SIS Archives -- October 2000

Name: cara mia
subliminable@West of DollyWood

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 21:51:30
Comments:

The Nor'Easter gathering sounds so wonderful. I am waffling.

Ole and Aja: Would really love to make the Jon Herington CD party and see you, YGK, Pete Fogel and others. I told Aja today my chances of making it up are bleak (saving for my week in Paris for New Year's), but I could surely could use a Big Apple break and will try for some air and hotel bargains.
Would love to meet you other prolific posters from up that way.

Where is Stevie Dan?

JW Malibu: You are welcome and most deserving of kudos for your art efforts. Good luck with the GB music compilation for our listening enjoyment! Let us know how it progresses.

Will gather with other minority Democrats here in Knoxville when Al Gore flies in with Tipper on Friday. This part of our state is a bastion of conservatism. It is so strange to be in the midst of a major university that embraces diversity and that concentration of a scientific community at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory just up the road, yet Appalachian ways hold fast.

L-U-V,
cara mia

Name: DLeeStan
withagun.com
Location: In the bushes,
Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 20:50:11
Comments:

Name Steely Dan

Name: oleander
oleander1@earthlink.net

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 20:19:29
Comments:

In spite of myself I'm enjoying the answers to these somewhat bent surveys. I can think of a lot of job interviews I might've stayed awake through if I'd been asked these questions. And more than a few squeezes du jour I should have screened with them. NMN and Soc, I am even more convinced of your coolth. bwbw, I don't believe a single damn word of it, except the part about the Kinkster!

moray--hey man! glad to read you. So what happened to the timeshare already?

tones--I've seen some very good shows at the GAMH--warm memories.

Re: Nor'easter DanFest--there are no "plans" per se, really; I'll be in Boston 11/11-16 and just wondered if anybody'd like to hook up. Right now we've got Sat. nite, 11/11, and are wide open for suggestions as to venue. The Steely Dames, such as we are, are planning a bit of a pre-party. E me quick if you're interested &/ or have a great idea where to hang! Also, there's Jon Herington's cd release party at Le Bar Bat in NYC on 11/16, 7:30-8:30--just show up! Afterwards-->much party potential, with guidance by YGK. Aus, you in? Or got ideas for afterwards?

Listening to AIA--just love the drums on "Reelin'."

Name: ruby baby
See you later, Steve Allen

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 19:55:37
Comments:

Gina: I could feel the love as you described your afternoon, when you found it in the smile and knowing eyes of a stranger you knew. Sometimes that is the best love.

Altamira: Your honest thoughts on love are very touching. I wonder if anyone can really define *love.* It seems to have so many dimensions. Anyway, I saw this poem about a month ago. It put anther piece of the puzzle in place for me. I'll share it with you. It's not long.

Those Winter Sundays
by Robert Hayden

Sundays too my father got up early
and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,
then with cracked hands that ached
from labor in the weekday weather made
banked fires blaze. Noe one ever thanked him.

I'd wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.
When the rooms were warm, he'd call,
and slowly I would rise and dress,
fearing the chronic angers of that house,

Speaking indifferently to him,
who had driven out the cold
and polished my good shoes as well.
What did I know, what did I know
of love's austere and lonely offices?

Name: geppettoblue
bowerybuddha@yahoo.com

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 19:27:20
Comments:

Thank you lp for your appreciation of the cd.

Name: wormbrain
diversion before 1/4 running

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 19:10:50
Comments:

1. favorite poet: e.e.cummings
3. what's on your mouse pad: a mouse, sometimes my wrist
4. favorite movie soundtrack: the 90 minute version of Inna Godda Da Vida
5. do you get motion sickness: mow shun sic ness, no
6. how many rings before you answer the phone: never home
7. pen or pencil: crayon
8. been convicted of a crime: posting here too often
9. get along with your parents: of course
10. chocolate or vanilla: tapioca
11. croutons or bacon bits: cus cus
12. thunderstorms, cool or scary: cool
13. first car: used 74 nova
14. if you could meet one person - dead or alive, who would it be: brian eno
15. what's under your bed: don't know, haven't looked in a long time
16. favorite number: whatever one she's dancing to
17. if you were a gardening tool, which one would you be: pruning sheers
18. what's on the walls in your room: Renoir, 7 guitars
20. if you could have any job you wanted, what would it be:
emperor of the highway - todd beat me to it

Name: DrMu
decloaking

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 18:40:40
Comments:

R.I.P. Steve Allen. The man who in 1953 first showed us the artistic potential of the television medium. Programs from MASH to Hill Street Blues to David Letterman owe this man who also penned 4000 songs.

Altamira: No doubt that Michael Franks is capable of some pretty cheesy, idealistic, escapist lyrics. Vincent's Ear, Crayon Sun are much more poignant (glad you like them). However, even when Franks ventures into well-worn territory, he still has 2 things going for him. Left Coast quirkiness and the ability to create a flow and rhythm to his verse and chrous which meld with the cadence of the song and rhythm of his phrasing. NIce use of alliteration and vowels. Perhaps because I pay a little less focus to the lyrical content than say an editor such as yourself - it's how it sounds that hooks me. Only when the level of banality or clunky prose such as Sir Paul scratches on the chalkboard do I take notice and cringe. Having said that, since All I Need is the weakest of the songs lyric-wise, does not that mean that this may be Walter's BEST effort as a producer. He can't rewrite the song. Like a great coach he takes what he is given and brings it to the fullest potential. That's what separates much (but not all) of this album from many of Franks' album. It goes beyond a guilty pleasure sonically - a salacious symbiosis. Franks can be like good Carribean food: sweet ear candy but not sickening with a diversity of flavor and aroma. You might try listening (if possible) to the song as if it were in a foreign language listening to how the lyrics sound rather than what the say on the surface...

...engage...

Name: *sigh*
baby, it's been too long

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 17:03:55
Comments:

tones, sweetheart, don't stay away for so long. Driving through the flats of New Mexico? How I wish I'd been there! How about cruising up the Owens Valley in a convertible, on our way to a secluded cabin at 10,000 feet?

(your fantasizing secret admirer)

Name: Oh wow, it's
tones again...

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 16:53:16
Comments:

Aussie, Dano - Saw the Crim a week+ ago here on the left coast. Great show, though I've seen better overall Crim shows... One of the peaks: "Heroes" (!) encore. I don't want to color your experience either way so let's talk after you see 'em...

More snappy answers to GB ?'s:

1. favorite poet: (tie) Dr. Seuss and Dylan, together or separate
2. how you feel about ouija boards: 8 ball sez, "Ask again later"
3. what's on your mouse pad: dust
4. favorite movie soundtrack: Hair - yes, the movie version
5. do you get motion sickness: Not if they let me fly the plane
6. how many rings before you answer the phone: ...I may not answer
7. pen or pencil: either
8. been convicted of a crime: no
9. get along with your parents: first 3 hours, no problem...
10. chocolate or vanilla: vanilla
11. croutons or bacon bits: croutons
12. thunderstorms, cool or scary: *very* cool; miss them a lot
13. first car: '70 Buick Skylark - $100; cool car stereo - $300; cranking Santana 3 while driving through the mesas of New Mexico - priceless
14. if you could meet one person - dead or alive, who would it be: "significant other" if she exists
15. what's under your bed: the floor
16. favorite number: 7
17. if you were a gardening tool, which one would you be: the sun
18. what's on the walls in your room: Flats of the young green bamboo on the cover of the Asian Travels compilation; King Crimson poster from the Fillmore (see above)
19. what and where is your tattoo (or potential, if you do not have one): none, no plans so far
20. if you could have any job you wanted, what would it be: Deciding how to spend my enormous wealth for the benefit of everyone *and* have fun...

and while I'm at it...

Milton-Bradley or Parker Bros: Parker Bros.
Friday or Saturday: Saturday
trick or treat: treat
evolution or oblivion: evolution
Xena or Gabrielle: ummm...
Don or Walt: Steely Dan

Name: rumblestrip
questionnaire answers

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 15:17:01
Comments:

After this you will know more about me than you really wanted to know.

Round 1

1. Name: rumblestrip
2. Aliases/Nicknames/Titles: ||||||||||||, Panther
3. Favorite Breakfast Cereal: crunchy granola or bran flakes.
4. Prospects: silver and gold, silver and gold..... nuthin!
5. Education: B.S. Psychology - Bates College, M.S. Neuroscience - University of British Columbia, continuing ed. courses in art.
6. Were you lucky to get the job at this gas station? I thought it was my girlish charm and good looks...
7. Worst Soda Ever Tasted. Why? Bud Light.
8. Children/ Pets/ Pride and Joy: 0 kids, 4 cats/pride & joy: Calvin & Hobbes, Ezri & Tuvok.
9. One Steely Dan song you could live w/out: Change of the Guard.
10. Most Creative Thing You've Ever Done with a Free 600 hour, Monthlong AOL Subscription CD: used it to apply paint to paper.
11. How many hours are actually in a month (first guess off top of head)? -13
12. Favorite Visual Artists: Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Clyfford Still, Kandinsky, Picasso, Rembrandt
13. About how long would you wait for Godot? I'm still waiting
14. Howsa about a good quote on any subject? 'John, I'm only dancing.' 'Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.' 'Your federal taxable wages this period are...'
15. Favorite color Pubic Hair: what's more important is who it's attached to
16. Where do you live? Vermont. Where do you want to live? Vermont.
17. What's your sign? Saggitarius with moon in Leo and Gemini rising.
18. Are you available? In what sense? Happily married, but available for filling out lists and taking quizzes.
19. Describe yourself at length, using three words: Youthful Fun-loving Optimist. Apt To Laughter. I Am Woman.
20. What favorite object/objet d'art/creature comfort would you give up to meet Don and/or Walt? Which setting would you choose: wine bar/microbrewery, Ritz-Carlton Suite, or sleazy motel? My Art Deco lamp... microbrewery. Would prefer to meet Walt as Don doesn't seem to be a sociable type.
21. BONUS QUESTION. When the Dandom Slut wins the lottery, as she's been planning, and hires out an entire smaller, 20's style cruise ship for a world tour, in which Steely Dan 2000 will be the house band, what will you do to curry her favor as she makes out the passenger list? I make a great Indian Dahl with cumin... excellent on brown rice with a bit of wild rice thrown in...

Round 2
1. favorite poet: Right now, Michael McClure and Allen Gisberg.
2. how you feel about ouija boards: are you pushing it? no i'm not!! come on, you're pushing it!! i swear i'm not pushing it! omigod it's spelling something...S-T-E-E-L-Y-D-A-N... what does that mean??
3. what's on your mouse pad: my mouse
4. favorite movie soundtrack: I was going to answer Crimson Tide, but I bought the soundtrack and it was disappointing... I guess the Wizard of Oz
5. do you get motion sickness: nope
6. how many rings before you answer the phone: 2
7. pen or pencil: pencil (for drawing)
8. been convicted of a crime: nope
9. get along with your parents: yup
10. chocolate or vanilla: vanilla for ice cream, chocolate for just about everything else
11. croutons or bacon bits: croutons definitely
12. thunderstorms, cool or s cary: way cool
13. first car: a dark green Chevy Chevette!
14. if you could meet one person - dead or alive, who would it be: too many to choose from
15. what's under your bed: shoes, my suitcase, lots of cat hair
16. favorite number: 2
17. if you were a gardening tool, which one would you be: trowel
18. what's on the walls in your room: lilac paint
19. what and where is your tattoo (or potential, if you do not have one): you know that commercial where the guy's getting a tattoo and he runs out of money... ;)
20. if you could have any job you wanted, what would it be: jazz musician

"dano" round

stranded on desert island...

1 one album/cd/or tape & why - The Royal Scam (largely due to Green Earrings)
2 one movie and why - Shawshank Redemption (escape theme would probably be inspiring on desert island, plus I never get tired of it)
3 one relation and why - my husband (who else?)
4 one good friend and why � my computer (so I could keep in touch with the GB)
5 one of your old teachers � my Jr. High school music teacher Mr. Barr (because he taught me the 12-bar blues!)
6 one advert off the telly � I'll get back to you on this.
7 one photo of your sexiest male/female � I can never decide on just one
8 one piece of clothing - black short knit dress (only limited to one, can't do T shirt and shorts)
9 one person you wouldnt take & why - I could get in trouble if I answered this
10 one album you wouldnt take & why - Two Against Nature, because if I could only take one, it would have to be RS

Name: ~
~

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 13:53:34
Comments:

top ten things Don and Walt groove to at Halloween

13) those gaucho tapes played backwards contain occultic references
12) it's not Almost Gothic it's purely Goth Ick
11) beware, reptile brains locked down and ready for combat mode
10) away with that garlic Miss Ducklet - these incisors are real
9) and you thought we were only immortal from our songwriting skills
8) Cornelius, is that a costume or are you happy to see me?
7) Madame Erzulie's Love Potion #9 is keeping the party hap nin
6) just how nice 36 scares go with 35 sweet goodbuys
5) forget Hey 19, these youngsters will settle for mere candy corn
4) on the blackened wall they do it all and then some
3) Countermoons for all
2) it's starting to rise outta the backyard there Walt
1) sorry Don, I lost Elvira's phone number back in the 70's

Name:

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 13:53:07
Comments:

You say goodbye and I say hello... Hello, hello...

Name:

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 13:49:02
Comments:

good-bye

Name:

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 13:45:56
Comments:

Bullcrap.

Name:

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 13:35:40
Comments:

oh one of limited vocabulary - get back to your job's post, i.e. the espresso maker at Starbuck's

Name:

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 13:33:10
Comments:

Bullshit.

Name:

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 13:14:47
Comments:

thanks go out to JW Malibu for changing the subject

Name: JWMalibu
JWMalibu@msn.com

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 13:09:53
Comments:

I got some e-mails regarding details on the GB compilation. Here's the url:

www.thekatbox.com/casellastudio/TM2000.htm

Round 2

1. favorite poet: Allen Ginsberg

2. how you feel about ouija boards: ambivalent

3. what's on your mouse pad: my mouse

4. favorite movie soundtrack: Alexander Nevsky/Prokofieff

5. do you get motion sickness: no

6. how many rings before you answer the phone: immediately...or not

7. pen or pencil: Uniball micros/black

8. been convicted of a crime: pot bust/'72

9. get along with your parents: yes

10. chocolate or vanilla: chocolate

11. croutons or bacon bits: croutons

12. thunderstorms, cool or scary: cool

13. first car: 1967 Midnight Blue (Earl Schieb) Volkswagen bus with Indian bedspread interior/curtains, a bed that extended from the front seat to the tail, and an 8-track player & surf racks

14. if you could meet one person - dead or alive, who would it be: Frank Zappa

15. what's under your bed: Ella...the cleaning ladies spooked her about a month ago, and she goes under there every time someone enters the house now

16. favorite number: 13

17. if you were a gardening tool, which one would you be: a lawnmower, becuase I love the smell of freshly-mown grass

18. what's on the walls in your room: framed Rick Griffin posters

19. what and where is your tattoo (or potential, if you do not have one): no tatts/no interest

20. if you could have any job you wanted, what would it be: film composer

Name:

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 13:09:21
Comments:

x, is that you, you vulgar thing, messing up this page?

Name:

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 13:07:41
Comments:

Bullshit.

Name: Love and peace
listen to the music

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 12:59:44
Comments:

Donald Fagen: "Aja" was written about the peaceful tranquility that comes from a quiet relationship with a beautiful woman.

Name: Here's why poor blaise can't leave it alone

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 12:39:51
Comments:

Because, Gina, you're supposed to be an especially pretty girl. You may otherwise be dopey, but got to hand to you on the "love" point. yer on the right track there you rot refugee. But never kid yourself: love has nothing of "peace" about it. Grow up for a while and you'll figure that out.

Name: lp
but it beats the monster mash, maybe

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 12:33:53
Comments:

speaking of good ole vince - how many times can you hear "thriller" before your brain blows up?

Name: Gina
Out of manic and close to midnight

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 12:33:21
Comments:

Hello again, woke up this morning and found myself depressed. What goes up must come down. This basic rule is now being used in a commercial for cheese. Cheese & gravity. Make the connection? I couldn't. Maybe that's their angle to keep the cheese on your mind and get you to buy it. Anyway.

Blaise, if you're trying to read between the lines I wrote, don't bother, there isn't anything "hidden" or cryptinized. Why waste your time on trivia like that? Or me, for that matter!!
Look around you, there's lots of other stuff going on Under the Banyan Trees. Don't look where there's nothing to be found.
This I say with all of my heart. Just like the "good father" posting, btw. Nothing malicious or negative, really.

The only comical thing I can see is the male/female issue. Female says no and the male just can't let it go.
That's not comical, but saddening, really.
Being depressed already it kind of balances the scale.
There's Icarus. And the wings. I could feel like those wings now.
But I don't.

Altamira, love's a weird thing, often has got nothing to do with relationships. I was just wandering in town today, felt a bit lost and not at ease, I was looking for clues and digging in past tense, praying for signs to help me find my way, even as insignificant for this sole day it may seem ... I was looking for someone in particular but all I could see was strange faces and people in a hurry because of the rain and stormy wind.
There suddenly I recognized a face, and next to that one the face of the one I was looking , waiting for. He smiled and winked at me, as in "don't worry". Usually I would be overcome by deepest love and passion and despair. It has been like that years ago. Now I felt this inner peace and I could go home. It's what I needed, I went for and was given. It's a love that cannot be replaced. No matter if it's just those moments instead of a life together. It tells me to have faith, be patient and I can abide by these things.

Perfect time now for George Duke and the Muir Woods.
Hopefully the sadness will be gone tomorrow!
Goodnight, sweet dreams all
Banyan Tree Bow,
Gina

Name: vincent price
email, schmeemail

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 12:32:17
Comments:

hey, i'm the creepy one here, you run along, son

Name:

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 12:26:22
Comments:

Who indeed.

Name: lp
fastest poster in the east

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 12:16:21
Comments:

the beauty of a one-liner is it's quick, then i go back to my writing, meeting, and listening.

tax dollars at alot more work than most i've seen

try to keep up with me

why are we fighting, blaise, i forgot

and who's the angry one cutting into a perfectly good banter?

Name:

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 12:13:20
Comments:

and you're being more productive on your bosse's dime? Quit being sanctimonius and get back to work!

Name: Blaise
I mean your tax dollars

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 12:12:38
Comments:

sorry about that. I forget I'm canadian sometimes.

Name: so you're telling me
lady

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 12:10:56
Comments:

that endless stream of one-liners is yours.
Our tax dollars at work people.
Isn't that special?

Name: Confused

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 12:10:04
Comments:

Wait a minute: is this just lp and blaise?

Name: zzzzz
huh? whatever

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 12:05:25
Comments:

zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Name: lp
infinity@obscurity

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 12:05:16
Comments:

hey, i learned opera on saturday morning tv, didn't you?

besides, i have tired of political and hollyweird celebrities

i liked the choice of words "burlesque scene" though, i must remember that; but i don't think the reference is to here, my friend. you are going off-line with this clan a little too much.

pff, another good one, i could almost hear it, really, not being fecetious (sp?). it's very hard to be visual and auditory in this medium, another reason for choosing obscure people for quotes - gives a picture to the phrase

but seriously, as i say to my kids: brush it off, let's go play at the playground!

Name:

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 12:04:39
Comments:

and dont breath when you can expire

Name:

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 12:04:03
Comments:

and dont wink when you can keep yer mouth shut

Name: #%&%&%)&@*!
sharper than knives

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 11:59:11
Comments:

words of wisdom

don't write what you can say
don't say what you can get by with a wink

Name: hey bud
I don't need to heal

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 11:58:33
Comments:

ok? I know you got the impression that I'm hurt but I'm only trying to learn something out of this burlesque scene. Maybe YOU should take five. You're down to Warner Brothers cartoon characters already. pffff

Name: daffy duck
now hold it right there

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 11:56:26
Comments:

put that eraser down, you zealot

Name:

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 11:55:14
Comments:

Or did i?

Name:

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 11:54:48
Comments:

Gee, and i didn't even instigate it... hmmmmm

Name:

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 11:53:15
Comments:

Yeeeeeeee haaaaaaaw DOG FIGHT!

Name:

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 11:51:26
Comments:

sorry to pull up on the knife when inserting

take time to heal

Name: Blaise

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 11:47:25
Comments:

You know, Leghorn,
sometimes you think you're getting along with someone very well and you spend a whole lot of time exchanging with that person. At one point, you start to tell all about yourself without restraint if you feel comfortable enough. Then, one day, out of the blue, all of this is over and all you get as explanation is something really superficial and meaningless like this. None of what I said mattered to that person other than the public praise I could offer. Nothing stayed with that person but trivial garbage. I never felt so lame or used. Through that person's writing, I come off looking like this... And you want me to believe in anything after this...
Needless to say, I don't wish this on anyone else.
I'm being totally honest here.
Enjoy.

Ciao

Name: lp
she spells it l-u-v

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 11:41:17
Comments:

altimira - you've rendered me speechless, which you know is a rare thing. i know what you mean about not really loving anyone; but for all of its trouble that it is - we all have this basic need to be loved. it transcends into everything we do and takes many basic human forms. for example, people want democracies because it offers a forum for people to be heard and for someone to listen - like love, that has its troubles in the form of absolute chaos that i have on a daily basis (aussie will have fun with me now); but to many it's worth the chaos in order to be heard. the same is true for love.

you haven't likely met anyone worth it to you to work at loving.

like i said, my girls showed me i have the capacity, which i was not sure i had either prior to their arrival

a splash of black magic on this hallowed eve - tomorrow, you may beseech the aid from those that have come before you on All Soul's Day, so enjoy!

Name: foghorn leghorn
listen to me when i'm talkin to ya boy

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 11:22:37
Comments:

now, i say, now i say, just what are you trying to say blaise?

Name: Bullet With Butterfly Wings
38Special

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 11:17:41
Comments:

1. favorite poet:
e.e. cummings, Anne Sexton

2. how you feel about ouija boards:
energy shot out and hit me in the eye

3. what's on your mouse pad:
x-files (actually, David Duchovny)

4. favorite movie soundtrack:
Magnolia

5. do you get motion sickness:
only when riding bareback

6. how many rings before you answer the phone:
check my caller ID to determine if person is worthy

7. pen or pencil:
feather and inkwell

8. been convicted of a crime:
er, uh... Do reefer related busts count?

9. get along with your parents:
only if I need the cash

10. chocolate or vanilla:
vanilla

11. croutons or bacon bits:
neither- can I have a sprinkle of nuts?

12. thunderstorms, cool or scary:
depends if I'm MovinOnMetal or not

13. first car:
baby blue 1976 Firebird w/ white racing stripe

14. if you could meet one person, who would it be:
why, I'd meet Kinky, of course!

15. what's under your bed:
Kinky? Naw, just some of my old paintings and drawings

16. favorite number:
12 or 21

17. if you were a gardening tool, which one would you be:
a ho? I feel like that's the answer I needed to say

18. what's on the walls in your room:
wood, art and candle thingys

19. what and where is your tattoo (or potential, if you do not have one):
banyan tree around left upper arm

20. if you could have any job you wanted, what would it be:
film director

I hope you know me a little better than you did before. And since
you probably didn't know who the hell I was until I answered these questions, I feel we've made progress.

Name: Gee

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 11:13:14
Comments:

that hurt.

Name: pepe la pew
le dot le com

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 11:01:26
Comments:

ah, but of couyurssse

Name: ed beatty
@pe.net
Location: TEMECULA, CA
Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 10:58:27
Comments:

Hi,
here's the latest polling...

1. favorite poet:
2. how you feel about ouija boards:
3. what's on your mouse pad: my mouse and my hand
4. favorite movie soundtrack: Toy Story 1,2 Randy Newman is great
5. do you get motion sickness: no
6. how many rings before you answer the phone: if I answer you mean
7. pen or pencil: Pen
8. been convicted of a crime: only art crimes
9. get along with your parents: are single cell amoebas on the list?
10. chocolate or vanilla: Chocolate
11. croutons or bacon bits: garlic Coutons
12. thunderstorms, cool or scary:cool
13. first car: VW Bug 1966 (in the year 1969)
14. if you could meet one person - dead or alive, who would it be: I've met W.B, Donald is next
15. what's under your bed: dust
16. favorite number: 15
17. if you were a gardening tool, which one would you be: backhoe
18. what's on the walls in your room: art crimes
19. what and where is your tattoo (or potential, if you do not have one) none-nada-nix-nay-nein-:
20. if you could have any job you wanted, what would it be: webdrone for a duo with a cult like following on this board

Name: Of course

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 10:54:03
Comments:

I don't expect you to understand.

Name:

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 10:52:46
Comments:

huh?

Name: Blaise
a good father
Location: and that was all she wrote, really
Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 10:51:11
Comments:

No comment other than this whole rationalization business is becoming quite comical. I know what's happening, don't worry.

I figure I spilled enough about myself lately that Q and A exercises are merely overkill.
But that's all that happened so...

I'll try reading between the lines and find something. That's what I'll do. Batting practice, I'm up.

Name: Aussie Torres
aussie.torres@painewebber.com
Location: New York, NY USA
Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 10:45:53
Comments:

Dano: Fripp is going stronger than ever before. Like a good bordeaux. Check it out when you get the chanse.
No tabs, but will pass some fine, peaty, single malt.

Aus

Name: Altamira
thomasal@erols.com
Location: Washington, DC, USA
Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 10:20:51
Comments:

LP and all those who posted about love last week: I finally went back and read those messages, so I'll throw in my two cents' worth. I love my cats, but I've never loved a member of my own species (I thought I did a couple of times, but I was wrong). I think love is, from what I've observed and experienced, a problematic thing that causes as much trouble as pleasure, and something definitely not necessary for a full and happy life as long as one gets along well with others and does something creative and fulfilling with one's life. And not everyone appreciates sweet and syrupy things; I just hate that shit and so try to avoid it.

One thing I love about the Dan is the absence of traditional love songs in their work. I've bought several CDs lately that I no longer listen to even though I greatly enjoy the music because the lyrics bother me--Michael Franks is the worst; he so overvalues and hypes romantic love. There's a line in "All I Need" that goes "Some poets say that love gives meaning to existence, ours for instance." Well, if love does give meaning to existence, that condemns a lot of folks to lives without meaning, and I'm sure plenty of them wouldn't see their lives as meaningless. Sir Paul McCartney once wrote, in "Silly Love Songs," "Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs/ And what's wrong with that?" A great deal, in my opinion, and I'm tremendously grateful to Walter and Donald for not doing so, even though I'm a little miffed at Walter for producing the Franks song I mentioned above (I like the other two songs he produced on Blue Pacific, however).

I've finished my lunch so I'll go back to work now.

Name: "dano"
aussie is he still doing the rounds?

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 10:05:34
Comments:

AT
Is kc still touring,he left gb years ago I thought he was brown bread. last time i saw the frippmeister i had long hair.now my head looks like my a*se. pass me just half a tab.

Name: "dano"
well spotted roy

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 09:56:52
Comments:

yep that was a great line "i talk to much"
anyway roy has that dysleksic pimp bought that warehouse yet?

Name: Altamira
thomasal@erols.com
Location: Washington, DC, USA
Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 09:49:38
Comments:

It's lunchtime, so I might as well respond to LP's questionnaire.

1. favorite poet: Gerard Manley Hopkins
2. how you feel about ouija boards: I've never really thought about them enough to form an opinion.
3. what's on your mouse pad: Work: 3M Precise Mousing Surface (blue, with the wrist pad), home: the same thing, only purple and without the wrist pad.
4. favorite movie soundtrack: I'm not familiar enough with movie soundtracks to have an opinion.
5. do you get motion sickness: Yes, although I can read on a train if it doesn't stop and start suddenly.
6. how many rings before you answer the phone: One at work, one or two at home; it depends how close I am to the phone when it rings.
7. pen or pencil: Fountain pen, black ink.
8. been convicted of a crime: No.
9. get along with your parents: No, especially my mother, but I found psychotherapy after my parents died quite helpful in sorting everything out.
10. chocolate or vanilla: Vanilla
11. croutons or bacon bits: Croutons usually, but I'll eat bacon bits if they're made of faux meat.
12. thunderstorms, cool or scary: Scary; I get around by bicycle, so I'm at risk of getting hit by lightning if I'm outside in a storm.
13. first car: 1967 MGB (absolute piece of garbage mechanically, but it was fun to drive on the rare occasions when it ran)
14. if you could meet one person - dead or alive, who would it be: Dorothy Sayers
15. what's under your bed: Lots of junk; I'll throw it out when I move, but the cats enjoy playing with it so I'll leave it there until then.
16. favorite number: 4
17. if you were a gardening tool, which one would you be: A shovel; it gets a lot done.
18. what's on the walls in your room: Original paintings and 19th-century prints and photographs.
19. what and where is your tattoo (or potential, if you do not have one): I was once about to have a PCC streetcar tattooed on my arm, but when I got to the tattoo place, I learned that I needed an appointment, and after my buzz wore off, I realized that I didn't want a tattoo as much as I thought I did.
20. if you could have any job you wanted, what would it be: Senior editor at a major book publisher.

Name: top ten reasons
the veterans and newbies
Location: are not, posting
Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 08:52:27
Comments:

1. how many times can you make fun of re-releases of what we all already own?
2. dan-fest's are fizzling
3. no siting of walt or don anywhere
4. the re-analysis of 2AN wasn't enough to bring them back
5. we don't really want to know about or reveal too much in these personal quiz lists
6. luckless pedestrian is boring when sane and obnoxious when insane
7. aja went mainstream on us
8. DS hasn't had a date to read about lately
9. gina needs one of those free hours cd so she can post more often
10. the musicians are gainfully employed and don't have time to post

Name: Not My Nancy
QuestionnaireSlut(tm)

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 08:02:44
Comments:

1. favorite poet: Larkin
2. how you feel about ouija boards: B...O...R...E...D
3. what's on your mouse pad: Quote - "'Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read' - Groucho Marx"
4. favorite movie soundtrack: tie, Pulp Fiction/Umbrellas of Cherbourg
5. do you get motion sickness: no
6. how many rings before you answer the phone: 1 at work, don't answer at home
7. pen or pencil: pencil
8. been convicted of a crime: only art crimes
9. get along with your parents: cyclical
10. chocolate or vanilla: vanilla
11. croutons or bacon bits: croutons
12. thunderstorms, cool or scary: cool (I'm a grownup)
13. first car: '73 Pinto...BOOM!
14. if you could meet one person - dead or alive, who would it be: Robert Altman
15. what's under your bed: dust bunnies
16. favorite number: 4 Yawkey Way
17. if you were a gardening tool, which one would you be: telephone with gardener on speed dial
18. what's on the walls in your room: "Drink Black Kow" sign
19. what and where is your tattoo (or potential, if you do not have one): ASSHOLE, across my old boss's forehead
20. if you could have any job you wanted, what would it be: trust fund baby

Name: arthur schlesinger

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 07:48:35
Comments:

nnnnnnzzzzzzzzzzzznnnnnnnnnzzznnnnzzzzzzzzzznnnnnnnnzzzzzzzz

Name: poll position
race day again?

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 07:00:25
Comments:

keep the lists short and sweet please

Name: rumblestrip

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 06:58:28
Comments:

not another list, I haven't even answered the first one yet!

Name: lp
there's smoke in the chimney

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 06:25:18
Comments:

did not do that dumb meg posting, at least i'm ever so slightly edjukaded.

another set of questions to further define the GB:

1. favorite poet:
2. how you feel about ouija boards:
3. what's on your mouse pad:
4. favorite movie soundtrack:
5. do you get motion sickness:
6. how many rings before you answer the phone:
7. pen or pencil:
8. been convicted of a crime:
9. get along with your parents:
10. chocolate or vanilla:
11. croutons or bacon bits:
12. thunderstorms, cool or scary:
13. first car:
14. if you could meet one person - dead or alive, who would it be:
15. what's under your bed:
16. favorite number:
17. if you were a gardening tool, which one would you be:
18. what's on the walls in your room:
19. what and where is your tattoo (or potential, if you do not have one):
20. if you could have any job you wanted, what would it be:

Name: Aussie Torres
aussie.torres@painewebber.com
Location: New York, NY USA
Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 05:36:33
Comments:

Wormy: I almost laughed out loud just picturing your bud getting bristled by Mr. Fripp. I actually met him a few times and each time has been more than pleasant...but I do happen to know of a bunch of stories like the one I think you have in mind. He IS quirky and odd (he has been known to stop playing entirely when flashbulbs go off during performances [just to name one quirk]..but hey, he IS British..like my quirky brother-in-law) And he is my favourite guitar player of all time next to Jimi Hendrix. Thanx for the colour on STP. And BTW, I do have an extra ticket for Crimso's Monday Novembre 13 @ 8:00 pm at The Supper Club....lemme know.

Aus

Name: wormster regalia
morningfodder

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 05:15:14
Comments:

Aussie - I'm a bit envious of your Crims and Fripp assault
I've been following the tour online and upset they played so few dates and nothing down here. Fripp is a pretty bizarre character and I have a nice story from the early 80's where my friend made the mistake of going up to shake his hand

STP were bizare - their lead singer came out in a big black wig looking alot like David Johansen, the stage was a frenetic light show and three numbers in he pulled the wig off to revel a completely shaven head. STP kept the energy high and moved the crowd appropriately.

As for BLues Fest's - the Helena Arkansas (King Biscuit) and Clarksdale Mississippi (Delta Blues) fests are incredible. That land still breathes of it's heritage

Robin and Snakehips - come up to the lab and see what's on the slab How do you like your Curry?
rented the new Rocky DVD a few weeks ago, it actually has features like an audience participation audio track - very hard to discipher (90's Rocky must be getting sloppy. In the old days the crowd banter was creative and fun and added to the experience

Moray Eel - welcome back, haven't seen kinky in a long time

Missed Sir Steven Dan's presence last night

The new U2 album is out today and I have a nice Gram Parson's tribute album to wile away the morning at work

hi blaise, aja and ruby

wormy

caught in my reservation

Name: Robin
With Antici........................................................
Location: ................................., ......... ..................................
Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 03:51:06
Comments:

pation!

Snakehips, your post made me blow my cover as a regular Rocky fan! Nobody could be Frank like Tim Curry. I caught it the other night, too.

lp, thanks for the link to the George W. Dance. I never knew he was a man of such talent! I can't even begin to pick a favorite. Too too funny!

Name: Clas

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 00:28:24
Comments:

Gina - I posted my famous recipe, "Chicken Liver Stew � la Sternum Owen" a while a go.

Nobody payed attention and I won't post it again.

Aussie - no no, Greta is a Swedish/German female name. It's also a part of Chicago, but there they spell it "Gretna".

Isn't roy Scams answer on that "describe your self in three (3) words"-question hilarious?

"I talk to much"

Name: Clas
aaahhhhhhhhrg!!!

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 00:21:41
Comments:

For christ sake stupid woman, it's Alexander Pope! The poet.

Humpfr...

Name: Meg
Hollywood

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 00:20:09
Comments:

Wow! Did the pope say that?

Name: clas
@ work

Date: Tuesday, October 31, 19100 at 00:18:56
Comments:

Quote of the day:

One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

A. Pope

Name: moray eel
Anybody Here

Date: Monday, October 30, 19100 at 22:20:31
Comments:

Anybody here, seen my old friend Kinky?
Please tell me where he's gone,
He flamed a lot of people,
But it seems the good they die young,
I just looked around and he was gone.

#4 t-shirt, please!

Man has been turned loose from religion and has hailed the death of his gods; the imperative loyalties of the old nation-state are dissolving and all the old social and ethical values... are disappearing. Man in the twentieth century has been cut adrift in a rudderless boat on an uncharted sea; if he is going to stay sane throughout the voyage, he must have something to care about, something that is more important than himself.

Stanley Kubrick, 1968

m.e.

Name: Aus
Aus @ home
Location: New York, NY USA
Date: Monday, October 30, 19100 at 19:37:45
Comments:

Ruby babes: Strawberries are readily available here year round. If they're really looking sickly, blueberries, raspberries, or even a banana will do the trick. (did you mean valium IN the cereal? Now there's a new one!)

Aus

Name: Aus
Aus @ home
Location: New York, NY USA
Date: Monday, October 30, 19100 at 19:32:48
Comments:

For you Crimson fans out there: King Crimson is in the midst of their US tour and will be thundering their way through NYC: November 12 & 13 at the Supper Club in Manhattan and on the 14th of November at Town Hall also in Manhattan. Later on in the same month of November, 2000, the incomparable Mr. Robert Fripp will play his soundscapes on the 28th, 29th, and 30th at The World Financial Centre, Winter Garden (two shows each day at 12:15 pm and again at 6:30 pm These are GRATIS!!!!- come early to get front row seats and watch this great guitar master weave highly complex and intricate soundscapes). For those who care but are not within the greater NYC metropolitan area visit http://www.elephant-talk.com/gigs/tourdates.htm for additional dates in the US and abroad. I've personally seen these guys play many times before either as King Crimson or some other fractal thereof and I can tell you un-initiated that each and everytime I get blown away to smithereens. So, if you get an opportunity....GO!

Aus

Name: ruby baby
or rubinalskling

Date: Monday, October 30, 19100 at 19:22:41
Comments:

Clas: So glad the package came! Paul & I did it together - we had fun!
I want a baby Pompe!! Let me know when he's *done the deed.*
They will probably be too expensive for me, but I might want to get one anyway.

Aja: Peppermint Schnapps in the cocoa WHILE you're baking cookies -mmmmmmmmm. I need a friend like you in my neighborhood!

Lisa: Your post yesterday was so sweet! It rubbed off and made a difference in my day. Thank you

YGK: If it were my imaginary cruise, the guy who does tongue exercises and gives foot massages would be MY special guest of honor. Hey, don't be a stranger when you are out West...

Aussie: What do you do for breakfast when strawberries are out of season? Personally, I go through withdrawl. Valium helps.

Sociable Herm: I love the name Patrick.

Ever since I said Kings was the SD song I could do without, I can't get it out of my head! It's really not so bad...

Name: Chatty
One

Date: Monday, October 30, 19100 at 18:51:33
Comments:

Chat Anyone?

Name: lp, not LP
the things you think are useless i can't understand

Date: Monday, October 30, 19100 at 18:03:37
Comments:

okay, who put the LP version of Can't Buy a Thrill on my front porch today - what a great thing to come home to. It was great to read liner notes missing from the cd.

i can't wait to find out what happens when i play it backward....

thanks also go to ken - great cd!

back to my meeting, break over!

stowing away the time

Name: JWMalibu
JWMalibu@msn.com

Date: Monday, October 30, 19100 at 16:39:58
Comments:

GB Compilation 2000 Update:

I currently have music from (in alphabetical order):

Clas
DavidFlaRoom
Gina
Jk
JWMalibu
Mr. Chow (on its way)
Roy.scam
YGK

Name: snakehips
@wjaz

Date: Monday, October 30, 19100 at 14:34:31
Comments:

Aussie - how's my News Corp stock doin'?

Name: Aussie Torres
aussie.torres@painewebber.com
Location: New York, NY USA
Date: Monday, October 30, 19100 at 14:04:24
Comments:

Wormster: Wow! Sounds like quite the line-up. How was STP?...advise. Also, NYC gearing up for Delta Blues fest. Should go down circa 1st/2nd week of November. Making big push for Jazz fest next year.

Nice to see Dow rebound nicely today. Yankee tickertape parade today as well..superb.

Clas: In a subsequent (and immediate) post I corrected myself from "greta" to "great" in anticipation of a post like yours.

Everyone have a great week.

Aus

Name: Dick Cheney
what me, worry
Location: ak-47's, are right up there with baseball and apple pie
Date: Monday, October 30, 19100 at 13:59:19
Comments:

what's the problem here? you know republicans sponsor a complete dummy for the white house so people like me can be really making all the decisions. see, that's why mccain wouldn't have worked out for us - he makes his own decisions! that's bad, very bad.......

Name: Worried
about the future

Date: Monday, October 30, 19100 at 13:33:35
Comments:

Why is it that so many people are backing Bush? I don't get it? Both the Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Tribune are endorsing him, as are many other papers. He scares the shit out of me. In two years we will be in an economic depression, there will be an even worse race problem, companies will go bankrupt, women will lose there right to choose, religion and sactimony will be at an all-time high, and in the end, the attempt to correct it all will be with a war. If there is any good to it all, it will be that because of his ineptness, everyone will realize the horrible mistake they made by electing him and vote Democratic for the rest of their lives. Or, at least, in the following election.

Name: Sociable Hermit
Ooops

Date: Monday, October 30, 19100 at 13:30:16
Comments:

Wormie: No offense taken. Sorry. Sometimes when I get confused, I get defensive. You should have seen me when I took my SAT's. I think I remember blaming it all on the pencil.

Later,

Herm

Name: ~
~

Date: Monday, October 30, 19100 at 13:01:33
Comments:

Social Herm

sorry by no means trying to offend here

~ is the international sign of the worm trail
but I thought everyone knew that by now

no the "ed you maw kate ed" (educated here in the south) reference - oh, ouch, sorry

I merely grabbed an interesting guest book personality worthy of the calling and you were it

sorry to mystify

wormtom

Name: lp
let me make this perfectly clear.....

Date: Monday, October 30, 19100 at 12:58:43
Comments:

wasn't me, i was obnoxious last week, see......

Name: Sociable Hermit
Huh?

Date: Monday, October 30, 19100 at 12:49:50
Comments:

Dear anonymous poster, (a.k.a "~"): Exactly what is #7 in your list of reasons to answer the 21 questions supposed to mean? Is it supposed to be some slam against me? Maybe I'm just not "ed you maw kated ed" enough to catch your subtlties. So, while I'm waiting for Godot, I'll also wait for you.

Later,

Herm

Name: citrus pitrus
scurvy birds too

Date: Monday, October 30, 19100 at 12:24:34
Comments:

you can swallow a whole bunch of vitamin C but it doesn't make a lemming

Name: lp
i liked the razor blade the best

Date: Monday, October 30, 19100 at 12:19:26
Comments:

fezo et al, go to - http://www.george-w-dance.homepage.com

Name: fezo
cantresist

Date: Monday, October 30, 19100 at 12:14:26
Comments:

lp: is there a specific George Bush joke or do you just mean the general joke that he is?

America: hear my cry, only one week to wake up and not elect a coke-addled simpleton President

Name: The Number One Reason NOT To Participate In The DS Mob Psychology Guilt Expiation Party

Date: Monday, October 30, 19100 at 12:09:55
Comments:

You can lead a lemming to the C, but you can't make a swallow.

Name:

Date: Monday, October 30, 19100 at 12:01:10
Comments:

wow

pregnant silence

Name: Babylon Sister
www.HardcoreJollies@hotmail.com

Date: Monday, October 30, 19100 at 11:57:27
Comments:

I started listening to Steely Dan religiously at age 15 in 1985, when it wasn't popular. I know all the lyrics & music, from Can't Buy a Thrill, to the Nightfly,(except the ones Dennis Diaz sang)(on all instruments) by memory. I've interviewed every studio musician that performed with u except, Rick Marotta, the bassist from "Peg"(whose name escapes me now), & Greg Phillinganes. I even spoke 2 Gary Katz briefly in 1987. I actually have a copy of "You gotta walk it like u talk it". I interviewed Marshall Kubernik, who wrote the liner-notes to it & gained quite a bit of knowledge. At age 17 I actually read " Naked Lunch " because i'd been searching for the source of the title for years and someone told me it came from Naked Lunch. At age 22 i finally humbled myself enough to attend college and learn to read music, theory, harmony & composition just because Walter & Donald did, back in the day. I learned who Charlie Parker was, and got introduced to jazz for the first time in my life shortly after that. My friends said i was Steely Dans' personal manager. Excuse me.

Name: lp
forgot to say

Date: Monday, October 30, 19100 at 11:51:39
Comments:

to those i communicate off this line with - how did you like the George Bush joke?

Name: Gina
All smiles

Date: Monday, October 30, 19100 at 11:45:20
Comments:

Hahaha, all those lists, they make me cyberfollier (?) than I am at the moment. I've just discovered I have a radiotuner on this Presario-friend, I selected the United Kingdom's Jazz FM and Dianne Reeves has just left stage on the left and, I don't know, I kinda feel like Alice in Wonderland or something!

I think the Dandom Slut has earned a T-shirt of her own!
I don't know what's more hilarious at the moment, the Q's or the A's ... you all share a sense of humor that's soooo hard to resist, so I don't even bother. LOL

Off for some dozing. Stanley Clarke and Al Foster did away with some blues, this GB has a tropical ring to it, today, I don't know, it just struck me like that!

Aloha then, Gina

Name: luckless pedestrian
checking in

Date: Monday, October 30, 19100 at 11:42:14
Comments:

Louis Jadot was the wine of choice for the weekend parties, with martini's first, of course.

DS:
1. Anne
2. Luckless Pedestrian, lp, lucky-ped, and last week, the nutcake posting one-liners from obscure celebrities
3. capn' crunch/sugar smacks
4. not available for public review at this time
5. 12 years of co-ed catholic schools, A.S. Math/Science (that's new math, thank you) OCC, B.S. Environmental Studies (economics and landscape architecture minors) ESF @ SU, missing the masters and it's starting to hurt my neck as i approach a ceiling
6. as usual, "right place at the right time"
7. orangina - what is that really?
8. my 2 girls
9. not applicable
10. you have to pay to go on-line?......oops...
11. six thousand something
12. my 20 month old - really you should see her dance, very avante-garde
13. 20 minutes, then i'm history
14. "all politics is local" - Tip O'Neill (MA) (deceased)
15. doesn't matter
16. boston metro area - montreal or coastal maine (MDI)
17. Mind the Step.....libra
18. available for cyber-flirtations and friendships only
19. contradiction: whacked-content
20. my subaru
21. dinner served in an elegant dining room in my victorian cottage for six people

men and women can be just friends, but there is likely an undertone of other things left unsaid - no big deal, it adds a spark to things, i find.

checking out

Name: Not My Nancy
Resembling that remark

Date: Monday, October 30, 19100 at 11:25:02
Comments:

I'm an old-timer...

Name: ~
~

Date: Monday, October 30, 19100 at 11:01:33
Comments:

top ten reasons to do the dandom slut test

12) Walt and Don are watching and taking names
11) good time to come kitchen clean and confess all your GB aliases
10) 21 questions and none of them would offend Snake Mary
9) has more potential than a dating profile on Matchmaker or Match.com
8) now you actually have good reasons to want another aol disc in the mail
7) see Social Herm, I really am ed you maw kated ed
6) they never asked about that scratching problem
5) when else can you push your worst dan tune without getting abused on the GB
4) 15 seconds of fame and counting
3) sue me if I post too long
2) the oldtimers here hate it
1) when do you ever get the opportunity to wax eloquently on the color and consistency of pubic hair without getting carted off pronto?

Name: snakehips
I was on the dunes, but now I'm at the
Location: teahouse on the tracks,
Date: Monday, October 30, 19100 at 10:40:26
Comments:

From last week - thanks so much for the "Field of Dreams" reference. Living in Motown you're required to listen to that stuff!! I think a lot of SD's sounds are/were influenced by 60's R&B. Don't you?

Watched "Rocky Horror..." (again) on VH1 this weekend. You gotta love Tim Curry singing "Sweet Transvestite"

Let's do the timewarp again...

It's just a jump to the left...

Just the fact that I watch that movie every year scares me.

Name: snakehips
green flower street

Date: Monday, October 30, 19100 at 10:24:44
Comments:

I've started my engine:
1. Name: Snakehips (I must keep my anonymity for obvious reasons)
2. Aliases/Nicknames/Title: Hey you
3. Favorite Breakfast Cereal: Real Oatmeal (not instant) with brown sugar, skim milk
4. Prospects: Not enough
5. Education: Wait - I'm still learning
6. Were you lucky to get the job at this gas station?: Luck had nothing to do with it.
7. Worst soda ever tasted. Why? Anything diet. Nutrasweet sucks.
8. Children/Pets/Pride and Joy: 2/1 cat/my kids
9. One Steely Dan song you could live without? With A Gun
10. Most creative thing you've ever done with a free...
Threw it away.
11. How may hours are actually in a month: which month?
12. Favorite visual artists: Klimt(sp?), Monet, some Van Gogh
13. About how long would you wait for Godot? What?
14. Howsa bout a good quote on any subject: "I like fake jazz, I also like fake, fake jazz"
15. Favorite color pubic hair: Clairol #112 Natural Reddish Brown
16. Where do you live? Where do you want to live? Michigan. Somewhere a little warmer.
17.What's your sign? Leo
18. Are you available? For what?
19. Describe yourself at length, using three words: Honest, thoughtful, street-smart (can that be one word?)
20. What favorite object/objet d'art/creature comfort would you give up to meet Don and/or Walt? Which setting would you choose: wine bar/microbrewery, Ritz-Carlton Suite or sleazy motel?
I don't think I own anything as valuable as meeting Don at the Ritz.

Name: Sociable Hermit
My turn

Date: Monday, October 30, 19100 at 10:12:13
Comments:

oops. Let's try again

1. Name: Patrick

2. Aliases/Nicknames/Titles: Sociable Hermit ~ Herm ~ That guy with the ponytail

3. Favorite Breakfast Cereal: Coffee, sometimes alone, sometimes with a bagel or a doughnut

4. Prospects: Get an agent. Get a job. Get lots of money. Keep working effectively until I decide it's time to quit. (Accent on the "I".)

5. Education: 3.5 years at Columbia College in Chicago, majoring in writing and theater. Also, various workshops and on the job training.

6. Were you lucky to get the job at this gas station? Not yet, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I hear some good news today.

7. Worst Soda Ever Tasted. Why? Dr. Pepper.

8. Children/ Pets/ Pride and Joy: A son that's almost nine, and a five year old daughter. No pets, except the one's in my head. P&J is my wonderful wife that I've known for nearly 13 years, and married to for 11.

9. One Steely Dan song you could live w/out: Boston Rag

10. Most Creative Thing You've Ever Done with a Free 600 hour, Monthlong AOL Subscription CD: Not load it into my computer.

11. How many hours are actually in a month (first guess off top of head)? Not nearly enough.

12. Favorite Visual Artists: Monet, Jackson Pollack, and B.J. from the old "B.J. & Dirty Dragon Show".

13. About how long would you wait for Godot? Why am I waiting in the first place? Does he owe me money? Is he holding my ticket? For some reason, I feel compelled to wait, so I guess I'll just sit and work this crossword puzzle.

14. Howsa about a good quote on any subject? "The crowd is untruth", and, "And now, on with the opera. Let joy be unconfined. Let there be dancing in the streets, drinking in the saloons, and necking in the park. Play, Don."

15. Favorite color Pubic Hair: What difference does that make. Face it, (no pun intended), if you're seeing pubic hair, you must be somewhere good, so who cares what color it is? Or if it's even there? (Preferably if it's not even there)

16. Where do you live? Where do you want to live? Currently just outside of LA in Santa Clarita. Formerly from the Southwest side of Chicago. I like living here, so I don't have any place else I'd rather live.

17. What's your sign? Cancer. Sometimes, "Will Write For Food"

18. Are you available? For parties. But you have to call three weeks in advance and leave a sizeable deposit. Otherwise, no.
In what sense? In the sense that I'm happily married.

19. Describe yourself at length, using three words: Creative, Desirous, Unsatisfied

20. What favorite object/objet d'art/creature comfort would you give up to meet Don and/or Walt? Which setting would you choose: wine bar/microbrewery, Ritz-Carlton Suite, or sleazy motel? Honestly, I don't know if it's worth giving something up just to "meet" someone. But if I had to, I'd give up my marguarita blender, then meet them in a microbrewery.

I will name a character in a movie or TV show after her. Or, I'll offer to MC the stage show.

Name: Mark
whoknows

Date: Monday, October 30, 19100 at 09:59:02
Comments:

oops, didn't meant to post it 3 times, sorry

Name: Mark Buckingham
markb1@btclick.com
Location: London,
Date: Monday, October 30, 19100 at 09:58:27
Comments:

Jon Herington and Decorator Records are proud to present the launching of --- www.jonherington.com --- the official website of the guitarist & singer/ songwriter, known by many as Steely Dan's new "Guitar Guy."

Stop by and listen to some mp3 clips or order Jon's new CD, "Like So;" read about Jon's virgin studio experience and more with "the Dan" (its not X rated, honest), check Jon's current touring and news info; and peruse some of the raves and reviews from the recent Steely Dan Orchestra 2000 world tour.

Equally, if not more exciting, will be the official CD release party for"Like So" at Le Bar Bat, NYC, in co-operation with Pete Fogel on November 16th, 2000 at 7 p.m - not 8pm as formerly announced.

We are currently exploring the possibility of simultaneously webcasting the event so that all can enjoy. Performing will be a combination of players from the "Like So" recording and the Steely Dan Y2K Orchestra. Check the new site to stay up to date on all developments as they occur. Thanks and stay tuned to www.jonherington.com

Name: Mark Buckingham
markb1@btclick.com
Location: London,
Date: Monday, October 30, 19100 at 09:57:05
Comments:

Jon Herington and Decorator Records are proud to present the launching of --- www.jonherington.com --- the official website of
the guitarist & singer/ songwriter, known by many as Steely Dan's
new "Guitar Guy."

Equally, if not more exciting, will be the official CD release
party for"Like So" at Le Bar Bat, NYC, in co-operation with
Pete Fogel on November 16th, 2000 at 7 p.m - not 8pm as formerly announced.

We are currently exploring the possibility of simultaneously
webcasting the event so that all can enjoy. Performing will be a
combination of players from the "Like So" recording and the Steely Dan Y2K Orchestra. Check the new site to stay up to date on all developments as they occur. Thanks and stay tuned to:
www.jonherington.com
----

Mark Buckingham
London.

Name: Mark Buckingham
markb1@btclick.com
Location: London,
Date: Monday, October 30, 19100 at 09:56:45
Comments:

Jon Herington and Decorator Records are proud to present the
launching of --- www.jonherington.com --- the official website of
the guitarist & singer/ songwriter, known by many as Steely Dan's
new "Guitar Guy."

Stop by and listen to some mp3 clips or order Jon's new CD,
"Like So;" read about Jon's virgin studio experience and more with "the Dan" (its not X rated, honest), check Jon's current touring and news info; and peruse some of the raves and reviews from the recent Steely Dan Orchestra 2000 world tour.

Equally, if not more exciting, will be the official CD release
party for"Like So" at Le Bar Bat, NYC, in co-operation with
Pete Fogel on November 16th, 2000 at 7 p.m - not 8pm as formerly announced.

We are currently exploring the possibility of simultaneously
webcasting the event so that all can enjoy. Performing will be a
combination of players from the "Like So" recording and the Steely Dan Y2K Orchestra. Check the new site to stay up to date on all developments as they occur. Thanks and stay tuned to:
www.jonherington.com
----

Mark Buckingham
London.

Name: Sociable Hermit
My turn

Date: Monday, October 30, 19100 at 09:30:40
Comments:

1. Name: Patrick

2. Aliases/Nicknames/Titles:

3. Favorite Breakfast Cereal:

4. Prospects:

5. Education:

6. Were you lucky to get the job at this gas station?

7. Worst Soda Ever Tasted. Why?

8. Children/ Pets/ Pride and Joy:

9. One Steely Dan song you could live w/out:

10. Most Creative Thing You've Ever Done with a Free 600 hour, Monthlong AOL Subscription CD:

11. How many hours are actually in a month (first guess off top of head)?

12. Favorite Visual Artists:

13. About how long would you wait for Godot?

14. Howsa about a good quote on any subject?

15. Favorite color Pubic Hair:

16. Where do you live? Where do you want to live?

17. What's your sign?

18. Are you available?
In what sense?

19. Describe yourself at length, using three words:

20. What favorite object/objet d'art/creature comfort would you give up to meet Don and/or Walt? Which setting would you choose: wine bar/microbrewery, Ritz-Carlton Suite, or sleazy motel?

Name: sd
lower lurkonia

Date: Monday, October 30, 19100 at 09:22:11
Comments:

clas, hornsby has a new live album out last week. you won't be disappointed.

whooosh...

Name: ~
~

Date: Monday, October 30, 19100 at 09:20:21
Comments:

top ten reasons not to do the dandom slut ten

12) everybody else is doing it
11) all sense of respect will go out the window
10) dandomslut might actually win the lottery
9) it's cheap but it's not free
8) too much focus on short and curlies
7) better babe scoring mechanisms exist
6) only if you do yours darlink
5) you can lead a lemming to the sea but you can't make him drink
4) it's fun and you're a stoggy old geezer
3) a case of the toxic beverage may be airmailed out tommorrow
2) I'm not sharing that 20 year supply of Quisp damn it
1) already met Don and Walt in a previous lifetime

Name:

Date: Monday, October 30, 19100 at 09:17:53
Comments:

Everybody say NICE things to wormy today!!!!

Name: Not My Nancy
DandomSlutSlut (pat. pending)

Date: Monday, October 30, 19100 at 08:01:20
Comments:

1. Name: Tom

2. Aliases/Nicknames/Titles: Not My Nancy

3. Favorite Breakfast Cereal: none, but way into the milk after the Cocoa Pebbles is gone

4. Prospects: my two-year-old is a righty-swinging, pull-hitting five-tool man

5. Education: BA English (Amherst) MS Econ & Finance (MIT)

6. Were you lucky to get the job at this gas station? Too late, already fired

7. Worst Soda Ever Tasted. Why? Tonic water, cuz it's yucky

8. Children/ Pets/ Pride and Joy: Chris (7) Daniel (4) Kevin (2)/ 0 / Mimi (my age)

9. One Steely Dan song you could live w/out: I need them all at one point or another (gun to my head: Turn that Heartbeat...)

10. Most Creative Thing You've Ever Done with a Free 600 hour, Monthlong AOL Subscription CD: You're reading it

11. How many hours are actually in a month (first guess off top of head)? [length of question quashed the desired spontaneity]

12. Favorite Visual Artists: Klimt

13. About how long would you wait for Godot? Until I finished the crossword puzzle

14. Howsa about a good quote on any subject? "Your eyes are tired/And your feet are too/And you wish the world was as tired as you."

15. Favorite color Pubic Hair: Strawberry blonde

16. Where do you live? Where do you want to live? Concord, Massachusetts/ Gramercy Park

17. What's your sign? Libra

18. Are you available? Yes
In what sense? for an oil change and vehicle inspection if I can bring the car in before 8am Wednesday.

19. Describe yourself at length, using three words: David Lynch character

20. What favorite object/objet d'art/creature comfort would you give up to meet Don and/or Walt?

What is this, Lent?

Which setting would you choose: wine bar/microbrewery, Ritz-Carlton Suite, or sleazy motel?

Sleazy Ritz-Carlton Suite with mini-winebar/microbrewery. And a big plate of watercress sandwiches.

I offer immediate deletion from all spam lists, lessons in Electric Slide and Bat Dance (country line dances not available this millenium), unlimited servings of the finest Asiago omlette in the northeast, and a promise never to use my drop shot unless she is so far behind the baseline she didn't have a chance anyway.

Name: Gina
polly got hit

Date: Monday, October 30, 19100 at 07:54:42
Comments:

something Ricky Lee Jones came up with:

"Polly and I went to the circus
Polly got hit with a rolling pin
We got even with the circus
We bought tickets
But we didn't go in"

Great Dane in Sweden, lol Clas, you're one proud dogdaddy!!!
And St.Al seems to be out of recipes in the cookery corner just there behind those, ah, you've found it, so Clas, if you can surprise him with a typical swedish recipe, something you would cook for your wife or vice versa, something you would prepare if Jackson Browne was to come and have dinner at your place, maybe mr JB would consider buying one of Pompe's descendents and have it star in his next videoclip ...

Holly Cole, Canadian, just bought it while hiding from turbo crazed leaves attacking pedestrians (luckless, how are all of you?) a CD from 1997, Dark Dear Heart and produced by Larry Klein. http://www.hollycole.com
Ordered the Steely Dan Catalyst Cd's as well, still, would be obliged if anyone can tell me something about it!

America is still at breakfast, or taking a shower or showing off the latest O'Neill jogging suit, or am I totally out of what's "in", anyway, some X-mas spirit's beginning to roar its vibes, warm fuzzy, like Lisa G. shared with us ...
Yes.

Taking off my wallflying shoes and leaving on tiptoe,
Gina

Name: topsoilant one
festing up

Date: Monday, October 30, 19100 at 07:07:59
Comments:

Dylan's Blonde On BLonde is inspiring this mornings commentary

was on the way to an airshow saturday and forgot that it was Voodoo fest this weekend - quick spontaneous right turn and a days worth of music (albiet the 90's version)

caught blues traveler, Ben Harper, Galactic, 311, Live, Cowboy Mouth and Stone Temple Pilots (not bad in a days work) Enimen was on the bill as well (don't ask)

Live surprisingly has a more mellow and spatial approach then I expected from them. Anyway a pleasant day out with the next gen

anyway - nobody knows how to fest like Nawlins

aspiring for more

Name: Clas
ALLA BALLA DINKAN BALLA HOPPAN BALLA DINKAN!

Date: Monday, October 30, 19100 at 06:38:23
Comments:

RUBIN-�LSKLING - I got the package! How did you know I love this guy? And who did those small sketches on the package? Mr P? He's an artist. And in Swedish. Thank you so much!

The best of all: I was on that concert. The concert-halls name is Cirkus. Mr JB said he felt like home, standing on that stage.

AJA - San Diego? I thought Pier 6 was in Long Beach. No wonder I never get it.

Blaise - sorry, can't do it. Ask Pompe.

Gina - a typical Swedish what?

Ausse Torres - not "greta", should be "great".

Walter Becker - I have to ask you a question; though you're in the music biz, do you know if Jackson Browne is working on any new stuff, music that is?

Pete Fogel - though you're a very important Seely Dan side-man, and in the music-biz as well; do you know if Bruce Hornsby is coming up with something new soon?

Meg - don't mind Edd, he's from Nebraska.

PRESS STOP PRESS STOP PRESS STOP PRESS STOP PRESS STOP PRESS STOP

Pompe may be fucking in a couple of months! They called from his kennel and asked if we wantet him to mate / copulate / pair.

I said;

"it's not a matter what WE want, I guess Pompe is jumping for joy".

The kennel people said;

"Pompe has a very interesting genealogical table / pedigree, his sister became champion a while ago."

Isn't this great dane news or what?

Name:

Date: Monday, October 30, 19100 at 05:58:48
Comments:

Polite Ways to tell a Man his Fly is Open:

17. You've got Windows on your laptop.
16. Sailor Ned's trying to take a little shore leave.
15. Your dork is ajar.
14. Quasimodo needs to go back in the tower and tend to his bells.
13. I can see your Gap dancers.
12. Paging Mr. Johnson... Paging Mr. Johnson...
11. Your pod bay door is open, Hal.
10. Elvis Junior has left the building!
9. Mini Me is making a break for the escape pod.
8. Ensign Hanes is reporting a hull breach on the lower deck, sir.
7. Captain, sensors detect a wormhole in the forward quadrant!
6. Lil' Shaq's at the free throw line.
5. You've got your fly set for "Monica" instead of "Hillary."
4. Your closet door is open and Donato's peeking out.
3. You've got a security breach at Los Pantalones.
2. I see you have an opening in senior management.
1. Our next guest is someone who needs no introduction.

Name: Corpsy V
1,2,3,4

Date: Monday, October 30, 19100 at 05:43:56
Comments:

Corpsy V reporting to Slutly Duty:

1. Name: Corpsy V
2. Alias/Nicknames: Totally mission related
3. Breakfast: Anything if crunched
4. Prospects: Ouch
5. Education: Street College of Smarts drop-out
6. Job at Gas station: I flipped a fixed coin, so ----
7. Worst soda: Caustic
8. Children/Pets: A Fake Smith & Wesson
9. Steely Dan nono-song: Can I get back on this one later?
10: AOL free hours creative: Not use it, leave it virginal.
11. Hours in a month: I'm a drop-out, so ----
12. Sorry. This is too much. I need to go to the bathroom now.

Name: sir thomas wormsalot
anytopsoilnearestyou

Date: Monday, October 30, 19100 at 05:17:43
Comments:

1. Name: Tom
2. Aliases/Nicknames/Titles: none

3. Favorite Breakfast Cereal: top soil

4. Prospects: I can't see them but I know they are there

5. Education: BS Geology/Geophysics Mich State, Masters Colorado School of Mines

6. Were you lucky to get the job at this gas station? job, what's that?

7. Worst Soda Ever Tasted. Why? Coke - too sugary

8. Children/ Pets/ Pride and Joy: Miss A and Mini Me (the likeness is scary)

9. One Steely Dan song you could live w/out: Peg (oversaturation)

10. Most Creative Thing You've Ever Done with a Free 600 hour, Monthlong AOL Subscription CD: canon fodder or was that tile the bathroom?

11. How many hours are actually in a month (first guess off top of head)? depends on which month silly

12. Favorite Visual Artists: Jerry Uelsmann

13. About how long would you wait for Godot? what's Godot?

14. Howsa about a good quote on any subject? Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost - JRR Tolkein

16. Where do you live? Where do you want to live? holed down in New Orleans, desire back in Colorado, tetons, Provence France, Big Sur Ca or any desirable mountain range

17. What's your sign? Yield

18. Are you available? Sure In what sense? the spineless sense

19. Describe yourself at length, using three words: top soilant fodder

20. What favorite object/objet d'art/creature comfort would you give up to meet Don and/or Walt? the in room mini bar at the hotel

Which setting would you choose: wine
bar/microbrewery, Ritz-Carlton Suite, or sleazy motel? I'm going for the dude ranch above the sea

Name: Mr Chow
In the Restaurant

Date: Monday, October 30, 19100 at 03:13:19
Comments:

JW Malibu - My submission for TM 2000 is finally finished! How's it going for other contributors? Can you please post your e-mail address on your next post. Thanks.

FanofDan - Haven't been home much lately. Hope to catch up this week some time. I'll give you a call.

YGK - Got a call the other night on air. Your music continues to be well received. Recommending the website as requested.

Cheers all.

Name: Gina
Stormy weather

Date: Monday, October 30, 19100 at 02:04:23
Comments:

Like in real real real bad weather today.
10.30 in the morning and i can't get myself to do anything else but roam the cyberworld. i was thinking about a post KD sent in about a little girl named Aja and she wasn't sick after all etc.
the song's playing at this very moment, dime dancing's almost thru ...

"fear and loathing in lurk Vegas", hm, a Halloweened point of view there, sd ...

about the Steely Dan T-shirts ... i don't know about copyrights and such, but since there's a picture of WB and DF involved in #1 ... wouldn't that be a problem? maybe this one could be adapted by the "regular" T-shirts distribution channel, like the ones they also sold during the tour ... sponsorship like this would be a kind gesture towards the loyal fandom ...

so, after we have this T-shirt thing covered, what's next? a Guestbook Recipe T-shirt, a fine pictured dish up front and the recipe on the back, haha.

Aja, Edd, other Gb-ers ... Clas, how about a typical swe-dish????? and Blaise can certify that "Poutine", a canadian special that travels all circles ...
America's such a huge country, certainly there must be lots of different things to cook while we digest warm fuzzy thoughts or music ... I know we've been here before, but with this kind of bad weather, staying indoors and such ... the kitchen's a fine place to hang out!!

Am off again. Maybe later,
Bye now, Gina

Name: sd
fear & loathing in Lurk Vegas

Date: Sunday, October 29, 19100 at 23:12:39
Comments:

i will answer one question at this time...

everyone is ALWAYS after me lucky charms...

Name: ybtodd
todd@maestro-x.com

Date: Sunday, October 29, 19100 at 21:58:58
Comments:

Well, I just stumbled on this one. Been away for awhile, and needed a good retrospective/instrospective pick me up (or put me down). Here goes:

1. Name: Todd

2. Aliases/Nicknames/Titles: ybtodd, Hanger

3. Favorite Breakfast Cereal: Trader Joes Oat Bran and Raisins

4. Prospects: I'll be tired

5. Education: Ph.D. in chemistry...and now I'm not even in the field (or the lake, or the mountains...)

6. Were you lucky to get the job at this gas station? No, but we did smoke a lot of dope there

7. Worst Soda Ever Tasted. Why? Diet anything. NutraSweet is evil incarnate. I know...I'm a chemist.

8. Children/ Pets/ Pride and Joy: Calvin (son), Mojo (cat), Atilla (cat), Lela (one-eyed cat), Lucy (dog), Mooter (my mountain bike), Isabelle (my Zon Lightwave fretless 5-string).

9. One Steely Dan song you could live w/out: With a Gun

10. Most Creative Thing You've Ever Done with a Free 600 hour, Monthlong AOL Subscription CD: bring about world peace...oh wait, that was with the 100 hour version. Sorry.

11. How many hours are actually in a month (first guess off top of head)? 720

12. Favorite Visual Artists: Calvin (son), Hans Rey, Greater Power

13. About how long would you wait for Godot? same as I waited for Guffman

14. Howsa about a good quote on any subject? Those who dance, are thought to be insane, by those who can't hear the music.

15. Favorite color Pubic Hair: I'm easy...but not cheap.

16. Where do you live? LA Where do you want to live? Kawai

17. What's your sign? "Objects are closer than they appear"

18. Are you available? yes
In what sense? I'll play any gig as long as its paying.

19. Describe yourself at length, using three words: I'm not dead.

20. What favorite object/objet d'art/creature comfort would you give up to meet Don and/or Walt? one of my guitars.
Which setting would you choose: wine bar/microbrewery,
Ritz-Carlton Suite, or sleazy motel? Ritz

21. BONUS QUESTION. I'll say please. Say good night Gracie.

Name: StAlphonzo
stalfnzo@seanet.com

Date: Sunday, October 29, 19100 at 20:26:38
Comments:

Most of you are aware of the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame petition we've been working on over the past 6 months. After collecting submissions during this period we've come up with only 729 unique "signatures." Here's the deal...

I'm of the opinion we should just can the petition until after the 2001 inductees are announced. Frankly I'd be completely flummoxed if they didn't make it this time around. There are a couple of reasons why I don't want to send these signatures to the HOF Foundation. They really should have been sent off about a month ago, but mainly it has to do with the quantity of the submissions. 729 signatures in the grand scheme of things is, frankly, a little under whelming. Really I must squarely take the blame for this. I feel bad because I didn't promote it as hard as I should have. I wasn't consistent in informing all the various SD resources on the net and I didn't push it past the SD sites -- to the general rock and roll sites like I had intended. Basically I didn't get the word out as well as I should have.

Actually 729 votes isn't too bad considering there really hasn't been much mention about this petition over the last 5 months, except for a small and relatively obscure link off the main page of this site. And this is why I would like to hold onto the signatures until after the 2001 inductees are announced. If the clueless bastards at the HOF Foundation skip over the band this time around then I figure it's time for both barrels, baby...

If anyone disagrees, please say something, either in this forum or e-mail me directly.

Regarding t-shirts. Here's the tally so far:

Design #1 = 25
Design #2 = 4
Design #3 = 13
Design #4 = 14

Total shirts requested = 83

Here's the problem. #1 is the clear leader but it will also be the most expensive to reproduce. It'll require a 4 color process which will add significantly to the cost I am told. Here's what I'm gonna do... I'm going to price both #1 and #4 (mine and tHe jOker's personal choice) and will report back with the results. From there we'll decide if the extra cost is worth it. Stay tuned.

StAl

Name: Warm fuzzies?
Not today thanks!

Date: Sunday, October 29, 19100 at 17:53:43
Comments:

Hi LucyG -- hot orgasms of the kind I had today yesterday with my new beau I wish you all... the best orgasm of my life and I've had 46 guys. I'm usually yelling when I come, but with this guy I was yelling and then I was comatose/breathless.

Peace (after the storm that is!),

Wizardress

Name: tones,
opening door, stepping into the dawn...

Date: Sunday, October 29, 19100 at 13:17:30
Comments:

Aja - I'm just about through dime dancing... see you soon? Seriously, sorry you missed T-Tom Club. I've seen them quite a bit and never fail to dance my butt off. It's not every rhythm section that gets to develop their sense of time by sleeping together. Um, you wouldn't happen to play drums, would you? Alas, it wasn't at the Belly Up but the Great American Music Hall in S.F. Would have loved to have seen "Dolly Parton" gettin' down to the T-Tom Club...
Whoa, gotta run.

piece

"Nero doesn't always use a violin when he fiddles"

Name: "dano"
nice thoughts lisa

Date: Sunday, October 29, 19100 at 12:51:09
Comments:

lisa , keep putting the nice thoughts down. Its so easy to be cynical ive had a dooser of a day also over here in blighty played some dan played with my man cub. a real dooser.

take it easy "dano"

Name: Lisa G
a good day

Date: Sunday, October 29, 19100 at 12:42:32
Comments:

I am having an easy day of deep reflection. Don't know why I wanted to share with you how much it means to me to do nothing but think. It seems all my warmest, fuzziest feelings have found their way into my mind today for some reason. Could be the cozy heat inside these walls, or the perception-warping time change of this day. You should all give it try once in a while.

Warm friends, warm thoughts--all this I wish for you today.

Peace,

Name: Gina
Fly-ing on the wall

Date: Sunday, October 29, 19100 at 12:10:44
Comments:

Hi Aja, I like that idea of wallwriting! And the few posts since yesterday sure stirred a big big smile ...

Ole, haha, I figured someone would straighten this thing out! I do remember a Katie, but recalled I never snailmailed and such, took a brief dive in the archives though to erase my doubt, found lots of other stuff that had me wall-flying for a while ... This GB is like a timeless capsule. Really.
(The Geena she was talking about did re-appear for a while, there was someone who missed her, can't remember his name, though.)
Glad it wasn't a memory gap but merely a case of mistaken identity.

Today I stuffed this new pal of mine with off the wall writing goodies. And I get to pick an assistant when working in Word and such LOL. This week I went for the cute doggy that comes out of his dog-house, he even waggles his tail!!! I can even have Einstein flaring a lightbulb, or is that Edison?
Anyway, these cyberthings never cease to amaze me. Now I can have the world @home whenever it suits me ...

I applied for a new job, saw an add in a paper I just couldn't resist. It's got nothing to do with music or writing, but the serenity of the environment was too luring ... It's in an old convent in the heart of the city, with a huge garden and medieval features. The hallways are huge and the inhabitants are senior nuns who worked as teachers or in healthcare all over the world. A friend of my family lives there, so I've been inside to visit. Real weird, to have this complete silence in the midst of a raving town where the busy world has no notion of this oasis.
So now they're looking for someone, three days a week. Ample time to do my own thing and an opportunity to get to know a community that's been kept save from secular influence for ages. You can really feel the history when you're there!
We'll see if this job's to be mine and if I'm supposed to roam on those premises LOL

StevieDan! I sent Malcolm Hunter an email about you sending me the 6 trax etc. and he replied, real nice. I could hear a resemblance with Ben Sidran on the Like a Steely Dan Movie song ... Now I know there are folks here in Maastricht who'll just love the latin touch and I'll take the CD's, including David's to my green-tea-and-newspaper-in-the-morning cafe Take Five. Guido (who with two brothers owns this place and happens to be the Steely Dan T-shirt guy and most probably the soulmate in another lifetime) has all kinds of friends among artists and musicians, like Eddie Harris, in the late '80s he used to stay there and use their garage for rehearsals, gigs in Germany and ofcourse he'd perform in the cafe as well. Awsome days that were, lots of live jazz, like Scofield ...

Okay. I hitched another ride than the one I was on when I put on my wallflying shoes, so I guess it's time to call it a night.

I think I want that Steely dan Catalyst CD, so for the English Newbies or the Us soiled who know not only of its existence but what it's about ... please, enlighten me!
Thank you,

Banyan Tree Bow,
Gina

Name:

Date: Sunday, October 29, 19100 at 12:05:24
Comments:

Scroll on, scroll on............

Name: Aja
missed one

Date: Sunday, October 29, 19100 at 10:44:50
Comments:

tones-was that the Tom Tom Club at the Belly Up? Wish I'd known-I missed that one 'cause none of my friends were into it (they're hibernating worse than me) so instead I went to a Hallowe'en party as Dolly Parton (I have pictures since none of you who know what I look like will believe me!) I saw them several years ago and never danced so much-how were they? Next time you're down drop me a line!

Aja

Name: Aja
hearing the call and writing it on the wall

Date: Sunday, October 29, 19100 at 10:35:42
Comments:

Perfectly said, tones. I never thought about that line until you mentioned it. We're all doing it here, announcing to the anonymous (and not so anonymous) world: "here I am!" just like people have done for eons. I remember reading about some graffiti found in Italy that was carved into stone and dated back to Roman times. What did it translate into? Basically this: "Johnicus loves Marycus" and "Fuck Caesar". It's funny but I can't explain to what the guestbook is to someone who's never been here. They just don't get it-they keep trying to pin it down as something they know. From now on I'll just say "it's a community of people who write on the wall!"

It's a beautiful autumn day here in the Southland-cool, windy, puffy clouds and a little rain. There's nothing like a great cup of coffee in a little cafe overlooking the stormy Pacific. No more SAD-the initial light deprivation adjustment occurred (FINALLY) and now I'm happily in hibernation mode, content to curl up and read, bake cookies, and drink hot chocolate with peppermint schapps. Feel free to stop in and join me.

Aja

Name: DStm.
or--

Date: Sunday, October 29, 19100 at 09:55:46
Comments:

Dan Escalation

Name: DStm
everyone's aboard!

Date: Sunday, October 29, 19100 at 09:51:26
Comments:

Theeeee L-U-V Boat, (snapping her fingers), soon will be making another run....

Hey, this is completely off the map, but it gives me a chance to toot my own horn---

Last night my best friend informed me that the ACLU is picking up the case of a tenager in Ohio who was expelled from school for allegedly "placing a hex" on one of her teachers. Now THAT will be an interesting trial--burden of proof, etc.

Where was the ACLU when i got sent to the principal at age 13 for wearing black lipstick?

It turned out the principal had been sent down the river back in the day for wearing WHITE lipstick, and we had a good laugh over it.

Now, who was cool enough to fuck over that history teacher by not showing up at Eighth Grade Graduation, where I was supposed to pick up the Honors History award? Heh heh, I heard it created havoc when i couldn't be found. I know i pissed off someone, because when i got my diploma, three wweks later in the mail, it had a coffe ring on it. I took my $300 award and spent it.

Unrelatedly, I did bother to show up for high school graduation. I know we have a lot of people here who claim they were last in their class---I do know I was in the bottom thirty of 400 students, and of those thirty, some had dropped out. I did manage to win one of those awards again, and was nearly kicked out of the graduation ceremony for bringing bubbles and thirty of those wooden paddle balls which i had concealed in the back of my pants. Definitely my row had the best time during the three hour ceremony. Man, it was bad. They actually had a choir sing the theme from "The Golden Girls." I can still hear the puking sounds, and the Usher/guard teachers shushing everyone and confiscating blown-up condoms and cigarettes.

Officially I was kicked out of of the ceremony for wearing plaid pants. In all honesty, i never received the flyer stating girls must wear skirts to the ceremony. At the eleventh hour, the vice-principal, Bruce (we were on a first name basis for various reasons), intervened, and i was handed my diploma in Braille.

Unfortunately, i "peaked" in high school. The rest of my life has been a great letdown. Excepting Danesque elation----

Name:

Date: Sunday, October 29, 19100 at 05:16:05
Comments:

What are the plans for the "Nor East Dan Fest" ?

Name: "dano"
dan@campbelld51

Date: Sunday, October 29, 19100 at 04:17:58
Comments:

right everyone while we are into lists my top ten to establish what kind of people you are.so your stuck on a desert island, you can only take one of each. and i want your names and true answers??
1 one album/cd/or tape & why
2 one movie and why
3 one relation and why
4 one good friend and why
5 one of your old teachers
6 one advert off the telly
7 one photo of your sexiest male/female
8 one piece of clothing
9 one person you wouldnt take & why
10 one album you wouldnt take & why

Name: the man with the 4-way hips,
decloaking...

Date: Sunday, October 29, 19100 at 02:21:55
Comments:

Missed you guys! Unfortunately I had to rejoin the human race for a while...

Saw Tom Tom Club - 2 Heads *are* better than none! Dig the new cd...

"American Beauty" reminded me a lot of "The Ice Storm" (w/ Cristina Ricci) in content and story arc. To me the link was suburban dysfunction and self-absorbtion leading to similar consequences... liked them both, but because I saw "Ice Storm" first, "AB" didn't strike me as so original, though somewhat well executed. Have a gay friend that took exception to yet another gay homicidal maniac outta Hollywood.

I noticed the quiz as I was catching up on the haps here on the GB... I didn't read any of the responses 'cause I wanted to be "pure", so I'll go back and meet you folk after I respond... God, I hope there aren't any essay ?'s...

1. Name: Tony

2. Aliases/Nicknames/Titles: tones, tonez, t, T, t-man, "Goddamn Newbie"

3. Favorite Breakfast Cereal: Historically - Quake, honorable mention - Quisp; right now, granola and almond milk

4. Prospects: Good chance of seeing another day

5. Education: 2 years college, 7 years Starfleet Academy

6. Were you lucky to get the job at this gas station?

Yep.

7. Worst Soda Ever Tasted. Why?

Fresca. Nothing that taste that bad can be safe.

8. Children/ Pets/ Pride and Joy: No/ not anymore/ some and lots

9. One Steely Dan song you could live w/out:

ummm...

10. Most Creative Thing You've Ever Done with a Free 600 hour, Monthlong AOL
Subscription CD:

Dammit! I only got 50 hours... only used 35...

11. How many hours are actually in a month (first guess off top of head)?

607

12. Favorite Visual Artists: No particular order: Laurie Anderson, Terry Gilliam, Stanley Kubrick, Dali, Mandelbrot, nature, Whatever created nature (God?), new moms and dads (all species), good chefs, Rorschack, graphics dept. of 6 Degrees Records, Tibetan sand mandala makers, et al

13. About how long would you wait for Godot?

"He's never early, he's alway's late. First thing you learn is that you alway's gotta wait."
1 hour, then it's "G'day Godot!"

14. Howsa about a good quote on any subject?

"The individual is the most oppressed minority."

15. Favorite color Pubic Hair: Any. Or none. Surprise me.

16. Where do you live? Where do you want to live?

Lagunitas, Ca., somewhere in the Milky Way.
Would love to have a choice of places to be at any given time.

17. What's your sign?

Dawning Aquarian, rising lunar Taurian

18. Are you available?

Sure. When do you want me

18a. In what sense?

flexible

19. Describe yourself at length, using three words:

Waiting for Godot

no, really...

19. Describe yourself at length, using three words:

five foot eight

20. What favorite object/objet d'art/creature comfort would you give up to meet
Don and/or Walt? Which setting would you choose: wine bar/microbrewery,
Ritz-Carlton Suite, or sleazy motel?

I'd pay BIG bucks, lose sleep, endure environments detrimental to my health, and give up hours of personal space and freedom... in other words, I'd fly coach. Wine bar/microbrewery.

Danslut - 6 words: foot massage, foot massage, foot massage.

Hey, that wasn't so bad. I hope we're graded on a curve.
Back to reading. I can't wait to see what you guys wrote on the wall.

tones

Hey, I just gained an hour of time. I haven't even started typing this post yet...

Name:

Date: Saturday, October 28, 19100 at 22:32:51
Comments:

Scroll on, scroll on...

Name: oleander
Chairman Roflmao

Date: Saturday, October 28, 19100 at 21:56:02
Comments:

DS--No dice. I already promised never to post another list. Anyway, all my favorite onboard jobs are gone. Can I be the beautiful-survivor-stowaway? Or the scullery wench?

YGK--"Fuzzy"??

dano--"Mean Streets." Fabulous.

geppetto--thanx for the report on the Miles book. Anxious to read it.

JKDF--well, I'll be. You crazy kids. Say hi to Miguel for me. BTW, that's not the Gina you think it is. This Gina is in Rotterdam. The old Geena is MIA.

Aus--Navy blue blazer? I'm supposed to have a navy blue blazer? A red one isn't enough?

Nor'easter Fest(s)--11/11 in Boston for me. If you're interested, or have other dates, e me (oleander1@earthlink.net) or one of the other usual suspects. Update on Herington cd party @ Le Bar Bat 11/16: per Pete, he'll only be playing from ~ 7:30-8:30 (with other members of the Y2K Live Crew). That will give us lavish time afterwards to dine and party. Looks like no YGK gig that weekend--but let us know if that changes, bro!

Name: LucyB
*

Date: Saturday, October 28, 19100 at 19:38:58
Comments:

1) Lucinda

2) Lou, Lucy, Hemorrhoid (Thanks, Dad), Sweetie, Mommy

3) Capt'n Crunch (but Jim, where are you hiding the Quisp?)

4) none at the moment

5) 12 years, but 8 of them were Catholic school

6) It all in who you know/blow

7) tropical cola, like a mix of liquid cotton candy and juicyfruit gum

8) Ian-3, Paige-2/no pets, but looking to bringing a pooch into the family fold/1 fantastic husband

9) this is a tough one, but if you twist my arm it would be With A Gun

10) donut coaster

11) 700 or so

12) Van Gogh, Monet, Michael Parkes

13) I think I just missed him.

14) You can't have everything. Where would you keep it? - Steven Wright

15) Curlies are cute in any color, just as long as they are still attached

16) Southern PA / in a lighthouse on a secluded coast

17) Cancer, what's yours?

18) quite happily, no

19) humble but lovable

20) I would be too tongue-tied if I would meet them, I'll just admire from a distance

Bonus- Just so Don & Walt have more time to do what they do best, I'll make the chocolate chip cookies

Name: Hank Silvers
hanksilvers@dog.com

Date: Saturday, October 28, 19100 at 16:53:35
Comments:

1. Name: John

2. Aliases/Nicknames/Titles: Hank Silvers

3. Favorite Breakfast Cereal: This week, it's frosted mini-wheats, but that changes regularly

4. Prospects: I feel really good about the numbers the auto-lotto picked for me this week

5. Education: Too much school, not enough education

6. Were you lucky to get the job at this gas station? Nonsense -- luck is the residue of design.

7. Worst Soda Ever Tasted. Wegman's lemon; reminded me of Alka-Seltzer cold medicine

8. Children/ Pets/ Pride and Joy: None / 3 Good Cats (Kelly, Lizzie, and Caitie-Belle)

9. One Steely Dan song you could live w/out: My Rival (lyrics bordering on self-parody)

10. Most Creative Thing You've Ever Done with a Free 600 hour, Monthlong AOL Subscription CD: Squirrel baffle on bird feeder

11. How many hours are actually in a month (first guess off top of head)? 24x, where x=the number of days in the month

12. Favorite Visual Artists: Alison Bechdel, Lynn Johnston, Walt Kelly, Brooke McEldowney, Kevin Siers

13. About how long would you wait for Godot? I'm outa here...

14. Howsa about a good quote on any subject? "It's a good day to be alive. They all are."

15. Favorite color Pubic Hair: None. I mean, no color. No, no, wait a minute...

16. Where do you live? Where do you want to live? Lehigh Valley, PA / Spring: New York City; Summer: Ohio's North Coast; Fall: Lehigh Valley, PA; Winter: Sanibel Island, Florida

17. What's your sign? Bad moon rising

18. Are you available? Taken.

19. Describe yourself at length, using three words: Can't be done.

20. What favorite object/objet d'art/creature comfort would you give up to meet Don and/or Walt? Don't want to. I like the relationship just the way it is.

Which setting would you choose: wine bar/microbrewery, Ritz-Carlton Suite, or sleazy motel? N/A

21. BONUS QUESTION. When the Dandom Slut wins the lottery, etc...: My entire collection of Metal Leg fanzines.

Name:

Date: Saturday, October 28, 19100 at 15:27:46
Comments:

Scroll on, scroll on, scroll until the Dead Sea scrolls cum true.

Name: steely_grrl
steely_grrl@yahoo.com

Date: Saturday, October 28, 19100 at 15:06:33
Comments:

Damn! What a cool gathering of people. I have enjoyed reading everyone's posts- hope there is room here for another "newbie"-- I figure I might as well join in on the fun right away if I want to be welcomed into this little pocket of Dandom. D. Slut- thanks for the quiz- it's a great icebreaker to those of us unfamiliar with this board

1. Name: Colette

2. Aliases/Nicknames/Titles: Coke, Coj

3. Favorite Breakfast Cereal: Chocolate covered espresso beans

4. Prospects: I've got some good ones, but I don't want to jinx myself...

5. Education: Sporadic and always appreciated

6. Were you lucky to get the job at this gas station? Considering I practically stalked my now-boss to get the job, I can't say for sure if luck was a factor

7. Worst Soda Ever Tasted. Red Bull Why? Two words come to mind; "carbonated urine"

8. Children/ Pets/ Pride and Joy: No kids, a great husband and two way cool dogs- Keesha and Lorry

9. One Steely Dan song you could live w/out: Chain Lightning- it just doesn't do anything for me.

10. Most Creative Thing You've Ever Done with a Free 600 hour, Monthlong AOL Subscription CD: Used it as a wall mirror

11. How many hours are actually in a month (first guess off top of head)? 725

12. Favorite Visual Artists: Georgia O'Keeffe, Diego Riviera, Frieda Kahlo, David Hockney, myself

13. About how long would you wait for Godot? About as long as it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll pop- lick, lick, CRUNCH.

14. Howsa about a good quote on any subject? From Frank Zappa- "My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.

15. Favorite color Pubic Hair: Whichever ones I don't have to see when I am cleaning my bathroom

16. Where do you live? Where do you want to live? Salt Lake City, Utah/Taos or Santa Fe, New Mexico

17. What's your sign? Gemini Sun, Pisces Moon, Saggitarius Rising

18. Are you available? yes- sort of
In what sense? online at www.colettedesigns.com

19. Describe yourself at length, using three words: one phat chick

20. What favorite object/objet d'art/creature comfort would you give up to meet Don and/or Walt? Which setting would you choose: wine bar/microbrewery, Ritz-Carlton Suite, or sleazy motel? Man, I'd give up anything... and start off in a microbrewery, for sure. Then I'd see what I could do to make the progression to sleazy motel.

Name: "dano"
dan@campbelld51

Date: Saturday, October 28, 19100 at 12:41:20
Comments:

Talking of Deacon Blues. has our great scottish band ever toured over the pond, took there name from the song. good scottish band
disbanded now but were quite tight?
let me know "dano"

Name: "dano"
dan@campbelld51

Date: Saturday, October 28, 19100 at 12:36:07
Comments:

aussie torres
if your looking for an old album to crank up at home try, southsides early stuff, i dont wanna go home.
regards "dano".

Name: Aus
@ HOME
Location: NY, NY USA
Date: Saturday, October 28, 19100 at 12:26:44
Comments:

greta=great

Name: Aussie Torres
Aus @home
Location: New York, NY USA
Date: Saturday, October 28, 19100 at 12:24:06
Comments:

Ruby babes: Greta minds eat alike.

Geppetoblue: Thanks for the heads up. Mr. Davis's Kind of Blue is one of my all time favourites and would actually make it on my short list when stranded on a deserted (sp.?) island. Not having it in one's collection is tantamount to not owning a blue blazer with gold buttons in one's wardrobe. Will pick it up.

Dandom slut: How're things looking from the bean bag?

Listening to Led Zeppelin's The Song Remains the Same live (double disc)...amazing shit! Good every now and then to unearth the older stuff and crank it UP on a gorgeous Saturday afternoon. Have a super weekend everyone!

Aus

Name: JWMalibu

Date: Saturday, October 28, 19100 at 11:31:06
Comments:

Cara Mia & Midnite ~ Thanks for the kudos, I'm deeply flattered!

Midnite ~ Nice looking feline there! Is he going to learn to work the saxophone?

Off to skate my fav mini-pool in Camarillo ~ here's a pic of it:

www.thekatbox.com/casellastudio/Relaxin.htm

Name: Midnite Cruiser
midnitecruiser@hotmail.com

Date: Saturday, October 28, 19100 at 09:38:35
Comments:

http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Meadow/7457/Dekescreen.jpg

Deacon Blues....gotta love him!

Name: Altamira
thomasal@erols.com
Location: Clifton, NJ, USA
Date: Saturday, October 28, 19100 at 09:30:55
Comments:

I'm posting very briefly from a cyber cafe/video arcade in New Jersey as my friend Dave and I prepare to head over to the Strand. He is sitting next to me looking at pictures of the store on another web site so we'll know what to look for when we get to lower Broadway. Maybe we'll get lucky and run into DF picking up a few volumes for his book collection!

Name: Roy.Scam
questionaire.(why.is.this.fun?)

Date: Saturday, October 28, 19100 at 07:04:36
Comments:

1. Roy
2. Smithfield Ham, Coach, Donald Duck
3. shredded wheat w/raisins
4. Prospects: Maybe once today, I'll like something that I'm doing.
5. Edumacation: 16 (Blackburn, math)
6. lucky?: yes
7. worst soda?: Club. Why?: I was a kid. I swiped some and thought it would taste like 7-up or booze.
8. children/pets: 3 kids (one of each[badoom]), 2 springer spaniels, 2 cockatiels, 1 parakeet. -- My children are actually the answer to #4.
9. do without?: "Everyone's Gone to the Movies"
10. I have used an AOL disk effectively for cleaning purposes, e.g., removing fragments of forgotten snacks from places hard to reach for the naked hand.
11. 700?
12. Escher, Dali, Gary Larson
13. I would wait for Godot not nearly as long as I would wait for Guffman (See that movie!).
14. Quote: "When you come to a fork in the road, take it." Yogi Berra
15. Peppermint
16. Tidewater area of Virginia
17. Sign?: Place Order Here
19. Describe yourself in 3 words: I talk too much
20. I would give my vinyl copy of "It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest" by the Fugs to meet D & W at the Ritz. (do they put those mints on the pillows?)
21. When I finish my tantric studies, I will bring you to a roflmaoism that will turn your silver to gold, green, plaid, and back to silver.

Name: Gina
WUNDERGROUND IN THE FLORIDA ROOM

Date: Saturday, October 28, 19100 at 06:16:21
Comments:

or they made it through customs. THANK U THANK U, StevieDan, this is sooo cool, really. Am a bit folly now, this made in the US of A music bringing livelyhood in this livingroom LOL

Hello Floridavid, you're in Europe now, in the south of the Netherlands!! No longer a faceless Signed In Stranger, one with a warm voice as well. Thank you.

"Like a Steely Dan Movie" ... ... ...
Great 1000000x

Okay. Gotto go. Wrap things up at the market. No cats & dogs, luckily. Maybe later, HI ROBIN,
Gina

Name: "dano"
dan@campbelld51

Date: Saturday, October 28, 19100 at 06:00:22
Comments:

12. art is boring for us middle classes . i would rather be at a dog track
13. godot "get a life you lot get down the pub and laugh.
14. laughter is the best medicine.
15. after a few beers tonight who cares what colour it is
16.england (work) scotland my homeland.
17. yes anytime im always up for the crack.
18.happy friendly approachable
19.my wife .
20. once the dandum slut has been out with me . even dan & walt
will give her a miss to be in my company. my old papa always said : everyones shit smells the same .

Name: "dano"
dan@campbelld51

Date: Saturday, October 28, 19100 at 06:00:21
Comments:

Name: "dano"
dan@campbelld51

Date: Saturday, October 28, 19100 at 05:48:51
Comments:

FROM A SOTSMANS POINT OF VIEW LIVING IN ENGLAND???

I. DANNY CAMPBELL
2. "DANO"
3. PLAIN CORNFLAKES BUT WITH FULL CREAM MILK
4. LOTTERYS ON TONIGHT ?? NEED I SAY MORE
5. EDUCATED IN LIFE ONLY
6. WHO WANTS TO WORK IN A PETROL STATION (HAVE YOU SEEN THE PRICE IN BRITAIN)
7. IVE TRIED YOUR ROOTBEER TASTES LIKE SHITE.
8. ONE DUSTBIN LID ( CONOR )
9. BLACK FRIDAY BLACK MONDAY BLACK ANYDAY THAT IS A CAT SONG
10.ASKED FOR ANOTHER ONE???
11. HEY ITS SATURDAY MORNING IM JUST GOING OUT ON THE LASH . I DONT KNOW HOW MANY HOURS ARE GOING TO BE IN THIS AFTERNOON .

Name: Robin
A Few Precious Moments To De-Lurk

Date: Saturday, October 28, 19100 at 05:47:41
Comments:

Thanks to DS for a great thread--eye-opening and very funny!

Hi, Gina!

YGK, is it me or has it been a long while since you've posted with Your Gold Keith? I always liked that name.

Gotta go make some much-wanted coffee; great to check out everyone's musings as always. Have an inspired day, all.

I hope this merry-go-round slows down a bit before I die...

Name: Gina
DS is no BS
playmystring@hotmail.com
Date: Saturday, October 28, 19100 at 00:53:57
Comments:

Saturday morning and @home briefly for some early tea. No weather to be on a market trying to sell books. Cats & dogs. Hi Katy, yes, been a longlonglonglong time, you sound on the up and up as well, a good thing on a rainy day like today!!!
My e-dress's just around the corner, so feel free to borrow it or some ...

YGK, you're so right about the ideal state you mentioned, but after a bad relationship or one that didn't work out so the let's remain friends part takes over, then I guess spending some quality time on new selfdiscoveries isn't a waste!

I just love the Dandom Slut and the Q & A's being presented!!
Now I don't mind the company of cats & dogs, having an umbrella for a best friend.

Maybe later,
Gina

Name: sd
one toe out of lurkdom

Date: Saturday, October 28, 19100 at 00:43:55
Comments:

gina, awesome package !

yours should arrive any day, barring drug dogs of course.

back into the long shadows of overbearingness.

whoooosh...

Name: Just KatyDanFan
Friday Night Live....

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 23:22:26
Comments:

Finished reading one thousand posts and that took me back only seven days! This place is *jumping*, as I remember from when I posted regularly -- same amount of political, biblical, philosophical scholarly work being typed onto these pages as before. The amount of sheer collective intelligence here never ceases to amaze me. And it shows in so many ways -- some posters perhaps arriving home from not-so-challenging jobs where they don't get to use enough of their mental prowess and so they come in and teach us with some real wisdom and thought (seriously, I always learn something in here!); others, who may have to use so many neurons all day long, come in here to play on a level that is mostly hilarious but sometimes can hurt.

Ah, the flame! One needs to be willing to play near the fire in here! But somehow that's the GB we've come to know and mostly love. You can be warmed and burned all on the same day!

Once I start reading posts, it's hard to stop. What entertainment you've given me tonight!

DanSpotting: Ever notice how 'everywhere you go' -- as soon as YOU walk in, they play SD? How can that be?? It's as if the Dan knows where we area at all times and keeps following us with their sound, knowing we're probably due for a fix. If it happened now and then, it could be termed a coincidence, but this is every where I go!

Enjoyed the posts of some past buddies in here....Gina, Clas, Lisa, David, Midnite, Edde, Ruby and other names that are familiar to me (I found yours especially poignant, Ruby, the one about your now 20 year old) and see some promising newbies who are already "oldies" and think that I'm a newbie, no doubt! Gina, how many 'babies' do you have by now? I think I missed a second one?? Gosh, we got you something and then I went and lost your snail mail address, shame on me, 'what a shame about me.' Time has passed so quickly, you sound happy, I'm so glad.

Oleander, haven't gone over, but will sometime to see what everyone is saying about Two Against Nature on your Fever Dreams site. Didn't see any posts from you, are you 'still with us?'

As you may all have figured out long ago....(and yes, I do know that NO ONE CARES about this, I'll just tell you anyway because it's customary to force our thoughts on each other in here -- El Supremo and I spent 8 weeks together straight this summer....one in PA, the rest in East Texas (as in Michael C. Packard). We always teased about being married, the truth is we are now engaged, forgive us for fibbing, we had to, it was our play! We sure had some fun in here! I recall ROFLMAO so often in here. But enough about that. You can scroll back if you're interested, BUT, it will take you too long to do that, so, I wouldn't recommend it, your dinner will burn, your children will grow up...

We have both enjoyed 'the NEW ONE' and are busy listening to other artists as well, though it's hard for anyone to do for us what the Dan does. I just saw the Rippingtons Wednesday evening in the Keswick theatre in Philadelphia, supposedly one of the best venues from an accoustical standpoint in the entire Mid-Atlantic region (so they say). And they did sound awesome. The theatre was built in about 1928 and was nearly demolished in 1980, than saved by a bunch of zealous fundraisers, etc., until privately sold. Walter Beasley was there as well, he's really smooth. So I got to watch Walter and also Paul Taylor (both sax players). You gals will understand this: I told Michael he needs to learn to play saxophone, so I can watch him play and then after the concert, well..... Oh my.

Anyway, it's time for me to go but it was nice visiting here again for a change. Take care all, have a wonderful holiday season if I don't "see" you! Will send Michael in, too....now let's see if I still remember how to post this thing just once!!

Just dancing....

Just Katy :)

Name: Miz Ducky
On the good ship Lolling Pop (Rock)

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 23:08:52
Comments:

Ms. Dandom Slut--heh. This is most definitely a fun game. Muchas gracias for the breath of fresh (sea) air.

Mr. GE -- my birthday is December 18th. And yours?

/the Mam'zelle

Name: Dada Slut (tm)
enters laughing

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 22:11:49
Comments:

It's been so long, I'd quite forgotten about those crystals and little red hairs! Tee hee. Get thee to my bean bag!

Welly well well aren't we an educated crew? Color me impressed. Everyone is on the list so far, except for the Stranger, who should Know by now, I'm cheap, but don't like receiving oral sex from men. Bite me, if you will, but please leave my lady parts away from your mouth. Ew. Please try again. Of course, Walter et al. will be staying in my cabin. Donald will have to make the rounds. Everyone else can do just what they please.

I've decided to make Cara Mia Ship's Captain, not only because she looks sexy as all hell in that uniform, but because she is experienced to make all Final Decisions. She therefore invites the Anointed to dine at her Table. Aja is Second in Command (Second Arrangement??) and Ship's Doctor, therefore calling all shots, intravenous and otherwise. Miz Ducky is in charge of Libations and Intox, a crucial position. Of course these appointments are purely ceremonial, as no Woman on board will actually be expected to lift so much as a finger. Sorry, boys, this is my ship.

Be comforted that all cabins are suites with king sized jello beds, roller skates, fireplaces, jacuzzis, and private balconies with Hubble telescopes, which in this case, work. The pool is shaped like a gigantic bass guitar, and you can slide on down the center. As this is a twenties style ship, odds are very good you will see original Man Rays, O'Keefes, Impressionists, Fauvists, and Surrealists on board. Frankly, I'm thinking of raising Charlie Parker and Jerry from the Dead. Mark Twain and Dorothy Parker and Oscar Wilde are safe bets, too...

What shall we name my lovely ship?

The Carib Cannibal? The Jolly Roger, Scurvy Brother...
SS. Hermetic, SS. Platonic, SS. Plutonic, SS. Ionic, SS. Ironic, SS. Mylantic, SS. Kamakiri, SS. Shipwhack?

Dandom Slut's Plush Shipwhack Oddysey? It's beginning to feel like Last Year at Marienbad! Who wants to get tied to the mast first? Who feels like king of the world?

Don and Walt, our virtual slaves......

*This is working out much more neatly than the Grateful Cruise I was planning some years back. I mean, what would I do if I had to make everyone, including half the band, walk the plank? What could I do about the noxious smell of patchouli? And how could I feed all those lighting technicians?

Name: ruby baby
yow - zer!

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 21:16:48
Comments:

edd: great wine advise. Yes, it's "Creek" not "Crest." No fucking way were you last in your class!

quiz:

1) Mela (rhymes with fella)

2) they call me Mello Yello (quite rightly), Sputnik, Thelma (don't ask)

3)Aussie, you & I have the same fav - Corn Flakes w/ fresh strawberries!

4) Prospects: studying for the CA Notary Public exam, some people think I'll ace it. I'm not so sure. Each day is a Gift, no matter.

5) 3rd year college drop-out, but motherhood more than made up for that.

6) I don't believe in luck.

7) A long Coke/7Up/GingerAle/Squirt/Rootbeer with a cherry that my kids made me. Why - 'cause it tasted like shit but I had to drink it all or hurt their feelings.

8)kids: Tom, Dana, Joey pets: Nicky, Tasha, Kimmy, Zoey & Zippy
my piano

9) Kings

10) I squashed a scary spider with one

11) it doesn't matter, I won't get enough sleep

12) the LORD, my kids, Charlie Chaplain, Monet

13) Didn't we already wait 19 years?

14) "Any time wasted that you enjoyed isn't wasted time." t.s.eliot

15) No fav, but I always hate the one I keep finding on the soap in the tub, whatever color it is.

16) CA / Heaven

17) Astrology, encompassed by a circle with a slash

18) Available for listening, friendship & prayin for ya

19) Saved By Grace

20) Don't know what I'd give up, but I'd meet them at the Carlton/Ritz. We could always go somewhere else. As for what I'd do to curry your favor, dstm - I'd shut up. I wouldn't talk or post to this gb for a month. And I wouldn't make up for lost time. That's the only thing I think you'd really appreciate from me.

Name: geppettoblue
bowerybuddha@yahoo.com

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 20:55:21
Comments:

Just finished reading "Kind of Blue - The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece" by Ashley Kahn, Da Capo Press, 2000. Lots of great insights into the recording sessions. It's amazing that the music made in two-weekday sessions (six hours one Monday in March 1959 & three hours one Wednesday afternoon the following month) could provide such inspiration for the past 41 years. Ah, the power of great music.

Mr. Fagen is quoted throughout the book, citing the album's influence on him and his playing. He says of Kind of Blue, "...because of the trance-like atmosphere that it created, it's like sexual wallpaper. It was sort of the Barry White of its time." He also says that when he was young and couldn't play too fast, he could still improvise to "All Blues" and "So What" with other like-minded jazz neophyte hipsters.

Check out the book and if there's even one of you reading this who doesn't own the album, www.bn.com or www.amazon.com immediately.

Name: Third World Man
steelyphil67@hotmail.com
Location: Clarksville, AR United States
Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 19:27:02
Comments:

That 2 against Nature album is driving me insane. It is one of the most cryptic and ironic albums I have ever heard (The Royal Scam might be a little bit more though). All of the songs reflect a sense of heart break and irony. DF & WB takes these sad stories and makes them into enjoyable songs. All of the songs are like something is being torn from you, leaving you hollow inside. This one of the few albums that I have actually had an emotional reaction too, other than Gaucho and The Royal Scam. THANK YOU SO MUCH STEELY DAN. I have this image in my head of a heart-less soul laughing as he reads the lyrics.

Name: Aussie Torres
Aus @ home
Location: New York, NY USA
Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 19:25:20
Comments:

1. Aussie Torres
2. Aus
3. General Mills'Cheerios or Kellogg's Corn Flakes with fresh strawberries and real milk.
4. Future's looking brighter than ever before.
5. Double major BA in Psychology and Fine Arts; juris doctor Law;
6. THEY'RE the ones who are enriched.
7. Tab. Sounds like something on a typewriter plus tastes just like ass.
8. No kids (yet..plan on Morgan, Chase, and Margot), No pets (yet...plan on Australian Shepherd and Black Labrador Retriever) family and friends
9. True Companion
10. Nothing creative...I always chuck them in the garbage.
11. 623. But doesn't it depend on what month and year and global locale, and state of sanity?
12. God, Van Gogh, Monet, Dali, Picasso, Seurat, Pissaro, Manet, Gaugin....many many others.
13. A New York minute.
14. "Too much of a good thing is wonderful" I think Mae West said that.
15. Don't discriminate when it cums to that.
16. NYC. Retire to home near ocean in Southampton NY.
17. Scorpio. Ruled by the genitals and the planet Pluto. Water sign. Picasso was a Scorpio.
18. For friendship? Always. Happily married to Susan (aka Babes)
19. Intense, Loyal, Funny.
20. African drum with multi-tone panels and mallets. Ritz Carlton suite.
21. Goodies like percodan, rum, champagne, super fine hydroponic bud with red hairs and crystals, and whatever else it takes.

Name: GreeneEarrings
.

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 18:10:48
Comments:

1. Name: Tom Greene get it?
2. Aliases/Nicknames/Titles: GreenEarrings, GE, RealityCheck, Timo
3. Favorite Breakfast Cereal: Corn Flakes but usually for dinner.
4. Prospects: 2 job interviews this week but currently employed
5. Education:BS Political Science/Associates Audio Engineering (Recording Eng.)
6. Were you lucky to get the job at this gas station? You were lucky to get me.
7. Worst Soda Ever Tasted. Why? Fresca, NOT lemonlimey
8. Children/ Pets/ Pride and Joy: 2 great boys/allergies-no pets
9. One Steely Dan song you could live w/out:If I had to choose, Rikki
10. Most Creative Thing You've Ever Done with a Free 600 hour, Monthlong AOL Subscription CD: Christmas Tree Ornament
11. How many hours are actually in a month (first guess off top of head)? February or July?
12. Favorite Visual Artists: Pollock, Monet, Willie Mays
13. About how long would you wait for Godot? About 30 minutes
14. Howsa about a good quote on any subject? Let's Play Two!!Ernie Banks
15. Favorite color Pubic Hair: Bugs Bunny Gray...oops, I thought it said Public Hare
16. Where do you live? Where do you want to live? Salt Lake City,I love it but if I had 5 million dollars I would live in San Francisco.
17. What's your sign? Sagitarius/Hey Ducks! when's your b-day?
18. Are you available? sort of?
In what sense? for parties, Dan Shows and friendships (shut up)
19. Describe yourself at length, using three words: Witty, Smart, Enigma
20. What favorite object/objet d'art/creature comfort would you give up to meet Don and/or Walt? Which setting would you choose: wine bar/microbrewery, Ritz-Carlton Suite, or sleazy motel?
Hall of Famers Autographed Baseball/microbrewery definately
21. BONUS QUESTION. When the Dandom Slut wins the lottery, as she's been planning, and hires out an entire smaller, 20's style cruise ship for a world tour, in which Steely Dan 2000 will be the house band, what will you do to curry her favor as she makes out the passenger list? Bear in mind that Don and Walt, in addition to performing songs on request, will be giving personal music lessons and baking you chocolate chip cookies. Don, Walt or your favorite choirgirl will also stroke your forehead every night as he/she/they softly sing you to sleep.
Just say the word, your wish is my command, really...no really anything...cookies too?
GE
Humming a few bars of "getting to know you"

Name: ed beatty
@pe.net
Location: Temecula, ca
Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 17:46:26
Comments:

1. Name: Ed Beatty-

2. Aliases/Nicknames/Titles : none that I care to share- Make up your own ...

3. Favorite Breakfast Cereal:-Starbucks- Venti Vanilla Latte

4. Prospects: married 25 yrs this year�prospects for another 25 or more

5. Education: College-hardknocks-U.S.Army-draftee-

6. Were you lucky to get the job at this gas station?
Only because there was no gas in the car!!!!

7. Worst Soda Ever Tasted. Why?
Who you take home the$100 hooker or the$ 1,000 hooker?
Lets look at in the object relational sense?

8. Children/ Pets/ Pride and Joy:
Lora (Ricky Lawson's biggest fan)Beatty- 9 yrs old and who calls Pete Fogel Uncle Pete)

9. One Steely Dan song you could live w/out:
n/a

10. Most Creative Thing You've Ever Done with a Free 600 hour, Month long AOL Subscription CD:
Can you say Frisbee?

11. How many hours are actually in a month (first guess off top of head)?
As many as I like?

12. Favorite Visual Artists:
Van Gogh- Rodrigo Diago

13. About how long would you wait for Godot?
Did you say Godiva or Godot?

14. Howsa about a good quote on any subject?

I met Walter this year and I have the pictures to prove it�and the smile on my face.

15. Favorite color Pubic Hair:
MY OWN�

16. Where do you live? Where do you want to live?
I Be what I want to be,ALIVE IN TEMECULA
17. What's your sign?
Pisces-but who cares about that stuff?

Name: Stranger & Stranger
NYC

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 17:14:16
Comments:

1) Stranger

2)Stanger

3)Captain Crunch

4)independanty wealthy,whatever

5)BS Bus. Admin Dartmouth, MBA Wharton,Masters in Psychology NYU

6)I didn't apply

7)warm

8)no/why?/picture of Ronald Regan and me

9)West of Hollywood

10)hacked into The Kong & Shanghei Bank

11)our perception of time changes as we age

12)Cornelius Bumpus

13)depends on what he's bringing and does he have a lighter?

14)"Ther's a sucker born every minute" PT Barnum

15)color is irrelevant, only odor

16)NYC, as the other gentleman said "are you kidding?"

17)Virgo

18)probably not

19)aloof,insightful,cynical

20)you guys need to grow up

BONUS)I'll lick and suck her clit until she's screaming their room # and password as loud a train whistle

Name: Midnite Cruiser
midnitecruiser@hotmail.com

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 17:11:51
Comments:

Jim Talbot

Midnite Cruiser

Honey Bunches Of Oats w/almonds

J&S Digital Design

high school + lots of community college for required for work.

Fresca

6 cats....two Maine Coons, two Ragdolls, a Himalayan and an alleycat.

Throw Back The Little Ones

shot skeet

720

JW Malibu, Clas, my wife and myself.

who?

"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats." ---Albert Schweitzer

Blonde

Virginia. the mountains of Virginia.

Leo

happily married

inquisitive, happy, lazy.

none. bar

kiss her ass (but only once)

Name: Miz Ducky
They heard the call, and they wrote it on the wall

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 17:08:43
Comments:

1. Name: Ellen Terris Brenner

2. Aliases/Nicknames/Titles:
Miz Ducky; Mam'zelle Daphne G. Canard; the Self-Appointed Bartendress and Purveyor of Relaxicants to the Steely Dan Hall of Fame and Caribbean Timeshare (SDHOF/TS)

3. Favorite Breakfast Cereal: some kind of organo-groovy crunchy granola

4. Prospects: Good ... but decidedly random.

5. Education:
BA, Psychology and Social Relations, Harvard University, 1979;
MDiv, Boston University School of Theology, 1989

6. Were you lucky to get the job at this gas station?
I dunno, but I consider myself lucky to be having a gas at this job station.

7. Worst Soda Ever Tasted. Why?
Diet Caffeine-Free Coca-cola -- because what the hell is the point of it?

8. Children/ Pets/ Pride and Joy:
No kids; one pet, an obstreperous little black cat whose full name is Jimmy Dean, the Rebel Without a Clue; my three-year-old nephew Sam (and his wonderful mom, my kid sister Karen)

9. One Steely Dan song you could live w/out: "Change of the Guard"

10. Most Creative Thing You've Ever Done with a Free 600 hour, Monthlong AOL Subscription CD:
Broken little triangular chips out of its edges and turned it into a shuriken

11. How many hours are actually in a month (first guess off top of head)? Approx. 660

12. Favorite Visual Artists:
Georgia O'Keefe; M.C. Escher; Pablo Picasso; Salvador Dali; Edward Hopper. And Pete Fogel!

13. About how long would you wait for Godot?
Maybe long enough for two cups of coffee to grow cold

14. Howsa about a good quote on any subject?
"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing" -- I think that was Alexander Pope; cf. my answer to question 5.

15. Favorite color Pubic Hair: natural auburn

16. Where do you live? Where do you want to live?
Seattle; New York (but only if I could live there in the style to which I desire to become accustomed).

17. What's your sign? Sagittarius (with Sag rising)

18. Are you available? Yes.
In what sense? In almost any sense you'd care to imagine.

19. Describe yourself at length, using three words: gracious, bodacious, outrageous

20. What favorite object/objet d'art/creature comfort would you give up to meet Don and/or Walt? Which setting would you choose: wine bar/microbrewery, Ritz-Carlton Suite, or sleazy motel?
Especially to meet Donald, I'd give up my computer and go back to composing on a typewriter. (Considering how addicted I am to the damn box, that would be a real sacrifice!) And the setting? Gotta be a jazz club. With somebody playing who would really turn him on. We could get to the Ritz or the motel later, depending.

21. BONUS QUESTION. When the Dandom Slut wins the lottery, as she's been planning, and hires out an entire smaller, 20's style cruise ship for a world tour, in which Steely Dan 2000 will be the house band, what will you do to curry her favor as she makes out the passenger list?
Funny you should mention curry, because I would happily cook for her a gourmet feast in the finest Seattle style of Far-East fusion cuisine (I'm especially good at curries; I also roll some damn fine norimaki), accompanied by a variety of drinkables and other intoxicants as only the Self-Appointed Bartendress can whip up; after which (also during, and before, or whenever) I would arrange for entertainment performed by comely young things of the Dandom Slut's favorite gender(s) (and who better to arrange such entertainment than someone with a 62% Slut rating?)

Bear in mind that Don and Walt, in addition to performing songs on request, will be giving personal music lessons and baking you chocolate chip cookies. Don, Walt or your favorite choirgirl will also stroke your forehead every night as he/she/they softly sing you to sleep.
I am definitely bearing that in mind. And in a few other places as well.

/The Mam'zelle
Bzzzzt! Thank you for playing!!!

Name: Jim
#, but can't believe I'm delurkin 2wice in 1 day

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 16:47:33
Comments:

1. Name: It's really....... Jim

2. Aliases/Nicknames/Titles: Mom wasn't that creative

3. Favorite Breakfast Cereal: my 20 year stockpile of Quisp

4. Prospects: happy to keep doing exactly this

5. Education: well, I've learned a lot from steviedan!

6. Were you lucky to get the job at this gas station? Yes, and I still beat my wife (ow! put down the bat honey!)

7. Worst Soda Ever Tasted. Why? Gotta be warm grape Nehi

8. Children/ Pets/ Pride and Joy: 3 children, 1 dog, 1 wife

9. One Steely Dan song you could live w/out: (consults cd's) Hmmm, I Can't Function (the song, not the state of being)

10. Most Creative Thing You've Ever Done with a Free 600 hour, Monthlong AOL Subscription CD: I always keep one visable to remind me of things not to do

11. How many hours are actually in a month (first guess off top of head)? Can't answer, which month?

12. Favorite Visual Artists: The guy that makes those Rolling Rock commercials is pretty good

13. About how long would you wait for Godot? (see education)

14. Howsa about a good quote on any subject? Fair winds and following seas. I like that.

15. Favorite color Pubic Hair: not applicable

16. Where do you live? Where do you want to live? Southeast coast of Virginia, and no place better

17. What's your sign? I dunno, but that next question looks interesting

18. Are you available? My wife thinks so, wait.....
In what sense? (crash! Please put the bat down honey....)

19. Describe yourself at length, using three words: Working, living, contented

21. BONUS QUESTION. When the Dandom Slut wins the lottery, as she's been planning, and hires out an entire smaller, 20's style cruise ship for a world tour, in which Steely Dan 2000 will be the house band, what will you do to curry her favor as she makes out the passenger list? Bear in mind that Don and Walt, in addition to performing songs on request, will be giving personal music lessons and baking you chocolate chip cookies. Don, Walt or your favorite choirgirl will also stroke your forehead every night as he/she/they softly sing you to sleep. Tell ya what. When the ships engines break down I promise not to fix 'em if the boys are really jammin.

Lord, that was exhausting. 'Night all.

Name: Your Gold Keith
..
Location: New York, NY USA
Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 16:12:42
Comments:

I play it straight, mostly.......

1. Name: Malcolm Hunter

2. Aliases/Nicknames/Titles: Your Gold Keith (YGK), Fuzzy, Mr. DBH

3. Favorite Breakfast Cereal: Coffee, home-roasted Italian Dark from D'Amico's in Brooklyn: 2 large cups

4. Prospects: Tycoon Dog - hypnotic rock band from NYC, selling (just) 1 song from WUNDerground; attractive single and reasonably sane urban women in NYC who dig downtown-types-who-happen-to-live-uptown-cause-its-affordable

5. Education: 3.5 Years in Bachelor of Music program at Ithaca College, 1 party-filled semester at U. of Maryland, 1 Year Performance Art Studies at NYU - no degrees, completed Barfly Program at University of Hard Knox - 1997

6. Were you lucky to get the job at this gas station? I've been sucked into the Wireless World and the Network doesn't have enough capacity

7. Worst Soda Ever Tasted. Why? Jolt - not a hangover cure

8. Children/ Pets/ Pride and Joy: Luke & Angus - cats, jazzers mostly - they listen to radio and prefer WBGO-Newark. Tho Angus plays rock versions of Hindemith on my acoustic piano. Luke is a lap slut. Goddaughter, Roxanne - 7 y/o. Beautiful child.

9. One Steely Dan song you could live w/out: I remain certain - "West of Hollywood"

10. Most Creative Thing You've Ever Done with a Free 600 hour, Monthlong AOL Subscription CD: tongue exercises

11. How many hours are actually in a month (first guess off top of head)? They are ours in a month?

12. Favorite Visual Artists: Jackson Pollack, Salvador Dali, Man Ray, Stuart Jackson, John Joon Lee

13. About how long would you wait for Godot? 15 minutes

14. Howsa about a good quote on any subject? "Just because you have a website doesn't mean you'll sell records...."

15. Favorite color Pubic Hair: the distinguished Grey one

16. Where do you live? Where do you want to live? Your kidding me. Right here.

17. What's your sign? Go! Come! Sit! Stay! Linger��. Aries

18. Are you available? Sure, uh, what do you mean?
In what sense? Single and looking for fun and more....

19. Describe yourself at length, using three words: Intense, Creative, Loyal

I will massage her feet firmly, yet with the grace of learned hands

Name: Aja
delurking after a looooong day

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 16:01:40
Comments:

1. Name: Aja (or so they say)
2. Aliases/Nicknames/Titles: I like being Aja here-got enough people calling me my real name on the other side
3. Favorite Breakfast Cereal: Hate cereal. Can't live without Starbuck's Frappucino and fruit for breakfast.
4. Prospects: nothing to get excited about now, but you never know what's around the corner ;-)
5. Education: BA Law, 3 years of pre-med sciences, expired EMT license.
6. Were you lucky to get the job at this gas station? where else can I get paid to play on the Internet?!
7. Worst Soda Ever Tasted. Hate soda.
8. Children/ Pets/ Pride and Joy: Josie and Bandit. 2 adorable cats I got the old fashioned way-in front of the grocery store.
9. One Steely Dan song you could live w/out: Everyone's Gone to the Movies
10. Most Creative Thing You've Ever Done with a Free 600 hour, Monthlong AOL Subscription CD: never had one.
11. How many hours are actually in a month: 660
12. Favorite Visual Artists: Alina Henderson, my late sister.
13. About how long would you wait for Godot? I'm always late-he'd wind up waiting for me.
14. Howsa about a good quote on any subject? Be careful what you wish for 'cause you might get it!
15. Favorite color Pubic Hair: not going here
16. Where do you live? Where do you want to live? San Diego, CA. Can't get better than this, but I'm going to spend a little time in VA somewhere down the road.
17. What's your sign? Pisces
18. Are you available? Depends on who's asking
19. Describe yourself at length, using three words: Vivacious and compassionate with attitude.
20. What favorite object/objet d'art/creature comfort would you give up to meet Don and/or Walt? None. I don't want to meet them, I prefer listening to them.
21. BONUS QUESTION. When the Dandom Slut wins the lottery, as she's been planning, and hires out an entire smaller, 20's style cruise ship for a world tour, in which Steely Dan 2000 will be the house band, what will you do to curry her favor as she makes out the passenger list? Bear in mind that Don and Walt, in addition to performing songs on request, will be giving personal music lessons and baking you chocolate chip cookies. Don, Walt or your favorite choirgirl will also stroke your forehead every night as he/she/they softly sing you to sleep.
I'll dance all night with you again!

Name: cara mia
love those questionaires@waitin' for his car on a hill

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 15:55:18
Comments:

1. Name: Marsha, Marsha, Marsha
2. Aliases/Nicknames/Titles:
cara mia, mouth-of-the-south, "You Bitch!"
3. Favorite Breakfast Cereal:
coffee at noon, leave out the cereal
4. Prospects:
must be living on the other side of the globe from me
5. Education:
too many degrees to justify my retired status
6. Were you lucky to get the job at this gas station?
I blew the Cuckoo's Nest with no regrets, then got dumped by a very generous workaholic spouse who paid me tons to Go Away
7. Worst Soda Ever Tasted. Why?
Vegemite with a beer chaser.
(Have you ever tasted Vegemite...yuck)
8. Children/ Pets/ Pride and Joy:
Cara- 10 year old Bichon Frise
Mia- her 6 year old daughter
(see my affinity for the name long before Gasing Abbey?) :-)
9. One Steely Dan song you could live w/out:
East St Louis...not really theirs, therefore expendable
10. Most Creative Thing You've Ever Done with a Subscription CD:
contributed all that plastic to my DJ friend for her self-designed CD-covered coffee table
11. How many hours are actually in a month (first guess off top of head)?
I don't know, but considering my pc is online 24/day almost, I am so happy to have a dedicated phone line and unlimited access for 17.95/mo! You would think my Dream Man would come strolling through this Cyberdoor at any moment!
12. Favorite Visual Artists:
Klimt, Cassatt, Kahlo, Goya (the-little-white-dogs-especially with that Princess Margarita) Joni Mitchell, JW Malibu, and sometimes me when I get my make-up just right
13. About how long would you wait for Godot?
As long as it takes to tolerate that longish play of same name
14. Howsa about a good quote on any subject?
"We have enough Youth...What we need is a Fountain of Smart!"
15. Favorite color Pubic Hair:
that which is dissolved with a good depilatory
16. Where do you live? Where do you want to live?
Knoxville, TN, the place of my most cherished collegiate years as a single and where I returned after divorcing
I am where I want to be...almost moved to Asheville (Hi, Oleander!), but there are not enough suitable men in the single's scene with it's 70,000 population
17. What's your sign?
Valentine! Seriously, that is my actual BD, all 46 years of them
18. Are you available?
In what sense?
Most everyone knows of my full-time endeavor these last two years for cyber-dating. Just when I think mr. wonderful has pc'd himself into my heart, he puts on some bad music, and it ruins everything!
19. Describe yourself at length, using three words:
Brains, Beauty, Brawn
20. What favorite object/objet d'art/creature comfort would you give up to meet Don and/or Walt? Which setting would you choose: wine bar/microbrewery, Ritz-Carlton Suite, or sleazy motel?
I would give up my deluxe timeshare in Cancun Mexico, but not before we had one of those Miss Ducky blow-outs (Hi, Miz Duck!) down in Margaritaville for a week, culminating in a raffle for posession of the villa. Walt would win it in a rigged deal. I would always be included on subsequent party guestlists.
21. BONUS QUESTION. When the Dandom Slut wins the lottery, as she's been planning, and hires out an entire smaller, 20's style cruise ship for a world tour, in which Steely Dan 2000 will be the house band, what will you do to curry her favor as she makes out the passenger list?
An all out orgy with those cyber men who keep writing me and telling me how fantastic they are, how big they are, how long-lasting they are... ;-)

Name: Hey...
don't dis

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 15:39:50
Comments:

Dick Dawson, the MOST SINCERE man in Hollywood.

Sad thing is, I wish I was joking...

Name: DStm.
wiping off Richard Dawson's spit and Herpes simplex 1

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 15:33:38
Comments:

Tee hee.
"good answer,good answer!"

Name: Edd

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 15:31:04
Comments:

1. Edd

2. Edd

3. Wheaties, if cereal is my only choice.

4. Retired at 55

5. High school. Graduated last in my class.

6. I guess

7. Pepsi "One". Try it.

8. Had to put Aja (cat) down at 15 years. No replacement.

9. All of them. Just not well.

10. Hint: The word "pull" immediately preceeded it.

11. 672, 696, 719, 720, 743, or 744.

12. Ansel Adams.

13. Wait?

14. "Miles Davis re-invented jazz. At least 3 times."

15. None.

16. New England. New England.

17. Leo

18. For what?

19. Vini Vidi Vici

20. My bar stool.

Name: Robin
Is This Customer Service?

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 15:23:43
Comments:

1. Name: Robin
2. Aliases/Nicknames/Titles: Phred, Fearless Leader, Certifiable Nut
3. Favorite Breakfast Cereal: Oh, any of those nutty, grainy things. Except during cold weather, when it has to be oatmeal, shared with an oatmeal-loving cat.
4. Prospects: Prospects of what, she inquires?
5. Education: Associate in Accounting, Bachelors in Combined Science/Chemistry. Still working on the Masters of Life
6. Were you lucky to get the job at this gas station? Actually, yes. But was it good luck? That depends on the day!
7. Worst Soda Ever Tasted. Why? We call it pop here, and it was a fountain cola where they ran low on syrup. Ack!!!!!
8. Children/ Pets/ Pride and Joy: One daughter/two cats/one husband
9. One Steely Dan song you could live w/out: Only one I've never yet heard
10. Most Creative Thing You've Ever Done with a Free 600 hour, Monthlong AOL Subscription CD:
11. How many hours are actually in a month (first guess off top of head)? How many days in the month? 720, give or take a few
12. Favorite Visual Artists: My daughter (definitely didn't get the talent from me!), Georgia O'Keefe, Escher, Linda McCartney's photography, others
13. About how long would you wait for Godot? Only until the salesman dies, absolutely no longer!
14. Howsa about a good quote on any subject? Timing is everything.
15. Favorite color Pubic Hair: Not too gray
16. Where do you live? Where do you want to live? Ohio, USA/Wherever my happiness is (The beach would be a good place to look...)
17. What's your sign? Libra
18. Are you available? For parties and concerts!
19. Describe yourself at length, using three words: Happy, crazy, intelligent
20. What favorite object/objet d'art/creature comfort would you give up to meet Don and/or Walt? Which setting would you choose: wine bar/microbrewery, Ritz-Carlton Suite, or sleazy motel? I'd give up coffee (a big sacrifice!), and select the Ritz-Carlton
21. BONUS QUESTION. When the Dandom Slut wins the lottery, as she's been planning, and hires out an entire smaller, 20's style cruise ship for a world tour, in which Steely Dan 2000 will be the house band, what will you do to curry her favor as she makes out the passenger list? Bear in mind that Don and Walt, in addition to performing songs on request, will be giving personal music lessons and baking you chocolate chip cookies. Don, Walt or your favorite choirgirl will also stroke your forehead every night as he/she/they softly sing you to sleep. Ah, what could I offer? Homemade wine? Computer help? Balance your checkbook? Bootleg cassette of the NYR&SR show in Cleveland? Help to fend off those you don't want?

Name: ds (tm)
any trailer I'm welcome to

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 15:02:36
Comments:

1. name- amaris rose
2. aliases-amaryah ravisa
cookie (NO ONE besides Mom dare actually call me that)
3. favorite breakfast cereal- Satan-o's
4. prospects- slim. This garage-studio thing ain't working out.
5. education- college dropout. high school of the arts.
6. lucky to get job at gas station? no, I've had over 30 retail jobs, I can show up at an interview in green tennis shoes, with no bra, on acid, and ace it.
7. worst soda--New Coke. why--i wasn't ready for the new paradigm shift.
8. pets- blue girl chow named Lily. When I have a bigger backyard, i plan to get a male chow and name it Dash. I'd love to have two kids and name them "Quick" and "Easy"--my last boyfriend's last name was "Lones."
9. Steely Dan song w/out- Do It Again. Man, I hate that song.
10. AOL CD's- i line a flower bed with them. I want Nader to sue them for crimes against humanity/overful garbage landfills. I had my name removed from the marketing association in Farmdale, NY so i wouldn't get anymore of these, but now they send them marked Occupant.
11. Hours in a month- 620
12. fave Vis Artists- Edward Gorey
Erte`
Jan Saudek
Norman Rockwell
Modigliani
13. Godot-can't think up a pert answer.
14. Good Quote-"I ask for cream, and you bring me milk and water?" (Roxanne, in Cyrano de Bergerac)
15. fave color Pubies- prussian or ochre or loden or hazelberry
16. Live- if you can call it living, in Orange County, Ca. I would like to live with Walter, in the 4th dimension.
17. Astrological sign-- Capricorn, bad moon rising
18. Available--SO AVAILABLE
In what sense-- ask, and I'm there
19. Three words that describe me: desperately seeking mate. heart on sleeve. will do anything. not that smart. got no soul. type b personality. likes to travel. sings off key.
20. Fave thing i'd give up to meet Don/Walt--ANYTHING, including my etch-a-sketch and body organs, but not my dog or my mother or my three feet of hair. maybe i'd give up my hair.
21. uh, i'm including myself on da guest list!

Name: cara mia
fate lamenting@West of DollyWood

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 14:59:08
Comments:

About this love thing:

"Maybe I've never really loved
I guess that is the truth
I've spent my whole life
In clouds at icy altitudes
And looking down on everything
I crashed into his arms
Amelia, it was just a false alarm..." (Joni 1976)

As for me, while I am here waiting on ol' Beau, shaking my head at the chasm of our differences that will render us a temporary haven for each other's longings, I have enjoyed reading further glimpses into this struggle so many of us share. When I suffer droughts of physical longing and plain old horniness, I am in such an accommodating mode! When that realm of need gets filled,
those repeat creeping doubts always come into play:
1-- Why can't I share my space as easily as I used to?

2-- Why does his gross lack of aesthetics (such a man!) grate on me so and worsen with each passing year?

3-- Why can't I appreciate that intelligence outside of verbal ability is valid too?

4-- Why would someone think Bruce Springsteen is worthy of album/CD/remasteredCD/all compilations status for the budget???????

We have quite a collection of singles/soon-to-be-singles posting here these days. From my perspective of divorce from a 19 year relationship these last two years, I think the struggles for the hunt/finding him vs. making it work with a mate are equally difficult. So much depends on one's toleration for plain old loneliness and how relishing being "alone" can be distinguished from it.

Name: JWMalibu
Goldbricking at work...

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 14:45:53
Comments:

1. Name:

John Warren

2. Aliases/Nicknames/Titles:

JWMalibu AKA Johnny Boy

3. Favorite Breakfast Cereal:

As a kid: Trix, as an adult: Coffee

4. Prospects:

Moving to Montana soon, gonna' be a dental floss tycoon

5. Education:

Bachelor's in Music Composition, Certified Financial Planner, two professional designations from UCLA Extension - Recording Arts & Sciences/Film Scoring, currently working on doctorate in Flutophone

6. Were you lucky to get the job at this gas station?

Hell yeah ~ the pay's good, my office is big, I can crank up the SD all day long and wear flip-flops to work

7. Worst Soda Ever Tasted. Why?

Yoohoo, Doctor Brown's Cream Soda...and celery! (another obscure FZ reference)

8. Children/ Pets/ Pride and Joy:

Pride & Joy: My lovely psycho-bride, Deborah
My other Prides & Joys: Ella Fitzgerald & Casy McGracey, our feline children

9. One Steely Dan song you could live w/out:

Everyone's gone to the Movies

10. Most Creative Thing You've Ever Done with a Free 600 hour, Monthlong AOL Subscription CD:

Gotten booted from AOL for using an inappropriate screenname

11. How many hours are actually in a month (first guess off top of head)?

720, plus the additional time wasted replying to online questionaires

12. Favorite Visual Artists:

Salvador Dali
Jan Van Eyck
Claude Monet
M.C. Escher
Maxfield Parrish
The Big Five San Francisco Poster Artists: Rick Griffin, Wes Wilson, Stanley Mouse, Anton Kelley & Victor Moscoso (I collect)

13. About how long would you wait for Godot?

I only wait for waves

14. Howsa about a good quote on any subject?

"Music is the Best"/Zappa

15. Favorite color Pubic Hair:

Natural blonde

16. Where do you live? Where do you want to live?

Lost Angeles/Lake Tahoe - so I can create all summer & snowboard all winter

17. What's your sign?

Total Virgo

18. Are you available?

19. Describe yourself at length, using three words:

creative
loving
honest

20. What favorite object/objet d'art/creature comfort would you give up to meet Don and/or Walt?

My R. Crumb "Stoned Agin" blacklight poster

Which setting would you choose: wine bar/microbrewery, Ritz-Carlton Suite, or sleazy motel?

My project studio, with the tape rolling and the instruments fired up

I'd have to break out the killer BC hydro-bud...

Name: Richard Dawson's man Friday
survey sezzzzzzzzzzz

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 14:06:43
Comments:

1. Name: Charlie Tokyo

2. Aliases/Nicknames/Titles: Yellow Peril

3. Favorite Breakfast Cereal: Mandarin Plum Chex

4. Prospects: World Domination

5. Education: EnnWhySee

6. Were you lucky to get the job at this gas station? Nah, I have connections with Dick Cheney

7. Worst Soda Ever Tasted. Why? Chocolate Yahoo in New Orleans. I had ordered Cafe DuMonde

8. Children/ Pets/ Pride and Joy: yes, no, yes

9. One Steely Dan song you could live w/out: Charlie Freak

10. Most Creative Thing You've Ever Done with a Free 600 hour, Monthlong AOL Subscription CD: Image analysis software that detects silicone at popular web sites

11. How many hours are actually in a month (first guess off top of head)? 720, but only 79 out of the pyramid

12. Favorite Visual Artists: Donald Fagen; favorite non-visual artist: Ray Charles

13. About how long would you wait for Godot? 19 years, 4 months

14. Howsa about a good quote on any subject? "the work seduces us with light"

15. Favorite color Pubic Hair: purple

16. Where do you live? Where do you want to live? This word; any world without critics

17. What's your sign? Slippery When Wet

18. Are you available? www.iongrid.com
In what sense? olfactory

19. Describe yourself at length, using three words: nine inches long

21. BONUS QUESTION. When the Dandom Slut wins the lottery, as she's been planning, and hires out an entire smaller, 20's style cruise ship for a world tour, in which Steely Dan 2000 will be the house band, what will you do to curry her favor as she makes out the passenger list? Bear in mind that Don and Walt, in addition to performing songs on request, will be giving personal music lessons and baking you chocolate chip cookies. Don, Walt or your favorite choirgirl will also stroke your forehead every night as he/she/they softly sing you to sleep. Curry flavor is accomplished with the chemical curcumin.

Name: |||||
more movie talk

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 14:00:43
Comments:

helen & paul, yes!

Let's not forget When Harry Met Sally for more relationship fodder...

Can men and women be just friends or does the sex thing always get in the way?

Name: lp
helen and paul - now there's a couple

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 13:47:34
Comments:

not distressed, just uncomfortable about talking about love for some reason today.....

overall i'm content with things, but i think my brain is full..... which is why i have spewing here lately.

love that word, spewing....

have a good weekend, going off-line for a few days

Name: jack
honey i'm home dot com @$$%*^#

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 13:45:21
Comments:

how did i get in here?

Name: JWMalibu
If Jack Nicholson is the protagonist...

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 13:41:38
Comments:

...then Lara Flynn Boyle would make the perfect "Negative Girl"!

Newbies might enjoy my "visual interpretation" of the NG at:

www.thekatbox.com/casellastudio/tan3.htm

composed entirely of images culled from '50s pre-Playboy men's magazines...

Name: Dandom Slut (tm)
Cult Commune Trailer Park

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 13:38:34
Comments:

I don't mean to interrupt the 2VN or philosophical life musings going on presently; I am enjoying them both very much.

For next week, I'd like to send out a quiz. Everyone, newbies lurkers, regulars, old timers, studs, rainbows, listmakers, please feel free.

ALL questions are OPTIONAL. As is the quiz. So, an answer such as, "none of your @#$% business" would only reflect on yourself.

Please start your engines.

1. Name:

2. Aliases/Nicknames/Titles:

3. Favorite Breakfast Cereal:

4. Prospects:

5. Education:

6. Were you lucky to get the job at this gas station?

7. Worst Soda Ever Tasted. Why?

8. Children/ Pets/ Pride and Joy:

9. One Steely Dan song you could live w/out:

10. Most Creative Thing You've Ever Done with a Free 600 hour, Monthlong AOL Subscription CD:

11. How many hours are actually in a month (first guess off top of head)?

12. Favorite Visual Artists:

13. About how long would you wait for Godot?

14. Howsa about a good quote on any subject?

15. Favorite color Pubic Hair:

16. Where do you live? Where do you want to live?

17. What's your sign?

18. Are you available?
In what sense?

19. Describe yourself at length, using three words:

20. What favorite object/objet d'art/creature comfort would you give up to meet Don and/or Walt? Which setting would you choose: wine bar/microbrewery, Ritz-Carlton Suite, or sleazy motel?

Name: lady rumble
on love

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 13:35:02
Comments:

I agree with wormy. Love and independence are not mutually exclusive.

I guess lp meant the same thing, but lp, you seemed distressed. Am I reading you wrong? I thought you were articulate in your first post on love. I don't agree with everything you said, but you expressed it clearly. To me the love is always there, but it's the living with each other that often needs work, minor adjustments (or major), recalibration, periodic refreshment, whatever you wish to call it.

Name: ||||||||||||||||
Dan On!

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 13:26:21
Comments:

...like Wayne's World "Game On!" - seems like we came back from intermission to discuss Dan songs once more. It's great to read the discussion of TaN and look! dleestan, Jim, Roy.Scam, and Hank Silvers have surfaced for the occasion!

lp - You mentioned Jack Nicholson in Negative Girl. I can hear him saying 'rescues a dreary Sunday'. I loved the movie As Good As It Gets! And now I must go home and listen to Blue Rondo a la Turk and compare it to TaN.

Jodie Foster stopped in to visit the GB. I am now waiting for someone to bring up the movie Contact. Great film! I disliked her love interest, the minister. I understood why it was written this way (to bring home the conflict between faith and reason), but I thought she would have been better off with the blind guy.

Good to read all the discussion on American Beauty. All I want to add is that the neighbor boy's father scared me. He was more horrific than Annette Bening's character. The most gut-wrenching scene in the movie was the scene in the garage. The string of incidents leading up to it reminded me of a Shakespeare comedy. He experiences a total pathological breakdown when in a moment of abject need he abandons a central element of his belief system, only to be rejected...

Name: the princess bride
cult classics.com
Location: i'd rather eat, lint
Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 13:11:20
Comments:

have fun stormin' the castle

Name: " dano"
dan@campbelld51

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 12:54:24
Comments:

CAT
fellow (sweaty sock ) sean told that dago. he was much better in highlander. anyway why are all you yankees going overboard on spacey ,that was a piss easy part to play.get donald fagan to play the part of jeff goldblum in jurassic park .then again show business kids dont give a f@@@ about anyone else. im following a few stories on the book now ,so im getting into the scoop a little bit . your very own scotsman "dano"

Name: ygk
..

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 12:51:45
Comments:

Gina: "also the opportunity to love yourself again is gained in this process".....yes, but ideally I think a relationship should be an extension of your own loving of self (would've used self love here, however I wasn't speaking to THAT).

American Beauty rang loudly for me in based on some recent events, as I'm now happily out of my own 'sterile suburbia'. My experience parallels some thematic elements - my partner trying to fix things about her and ultimately, deep down she cannot find the inner sense of calm and peace and be able to be, much less with someone else; my own self discovery in determining what I want and need from a relationship, creativity and life; learning the responsibility of actions ill advised no matter how appealing; and always, seeking the beauty behind the veneer wherever possible......

ygk

Name: Gina
Demandez-moi?

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 12:42:53
Comments:

So the Red Blazer signed out, leaving me with this heavy load to lighten it all up, thank you, pal ...

He's an outstanding daddy who takes real good care of his two little boys, one attends school already and the other one is just about to leave the diaper. I had to "wisecrack" the sensitive shell of the Blaise for I could not bear any responsibility regarding the mused fondness that grew out of allocated cyberways. Like I said once before, sometimes one's a better friend even if it hurts for a while. I can't do anything to lift up one's spirit, even when I sense he's out in the cold. I can't go beyond where I've been. All I can do is arouse his temper, his pride and anger, for it brings out an energy he might use for a new life, a new start for himself as well as his two boys. Some people refuse to see what good they have inside, what strength to use for their own purposes. Now this also can come up your alley when entering aboard this GB, and like I said before, it shows we're only really human and have become friends, friends don't need to keep secrets that smother them.
Off or online!!! We all have things to deal with, loss, death, failure, doubt, insecurity, whatever. And we all get over it, at some point, acknowledge our own responsibility. To create your own happiness and luck. Fight for it, even. So Blaise, blaze that fire, preferably not my way, will ya, amigo? Chin up, things will work out, maybe time to give up your atheism and start to believe in something. Someone.
Like yourself!!!!!!!!!!

Hi Jim, see why we need a Tour 2000 Alive in Europe CD, if you haven't witnessed what SD managed on this continent, like Almost Gothic ...

America is on for lunch or roundabout that ... here it's time for an early night. And I haven't seen American Beauty, but stuff like the plastic bag and all, the French and Italian have made lots of stilled movies with scenes that way, the Swedish also, hm, yes, the English as well ...

Definitely another time, goodnight all.
Gina

Name: LP
HOW DO YOU GET THE CAPS LOCK OFF?
Location: nora dunn, will you help me out here?
Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 12:38:49
Comments:

I GET PICKED ON FOR MY ONE-LINERS BUT HE CAN COME IN HERE AND SAY THAT

OH THE HYPOCRISY

Name: lp
one more thing while i have a spark of sanity

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 12:36:13
Comments:

if you accept my theories, then you know:

INDEPENDENCE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT

one dominant character in a relationship hints that one person loves different than the other, or maybe not - i know men who like to "taken care of" and women as well - but who wants to admit to that, so they pretend to be irritated, odd

i'm not talking about abusive relationships because there is no love there to discuss

Name: Another negative boy,
lurkin' & smirkin'

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 12:32:02
Comments:

Damn you all, stringing together multi-syllabic words to form clever, thoughtful, insightful posts! @##&*#%! Why can't you all just pay attention to what's REALLY important...

ME.

It's all you're fault. I'm NOT insecure, dammit! Mommy DOES love me... I think. It's just that I'd rather stay in my condenscending little bubble until I have something negative to say. So there! >tongue out<

BTW, this page is WAY too yellow.

Name: luckless pedestrian
hitting me @ cryptic stuff
Location: have you noticed, how more songs in 2vn deal with relationships than in previous works?
Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 12:31:21
Comments:

I get itchy when we talk about love because it's so hard to nail down in words. Personally, i knew i had the capacity to love when i had my first baby and it was confirmed by the second. Before that, i wasn't so sure. love in marriage is a decision, and thus not always a feeling. to me - it's a decision to care about someone the rest of your life - accepting this, you can love someone, then, and sometimes not like them. love needs work - but to contradict, i know many who feel that if love needs work, then you are in the wrong relationship and i say, not really, a wrong relationship is one where you don't want to work at it, or just one of you is working and not the other.

i really should press reset and start over here, i am embarrassingly inarticulate (i'll go back to one-lining); but my moral of my story is love can't be described as a sound bite, or be compared in metaphors to fire, water, etc. (not an object, bigger than a breadbox); it's complicated and varies with the person.

the key may be to find someone who loves the same way as you and then you have found your true love.

to compare somewhat there's a statistic that says marriages fail 90% or something when there's a death of a child and i believe, from watching it happen to a few crushed people, that it's because the two mourned differently and couldn't help each other and thus they disintegrated.

you can also love someone and not be able to live with them, see not like text above.

but, i cry at the end of Cinderella and all those other disney movies and blockbuster screen comedy romances because we all want it to be syrupy and sweet, don't we?

hence the confusion

the original classic thing
more of the same

Name: wormbrain
love/loath and rove

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 12:25:36
Comments:

gina - I never explained myself
only another shell, only another shell

and love and independance are not mutually excluse
at least they don't have to be
spoken like a true hopeless romantic

blaise - sorry, no need to go cryptic on you
maybe stick to top ten's on this end?

Not my nance - I like that "learned to act for one movie" Liz Taylor quote

Jim - enjoyed your "it's out" comment as well
unfortunately they don't play Dan in New Orleans
and I was waiting for the record store to open the day it came out so I didn't have as nice a pleasant surprise

wormy

her reptile brain ....

Name: tatum o'neal
bad news b#$%@

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 12:14:09
Comments:

i liked the tv version of Paper Moon much better than the movie, so there Jodie!

Name:
replete with fishies

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 12:11:53
Comments:

love stinks, yeah yeah

Name: Not My Nancy
It will come back to you

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 12:11:07
Comments:

If you liked American Beauty (which, to me, danced between really moving moments and Oscar claptrap) go rent "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Bening and Spacey were good, esp Bening, but Liz/Dick/Nichols/Albee did it better. How did Elizabeth Taylor learn to act for that single film...

Jim -- "It's out, they're on, get me to the store...blah rant". That was a great moment for me, too. I will always remember hearing Cuz for the first time in the Drive-thru line at McD's on Western Avenue in Allston, MA

Really enjoying the 9 month anniversary comments on 2VN...thanks everyone...I may chime in shortly.

Name: jodie foster
can't shake the disney image.lambs silenced

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 12:09:55
Comments:

you talkin' to me?

Name: Gina
Ruby's new opening line for Negative Girl

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 12:08:10
Comments:

and I quote: "I spit. I choke. Now I need some coke."
the melody simply came to mind instantly when reading the last sentence of her posting ...

Wormman, you offered an interesting view on the love/loath scale and before you explained yourself in an oldfashioned interlude with the Blazer Rouge, I had this thinking out loud thing that failed to be admitted, oh well she said ...

What's to add about love, sometimes one can live with a friend, but not with the love of your lifetime. Sometimes love remains pure when kept to yourself. Sometimes love means sacrifice without retribution for the one who swallows it all up, leaving you behind like wasteland. The thin line between love and loath is one of experience and reasons. Hurt feelings, pain, agony, despair, disappointment, the works ...
Themes for literature, music, the big screen, books, poetry. real life.
If love is lost, independance is won, also the opportunity to love yourself again is gained in this process. Maybe love reaches a peak at some point in life, a break even point,perhaps an even break. Odd, is it, again but not against all.

Maybe later, Gina

Name:
see I have to be an ass to her

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 11:56:43
Comments:

My advice: Ignore.

Name: Blaise
boo, les yeux rouges

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 11:54:27
Comments:

Worm - Don't get cryptic on me. You know how sensitive I am.It's enough that I don't have what it takes to read between the lines. Besides, I'm such a delusional guy. Ask Gina. She figured me out already.

On this note, Enjoy your weekend everyone.
Gotta pick up someone at school.

Ciao

Name: worm
blazing and saddled

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 11:27:25
Comments:

blaise -

American Beauty - yes I lived that myself 4 years ago
so those hot irons are indeed not pleasant
no fixation on a younger women, but having someone you cared about deeply over time show their true colors and shallow asperations

it's sad really, but better to hold onto one's sense of self than to become a shallow impersonation of one's former self

oh to meet a soul mate who breathes in life so deeply and doesn't get caught up in it all

wormy

just when it seems so clear

Name: Blaise
again

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 11:07:01
Comments:

Worm - American Beauty hits too close to home. Lucky for me, she didn't have a gun. �t's true that my kids are younger, I'm not necessarily into younger women and my dealer doesn't get beaten by his dad. Other than that... LOL

Name: Blaise
advice...

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 11:01:26
Comments:

#4 Holding your breath for The Second Arrangement does NOT constitute sound medical advice. Be warned, enjoy and start breathing again.

Name: wormhead
rem ah niss rem a nazz

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 10:53:05
Comments:

roy - amen on American Beauty, the neighbors were well overdone in extremedom and I could only imagine the madness of Bening/Spacey's characters in a more played out tensional sense where they have to deal with each other

as for the bag - it was there all the time Roy, you were finally able to see it ;-) okay, I couldn't resist

enjoying all the TaN commentary

Blaise - I agree full heartedly on the Pretzel Logic cresendo
that song was captured very well indeed

another was Babylon Sisters, which I am glad they inserted into the setlist mid tour, but Shame and Logic would have been nice

major jane street sunrise indeed

wormy

Name: Gbeing survival guide

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 10:39:29
Comments:

#3 As a newbie you might feel ignored for awhile. My advice: Ignore.

Name: Gbeing survival guide
piece of advice

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 10:36:31
Comments:

#2 That special limited edition measuring cup for cruelty is still not available in Europe. Be warned and enjoy.

Name: Gbeing survival guide
advice for the young at heart
Location: newbies, that is
Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 10:32:15
Comments:

#1 Always watch your spelling. There's people here that hunt down mistakes like tape hiss on a Gaucho reel.

Name:

Location: take my toddler,
Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 10:31:16
Comments:

please

Name: Blaise
agrees with Edd

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 10:29:33
Comments:

On Janie Runaway live. The way the vocals are supported by Donald's keyboard gives it more punch.
My favorite on the Plush video has to be Pretzel Logic. It builds in intensity until Donald ends up losing his glasses, the background vocal arrangements are refreshed and quite easy on the ears and, on top of that, this is an old song so the nostalgia factor plays a big role. I get chills everytime. I have to wonder why they didn't take that number on the road.

Gina with a toddler... the mind reels.

Name:

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 10:15:08
Comments:

was that art carney?....

Name: gees st al!
you erased the word
Location: quit, people that quit quit a job in the administration!!!
Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 10:14:06
Comments:

jerry brown! how are things? get back with linda, she was so good for you! California is such an anomoly now isn't it?

okay, i'll go....

Name: cat
ccarney@netzero.com

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 10:12:20
Comments:

hey dan'o "just like a dago, bring a knife to a gun fight"

Name: lp
come to me @ ripe and ready
Location: tell us to stop, before we've begun
Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 10:07:04
Comments:

songs by sd to do it to: (note: not placed in order of any succession of events as they progress, regress, and digress; others may choose to do differently with their list, but i got to get back to my work writing)

1. aja, of course
2. gas lighting abbie - though it appears many will disagree
3. ruby baby
4. maxine
5. your gold teeth
6. on the dunes
7. snowbound
8. green earrings
9. do it again
10. any major dude will tell you

that should bring a few lurkers, veterans and newbies alike, back into the fray

American Beauty was not a favorite movie of mine - when i found out the script was written by a brit i got turned off (though i usually love british humor, wit and drama) - but that's like me writing a script about a Japanese family, can't do it. Kevin Spacey and Annette Bening made it worthwhile, but again, it's a warped sense of what the people over the pond think is going on in suburban america - a macabre version of the Jetsons.

your mouth and legs your gift for the runaround

can she do it? can she just bink on submit addition?.......
.....nah....

hey, it's george stephanoupholousousousousous visiting from abc - what's with the hand moving when you talk? stop that - and why do people that from a job in a presidential administration suddenly have standing and authority to speak about world events and political landscapes? i'm going back to jim lehrer where things are safe and happy......

sorry, but at least i'm getting more current!

Name: " dano "
dan@campbelld51

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 09:46:54
Comments:

roy scam the man, 1st seen mean streets in 1972 . still the best movie ever put out. roy dont get much coverage of the mets in dear old blighty. but i used to watch the blue jays when i lived in T/O . AMERICAN FOOTBALL IS BIG IN UK BUT NOT AS BIG AS SOCCER
remember charlie always believed in st francis.and johnny boy still owes michael. dano signing off , anybody remember classic lines to great movies . keep them coming to "dan"o".

Name: Edd

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 09:44:00
Comments:

All 'round fave off 2vN would go to "Janie...". I've got the audio portion of the PBS special on the same tape as the studio release, and the versions of Janie line up (sorta) so I can listen to live-studio-live-studio-live-etc... The live version gets my vote.

"Dupree" - I wish it wasn't so popular. Burnout is raising its head...

"West Of Hollywood" - Headphone favorite.

But!! But!!! I have a new contender for most melancholic line in an SD song. For years the winner was "I cried when I wrote this song, sue me if I play too long...". I didn't believe they could top that. They still may not have, but they've equaled it. "I'm thinking of a major Jane Street sunrise, And the goddess on the fire escape was you..." all but rips my heart out. Arggg, the images and memories it evokes. So almost "un-SD"!!

Name: Jim
#

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 09:32:03
Comments:

Nothing quite like wrestling 66% more memory into that big beige box, bootin' up and feeling the speedy wind blast off the screen, I mean what other do it yourself project provides such instantaneous results. Whoo hooo..........!!

Ahem.

Okay, TvN after 9 months. Sorry if this runs on a bit.

Gaslighting: Chris Potter picks up and delivers on the sax, good opener, good funk. 5 digit survey says: ###

What a shame: Rewind to February, heard the first two measures on car radio and just flipped out, hollering out the window, etc. I grabbed my partner by the arm, "It's out, they're on, get me to the store...blah rant". (Partner making surrepticious tipping motions of hand to mouth while driving) ####

Two against: I don't know, this is the one that doesn't grab me just yet. I like the rumba thing, using feet you can dance to it. Believe they're setting me up for a sudden revelation. Okay, so it's not my favorite. ##�

Janie: Great grab lyrics and upbeat as well. Fills the gap nicely at ### before we get to...

Almost Gothic: First listen to last this just sounds so lush, the smooth Dan, the theme for the album, "isotope", that vocal rub on the chorus, the way the bridge glides into the final. Man, just can't get any better. Wish so much they would have done this live. Personal favorite from this album. ####�

Jack of Speed: I throw this into my Black Cow can of songs that I've grown into. Hearing this in concert, with the three stagehands doing an impromptu shuck and jive in time, I just kinda "got it" all of a sudden. I've been jivin ever since. Classic Dan. Give it a ###�

Cousin: Just smooooooothes along, plays great live, surely had the whole joint writhing away last July. Skeevy lyrics indeed, but so well constructed fore to aft. OohAah! Another ###�

Negative: Sparse, introspective. Appeals to the theme overall, it grows on ya. Love Ted Baker's work on this. ###

West of Hollywood: Complex..and to be honest I didn't much care for it at first. But like a lot of Dan, you listen in the context of how it compares to so much of the dredge out there, and then, ah then.. ###

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Remember this, if your GB antenna detects negative forces, go to the football message boards (rivals.com, for ex.), and see smack talk at its' finest, or worstest. If you want a lawnmower, go to Sears. To appreciate greater creativity and the moments this group supplies, you come here. And thanks St. Al for providing the format. Thanks to Royscam the Smithfield Ham (sorry neighbor), Edd, tones and others for the funnies of late, and birthdays for Aus, and laptops for Gina!

*dives back in, a splash, then glub glub lurk, lurk*

Name: Roy.Scam
Al.Leiter.shade.of.pale

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 09:04:08
Comments:

I apologize to you Shea dwellers. I just didn't have time to get up to New York and administer the Heimlich maneuver to the Mets this week. .. (Note to selves: Learn how to run bases this winter.)

Danny'O~ Who could forget Mean Streets? A slice of wise-guy gutter life spiced with religious paranoia. Great film. Included the immortal Keitel/DeNiro dialogue: "What's this?" .. "What?".."What's this?".."What?" .."What's this?" .."What?" etc. --Came out about the same time as Countdown to Ecstacy too. What IS a mook?

on American Beauty~ I agree with American Worm. I thought the neighbor boy (as well as the rest of his family) was an exxageration, and I wished they'd focused more on the Spacey/Benning alienation. -- I had a sort of spiritual experience the day after I saw that film: I saw a transparent bag dancing around a corner of a shopping plaza in exactly the same way as the one in the movie. Since I'd never observed this phenomenum in 50 some years of life, I thought it a weird coincidence. Maybe even a sign or supernatural message of some sort. Then I got over it.

To The New One now that it's almost nine month's old:
1) Jack of Speed: my favorite. Improved lyrics, great vocals and instrumentation. The bridge is one of SD's best.
2) Janie Runaway: Stands well alongside the old Steely Dan stuff. I prefer to think of it as romantic rather than sleezy, although I could be wrong.
3) What a Shame About Me: Derivative melody but great lyrics. The back pages of The Nightfly. And the bridge is one of those beautiful, lyrical Fagen escapism passages as were the middle parts of Greenflower Street and Tomorrow's Girls.
.
.
.
10) Gaslighting: Poorest Steely cut since "Everyone's Gone to the Movies". The funk riff and main melody are good, but the 'flame..' chorus is rock-lite annoying and poorly executed. The story has nothing in which I can generate any interest: The characters are cruel , nihilistic and self congratulatory and the lyrics hold no poetry or shared sensations to balm the sting of existence.
Too bad cause, lyrically, this is a great CD. Should be a Grammy nominee for album of the year.

Name: Hank Silvers
hanksilvers@dog.com

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 08:47:45
Comments:

"Like a Steely Dan movie..."? I like the way that sounds. See what you can do with that idea -- maybe there's a song in it.

ruby: People don't sing enough? You haven't been around my place, especially when I'm on the computer; slide a SD CD in the CD-ROM drive, and start surfing and belting 'em out. Fortunately, we don't live in an apartment, so it was only my SO Pat and our 3 Good Cats who endured my turning 11 Tracks of Whack into a duet last night.

2vN, 8 months on, in order of preference:
1) What A Shame - DF and the Don-lettes have it goin' on
2) Janie Runaway - Even if it doesn't rhyme, that last verse has WB's fingerprints all over it, slicing up the sleazeball sugar daddy in just a few words
3) 2vN/Gaslighting Abbie - perfectly good SD songs
4) Almost Gothic - It's OK, but if we're talking about homages to Burt Bacharach, give me I Can't Write Home About You instead
5) Cousin Dupree - sometimes I think of the KFOG MP3 that was the introduction to the disc for many of us; the anticipation, the realization that the wait was over. Oh, and one of the best Chuck Berry songs he never wrote.
6) West Of Hollywood (the first few minutes) - Accomplishments: DF making the line work about pain/pleasure shearing the arc of desire, and a 50-plus man singing the word "gnarly"
6) Jack Of Speed - They shouldn't have let us hear the '96 version first. The record company should've let WB sing it...
7) Negative Girl - I can imagine someone hearing that little vibes-and-bass thing in the middle, and wanting to build a rap song around it. Then they remember Tariq and Gunz and think better of it.
8) West Of Hollywood (the Potter solo and fade) - As far as 3-minute plus instrumentals at the end of songs, give me On The Dunes instead. My 45-minute car tape of the CD runs out right after DF sings "Can't you see the core is frozen," and I just shrug at losing the rest of the song.

Name: wormy
humm

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 08:39:31
Comments:

Good point YGK

imagine "Everything You Did" with a different kind of rose petal fantasy

"caves of altimira" and finding something you forgot you had lost

"aja" that longing for escape

Name: ygk
..

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 08:20:01
Comments:

.....and in bringing this around to the Dan.....
the atmospheres and situations, the pain and sorrow described by the pens of Becker & Fagen, would fit into American Beauty.....a film whose expression of pain, suffering and disfunction effectively describes bizarre realities of the human condition with some American trappings and flava....sounds like a Steely Dan Movie.....

ygk

Name: ruby baby
i need a WUNderground fix

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 08:04:59
Comments:

YGK: re American Beauty - I think I see a tiny bit of myself in the kid next door filming everything. He's way more obvious in his pursuit. I don't film. I saw a bit of myself in Spacey's daughter. I'll never like my own appearance. I saw myself as a teen in her friend. I used to hide behind a wall of phony confidence. I unwillingly see a bit of myself in Ann Benings character, in that for a while I was not nice to the people I love and I used to "sweat the small stuff." As for Spacey's character, I relate to his journey into cutting the shit and getting some satisfaction out of life.
I don't mean to simplify this complex but clear story. Just some thoughts.

David Duchovny? I spit. I choke. Now I need some coke.

Name: wormbrain
beauty in the eye of the beholder

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 07:47:44
Comments:

YGK - nice take on American Beauty

what is this beauty? indeed fleeting

in Lester's life it seems to be the things that rang true
the night under the stars, his Grand mother's hands which felt like paper, his family when there was feeling before the distances brought on by superficiality, neglect and trying to aspire took away the dreams that once were

that scene where the neighbor boy tells beauty queen she is boring and ordinary strikes a chord and so overwhelms her that Lester's assurances make her surrender to him if only to escape the grim reality of who she really is

the other element of the movie was truly living rather than settling for the mundane. Letting go, whether it be Carolyn singing Sinatra or Lester American Women - the pent up frustration being let go was positive (for that person) - yet deeply and sadly comical

when that person you love becomes the one you loath
and regaining your independance and control amounts to singing "I'll do it my way" haven't we really lost something???

I've been there before and certainly never want to settle for that again

Name: dan "o "
dan@campbelld51

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 07:34:21
Comments:

tonys looking a bit thin since his mean steets days, tell him johnny and charlie want to go on the sopranos. hey here comes jimmy mook? anyone remember that scorsese classic.

Name: ygk
..

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 07:19:22
Comments:

I've been raving to several people about the thematic dynamics of American Beauty.
I've always asked - who, or what IS the American Beauty? It's not Mena Suvari, and only perhaps Spacey's Daughter.....but I get chills everytime I think of or see that plastic bag scene....

The seekers of beauty, as Spacey's neighbors kid was, as Spacey's daughter admired and wanted to be around, ring loudly. Benings Anti-Beauty, superficial sense of purpose which was empty and horrific....The underbelly of America represented and shown by an appropriate stab at the military.....repression. But within it all, there are moments of timeless beauty and nuance: Spacey's responsibility to NOT consummate his lust for Suvari.....

In the End, for my take, American Beauty is complex, simple, fleeting, yet ever present under the external wraps of superficiality.

Plan on being at the Herington gig late round 11....
ygk

Name: wormy
friday morning bomb squad

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 06:55:05
Comments:

Aussie - Yanks Away - enjoy that parade - quite impressive
Jazzfest is always last weekend in April, first weekend in May
and is certainly a great time

lp - live songs that found their fruition

Boston Rag, Dirty Work, Janie/Josie pairing with wonderful Ted Baker transition

I feel the monkey in your soul

Name:

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 06:40:19
Comments:

Go Mets!

Name: Edd

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 06:31:55
Comments:

re: Ruby Baby

Sycamore Crest? Possibly Sycamore *Creek*?

I've never heard of either (not surprising), but couldn't find any reference to Sycamore Crest, only Sycamore Creek.

The vineyard was at one time (20 years ago) noted for its chards, but it's small and has changed hands a couple times.

My advice? Open it and enjoy!

Name:

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 06:28:44
Comments:

almost

Name: lp
sparkle @ china

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 06:24:39
Comments:

top ten SD songs done live (criteria used - almost better than studio version):

1. Sign in Stranger - aia (loved the intermission trip)
2. Monkey in Your Soul - 2k (fits becker perfectly)
3. Josie - all 90's tours (it's fun - it reeks of the babe choir philosophy here)
4. kid charlemagne - all 90's tours
5. chain lightning - r&sr (michael mcdonald on stage, a great night that was in mansfield - who was there here?)
6. green street - r&sr ("there's trouble" became a one-syllable word)
7. rikki don't lose that number - aia (great intro)
8. jack of speed - 2k (rocked and smoothed!)
9. babylon sisters - soul sisters tour (3 saxophones, only)
10. bodhisattva - drew zing version, forgot the year (intro for DDDRRRREEEEEWWWWWWWW ZZZZZZZZZZZZinggggggggggg was hilarious by donald)

but you can't lock me in

breaking news: lifetime channel saves victoria principal's career, rescuing her from the home shopping channels `````````````````(that's the ticker tape noise)
(gees, i almost made it through an intelligent posting)

Name: Not My Nancy
doom and gloom

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 06:15:42
Comments:

Aus, congrats, but remember: the last century started with a flurry of Red Sox World Series victories.

Name: topsoilant tom
spaced out

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 05:56:36
Comments:

thanks RUmble, lp and dleestan for your 9 months on view on TaN

almost gothic Kevin Spacey? or more Mickey Rourkish

speaking of Kevin Spacey - with the recent DVD release of American Beauty one has to again marvel at his acting

it's unfortunate that the movie had to playup too many unbelievable aspects (cam boy nextdoor) and didn't focus exclusively on Bening and Spacey's chaos. Bening plays the frigid aspiring and materialistic wife to the t. And Lester's self gratification and "to hell with you" attitude is very moving.

the scene on the couch where Carolyn comes to her senses as she senses the possibility of beer spilling on fine italian silk

fuck Me Myself and Irene

couldn't you see Lester singing along to Babylon Sisters as he drives up to Smiley's????

wormy

Name: Aussie Torres
aussie.torres@painewebber.com
Location: New York, NY USA
Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 05:44:41
Comments:

Happy days here in the city...The Yankees are champs again! Ticker tape up the canyon of heroes to follow on Monday. Don't worry, I'll be there showing my colours. Metsies fans will have to swallow the bitter pill of reality and contend with its long lasting side effects. Totally appropriate to say the word DYNASTY. How sweet it is! Babes and I will be popping the Grand Dame Cliquout tonight for sure.

Metsies in the long run? You said it. The loooooooooooooong run.

Everyone have a stellar weekend.

WormTom: Count on the voice blast when babes and I visit New Orleans for the next Jazz fest....whenever that is.

Aus

Name: chips
this just in
Location: wormy makes the news, film at 11, my time
Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 05:38:41
Comments:

"Computer security experts have said the hackers appeared to have used a virus called QAZ to break into Microsoft's network. They said QAZ first surfaced in China several months ago and is a "worm" virus, which makes copies of itself to spread throughout a
network."

this bbc-one, get the accent right when you say it

Name: Gina
and some miller tales to

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 04:18:09
Comments:

elevate this gloomy friday morning. nice cd, '95 a good marcus miller year, don't know about the wine though, let's leave that to maitre Edd, i like this kitchen we have, this huge friendly place where we sit and linger and look at the monkeys in the trees, almost bearing their souls but then decide to throw bananas at eachother, anyone up for yet another slice of banana cake?

Hi LP, not that I'm having fun because of the nervousness that makes you pop up all those hidden individuals, celebrity or not, haha, nope, but the things you come up with do sound funny and they're not hurting anyone, so ... don't let me fool you, haha, inner peace, i need to write to keep some sort of balance, it's compulsive, keep me from writing and i might turn into a psycho with a schizo-tainted moodswing at times, i don't know.
i take these herbs that keep my nerve-system balanced, without them, haha, you and me could be good for half the world population i guess LOL
but seriously. you just need some time for you and you only. shut down the rest of the world and be on your own. easy for me to say, i quit my job and can really enjoy this leisure time. although i had a houseguest this week that made me long for a toddler instead of a grownup with alcohol abuse ... peanutbutter all over the kitchen and a mess, mess, mess. luckily he went back to reside in the south of France where he's at peace, now that's one individual with major problems to cope with things, very intelligent but born with a dark soul that makes him experiencing life on the edge of death and such ... living in France it's nothing like that, back in Holland it goes wrong again. I might seem inner peaced and maybe I am in a way, but it's still a job I have to work for, haha, labour of survival?

Blaise, sorry if you take some things I write personal when
they're not meant for you but merely a general observation I utter, like the stuff ****** wrote about this GB, neggy but with this inner cry to, haha, I don't know, it seems that when those who read this GB as regular as some write, I still don't get it ... those who sit back and read and judge and accuse, this isn't a hard-to-get-into place, anyone can post, can see their contribution on the screen and strike a response or not, no big deal really. it's a playground, sometimes creative, sometimes fact, sometimes up close and sometimes cyberdistant ... the eye of the beholder, that's what pops up when I read those neggy carved comments ... the eye of the beholder. and there must be some sort of cybercycles, this internet communication has it all, it can be rather anonymous, still one gets to know another one and like in "real" life, all in the course of time and experience and like on this GB, reading between the lines is some sense that can easily be picked up and that's what I mean when I say this is inspiring, at the least.

2VN after 9 months. hm.
it changed, the way i liked the songs when i first had my ears on them. Two Against Nature, i liked that one best, all others in random order just like i play the cd, hit that button random and surprise ...
after the concert in Rotterdam it's Almost Gothic on top ..
and the Alive in America cd, Reeling and the change of lyrics on Sign in Stranger, to me something new compared to the way I used to know these songs, so ...

Oops. Way too long am I cybering now.
A nice weekend everyone and maybe later,
Banyan Tree Bow,
Gina

Name: KD
nbatalk.com

Date: Friday, October 27, 19100 at 03:38:03
Comments:

Former Bullet and Celtic center (and current SuperSonics center) Pervis "Never Nervous" Ellison has a five year old daughter named Aja.

He just spent a few weeks caring for her, doctors thought she had a kidney problem, but apparently that isn't the case. She's fine now.

So there ya go.

Name: Carl
Stallings

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 23:43:16
Comments:

The damn song was stolen from me.

They took "Who Let the Coyote Out" and added a hip-hop beat.

Rolling in my grave...

Carl S.

Name: The hidden track on the new remasters
is

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 22:44:22
Comments:

"Who Let The Dogs Out?"

Name: Bathos Pathos
Hey JaNice!

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 20:36:24
Comments:

Nice to hear from you and hope to see you around but

Lighten Up Sister!!

Name: Janice
jaNice@hotmail.com

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 20:25:43
Comments:

Gad! What grossly bathetic pathos, or pathetic bathos. I can see why some assholes take pot shots at you guys and girls. Don't mean to pile on, but I see something of value in what **** had to say. Don't agree with the way he or she said it, but face it: some of you come across as desperate and needy. And that's cool. Just don't act like you're above it.

At the worst, most people who post with very few exceptions sound like petty, petulant people. And when you get together against some perceived "threat," you sound more like a lynch mob than a group of Steely Dan fans. I'll continue to wade through the poverty to enjoy more 2vN reviews, for example.

Name: @
&

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 20:21:42
Comments:

the banyan tree isn't bowing
and the hangman isn't hanging
on the causeway
by the big hotels
there's a countermoon

Name: lp
no-name-dropping.ugh

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 19:40:11
Comments:

james spader? no way. david duchovny, maybe, on a good day.

Name: ruby baby
sing women, sing for the years

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 19:20:38
Comments:

lucklessPedestrian: I love your Kevin Spacey idea for Neg Girl!

Now there must be a 2vN song made for James Spader ... I just saw Sex, Lies & Video Tape again after all these years so he's on my mind. In fact, I thought I saw him crossing the street the other day. Really, I was at a stop light.

Edd: You are the Wine Chooser! Do you charge a fee?
Question: Have you ever tried Sycamore Crest '97 Mendocino Chardonnay? Someone gave us a bottle - haven't opened it yet. What shall I serve with it?

dstm: Happy Holiday! Being married, I can honestly say that it's just as much, if not more, of an event after you're hitched. I used to think they were joking... Anyway, keep that therapist singing! People don't sing enough.

Name: oleander
not my typo

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 19:14:00
Comments:

Bah humbug on all these tests. It's like the psychic hotline or bad astrology. Or maybe I'm just a lousy test-taker. Or maybe I'm just grouchy because I have to take the damn MBTI again for a program I'm starting. What, they think I might have a new personality type? No such luck. Maj, where are ya when I need ya?

Bring back bring back the Boston Rag! A Fest--or two!--sounds like a go. There is an interest on the distaff side for a Babylon Sisters Fest, but shouldn't Not My Nancy be included honorarily? And Edd, because he can cook Thai? And Blaise because of his gender ambiguity? Either the night of the 11th or of the 12th is copacetic for me.

As far as Le Bar Bat:

From the Digest 10/18-20:

Equally, if not more exciting, will be the official CD release
party for"Like So" at Le Bar Bat, NYC, in co-operation with
Pete Fogel on November 16th, 2000 at 8 p.m.

We are currently exploring the possibility of simultaneously
webcasting the event so that all can enjoy. Performing will be a
combination of players from the "Like So" recording and the Steely Dan Y2K Orchestra. Check the new site to stay up to date on all developments as they occur. Thanks and stay tuned to:
www.jonherington.com

--this from Mark Buckingham. The same info appears on Mr. Herington's web page.

So who's up to meet there? cara, why not??

Name: tones
to

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 18:55:34
Comments:

- I'm 52% slut myself, so it seems we've got all we need. "Confess your passion, your secret fear" and "When I really get to know you", "Let's pretend that's it the real thing and stay together all night long..."

"When we kissed we could hear the sound of thunder..."

Name: luckless pedestrian
locked down and ready in combat mode
Location: shake the rubbish, out on the patio floor
Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 18:29:28
Comments:

thank you to rumble, aja, david in the florida room, dleestan and snakehips for bringing me back to civilization, i was beginning to feel like bernadette peters (stop it...and the sally field one was not me, that was too easy, you got to deeper than People magazine if you are going to play that game)

so, back to real thinking - 2vN thoughts, overall, the lyrics are exceptional, i never tire of reading them over and over, and i do:

shame about me - great breezy vocals with a twist of woody allen and dare i say billy joel when he had some humility (bottle of white?)

2vN - reminds me of blue rondo ala turk on the dave brubeck quartet Time Out release - that should make walt/don happy if they check into this place anymore

janie runaway - i picture a movie with jack nicholson for some reason, chasing some waif around ny and parts easterly - a favorite sing along for my 7 year old, as is cousin dupree

almost gothic has great guitar work

the horns on jack of speed are very smooth

replace jack nicholson with kevin spacey for the flick to negative girl

some of you picture the notes, i picture the scene

working late - who says public servants are not committed? i told snakehips, i think i lost my mind because i have spent the better part of this work week solving other people's problems that have either no solution or a solution that involves an act of the legislature, which is not a good option. whoever comes to the boston thing, btw, stay thorugh monday and you can see a real new england town meeting, a real treat and democracy at its most chaotic moment.

a warm congratulations to ds on her latest foray, us married ones live vicariously through you - good call on the merlot - my other wine story centers on a professional wine taster and poet i dated in college, yes, everyone should date a poet and/or wine steward-type before settling down.

shearing the arc of desire

Name: DandomSlut(tm)
gee,

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 17:42:22
Comments:

whoever wrote that is awfully nice. I'm just checking back to have you all check out www.snopes.com Good site for a rainy day. Urban Legends site updated daily. Some real corkers today, esp. the American Indian/astrological Curse on the next president and Zero Population Growth's terrorist guillotines on men's urinals...

Name:

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 17:31:30
Comments:

Dandom Slut you are a peach! You make me laugh and I luv ya! I'm straight so I can't luv ya like that, but you are one scintillatingly good read.

but tones, hon, I AM good looking and scored higher than 50% slut if you want to help me out....

Name: Dandom Slut (tm)
fell into The Gap but fought it off

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 17:07:21
Comments:

Wow folks. I'm gone for two minutes and 2000 posts pop up.

Now, after I spend a hard day, waking up, and having my coffee- and-cigarette-o's, I like to settle in for some good lovin' at the Guestbook. I gotta say that personal criticisms don't belong here. I hereby appoint myself protectress saint of GB Goddess-like women, and women-like men and sensitive men-men and even butch men-men-men. Any unfair and unwarranted vitriolic posts shall henceforth be forwarded to Your Slut of Dandom, who is a firm disciplinarian, and better suited to listening to endless reams of bs, as opposed to real Dandom people here, who have jobs and feelings and babies and setbacks and triumphs like the real people they are. Aja is a rainbow, and every one I personally know on the GB have proved themselves to be true blue: I would be hard pressed to find myself in finer company.

Dandom Slut often inhabits a fantasy world of her own making, and frankly, few, if any, *****'s get far enough to elicit a slight, cat-like yawn as they are mercilessly crushed beneath her slender and petite foot embraced in a well sharpened, razor blade heeled thigh high boot of butter soft leather. These would be the Don't Dare CFw/M heels.

I have good news for all! Friday has been declared a national Holiday! Three Day Weekend! Bank Holiday!

The occasion of the national holiday is the fact that Dandom Slut has gotten laid! Hooray!

Unfortunately it was actually with a man, so Friday had to be downgraded to a State holiday, so federal employees would have to work. Fortunately, DS had an epiphany that led to successful interpretation of a longstanding, recurring dream that would make Carlos Castaneda blush, and it appears the National Holiday has been reinstated! Hooray!

The celebration started today, and was marked by D.S. convincing her therapist to sing "Hit the Road, Jack" a la Ray Charles, and the discovery he has a lovely, jazzy voice.

D.S., caught in the unexpected monsoonal tide, has regained her psychic ability in time for Dia de los Muertes (too many sketchy instances to list), and in addition to her On-line Phlebotomy Services, will be providing Palm Readings and Coincidence Awareness Training, in addition to referring to herself in the third person for no apparent reason.

Enjoy the Holiday! Make it your own!

LP- chicken w/ chard is such a cliche, and I dislike dry, condescending chardonnays for several reasons. Since you are using some strong flavors in the cooking anyway, go crazy and try a berry-infused merlot or even a berry-riesling. I like the contrast of sweet and spicy, and you can get a lot of Oregon wines on the cheap. They can be much lighter than you might expect, and they have pretty accurate descriptions on the labels, which help. Me, i like Barbie Wine with anything: Robert Mondavi's woodbridge Zin, around 94-97, and comes in a 2 gallon size!

Name: Richard Hatch
Winner/Survivor I

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 17:06:29
Comments:

Has anyone seen Rudy around?

Name: Except the bastards
make you buy the

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 17:01:35
Comments:

whole kit n' caboodle just to acquire "Here at the Western World."

Name: Head of MCA
backcatalog dept.

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 16:57:45
Comments:

"If we change the cover, they'll never notice they just bought all these songs on the remastered original albums."

Name: Craig Fruin,
somewhere in San Francisco...

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 16:43:08
Comments:

"Look at all this money! Remind me to thank Steven and Dan, whoever they are..."

Name: Sally Field
oh no, not again

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 16:31:23
Comments:

Yes, hun, they LIKE you, they LIKE you!

Un - FREAKIN' - believable.

Name: tones,
all set to samba...

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 16:29:03
Comments:

...spending a rainy afternoon with soup and sandwich - temporarily.

snakie - speachless? *Tell* me about it... LOVE "...those shoes. Where did you get those shoes?"

fantasizing secret admirer - object in mirror is closer than it appears...

Last week I was off the sexy GB radar, and today I wake up and I have my very first secret admirer!
Ain't life grand? My bowl runneth over!

fellow newbie lurkers: jump in . The water's fine "here at the Laughing Pines, where the party never ends..."

"More To Come"

Name: dleestan
axiomatic.com

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 16:05:49
Comments:

very good. welcome mr rumblestrip
which is, if i might say, better than snakehips
whom everyone seems to be drooling over and about

TAN 9 MONTHS LATER

Gaslighting Abbie - ****
Coolest sound/style upgrade for Steely Boys.
Neato Bodhisatva ending. TAN pace vehicle.

What a Shame About Me - ***
Is it Bossa? Rumba? Very cool from note one, also very Fagen.

Two Against Nature - ***
Hot voodoo, fairly uncharacteristic rem. of Dave Matthews Band
Chorus reminds me of "Secret Agent Man"

Janie Runaway - ***
Tasty morsel. Almost a throwaway/ proving they are supreme beings who don't take pop too serious. More than tasty,
delicious.

Almost Gothic - ***1/2*
Morphine. Strange but beautiful like "her".
Becker/Fagen perfect song excercise

Jack of Speed - ****
Typical Steely Dan condensed novel. Most memorable song/best lyrics

Cousin Dupree - ***
Hilarious, (pun) reminds me of Bill. Racy?

Negative Girl - ****
Deep inspiration. Heartwrenching. More and more morphine.

West of Hollywood - ***
Dan's strongest men's song. Highly developed; powerful.
Great song sections, solos, Al Stewart vocals.

Name: rumble
TaN revisited

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 14:55:19
Comments:

worm tom asked, 'so what does one think of TaN after nearly 9 months?'

This one thinks it is still good to listen to. It reminds me of the summer. I think I'm not in the best frame of mind to appreciate it right now. It seems Pretzel Logic and Royal Scam are my 'fall' albums. Katy is just too summery too. CTE is OK and CBAT is seasonless!

Responses to TaN songs:

Gaslighting Abbie - my view hasn't changed, it's my least favorite track; I like the music, don't care much for the lyrics.

What a Shame About Me - yes - an excellent groove

Two Against Nature - still my favorite, love to crank up the volume on this one.

Janie Runaway - Stands the test of time very well. But I'll probably never get used to 'Who has a friend named Melanie?'

Almost Gothic - OK, this is the exception, a good one for the season! He's hanging on her every word (even though 'a wise child walks right out of here'), in classic Fagen style... don't know what I mean by that except that it's the theme of man-admires-woman-but-something-will-always-go-wrong (e.g. 'you can't escape it, that beam is sure to find you', 'I wish I had a heart of ice', & of course Neg. Girl) to which he lends his particular vocal twist...

Jack of Speed - I don't listen to this one much, it's more summery. I really liked it a few months ago and will come around again I'm sure.

Cousin Dupree - timeless

Negative Girl - Still sounds fresh, different.

West of Hollywood - I am trying to attend to the sax solo each time. It is easy to drift off and not pay attention to the melody, just listen to the underlying stuff, but even though the melody takes off all over the place I've been able to find places to 'hang my ear on' for lack of a better term... reference points if you well. It really is melodic once you get used to it, and I don't think it is too long. Anyway this has that California Dan feel which I enjoy.

General comment: this album has been a good one for learning to listen to the different instruments. Since I saw the Making of Aja, I have been trying to isolate tracks in my head like on a mixing board, with some success. I definitely hear more than I used to.

Do other people feel this album sounds different from earlier ones? I think it does. But I couldn't explain why.

Name:

Location: ,
Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 14:04:48
Comments:

i'm sorry i was supposed to go now, the larry comment just threw me back in

larry susskind?

still do not know what CFM is, go off-line with me.

Name: larry tate
i love louise, sort of

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 14:01:10
Comments:

Darrin, stop looking at my tight polyester pants!

Name: Sit
& Sleep

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 13:37:29
Comments:

You're killin' me, Larry!

Name: |||||
re: C.F.M.
Location: seven,
Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 13:29:06
Comments:

OH, NOW I get it!

Name:

Location: ,
Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 13:06:25
Comments:

Name: disembodied voice

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 13:05:39
Comments:

go the distance

Name: aimee mann
not even remotely related to below
Location: the 60's, was a misnomer, see generation jones website
Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 12:50:04
Comments:

you don't get much cooler than me.....

i shoulda beat out that flamer phil collins, it was fixed!

Name: Terence Mann
to Ray Kinsella

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 12:43:09
Comments:

You're from the 60's, aren't you?

Go back!! Back to the 60's where you came from!!

Name: lp
digging and pondering
Location: good list, but you need an upgrade
Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 12:42:28
Comments:

I was watching the pbs special/concert on sd again, and not to risk adding myself further higher to the list of gb-irritants, was anyone else disappointed in that particular version of Jack of Speed and FM - wasn't it just so much better live in concert later on? the pbs one just felt so stale; and even overall, the ladies just hadn't gotten the feel of the "earlier" works of sd so they just weren't "on" (though i know the men would disagree based upon different factors) in that special (pre-2vN only). But, they pulled it off in the summer and sounded great, so maybe they just needed a little time.

okay back to the obscure -

i feel like the shift from bloom county to outland is a symbol of my existence here over the last 24 hours.

opus! great to see you! still chasing mary kay saleswomen?

Name: rumblestrip
dissipating

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 12:39:01
Comments:

well now the day's shot at work what with a snore-inducing conference call this morning, network issues in my dept. and me still sleepy from going out on a 'school night'.

trying to come up with some inspiring insights or a jumping-off point.

lp wants something poignant.... howzabout Mingus poetry from the 60s?

Don't Let It Happen Here

One day they came and they took the communists,
And I said nothing because I was not a communist.
Then one day they burned the Catholic churches,
And I said nothing because I was born a Protestant.
One day they came and took the unionists,
And I said nothing because I was not a unionist.
One day they came and took the people of the Jewish faith,
And I said nothing because I had no faith left.
Then one day they came and they took me,
And I could say nothing because I was as guilty as they were,
For not speaking out and saying that all men and women have a right to freedon.
So... don't let it happen here.

||||||||||

Name: shoe salesman
come on snakehips, get in let's go

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 12:28:33
Comments:

C.F.M?

are these anything like F.M. Pumps?

Name: jamie lee curtis
who's your screamer, blaise?
Location: i heard she was born, with both, if you get my drift
Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 12:23:20
Comments:

don't even put me in the same chat room as those girls, i'm still hot

Name: linda blair
i was showcased on cable too gabe
Location: where are you now, bub
Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 12:21:31
Comments:

i was better than karen, blaise - but you knew that

Name: karen black
how about some eye surgery dot com

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 12:17:22
Comments:

oh blaise, don't drift afar too long

Name: s-hips
@ the sprangle

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 12:02:40
Comments:

I was just told I have CFM shoes on today. Hmmm, sounds like sexual harassment. Well, I don't mind a little sexual harassment now and then.

C'mon kick off those heels ma'am...

Name: lp
getting off the couch.soapbox
Location: oh no, she's getting lucid again!
Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 11:48:30
Comments:

now wait a minute: sorry, i don't DO catfights, i know that makes me boring, but tough nookies. i get my kicks in other ways.

i'm envious in a healthy way of Gina's inner peace - i have the outer shell of peaceful living; but the inner turmoil of ironic, sarcastic play and endless nervous laughter (when i was a kid, i used to put my head in the pull up desk area so i could laugh without the teacher (nun) seeing me - i would turn purple! - class clown with straight A's, frustrating teachers even more) - this is the side, fortunately or unfortunately, that gets portrayed herein.

I have to be so mending, that when possible, i just want to be meddling!

Gina doesn't seem to have a need to do such sophmoric things and i wish i was more like that on a 24/7 basis, instead of a 9 to 5 basis as i do now.

..........so you see doctor newhart, i can't get suzanne plechette out of my mindset........

Name: Blaise
and since you know I'm leaving...

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 11:45:28
Comments:

...why don't you give me something to play with when I come back? You know the visits are getting fewer and further between. It's your chance to let me have it. In fact, I'm craving it.

Gina, nothing below the belt please. Thank you.

Ciao

Name: Blaise
boxing Gina!

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 11:34:38
Comments:

Gina vs LP catfight in the making? Now here's a reason to stick around if there ever was one. I will be back to assess the damage later on.

For now, done for the day... see ya around sometime.

Name: ruth buzzi
takethat.com

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 11:33:17
Comments:

hey i'm still working!

i'm closing in on big bird.

Name: s-hips
caves of altamira

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 11:25:48
Comments:

Per Ms. LP's request, here are some of the artists I've listened to in the last six months (for only a few minutes though, when I'm not listening to SD)

10. Clapton - Usually "From the Cradle", sometimes "Pilgrim"
9. Aretha - just about anything by her will do, but I like the old stuff with lots of piano and great horns
8. Sinatra
7. Otis Redding
6. Stevie Wonder
5. Bonnie Raitt
4. James Brown
3. Macy Gray - looks wild and psychedelic, sounds funky, bluesy
2. Soundtrack from "Smokey Joe's Cafe", just to hear that chick belt out "Fools Fall in Love"
1. Pavarotti - "Live in Central Park"- He can calm a serious case of road rage on my way into work

What do ya think: Falsetto Donald Fagen = Marvin Gaye Falsetto Eric Clapton = Curtis Mayfield

OK - sounds like I'm pretty much living in the past (except for Macy Gray) What can I say?

It's hard times befallen the sole survivors...

Name: Blaise
baffled I said

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 11:23:41
Comments:

I am wondering aloud here, babbling (and it's your fault for not entertaining me, worm and you all). "Neggy this and that..." That should keep the old mind reel rolling for awhile. Thanks.

Clas, the freebie is a limited time offer so... don't delay!

Name: hey
let's not start
Location: picking on people, again
Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 11:19:09
Comments:

gina's okay, even if she thinks i'm sybil - oh wait, there's mary hartman (and i don't mean ET), oh mary, i've got some tea brewin'!

up, she's gone, so blaise, what else is new with you? have you found a new laptop?

back to digging myself out of the politcal mire

aja, how are you?

Name: Blaise

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 11:14:28
Comments:

Why can't I understand anything this woman is writing now? I used to read her loud and clear. It's musical at least, I guess...

Name: Gina
yeah right

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 11:06:47
Comments:

still flaky this GB ...hi there Blaise, yes, @home's more comfy but i'm not making it a habit, life outdoors and offline have my preference. but i like these evening time more than the daytime busy world time.

LP, you crazy funny One Lining Girl ... there is a Chaise Longue somewhere around this place, we have shrinks as well if there's something you gotto get out of your system. Maybe you're a multiple personality person, who knows ... cosy, all those folks in one, haha.

Am off again. I like the neggy things that make no sense, the neggy affectionate attachment thingies. Funny, pushing these buttons in the nonlitterally way. What power this medium has, right? A wave it occurred as swift as it's gone again.
Human nature. Darkness is an open book to read.
Inspiring, to say the least.

Bye now, Gina

Name: Monkey Face
Home@last

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 11:00:29
Comments:

Question:

I know that the quality of older Dan stuff on CD is, like, crap.

I know the box set (which I never owned) was remastered.

I know the more recent remasters (all of which I do own) sound very, very good compared to the older Dan issues; it turned Royal Scam into my favorite Dan album.

So, do any of you hear discernible improvement between the new remasters and the box set, and which material is being sourced for the upcoming two-CD set? Which strikes me, along with the Tom Petty anthology, as shameless attempts by Universal/Uni/MCA to make some Xmas bucks.

(Worse yet, on the Tom Petty website there is a shameless justification for the anthology, with, presumably, the band saying words to the effect of "this two-CD set bridges a crucial gap between our 17-song greatest hits CD and the six-CD box set we already put out." Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck THAT! I suppose we should be glad that Becker and Fagen haven't said a thing about Show Biz Kids: The Steely Dan Story on their own website.)

Name: !*&#%@!&
$%^&$#@

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 10:50:37
Comments:

Will the following people please report to the customer service desk:

hutch, fezo, razor boy, q, robin, cara mia, lucyb, z, jwmalibu, dr krueger, mr chow, altimira, bullet, david in the florida room, hank

thank you
have a nice day shopping here in the blue light special district

Name: Edd

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 10:49:34
Comments:

re: lp and wine

In the same ~$10 range as the Clos Du Bois is Glass Mountain Chardonnay (Bottled by Markham Vineyards). I find this to be a great "every day" chard. The Clos Du Bois has a distinctive "grassy" taste which, while not unpleasant, I'd prefer less of. The Glass Mountain works.

For a couple dollars more there's Rodney Strong's Sonoma Chardonnay. Worth the extra $2. I had a bottle each of '97 and '98. By chance I opened the '97 first, and loved it. The next evening I wished I had another bottle and yikes! There in the back was the '98. I *think* there was a distinct difference. The '98 was still good, but for whatever the reason I just wasn't as thrilled as the night before...

Name: Blaise
baffled

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 10:44:52
Comments:

Aja - That was really Fondo flying off the handle like that? So he's complaining about himself now. I'm so confused!

Name: Blaise

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 10:39:07
Comments:

I would join in on the thread if there was one but for now:
Congrats to Gina on the new addition to the family and, as I'm writing this, I am filled with the deepest of jealousy but what's new, right? Now, how about making my laptop reappear like that? It's so much nicer in the comfort of your own home, don't ya think?
Aja, you go girl! What was the problem? Oh, this guy? Whatever...
Clas, you can kiss mine as well, free of charge, for now...

I'll stay here for a minute until someone gets mollested or starts a topic or something happens... anything.

Name: chips
is this steelydan.com?

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 10:11:19
Comments:

what's happening?

Name: lp
who let the lithium out?
Location: hou hou hou hou, who let the nyquil out?
Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 09:40:59
Comments:

my god, i need a LIFE.....

maybe i should hang out with tones and snakehips more and let their lovin' spoonful rub off on me.....

will someone please say something poignant?

Name: the galloping gourmet
pbs.zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 09:37:34
Comments:

thank you for that spritely tidbit

sherry, anyone?

Name: local wino
fortified fruit beverage critic

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 09:34:19
Comments:

uh uh whaa.. uh uh yo... you woke me up beotch.

sumz damn body wanna know about wine ?

if yo like me and ain't gonna eats no meat or fish or no damn dinner anyway...

red lady 21.

she's de ace & queen of wines. quenty-one percent active ingredient suspended in concentrated grape juice.

kickin' ass goin' down AND comin' up. full bodied.

da word from da skreet.

Name: morgan fairchild
enter with surgeon handy

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 09:24:49
Comments:

i thought i was!

Name: tones 'n todd

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 09:16:57
Comments:

tones, sweetheart, you are the SEXIEST thing to come down this pike in a long, loooooong time.

OH MY!

(your fantasizing secret admirer)

Name: dean martin
enter with flask handy

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 08:50:50
Comments:

i think i'm dead too

Name: dan"o"
dan@campbelld51

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 08:49:40
Comments:

who said welcome dano, im like a castle in the corner in this medievel net, but i stay here just the same. i live in england but im actually a ( sweaty sock ). i cant believe it last two times the dan have came to blighty i had already booked my vacation. well pissed off with that , anyway us brits will stuff the yanks at churchill downs , if theres anyone like a gamble get on petrushka . did anyone see the dan over there . whats the show like do they do all the old stuff? , only replies from americans please . get this jock on line ???

Name: i'm working on
gospel time these days

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 08:33:24
Comments:

carl - you're a dead guy, that's why.

Name: lou reed
enter minus andy warhol

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 08:29:07
Comments:

don't feel bad carl, no one listens to me anymore either

Name: ||||||||||
@my gateway

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 08:10:20
Comments:

lp, ole, NMN - A Boston DanFest - all right, that's easier than CT. Nov. 12 sounds good. I don't think anyone showed up for CT (maybe poorjohn... poor john if he was the only one there!)

I authored the Hawkeye post in case you wanted to know.

No wine advice forthcoming from me

and they closed the package store

Name: carl sagan
enter chatting with ralph nader

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 08:07:56
Comments:

how come no one listens to me anymore?

Name: Not My Nancy
send it to ZOOM

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 07:51:56
Comments:

Ole, lp--I'm in Boston & Concord, tho not a shrink...keep me posted...

Name: DrMu

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 07:46:55
Comments:

Here's the Petty link. Surrender is one of their classic Byrds-like tunes.

http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/11/tom_petty_and_the_heartbreakers.html

Name:

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 07:35:22
Comments:

MCA forgot I've Got the News and Home at Last

otherwise the second disc is Aja and some Gaucho and Royal excerpts

how is this engaging?

how about a more creative running order?
chronological from album to album doesn't cut it

Name:

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 07:29:10
Comments:

MCA worldly wonder

rerelease the catalog ad nauseum

well it started with the Who
who actually have more best of's than albums

so look for 5 or more reissues
all with slightly diffenrent packaging
but no rarities on any of them

anyone with a cd burner or a good tape deck can do this

ho hum

Name: lp
strike a match @ anthony's bar and grill

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 07:24:04
Comments:

okay kd, i'll lurk for awhile

but that was a great one liner you did, i alughed out loud at my desk, you should try a few yourself here, someone else was yesterday other than me, so i'm not the only one around here who is &*%$#@!

love em till they run for cover

Name: KD
nbatalk.com

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 07:20:39
Comments:

When did this place get fucked?

Name: hmmm....
why does the statement
Location: babes and drinks, offend me?
Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 07:18:15
Comments:

signed betty friedan

Name: s-hips
i need a dictionary

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 07:17:08
Comments:

that should be "went to House of Blues"

It's early. I'm tired.

Name: s-hips
my desk

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 07:15:19
Comments:

lp, I'm workin' on it. haven't had this much homework in a while.

aus, "babes for dinner and drinks". why does that make me smile?

wormy, what no babes and drinks?

t, sometimes you leave me speechless

||||||||, I haven't seen/heard any good live music since the boys came to town last June. When to House of Blues in Chicago in July and it was closed for a private party. Damn.

speaking of Todd...
...you know that i'd be with you if i could..

Name: john delorean
entering with style

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 07:06:31
Comments:

wanna buy a car?

Name: luckless pedestrian
growing outside @ door

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 07:03:34
Comments:

disclaimer - the one liners posted here since the gabe kaplan one from yesterday are not, i repeat, not, mine....

i'm feeling less rambunctious than yesterday - whew, i'm sure you are relieved, decongestants are keeping me calm now, thank you for your patience - though i may get urges throughout the day as i try to get 40 hours of work done in 8......hollywood squares/obscure celebrities theme seems to be the most irritating, no? i thought the political figures would be.

||||| - i'm jealous of that concert, it sounds fabulous

oleander - i'm in for a boston fest - how about sunday the 12th? i have to make up for bagging out in new haven last week (did anyone go?) a shrink-fest, is it? maybe i should stay way then, i overanalyze enough. though we do have a very high density of psycho-therapists, psychiatrists, and psychologists per square mile in the metropolitan area of boston, its highest point in density is cambridge, with concord coming in second. it makes sense they would meet here, where are you, at the Hynes (a monstrosity of a building - beep, thanks for playing, please try again)

hey newbies, i requested some top tens yesterday from you - scroll down and give it a whirl. i don't want to dominate this place today.

have a great day, even you aussie - i love NY, just don't like their sports teams, though i was impressed the jets pulled that game out of their keisters monday night. hey i grew up in syracuse, remember? SU football, basketball and lacrosse - baseball doesn't do it for me.

any wine critics out there? i used to go to this wine shop in cambridge, when i lived in belmont, where i could walk in, hand the guy 20 bucks and a copy of the recipe i was making, and he would hand me 2 fabulous, perfect bottles of wine and send me on my way. where i live now, in more surburbia, the liquor stores are horrendous. so - baked chicken, stuffed with onions and lemons with garlic roasted potatos (in my aga, for you brits lurking), with a yet to be named vegetable. wine ideas? i tend to go to clos du bois when in doubt and i have moved into more euro fare since their prices are lower than california now. 10 bucks per bottle range.

now i got to go, i just spotted jill st john out my office window....
jill, how you been? got work? wanna get a latte?

i'm really trying to stop, i think i need help.

soon they gonna to be in bloom up in annondale

Name: Not My Nancy
re: re

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 06:57:04
Comments:

Is there going to be a reNightfly? Mine has taken a walk and I can wait a *little* while to hear New Frontier if new swank liner notes are on the way.

I bought "Chain Reaction" on Amazon last night (got distracted from making a rush purchase of a Digimon costume for Dan, my 4yr old). I neeeeeeeeed some non-scholock Larry, hence the moderate urgency on Nightfly...

Name: DrMu
cutundpasteria
Location: ,
Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 06:45:46
Comments:

Rikki Don't Lose That Number

Name: DrMu
thisplaceisgettingweirder
Location: COOL,
Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 06:44:16
Comments:

From Hoops Digest:

1
Do It Again
Dirty Work
Reeling in the Years
Only a Fool Would Say That
Change of the Guard
Bodhisattva
Boston Rag
Show Biz Kids
My Old School
Rickki Don't Lose That Number
Night by Night
Pretzel Logic
Any Major Dude Will Tell You
Black Friday
Bad Sneakers
Doctor Wu
Any World (That I'm Welcome To)
Chain Lightning

2
Kid Charlamagne
Don't Take Me Alive
Haitian Divorce
Fez
Here in the Western World
Black Cow
Aja
Deacon Blues
Peg
Josie
FM
Babylon Sisters
Hey Nineteen
Time out of Mind
Third World Man

FUCK MCA!

Tom Petty's new Anthology has a great old song recorded for the first time: Surrender. Take a hint? I know - not a chance for Kulee, 2nd A, Aja outtakes, etc.

Name: |||||||||||||

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 05:39:00
Comments:

The Mingus band was smokin' last night. The bass player was using Mingus' actual 'lions head' bass! The rhythm section in particular was phenomenal!!

you're smokin' - ah, you're SMOkin' - mm, mm, mm

Name: wormtom
international feel

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 05:23:22
Comments:

a certain scent of Todd wails the air
international feel indeed... but there's always more

Aussie - you may not be using those game 7 seats
thanks for the invite - dinner drinks and gals
I've been yearning to take Manhattan
and if you're ever in New Orleans don't hesitate
care to settle for dinner and some music?

Ole and Not MY - I think you have it on the Gaucho cover
stirrups - and here I thought it was something kinky at the Custerdome

shoot - StevieDan must have taken the night off

I missed Dan Hicks and Victoria Williams tuesday night
there's been a drought of good music here lately

tom

tonight when I chase the dragon

Name: Travis Ray Cole
oeoeoe@usa.net
Location: Chicago,IL. U.S.A., IL. U.S.A.
Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 02:20:00
Comments:

"leisure union war vs.free oil for 3rd world tax us"
IS A NICE WAY TO SAY THE MONEYS NO GOOD

Only photos of Gina, is in some guitar magazine

Name: Mother Goose

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 01:40:00
Comments:

And she walked thoughtfully farther and deeper through forests and past swampy places; but as happens with those who think on difficult things, on her way she unintentionally trod on a person.

And behold, all at once a cry of pain and two curses and twenty little invectives spurted up into her face: so that in her fright she raised her stick and brought it down on the person she had trodden on. But she immediately came to her senses; and her heart laughed at the folly she had just committed.

Name: Clas
more Prozac to the people

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 01:19:15
Comments:

Boston? A medical congress? A bribe-trip payed by the pharmaceutical manufacturers?

I know.

My shrink is going to Boston too.

StAl - kiss your ass? How did you know, you handsome stud of a big hunk - come on over here!

Name: THE BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE PETERS
Dutch West Indies Company

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 00:54:55
Comments:

AUSSHOLE: Youre stupider than most Yankee fans: I said my folks MADE Manhattan, GOT IT? They made it and you parasitically TRY to feed on it.

Now see if you can find a borrowed branch from some borrowed tree on a borrowed piece of that island -- a MONKEY bar will do -- and put those faded suspenders mercifully to use as they were meant for you to use them.

Mets in the long run.

Name: Clas
@ work

Date: Thursday, October 26, 19100 at 00:44:43
Comments:

- Hey, I rented a car yesterday.

- Oh, wow, is that so?

- Yeah, it's a giant car, a BIG car!

- Oh, great.

- It's a 800 Mega Hertz.

- No shit?

Name: oleander
got a feeling I've been here before

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 21:32:54
Comments:

RS--How did you know I've been studying Tantric roflmaoism? Join me on top of Craggy Peak at sunset and let me do my homework on you.

Aja--don't stay away. I know you know bullshit when you see it, and that ***... doesn't know shit from Shinola. (sorry Edd) Keep your DSM IV handy for light reading.

Not My--Nice. Unfortunately, it looks as though Jesse Helms will outlive us all. More joy, I guess, to vote against him again and again.

DStm--You can have the remaster. I'll take the original any day.

Got the reGaucho. But the liner notes this time left me... empty, and sad. And clear as to just what a comeback "2vN" really is.

I also think Rickie Lee Jones' new one is too... minimalist, but there's something that makes me grin to hear her incredibly underuse Joe Jackson, Dan Hicks, Ben Folds, and Taj Mahal.

Anybody going to Le Bar Bat 11/16 for the Jon Herington party? I'm angling for it.... And anybody in Boston & environs interested in Festing between 11/11 & 11/16? I'll be there for work.

St. Al--talk to the maj about holding the baby. He tried putting the keyboard on the floor and posting with his toes.

Monkey--Sometimes people here actually don't say something if they have nothing to say--e.g., "Show Biz Kids" track listing. And sometimes you have to ask stuff several times before someone bites. Be patient. It's worth it. But I think you're right that it's not a major item of interest--maybe even deep fans are not overwhelmed by yet another greatest hits.

wormy--I'm with Not My. It's a soft boot in a stirrup--you can see the horse's flank and the grass behind. Could it be a gaucho's stirrup? Any Argentinian cultural aficionados out there?

Rereading "Idoru," and having a lot of fun reading about another rabid fandom.

Name: hoops
hoops@dandom.com

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 21:19:59
Comments:

Great Lakes Trifecta Reunion Danfest Nov 4

Be certain to check out the latest from our hosts Hat2Flat and The Wonderwaif of Irving Park and friends as they gather us together for the Milwaukee/Chicago/Detroit Trifecta Danfest Reunionon Saturday, November 4, 2000 in Chicago.

See http://dandom.com/danfests/trifecta for all the details and remember to sign up for the listbot, too.

I plan on being there--hope you will be too! They have lots planned!

hoops!

Name: "You can't get off
this wheel of karma,
Location: you can't stop, the hands of time"
Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 21:09:46
Comments:

Ruby - you seem to "Shine" yourself. That's no "Cliche." :-)

I may be "Only Human", or maybe Nearly Human, but I was "Born to Synthesize"

"All Smiles"

t - "I Mean to Shine" someday myself...

Name: Aussie Torres
@home
Location: New York, NY USA
Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 20:54:44
Comments:

BEST [ASSHOLE] OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS: Man oh man. Thanks for making my day!!! Not born in Manhattan but what has that got to do with anything? Your second grade attempt at meaness is so fucking hilarious, I'm allowing peers and a variety of others who control your economic realities to read your feeble attempts at verbal warfare. It's actually embarrassing for me. So do me a favour....get some rest, breathe deeply....and tell yourself...."Everything will be alright.....everything will be alright....." And by the way.....so sorry your sorry ass Metsies lost tonight. Have a great night loser.

Wormster!!!: Thanks bro'!! You must give a voice blast next time you're in MANHATTAN. Be my pleasure to host you with babes for dinner and drinks anytime you say.

LUV,

Aus

Name: ruby baby
saving grace

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 20:53:05
Comments:

tones: you may be a slut, but you look good to me!

Name: Uh,
could you...

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 20:39:31
Comments:

...call off the flying monkeys? I'm trying to concentrate on you...

Name: Pointy-haired Boss
enter the Twilight Zone

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 20:37:13
Comments:

Dilbert, order me 5 dozen left-pointing arrows by tomorrow. All of our arrows point right!

Name: that's
the

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 20:25:45
Comments:

spear-it

Name: Is that a spear
in my pocket...

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 20:14:49
Comments:

...or am I just glad to see you?

Name: Wicked Witch of the West
enter my castle

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 20:11:28
Comments:

ring around the rosie, a pocketful of spears

Name: Henny Youngman
pluck my g-string

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 20:10:18
Comments:

take my ring...please!

Name: I
can't
Location: see a thing...,
Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 20:10:02
Comments:

'till you open my eyes...

Name: Dick Vitale
entering Cameron

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 20:05:58
Comments:

that's not a ring, that's a hoop babee!

Name: Wisk
enter the wash

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 20:00:59
Comments:

I'm hot under the collar baby

Name: Frodo
there's no question about baggins on the slut test

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 19:59:56
Comments:

Where the hell's my ring?

Name: Mike Tyson
enter the ring

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 19:58:09
Comments:

Anybody know where I can get a bite to eat?

Name: Rip Van Winkle
Enter Sandman

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 19:55:22
Comments:

...and how much I love you, you'll never know-oh until you join me within my dream...

Name: Hello,
it's me...

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 19:49:40
Comments:

You cried wolf. Don't you ever learn? Couldn't I just tell you it wouldn't have made any difference?

Does anybody love you? You don't have to camp around. I don't want to tie you down.

You need your head when the shit hits the fan.

Sometimes I don't know what to feel. I'm looking at you but I'm talking to myself. The last thing you said was the last thing I heard. You left me sore. Broke down and busted.

I went to the mirror. I saw the light. Love is the answer. Love of the common man.

Call it what you will. Can we still be friends? It takes two to tango. We got to get me a woman. Something to fall back on.

Don't hurt yourself. Time heals. A dream goes on forever. I think you know.

tones - in classic Todd mode

Name: tones...
thinking No World Order
Location: is, a classic
Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 18:38:36
Comments:

Man, tough crowd...

Name: Hey, man
iff'n yer gonna quote Todd

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 18:33:50
Comments:

in a Steely GB, make it a classic, willya please?

Name: Mr. Kot-TAIR
Bad_School@enwhysee
Location: Brooklyn,
Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 18:31:37
Comments:

Whuht...

--Vinnie B.

Name: Bruce Lee
enter the dragon

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 18:21:00
Comments:

Do not think...feeeeeeeel. That's is, right there baby...Ohhhh Myyyyyy!

Name: n-sync
aboard our lush tour bus

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 18:01:17
Comments:

thanx for the kind words. we may do a dan song on the next album or enlist donald for our sextet project. it would be perfect between the britney and kid rock cuts.

Name: tones,
spanish kissin'...

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 16:22:22
Comments:

S-hips, thanks for the, um, "support" ;-)... thanks to you, it's only a temporary condition...

...see it glisten...

Name: snakehips
cant you see...

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 15:19:41
Comments:

t, sorry about your listlessness. (tee,hee)

...our love will grow...

Name: ruby baby
don't fence me in

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 15:18:33
Comments:

TechnoMotorhome: Thanks for sharing! Your thoughts are important to me, too. Don't be so scarce yourself!

the invisible poster: "...tell Him I need a few hundred thousand dollars."
Funny, it never crossed my mind to ask Him for money. He's always provided for all my needs and most of my wants. When I was on Food Stamps, I always had enough left over to share with many other families. People never even guessed I was using Food Stamps... He multiplies beyond our feeble math. But I'll ask Him for you. Actually, He's already told me that He'd much rather hear from you. He's waiting patiently.

Clas: You and I are pretty much alike! I don't mind reasonable taxes. I don't want the government running everything, though, especially medical care.
I want a government that creates an atmosphere of being more on the self-sufficient side. But I understand your desire to not stress yourself over health care.

Thought for the day: sometimes your sternum agony gets your creative juices flowing - so don't knock it! As the song goes, "you got to roll with it, baby!"

I've sent your package! Look for it on Friday!

YGK: I love your cd!! I'm putting it in the car - great driving around music! How's the new band experience going? I forget the name (is it Ratdog? No, that's not right...) Tell us!

Name: "We got to have
more sex,

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 15:14:05
Comments:

more comforting.
A little bit of foreplay and afterglow,
let my people go.
Talkin' 'bout peace on earth, children,
sheltering.
Hopin' every man, every woman,
we're gonna take control of our own bodies."

Todd Rundgren

Name: tones...
you should have read
Location: the one, that got away...
Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 14:41:43
Comments:

Had a brilliant insightful post ready to go, but microsoft's fabulous product crashed and alas all was lost... but I'll try to paraphrase...

CounterMooner, or whateva - in your rush to self-righteousness you never gave Monkey-face your straight answer, which would be...

MF- if you're still around... Lack of interest in "Show-biz Kids" is probably due to the fact that its another repackage jobbie by MCA, notable only for the remastered versions of "Here at the Western World" and "FM". But, dammit, my deep affection for "Western World" is almost enough to make me spring for a CD burner...

More later... btw, this place ROCKS if you let it...

toner - a bit list-less, but working on it...

Name: wormbait
checking in before doing a snagglepuss

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 14:37:04
Comments:

Aussie - hey I'm with you on the Yanks and if I lived in Manhattan I'd be proud of it also
man, you seem to get almost as much undeserved grief here as Aja
-oh and Happy Birthday!

LP - Miss impersonater - what's next your version of Hollywood Squares?

mandatory dan snippet - so what does one think of TaN after nearly 9 months?

trying to get a decent date this weekend, arghhhh

exit stage left

Name: lemur with a femur
not in Chicago

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 14:35:18
Comments:

Monkey: The Show Biz Kidz thing - see last week on GB. No track listing known...

Name: BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS
Born in NY, NY; Raised in Brooklyn; Reside in California. Die Wherever.

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 14:24:04
Comments:

Yeah but asshole, were you BORN in Manhattan! That's what I thought. Mets in long run. Hey I had no idea Bob Murphy was STILL callin' em. Geeeez.

Name: Aussie Torres
aussie.torres@painewebber.com
Location: New York, NY USA
Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 14:04:39
Comments:

Snakehips: Thanks!

LP: you must've not watched the game at all. It was well played, high tension throughout. There was actually a record set for most strikeouts in a world series game: 25, with the Incomparable El Duque getting 12 of those bad boys himself (unfortunately in a losing effort...plus he had the flu!)The Star Spangled Banner rendition was just ok. As for N-synch...nice try, but noooo thanks.

Met(sies) fan/Steely Dan Fan: Just a quick reminder in case you forgot: I LIVE IN MANHATTAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Aja: No worries. More people embrace you around these parts than don't. Can't expect to be liked by everybody anyway. Chin up and welcome back.

Go Yanks.
Aus
rough day in the markets.....phew!

Name: snakehips
unintentionally thoughtless

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 13:54:51
Comments:

with all the crap from you know who, no one wished Aussie a happy birthday.

happy birthday. 35 is a great age. Enjoy!

Go mets (sorry)

Here at laughing pines where the party never ends...

Name: moonCounter
lurker but not a newbie

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 13:47:40
Comments:

Monkey Face: Ignore these anal, pretentious (read VERY scared) prigs: you'll always get a straight answer from ME REGARDLESS of the language you use. Harmless brown nosers here, most of 'em -- that's WHY their here.

Name: Little Alex
Plot for a Steely Dan song

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 13:35:09
Comments:

Aja inadvertently conjures up an aggressive "Killing Me Softly" response from one of the "Here at the Western World" characters with her intelligent Guestbook posts.

Name:

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 13:23:36
Comments:

Signed: "The Evil One"... HAHAHAHAHA

Name:

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 13:22:03
Comments:

This blurb on Ben was in Camille Paglia's recent column:

I was saddened three weeks ago by the death at age 53 of Benjamin Orr (born
Orzechowski), bassist for the Cars. Orr's yearning lead vocal on the Cars'
1984 hit, "Drive," combined with his dreamy performance on the ingenious,
sinister video, was a high-water mark in American pop. What depth of feeling
Orr had, what complex layers of artistry. The "Drive" video (where Orr
sometimes resembled one of my favorite poets, Samuel Taylor Coleridge) was
released at a magic moment when the now-debased MTV was cutting-edge and when
rock videos were a revolutionary new art form.

Name: snakehips
e!

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 13:20:01
Comments:

I did see you on E! Mr. Kotter.

Name: snakehips
yes, let's get back to sex...

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 13:18:10
Comments:

Sex, lists, one liners, SD, other music -
all much more fun than the evil one.

Aja - glad you're back. It's worthwhile and fun to read what you have to say.

I get hungry like a child...

Name: gabe kaplan
enter minus the cigar, please

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 13:10:27
Comments:

hey, did you see me on e!?

i'm sorry, i really am, lp

Name:

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 13:08:44
Comments:

REAL?!

Name: luckless pedestrian
enter productive

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 13:08:00
Comments:

are you sick of the one-liners from obscure celebrities, military leaders, and politicians?

sorry people, with exception to the hawk-eye pierce one (a good one, though), those were mine.

picture a person frantically pushing out opinion papers, reports, phone call returns, and walk-in questions who desperately needed to give herself a little laugh at intervals during the day - a very sad affair to laugh at your own jokes, but I have been all day, in tears at times, not sure why it struck me so. yes, play the violin for me, *******

i'll stop now, i have to go take my daughter to irish step dancing anyway.

see you later....

the paul lynde one really is funny, though, don't you think?

Name: Let's get back to sex
it's much more fun

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 13:06:11
Comments:

tones, got another list for us sweetheart?

Is that Elvis I hear in the background?

"I'm just a hunka hunka burnin' love!"

Name: |||||||
p.s.

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 13:02:41
Comments:

Welcome back Aja!!!

Name: ||||||||
ah um

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 13:00:38
Comments:

With all these imaginary people strolling through here it's taking a lot longer to stroll, um, scroll.

Welcome dano and Monkey Face (I assume you guys are real). If I had the list I'd post it for you... I don't really know a lot about Steely Dan, I just love their music. So far I haven't sensed any disdain at my lack of Dan-knowledge on this GB. It may seem quite cliquish around here but all that is required to participate is an enthusiasm for the DAN! Or even just a passing interest will suffice...

Tonight we're going to see the Mingus Big Band in concert!

Name:

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 12:58:23
Comments:

BEFORE WE RUN OUT AND BUY UMBRELLAS ONE MUST REMEMBER THAT EARLY SEASON
RAIN CAN OFTEN GO FROM LOOKING GREAT TO A COMPLETE FORECAST BUST IN A
MATTER OF HOURS. WILL WAIT FOR AVN AND COORDINATION BEFORE TIPPING
ANY FURTHER IN ANY ONE DIRECTION.

Name: charles
enter with disney voice-overs
Location: great work, if you can get it
Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 12:51:36
Comments:

this is highly irregular

Name: frank
enter confused

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 12:50:10
Comments:

does dr Krueger know about this?

Name: Hawkeye Pierce
enter with moonshine in hand

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 12:46:39
Comments:

Corpsy V, meet me in the supply tent for 'inventory' after surgery

Name: omar bradley
enter with head scratching

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 12:33:30
Comments:

corpsy V, you're not on my list here, are you with the 8th battalion?

Name: douglas mccarthur
enter smoking a pipe
Location: don't ask, what's in it
Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 12:32:07
Comments:

go back to europe george, i'll kick some @$$ in the Orient myself.

Name: george patton
enter without apology

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 12:30:27
Comments:

corpsy V, is that a regulation issued uniform?

Name: Corpsy V
Hustling for Cadets now

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 12:25:29
Comments:

YESYESYES, we will have the best company ever, WOW, celebrities as cadets in our chorus line at the stage of the Cafe D'Escargot!!!!

Della, Dionne and Sinead ... may I ask if you have Red Boots and be so kind to click your heels three times ... our high-ranked Luckless Pedestrian will show you every rope and the Lady ||||| will make you shake that rusty hip LOL

Corpsy V, reported to duty and now off for a soundcheck at the Cafe D'Escargot.

Name: sinead o'connor
enter whining with a pretty good brogue

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 12:18:08
Comments:

$#%& hair, it's a male-dominated conspiracy to undermine women

Name: della reese
enter minus the wings

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 12:16:30
Comments:

will somebody fix my hair?

Name: dionne warwick
enter ready for mind-meld

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 12:15:14
Comments:

hey, i have a copyright on that song, so watch it.

burt, fix my hair, will you?

Name: lp, a little grossed out and considering a lurk-mode
the jolly roger is back

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 12:12:52
Comments:

******* - normally you don't do this? please, this appears to be your normal tone, ignorance and primal. I still say you are the latent/alter-ego of a regular poster getting out testosterone-overloaded agression.

dr krueger, your next patient has his johnny on and is ready for his enema....

i'll match him wit for wit now

Name: Gina
SCROLL ON BY EVERYONE

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 12:10:17
Comments:

and don't respond, it's way too childish, just another ballah to push off with the falling leaves, the wind will do that for us, so don't hold your precious breath!!!

has everyone done that T-shirt thing already?

Name: lp, avoiding work
folks are in a line around the block

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 12:08:10
Comments:

Dan and Monkeyface, and yes, other newbies as snakehips, the testosterone boys et al.:

1. what is your top ten list of sd songs?
2. what is your top ten list of reasons why Rollingstone Magazine #$%^ the bed?
3. what is your top ten list of comfort/soul food?
4. what is your top ten list of favorite cities? (worldwide, but stay in this galaxy)
5. what is your top ten list of tv shows from the past?
6. what is your top ten list of tv shows of the present?
7. what is your top ten list of songs that feel like nails going down the chalkboard?
8. what is your top ten list of other bands you listen to?
9. what is your top ten list of reasons to vote/not to vote, and specifically, a list for all parties running a candidate?
10. what is your top ten list of ways to woo a prospective romantic interest?

have you taken the cup/water/table test yet?

be born again, my friend

Name: ************************
.

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 12:04:53
Comments:

Normally I don't do this, but I'm stepping up to the plate this time.

Women. Women are utterly useless baby producing, machienes. They should be required to walk around naked all day long and fuck any man who tells them to.

Anyway, thanks for letting me get this off my chest.

Name: snakehips
on the side of the road

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 11:54:49
Comments:

Been looking through a book of "rocklists" by a former Rolling Stone writer trying to find stuff that relates to SD.

Here's a list that might. I've taken excerpts from a list of reasons why djs don't play songs by certain groups:

10. Not enough guitar
9. Over produced
8. Don't like the album cover
7. Our listeners won't be able to relate
6. Where's the MTV airplay?
5. It's too long; we need an edit
4. Their name is offensive
3. We played their last record and nothing happened
2. They're not popular in this market
1. The last time we had the band on the air they were real jerks

relax - put some sounds on...

Name: EVERYONE
book 'em

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 11:54:31
Comments:

WELCOME Dano!

Name: EVERYONE
book 'em

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 11:54:16
Comments:

WELOCOME Dano!

Name: stevie nicks
enter casting spells

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 11:43:02
Comments:

this place is haunted

Name: james brown
enter strutting

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 11:41:02
Comments:

hey

Name: jerry lee lewis
enter yelping

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 11:33:05
Comments:

where did those testosterone guys go?

Name: Gina
still edd-gy?

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 11:16:29
Comments:

Hi Edd, hm, what if Aja was to unravel one of her fav recipes for you, would you turn onto a different kind of cooking? Well welcome Monkey Face, too bad you rubbed our Edd the wrong way, do you like to spend time in the kitchen, what if you came in again, a new entrance via the backdoor instead of slamming the door in Hutches face, he's been awfully quiet for weeks now, HUTCH, STILL AROUND ARE U?
Monkface, I disagree with the way your mind made you see this friendly sometimes with a spiced bite cyberspaced place, hm, I for one didn't know all about the Dan, how can I, the US GB-ers can get their hands on everything whenever they want to, switch from channel to channel and there it is, some PBS special or a local radio station with something hot to share, I don't know ... can't say the people that have been here months and from the start way back in '95 behaved in a snobbish manner, nope, I sensed enthusiasm, eagerness, wit, open minds, warm hearts, all kinds of things really.
So I can understand Edd some, it's the way you phrased it ... like you wanted a cookie and spit on the hand that was about to give you a chocolate chip, the last one also, hahaha.

Okay. Some newbies as well and it's like One Liner City here under the trees ... is it the time of the year?

No Blaise, Worm, StevieDan, AltaMira, Robin, Innocent One etc. etc. here to fill this place with love and laughter and spice!!!

Well then, we'll wait and see, shall we?
Bye again and maybe later,
Gina

Name: danny
dan@campbelld51@freeserve.co.uk
Location: thornborough, bucks england
Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 11:06:18
Comments:

im new to the net but a big dan fan . just playing around with my computer and looked in the web page. im sending this off but havent got a howdie doodie where its going?.so 1st person to write back gets my attention. regards "dano"

Name: lp, in the closet
entering quietly

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 10:50:17
Comments:

i secretly do not mind listening to n' sync cd's my 7 year old has, it's the culcha that surrounds them that get annoying.

yes, the national anthem was the best part of the game - sorry aussie, i just can't help myself

exit moderately

Name: Roy.Scam
turn.in.your.scriptures.to.the.book.of.Aja.track.2.@.2:31

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 10:40:45
Comments:

l.p.~ It's difficult for me to form my lips to say this, but I think N'Sync is pretty good, at least insofar as their accapella harmonies, such as they displayed performing the national anthem at Shea Stadium last night. Hear also their song "I Thought She Knew".

{{{}}},@@@~ Good post. Would that that your Justice metaphor became real and life actually WAS a baseball game. I wouldn't mind losing nearly so much. --- Another part of that Diane Keaton / Woody Allen exchange went something like:
"Sex without love is an empty experience."
"Yes, but, as empty experiences go, it's pretty damn good."

Aja~ Didn't you once ask one of us (the insightful, humble one) to please never leave this guestbook? Was that a bilateral contract?

On the subject of white women being unable to sing the blues~ To assess a person's ability to sing a musical style by their pigmentation is an odd, delusional form of bigotry. I'm not righteous enought to speak the Right vs Wrong rhetoric: I'm talking about accuracy vs fantasy. [Did Ray Charles not make one of the greatest country albums ever? No. never mind; I don't even need examples for this.]-- If you think your race is different from the others, fine: have fun; hold meetings; wear knit caps and pointed sheets; have pride and secret handshakes and jack yourself off. But if you let all that slip into your judgement of reality, then, you're just another stupid human. The issue has always been racism, not race.-- George Foreman once made a remark that I found inspirational: "Age ain't got nothin' to do with nothin'." I think it's safe to say that race and ethnicity has even less to do with even less.--You're a homo sapien; nothing more. Get used to it.
Now Steely Dan fans vs. the rest of humanity? There's a distinction with some anthropological relevance.

Name: the hardy boys
who let the testosterone out

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 10:34:27
Comments:

hey nancy, what are you doing later?

Name: nancy drew
enter sleuthing

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 10:30:29
Comments:

yes, just what is going on here?

Name: tommy "la-sorta"
who let the hamster out

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 10:25:01
Comments:

what the #$@& is going on here?!!!!!?

Name: Aja
had to check in when I saw these sweet posts!

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 10:05:01
Comments:

Hello everyone-I couldn't stay away and not acknowledge all the wonderful things everyone expressed. Thanks so much for taking the time to do that. Thanks too to everyone that e-mailed me personally-unfortunately Yahoo is down so I can't open them yet, but I saw all your names. Who says nobody cares about each other here? A house of love definitely exists for those open to it.

The saddest thing about this whole mess it that it's not so anonymous-it's from the person that once filled my mailbox with poetry stating they would care for me forever. I'm sure it was annoying enough to be subject to the mushy romance, and I really apologize that you all have now been subjected to the messy break-up. Steven, I don't know what is going on in your life to make you lash out like that, but I hope you find your peace. I have, and I honestly wish you the best.

BTW, that baseball metaphor was absolutely hilarious!

I took the "best illegal drug test" and it matched me up with mushrooms. Kinda fits in with the new agey thing, don't you think?

Going to lurk for a while. Thanks again everyone, and my best to you all.

Aja

Name: oh my
i really meant
Location: my head, really i did
Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 09:58:18
Comments:

sorry about that, you were saying?...........

Name: lp, lol-ing
nice wages

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 09:55:57
Comments:

someone here is stuck in the 70's and 80's.....

who let the dog out makes the list for nails on the blackboard - thank you very little, i just got that out of head this morning and now it's back.

Monkey Face, I do like your name, and please accept my warm welcome to this sorority house, replete with the occasional panty-raid by travelling rogues - i thought it was cliquey too when i first signed on but after a while of posting oddities i realized otherwise - keep posting questions and please use the shift-number button for the expletives - Steely Dan is at the heart of the conversation, but yes, we do trail off a little, oh excuse me i must go - Agnes Moorehead, is that you?

we'll make some calls from my car

Name: bill the cat
chillin' in the meadow

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 09:49:28
Comments:

ack

Name: Edd

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 09:38:44
Comments:

No, it's your gratuitous use of vulgarities that bothers me.

Try asking the question without them and see if you get a different answer.

Name: harry
houdini

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 09:37:37
Comments:

who let my cat out

HOU HOU HOU HOU

Name: Monkey Face
Home@last

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 09:12:42
Comments:

Edd -- just remember, sticks and stones, buddy, sticks and stones.

I'm not an inhabitant of this site, just someone trying to use it for its ostensible purpose, to exchange information. And admit it, it's not my language that bothers you, it's a voice questioning the cliqueish nature of this board. Not every Steely Dan fan out there can quote every single lyric or refers to the tandem as Walter and Don, or is ready or willing to discuss the groups of triplet-sixteenths at the end of certain sax solos. Yet, this site billows over with the attitude that if you are not that far into the Dan milieu, then you are not a real fan. What's up with that? It's not going to kill me not to have the track list for the upcoming album-- before you know it, it'll just be sitting there on the shelves of stores nationwide-- but I figured since this site is filled with people who know EVERYTHING THERE IS TO KNOW about THE DAN, it would be easily shared information. I guess I was wrong.

Name: lp, cuttin' and pastin'
speaking of newspapers, this is one of the best circulated jokes out there
Location: sent by my brother, living in nj and working in ny, poor guy
Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 09:09:26
Comments:

Who Reads Our Nations Newspapers

1. The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the country.

2. The New York Times is read by people who think they run the country.

3. The Washington Post is read by people who think they ought to run the country.

4. USA Today is read by people who think they ought to run the country but don't understand the Washington Post.

5. The Los Angeles Times is read by people who wouldn't mind running the country, if they could spare the time.

6. The Boston Globe is read by people whose parents used to run the country.

7. The New York Daily News is read by people who aren't too sure who's running the country.

8. The New York Post is read by people who don't care who's running the country, as long as they do something scandalous.

9. The San Francisco Chronicle is read by people who aren't sure there is a country, or that anyone is running it.

10. The Miami Herald is read by people who are running another country.

Name: Edd

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 08:57:47
Comments:

If I knew the track listing I wouldn't tell you. I don't like your language.

Name: silly rabbit
you got it all wrong

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 08:56:43
Comments:

Mets Fans read the Daily News.
Yankee Fans read the Times.

The rag called the New York Post is not a Newspaper.

Name: Monkey Face
Home@last

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 08:51:01
Comments:

Vinnie - you've been sounding kinda ragged lately, chin up!
IBM Bear - quit longing for Nosey, she'll come around
Nosanda Vega - You're a better elephant than a lottery host
LMG 1 - pretty tough sitting on the shelf for that long, huh?
Gammon - we'll kick Janice's ass again if she ever comes back

Okay, with that out of the way, I am STILL looking for a track listing for the upcoming 2-cd compilation Show Biz Kids, which will be released next month. WHY is this board, so fucking starved otherwise for legit Dan news, not in the least bit interested in this release, which I assume would have to be categorized as legit news? Is it because after the box set and all the remastered stuff coming out, anything else is anti-climactic? Or that you could make it all yourself with a CD-R deck? It's all venting, and I apologize in advance for invading your private space, but fuck, I'm bewildered by this lack of interest.

Name: lp
changing bait again

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 08:47:52
Comments:

speaking of ny - who's going to win the senate race? i'm out of that loop here in mass, but when growing up in ny, moynihan was a god (actually mario cuomo is my politcal icon, but moynihan is pretty good too - he gave me an appointment to the coast guard academy i never used so that makes him ok)

you know you're smoking wherever you are

Name: connecting the dots
manhattan meets jersey dot com

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 08:40:09
Comments:

mets fans read the daily news
yankees fans read the new york post

what's the difference here?

Name: Gina
floridid it

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 08:20:40
Comments:

as in even the balance that seemed to be a bit off scale!
it's music that heals everything and helps one see things in perspective. i do agree anonymous edgy comments are completely out of place here and our queen in this house of love, Miss Aja, well ... let's just get the sunshine back in ok?

@home. went to my parents and took this new friend along with me so my dad could surf some, haha. a new way of drifting this is, cyberdrifting on the waves.

So Lisa G. took you some time to get 2VN into your system, don't you think they should at least have some of the 2000 Tour as lively recorded as possible? i almost died hearing almost gothic, really.

Clas, I particularly liked your "let's introduce Clas" a few postings back, a serious you and along with the F*** Delta Airlines it's neat to have a bigger picture of the Swedish GB-er. Whatever happened to Lars, there was a Lars on the GB a while back, was there?

I'm about to sign off for the day. I know by experience how real and close these cyberwaves can seem or feel and it comes with this territory, a new communication playground and we can deal with it the way we deal with the things and people we can relate to in flesh and blood. well, no use in dwelling too long when something or someone neggy passes by. And humor has a lot, if not all!!!!!!!!
Banyan Tree Bow,
Gina

Ps How is Miss Stella Rae doing?

Name: Mets/Steely Dan Fan

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 08:07:48
Comments:

Aussi: You keep reminding us (all the time) that you live in "Manhattan" You New Yawkers think you're so damn cool. Yankee fans represent the worst your city has to offer. A bunch of low-life- know-it-all morons! Now sit back tonite and watch the Mets kick your teams butt again.
I finally heard RLJ version of Show Biz Kids. BORING! She does not do the song justice!
Mets in 7

Name: {{{{{{{{{{{}}}}}}}}}}}}}}
@@@@@@@@@@

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 08:05:42
Comments:

The Map vs. The Territory

Aja: The scrolling down/back through time orientation of this place had me digging in like David Justice waiting for the arrival of what seemed to be described/reacted to [with each preceeding post] as a 110mph fastball heading for my head. I mean your head.

When I finally scrolled back far enough to get a look at the pitch thrown at you I was disappointed. My radar clocked it at 19mph. Hey! Bush League stuff from some pus... [sorry. why mix the metaphor?]. Aside from all the spit on the ball, I couldn't find anything to even bother swinging at... even the best hitters look bad when they go after a junk ball.

Justice? fuhgeddabowdit. bang your cleats, tap the plate, grab your crotch, snap your gum a few times, insult the catcher, dig in... but don't swing [or leave the game]. This guy couldn't hit the Pacific from the end of Sannamonka Pier. After he walks in a few runs he'll make like a tree and go away. Please post anything else you feel like- but don't swing at anything underhanded from this one.

I'm a 68% slut [I rounded down!] and some of my finest moments in life involved sex without [other than physical] intimacy. Do you have to be in love to enjoy the sport? sky dive? snorkel? ski? hang glide? surf? Sorry. I was playing tapes in my head. "slide...slide!!!" nyuks.
Old Woody Allen shtick.

Sometimes, you just need the eggs
{{{{{{{f}}}}}}}}

Evan: I don't like it [eeyewwww] but I get it, re:Fez interp. However, I equated "holy man" along more "kosher" lines [literarly, means "clean"], and [metaphor alert, brace yourself] is it okay to put pork in your mouth for a little while- as long as you don't swallow it down? Perhaps I project. Despite assurances of safe and kosher game I've copped to the "but you don't know where *I've* been" defense to mask the fact that otherwise, I wouldn't touch her with a ten foot pole [okay, okay, it's an exaggeration]. Don't make me do it without the fez... because I care so much about you. What a guy!

So, I guess I'm saying cool interp [would a rapist end up in a Steely Dan song? not a real stretch... in fact, here's an interesting thread to weave: suggest plots and characters for songs], but I have presented an outstanding reason why one might implore the about-to-be impaled according to the lyric. wait. more:
years ago my band played a Shriner gig.
seriously [imagine a room full of guys in Fezzezz calling for "The Alley Cat", just after the hokey pokey]
we saw things.
33 degree Masons in character; holy men, man!

that's the double entendre I believe they were going for.

Hows about maybe the next new one could contain a song about an internet troll with too much time on his hands and a penchant for preying on nice, honest women... [on some twisted sexual-surrogate thrill- of-conquest trip]

@@@@@@

Name: susan olsen
enter loving nick at nite

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 08:03:21
Comments:

i'm glad i didn't take that job doing hot cocoa commercials

Name: tom selleck
enter minus the car

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 07:58:54
Comments:

god, i miss being me

Name: paul lynde
enter smirking way better than w does

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 07:57:43
Comments:

thank you elizabeth, that really means a lot

now pour me a scotch, you %^#^&*((&$$&!

Name: lp
not ready for prime-time

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 07:52:26
Comments:

top ten reasons why there are roving, negative and testosterone-heavy posters here:

1. to change the subject from hyper-political discussions
2. to force us to tell each other how much we really do like each other in a non-syrupy way
3. a vain attempt to break in the newbies
4. a way to get st al to post every once in awhile, even if it to scold
5. a ridiculous manner of yanking the chain of the alter-ego of a regular poster, my personal theory
6. too many days staggering out in the brain-dead dawn looking for the negative girl who's long gone
7. still upset about the two-timer incident and finding you had to share your easy chair
8. reading the NY Daily News does that to you
9. too many visits to the eminem site has affected their brain, and/or
10. too many visits to the 'n sync site has affected their brain

Name: StAlphonzo
stalfnzo@seanet.com

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 07:45:31
Comments:

Clas -- Kiss my ASS

I suppose that's one of the problems with spellcheckers. You still need to pay attention.

Yankee fans don't (usually) suck but the Yankees sure do. I'm not just saying that because they beat the Mariners. I really could care less about sports anymore, however, my disdain for the Yankees goes back as long as I can remember. It's always been about money. He who has the most -- wins... How fair is that? One of the reasons why I don't watch professional sports anymore.

Name: Floridavid
dmoore113@aol.com

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 07:45:13
Comments:

Hey Folks- Just checking in here.
Aja- Please don't stay away for long. Being an open Forum we've been subjected to a variety of Flames from time to time. When we talk about things going on in our lives with our friends here it is just that. Any unwarranted negative responses must be Ignored.
Even Clear appearing water must be filtered these days.
I remember when I first came here it seemed (as a newbie)that it was clicky and Impenetrable. No, it was just that regular posters had become friends and shared things that appeared to be very Inside and cryptic.(note to all newbies)
You post and lurk and join certain threads and soon you understand some of the subject matter.
I've always felt the regulars were open to new people and Ideas.
Respect is something that is given freely not demanded.

Briefly vacating the Florida Room:

I've Been working hard all year and I'm ready for vacation.My Wife and I will leave Saturday Morning on the 7 Day, 2nd Annual Smooth Jazz Cruise aboard the S.S. Norway out of Miami. I sure wish some of my GB Friends were coming along. I know Scheduling and finances are tough for everyone so I understand. In my case, If I don't take my vacation now,I'll be up to ass in Tourist/Snowbird season and the Gigs will be even more relentless.(Happy to be employed though).
Anyway, here's the lineup for this years cruise:
Kim Walters - Saxophonist
Warren Hill - Saxophonist/Singer/Composer
Patti Austin - Vocalist
Craig Chaquico - Guitarist
Marcus Johnson Project - Pianist
Stanlely Jordan - Guitarist
Grady Nichols - Saxophone
Jonathan Butler - Vocalist/Guitarist
Marion Meadows - Saxophone

These Artists and their respective Bands will be onboard for the week. Can you tell I'm excited?...LOL
Everyone have a great week and I'll talk to ya soon, Your Friend, David Moore

Name: barry goldwater
enter with authority

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 07:32:38
Comments:

who put charlton heston is charge?

Name: |||||||||||||||

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 07:14:00
Comments:

lp, that's what I thought too, on Everything You Did. Maybe there are other interpretations on oleander's Fever Dreams site.
So much Dan, so little time...

I want to commend those who have shared personal stories here, both the everyday and the long-past. It shows that you care enough about the rest of us to let us know about painful or difficult experiences. (And let me say my life has been a cakewalk compared to some of yours.) But you must be aware that although on one level this IS a close circle of friends, it is also a very public forum. Anyone can participate and you never know what they are going to say. If you're not prepared for that, it can hurt.

That's all folks.

Name: luckless pedestrian
traces are everywhere@ happy home

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 06:29:44
Comments:

has he left, yet?

Wormy and Evan - good discussion on the fez - i actually thought it was a hit man who always keeps his hat on, so there you go. I thought Everything You Did was about a woman being busted for having an affair in her own home (what woman has the time? i have difficulty keeping up with one, but 2?), but the hubby does sound a little skeevy.

A stumpie is a Forestry student over at the ESF campus, which was me, undergrad -

and happy birthday to aussie, 35 is a good year - old enough to know, young enough to take the chance

boston fans and ny fans always rib each other in fun

snakehips, how did yo do on the test? do tell.

skully, altimira, where have you been in this time of need? aja, i hope you are at least lurking - chat off this line anytime you wish.

you never came to me when you were so inclined

Name: Aussie Torres
aussie.torres@painewebber.com
Location: New York, NY USA
Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 05:42:34
Comments:

Mets/Steely Dan Fan: Yankee fans suck? I don't get it. That's like saying Steely Dan Fans suck. Grow up buddy. There's a way to raz a rival without resorting to idiotic comments like the one you posted. Have a super day. Yanks in 6.

Aus

Name: wormy
how do you spell pathetic?

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 05:20:03
Comments:

this GB lives and breathes because many of the people here share their heartfelt trials and triumphs with a circle of warm friends

when somebody like Mr Anonymous starts bashing my friend Aja for sharing what's going on in her life - I'm sorry but it's low and completely uncalled for

hang in there Dr L., and don't stay away too long
the waters on the pond will go from turbulent to serene

Lisa G - glad you enjoyed Hey 19 BC, thanks

off to class again today

ah a discussion of music
Fez - a rape song?
not my take, just way ahead of it's time in the safe sex department. the protagonist equates his gloveness with holiness
a rather interesting twist (this was the swinging seventies, that era between the advent of birth control and the discovery of HIV)

wormy

Name: Clas
@ work, in Stockholm...

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 03:34:53
Comments:

...or Detroit / I don't know / I do so many posts in a row...

What is this shit with Aja? I haven't followed the story but after reading the latest posts I understand she is sad.

Aja - come on pretty girl, don't let anonymous bullshiters let you down. Or for that matter, don't let anyone let you down. It's easy to say, but try.

And Aja, where's Pier 6? It wasn't in my mailbox this morning, didn't you get it through the US-mail?

PS/or was it Pier 7? That one I got.

Name: Clas
English lesson nr 2.

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 03:23:11
Comments:

StAl - We'll be HERE when you get back.

Name: Clas
English lesson nr 1.

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 19100 at 02:21:05
Comments:

Mets/Steely Dan Fan - are THEIR fans

Name: Mets/Steely Dan Fan
wewillwinitall.com

Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 23:59:02
Comments:

Aussi: The only thing that sucks more then the Yankees, are there fans!

Let's Go Mets!!

Name: Aussie Torres
@home
Location: New York, NY USA
Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 20:59:37
Comments:

LP: Your degree from SU in '86....was it your undergrad or graduate? 'Cause if it's your undergrad, then you and I are in the same boat as "old timers"....my undergrad was only a year later in '87. I went on to SU law after working in the real world for a while and emerged with my law degree in 1995. In fact I'll be celebrating my 35th b-day tomorrow, the twenty-fifth. Also...what's a stumpie?

Aus
Yanks down 3-2 in the 8th. Uh-oh

Name: zoroastrian garden
club

Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 20:53:38
Comments:

we WORSHIP aphids !

Name: DrMu

Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 19:25:24
Comments:

Evan: Intersting view. There have been discussions here about the pathology of the character in Everything Youd Did with a similar bent.

LisaG: My father was the erudite English prof. Don't worry - my hurried typing without a spellcheck is a dangerous affair. I teach biomechanics and biochemistry seminars related to my research on free radicals and muscle function.

CaraMia: RAND is a Santa Monica Group that deals with all kinds of policy issues, but not maps. It's odd though that they used the government's NAEP (National Assessment of Education Progress) test as the supposed gold standard instead of the ETS test (the Princeton goup whose test we all have taken and produce the SAT and GRE). THE NAEP is really a survey test lasting only 1 1/2 hours. in contrast, the TAAS lasts three days (on and off), like the ETS primary and secondary school assessment tests. It is given to only a small sample of students nationwide (<1%) rather than the TAAS with ALL children must take. Since NAEP has only been around 10 years, it's validity and reproducibility may not be known or accepted. Without looking at both instruments, I can't make a full critique. However, the NAEP, based on the above facts, cannot be a powerful measuring stick from a scientific standpoint. The NAEP is given in 4th, 8th, and 12th grades, like the TAAS though. Someone should follow up by looking at changes in ETS scores. The curriculum in Texas has been changed in K-4, and now changes are being phased in for 5-8. 9-12 changes are coming up. That would have to be taken into consideration by concentrating on K-4. Testing without curricula change would be alarming indeed, but that's not the case. I can tell you from going through public schools in Illinois North Carolina, and seeing schools here in Texas (my wife went to school in west Texas mostly - that I would rank Texas schools between Illinois and North Carolina. This should be followed up though.

Name: Evan
fez stuff

Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 18:09:30
Comments:

OK. I hope I'm not retreading worn ground here, but the little Dan lightbulb popped over my head in the car yesterday. >
On the billionth listen to "The Fez", I thought about what the song was doing in the context of the "Royal Scam." Each piece on the album has a tinge of criminality to it. But the protagonist in "Fez" just seems like the typical SD creepy guy that could have shown up on any album. Something's not right.

Here's what I think: Mr. Fez is a rapist.

He insists on using his fez whenever he "does it." From the opening lyrics, it would seem that she wants to do it without a fez, but he insists - an ostensible precursor to consenual booty.

But the heavy pun in the chorus combined with the plea for sex (Please understand/I want to be your holy man) turns the situation around. He's telling her to cooperate with him.

Best evidence: "Don't make me do it without the fez on" -- a clear threat. In effect, he's saying, "stay still." The disco schtick makes it even creepier.

Am I off my rocker? Have you people yakked about this years before?

best,
evan

Name: cara mia
sweatin' bullets@West of DollyWood
TN
Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 17:04:41
Comments:

From my gore2000 mailing list from campaign headquarters:

New Rand Study Devastates Bush Education Claims In Texas

While George W. Bush often touts Texas' rising test scores and the closing opportunity gap between whites and students of color as "proof" that he has reformed education in Texas, Reuters reported today that a soon-to-be released study by the highly-respected RAND Corp. devastates the "validity" of Bush's claims.

"I think 'the Texas miracle' is a myth," said Stephen Klein, a senior RAND researcher who helped lead the study, told Reuters in a telephone interview.

The Reuters story can be read in its entiretey at:

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20001024/pl/bush_education_dc_1.html

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I know Laura, my friend Aja, from these guest book doings and in real life when I flew out to the wingding she put together for our Steely Dan pre-concert fun and then danced with her in two other locales that fine week last July, so I know a little here, even though I am confused about the motivations of the hostile gestures being spewed all over this cyber-water cooler by a sadly miserable person who really ought to get offline and back into therapy...

Aja, come back when it feels safe. Lots of us will miss you very much, but will keep sharing ourselves too, as much as is possible before the spew gets shot our way.
I will write you here and in reg. email, so please get your ASSbestos suit recoated with flame retardant and come back.

cara mia Marsha, who tries to combine cyber with the real whenever possible

Name: StAlphonzo
stalfnzo@seanet.com

Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 16:52:53
Comments:

Though I'm having a difficult time following why the negativity is reeling its ugly head again I did find it rather ironic that the moron that posted with the name of "**********" prefaced their first post with: "Normally I don't do this, but I'm stepping up to the plate this time."

Does anyone else out their find this a ridiculous statement?

I'll let you in on something mr/mrs/ms "********** -- posting anonymously is not "stepping up to the plate" -- looser.

Have no fear Aja. We'll be hear when you get back.

Do you know how hard it is to type with a baby in your hands. I'm thinking of taping a pencil to my nose. Though it'll look funny it might be easier...

Name: Rock 'n' Roll Doctor
is the caller in?

Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 16:42:29
Comments:

don't forget the "select your most appropriate illegal drug" test on www.selectsmart.com

Name: Lisa G
El Duque, my man
Location: not spell checking, or grammar, too
Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 16:39:31
Comments:

D.S (tm) and LP-Ladies, the instrument test is actually to see which one you should be playing, not which one you are:

http://www.selectsmart.com/indexa.html

under "musical selectors."

Dr. Mu-I humbly stand corrected about Dubya (surprised, though), however I still cannot justify vouchers. Did you ever teach in public school? English? Yeesh, now I really want a spell checker. Grammar, too.

Yee haw to the author of the pair oh dee, Hey 19 B.C.

Go Yankees!!!!

Howard, music theory is very sexy. All those substitutions...

Almost ready to reveal my take on the "new one." It might be a bit long, but what else can you expect from someone so garrulous?

Later,
LG

Name: Aja

Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 15:50:00
Comments:

This is way too damn tiring and pathetic. Thanks tones, lp, and snakehips for the nice words. tones, I hope to have more discussions with you in the future 'cause you have an interesting point of view, but for now I'm gonna take a break from this place.

Steven, this is way too damn sad, and it didn't have to be this way.

Aja

Name:

Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 15:39:20
Comments:

Oh, that's right, I guess it wasn't Brooklyn.

Name: here is some irony for you

Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 15:35:36
Comments:

*=steven fondo

Name: sooutrageous
*
Location: nyc,
Date: Monday, May 15, 19100 at 18:43:19
Comments:
one of the failings of this technologically advanced computer age is the prevelance of pissant cowards such as the individual posting here today.this form of impersonal commmunication allows people such as don juan to arrive, say anything, in anyway, to anyone and remain nameless, faceless fucking cowards.
i do not, have not, put up with this kind of spineless bullshit throughout my entire life. i show respect to my family, friends, coworkers, clients and passing strangers. on the streets of nyc, where i am proud to say i was born and raised, actions such as those comitted today by sandblasta did not go unavenged. people counted the cost before committing to a course of action. this form of communication allows the sandblastas and ballahs of this world free range to proliferate their petty, pedantic bullshit without recompense.

steven fondo
nyc

Name: you are
an idiot

Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 15:24:17
Comments:

what's wrong with you?

Name: you are
an idiot

Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 15:21:27
Comments:

what's wrong with you?

Name:

Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 15:18:36
Comments:

could this be the REAL Steven Fondo?

Name: you're really
not very funny

Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 15:17:15
Comments:

who the f**k are you?

Name:

Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 15:13:07
Comments:

ooooooooohh! that's soooo hot. Puhleeze. Lonely INDEED!

Name: snakehips
@the ballpark

Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 15:06:32
Comments:

t, not in front of the vcr right now, but there's a great line she says to him when he's taking batting practice about keeping his hips lined up straight (or something like that)...slow down, I'll tell you when...

can't comment on all this other stuff. i dont' know anyone well enough. Hang in there Aja.

Name:

Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 14:54:02
Comments:

Goddammed newbies

Name: and while I'm at it...
Aja

Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 14:49:07
Comments:

Please feel free to share with us any thing that you wish...

Obviously "*" represents the size of his sphincter, and thus blood flow to his brain is seriously impaired...

phuck the phacist!

t

Name:

Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 14:48:55
Comments:

Well he IS from Brooklyn isn't he...

Name:

Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 14:40:08
Comments:

could this be the REAL Steven Fondo?

Name: tones,
flinging it back...

Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 14:39:07
Comments:

Bynthair Dunthat, see you at the bar when your considerable "charm" has run out...

last call

t

Name: **********
*

Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 14:31:42
Comments:

Oh and I left out this "passive aggressive" thing you're into. Oh no, YOU'RE no coward, because you sign your name. As if "Laura," means anything to anybody. Or for that matter, as if giving your social security number or combination to the lock on your storage space made you courageous. Give me a break "Laura." Nobody CARES about YOU or anybody here enough to DO something courageous. I don't CARE enough about you to tell you on the phone. Only enough to tell you HERE. Face it. DO something about your loneliness, don't whine about it, and for pete's sake, don't assume we're ALL in your boat. In fact, if you DO share your misery with someone ---- USE THE PHONE and keep the rest of us who don't care THAT much OUT OF IT!

Name: lp
my old school

Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 14:26:40
Comments:

when i took my first graphics class in 1984 (aussie, i'm really a stumpie), my professor said two things i never forgot:

there is no such thing as constructive criticism, criticism is criticism - take it for what it is

the word "interesting" is not allowed in this room because it means nothing

so to whomever is criticizing aja, you are being critical and if it's emotional criticism and not a drawing, for example, then it's not necessary and definitely not for her own good.

william and mary won't do

Name: tones, in front of the VCR,
memorizing every line in Bull Durham...

Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 14:23:40
Comments:

Snakehips, Aja - I'm having trouble with my curveball...

Aj - 'bout those sex workers... so's you know, I wasn't being gender specific, though I realize the vast majority of sex workers are women. *No one* should work in the sex industry that feels forced to or doesn't enjoy the work, as with any job. But those that can handle it and enjoy it should be praised and commended (and given benefits - workers comp, medical, etc.) for the service they provide. Sex w/o intimacy isn't usually anybody's first choice, a quick fix at best. But life doesn't always present you with someone you can share intimacy. The world is full of lonely people sitting in bars, paying way too much to drink, so they can stumble home with someone they just met and won't remember in the morning - one of those aforementioned "bad choices". Sure they could abstain, but that won't soothe the very real pangs of lonliness. And whoever they find in a bar could be much more dangerous than a *qualified* sex worker.

I can understand how the SW's (sorry, tired of typing that phrase) come to loathe their customers. When you're treated like shit (by lonely men angry with the reality that they are lonely men) when you are just trying to do your job, that's what happens (this I know from working retail). If society as a whole would start treating SW's with the respect they deserve, their work environment would be safer and saner. And hopefully the truly offensive "pimp culture" could be stamped out in the process.

One other thought... when people can separate carnality from emotion, then maybe true intimacy can be found...

I know no facts, I'm just thinking in type...

HOWEVER, the ideal at *all* times is "oh my!" :-)

"There's a special place for lovers
One we understand
There where neon bends in daylight sky
In that sunny room she soothes me
Cools me with her fan
We're drifting
A thousand years roll by"

tones

Oh, I have a retraction to my nails+blackboard list: Marc Bolan (T. Rex) had a way of putting the word "boogie" in just about every song, and he "walked it like he talked it" and very seldom lost that beat...
Boogie on chillin'...

Name: nelson rockefeller
huh, what?
Location: MDI, ME
Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 14:21:37
Comments:

is it necessary to air our dirty laundry is such a tawdry way? this testosterone spray is not gentleman like.

close the door on your way in and draw the drapes, though the view is lovely of the harbor.

Name: hubert humphrey
interwhat.com
Location: as in, communication? oh, i get it
Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 14:17:43
Comments:

why are people more interested in buying to get it than voting?

honey, mix me a manhattan, not too sweet please

Name: Aja

Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 14:15:33
Comments:

I have a few observations on you "for your own good" as well, but when people say that it never really is. I'm very disappointed that you can't say what you need to me directly, either via phone or e-mail.

For the record, I value the friends I've made here and freely share both my celebrations and heavy days, just as I enjoy when others here do the same. If someone doesn't like it, there's always the scroll button.

I'm signing my real name; anything less would be cowardly.

Laura

Name: ralph nader
will work for champagne.com

Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 14:15:28
Comments:

i'm starting a consumer protection group for this very thing - it's an outrage

Name: charlie sheen
wish i was my dad.com
Location: wouldn't be prudent, not at this juncture
Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 14:13:55
Comments:

how come it's cool to be heidi and not me?

Name: heidi
back from the spa
Location: telluride, co
Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 14:11:52
Comments:

buddy, if you ain't payin' we're not layin'

oh my god, i'm out of champagne

Name: lp
be so rude

Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 14:09:46
Comments:

wormy, dr krueger, or x, you leave aja alone!

this place is to discuss many things, one of which is what lies beneath us and we normally don't get out - for instance, you have seen me playing my violin here now and then myself, but - if you can dig it, people on the outside of this site think i've got it all together and am happy all the time, etc. - you people here know otherwise.

so stop it, because even the guys strutting their testosterone levels around here are likely whipped at home and lovin' it, don't kid yourself otherwise.

what do you think i'm yelling for?

Name: **********
*

Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 13:57:44
Comments:

Normally I don't do this, but I'm stepping up to the plate this time. Although I don't agree with how this other poster said it, I agree with the gist of what he said. She's not "vulnerable." She wallows in self-pity, and, worse, presumptuously drags others in to join her. She does the same thing when she "celebrates." She's not the only one. A number of you do this. Yes, I'm saying this anonymously because I really intend this to be for Aja's own good. I don't want her or anyone here to turn this into a contest or argument. It's just how I feel. I hope she takes it in that spirit. Besides, most of you will figure out who this is anyhow.

Name: Joe Getzpaydtobeblone
at the Bimmer dealer in Newport

Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 13:33:28
Comments:

Now THERE'S something insightful, though glad to say I'm who Heidi drives AROUND in her Bimmer, not who PAYS for it. Hehehe

Name: heidi fleiss
what color should be my new BMW be this week?

Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 12:57:41
Comments:

don't worry aja - we're laughing all the way to the bank from these buffoons who have to buy it to get it

Name: charlie sheen
i got a job, regardless of my bad behavior

Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 12:56:13
Comments:

somehow, i feel like singing "you and me against the world" by Helen Reddy

Name: Freaky Charlie
no monkeys in my soul

Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 12:36:10
Comments:

oh, we have one of those macho types that thinks showing vulnerability is akin to weakness. Do you feel like a man now, buddy?

Name: Bynthair Dunthat
Chief, Bullshit Dunghim Emergency Room

Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 12:25:17
Comments:

Ajatic Flu Update: YOUR epidemic loneliness, NOT ours.

Name: remember the wwII saying:
loose lips sink ships

Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 12:24:48
Comments:

signed betty crocker, minus the apron

Name: luckless pedestrian
akrieg@ci.reading.ma.us

Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 12:22:56
Comments:

ds - send me your email and i'll send you the cup test - don't cheat!

i don't know who has the musical instrument one, but i'll take it.

due to big brother in government work, i'm afraid to take the slut test at work, i'll have to log on under someone else's name.

since i'm a quaker now according to the religion test, do i serve up oatmeal?
[joke written here with politically incorrect apologies to my fellow liberal quakers out there, but not the orthodox ones, no-no.]

Name: snakehips
****

Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 12:12:14
Comments:

Uh, that would be "snakehips" not "snakeships". I seem to be stuttering...

Name: snakeships
re: tshirts and bull durham

Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 12:10:28
Comments:

|||||||,Love the countdown to ecstasy idea for the tshirts.

Also, I really like the song "60-Minute Man" that played in Bull Durham.(If ya know what I mean)

Well, I'm a neo-pagan, slut (52%), democrat. That's sounds really bad.

a fool in love with time to kill...

Name: D.S. tm
trailer cult commune, cutting the blackout sleep in the day curtains to make a little voting booth for our uh, government sanctioned voting site

Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 11:59:23
Comments:

*It will be interesting to see an election with the world's largest turn-out of write-in votes!

As of today, I am voting for "Buttermilk pancakes with the thing bean's close friend and trainer, the 'Never close your eyes before delivering the last plate of irresistable summer feelin's because it might stay and start calling itself the only internationally recognized source of masqualero's corn remedy "guy"." Pending the sex change, of course.

Would someone please post a Top Ten List Of Top Ten Quiz sites, including please, the politico one, the "if you were a musical instrument" and especially this glass with water and lake test? I support The Slut Test at www.thespark.com and both the "Are you a Freak?" test and the "Dr. Suess" Sex test at www.thearmory.com

*It is REALLY no longer specific enough to describe yourself as a "Democrat" anymore!

"Do you specify 'TO GO' at the Drive-Thru?" --Freak Test

Name: LucyB
jingle bells, deck the halls, & comfortably numb

Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 11:44:46
Comments:

lp- When ever I hear a song from The Wall, I always think of christmas. That's because the first time I listen to the whole album, I was decorating the christmas tree. How's that for twisted? Vowed never to watch the movie ever again. About halfway through seeing it for the second time, I felt like slitting my wrists. Can't think of a more depressing movie. And those marching hammers really creeped me out.

Name: elizabeth montgomery
enter with nose wrinkled

Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 11:37:00
Comments:

i miss paul lynde - hollywood squares just isn't the same

Name: Gina
pres(ent)ario!

Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 11:33:56
Comments:

Hi everyone!
No need to say it's been almost impossible to catch up after i've been absent for days ... but now i have this global access back @home and a real neat compaq presario for lesser money than i expected, i just love the way they hand out discounts here LOL to get you to sign up for extra insurance and support services. hm, i took the discount but not the extended guarantee.
we will simply net dangerously, right? LOL

okay. just wanted to say hi, will figure out some other stuff first before i dive into the branched variety you all offer!!!
regards, Gina

hi Lisa G. i saw you on my way here, nice to "listen" you.
chere, thankx you found some time for us with the wedding stuff happening and all!!
by now!!

Name: Angela Lansbury
enter the Red Queen
Location: shuffling the deck, subliminabominable
Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 11:25:35
Comments:

Every time you go to a URL, you will see the prefix "www." On November 7, comrade, you will pull the lever for George.www.Bush

Name: ||||||||||||||
my favorite Bull Durham quote

Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 10:24:24
Comments:

"Honey, we all deserve to wear white."

Name: |||||||||||||
top 10 for the Tshirt?

Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 10:23:24
Comments:

... tones presents the ultimate top 10 - a countdown to ecstasy

(blithely stating the obvious)

Name: Dick Enberg
enter my sports challenge

Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 10:14:43
Comments:

"OOOOh, MYYYYY!!!"

...and you thought I was referring to the games! Notice you've never seen a sportscaster, especially Marv Albert thank goodness, below the waist...

Name: Aja
on a sunny Tuesday

Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 09:56:51
Comments:

Thanks, Lisa G. I'm sure glad you're here with us as well.

tones, tones! After that hot, hot list (which I visited oh, about 5 times yesterday) you say you support sex as a business transaction when necessary? I can't think of ANYTHING that would make one feel lonelier (and contribute to our epidemic loneliness) than that-sex without any intimacy whatsoever. I had a lot of contact with sex workers when I worked in a county ER, and not one of them enjoyed what they did. They were a very sad, disenfranchised bunch who felt they had nowhere else to turn, and quite a few of the women loathed their "customers". Repressing sexuality is unhealthy I agree, but reducing it to "business" is as well. I can't believe that a man who can come up with such a list would settle for anything less than "oh my" (I LOVE Bull Durham).

In fact, Annie Savoy was a great example of a woman celebrating a healthy enjoyment of sex and intimacy.

Mark Twain once called legal writing "chloroform in print". He was right!

Aja

Name: bill
enter worried

Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 09:54:43
Comments:

just planning out my library

Name: jimmy carter
enter happy and fulfilled

Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 09:41:23
Comments:

get off your carcasses and do something

Name: w, sr
enter stooped
Location: problem, what problem?
Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 09:38:11
Comments:

did someone say something?

Name: geraldine ferraro
enter too high-pitched
Location: my problem is, my kids!
Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 09:36:55
Comments:

i seem to be on the outside of the female revolution

Name: michael dukakis
enter mumbling
Location: did someone say, eyebrows
Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 09:35:07
Comments:

i hate tanks.

Name: ted kennedy
enter hiccupping
Location: did someone say, viagara?
Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 09:34:09
Comments:

if it wasn't for jimmy carter, i could have had it!

Name: bob dole
enter crabbing
Location: if only, i had plucked my eyebrows
Date: Tuesday, October 24, 19100 at 09:32:52
Comments:

too bad viagara wasn't discovered while i was running, i could have started a good scandal!