From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V11 #154 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Monday, June 26 2006 Volume 11 : Number 154 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: O2 Wireless news and pics are up on the forum ["Tim Dunn" ] RE: Alloy: O2 Wireless news and pics are up on the forum [Elaine Subject: Alloy: O2 Wireless news and pics are up on the forum I'm still here if you need me to do anything or if you can get me an interview!!!! http://forum.thomasdolby.com/viewtopic.php?p=3867#3867 thecopse ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 13:51:57 -0700 From: "Mary A Brown" Subject: RE: Alloy: O2 Wireless news and pics are up on the forum Great reporting, Tim! And I am so sorry about James Blunt! Who the hell likes him? They were taking the piss out of him in Australia on the comedy shows too! Mary - -----Original Message----- From: owner-alloy@smoe.org [mailto:owner-alloy@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Tim Dunn Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2006 12:01 PM To: alloy@smoe.org Subject: Alloy: O2 Wireless news and pics are up on the forum I'm still here if you need me to do anything or if you can get me an interview!!!! http://forum.thomasdolby.com/viewtopic.php?p=3867#3867 thecopse ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 14:55:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Elaine Subject: Alloy: Saturday (way off topic) And sorry this is so long. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, I was heading home. There was a left-turn-into-high-speed accident between two other motorists, and it happened right in front of me. Once they started spinning, they crashed into us (me and my two girls). So now I know what it's like to have an airbag deploy. (It smells like something's on fire and the propellant burns your eyes.) We had been stopped at the intersection, waiting for traffic to clear so we could take a left. We're all fine..good old Volkswagen. (It was exactly like their current commercials.) But it was a scene. They called out 3 ambulances, 1 big engine, 1 paramedic truck, several sheriff units, couple of CHP. Three tow trucks. :( Mine included. Talk about being in the wrong place at the wrong time. We're good, and I'll start working on the insurance/body shop/adjustors game tomorrow. I'm just sharing with you all because you're my friends. Even sitting there perfectly still, minding your own beeswax, violence and carnage can come your way out of absolutely nowhere. Drive defensively and wear protective belts. Almost more interestingly (since injury was minimal to nonexistent), I sat and watched for 90 minutes as the cleanup process unfolded. I saw L.A. county sheriffs ticket half a dozen people for trying to get around emergency vehicles blocking lanes...two tried to drive into an open lane of oncoming traffic to do so! And I remember one lady got in a sheriff deputy's face about WHY he wouldn't let her "just go around." I was amazed. A woman ended up in the back of a squad car but I don't know what the situation was. This was after spending Friday night in Hollywood (saw Joe Jackson at the Avalon theater. It was just 'ehh' for me. Raul Midon was good, though.) We walked among the freaks, including, by the way, no less than THREE Scientology outposts up and down Hollywood Boulevard. The barkers outside the L. Ron Hubbard Life Museum were especially creepy. One of them looked just like Mr. Burns from the Simpsons, and she was female. AND we were down there on the night that Aaron Spelling died, may God rest his soul, and saw television crews readying for the 11 o'clock news at Mr. Spelling's star on the Walk of Fame, whose location was outside some nasty and iron-gated tattoo parlor. This kind of scene is always both sad and funny at the same time. So, I said to my husband as we passed, "wow, look, KCAL is here. No one watches KCAL!" A cameraman glared daggers at me, as if I'd just punched his sister or something. Then we walked back to our room, upon which we had splurged at the Renaissance (attached to the Kodak Theater complex, home of the awards telecasts and housing one of the most awesome parking garages I've ever seen). So you have nasty/ugly Hollywood to one side, and uber-glamour at the other end of the boulevard. In the middle, we ducked into the only clean restaurant we could find for a bite, and saw nine LAPD officers chowing down and looking at everyone sideways. The hotel was hosting a convention of "Woodmen of the World," which, I wondered was a brotherhood of lumberjacks? No, it's just another fraternal organization that I don't understand, like Shriners and Masons. All I can tell you is that the hotel was crawling with slow-speaking southern USA folk. They were goofily out-of-place at the Oscars hotel. So, I guess it's not entirely off-topic, being that Miss Kathleen has a connection to Aaron Spelling. But anyway, irony in this world is always interesting, wherever it occurs. All in all, the thing that sums it up: it was the kind of weekend one can only have in Los Angeles. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 14:58:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Elaine Subject: RE: Alloy: O2 Wireless news and pics are up on the forum Hey Mary! I never did respond last week..sorry about that..so glad your trip to Melbourne went (is going?) well! The thing I wanted to make sure and mention was, last Sunday morning I woke up with "Message to My Girl" in my head & couldn't figure out where it came from. It's not the type of song you hear on TV or radio, so I don't know how it got in there. Must have been my wishing subconsciously that I was at the Enz!! Have a safe trip home. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 23:38:37 EDT From: CJMark@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: Saturday (way off topic) Hey Elaine.. Wow.. what a harrowing experience! I'm glad to hear you're all okay! Take care!! Mark In a message dated 6/25/06 3:02:15 PM, elaine@qnet.com writes: > > And sorry this is so long. > > At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, I was heading home. There was a > left-turn-into-high-speed accident between two other motorists, and it > happened right in front of me. Once they started spinning, they crashed > into us (me and my two girls). So now I know what it's like to have an > airbag deploy. (It smells like something's on fire and the propellant > burns your eyes.) We had been stopped at the intersection, waiting for > traffic to clear so we could take a left. We're all fine..good old > Volkswagen. (It was exactly like their current commercials.) But it was > a scene. They called out 3 ambulances, 1 big engine, 1 paramedic truck, > several sheriff units, couple of CHP. Three tow trucks. :( Mine included. > Talk about being in the wrong place at the wrong time. > > We're good, and I'll start working on the insurance/body shop/adjustors > game tomorrow. I'm just sharing with you all because you're my friends. > Even sitting there perfectly still, minding your own beeswax, violence and > carnage can come your way out of absolutely nowhere. Drive defensively > and wear protective belts. > > Almost more interestingly (since injury was minimal to nonexistent), I sat > and watched for 90 minutes as the cleanup process unfolded. I saw L.A. > county sheriffs ticket half a dozen people for trying to get around > emergency vehicles blocking lanes...two tried to drive into an open lane > of oncoming traffic to do so! And I remember one lady got in a sheriff > deputy's face about WHY he wouldn't let her "just go around." I was > amazed. A woman ended up in the back of a squad car but I don't know what > the situation was. > > This was after spending Friday night in Hollywood (saw Joe Jackson at the > Avalon theater. It was just 'ehh' for me. Raul Midon was good, though.) > We walked among the freaks, including, by the way, no less than THREE > Scientology outposts up and down Hollywood Boulevard. The barkers outside > the L. Ron Hubbard Life Museum were especially creepy. One of them looked > just like Mr. Burns from the Simpsons, and she was female. AND we were > down there on the night that Aaron Spelling died, may God rest his soul, > and saw television crews readying for the 11 o'clock news at Mr. > Spelling's star on the Walk of Fame, whose location was outside some nasty > and iron-gated tattoo parlor. This kind of scene is always both sad and > funny at the same time. So, I said to my husband as we passed, "wow, > look, KCAL is here. No one watches KCAL!" A cameraman glared daggers at > me, as if I'd just punched his sister or something. Then we walked back > to our room, upon which we had splurged at the Renaissance (attached to > the Kodak Theater complex, home of the awards telecasts and housing one of > the most awesome parking garages I've ever seen). So you have nasty/ugly > Hollywood to one side, and uber-glamour at the other end of the boulevard. > In the middle, we ducked into the only clean restaurant we could find for > a bite, and saw nine LAPD officers chowing down and looking at everyone > sideways. The hotel was hosting a convention of "Woodmen of the World," > which, I wondered was a brotherhood of lumberjacks? No, it's just another > fraternal organization that I don't understand, like Shriners and Masons. > All I can tell you is that the hotel was crawling with slow-speaking > southern USA folk. They were goofily out-of-place at the Oscars hotel. > > So, I guess it's not entirely off-topic, being that Miss Kathleen has a > connection to Aaron Spelling. But anyway, irony in this world is always > interesting, wherever it occurs. All in all, the thing that sums it up: > it was the kind of weekend one can only have in Los Angeles. ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V11 #154 ****************************