From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V3 #79 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Monday, January 25 1999 Volume 03 : Number 079 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Scieszka [katrin@dimensional.com (Katrin Luessenheide Salyers)] Re: Favorite books (still is a lot of stuff) [katrin@dimensional.com (Kat] Re: *gasp* *sigh* *whimper* [katrin@dimensional.com (Katrin Luessenheide ] Re: Shakespeare [aleigh992@aol.comBROCCOLI (ALeigh992)] Re: please wish me luck [elrond@fellspt.charm.net (Matt James)] Re: top five books [aleigh992@aol.comBROCCOLI (ALeigh992)] Re: @#!$!* weather (completely OT) [Gruneberg Veronica J <6vjg@qlink.quee] Re: please wish me luck [nicole.twn.is@ana.ng.at.tmbg.org (Nicole the Won] Re: favorite books (was a lot of stuff) [elrond@fellspt.charm.net (Matt J] Re: Favorite books (was a lot of stuff) [schr9271@fredonia.edu] Re: Favorite books (was a lot of stuff) [elrond@fellspt.charm.net (Matt J] Re: Favorite books (was a lot of stuff) [schr9271@fredonia.edu] Re: Favorite books (was a lot of stuff) ["KatieWow" ] Re: Favorite books (was a lot of stuff) [nicole.twn.is@ana.ng.at.tmbg.org] Re: An Exercise in Fruvilty [Rachael Rosenthal ] Re: top five books [jianbabe@aol.com (JianBabe)] Re: Fruvous in Pittsburgh [Rachael Rosenthal ] Re: pets [Rachael Rosenthal ] Re: Shakespeare [gemini@p3.net (Trace)] Re: favorite books (was a lot of stuff) [gemini@p3.net (Trace)] Re: please wish me luck ["KatieWow" ] Re: *gasp* *sigh* *whimper* [Mindy J Munson ] Re: Favorite books (was a lot of stuff) [vika@ibm.net (Vika Zafrin)] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 10:38:17 -0700 From: katrin@dimensional.com (Katrin Luessenheide Salyers) Subject: Re: Scieszka In article , glong@dreamsbay.com says... > Hear, hear. For further coolness points in Scieszka's > favor, unless I'm sorely mistaken he also did the > character design for that kind-of-Tim-Burton-but-not-really > version of Dahl's JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH that Disney put > out a few years back... :) Close...That was Lane Smith, who illustrated several of Jon Scieszka's books. k@ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 10:28:55 -0700 From: katrin@dimensional.com (Katrin Luessenheide Salyers) Subject: Re: Favorite books (still is a lot of stuff) In article <19990124.200231.-3750103.2.petit_chou@juno.com>, petit_chou@juno.com says... > Anything this guy [Nick Bantock] does is jaw-to-the-floor-awesome. > Gotta get a word out > there about The Venetian's Wife. Wicked story, lavish illustrations, > riddled with cool stories about Shiva and Ganesha and all the rest. Ooh, ooh, I hadn't heard of that one! Off to the bookstore I go! k@ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 10:25:52 -0700 From: katrin@dimensional.com (Katrin Luessenheide Salyers) Subject: Re: *gasp* *sigh* *whimper* In article <19990124.224530.-3956459.2.SHAZALINREA@juno.com>, shazalinrea@juno.com says... > WAAAAAAA!!!! I don't know wether to be happy or sad! So much is going > down in VA. [much stuff snipped] > Fruchild, in need of a hug.... hey I've never had a hug from the lads.... *Hugs* from me! And with any luck you'll get a few from the lads soon too, if you're going to see them in DC. That "world's best hugs" rumor is true, and you can find out for yourself which one of 'em it's true about. I had some odd news yesterday too. I'd e-mailed a friend of my sister to discuss a birthday surprise (her birthday is tomorrow), and the friend e- mailed me back saying that I'd better give my sister a call. Her message was very cryptic. So I immediately log off (that right there tells you how serious this seemed!) and call my sister in Minneapolis. Well, it turns out that she was recently fired from her job, "for cause" according to the boss, but no one will tell her the reason for her dismissal. She was the office manager for a law firm (yeah, these are lawyers doing this to her, and it seems to have slipped their minds that it's illegal), and was being trained to be the administrator for the office's new computer network. She's not real technically minded at all, but she was the most computer-savvy person in that office. During her training, she happened to discover someone else's cookie file, containing URLs from a couple of porn web sites. No big deal; she didn't care - but she made a point of mentioning at the next staff meeting "Hey, be sure to use our new web access for work purposes only, because *if* someone wanted to, there are ways to see what you've been looking at." Apparently some people thought this was out of line for her to say. Later, a coworker discovered the boss's little toady trying to log onto AOL (their old method) from the boss's machine, which he shouldn't have had to do at all since he now had his own web access. Toady then emerged from the boss's office announcing that the computer wasn't working. The consultant (who'd installed the system and was training my sister) had to spend a couple of extra days just fixing that one machine. The toady (and yes, btw, it was *his* cookies my sister stumbled upon) never fessed up to having been in there. So a day or so later, while my sister's training was going well and she was just about to go on her lunch break, the boss took her aside and told her to collect her belongings immediately and leave - she was being fired for cause, and the cause was just too serious for her (the boss) to discuss. She said she'd explain it all in a letter, which my sister has yet to receive, and it's been over a week. The good news is that she's already been pretty much offered a new job with the computer consultant's company. The bad news is that she's going to have to hire a very expensive lawyer (one of the few she could find who's not a colleague of her former employers) to try to get some justice out of this. We agreed, weird false accusations are usually the kind of stuff that happens to *me*, not to *her*. Oh well, happy birthday. k@ "Mr. K?" "Please, call me F." ------------------------------ Date: 25 Jan 1999 17:42:38 GMT From: aleigh992@aol.comBROCCOLI (ALeigh992) Subject: Re: Shakespeare >speaking of incredibly unwieldy books--am i the only english major/lit-nut >alive who can't make it through "a tale of two cities"? i've read most of >william faulkner's stuff and a few james joyce works, and i _can't_ get >through this one. yuck. I've made it through "A Tale of Two Cities"...barely. We had to read "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" last summer for my english class. That was not any fun...did anyone catch that list of 100 top books by all the experts? Two James Joyce books are in the top three. Now, I just don't understand that at all! augh! I just don't like the way he writes at all. Aleigh Check it out! Check it totally out!! --> http://i.am/not_your_broom "She's got a thimble, full of all I know..." ~ Mono Puff ------------------------------ Date: 25 Jan 1999 18:01:32 GMT From: elrond@fellspt.charm.net (Matt James) Subject: Re: please wish me luck BBWMinors (bbwminors@aol.com) wrote: : Katie-wow wrote: : <> : I have to ask this -- if you get an automatic : 200 for putting your name on it, : do they automatically take 200 OFF if you don't? I don't think they'd know who to give the score to so my guess is they won't give you any points AT ALL. How evil! - -Matt - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Matt James Voice: (301) 231-9898 x. 121 TYC Associates email: mjames@tyc.com Rockville, MD alternate: mattj@charm.net http://www.tyc.com - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: 25 Jan 1999 17:57:46 GMT From: aleigh992@aol.comBROCCOLI (ALeigh992) Subject: Re: top five books Okay, what the hell... in no particular order Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman...I just found this at the bookstore a little while ago, the cover intrigued me, and I adored it! It's this fantasy type story about a man who falls into the bowels of London where there is an entire culture of people who fell between the cracks...reads very fast and I enjoyed it very much! This was his first novel, I think, but there's going to be others coming out soon. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess...I had a college interview with Northwestern a couple of weeks ago, and one of the questions I got asked was what book has influenced my way of thinking...this was the only one that I can think of that really made me think about the topic a whole lot. It's hard to get into in the first couple of pages because so much futuristic (or russianistic) slang is used and you have to decipher what means what, but you get the hang of it... it's worth it. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving...kinda surprised this one hasn't been mentioned already. Just lovely. I just finished it recently, and while I was walking around reading it, so many people commented to me how much they loved that book! The Neverending Story by Michael Ende...I read the full-fledged german version, but I would imagine the english translation is just as good...I love the movie, but the book is so much better! Contact by Carl Sagan...his only novel, but it's such a good book! okay, that was five :-) I could go on, though! Aleigh Check it out! Check it totally out!! --> http://i.am/not_your_broom "She's got a thimble, full of all I know..." ~ Mono Puff ------------------------------ Date: 25 Jan 1999 18:02:06 GMT From: Gruneberg Veronica J <6vjg@qlink.queensu.ca> Subject: Re: @#!$!* weather (completely OT) Apparently DC has kept the warm weather to it's self. :P Oh well, at least it's only slightly below freezing today. :) Veronica - -- *************************************************************************** "Never look at the trombones, | Veronica Gruneberg it only encourages them." | Dept. of Biology - Richard Strauss | Queen's University | Kingston, Ontario ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 18:18:07 GMT From: nicole.twn.is@ana.ng.at.tmbg.org (Nicole the Wonder Nerd) Subject: Re: please wish me luck On 25 Jan 1999 12:50:23 GMT, bbwminors@aol.com (BBWMinors) wrote: >I have to ask this -- if you get an automatic 200 for putting your name on it, >do they automatically take 200 OFF if you don't? Yes. Somewhere in the annals of the SAT Corporation is a listing for poor Anonymous, who currently has a -2000. :) - --nicole twn wishes good luck to everyone taking the SAT, and realizes with a groan that she should probably start thinking about the GRE, ick ick ick. *** "I misplaced what made me real."--Moxy Fruvous Visit Nicolopolis! http://wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/~carlsonn Reply-to address is INCORRECT! Think of it as an intelligence test. ------------------------------ Date: 25 Jan 1999 18:16:57 GMT From: elrond@fellspt.charm.net (Matt James) Subject: Re: favorite books (was a lot of stuff) : Dan Simmons -- Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion. Sci/fi. The first : one patterned on the Canterbury Tales, and both filled with tons of : Keatsisms, which is a good thing if, like me, you love Romantic : poetry. If you liked the first 2 you should check out Endymion and The Rise of Endymion. They're stories of Raul Endymion and the Pax and the rise of the futuristic Christianity. I'm about 1/4 of the way through Ride of Endymion and it's very cool! - -Matt - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Matt James Voice: (301) 231-9898 x. 121 TYC Associates email: mjames@tyc.com Rockville, MD alternate: mattj@charm.net http://www.tyc.com - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 17:55:50 GMT From: schr9271@fredonia.edu Subject: Re: Favorite books (was a lot of stuff) In article <78i11d$j3k$1@winter.news.rcn.net>, "KatieWow" wrote: > only one b in gibran--but you came really close! i'm assuming you've read > "the prophet"--one of those life-changers for me :). > ~~kate > Yeah, I checked it as soon as i got ack to my room. Kahlil Gibran - wonderful writer!! However, I have yet to read "The Prophet" all the way through. It's not that I don't like it, it just that everytime I start it, I have 100 other things in need of getting done and that is one of those book that I would really like to read with a clear mind. I do liek what I've read so far...the first 10 pages or so. One of these days..... Amy - -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own ------------------------------ Date: 25 Jan 1999 18:05:29 GMT From: elrond@fellspt.charm.net (Matt James) Subject: Re: Favorite books (was a lot of stuff) nafio@my-dejanews.com wrote: : Amy wrote: : > ~"Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn" tril by Tad Williams. This includes "Dragonbone : > Chair" "Stone of Farewell" and "To Green Angel Tower". I have never been so : > enthralled in a book before! The books just take you in for a long and wild : > adventure. I pesonally thought it was better than Robert Jordan's series...and : > there are onle 3/4 books in this one!!! : This is good and I recommend it to fantasy readers but it's awfully close to : the Lord of the Rings. I kept thinking "Why do fantasy writers worship that : series so much.. it wasn't _that_ good". Oh yes it is. It's the best fantasy series of all time! Really, it is, it's been documented! Anyway, as far as Authurian legend goes, where exactly was Authur buried? Anyone who can tell me that gets a gold star. 8-) - -Matt - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Matt James Voice: (301) 231-9898 x. 121 TYC Associates email: mjames@tyc.com Rockville, MD alternate: mattj@charm.net http://www.tyc.com - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 18:12:11 GMT From: schr9271@fredonia.edu Subject: Re: Favorite books (was a lot of stuff) > > This is good and I recommend it to fantasy readers but it's awfully close to > the Lord of the Rings. I kept thinking "Why do fantasy writers worship that > series so much.. it wasn't _that_ good". > I've often wondered that myself. It seemed that if one is to write anysort of significant fantasy novel, it must be compared to Tolkein. I'm almost glad I've never read him yet *ducks*. I tried to read the Hobbit last summer and just could not get into it....perhaps on a later date I'll try again. AS for children's books (great idea Lori!)... ~"The Giving Tree" and other poetry books by Shel Silverstein ~"Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" i don't know the author but I remember reading this to my lil brother at least 120 times when we were young. ~"One fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish" Dr. Seuss...gotta love the good Dr.! ~"Bunnicula" series ~"Happiness is a Warm Puppy" by Charles Schulz ~"Kavik, the Wolf Dog" by? Along the lines of Call of the Wild or White Fang. My fav book in grammar school. ~"No Promises in the Wind" Irene Hunt Amy - yes, I'll stop with the books now, I promise! - -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 13:03:23 -0500 From: "KatieWow" Subject: Re: Favorite books (was a lot of stuff) we're reading the "lord of the rings" trilogy in my major british authors class this semester, which my professor has turned into major british epics. we just finished "beowulf" and are starting "paradise lost," which will be followed by the "rape of the lock" and tolkein's trilogy. apparently my professor considers it a modern english epic. hmm. ~~kate - -- **************************************************************************** Kate Leahy kleahy@loyola.edu **************************************************************************** nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight gotta kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight - --bruce cockburn, "lovers in a dangerous time" and so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches. - --douglas adams, "hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy" we're splitting into two camps--mike, i'm with you. - --jian ghomeshi, bottom line, 1/1 *************************************************************************** nafio@my-dejanews.com wrote in message <78i50h$p44$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>... >Amy wrote: > >> ~"Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn" tril by Tad Williams. This includes "Dragonbone >> Chair" "Stone of Farewell" and "To Green Angel Tower". I have never been so >> enthralled in a book before! The books just take you in for a long and wild >> adventure. I pesonally thought it was better than Robert Jordan's series...and >> there are onle 3/4 books in this one!!! > >This is good and I recommend it to fantasy readers but it's awfully close to >the Lord of the Rings. I kept thinking "Why do fantasy writers worship that >series so much.. it wasn't _that_ good". > >Fiona > >"I'm SO a Dave's people if it weren't for Mike..." >-Marie-Claude Nov 16/98 > >-----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- >http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 18:25:03 GMT From: nicole.twn.is@ana.ng.at.tmbg.org (Nicole the Wonder Nerd) Subject: Re: Favorite books (was a lot of stuff) On Mon, 25 Jan 1999 04:13:47 GMT, petit_chou@juno.com wrote: > >Adam wrote: >>...anything and everything by Cecil Adams... > >YAY! Somebody who reads Uncle Cecil! The Straight Dope books are oft >read in this house (not knowing knowledge never ennobles, and we are a >tangle of questions). Hurray! Another Straight Dope fan over here... I've got all the books. Heartily recommended! Amazon.com has them all if you can't find them at the bookstore (I usually can't.) - --nicole twn *** "I misplaced what made me real."--Moxy Fruvous Visit Nicolopolis! http://wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/~carlsonn Reply-to address is INCORRECT! Think of it as an intelligence test. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 14:14:22 -0500 From: Rachael Rosenthal Subject: Re: An Exercise in Fruvilty so since we are going on in this vein does that mean that Cal is Marvin and Tobey the ship? hmmm I think the name was "the heart of the universe" or maybe the nifty italian bistro ship....and out of curiosity wouldn't that make Dave..... Ford Prefect....... Rachael. Cameron Ross wrote: > Vogons - the Militia > Vogon leader with poetry... - Jewel! > Vogon secerety gaurd.... um... Rush? (gotta have him in somehow) > > - Life101 - > "Jesus was a Jesus Freak" > -Dan Bern ------------------------------ Date: 25 Jan 1999 19:07:52 GMT From: jianbabe@aol.com (JianBabe) Subject: Re: top five books - -Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (Haven't been able to enjoy any of the movies, especially the classic, because they were so differnent.) - -A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith - -Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood - -Legends, Lies and Cherished Myths of World History by Richard Shenkman (one of THE funniest non-fiction books I have ever come across.) - - The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley (I am kind of an Arthur enthusiast too, but I read this book first, so now, the more traditional interpretations bother me.) ~Joni "Go out and tell our story, let it echo far and wide, make them hear you...my path may lead to heaven or hell and God will say what's best, but one thing he will never say is that I went quietly to my rest." Coalhouse Walker Jr. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 10:09:40 -0500 From: Rachael Rosenthal Subject: Re: Fruvous in Pittsburgh No out of towners, but I just found out that my best friend's mother is taking not only her parents but her brother AND his family.....just because my friend accedentally left live noise in the car tape player one day and it was the only tape her parents had to listen to on a trip to Erie.......assimilation is necessary... sigh....if only we were unscrupulous enough to skip Friday classes and go... I love Graffiti as a club venue...... well Dayton here we come.... :-) Rachael Brent and Marianne Miller wrote: > Hi all, > > Are any out-of-towners coming to see Fruvous at Graffiti? > So far we've picked up 15 tickets for ourselves and friends. > We just added two more friends on Friday, bringing the total to 17! > But our goal is 20 or more. > > See you at Graffiti or in Toronto, > Brent and Mar ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 18:03:16 -0500 From: Rachael Rosenthal Subject: Re: pets I show rabbits (like showing dogs only.... different) and last year at a show in Buffalo I bought two rabbits off of a breeder from Toronto (anyone confused yet) only to get them home and read on their registration papers that their names were Dave and Jian. After the initial amusement wore off I realized that they are both does....and pregnant, so any ideas on names for the babies guys...... Oh by the way one more show and Jian should have her Grand Champion certificate (yay) Rachael, who also got a buck named Murphy off of the same breeder but doesn't think that is a related incedent.... ellen p. buckley wrote: > > On a side note, my kitten is named Laika - does anyone else have > > >Frupets? > > my cat's name is spud. they mention vichysoisse in Johnny Saucep'n. > > peace, > ellen (groovy spice, purveyor of the silly and pointless) > ************************************************************ > "sometimes the songs that we hear > are just songs of our own..." > ************************************************************ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 19:29:29 GMT From: gemini@p3.net (Trace) Subject: Re: Shakespeare On 25 Jan 1999 17:42:38 GMT, aleigh992@aol.comBROCCOLI (ALeigh992) wrote: >I've made it through "A Tale of Two Cities"...barely. We had to read "A >Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" last summer for my english class. That >was not any fun...did anyone catch that list of 100 top books by all the >experts? Two James Joyce books are in the top three. Now, I just don't >understand that at all! augh! I just don't like the way he writes at all. >Aleigh *giggle* I couldn't get through Portrait either...I had to wing it on the final :) - -- Trace gemini@p3.net *sniff* Target is within sniffing range. Hailing on all frequencies. *woop woop* Visual acquired. Our bogie is at 9:00. Fire when ready. - 1/1 BL dum tek ca tek tek ca tek tek *snort* ARGH *glare* Follow THAT one lads.... - 1/2 BL ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 19:35:03 GMT From: gemini@p3.net (Trace) Subject: Re: favorite books (was a lot of stuff) On 25 Jan 1999 18:16:57 GMT, elrond@fellspt.charm.net (Matt James) wrote: >: Dan Simmons -- Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion. Sci/fi. The first >: one patterned on the Canterbury Tales, and both filled with tons of >: Keatsisms, which is a good thing if, like me, you love Romantic >: poetry. >If you liked the first 2 you should check out Endymion and >The Rise of Endymion. They're stories of Raul Endymion and >the Pax and the rise of the futuristic Christianity. I'm >about 1/4 of the way through Ride of Endymion and it's very cool! More to add to my reading list! I'll check them out! Thanks Matt! - -- Trace gemini@p3.net *sniff* Target is within sniffing range. Hailing on all frequencies. *woop woop* Visual acquired. Our bogie is at 9:00. Fire when ready. - 1/1 BL dum tek ca tek tek ca tek tek *snort* ARGH *glare* Follow THAT one lads.... - 1/2 BL ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 14:52:25 -0500 From: "KatieWow" Subject: Re: please wish me luck GRE?--let's talk about the LSAT, the only standardized test you actually have to study for! ~~kate - -- **************************************************************************** Kate Leahy kleahy@loyola.edu **************************************************************************** nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight gotta kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight - --bruce cockburn, "lovers in a dangerous time" and so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches. - --douglas adams, "hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy" we're splitting into two camps--mike, i'm with you. - --jian ghomeshi, bottom line, 1/1 *************************************************************************** Nicole the Wonder Nerd wrote in message <36acb4e0.1461105@news.ucdavis.edu>... >On 25 Jan 1999 12:50:23 GMT, bbwminors@aol.com (BBWMinors) wrote: >>I have to ask this -- if you get an automatic 200 for putting your name on it, >>do they automatically take 200 OFF if you don't? > >Yes. Somewhere in the annals of the SAT Corporation is a listing for >poor Anonymous, who currently has a -2000. :) > >--nicole twn >wishes good luck to everyone taking the SAT, and realizes with a groan >that she should probably start thinking about the GRE, ick ick ick. > >*** >"I misplaced what made me real."--Moxy Fruvous >Visit Nicolopolis! http://wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/~carlsonn >Reply-to address is INCORRECT! Think of it as an intelligence test. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:37:02 GMT From: Mindy J Munson Subject: Re: *gasp* *sigh* *whimper* Thak you everyone for the hugs. My dad was making the situations worse by commenting on Matt's beating. He said some pretty horrible racist things. Im too embarassed to even type them. They are checking gma out for a heart attack, we are trying to think of what we can do for my coz, Sue (mom is being a.... well shes being mean and saying that she cant stay with us even though I offered my bed), I'm having coffee with Darcy today to discuss DC!!! And my friend Sam is letting me steal his shirt for the show (it is blue with white circular medallions but *sigh* it is not polyester. I think Ill where my blue plaid pants with it but that is subject to change). >*Hugs* from me! And with any luck you'll get a few from the lads soon >too, if you're going to see them in DC. That "world's best hugs" rumor >is true, and you can find out for yourself which one of 'em it's true >about. I dont even know how to go about getting one. Ive seen em twice and talked with em and gotten the shoulder squeeze for pix. What do I do? Go up and say "can I have a hug?" >I had some odd news yesterday too. >>snip snip<< Im so sorry to hear that!!! /me hugs you rite back! I hope your sis enjoys that other job 'cause personally that other one was a lil too seedy for my taste. Fruchild, hoping she finds justice ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:50:11 GMT From: vika@ibm.net (Vika Zafrin) Subject: Re: Favorite books (was a lot of stuff) schr9271@fredonia.edu delighted us with: >I've often wondered that myself. It seemed that if one is to write anysort of >significant fantasy novel, it must be compared to Tolkein. I'm almost glad /me gets anal John Ronald Reuel _Tolkien_. Why is his name misspelled *so* much? I'm more intrigued than irritated: is it something about the 'ie' vs. 'ei' combination in names? >I've never read him yet *ducks*. I tried to read the Hobbit last summer and >just could not get into it....perhaps on a later date I'll try again. The Hobbit is one of the harder ones to read. Perhaps you'd like Fellowship of the Ring more. Vika Zafrin vika@ibm.net "I feel like I just gave birth. To a DAT tape." -COM ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V3 #79 *******************************************