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Newsgroups: alt.fan.tom-robbins
Subject: <None>
From: smithy@kenyon.edu
Date: 13 Sep 92 16:35:29 -0500
Reply-To: smithy@vax001.kenyon.edu
Distribution: alt.fan.tom-robbins
Organization: Kenyon College
Keywords: post

About Tom Robbins in the states. yes he's quite big here.  He's just random
enough to pull off the things he does.  His writing style is heavenly, if you
take the time to examine it.  Although it's rather difficult to find as it
definitely takes a backseat to the story.  
   The only thing I can definitely say there needs to be less of in Tom
Robbin's novel is the religiosity with which the characters seek out what they
do.  
   In Still Life With A Woodpecker it was kind of neat. Then again in Jitterbug
Perfume immortality (or was it casual drug abuse) seemed to be a form of
religion that the reader was being urged to try. 
   Then again in Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, we were bonked over the head with 
urgings to get back to basics of religion and make them our own.  Maybe it's
cool to simply take up and put off at will whatever suits our fancies, but what
you 'is' stays with you.  I don't think, and I refuse to apologize for my
close-mindedness on this subject, that it is possible but what you know. 
   Other than all the religious claptrap, I think Tom Robbins has quite a lot
to say that's important and relevant on an individual level.
Newsgroups: alt.fan.tom-robbins
From: angab@acad2.alaska.edu
Subject: Re: Movie coming out?dir/new
Organization: University of Alaska
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 20:42:53 GMT

In article <92259.174912SXL136@psuvm.psu.edu>, SXL136@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
> 
>      In a recent Rolling Stone, some people were asked their favorite movie,
> album, etc. and some guy (name escapes me) had listed as his favorite movie,
                  ^^^^^^^^
That guy is Gus Van Sandt, director of the "forthcoming" Cowgirls movie.  If
Rolling Stone knew that he was just plugging it, they didn't let on.

> album and book as Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. After the movie it said
> forthcoming.... anybody have any ideas on this one>? 
> 
> Sean LeBlanc
> 
> -I'll meet you in Poland, baby.
>         -Tackhead
Newsgroups: alt.fan.tom-robbins
From: ktk@capybara.nas.nasa.gov (Katy T. Kislitzin)
Subject: Things T.R. awakened me too...
Organization: Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation Facility NASA
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 00:09:05 GMT
Reply-To: ktk@capybara.nas.nasa.gov (Katy T. Kislitzin)

Just re-read Cowgirls.  don't know how many times i've read it, or when
i fisr read it, but the last time was about ten years ago.  Frankly, I 
can't agree that there are no likeable characters: I think Sissie and 
Bonanza are wonderful, and the Chink is pretty cool too.  I really had 
forgotten how few scenes of Sissy <-> Bonanza love there are. 

I realized with a start the worlds T.R. opened me up to, raising remarkable
issues years before they  came back into my life from other sources.
Such as:

my first encounter with women-loving-women
my first awareness of japanese interrment camps during wwii

I had also forgotten what a femminist he is.

although a bit silly in places (e.g. chapter 100), Cowgirls is still a great
book, as far as I am concerned.  

and my thumbs are just soooo tiny now...;-)

-- kt
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From: SXL136@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.fan.tom-robbins
Subject: Movie coming out?
Date: 15 Sep 92 21:49:12 GMT
Organization: Penn State University


     In a recent Rolling Stone, some people were asked their favorite movie,
album, etc. and some guy (name escapes me) had listed as his favorite movie,
album and book as Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. After the movie it said
forthcoming.... anybody have any ideas on this one?




Sean LeBlanc

-I'll meet you in Poland, baby.
        -Tackhead
Newsgroups: alt.fan.asprin
From: mam1335@rigel.tamu.edu (MONTGOMERY, MARK ANDREW)
Subject: Starblaze Graphics
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 18:42:00 GMT

Anybody out there know where I can find the address of this publisher??
I'm trying to get Phil Foglio's address so I can ask him about some of his 
comics.  I don't know the name of the company that publishes his comics, so I 
thought I'd just go through Starblaze to get the address.   Thanks in advance,

	Aahzmandius  aka Mark Montgomery

Newsgroups: alt.fan.asprin
From: krpeters@athena.mit.edu (Karl R Peters)
Subject: Re: Asprin or ASPIRIN?
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 14:23:02 GMT

In article <92255.093122U30644@uicvm.uic.edu> <U30644@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
>What is this group for?  If it serves the need of fans of Aspirin (the
>drug) then you have misspelled it.  If "Asprin" is the name of a person,
>it's stupid.
>
>So kill me.
>
>Joel

BBB     A    N   N   GGG     !  !  !
B  B   A A   NN  N  G        !  !  !
BBB   A   A  N N N  G  GG    !  !  !
B  B  AAAAA  N  NN  G   G
BBB   A   A  N   N   GGG     !  !  !

You're dead. 
Asprin is Robert's last name. He's a neato author.
Newsgroups: alt.fan.asprin
From: bpostow@occs.cs.oberlin.edu (Brian Postow)
Subject: Re: Asprin book about corporate takeovers?
Organization: Oberlin College Computer Science
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 01:01:31 GMT
X-Posted-From: occs.cs.oberlin.edu
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

ok, here is my schpiel on Cold Cash War. It is an interesting book. It
is seriose, it is pure sci-fi. It is a book about corporate take
overs. The corps decide that instead of actually going in a blowing up
each others instalations and stuff like that, it would be cheaper and
more effective if they just gave all of the people "Kill suits"
reminicent of the battle suits in Ender's Game. When a person is
killed, the suit freezes up and they can't move. 
Ok, so there are a bunch of these psuedo-wars going on around the
world.
that isn't especially interesting to me, what was interesting was how
the story is told. It is told from the point of view of 4 people. 2 of
whom meet at the end, and the other 2 pass in the same room as each
other. it is told from the point of view of 
an exec in one of the corps: he is trying to get a good PR going for
when and if the existance of these wars, breaks into the open.
a negotiator for the same corp who is negotiating about the ground
rules for the wars
a grunt on the front lines of the wars,
and
an information broker who, in addition to buy and selling info, has as
his hobby trying to peice together what is actually going on from the
info requests he has, and lots of newspapers, and he tries to predict
the news...

so from the point of view of how the story is told, it is neat, but
other wise.... unless you are into that sort of thing...,..

--
Brian Postow :: The Pasta Knight - that noodle head in shiny armour

Didn't your parents tell you not to talk to strangers?
	And I'm STRAAANGER than you are!
From: stillwd@leela.cs.orst.edu (Daniel Stillwaggon)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.asprin
Subject: Re: Asprin book about corporate takeovers?
Date: 4 Sep 92 20:53:08 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Outreach Services - Oregon State University

ENVIRON@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU writes:


>     I was in a bookstore the other day when I glanced briefly at a book
>by R.A. I hadn't seen before... The premise seemed to be that in the
>future all of the fighting in the world would be done by corporate types
>or something.  As much as I love the Myth series (and tolerate the Phule
>series) I had to pass, at least for now.  It just looks too cheesy.  Has
>anyone read it or even know what I'm talking about?


>Brett

I beleive that you are talking about Cold Cash Wars?  While I havnt read it
in over 4 years, I really liked it(I've liked all of aspirins stuff that
I have read, Phule less then the others but i still like it).  Does anybody
have a complete list of his novels and short storys?  Ive read all of the 
Myth books numerous times, several of the thieves world, the first two 
Phule book, and a short story that appeared in a book called Merovingen 
Nights.  Does anybody know of anyothers?
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Friday, 11 Sep 1992 09:31:22 CDT
From: <U30644@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.asprin
Subject:    Asprin or ASPIRIN?

What is this group for?  If it serves the need of fans of Aspirin (the
drug) then you have misspelled it.  If "Asprin" is the name of a person,
it's stupid.

So kill me.

Joel
From: ygoland@edison.seas.ucla.edu (The Jester)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.asprin
Subject: Re: Asprin book about corporate takeovers?
Date: 5 Sep 92 09:47:43 GMT
Organization: The Hacker Conference

I believe the book being refered to is "The Cold Cash Wars" and was
the first book that asprin published (I think =). I remember one of
his editorial intros for the myth series denigrating the book
(something along the lines of him thinking it was a nice try on his
part) so I didn't bother with it. Actually, talking about old asprin
stuff, I bought a used copy of TAMBU (another one of his old ones
from '79), it was actually readable, not anything to write home to
ma about but definatly pleasant.

BTW am I getting the right impression in thinking that asprin is
sick and tired of the myth series and wouldn't mind a bit if it
burned itself to pieces? The More books he writes, the less good
they get. Another Fine Myth is still my favorite book and all the
early books are great, but the later ones.. yuck...

AS for the Phule series, its o.k. but I expect better from asprin.
Even though the main character has a name I love (grin), thats not
enough. He seems to almost be 'playing' with some ideas to see what
'works'. 

Does anyone have any SOLID, REAL, TRUE, ITS REALLY REALLY REALLY
GONNA HAPPEN, type information on what asprin is up to? I'd love to
read more books by him, not just old stuff that authors have dragged
out in re-print.

			The Jester (and I had it before the series!)

-- 
For some reason unintelligible to me, Lord Acton's dictum that
"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely"
is rarely raised in connection with judges, who...possess power
..that comes [close] to being absolute"-Judge Bork
From: joak@ocf.berkeley.edu (Jonathan A. Kung)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.asprin
Subject: Re: Asprin or ASPIRIN?
Date: 11 Sep 1992 18:21:49 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: bigbang.berkeley.edu

Last article, U30644@uicvm.uic.edu (aka Spelling Man) burps:
>What is this group for?  If it serves the need of fans of Aspirin (the
>drug) then you have misspelled it.  If "Asprin" is the name of a person,
>it's stupid.

It'll have to be the former if someone makes that comment one more time...
(silly grin for a silly person)

-Jon Kung, rubbing his temple -- Shirley, that is...
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Subject: test Re: <None>
From: <GE0QC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Date: Saturday, 12 Sep 1992 02:31:23 EDT
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center

test
Newsgroups: alt.colorguard
Subject: Show ideas yet?!?!?!
From: cputnam@vax1.umkc.edu
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 07:38:13 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City


Does anyone know of any show ideas that are being bounced around yet?  I mean,
regionals start in 6 months.  There have to be some ideas being generated out
there.  Anyone have any ideas as to what who's planning?  Even high school
guards.

Thanks a lot!

IRC nick-BlueDevil

Newsgroups: alt.colorguard
From: LJ10717@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM
Subject: NEED DCI NEWSGROUP INFORMATION
Organization: Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, Inc.
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 22:41:48 GMT

Hello,

I've been trying to locate several friends who partipated in drum corps
activities during the early 1980's.  Unfortunately, I don't have access to Alt.
music.drumcorps.  Does anyone know how I can subscribe to this newsgroup?

Diamond
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Friday, 11 Sep 1992 14:21:38 CDT
From: <U30644@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.mcdonalds
Subject: Re: McD Characters
 <1992Sep8.164357.6357@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>

In article <1992Sep8.164357.6357@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>, jbeer@lonestar.utsa.edu
(Jason R. Beerhalter) says:
>
>In article <1992Sep6.013612.7358@ac.dal.ca> cossett@ac.dal.ca writes:
>>What is the name for the MacDonald character based on a big mac. I
>>believe it is Chief or Officer something. PLEASE HELP!
>
>The character's name was simply Big Mac. Okay?!

No it's not.  His name is "Big Meat Asshole" and he personifies patriarchy
and neanderthal primitivism.  He hits you on the head with his phallic
symbol if you tell him you're a vegetarian.

Joel
Newsgroups: alt.mcdonalds
From: siona@acca.nmsu.edu (Siona)
Subject: Re: Cherry Pies
Organization: New Mexico State University
 
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 07:15:17 GMT

*sigh*  

OK.  I work at McDonald's myself--in Fargo, North Dakota as a matter of fact.
<@whee>  

Anyway--the reason that you have not seen cherry pies is that cherries are not
really in season.  Cherries aren't in season, no cherry pies.      

Wait until late fall sometime hon--they'll be back. :)

Siona the Main Avenue Drive-thru Diva
From: trubik@triton.unm.edu (S. M. Trujillo)
Newsgroups: alt.mcdonalds
Subject: Menu Item Names (was Re: McD Characters)
Date: 9 Sep 92 18:26:37 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

In <1992Sep8.164357.6357@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> jbeer@lonestar.utsa.edu
    (Jason R. Beerhalter) answers the question:

>>What is the name for the MacDonald character based on a big mac. I
>>believe it is Chief or Officer something. PLEASE HELP!

>The character's name was simply Big Mac. Okay?!

Okay, but if it's McDonalds, why is he not called 'Big Mc'
   or maybe 'Big Mick' ???  Ditto his namesake sandwich . . .

-- 
-  s  t  e  v  e  n
:: :: :: :: :: :: ::
"fire on the hemisphere below" - b/b/m/s
Newsgroups: alt.mcdonalds
From: dmatt@iastate.edu (Daniel I Matt)
Subject: Re: Gender ambiguities and mcd's characters
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 10:07:09 GMT

In article <1992Sep12.215107.23842@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> mdriscol@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Mollie M Driscol) writes:
>This has been driving me crazy!!
>I need to know--is Ronald McDonald
>a man or a woman?

   Well, I guess considering that he used to be played by Willard Scott, I'd
have to say he's most likely a man! :)
From: Psylocke@utopia.hacktic.nl  (Psylocke)
Newsgroups: alt.mcdonalds
Subject: Re: Gender ambiguities and mcd's charact
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 22:37:56 +0100

Well i actually think it's an it!
From: jbeer@lonestar.utsa.edu (Jason R. Beerhalter)
Newsgroups: alt.mcdonalds
Subject: Re: McD Characters
Date: 8 Sep 92 16:43:57 GMT
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio

In article <1992Sep6.013612.7358@ac.dal.ca> cossett@ac.dal.ca writes:
>What is the name for the MacDonald character based on a big mac. I
>believe it is Chief or Officer something. PLEASE HELP!

The character's name was simply Big Mac. Okay?!
Newsgroups: alt.mcdonalds
From: mdriscol@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Mollie M Driscol)
Subject: Gender ambiguities and mcd's characters
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 21:51:07 GMT

This has been driving me crazy!!
I need to know--is Ronald McDonald
a man or a woman?

any information would be appreciated.

madeleine

p.s. is Mrs. Kroc still around?
From: cossett@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: alt.mcdonalds
Subject: McD Characters
Date: 6 Sep 92 04:36:12 GMT
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

What is the name for the MacDonald character based on a big mac. I 
believe it is Chief or Officer something. PLEASE HELP!
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From: lcl@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu (Lisa C. Lewis)
Newsgroups: alt.consciousness,bionet.neuroscience,comp.cog-eng,sci.comp-aided,sci.engr.biomed,sci.med.physics,sci.philosophy.tech,sci.psychology
Subject: Brain Imaging Conference
Date: 9 Sep 92 03:30:38 GMT
Reply-To: lcl@meceng.coe.northeastern.edu
Followup-To: alt.consciousness
Organization: College of Engineering, Northeastern University


            FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING: Looking at the Mind
                An International Symposium sponsored by
           the Massachusetts Biomedical Research Corporation
             the National Foundation for Brain Research and
      the Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Radiology

Back Bay Hilton, Boston, MA.  Nov. 5 & 6, 1992

Functional neuroimaging is the application of instruments to view the 
changes in physiological state which accompany the work of the brain. It is 
also a window into a deeper understanding of the interaction of the mind 
and the organism which supports it. By assembling together leaders in the 
development of that understanding, the symposium, _Functional Neuroimaging: 
Looking at the Mind_ will provide a forum for considering whether the 
boundaries of physiology and consciousness are impenetrable, or if with the 
tools of functional neuroimaging we are approaching a watershed of 
epistemology.

Topics include:

___Instrumentation for Functional Neuroimaging___
What limits do the tools available to us impose, both on a technological
level and in terms of our filtered perceptions?

___The Brain in Health and Disease___ 
Mapping brain disease based on functional abnormalities through
functional neuroimaging

___Human Sensation and Motor Control___
Characterizing the response of the brain to sensation, and tracing the
activity backwards to look at the physiological states which presage our
movements and our speech.

___Imaging of Cognitive Function___
We can now begin to explore the physiological correlates of sophisticated
behaviors, from music and math to the background processes which give
answers seemingly from nowhere.  Do we handle the components of a complex
task in serial, or parallel?


The attendance fee of $200 includes all meals, a reception, and a tour of
the MGH-NMR center.  Attendance will be strictly limited and handled on a
first come, first served basis.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:

For a detailed program of the conference, either check the posting in
news.announce.conferences, send email to lcl@cs.bu.edu, or simply reply to
this posting with "NMR PROGRAM REQUEST" in the subject line.  For other
inquiries, please contact:


FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING CONFERENCE             or, by e-mail:
MGH Dept. of Radiology                         mcohen@nmr-r.mgh.harvard.edu
Fruit Street
Boston, MA 02114

(617) 726-8395
FAX (617)726-7422
--
Lisa Caroline Lewis   		    Our country, right or wrong.  
lcl@csa.bu.edu      -or-	    When right, to be kept right; 
lcl@meceng.coe.northeastern.edu     when wrong, to be put right.
                  	             - Carl Schurz, January 17, 1872
From: anthony@neptune.brisnet.org.au (Anthony Moran)
Newsgroups: alt.consciousness
Subject: Re: Deja Vu
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 92 10:15:09 +1000
Reply-To: anthony%neptune%meteor@bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au
Organization: I have a mote inside my eye

In <1992Sep2.123531.22967@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> S_TITZ@iravcl.ira.uka.de (Olaf Titz) writes:
>What causes Deja-vu experiences?
>
>Sometimes you think you recall the situation you're just in, you are
>convinced that 'this has happened already', either in a dream or in
>reality. But usually you can't state exactly how and when.

[Theories deleted]

Well another theory about Deja Vu could be that, when you are experiencing
one of these moments, what actually is happening is that your mind is
retrieving memory which is being stored at that very moment. Your mind is
recalling the event as it is happening, so you think, "wow I remember this
happening before!"

Anthony

-- 
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             anthony%neptune%meteor@bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au
       * Lived my life to the full... Now I am a vegetable *
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Newsgroups: alt.consciousness
From: entpph@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Subject: Re: Deja Vu
Reply-To: entpph@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 09:38:46 GMT

Or, less exotically, 6.  Becuase you are distracted, tired, confused,
etc. what you are experiencing somehow gets routed not to your
conscious mind, or only partly to your conscious mind, and partly 
to you long term memory which then routes it to the conscious and
you have the mixed experience of something happening simultaneously
in the present and in the past.

Erik Timmerman
From: murphyg@Software.Mitel.COM (Gary Murphy)
Newsgroups: alt.consciousness
Subject: Re: Sight&Sound Machines
Date: 9 Sep 92 13:23:21 GMT
Organization: Applications Software II, MITEL Corporation, Kanata, Ontario,
	Canada
In-reply-to: jones@head-cfa.harvard.edu's message of 8 Sep 92 22:36:59 GMT

In article <1992Sep8.223659.29468@head-cfa.harvard.edu> jones@head-cfa.harvard.edu (Mark Jones) writes:

   This devices seem to work by putting the brain into an alpha (relaxed
   creative) or theta("twilight learning" ) state quckly, "without even
   learning a mantra". The trick is thought to be brainwave entrainment.
   This makes you susceptible to suggestions given via a self improvement
   tape.

In his last (post-humous) work (Laws of Media?), Marshal McLuhan claimed
these same effects from watching TV (or any back-lit screen) --- would
anyone know of the studies he was citing?  Could this mean I should be
encouraging my kids to 'meditate' more? ;-)

Excuse me.  I _must_ go have breakfast at Harvey's.  I _must_ go have
breakfast at Harvey's.  I _must_ go have breakfast at Harvey's.  I
_must_ go have breakfast at Harvey's.  I _must_ go have breakfast at
Harvey's.  I _must_ go have breakfast at Harvey's.  I _must_ go have
breakfast at Harvey's.

--
Gary Lawrence Murphy - Gary.Murphy@software.mitel.COM - (613) 592-2122 x3709
     Unity is plural --- at minimum, two. - R. Buckminster Fuller
Newsgroups: alt.consciousness