================================================ Subject: Re: Who wants to be a roadie? From: "Joe Earles" To: Date: Tue 5 Feb 2002 09:24:17 -0500 ================================================ Yes, MBG is the third book and the best in the series, I thought. The series was completed last April with Otherland: Sea of Silver Light. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lee Reed" To: Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 2:04 AM Subject: Re: Who wants to be a roadie? > hey joe, is that the third installment of otherland? i haven't been to the > library in ages...but if it is, i need to get there soon! > > > >From: Joe Earles > >Reply-To: Joe Earles > >To: CREED-DISCUSS@WINDUPLIST.COM > >Subject: Re: Who wants to be a roadie? > >Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 18:06:25 -0500 > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Verrronica Smith > > To: CREED-DISCUSS@WINDUPLIST.COM > > Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 5:35 PM > > Subject: Who wants to be a roadie? > > > > > > For those of you going to the Detroit show...the radion station WRIF is > >sponsoring a contest to be a roadie for Creed. You get backstage passes, > >to work with the crew, eat the bands food (lol) > > > > For some reason that wording just struck me funny. I get this mental > >picture of a hand reaching up from under a table, grabbing a cheeseburger > >and disappearing. Scott Stapp turns around to grab it, looks around > >confused going, "What the..... Flip, did you eat my burger???!???!?!!" > > > > It also reminded me of a very unfortunate line in Tad Williams' > >Otherland: Mountain of Black Glass wherein one of the main characters is > >stuck in a computer simulation of Homer's Odyssey. He kills a cyclops who > >has in his possession, among other things, a large heard of sheep. His > >witless friend, who has gone without food for days and is rather exuberant > >over the fact that he'll be able to dine on rack of lamb for the > >foreseeable future, surveys the situation (oh, and the line was purposely > >written this way): > > > > "The old bastard went up like a torch! FOOF! And now, we eat his meat!" > > > > All I can say is.... EEEEEW! > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com > > To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the Creed-Discuss list, visit: > http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp > To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the Creed-Discuss list, visit: http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp