Re: Jess is King

[stev0@sti.com (Steve Berlin)]

In article <9202091901.AA18973@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu>, barger@aristotle.ils.nwu.EDU (Jorn Barger) writes:
|> (hey-y-y-y-y, Jessica!  I think *you're* king!!! ;^)

Actually, *I* think Melissa is king, but that's beside the point.
|> 
|> I mean this to be a conciliatory post... but I've got to risk some
|> thin ice to try and clear up some anxieties about warmroom.  sorry
|> if this sets off another round. (richard, thanks for the thoughtful
|> post, btw.)

(Picture Jorn 'n' I shaking hands and air-kissing here)

|> 
|> First: I'd never dream of withholding hot news from rmg... not that
|> i'm especially well-connected in that way.  All my tips have come
|> from tom richards, and anybody can hear what he knows if they're
|> willing to give at&t a buck.  he's got *great* antennae.

I think if Ron Hill or Richard can get as much info about other
people as they can about Kate, they can easily get a job with the CIA.

|> 
|> i just want a place where i can write about kate and life, in my
|> very own handcrafted precious peculiar manner, without feeling
|> like i'm setting off alarumbells somewhere like Oshkosh...

That's how I percieve Gaffa (in these frustrating between-album times).
For wondering things like "How DOES Kate relate to toaster-ovens?"

|> 
|> I don't suppose we can ever know if I coulda been nicer about the
|> divorce... but i'm willing to be nicer now.  Cynthia, Jon, Richard,
|> Missy, Stev0, Larry: we're all in love with the same divinity...
|> even if some of us have the illconsidered impression she might sometimes
|> shit ;^).  I'm willing to try and take good care of you, like sisters
|> and brothers should, if you'll return the favor?

Aye, Laddie. Kate Bush is God, and don't yer fergets it!

|> 
|> but i'm a ridiculously thinskinned guy.  if you think i don't *reel*
|> at criticism, you should check it out with me.  i die daily, i really
|> do, lately.  i think people *should* be extrasensitive. (nobody's
|> claiming, are they?, that i'm *imagining* these slights... just that
|> i'm overreacting... right?)

As for me, I'm on the other end of the spectrum.  I can not say "I
think 'The Dreaming' is a very fine album."  How it usually comes out
is something like "Anyone who doesn't think 'The Dreaming' is the best
fucking album of all-time should have their head crushed between two
large rocks!"

|> 
|> i'm still reading gaffa and ecto, but only when i'm prepared to give
|> up the next four hours lying up, trying to shake off whatever darts
|> have hit home.
|> 
|> hey, i been flamed on warmroom!  and i'm glad of it.  if people thought
|> i was putting myself above criticism... think again.  i'm on the Fool's
|> path, and nobody has to be afraid to flame the Fool.  But don't fucking
|> flame me pointlessly when i'm trying to do something good... coz from
|> time to time i travel the warrior's path, too. >^(

Hmm.. maybe I SHOULD read WR... Nah, I get 100% of my minimum recommended
daily dosage of KaTeNeWS from Gaffa.

|> 
|> hardly anybody has started posting yet to warmroom, except me... and
|> if it turns out just to be a mailing list of people who do like to read
|> my writing-- that'd be less than i hoped, but still the best solution
|> for me.

Maybe *I* should start a mailing list for those 2 or 3 folk out there 
who like reading MY drivel!  Naah, I'm usually too lazy even to
answer my own personal mail, never mind a mailing list...

|> 
|> i feel like it's a chance for me to explore the voice i was discovering
|> in my "womanly hours" post.  i expect to start getting into some wild
|> shit, about strange phenomena in the songs and in my own life as well.
|> 
|> You can now request a digest form instead of loose mail, if you prefer:
|> warmroom-request@ils.nwu.edu
|> 
|> I'd sure like to hear about other lovehounds' wild shit... so long as
|> it's mostly kind.

I think Lovehounds has, for the most part, "better" flame-wars than
any other group I know. (Read "better" as "kinder and gentler";  if
you want to see the REAL definition of nasty, try alt.flame;  those
folks are too much even for ME!)

|> 
|> is it really that arrogant for me to think i can judge what's unkind?
|> if people really think so, let's talk it out in private email, to keep
|> the hollering from breaking back out.
|> 
|> i think the signs of unkindness are pretty clear, though, usually:
|> unconstructive abuse, personal innuendo, hurt feelings, stubborn
|> refusal to apologize.  I think katefans ought to practice to be kind
|> to each other's mistakes.  To the extent that she's our Joan of Arc,
|> what else is the KT8 Army's mission?

My personal mission is to strap on the headphones, turn the stereo to
11, and blast "Get Out of My House".

-Stev0, who hopes he is still the Great Satan of Gaffa

"La la la la la la, la la la la la"
             - J. Random Smurf

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