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alloy-digest Saturday, August 18 2001 Volume 06 : Number 217
Today's Subjects:
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Alloy: meteorology (not really) [Brian Clayton <stemish@lns.com>]
Alloy: bad limerick challenge continues... [Brian Clayton <stemish@lns.co]
Alloy: Welcome new members [Robin Thurlow <rthurlow@binghamton.edu>]
Alloy: I'm in the big leagues!! ["Chris & Beena Cracknell" <bcracknell@sy]
Alloy: Oh yeah, about the Impromanga ["Chris & Beena Cracknell" <bcrackne]
Re: Alloy: I'm in the big leagues!! [CJMark@aol.com]
Alloy: The Strange Island Of Thomas Dolby ["Chris & Beena Cracknell" <bcr]
Alloy: bad limerick challenge continues... ["Mary A. Brown" <Mary_A_Brown]
Re: Alloy: bad limerick challenge continues... [Brian Clayton <stemish@ln]
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Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 01:07:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: Brian Clayton <stemish@lns.com>
Subject: Alloy: meteorology (not really)
> "You can see a meteorite almost any night."
>
> It is our understanding that a *meteorite* is only the rock that you
> find on the ground. A *meteor* is what you see in the sky, and an
> *asteroid* is what is floating out in space. Of course, the other
> scientists on the list can keep me honest on this. Anyway, given the
> involvement of an actual astrophysicist in the performance, we found it
> weird that a scientific error (or at least incorrect terminology) would
> make it into the song!
Actually, there is a further distinction. The big rocks that we know about
via astronomical observation are indeed called "asteroids." The smaller
rocks and dust specks which float through space and are unobservable by
telescopes are known as "meteoroids" (even if they never actually hit the
earth's atmosphere to become meteors, and then maybe meteorites.)
And yes, Fiorella should know better, but she's standing over there in
that silver outfit waving her poetic license at us, and... um...
mmmmmmmmmmm...silver.....
*cough*
Anyway...if a genuine asteroid entered the atmosphere, I suppose it'd
then be called a meteor; though depending on its size, there might not be
anyone left standing around to argue over such semantics after it hits...
BC ("perhaps-a you'll get lucky!")
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"No one can predict with certainty what the ultimate meaning will be
of mastery of space." -- John F. Kennedy, May 25th, 1961
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Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 01:25:02 -0700 (PDT)
From: Brian Clayton <stemish@lns.com>
Subject: Alloy: bad limerick challenge continues...
There once was a fellow named Dolby,
When he got his career on a roll, he
Recorded some funk
Which the critics called junk,
Yet he went on to marry a Colby.
BC (up waaaay too late...)
- --
"No one can predict with certainty what the ultimate meaning will be
of mastery of space." -- John F. Kennedy, May 25th, 1961
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Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 10:35:44 -0400
From: Robin Thurlow <rthurlow@binghamton.edu>
Subject: Alloy: Welcome new members
I see a few new people have joined us lately..
Welcome!!
Please feel free to join in, and let us know what first got your attention about
Thomas' music.
On a personal note, it looks pretty certain that Dave and I will be relocating in
October - to a really small, really cool apartment, where the landlady is allowing us
free use of the building's art studio (when classes aren't being held). It'll be
'cozy' all right.. we have to get rid of lots of stuff so that we'll be able to fit
into the place. Remember what I said about getting rid of clutter, well here's my big
chance :)
Has anyone here built a loft bed before? It looks pretty easy & I've found a good set
of plans. Any words of advice before I get started?
xxxxx
Robin T
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Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 11:14:22 -0400
From: "Chris & Beena Cracknell" <bcracknell@sympatico.ca>
Subject: Alloy: I'm in the big leagues!!
Forgive my bragging but I'm as giddy as a schoolgirl with her very own
cuddily tentacle monster.
Woohoo! I've entered the big leagues of webcomic artists now after only a
couple of months of drawing.
A link to my webcomic has been posted on the front page of
http://sexylosers.com (formerly known as The Thin H Line... but shhhh...
that's a secret). Sexy Losers is THE adult manga webcomic on the internet.
So being linked to from their front page is an extremely prestigious thing
for a webcomic artist (especially since SL gets about 10K hits a day). I
have already noticed a HUGE explosion in the number of hits I get each day
and it's only been three days.
To an adult webcomic artist being linked to from the front page of Hard's
comic would be kinda like if David Bowie were to put "Listen to Crackers'
music." on the front cover of all his albums.
In other webcomic news... I'm also taking part in an "impromanga" on Sexy
Losers. It's the comic equivalent of what "The Emeritus Professor" was back
in the days of the Tap Room. A continuing story with each manga artist
adding their own page. Luckily I was third in the roster so I didn't have to
wait too long for my turn. It will probably be a few months before my turn
comes around again. It's much fun although I'm using a different drawing
style for this comic than I do for my regular comic. You can check out the
impromanga in the guest section at http://sexylosers.com and if you'd like
to take part in it you can sign up on the Perverts Row message forum.
Or if you'd just like to look at my contribution to it you can see it at
http://ghastly.keenspace.com/images/improcomic-3.jpg
Anyways I must now continue with my happy dance of joy and roll around in
all the glorious hits I'm getting. Not to mention I've got to get ready for
a show tonight. With the money I get from tonight's show I'll be able to buy
that new Beringer I've had my eye on. Woohoo!!! Such a happy happy day.
Crackers
(Who needs syndication from hell!!!!!!)
CrAB - http://www.hwcn.org/~ad329/crab.html
The Official Bira Bira Webpage - http://birabira.chaosmagic.com
Ghastly's Ghastly Comic - http://ghastly.keenspace.com
CrAB - http://www.hwcn.org/~ad329/crab.html
The Official Bira Bira Webpage - http://birabira.chaosmagic.com
Ghastly's Ghastly Comic - http://ghastly.keenspace.com
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Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 11:26:11 -0400
From: "Chris & Beena Cracknell" <bcracknell@sympatico.ca>
Subject: Alloy: Oh yeah, about the Impromanga
Guess I should explain the characters for those interested in
participating/reading it.
Atsuko: Flirty, flighty, sex goddess type.
Mao: Brainy, mousey type but with deep and powerful sexual curiosity wich
she is too shy to express.
Bish: He's the typical Bishounen (jap. "Pretty Boy") very verbose and
flowery, carrys himself like a samurai, has an almost feminine beauty to him
yet is unable to score with the women.
Harry: Dirty old man, but he gets more "tang" than Neil Armstrong.
What has been established in the two comics before mine. Atsuko and Mao are
friends and they work together at Harry's dating service. They spot Bish
when out for lunch and fall for his dreamy good looks (first comic). They
return from lunch back to work and are suprised (and no doubt disappointed)
when Bish asks to be set up on a date with a man (second comic).
That's where I took over with the third comic.
Incidently, for those old timers who enjoyed working on the Emeritus
Professor I'd recommend giving the impromanga a try. It will probably be a
couple of months before your turn comes up anyways which will give you time
to practice if you're shy about your drawing skills. It's a lot of fun and
it doesn't really matter if you can't draw.
Hmmmm... does Thomas draw? ^_^
Crackers
(Give it a try from hell!!!!!)
CrAB - http://www.hwcn.org/~ad329/crab.html
The Official Bira Bira Webpage - http://birabira.chaosmagic.com
Ghastly's Ghastly Comic - http://ghastly.keenspace.com
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Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 12:17:15 EDT
From: CJMark@aol.com
Subject: Re: Alloy: I'm in the big leagues!!
Mucho Congrats Crackers!
Mark
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Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 13:31:58 -0400
From: "Chris & Beena Cracknell" <bcracknell@sympatico.ca>
Subject: Alloy: The Strange Island Of Thomas Dolby
Oh yes, almost forgot. Another bizarre Thomas Dolby dream last night.
Saw Jurassic Park III a few weeks ago. Better than the second one, not as
good as the first but needless to say it was the inspiration for my dream
last night.
I'm out hang gliding when where do I crash land? Yepper, that damned island
of the dinoaurs. Well the island of the dinosaurs looks a little different.
Infact it's like someone built the city of Hamilton on the tropical island
so I'm very familiar with the surroundings. I end up getting chased all over
the Danny's No Frills grocery store by a big T-Rex and it's starting to piss
me off. So I hide behind a shelf and then stay very, very still and the
thing eventually wonders off in search of other prey. Well that's a lucky
break. Anyways, I know from having watched the third movie that rescue
awaits me at the beach so I head out of the grocery store, down Main Street,
and into the jungle towards the beach.
Thats when the Spinosaurus sees me. Great. now I'm being hunted by ol'
Spiney. Now one of the things about the third movie that bugged me was the
way the Spinosaurus hunted these guys down like he had some sort of personal
score to settle with them. He was like Hook's "Tick-Tock" although with a
beeping cell phone in his belly. It seemed very odd to me that something
that huge would spend so much time and energy trying to hunt down something
that would really only be a light appitizer at best. I mean the thing is on
an island with tonnes of big hulking dinosaurs to eat yet it chooses to hunt
down these human beings. Why? Especially since we see the damn thing eat one
huge-assed dinosaur. Would that not satisfy it's reptilian appitite for a
few hours if not days?
Well I realized that I was going to have a hard time getting rid of Spiney
but did manage to lose the beast. So I'm heading down the river towards the
beach when I remember, "wait a minute. there are velociraptors down this
river, I've seen the movie". So the first chance I get I take another river
to the beach. So I get down to the beach and instead of seeing a couple
thousand marines waiting to rescue me I see what appears to be a thriving
costal community. How very odd. So I enter the town which is built as a
combination of Hamilton and this seaside town I stayed in down in the
Dominican once. Well who should appear but that freaking Spinosaurus. Great.
So I run into the Hamilton Public Library with the Spinosaurus hot on my
heals Someone shows me a fire exit and says I can get away from it down
there. Okee dokee. But then I wonder what can I do to save all the people in
the library from ol' Spiney and the guy looks at me kinda funny and says
"Save them from what? Spiney isn't chasing them."
That's when I notice everyone else in the library is pretty much going about
their business as normal almost completely oblivious to the huge hulking
dinosaur closing in on me fast. Nor does the dinosaur seem interested in the
easier prey around him. It only wants me. So down the fire escape I go,
closing the door on ol' Spiney who is now trapped in the library. Whew that
was easy.
Now I'm on the beach again, walking along it wondering how to get off it
when I notice all these people running down this hillside onto the beach
through the shallow water to a small island about 20 feet off shore. Well
great, when you see a crowd of people running and screaming when you're on
the Jurrasic Park island that can never be a good thing. So I turn around
and run too. I look over my shoulder and notice they're being chased by a
pack of allosaurus. These carnovours are pretty close on their heels and
very fast. I'm running along and now they're very close on my heels too.
Infact they over take me and continue chasing the other people without
taking any notice of me what so ever. So now I'm still running, but I'm
running in the direction of the allosaurus who have passed me. It suddenly
occurs to me that that is a very stupid thing to be doing so I turn around
and run the other way. Then I stop and think about the people the allosaurus
are chasing and what can I do to help them, but it turns out they were
leading the allosaurus into a trap. A big laser gun hidden in the trees on
the tiny offshore island that disintigrates the dinosaurs. Okay... whatever
works.
So I'm walking along the beach trying to figure out how to get off the
island. There's all sorts of boats but no one will take me off the island
nor seems particularily eager to leave themselves despite the occaisional
outburst of dinosaur induced mayhem.
Finally I meet one guy who tells me that the people living on this island
came there to leave the modern world and build a utopia of thier own and
they came here following their bold revolutionary leader and that no one can
leave the island without his permission. So I ask to go see the leader and
this guy takes me to a bus stop on this island Hamilton which I recognize as
being near my son's school. I ask who the leader of this island community is
and the guy tells me "Thomas Dolby."
"Oh great! Thomas Dolby. No wonder everything here is so nuts. I'm having a
Thomas Dolby dream. Everytime I have a dream with him in it he's always
doing something goofy."
So the guy shows me a picture of Thomas Dolby. He's living in a hut with a
shaved head ala Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now and I can almost hear him
saying "The horror... the horror..."
"Well look," I tell the guy, "I'm not going to see Thomas Dolby. He's always
extremely goofy when he's in my dreams and frankly I find his dream persona
quite unsettling. I'm going to find another way off this island."
I look down the street and see a couple of drunks come out of this one
Hamilton tavern. Standing on the street are a couple of Velociraptors who
are pan handelling and the drunks toss them a couple of loonies.
The guy I'm with says "No no, you don't understand. You don't have to see
Thomas Dolby to get off the island. All you have to do is figure out the
secret meaning of the song 'Windpower' and then a bus will come and take you
home."
"No, I don't think so," I tell him, "My house is only a few blocks from here
I think I'll walk home."
So I start walking home and then I wake up.
It's funny how I now instantly recognize I'm dreaming if Thomas Dolby turns
up in my dream.
You know, Thomas could seriously fuck with my head by showing up on my
doorstep someday then bounce around yelling "Woohoo woohoo woohoo" and then
leave. I'd spend the rest of the day trying to wake myself up from a dream.
The beauty of a dream MY ASS!!!
Crackers
(Damn dirty dinosaurs from hell!!!!!!)
CrAB - http://www.hwcn.org/~ad329/crab.html
The Official Bira Bira Webpage - http://birabira.chaosmagic.com
Ghastly's Ghastly Comic - http://ghastly.keenspace.com
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Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 17:14:31 -0400
From: "Mary A. Brown" <Mary_A_Brown@compuserve.com>
Subject: Alloy: bad limerick challenge continues...
Okay, I'll join in...
There is a fine fellow named Tom
Whose music we think is "da bomb"
We joined up with Alloy
For info on New Toy
And the latest at Beatnik.com
My chapeau is off to you, BC, for coming up with rhymes for Dolby!
Hey, Lee, this challenge sounds like it's right up your alley. Take
a break from your Duke Nukem work and chime in!
Mary
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Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 14:35:15 -0700 (PDT)
From: Brian Clayton <stemish@lns.com>
Subject: Re: Alloy: bad limerick challenge continues...
On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Mary A. Brown wrote:
> There is a fine fellow named Tom
> Whose music we think is "da bomb"
> We joined up with Alloy
> For info on New Toy
> And the latest at Beatnik.com
<applause> Well done!
> My chapeau is off to you, BC, for coming up with rhymes for Dolby!
Well, "roll, he" isn't technically a rhyme, and "Colby" is far too
obvious, but thanks. :)
BC
- --
"No one can predict with certainty what the ultimate meaning will be
of mastery of space." -- John F. Kennedy, May 25th, 1961
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