.

	"She wrote upon it: return to sender
			    address unkown
			    no such number
	  		    no such zone."

    
    debess 
      Positive vibes heading out to Guntis!  tell him I said Hi and
    hope he's feeling better.  I look forward to fishing with him sometime.
    
      Mark
    

> Ricky Nelson before your time?  Didn't he sing recently?  70's and 80's? 
> Before his plane wreck (they once thought he was freebasing and caused
> the plane to catch fire...they'll probably never know...).
> 
> I went to a garden party,
> to reminisce with my old friends....

  Well, I meant that the Ozzie & Harriet [Nelson] show was before my time...
  As were Ricky's prime hits.
  
  But, you're right, "Garden Party" was a latter day hit for RNelson.  (The
  best things about it IMO are the lines about "Can't please everyone..."
  and "...I'd rather drive a truck".)
  
  It was really out of the blue though -- I don't believe he'd been
  musically active in a while.   Corrections welcome.  - Jay

    P.S.  A Gene Pitney duet with George Jones was a hit around '61 or so,
          and Pitney continued to write songs for the country scene -- kind
          of the way John Prine, Wendy Waldman, and others did.  Lucrative
          sidelight.  (Actually it was so lucrative for Wadlman that she
          moved to Nashville...)

    who the hell are Ozzie and Harriet?

    yeah - ozzie and harriet - also lenny bruce; shakespeare; wm blake;
    satchmo ... lotsa interesting folks to be aware of
    
    

    O&H show was one of the prototypes for *The Brady Bunch* et. al.
    
    It's Bob Dole and cronies' point of reference when
    they speak of the "family values" that we've lost.
    It's pretty useful, according to the myth,
    we lost those values about the time Rick went up 
    (and down) in flames!
    
    /b

    I can relate to that family values argument....
    I learned alot from the "Mom always said you shouldn't play ball in the
    house" Brady's epsiode......

    re .2823
    
    all those people also sang for Black Sabbath?

	thanks for all the good vibes yesterday, my friends!

	kinda ties in a bit with Deane's note on prayer - yeah whatever
	ya call it, I believe in the power of collective good thoughts...

	when I picked Guntis up yesterday, in the waiting room they
	had a TV, on which was being shown an operation in progress -
	magnified about 25 times (a big eyeball on the screen) - pretty
	cool, pretty amazing!

	he was awake for the operation - they only knocked him out long
	enough to numb his eye - and what they do is break the old lens
	to pieces and then suck it out and then insert the new lens -
	he said while they were breaking apart the lens, all he could
	see were incredible colors - sorta like tripping...

	he slept most of the rest of the day yesterday - but today he's
	feeling great, tried peeking around the eyepatch, and says that
	he can see with that eye again - cool.

	phew.  I'm glad that's over - I was alot more worried than he was!

	Debess

    wow...I can just "see" and hear future conversations now...
    "whoa...my len's are really sucked out now..."%^)
    
    glad Guntis is doin fine....but the fish he catches will all probably
    look smaller now that he can REALLY see them! ;^)
    
    
    rfb

    many people flipped out when Ozzie came out of the casket on fire in
    those days...heard of many instances where people got up and headed for
    the door! 
    
    rfb_who loves that intro to Iron MAn...
    "DA DA DADADADA, DADA DADA DADA DADA DA DA DA..."
    oh sh*t, now *THAT* will be stuck in my head all day...
    
    I loved Mountains Nantucket Sleigh Ride

    Sabbath rules
    
    listen to war pigs and then come talk to me Tim

>    many people flipped out when Ozzie came out of the casket on fire
	
	whoooa. that's not the Ozzie & Harriet *I* remember!!
	musta missed *that* episode!  ;-)
	
>    I loved Mountains Nantucket Sleigh Ride

	grate album/song

    re:
    
            whoooa. that's not the Ozzie & Harriet *I* remember!!
            musta missed *that* episode!  ;-)
    
    
    doncha remember that one, Jay? that's when Ricky dosed O & H, and made
    em listen to Black Sabbath backwards....
    
    all in fun, guys...all in fun
    
    rfb

    oh yeah - everythings connected - you should know that by now!  :-) 
    
    

    >>I loved Mountains Nantucket Sleigh Ride
    
    I can remember seeing Mountain several times from 1970 to
    1972. They were always **loud** but put on an excellent
    show. Funny this comes up at this time as the first Leslie
    West album "Mountain" and the "Flowers of Evil" Mountain
    album were re-released on CD a couple of weeks ago. They
    still hold up pretty well over time.
    
    The loudest show I ever saw was Mountain, electric Hot Tuna,
    and Johnny Winter on the same bill in 1970. They were doing
    an outdoor show in Montreal, and I swear you could have heard
    them in the states. Even sitting outdoors my ears hurt!

Debess, what sort of lens was inserted into Guntis's eye after removing
his cloudy old one?  a recycled human one (from a donor), an artificial lens,
or from an animal of some sort?

 - Josh

	i remember listening to mountain at hampton casino ...
	from the beach, across the street!!

    re: what kind of lens..
    
    wow, wouldn't it be grate if you could get a telescoping lens
    inserted!! I mean, think of the views you could get at shows just by
    closing one eye! and how one could scope in on fish and animals!
    (not to mention girls!!!)
    
    The options are endless!!!!
    
    rfb_feeling kinda whaky today

hey Danielle,

how was Bow's show this past weekend in Worcester??  i had been hoping to get
down there to check it out but after a long day of kayaking i, well, i fell asleep...

also, what's the space like at the new WAG?  i haven't been there in eons and 
they are in a new location now...

			da ve

	what kinda lens?  it is man-made - and it even has ultraviolet
	coating - so he can, what, only wear half a pair of sunglasses?!?

	Debess

My little brother was married this past weekend, down in Connecticut,
and just to tweak him a little I asked the DJ to play some Dead.
He (the DJ) thought this was a great idea...I suggested Not Fade Away,
good message, pretty danceable (but what do I know about dancing...I'm
no Barnes).  Unfortunately, it was not in the collection...so we
ended up with Good Loving.  The only downside was that my brother
and I missed it!  We were outside doing more silly photos.

Well, I made it to 35 before having to wear a tuxedo...too bad the plan
to do a tie-dyed cummerbund fell through, that would have been a hit!

Dan

>    Sabbath rules
>    
>    listen to war pigs and then come talk to me Tim


ditto!   Black Sabbath's Paranoid is an incredibly good album, even 25
years+ later...  I hadn't heard it in years, then a friend put on the CD,
and I couldn't resist getting it to replace my old crummy vinyl copy.
Glad I did!   
  
/Ken

    Volume 4 roolz! "Wheels of Confusion" is still my favorite
    Sabbath Song.

Masters of Reality was no shabby record either BUT I agree - Paranoid
is it.  I saw them during that tour (paranoid) and even have a drum stick
I got boinked off the head with (was in Fayettenam, NC).

bobo

wow...  i didn't realize there were this many Black Sabbath fans
in here...

i must confess, i never got into them at all when i was a youngster...
i always thought they were "too much"...  as in too much noise...
too much distortion...  too much Ozzie...

but now i'm thinking maybe i missed something?  maybe i should go 
back and find out more about this band?  maybe i should check them out 
anew after all these years for these gems i apparently missed?

then again, maybe not....  :^)   :^)   :^)


				da ve

    to be a fan one must be open to alllllll music da ve
    
    
    
    

cool...  i am a fan then...  in that i am open to all, 
but not necessarily a fan of all...  close enough? :^)

	sabbath, bleh.
	
	i was kicked out of an ozzie concert once.
	

    
    sabbath rulz!  One of my first rock albums was Master of Reality.
    I love it still.  I still listen to sabbotage, V4, etc... on occasion.
    
      

    I loved the first Black Sabbath album. That and "Sweet Leaf" from
    Masters of Reality were worn out from overplay.
    
    Ozzy's on tour, too. His tour is being billed as the "Retirement Sucks"
    tour;-). 

    
    Yeah, I actually prefer Ozzy solo over B.S.
    
    I learned to play "You can't Kill Rock'n Roll" on the guitar last week.
    
    Next, it's Crazy Train.  :-)  Ayyyye Ayyye

    Was "Paranoid" Black Sabbath's first album ?   

    /Ken

    today, in 1892, Machine-shop foreman Bill Painter invented the first
    bottle cap. 

    Here's to a long life -- and a merry one,
    A quick death---and an easy one,
    A pretty girl --  and a true one, 
    A cold beer --- and another one.
    
    lewis c henry

         <<< Note 90.2853 by AWECIM::HANNAN "Beyond description..." >>>
>    Was "Paranoid" Black Sabbath's first album ?   

No,
There was a Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath album with a woman (dressed
in black?) sort of painting of a cover....

bob
 

	Caught Sabbath at New Haven Coliseum in 78 they were good
	but what really stands out(in my limited memory) is the
	backup band .... Van Halen  those boys rocked!  cool strobe
	light drum solo.

	Toby

    But Jolly - I want to know what one could possbily do to get thrown out
    of a Sabbath concert?
    
    

	prolly by bitin' the head off of one of Ozzie's bats  8-)

	Toby

    >> how was Bow's show this past weekend in Worcester?? 
    
    The WAG show was excellent.  I think that they rented the space at 
    the Haywood Gallery for this show, so I'm not sure where the new WAG
    is.  
    
    The show was dubbed "The Pelvic Carnival", it's an annual event.
    As you walked in, you were given a wand to carry around with you.
    There was a lot of really cool artwork on display, as well as lots of
    yummy food.  Joey Mars (a WAG artist who organized the event) had
    many of his T-shirts and stickers on display.  I recognized his
    artwork immediately as some of the Grateful Dead shirts I've seen
    at shows.
      
    There was a large dimly lit room where the stage and chairs were set
    about.  Although 10 acts performed, only 3 of those were musical acts. 
    One guy performed spoken word in the nude, another guy had a silent act 
    which ended in him shooting a stuffed mannequin 3 times with a rifle (that 
    was very loud). 
    
    The first band to play was interesting.  I must go into a little detail.
    One guy sat in a chair playing a keyboard with his feet, and a toy 
    synthesized guitar and many bells and trinkets into a microphone.  A woman 
    was standing at a microphone with headphones one and an egg shaker in hand,
    intermittently singing/mumbling parts of a song into the mike (a song 
    which obviously wasn't the one they were performing).  There was also a 
    man playing a weird homemade? violinish instrument, a guy with a cymbal of 
    some sort, and a hippiesh guy sitting on the floor playing the bongos.  
    To top it all off, another guy was wandering around with different objects,
    sometimes ski poles or an egg beater, rotating the objects as he walked,
    poking the various band members while they were playing, eventually
    pissing them off.  They did reach a peak, however, at a time when the
    cymbal guy was playing the cymbal with an electric drill, producing
    a really cool sound and splashes of sparks, and the rest of the band
    was all tuned in and synchronized.
    
    The next band to play was Elbow, they went on around 11:00.  This
    had to be the best Elbow show I've ever seen.  They were excellent!
    People were smiling and dancing, and the vibe was so right.   
    They were just so excellent!  8^)
    
    Right after Elbow's set, Joey came onto the stage and told everyone
    to turn their chairs around for the pyramid.  In the back of the 
    room was this piece of artwork shaped into a pyramid, made of steel/metals 
    with two television sets in the middle set on U (so they were going,
    "Sssssssssss").  Four guys came out and played the steel on the pyramid 
    and homemade space-age guitars, while a "gimp", dressed in white with 
    a gas mask over his face, crawled all over the floor.  I call him
    a gimp because he reminds me of the slave in pulp fiction, slthough 
    he was wearing clothes and not touching anybody.  "Gimp" pulled the
    tv's out of the pyramid and rolled out a white material on the floor
    (all with psychedelic-y music in the background).  He then slowly
    peeled a layer off the white sheet, going all the way back, looking
    like he was peeling a fruit roll-up.  He then stood up and fell face
    first into the sheet, sticking to it and rolling his whole body into
    it.  The other side of the sheet was a silver foil, and he squirmed
    all over the floor like a worm.  One of the musicians came over 
    with a weird object that made a zapping sound and was 'controlling'
    foil boy with the zapper.  Unfortunatelly, the show abruptly stopped
    when the zapper-man started hanging on a chain which broke loose from
    the ceiling and hit his head, cutting it open.  Although we didn't
    get to see the full performance, the beginning that we did see was
    very entertaining and interesting!  It was really funny watching
    foil-boy (attempt to) get up and walk/scoot out of the room.
    
    In all, it was a really fun and strange night.  I would definitely go
    to one of these shows again!  After loading out and driving back to 
    Boston, we got home around 4:00 am.       

>    and homemade space-age guitars, while a "gimp", dressed in white with 
>    a gas mask over his face, crawled all over the floor.  I call him
>    a gimp because he reminds me of the slave in pulp fiction, slthough 

Oh no!

Just as I was getting over "the gimp" in Pulp Fiction you have to bring 
"it" up again :)  

Dressed in white?  The gimp's being married off...

:)
bob

    that movie scarred me emotionally
    
    hey
    the dude in the pawn shop that pulled the piece on Bruce Willis and the
    big gangster guy looked like DA VE!

>    that movie scarred me emotionally

That explains a lot.

;-)

    > that movie scarred me emotionally
    
    boy, leblanccccc, you left yourself wide open on that one :-) 
    
    

    
        > that movie scarred me emotionally
    
    	Ooooohhhhh Sally!  
    
    	Do we have to order the V chip for your TV, or what?

    WOW
    a man tries his damndest to show his sensitive emotional side and he
    gets trampled on.....
    ok...SHOW MORE GAY RAPE IN FILMS!!!!!
    
    Happy now you perverts?

    
    > Happy now you perverts?
    
	No! ;-)

>    WOW
>    a man tries his damndest to show his sensitive emotional side and he
>    gets trampled on.....

That's cuz we all know ya better that to buy that....;-)

    
    last chance for directions for anyone coming to Casa de Sloan 
    tommorrow. send mail..
    
    There will be plenty of food, margaritta's, etc. Bring your favorite
     beer and party games......
    
    
    Cathy

Should we bring any food, anyway?

see I got this mutant gigantic (I mean its BIG, like FOOTBALL sized :-) 
mango to bring over, maybe put the thing inna blender an' mix it with some 
tequila!

 - Josh

re Chris...

that's ok dude... i know deep inside there's a sensitive new age kinda guy... :^)

re Josh...

definitely bring tht mango!!!!  i want to see it or one thing, and i love mangoes for 
another....  the tequila idea has merit... :^)  "a mango marguerita in every blender"
may have to become part of my election campaign... :^)

bring your cameras...  this may be your last chance to get incriminating photos
of an unannounced presidential candidate in a drunken stupor...  :^)

well, maybe not your LAST chance....  :^) :^) :^)

				da ve

	hey da ve, what are -you- doing here today?

	Debess

	hey, what am -I- doing here today ;-)

    re .2870
    
    American or European football? :-)
    
    Mango margs do sound interesting. I almost regret that I'll be on my to
    Florida...
    
    gary

having kind of a crappy week actually...  the kind that makes you 
really question some of your career choices... my boss is on vacation
and i have a long list of things to get finished up before she gets
back...  i doubt i'll make it to all of them, but i'm giving it a damn
good shot...  she's awesome at what she does and she's willing to work 
with me on lot's of stuff (one of the better managers i've had actually),
but lately i'm starting to wonder if this is a good fit for me...  

at least i got to come in late, but it *was* supposed to be a vacation 
day...

ok, i fessed up...  your turn... :^)

				da ve

	so I could read the notesfile ;-)

	actually, I'm making up the time I took off to transport the
	pirate (the guy with the eyepatch) around...I'm trying to 
	accumulate as much vacation time as I can so that I can take
	a month off this summer :-)

	Debess

Dunoo why I'm still here...MRs. O has today off, and I'm hopin' to leave NE 
minute, gotta get rrragin' for Acoustic Junction !!!

Wes

    
    See ya at Acoustic Junction Wes!!! RAGE!!!! :-)
    
    Tom W. and Adam S. are carting me around tonight 
    so I can get totally blotto and let tongue hang 
    out the window.

>    so I can get totally blotto and let tongue hang 
>    out the window.

Hey, with a little luck, maybe you'll find something more
constructive to do with it...;-)

tim

I did see Deano's tongue hangin' out :)))   And what a show !!!  AJ Rocked the
Paradise...even when they finished the show with a REAL Unplugged toon...4 of
'em, on the front of the PAradise stage, no microphones, no amps, just acoustic
guitar, and vocals, in front of 600? or so folks gathered around the front of
the stage, for a nice quiet "Kiss Of Misfortune"  they pulled it off quite
nicely...in attendance that night was Ahmet Ertugun (sp?) The Man at Atlantic
Records, and word has it that he told AJ that he was impressed, and it's very
possible that AJ will be signed to Atlantic Records...hope so

I'm telling ya, catch Acoustic Junction, they put on a high energy show, great
music, great harmonies...

Wes

    
    Wes! thanks for turning me on to that.  Acoustic Junction is HOT!
    
    I went backstage and rapped with Stuart, a friend from High School,
    and the atmosphere back there was RAGE'n!!!  
    
    The keyboardist (clearly mega talented) would alternate between 
    violin, flute and keys on playing the leads....EXCELLENT, HOT, 
    RIPPIN!!!  The crowd was very into it.

My pleasure Deano...hope to see you on the 22nd at the OVK !!!  Reid (AJ Lead
singer) and Stewart's folks band "The CenterStreeters" will be opening for AJ
athe OVK...they are a bluegrass band, and can really play...Tim Roper, the AJ
keyboardist/flautist/fiddler/harpist sometimes sits in with the CenterStreeters,
and they have their own multi-instrumentalist "Doc" who plays guitar, dobro,
banjo...

Wes

  An inspiration to day-jobbing DiY'ers everywhere...?  (Me anyway.)
  - JayC.

==================================================================
  Excerpted without permission from the 2/2/96 Boston Globe, page 58.
  "Rocker Jack Logan keeps his day job," by Steve Morse:
==================================================================
Jack Logan... repairs swimming-pool pumps in a small town in Georgia.  He's
also been a bellhop at Howard Johnson's, an employee of Kmart and a worker
in a cup factory.

These jobs have kept Logan grounded, but these days... he's become a
critic's favorite, whose tight-knit Stones-influenced garage-rock -- also
showing traces of early REM -- is winning lavish praise.

"It's a total shock," says Logan, who will headline Mama Kin on Tuesday with
his band Liquor Cabinet (featuring a couple of fellow swimming-pool pump
repairmen).

"We used to put out tapes around Athens [Ga.] and nobody was breaking down
the door to get those...  I think we sold about 80 of them in three years.
So all this attention is new.  But as long as I got this opportunity, I'm
curious to see how long we can get away with it."

Logan, 36, caused critics to take notice two years ago with his album
"Bulk", recorded at home in loosey-goosey, nocturnal sessions.  And he's
just returned with "Mood Elevator" on the Medium Cool/Restless Records
label.  It's another slice of compact guitar-rock with fascinating tales of
unpretentious, small-town living... often told with narrative flair...

"We kind of know what we're doing in a strange kind of way," says Logan.
"But we don't practice much.  Music is more of a hobby for us. I'm sure some
people question our seriousness, but we don't consider this a 'career.' It's
a sidelight to our other jobs."

Which is precisely why it's so refreshing to hear Logan's music.  It's not
formula-driven, or tailored for niche-conscious radio formats.  "We've had
some college airplay...  but I guess the album isn't alternative enough for
the new alternative stations.  Or maybe it is.  I don't know.  Maybe I'm
being stereotypical about it.  But we don't worry about it."

Logan is managed by Peter Jesperson, who also managed the Replacements.
Logan's fans include Peter Buck of REM and a group called the Dashboard
Saviors, who recommended Logan to the Medium Cool label, though the Saviors
just broke up.

Asked if he's ever been a professional musician before, Logan says with a
chuckle, "No, no, no!  And I'm still not.  That's something we shoot for,
but we're not there yet."
==================================================================

    
    here is a question that is probably like 'if a tree falls in the
    forest..' but here goes :  What does it cost a company for employees
    to use email?  Is there a charge per cal or something?  like my
    daughter has an account on the machine at the branch office of the
    company she works for.  many of the employees have accounts.  if she is
    using email to communicate out to other people in other parts of the 
    world, how does that get reflected on comm charges etc ?  one wonders.
    
    

Well, it happened sooner than I expected.  It wasn't the appeal to reason,
it wasn't the reason that she would never be in any danger while wearing
a life-jacket and Dad being a former lifeguard, it wasn't the book
"Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe that turned the tide.  No, it was
greed, plain and simple!  Mom promised to give her Song Bird Barbie, if
Hannah went canoeing with us and didn't cry or scream.  But Amy did this
bribing when I wasn't around, so it came as a bit of a surprise to me
when, on Saturday, Hannah said, "Are we going canoeing tomorrow?  I want
to go canoeing."  Huh???  But then all was explained!  
So, Sunday, after Hebrew school, we had some lunch, popped the 
canoe on the car, and took off for a different site (Qauddick Resevoir?) in
Thompson, CT which is pretty close to our house.  And she had a good time,
with us out on the water for about an hour.  We stayed pretty close to
shore most of the time, but we got rocked by boat wakes a few times
and even those were interpreted as 'fun'.  Hannah said she was fine,
and she "didn't listen to her brain"  which I guess meant that she 
thought it was kind of scary, but not enough to induce hysteria.

Everybody had a good time.  But I think Dan was getting a bit overwrought
at times because no one had promised him a toy ;-)  Now to see if we
can get her to do it again without a bribe.  Otherwise this could get
pretty expensive!

PeterT

    An individual piece of email is probably less than a penny, depending
    on length.  There is no charge for an email per se, (unless you belong
    to a service that charges for email, and now with ISP's all over the
    place, even the major vendors are changing their stripes.)  The real
    costs are reflected in how much a company pays for their access,
    which would include communication connections (via dialup, or some
    dedicated access via a T1 line or the like) a corporate account which
    may reside on an ISP's system.  If they have their own domain name
    and their own hookup to the net, then they have to pay for a 
    distinct address which maybe a one time or a monthly fee.  Pushing the 
    bits over the wire is the easy part.  It's the set up and maintenance
    that cost you.
    
    PeterT

    
    I've done some work on this at school in my intro to I.S. class.  
    2 years ago we had a pricing grid sent to us via email.  It brokedown
    various ways to ship material/documentation.  The email vehicle was so
    diminutive that they claimed the cost of sending email messages was
    "adsorbed in system overhead costs" and was "strongly recommended".
    Faxing averaged to be about $.30 a sheet.  Fed-ex had the best shipping 
    deals over all other carriers CPP (cost per pound).  
    
    Bottomline, email is the most cost effective means of communication 
    available today.  Especially in the long distance area.   However, one 
    aspect of the cost of email is greatly heightened through selfish email-
    box management.  The cost of storing old email messages is high...just 
    like when our whole voicemail system crashes cause people have too much
    stored voicemail messages.  HUGE impact.
    
    
    				- Deane

Hey, great news!

> Hannah said she was fine, and she "didn't listen to her brain" [...]

Shades of Homer J. Simpson..."Stupid brain!"

Dan 

    RE:and she "didn't listen to her brain"
    
    works for me....
    
    
    rfb_feeling brainless today

just another one of those bodily organs that leads to trouble...

dare I ask - what the HELL is a song bird Barbie?!?

Debess

a doll that SINGS "Math is hard" and "Dont ask me, i'm only a girl"...

			da ve

    Or even better
    a bird song barbie
    
    comes with a batik skirt and petchouli...with the action twirl feature
    :^)

You must be protecting them kids from TV pretty well Debess!
Song Bird Barbie is your basic Barbie, perhaps with a non-regulation
hand.  It comes complete with a balancing bird.  The birds beak sits
in Barbies hand (hence the comment about the non-regulation hand)
and the bird (with heavy wings that droop down and out to balance
the thing) balances in Barbies hand.  If you press the beak,
the bird breaks into song.  Song Bird Barbie!

We'd already bought it some time ago, and were just looking for a 
good opportunity to introduce it.  Birthday, or Christmas, or 
Hannukah.  I guess canoe behavior was satisfactory too.

PeterT

i think i like Chris's better.......

			da ve

    It was on the news last night, I think, that Iran issued a
    warning against the latest Threat from the West - Barbie
    dolls!  Said they are practically nude, and too damn flexible!

    The Downfall of Civilization is imminent

    Tom

	you guys aren't paying attention (dammit!) I said I don't want
	to know!

	but thanks for replying anyways, I needed the laugh!

	Debess

anyone who doubts that Barbie is the downfall of civilization
need only look closely and see what she did to poor Ken!

			da ve

    ken's got a smile on his face????

>    ken's got a smile on his face????

  Yeah, but it's what Ken *hasn't* got...

    re .2894
    
    Scaled to adult avian size, the bird would have a 6" long body and a
    12' wingspan!
    
    How come Barbie gets the credit when it's the bird who sings?  Why
    didn't they call it Song Bird Display Stand Barbie??
    
    

    Hey, now wait just a minute here!!!

    /Ken

	I thought your sweetie's name was Mindy, not Barbie...must be
	some -other- Ken they're talking about...

    
    
    yesterday, i was delerious from not enough sleep the past couple of
    weeks...last nite i caught up....this morning i get this
    
    re:
        Yeah, but it's what Ken *hasn't* got..
    
    
    so i assume barbie should be re-named larana bobbit???

re: this morning i get this...

better late than never!  :^)

and yes, if Ken is "anatomically correct" then the human version probably 
has a very high voice...  and doesn't do well in singles bars...  :^)

			da ve

    This is getting more painful to read by the point reply ;-)

    /KenH ;-)

>    This is getting more painful to read by the point reply ;-)

  Well, let's not stop now...
  
  When I saw the "Ken" reference, I immediately thought of Robin Williams'
  routine "Lorena Bobbitt"...  If folks aren't generally aware of it, it's
  the closing cut in Rhino's 4-CD comedy box.  Best thing on the box!
  
  I'm not sure how this translates to typewritten text, but here are some
  excerpts.  Seems like it'll need form feeds for comic flow control...

==========================================================================  
  Yes, Mrs. Doubtfire was a great success, and yes, I will play Lorena
  Bobbitt...  "Mrs. Hellfire!"
  
  I mean...  And I know you've heard a lot about it tonight...  But I want
  to know...  How do you lose your dick, and not notice?


  How do you wake up a Ken doll...?   ...


  Here's what I think happened...  She called her friend on the phone and
  said, "He abuses me!"  And her friend said, "Well, throw the prick out of
  the house!"
  

  <Williams then pictures the prick out on its own, "and without the balls
  he can really move!"  He's hitchhiking on the freeway...>
  
  A truck comes by...
  
  Coincidence?  Peterbilt - All right!
  

  "Where ya headed?
  Virginia?
  Close enough!"

==========================================================================  
  That's just the beginning too -- amazing routine...  - JayC.

    phone calls to toyota dealers in nashua and manchester cuz i'm
    car shopping and all i get is stoooopid CW music.  couldn't they at 
    least try to have something decent on the musak?  
    
    and btw - does anyway know if Toyota corolla wagons have all wheel
    drive and/or 4WD?   i mean since i can't get through to the dealer ...
    
    

    They have a new model called RAVA, it looks like a Geo Tracker,
    very sporty around 15k. I am a fan of Toyota, I have a 90 Celica GTS
    with 149K, and I got 150K out of Van, they caught on fire.

>    and btw - does anyway know if Toyota corolla wagons have all wheel
>    drive and/or 4WD?   i mean since i can't get through to the dealer ...

	I don't think so.
	they're front wheel drive.
	Geo Prizm is the same car, built on the same line and much
	cheaper.
	
	if you can get the the WWW, see:
	
http://www.edmunds.com/
	

    so is the first annual tdavis_visits_nashua soiree kicking in after
    work or what?

    I 'll be there

    
    is it the bier hause today after work?
    
    Cath_just_returning_from_ObjectWorld_&_who_needs_a_few_brews

    
    I'll stop by for one (or 2) if folks will be there right around
    5:00.....
    
    /MJ

	i'll be there a little before 5, for 1 or 2.

I'm aiming for 5:30ish ...

see ya!

    
    Welp, I didn't make it....  got hung up at work and just ran
    outta time...  then... got stuck in traffic on the way home!
    :-(
    
    So...  did ya have fun?
    
    MJ

	yes, we did.  :-)
	
	and, we missed you, too.
	
	next time!
	

    From USA today:
    
    Leary's leery over freezing head
    
    Timothy Leary - the 1960s guru who urged a generation of Americans to
    "turn on, tune in, drop out" - has dropped out of the cryonics movement,
    saying he no longer wants his head frozen when he dies. "They have no
    sense of humor," Leary said of cryonics advocates, who hope future
    technologies will allow frozen bodies to be revived and the ailments
    that killed them cured. Leary, 75, has inoperable prostate cancer. He's
    considering suicide and may announce it over the Internet just before
    taking his life. 
                                    

    
    Less than 2 month to Further!  Yehaaa!  
    
    	Mark

I think Dr. Tim's epitaph should be "better living through chemistry"

	HA!  :^)

>I think Dr. Tim's epitaph should be "better living through chemistry"

	if you check out his web page, you can see his weekl intake of
	drugs. including Leary Crackers(tm).
	
	;-)
	

Ok, who here left my name & phone number w/ a place called the Coliseum
in Manchestah NH?  Leblanc?  this is a comedy stop...

i get a call from these guys last night saying they'll give
me free stuff this sat night....

    you wouldn't catch me dead in that soul train usa joint
    
    talk to smith

    Feeling low last nite on the way home from work, grabed a beer and took
    the back way home. I intentionally do not look to the left at a certain
    point as the landrapers have bulldozed about 100 acres (or so it seems) 
    of pristine praire/foothill environment into a hill of dust. Where's the
    MonkeyWrench Gang when you need them? To make it worse, in the middle
    of the road, dead maybe for an hour at the most, was a 6 foot long bull
    snake. Probably not too many rats left after the bulldozing or the
    dozers rousted him out of his hole one. I turned the corner and started
    to drop off of the Mesa and just happened to look over. There's three
    bucks in velvet, horns just starting to grow out of the top of their
    heads. Two small guys, a spike and a forky, and the bug buck. By the
    looks of the bumps starting to poke out of the main beam, I'd say he
    was gonna be a 4-5  point come fall. I turned around and parked on the
    side of the road with the engine still running. The smell of exhaust
    fumes hides all scent of man from deer. These guys walked up to within
    10-15 yards of the car, the big guy trying to look into the cab and
    figger out "whats up". I could see his nostrils quivering, and his eye
    balls searching to see what he couldn't smell. I laughed out loud. 
    I noticed one of the little guys limping a litte and thought he might
    have got hit by a car, but then I figgered out what was wrong.
    Occasionaly, each buck would turn and stick an antler under their haunch
    and scratch the antler against their leg. The antlers are too sensitive
    for the deer to use their hooves to scrtach them, being full of blood
    and growing tissue. So they use their hind quarter to do the
    scratching...the little guy that was limping, i guessed, stabbed
    himslef in the groin whilst scratching and felt it! I laughed out loud
    again, having figgered that out. The little guy gave me a dirty look. 
    
    I watched them for about 30 minutes, finished my beer, and drove home,
    hoping that these guys would have a little piece of land left to them
    for at least a few more years...before the bulldozers come again.
    

	rfb,
	
>   The little guy gave me a dirty look. 

	too funny.  ;-)
	if it wasn't for the funny parts, your story would make me cry. i
	go past the WalMart in Lunenburg everyday and look the other way.
	It's on a hill that used to be a dairy farm. The hill stood empty
	for many years and looked beautiful just the way it was. Then the
	bulldozers came and tranformed it into a shopping plaza. What
	used to be a nice rolling hill is now a flat-top man_made hill of
	concrete and blacktop. I won't argue the good/bad for the economy
	or whether we needed/didn't need this shopping mall, it just
	saddens me that the hill is gone.  :-(
	
	also heard there are black bears roaming Luneneburg. Presumably
	cause there's little food due to the harse winter and diminishing
	habitat.  sigh. progress.  

    re:if it wasn't for the funny parts, your story would make me cry.
    
    I *havta* see the humor in this....Patty tells me it doesn't help my
    karma to drive by and yell obscinities at the landrapers, they are just
    doing their job. ANd it doesn't help my karma to rant and rave about
    how stupid the general public is here to fall for the "NO NEW TAXES" 
    answer to everything, including the open space issue...dumb, stupid ,
    M%^%*^$&*ERS. and it doesn't help my karma (although it's grate stress
    relief) to yell at cops as they are setting on the side of the road
    radaring, "really fightin crime now aren't ya YOU PIG!"...so i try not
    to doit...esp when she's with me...%^)
    
    and without being able to see the cosmic humor and irony in this world,
    we, as humans, are lost....
    
    c-ya
    rfb

	"Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got
	 'til it's gone.  They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot." :(

    so the Irish guy that's here on loan (says he knows who you are, Dermot)
    comes up and asks "Do you wear a grateful dead shirt everyday"?
    
                  %^)

	"only on days that end in 'Y'"....

	;-)
	
	Hi, Dermot! (we've never met. i sent the garcia RS issue to him
	last year.)
	
	

re: Jay

>	also heard there are black bears roaming Luneneburg. Presumably
>	cause there's little food due to the harse winter and diminishing
>	habitat.  sigh. progress.  


    On the brighter side, I think, they've resorted to putting up Bear Crossing
    signs in NE Mass on Rt 2.  The black bear is making a big comeback, and they
    just love the campgrounds around that area (that's the iffy part).  At least
    they're coming back! 

    /Ken

    bears that raid campgrounds in COlo are first relocated and if they
    return are then shot...lots of orphan cubs are sent to the animal
    rehabilatators every year becuase mama became a problem bear. 
    
    how's the fishin so far Ken??
    
    rfb

    Speaking of black bears,
    who is the ass at the "make a wish"foundation that agreed to give this
    dying kid his last wish to kill a kodiak bear?
    
    what kind of shit is this?

    it's called hunting and game management, cris. Which i agree with 100%.
    *ALTHOUGH* I have a big problem with Gov Wilson and 
    Alaska's idea of manifest destiny,
    
    ie: we got the resources, let's use and explote them to the utmost
    until they are all gone. 
    
    but without game management, our game resources would be in trouble. 
    
    rfb

    Something just feels wrong about satisfying a wish that is,
    essentially:
        I'm dying;  I wanna go kill something for pleasure...
    
    /b

	/Ken,
	
	yeah, it is nice they're coming back, as are most of the Mass
	wildlife. it's a double-edged sword though. there's more of them,
	with less habitat. when the two-leggeds feel threatened, the
	4-leggeds come out on the short end :-/
	
	re; the dying kid and the kodiak. this is a joke, right???
	and urban legend? tell me this isn't true.
	

    re:
    
        Something just feels wrong about satisfying a wish that is,
        essentially:
            I'm dying;  I wanna go kill something for pleasure...
    
    I understand totally what you are saying, cris....me?, I'd probably
    join the good dr Tim. 
    
    rfb

    
    pretty sick epitaph on a dying person's life....
    if that is all they have been wishing for during their existence on
    this earth i feel sorry for this poor sap
    

	frustrating freaking day.
	i need a vacation.  oh, for a trip to Albany!!!

    
    sorry you're having a bad day Jay. I'm finishing up a huge
    freaking project/product release today...
    
    rage!

ummmm, not to be contrary to developing sentiment here or anything,
but aren't we being a bit severe here in our attitudes towards this
person and make-a-wish???

rather than looking at this as "i'm dying so i'm going to go kill something",
maybe it's more appropriate to find out a little more about the kid and
his/her motives...  if this person always enjoyed outdoorsy kinds of things
like hunting and fishing and stuff, i don't see it as that much of a stretch
for a kid to want to go hunting big bear in alaska as a dying wish...
to a certain extent i can relate, even though i'm not a hunter or fisherman
myself...  and certainly i wouldn't condemn the make a wish foundation
for trying to help them...

kid wants to go hunting before he/she dies...  why is that a problem????
the animal is not endangered and can be legally hunted... it doesn't seem
all that unreasonable to me...  kinda like if Jols or rfb were in the same boat
and wanted to go fishing (no pun intended! :^)...  would we slam them for
wnating to kill fish as a dying wish?  or is it because bears are cool looking,
warm, fuzzy mammals (with big teeth and claws) as opposed to cold, slimy
scaly, fish?

i think we can afford to cut the kid some slack...

				da ve

    if you are dying and the only way you will find solace and peace on
    your deathbed is to go out and kill an animal then you have got
    problems....
    
    
    
    i can equate this with saying "Hey I never robbed a 7-11 before and i
    am dying so let me get my kicks in"
    but killing the bear IS legal da ve....not that it is right in some
    folk's eyes..who knows..maybe he is an avid hunter..then again,
    maybe he is some warped clown that just wants to get a thrill...
    

re release the fish... :^)  ok, good point...

and i appreciate the fact that a kodiak bear is more of a 
trophy than food...

and while i agree with Chris in so far as it certainly
wouldn't be MY first choice in the way of dying wishes,
i guess i have a little problem with the way this is being
characterized here...  i mean, it's one thing for a kid
to want to go hunting...  it's quite another to put it off as
"since i'm dying the only way i can find peace is to go 
out and kill something"...  i doubt that's a fair characterization
of what's going on....

but then again, maybe it's just me...  :^)

			da ve

    rfb asks How the fishing ?  

    I couldn't tell ya :-/   Remember, I have a 4 and a 6 year old at home
    and Mindy works weekends.  So, no serious fishing.  We did kill (No,
    not literally ;-) the kivvers (panfish/sunfish) last weekend.  The kids
    loved it!

    I got new line on all the reels except the striper reel, that's next,
    the boat is ready and has seen some action, so I'm ready to go.  All 
    I need now is TIME...

    /Ken

    anyone who goes trophy-hunting 
    should themselves be hunted down...
    
    unless they want to do it with a camera.
    
    /bruce

Another issue with the make-a-wish thing is that the kid (who's 17) is not
terminal right now.  His cancer is in remission.

I heard this on the radio today.

adam

    
    From the little that I;ve heard about this youngman is that he has
    fished and hunted for most of his short life. I don't think anyone
    should judge him on whats being said in the media, from what i have
    seen no one has taken the time to interview the young man and ask him
    anything about his last wish!
    
     As a fisherman and a hunter I agreed with fishing and hunting only for
    food, but rememeber that some people like the taste of bear and as a
    added goal you can have a nice skin.
    
    Divide Dave  

    I like the taste of spotted owl & snail darter...  ;-)
    
    I just think it's time that we stop looking at our environment
    as just something to be exploited, rather than as a gift and
    as our home.
    
    Perhaps the thrill of the hunt is no longer sufficient justification
    for killing...
    
    or maybe I'm just a knee-jerk tree-hugger.
    
    Might be time to invest in green asphalt.
    
    /bruce

glad to hear his cancer is in remission....

and again, don't misunderstand...  i agree with a lot
of what's been said here about respecting the animals,
the environment, don't kill it if you won't eat it and all
of that...

i'm just reacting (i admit it) to what appears to me
to be a blanket condemnation of the kid AND the
make-a-wish foundation...  the severity of the comments
here seem a bit much...

if we can respect the animals, we can afford a little more
respect for each other too, doncha think???  i mean, you may
not be hip to the kids choices, but they're HIS choices...
they're not illegal and the animal he wants to hunt is not
endangered...  and certainly we can't expect everyone to
share exactly the same moral and ethical concerns...

like i said before, i think we can afford to cut the kid some
slack here...

as for make-a-wish...  i've heard criticisms of them before...
they were based on how much money they raise as compared
to how much is spent on salaries and such as opposed to the
actual charitable work....  and while there's certainly room
for imporvement, i support what they are trying to do, more so
now that i've seen the kind of difference it can make to a kid...
i'd be curous to know what other, if any, criticisms of the organization
there are...  

			da ve

>                             -< brew night soon? >-

	biersday, today.
	biers haus. meetin' tdavis there.
	we're gonna kill us a cupla pints! ;-)
	my dying wish would be to taste all the world's beers!

    I guess being a non hunter non fisherman sportsperson i am biased da
    ve....
    
    but like bruce said,  why not make it a little more exciting and even
    up the odds...
    give the kid a bow and arrow and make it a little more primitive....
    

    re: Make A Wish Foundation

    One of my best friend's 4 year old daughter contracted Leukemia a 
    couple of years ago. Last summer, the MAWF sent the family to Disneyworld, 
    all expenses paid.  After constant hospital visits, dangerous spinal taps,
    radiation, chemotherapy, she and the family really needed a break.  
    MAWF made a big difference here!  She's doing great BTW...

    re: the kid hunting the bear
 
    If ya eat meat and wear or use leather, I don't see how you can complain...
    That kid has every right to do something like this.  Imagine being so close
    to death at such a young age.

    /Ken

    
    Another think is that the memories of a dying person going out with
    love ones to do what they enjoy helps the ones left here on earth!
    
    Divide
    

    I always wondered what a "kivver" was. And I assume that Kibbie is
    another term of endearment for sunfish?  
    
    RE: no serious fishing
    
    No matter what the fishin...it's all serious....%^)
    
    I'm gonna kill my breakfast now.....;^)
    
    rfb
    
    

    a cow is not a bear.  and going to DisneyBland is not the same as
    killing wildlife.  (But I agree that we could debate the morality
    of farming our BigMacs and Reeboks.)
    
    I saw a piece on the tube last week about about an ex-logger... 
    said that he and a lot of other who logged had those jobs because
    they loved the woods and loved being in that environment, and that
    he realized that the way that they were doing their jobs was destroying
    what they loved.  So he's on a mission to try to change the ways
    that logging is done...
    
    There is no longer any reason to kill a bear, except in self-defense 
    in your back yard (and it's really the bear's back yard, too...  the
    bear didn't even get $24 worth of beads).
    
    To go out into the wilderness because you love the wilderness and then
    kill the very thing you claim to love is hypocrisy.  I don't care
    whether the bear is officially "endangered."  As rfb suggested, it's
    all endangered, and becoming more so with every new development and
    parking lot.  So maybe killing a bear *is* equivalent to going to
    Disneybland.
    
    The kid (as is any trophy-hunter) is on an ego-trip.  
    
    And, fwiw, all of us are one step away from death.  It's just that most
    of us don't know it.
    
    /bruce
    
    

    re: all of us are one step away from death...
    
    how true...and there's a thought that we should all stop and ponder

>	my dying wish would be to taste all the world's beers!

...and I would guess that, done in one sitting, that would probably be
enough to kill ya....;-)

...then again, I'm inclined to agree with you anyway...

tim

>...and I would guess that, done in one sitting, that would probably be
>enough to kill ya....;-)

	with a SMILE on my face.   :-)    :-)
	
	oh, and since i'll be dying, i wanna doo all the world's beers,
	while fishing, with naked women! :-o
	
	;-)
	

    .....in a canoe constructed solely of oats

    
    re:JOLLIMORE
    
    > oh, and since i'll be dying, i wanna doo all the world's beers,
            while fishing, with naked women! :-o
    
    But then I would want to live as long as I could!
    
    Good fishing is hard to come by!
    
    Divide

>oh, and since i'll be dying, i wanna doo all the world's beers,
>while fishing, with naked women! :-o
	
This is starting to sound like that old Bromberg tune, "Dyin'
Crapshooters Blues"...;-)

tim

>>while fishing, with naked women! :-o
>    
>    But then I would want to live as long as I could!
>    
>    Good fishing is hard to come by!


;-)

>>while fishing, with naked women! :-o
>    But then I would want to live as long as I could!

	funny how that would increase the will to live.
	
	"I've found new strength!!! One more cast/beer/etc"
	
	;-)
	

RE: Kibbies

Never heard of a "kivver", we always called them kibbies or brim ......
Kibby is also what happens when gravity attacks...er had too much to 
drink.

As for "the kid and the bear"....
Lest I draw the wrath of all...

I dunno,  I'm inclined to think that Kodiaks are far from extinction.
Maybe in some parts of the country but still far from it...same for
black bears.  shit they got bears in Lunenberg now and probably behind
my house in Milford although I've seen no bear sign.

My take on this is to chalk this up to you live your lifestyle and
I'll live mine.  I still fish plenty and used to hunt (deer and birds).
I haven't hunted in so long BUT yet I look around and see other things
that other people do that could potentially bother me and don't try to 
make it an issue for me to stop them....

    let's just kill 'em till they're *almost* extinct!
    
    ;-)
    
    /b

                      <<< Note 90.2968 by JARETH::LARU >>>

>    let's just kill 'em till they're *almost* extinct!
    
Let's raise em and turn em loose so there'll be more varmints
to hunt ...

:) 

all in good fun!there bruce,
:)

    kivvers, kibbies, sunfish, pumpkinseeds or whatever one calls em
    are easy to catch and pretty much everywhere. Great for the kids...

    /Ken

    [aside] I think that these subjects, the controversial ones,
    are the most interesting ones, because they help us to think
    about who we are, and where we want to go (other than the bierhaus)
    as individuals, and as a civilization...
    
    As a human being, I'm not comfortable with the attribute 
    "kills for sport."
    
    /bruce

re:                      <<< Note 90.2971 by JARETH::LARU >>>

>    As a human being, I'm not comfortable with the attribute 
>    "kills for sport."
    
    Me too.  But if the bear hunter is using the skin for clothing,
    a blanket, and eating the meat, that's a different story.

    /Ken

    re kibbie  mr hap
    
    
    
    as in just say N20!
    
    
    "wow look at mr blue lips kibbie like a perch"
    :^)

	fire alarms in mko a little while ago.
	grab the keys, grab the jacket, grab my notebook/address book
	and GRAB THE TAPES!!  ;-)  ;-)
	

    re:
    [aside] I think that these subjects, the controversial ones,
        are the most interesting ones, because they help us to think
        about who we are, and where we want to go (other than the bierhaus)
        as individuals, and as a civilization...
    
    and discussions also help you (me) see the "other" side when often we
    have a prejudice against that side. Extremism, although i like it! and
    it helps to bring an issue to peoples attention, usually doesn't solve
    anything. a good example is the guy who lobbied long and hard for the
    re-introduction of the wolves into Yellowstone. Years ago he and his
    allies would never have considered help from "foes"... a "don't trust
    'em" attitude. The major political helper in this effort turned out to
    be the environmentalists worst nitemare, the Gov. of Montana (or was it
    IDAho??) anyway the point being that the "allies" abondoned the main
    wolf guy because he was consorting with the enemy, saying "they'll
    screw you, just wait"...now they are eating crow because the efforts
    were successful and the "enemy" turned out to be an ally in this case.
    
    rfb_

    re:kivvers, kibbies, sunfish, pumpkinseeds 
    
    As a teen in Ga., when we couldn't catch any thing else, brim were not
    only fun, but tasty too! throw 'em in the hot grease and when they 
    float to the top...yummies!
    
    rfb

	interesting string on MAWF/Hunting.

	I used to go hunting for deer in VT with my dad and brothers
	until I got too afraid of being shot! i remember walking for 2hrs
	to get Waaay out in the woods(or so I thought) sat down and
	noticed another hunter 100 yds or so away 8-(  Never did get a deer
	so I don't really know if I *could've* shot one. Venison is very
	tatsy however. I also think you should hunt for eating not for trophy.
	Eat everything you hunt/kill and it makes it OK in my book. I also
	don't have a problem with this kid who will have such a short time
	left on the planet 8-( 

	BTW my uncle(ex Maine forest ranger) once told me he'd never eat
	bear-meat! He once skinned a Bar(as Davey Crockett would say) and
	said there were so many worms mixed in the meat it almost made him
	yak!


	Toby
	

    re; almost made him yak
    
    so was it a bear or a yak? make up yer mind!  %^)
    
    rfb

a twist to this hunting thread...how d'y'all feel about hunting for the meat
and keeping the trophy?  my sister lives in Florida, she's married to a Real
Good 'Ol Boy from the South. He was brought up hunting, fishing...if he bags a
deer, he eats the meat...but he also has a "trophy"...Karen was kinda freaked
out when we stayed down there last year and this deer was hanging over the bed
in the guest room.

bro-is-law says "aw shucks, Buck won't hurtcha"  :)))   I"m not a fan of hunting
for trophies, but the venison was damn tasty.

my .02 on the dying kid, I say let the kid do his thang, even though he is
killing a Kodiak bear, and I'm not into that, I think a little slack in this
case may be appropriate...and how much of the Truth are we getting from the
media on this whole story anyway?

    here we go with the liberal media kick wes
    
    it was the bear on the grassy knoll in the puff of smoke

    Newa flash
    Lunenburg beat story
    front page of Metro/Region in that "Liberal Subversive rag" the Boston
    Globe

	I think instead of hanging the "trophy" on the wall that
	they should cremate the remains and throw the ashes in 
	the Ganges

aaahh, no sir Chris :)  how much reality can one get from a 30 second bit on
thenational news? that's all I'm askin'...

Debess, I like yer answer...that Ganges must be one hideous place...amongst the
beauty of the surrounding area :)

Wes_who'd_love_to_see_Rishikesh_India_where_The_Beatles_hung_out

oh no!  

news flash...

wild beats take over Lunenberg.  Neighborhood defends homes with ginsu
knives and beat slicers.
:)

    Didn't Congressguy Bono sing about that before he joined U2?
    (I woulda stayed with his old group :-)
    
    /b

re: Plowing paradise


you can write about how it is bad and all all you want in here
and it ain't gonna do no good. write your newspaper.

Voters approve things like huge developments, etc.
there is a zoning board that typically has to approve developments,
building etc.  the best way *you* can make a difference is
by getting elected to the zoning bd, showing up for meetings to
speak your mind, getting other concerned citizens to show up at
meetings, etc.  it is a ton of work, but, if you really,really,really
want to see it stop, you can by acting, gettting people to vote, etc.
you can bet your paycheck that when Joe Builder wants to build 100 houses
on a mint piece of land that he's gonna have all of his friends down
for the zoning meeting where his/her fate lies.

i'm getting a whole new experience now that i pay taxes (3200/yr!)
and go to town mtgs.  i tell ya, the turnout is so small... you're
damn lucky if even 8% of the reg. voters in town show up at the town mtg.
very sad.  it is more like 2-4% who determine the fate of an $11.5 M
budget, various changes to town bylaws (like zoning laws), etc.
you wanna push your agenda, you gotta work,work,work and get out
the vote.

    
    JC is correct.. I started going to town meetings in Woodland Park and
    the number thats shows up is so small its a shame...
    
    Its hard enough to get people to vote let alone show up for town
    meetings.
    Woodland Park just had a vote on a Rec. center out of 9,000 voters only
    1500 voted, and they made it easy the town mailed the ballot to your
    house with a enclosed return with stamp and thats all they got to vote.
    
    BTW the rec center went down in flames!!!!
    
    Show up and be heard is the onlt way to change things.
    
    
    Divide Dave

    well , here's the cynical side...voting is a useless, futile gesture..
    but if ya don't vote, ya can't bitch! 
    
    the best thing to ever happen to
    voting laws is that the beer stores now stay open on voting day
    
    
    rfb

>	[...] while fishing, with naked women! :-o

Hmmm...I've fished with worms, lures, and quahogs...never tried this.

Dan

    the hardest part is bringing yourself to throw them out of the boat!

	you guys are obviously unclear of the concept  ;-)
	or, maybe it's me.
	maybe i should be fishing *for* naked women.
	

    Developers don't tear up the land because they're evil, they do it to
    accomodate an ever-growing population and changing trends in where
    people want to live.  Most people are hypocritical about development --
    they've built their house but will fight tooth and nail to prevent
    anyone else from building their own.
    
    It's the same story with exploitation of Alaskan wilderness for oil
    drilling.  It's done because we demand cheap private transportation
    over public.  Until we're willing to make serious lifestyle changes,
    such as carpooling, using public transit, living closer to work,
    bicycling, etc., we deserve what we get.
    
    Speaking of oil, the election year gambits of rolling back the gas tax
    and selling some of our strategic oil reserves (at a tremendous loss)
    are terrible ideas.  Gas right now is at a price equivilant to what it
    was in 1950 (adjusting for inflation).
    
    Being an election year, the Republicans are again touting a $500/child
    tax credit.  Clinton will wholeheartedly support this, then it will die
    a well-deserved death in committee.  Next up will be the first time
    home buyers' tax credit which will suffer the same fate.
    
    I think I've rambled enough for one morning.  :-)
    
    Jamie

    Hmmmm, what's that line from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"?
    
    Naked women living in lakes and handing out swords is no basis 
    for a fuedal government...
    
    I'm sure I've majorly botched that one up.  Why do I think
    Gary will correct me? ;-)
    
    PeterT

    "Just because some watery tart threw a scimitar at you, that is no
    reason nor a basis for government"
    

    I should know better than to get into this with *U*, jamie, but here
    goes...
    
    RE: Developers don't tear up the land because they're evil, they do it to
        accomodate an ever-growing population and
    
    I disagree...they, developers,not construction guys, are evil incarnate, 
    out here they are usually from another sate they've already fucked up..
    when they get done here, they move on to Montana or Wyoming or....
    I've met them, discussed issues with them and ended up calling them
    names (even had one call up an old boss and demand i be fired for
    telling a developer what I thought of him in the parking lot of the
    building we rented from him at the time)...
    I shudder to think that as a kid i even worked for them in AZ,
    before i became aware of their  "concept" of what growth should be.
    There's sanity that could be applied to all development, but the all
    mighty $ dictates crowding in 4 houses where there should be 2 and a
    natural access way left for animals as well as people. But as long a s
    the voting "majority" votes the way the developers, landrobbers, and in
    the pocket city council members...things will go on like they are..
     
    whew...nuff of that!
    
    peace,
    rfb
    
    on most of the rest of  the points in yer note, i agree....that's *NO*
    reason for a Gov of a state to say "to hell with the environment, we
    need money"
    

    re .2996
    
    >There's sanity that could be applied to all development, but the all
    >mighty $ dictates crowding in 4 houses where there should be 2 and a
    >natural access way left for animals as well as people. But as long a s
    >the voting "majority" votes the way the developers, landrobbers, and in
    >the pocket city council members...things will go on like they are..
    
    Local zoning boards set these restrictions and this is one area where a
    single individual can have a tremendous impact, by voting or attending
    planning and zoning board committee meetings.  I'm pretty cynical about
    government, but most of the people I've known who've served want to do
    what's best for their city and town, which may be opposite what you
    feel is best but they'll never know it if you don't speak up.
    
    It's easy for me to say since rich yuppie Californians aren't exactly
    flocking to Mass.  :-)
    
    Jamie

>maybe i should be fishing *for* naked women.
	

Let me know what kind of bait works best for you. ;-)

	sure, tim. but i get the feeling neither of us can afford it.
	
	;-)
	
	

    re: local zoning...
    
    the city council here, for the most part, arein bed with the developers
    from out of state. They are for rapid, uncontrolled growth. I've seen
    (on TV) people told to shutup by our Mayor because they had a different
    opinion than he...
    
    nuff said
    
    rfb

    
    Woodland Park up the hill from Colorado Springs is the same as down
    here in the flat lands.
    The mayor also sells insurance up there so the more growth the more
    sales for him, the city manager has/is pushing hard for the rec. center
    up there so he can put it on his resume(so I heard), that way way when
    he bails out of here he looks good.
    
    Divide Dave 

	After reading this string 'bout development/pillaging of land
	it brings to mind a song my daughter has been singing lately:

	You think you own whatever land you land on,
	the Earth is just a dead thing you can claim.
	but I know every rock and tree and creature,
	has a life has a spirit has a name

	Toby

    I was struck by a statement I heard on tv this weekend

	"we are not separate from that which we are destroying"

re     <<< Note 90.2992 by ASDG::IDE "My mind's lost in a household fog." >>>

>    Developers don't tear up the land because they're evil, they do it to
>    accomodate an ever-growing population and changing trends in where
>    people want to live.

Disagree.
Developers do it because they can make money doing it.
Accomodating the population is simply the demand.

As Jamie said and as i said before, VOTE and ATTEND meetings!
tonight, we have a local election in Groton and both deb and I will
vote.  My guess will be a pitiful 8-12% turnout... i'll hit the polls at 7:50 pm
or so and check the count on my way out. (8pm the polls close).
also, if you have a local newspaper, WRITE LETTERS.  i write letters
and they get published in our town paper.  a lot more people than
you think read the editorials... i got some feedback from one of my
mother's friends who lives in groton regarding a letter i wrote to the groton
paper... people read.  write a convincing story, start pounding pavment,
and you can change things.  yeah, it is a *TON* of work... 

    Many of you will remember a note I put in last summer about my friend
    Pat that left this world for another one. He supported himself and his
    daughter by making some of the best bent willow furniture found in
    Colorado; tables, chairs, loveseats, plantstands and endtables.  We are 
    proud to own several of these pieces and deeply saddened that we'll 
    aquire no more. Last week I took all these pieces out into the yard and
    hosed all the winter dust off of them. It was late at nite on one of
    those nites where the  temps were still in the 50's. Naturaly my
    thoughts turned to Pat, and I said a few words to him. All of a sudden
    I get this long, slow rush....that's the best I can describe it. It
    slowly rose in intensity, peaked, and lasted about 10 minutes. I could
    "feel" Pat there. It wasn't scary or anything, in fact "IT" felt good.
    I finished washing down the furniture and upended it so it would dry, all
    the time still feeling this incredable sensation throughout my body.
    Still smiling, I stood around outside until slowly the "rush" subsided,
    said "see ya my friend" and went inside. 
    
    This is true.
    
    rfb
    

cool... :^)

	very cool indeed, rfb...I do believe if you're open to those
	sorts of communication, they just might happen now and then...
	and maybe they happen a lot more often than we're aware cause
	we're just not tuned in all the time...

	thanks for sharing that 

	Debess

    Did anyone watch the Simpsons Sunday night?  The episode where Homer
    takes Bart and Lisa to the Hullabalooza festival.  
    
    [Homer, Bart, and Lisa are standing in the audience for Cypress Hill]
    
    Bart:  (sniff, sniff)  "What's that smell?"
    
    Lisa:  "I don't know, it smells like Auto's jacket!"
    
    ;')  There were a lot of other great lines, and also a really cool 
    simulation of Auto's talking feet.

    the talking feet were the funniest......
    sonic youth was trying to steal peter frampton's cooler too..

    It's Otto, I know 'cause we share a birthday.  :-)
    
    "It's just like Woodstock . . . with tight security and youth-oriented
    marketing."

    otto mahn to be exact

    That was a great Simpsons!  I loved the look on the rap group dude 
    when they said something about "and getting toasted" ;-)   Otto sure 
    looked like he was enjoying his hallucinations...
    
    I taped it because I couldn't watch it sunday nite, and was able to 
    slowmo through a couple of things.  Interesting ads as they were going
    into Hellpalooza (or whatever they called it), one was for mumble High Tars,
    a cigarette company ;-)   
    
    I remember listening to Grand Funk too ;-)

    On a similar thread, anyone catch the news report on the Australian 
    company that must cease selling beer by the anme of "Duff" ?
     
    /Ken

Strange sight this morning.  I was almost all the way to work, heading 
into the last leg.  I was getting off rte 4, going through the Drum Hill
rotary to head up 3 north, when all of a sudden, a deer scoots out of the
bushes on one side, runs across the road in front of me (I'm thinking,
where the hell is it going to go!) and jumps the guard rail into the 
bush!  I'd just about stopped dead in my tracks at that point, but kept 
on going.  I'm wondering if the damn thing got hit afterward.  The
smart thing to do would be for it to have gone to ground at that point,
but I don't necessarily expect smart behavior from deers.  While it did bound
into the woods, those woods are pretty much a small island that dips down to Rte 3,
and is surrounded by roads with lots of fast moving cars.  Hope it made it
out alright, but I'm not betting on it.

PeterT

    	What is the deal after work tomorrow?
    TDavis you are gonna be kicking around until friday aren't you?
    Bier Haus stop/another fine watering hole excursion after work?
    thursday better?

Yeah, TDavis, I hauled butt up there last week and you didn't show..!!

Of course, I'm not sure I can make it this week, but I had to give you sh!t
about it anyways...;-)

tim

    I am out of here Thursday PM, so tomorrow is cool.

    
    I'll be there.. tonight .. right?
    
    Sloan

    please excuse the following horn tooting...
    
    From the William J. Palmer School newspaper, The Lever...
    
    Reg Ed, Tiffany Barnes G.P.A.: 4.31 Plans: Colo State Univ @ Fort Collins
    by Chelsea Dodgen
    
    When somebody said "congratulations" to Tiffany Barnes in the hallway a
    few weeks ago, she had to ask why. She hadn't planned for, thought
    about, or expected to be valedictorian, but her enourmous effort and
    constant hard work in the past four years had nonetheless won her the
    top spot. 
    Tiffany, with her nose ring and sometimes black, sometimes auburn hair,
    is obviously not the sterotypical study-all-the-time-no-social-life
    nerd. She *is* constantly busy, however, as art editor for NUMEN,
    member of the National Honor Society, and the founder and president of
    the Environmental Club. She recently quit waitressing at a local
    restaurant - a job she has held since 9th grade. With an average of
    four hours of sleep a nite, being tired is a fact of life for Tiffany. 
    But she doesn't mind, saying: "We waste so much time sleeping-life's so
    short as it is". 
    In the little free time she does have, she camps, hikes and tries to
    "just get away from the city". She also voluteers much of her time to
    Mission:Wolf a sanctuary for wolves two and a half hours south of the 
    Springs. She spent three weeks last summer building fences, digging
    holes, and giving tours, coming home only on weekends. This summer she
    plans on spending two months at the refugee. 
    She would do homework for an average of six hours per day, not because
    she wanted to pad her resume or boost her GPA. She simply likes to 
    learn. "I figure if you're going to do something, you should do your best
    and get the most out of it," says Barnes. "I know i can get an "A" in
    my classes, so I'd better live up to it."
    However, she doesn't agree with much of what she has to do to get that
    "A." "I'm feeling bitter towards school right now. I realize that
    learning is the most important thing and knowledge is the only way. But
    I'm tired of wasting time on worksheets when we could be learning about
    ourselves."
    She does the worksheets anyway, usually in her room, which is constantly
    a wreck. (I don't have time to clean it!") She listens to the Dave
    Matthews Band, Citizen Fish, and Vivaldi, but she hates the Grateful
    Dead "because my parents love them." (   %^)    )
    Tiffany says shes feeling overwhelmed now as she gets ready to take
    finals and three Advanced Placement Exams in Biology, European History
    and English. "But the tests to me are like a game now," says Barnes.
    "I've just got to go in there and play."
    And looking at her track record, it looks like Tiffany will reign
    victorious.
    
    -end of article-
    
    and now her valedictorian speech, again please excuse a fathers
    pride in his daughter...
    
    A wise person once went into the wilderness to find her own soul. And
    found that the soul she contained wasn't hers, but a piece of a
    great soul. We are one. Regardless of income, sex, skin color. We all 
    contain a piece of the great soul deep within. The world continues to
    turn, a cycle in constant motion, and humanity continues to burn.
    Humans are evolving into different classes due to past generations
    obsessions with appearance and money. The only way our generation can
    survice in today's reality is to halt the evolution of humanity and 
    unite. 
    Imagine a day when approaching the person next to you is not permitted. 
    As the majority of humanity is separated from each other due to their
    education, social status, and yearly income: as the rich kids marry
    rich and the poor kids marry poor, we as a species drift further from
    the unity we desparately need. This unity is what connects us, what
    makes us strong. If the Jews and the Christians could have united would
    Hitler have been able to destroy so many? If the Native Americnas had
    been able to set aside tribal differences for only one day, would so
    many now be living on reservations? Authority thrives on humanities
    inablity to unite. But if we can set aside our differenaces and unite,
    authority might become powerless in the hands of humanity. And our
    world might gain a little sanity. Times are changing, when the building
    in Oklahoma City was bombed, people of all age, race and sex bonded
    together to help each other. We must remember this example, unity *IS*
    possible. We must put aside selfish desires and truly become one. It is
    our only hope. 
    As we set here our minds wander far from the rattle of speakers.
    Thoughts drift to college, jobs, the parties this evening. And the
    details of the formal education we have recieved in the past four years
    will be meaningless in the rest of our travels. But within this school
    we were exposed to all walks of life. And if you can remember 
    anything about this day remember we are setting here together. And as
    we venture into the next realm, and as the past generations standards
    relating to money, race, and sex attempt to take away your piece of the 
    great soul, remember, we must unite, Because unity is the strength
    needed to achive a world full of hope.
    
    
    

	you have great reason to be proud, rfb - congratulations to 
	Tiffany, and to you and Patty...

	reading things like that penned from the up-and-coming
	generation gives me great hope for the future!

	Debess

	not sure if can make the bierhaus today.
	
	but, if i do i'll be sure to raise a glass to the barneses!!
	congrats to tiffany, rfb and patty.
	ya make us all proud!!  :-)  :-)
	

	you're excused rfb....  :^)

	Tiffany sounds like a remarkable young woman...

			da ve

    Here Here!!
      I am very proud of/for the Barnes.  Tiffany and company deserve a
    grate big Congrats!  
    
    	Mark

	echoing what Jay and Mark and maybe Divide said yesterday...
	for some strange reason -I- feel proud too.  

	Debess

Congrats all around...Tiffany is wise beyond her years...a great kid ya got
there rfb...

WO