From ed@hintz.org  Tue Oct 14 18:33:03 2003
From: ed@hintz.org (Edmund A. Hintz)
Date: Tue Oct 14 17:33:03 2003
Subject: [Promotum] Presidential Poetry
Message-ID: <20031015003249.25862@127.0.0.1:2525>

A lovely critique of Our Glorious Leader's poetry here:

http://missourireview.org/index.php?g
enre=Editorials&title=Dear+Mr.+G.W.+Bush+%2F+Re%3A+Your+recent+submission
http://tinyurl.com/qvqu 

My favorite paragraph:

>Lines 8 and 9 are perhaps the most fully realized moments in the poem and
>we commend you for them. Though the speaker states that he misses his
>lover, he seems unable to accept responsibility for his true feelings.
>Rather he transfers these emotions to the family pets, going so far as to
>project his own difficulties upon poor Barney. Obviously the shoe that
>the speaker claims was consumed by    the dog reflects the speaker's
>resentment of his lover's sense of self-empowerment, embodied in her
>freedom to choose another lover. The shoe, of course, has been a symbol
>of feminist emancipation throughout the 20th Century, em(body)ing the new
>"mobility" brought about in part by the entrance of masses of women into
>the workforce and into jobs and careers traditionally held exclusively  
> by men (see P. Schroeder, G. Ferraro, H.R. Clinton); by the development
>of modern forms of birth control ("the pill"); and by an economy fueled
>by mass consumption (perhaps best illustrated by malls, of which shoe
>stores are an integral part). We see this dynamic in such every day
>phrases as "walk out of your life" or to "walk all over him," as well as
>in popular    culture. See Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots Were Made for
>Walking."

Regards,

Ed Hintz
ed@hintz.org


From ed@hintz.org  Tue Oct 14 19:17:03 2003
From: ed@hintz.org (Edmund A. Hintz)
Date: Tue Oct 14 18:17:03 2003
Subject: [Promotum] Domina mea exstat a tergo!
Message-ID: <20031015011607.8715@127.0.0.1:2525>

Sir-mix-a-lot, given the Latin treatment: 

http://www.livejournal.com/users/quislibet/164084.html 

amica esse videtur istorum hominum rhythmicorum. 
(She appears to be a girlfriend of one of those rhythmic-oration people.) 
...

magnae clunes mihi placent, nec possum de hac re mentiri. 
(Large buttocks are pleasing to me, nor am I able to lie concerning this
matter.) 


Regards,

Ed Hintz
ed@hintz.org


From ed@hintz.org  Tue Oct 21 20:20:06 2003
From: ed@hintz.org (Edmund A. Hintz)
Date: Tue Oct 21 19:20:06 2003
Subject: [Promotum] Mannergarten
Message-ID: <20031022022002.12952@127.0.0.1:2525>

A Hamburg mall now has a place for the wife to drop off the husband while
she shops. After paying the fee (10 Euros, about $11.50US), her man is
issued a name tag, and gets to enjoy beer, sports, food, and toys (like
rc cars). Kindergarten for men. I'd go shopping with the wife if I could
do that...

http://www.dw-world.de/english/0,3367,1441_A_1004925_1_A,00.html

Regards,

Ed Hintz
ed@hintz.org


From ed@hintz.org  Mon Oct 27 14:08:03 2003
From: ed@hintz.org (Edmund A. Hintz)
Date: Mon Oct 27 14:08:03 2003
Subject: [Promotum] Temporary shutdown
Message-ID: <20031027220728.10872@127.0.0.1:2525>

Hi all,

    We sold our house last week, my last day at work is 31 Oct, and we
are heading for New Zealand on 9 November. Since I no longer have my DSL
to host hintz.org, I'm doing webhosting with www.pbp.net. I may work on
getting gnu mailman (the software running promotum) functioning at pbp,
but it's not high on my priority list at the moment. Ergo, to keep up
with what we're up to, your best chance is to keep an eye on my
livejournal at 

http://www.livejournal.com/users/ehintz 

I expect to keep it relatively up to date while we're on the road. The
list will be coming back, but I don't know exactly when.

Regards,

Ed Hintz
ed@hintz.org