BS: A little self-publicity

Subject: RE: BS: A little self-publicity
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 Sep 02 - 12:46 AM

Alex, I had a Katrinka von la somebody visiting and she insisted on leaving a message in your guestbook. She's a bit of a nut about onions...says them with a phony French accent so it comes out "un yawn" sorta...anyhow, she about went nuts when she saw what you'd done to that onion, man! I'm sorry I couldn't stop her posting...I'm lucky that's ALL she wanted to do to my monitor. Anyway, she's gone now, so I can tell you I LMAO reading more of your twistedness. Love it!

AND, MAG's posting reminds me...I'd sent a request for info about the tape and never heard back, so howsaboutit? Would you please let me know how much to send and where to?

Thanks and congrats on the additions!

kat

Subject: RE: BS: A little self-publicity
From: mousethief
Date: 07 Sep 02 - 12:14 AM

Oh. I see where I said "transparentification." Doh!

sheepishly,
Alex

Subject: RE: BS: A little self-publicity
From: MAG
Date: 06 Sep 02 - 11:04 PM

Yeah, and the CD is nice, too. Good meditation music.

Subject: RE: BS: A little self-publicity
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 06 Sep 02 - 10:22 PM

Funny stuff!! Keep up the good (if a trifle strange) work.

Subject: RE: BS: A little self-publicity
From: Bobert
Date: 06 Sep 02 - 10:11 PM

Alex:

Nice joint, fir sure. Sorry, I mighta got a little carried away in signing your book and the typing, well, purdy bad as well...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: A little self-publicity
From: mousethief
Date: 06 Sep 02 - 09:32 PM

I've never heard "gonff" used with English-style verb endings before! Fascinating! Thanks for the story!

Alex

PS where did you read "transparentification"? I don't remember having said that.

Subject: RE: BS: A little self-publicity
From: Justa Picker
Date: 06 Sep 02 - 09:08 PM

I luk it. I luk it alot!
(Cool!...Alex.)

Subject: RE: BS: A little self-publicity
From: Don Firth
Date: 06 Sep 02 - 09:00 PM

Great website, Alex! Love the cartoons ("Make it sew" indeed! Really ba-a-a-a-ad!)!

I've always kinda wondered where "mousethief" came from. Well. . . .

Back in 19 aught 61, I was singing in a coffeehouse called "Pamir House" in the University District in Seattle. Good place to sing. They usually had two or three singers up front at any given time, and it was a fun place to perform because it was like swapping songs in someone's living room (and getting paid for it!). And the audiences liked it, enjoying the informality and the unplanned and frequently goofy banter between the singers.

Anyway, there was a guy who came in regularly, and he'd try to pick a table real close to the stage area. He'd put something under the table and he'd keep leaning over and fiddling with it. Finally, one evening on a break, I caught him be surprise by sitting down at his table and saying, "Can I take a look at your tape recorder?" Surprised and a bit embarrassed, he showed it to me. It was a small reel-to-reel battery-operated job, cumbersome by later standards (cassette recorders hadn't come out yet), but tidy nevertheless. He explained to me that he was going to the U. of W. and living in the dorms. He was teaching himself to play the guitar and trying to learn songs. He didn't have a phonograph in his room, so he couldn't learn songs off records, but he did have the recorder which he'd bought to supplement note-taking in class. He said he hoped we didn't mind, but he was "collecting" stuff, both to listen to and to learn. "I use the tape recorder for gonffing songs," he said.

I thought it was just a made-up word. Now I know! Thanks!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: A little self-publicity
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 06 Sep 02 - 08:07 PM

Transparentification??? Who thinks up a word like that?

Subject: RE: BS: A little self-publicity
From: Amos
Date: 06 Sep 02 - 07:56 PM

Well, Alex, always remember that any orthodoxy can be orthodoctored!

A

Subject: RE: BS: A little self-publicity
From: mousethief
Date: 06 Sep 02 - 07:42 PM

I hope I don't offend any non-Orthodox -- at least religiously offend them; I'll settle for offending their sexual mores, if they so insist. I think attacking other people's religions is, well, rude. Attacking one's own religion, on the other hand....

I don't mind saying I'd like to rattle some Orthodox cages a bit. I think that laughing at yourself, either for an individual or a group, is a good face to present to the world, and people who can't laugh at themselves deserve to be offended at least a little. :)

Alex

Subject: RE: BS: A little self-publicity
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 06 Sep 02 - 07:05 PM

Lotsa funny stuff Alex. PLUS, it should offend a few folks....and that ain't bad!

Rick

Subject: RE: BS: A little self-publicity
From: Bill D
Date: 06 Sep 02 - 06:04 PM

*big grin*....

Subject: RE: BS: A little self-publicity
From: Amos
Date: 06 Sep 02 - 01:46 PM

Alex, it's BLOOOOOODY PRICELESSS!!!

You are a true genius, man! I love it!!


A

Subject: RE: BS: A little self-publicity
From: hesperis
Date: 06 Sep 02 - 12:26 AM

MOUSETHIEF! Where've you been hiding?

*Checks out site*

Subject: A little self-publicity
From: mousethief
Date: 06 Sep 02 - 12:21 AM

My new web site which is meant to be humorous and twist the noses of my correligionists:

The Onion Dome

Hope at least some of you enjoy it!

Alex