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- From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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- Subject: Re: this winter solstice moment
- Date: 25 Dec 1992 05:34:18 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- In a previous article, ALILESTE@IDBSU.IDBSU.EDU (Dan Lester) says:
-
- > hey, thanks for all the cards, ruthbaby.....and natalie and don and others
- >too....and it doesn't TAKE two eyes to read a monitory....not like depth
- >perceiption is important on a flatscreen.....or that the left eye focuses
- >well enough to make any difference anyhow....
- >
- Join the club; with my glasses off, reading is about all I *can* do.:-)
- About the cards - you're welcome; it was a great excuse to go digging though
- the stacks.[a library-honed instinct that overwhelms me sometimes :-) ]
-
- > interesting....i kinda like them....but am not crazy about them....but
- >today a package came from andy....my programmer son in chicago....and we
-
- I had the same reaction; the Replacements they ain't, and they can't Get
- Close to the Pretenders.:-) You should hear the tape Akio sent me -
- It's all Japanese Christmas songs. They're not "traditional" ones, so I can't
- make out more than a few words. The first side sounds like something out of
- 1978, but the other is more modern. CBS just broadcast a Midnight Mass from
- the West Market Street church [Methodist] somewhere in North Carolina. Now
- *that* was more like it!:-)
-
- >that i am wearing....(it wasn't wrapped....it is a truly wonderful straw
- >porkpie....)
-
- Hello Pork Pie Hat!<grin>
-
- >obviously a book...and it was the NEW Rolling Stone Album Guide...which I did
- >not have....and 'coincidentally' as i was thumbing thru it i noticed the
-
- OH lust! You lucky ..... and with one eye out of commission, you get to sit
- around and read it!:) [if you can hack it one-eyed, without frisbeeing the
- book....]
-
- >if not quite hacks then certainly not very far removed, specializing in the
- >type of roots-rock twaddle beloved by those who like having new albums
- >to buy but desperately hate new music."
- >
- >oh, well.....
- >
- You can't win 'em all, and besides, what do you want for a buck? That's all
- I paid.:-)
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