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8028. Ulgine Barrows - 12/24/2005 12:23:18 PM The LeeVees, 'Hanukkah Rocks' 8029. alistairConnor - 12/24/2005 10:57:31 PM I just realised, one I would have liked in the Christmas radio feed (a big hit around here it has been, all hail Wabbit)
"A fairy tale of New York" - The Pogues, with Christie McNicoll.
- You're a bum you're a punk
- You're an old slut on junk
- Merry Christmas yer arse I pray God it's our last
And the boys in the NYPD choir were singing Galway Bay
And the bells were ringin' out for Christmas day 8030. Ulgine Barrows - 12/26/2005 7:05:01 AM I'm a Kirsty MacColl fan, myself.
But she's dead. 8031. alistairconnor - 12/26/2005 12:28:29 PM Oh my god, where did I get "Christie McNicoll" ?
I apologise to the memory of Kirsty MacColl. And I'll try to track down a record or two. That Pogues song is the only thing I know. Saw her sing it in Lyon in about 1990.
The record was re-released in the UK for this Christmas. 8032. Linnea - 12/27/2005 3:47:36 AM There's a song by Kirsty's dad that I often play around this time of year:
The Moving-On Song by Ewan MacColl 8033. PelleNilsson - 1/1/2006 6:57:10 PM Some of you with long memories may recall the Haysweep Project that Uzmakk and I had going in this thread in the autumn of 1998.
A problem then was that I couldn't find a picture of the actual thing, but the other day I came across one.
The hay hides the multitude of 3-foot iron spikes that collect it. In his right hand, the operator holds the lever that connects to The Sacred Mechanism. We must now visualize the equipage in motion. When the time comes to dump the hay, the operator briefly disengages the lever, moves it down a notch and lifts. The tips of the spikes dig into the ground and the whole contraption turns on itself leaving the hay behind. The operator then uses the lever again to roll the spikes forward and a new hay-gathering cycle begins. 8034. Macnas - 1/3/2006 12:15:11 PM That's one poor looking nag. 8035. wonkers2 - 1/4/2006 7:20:04 PM Lord Horatio Nelson mythology dispelled by Roger Knight in his new book "The Pursuit of Victory":
Nelson did not, regretably, engage single-handed with a polar bear in the Arctic;
he did not ignore the signal to withdraw from the battle of Copenhagen by clamping a telescope to his blind eye;
his body was shipped back to England in a cask of brandy, not rum, and sailors did not reverently swig from it.
Lord Nelson. 8036. wonkers2 - 1/9/2006 1:14:43 AM The Unmasking of JT Leroy: In Public He's a She 8037. Ms. No - 1/9/2006 6:26:02 PM Has anybody here read any of Leroy's books? 8038. wonkers2 - 1/15/2006 10:14:07 PM Cap'n Dirty sez: "Here's the first line of a book in case anybody's interested in pursuing Jay's guessing game:"
"The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin."
8039. Ulgine Barrows - 1/18/2006 6:07:05 AM I still read to my son every night. We are currently on "Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane", which is a gripping story for an almost 11-yr-old. Er, and me, too. Surely a movie will follow.
So, tonight we were quibbling about the pillows AGAIN, which is part of the drill as we settle down to read. You would just have to be there, it's not a bad bicker.
Tonight, I told son in a royal voice, "I'm thoroughly ensconced in the pillows and can't possibly move, unless you spell ensconce correctly."
Little pecker did! I gave him a high-five.
And moved, among much giggling. 8040. wabbit - 1/30/2006 11:23:51 PM  Playwright Wendy Wasserstein, who chronicled the feminist struggles and successes of the baby-boomer generation in such wryly observant works as "The Heidi Chronicles" and "The Sisters Rosensweig," has died of lymphoma at the age of 55.
8041. judithathome - 1/30/2006 11:39:25 PM Bummer. 8042. wabbit - 2/3/2006 4:14:35 PM WoW, we await images and a report on your smashing success in Siena! 8043. alistairconnor - 2/3/2006 4:19:12 PM I thought your show opened in Siena in March? 8044. alistairconnor - 2/3/2006 4:30:47 PM Oh ah and if you want to send a poster for the kids...
Moulin Chorel
42140 Marcenod
is the address. 8045. judithathome - 2/4/2006 12:02:47 AM I'm shocked this didn't happen in Kansas!
No Culture For YOU!
Some parents in this prairie town are angry with an elementary school music teacher for showing pupils a video about the opera "Faust," whose title character sells his soul to the devil in exchange for being young again.
"Any adult with common sense would not think that video was appropriate for a young person to see. I'm not sure it's appropriate for a high school student," Robby Warner said after two of her children saw the video.
Another parent, Casey Goodwin, said, "I think it glorifies Satan in some way."
Tresa Waggoner showed approximately 250 first-, second- and third-graders at Bennett Elementary portions of a 33-year-old series titled "Who's Afraid of Opera" a few weeks ago. 8046. wonkers2 - 2/4/2006 12:28:44 AM Ignorance unlimited in Colorado. 8047. arkymalarky - 2/4/2006 1:51:37 AM Uh-oh. I just got through teaching Goethe's Faust in AP English.
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