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tell your friends that they've still got at least one admirer! they're among the all-time greats in my book

yes -- it was massive yes -- there were two producers in la style = michael van der kuy & wessel van diepen -- and, errr, both were dutch -- and van diepen later did the vengaboys project

though by saying "old territory," i hardly mean to suggest the subject is exhausted i remain very curious about the paths followed all the early rave producers, before before rave, and after rave

this is old territory mates

yes, but wasn't there a much higher concentration of distressed people in downtown new orleans -- people who were stranded in much more dangerous circumstances b/c of (1) lack of sanitation coupled with large numbers of people in same place = greater risk of disease; (2) less physical security...

i'm actually more impressed by kanye's remarks about homophobia in the hip hop community and his efforts to combat it than his criticism of bush, if only b/c lots of people are outraged by the bush administration's response to new orleans crisis, but few rap stars have taken kanye's approach to...

i think he's a closet classist -- as in the natural-born ruling class of the usa -- to the nth degree whether he's a racist, i don't know he tries to come off as a west texas populist and born-again xian -- and maybe he is a true-believer in xianity, as he does seem awfully sincere in his...

i lived in dc for about two years in the mid-nineties, and was mugged at gunpoint twice -- and i've never been mugged at any other time in my life -- not that this proves anything! -- merely a personal anecdote yes, seems to me that the authorities ought to have been able to do both at once --...

new orleans is one of the poorest and most violent places in all of america or it *was* -- for past 6 days it's been flooded -- an ex-place, an ex-city and granted, many people who were "looting" did so to get bare necessities however, many others were young males treating the catastrophe as...

yeah, global warming plays a role but it's also to do with cyclical change in the atlantic ocean -- and by "cyclical," i mean 50-year cycles -- such that mid-60s through mid-90s spawned comparatively tame hurricanes and fewer hurricanes

yes -- keith talent is the petty criminal and master dart player

i don't have a television, but i watched tv this evening with my father -- he's in town dog-sitting for my vacationing sister and her hubby, and he's also a true-believer in bush and the republican party -- so we watched television together at my sister's apartment, the various fox news magazine...

the incompetence of the government is staggering and if they handle things this poorly in new orleans, imagine what really goes on in iraq he'll go down as one of the worst presidents in u.s. history -- lying, deceit, greed; gross mismanagement of the economy, fiscal madness; administrative...

this is starting to look like government incompetence on a massive scale

here's an article comparing the situation in new orleans w/ that of baghdad and here's the ny press prescient on the subject of disastrous hurricanes -- this article was published in july, i believe (by the way, my friend alex zaitchik no longer edits the ny press)

still unclear why so many people were "abandoned" there -- what the evacuations plan were, why they're still stranded, etc (though some of the problem seems to be that the initial delay in rescue efforts has resulted in popular hostility to organized help and government aid workers, hindering...

it looks really bad down south very surreal

it's surreal, to say the least the city is apparently going to be completely evacuated for 3 months -- mind boggling! and 30,000 federal troops are being brought in to maintain order -- the most ever in u.s. history i'm not sure, however, what motivates the looting of stores -- i.e., i can...

i don't necessarily have the most reliable grasp on nietzsche -- he's clearly uses "literary" methods in setting forth his philosophy, such that any interpretation of him must be justified by close attention to the text -- which i've never personally done (i.e., i've read most of his works, but...

no, i recognize that stelfox makes many valuable contributions to this forum so i'd never suggest or endorse any such measure we just have bad blood b/w us, for whatever reason