Surfing the Internet Forget cable. This stuff talks back.
Bv Nathan Olson
Kansan staff writer
The mission, should you choose to accept it, is scanning thousands of news groups on Usenet News. You can't talk simultaneously, but you can pose questions that will be returned. Use at your own risk.
Click. Click. Click. Like magic, the familiar sounds of a telephone being dialed are heard. A few more keys, and suddenly I'm sucked into the world of Usenet News, one of the more popular places to visit on the Internet.
The first stop is alt tennis, where I lament the retirement (possibly temporary, the optimists say) of Jim Courier. One person compares Courier and Michael Jordan, writing, "Jordan was a huge success, leading the Bulls to three NBA championships in a row. Courier has had terrible results this year, after having had good success in the past two years." Another person counters by writing that Courier's four Grand Slam victories makes for a fine career.
Many of the articles in the news group are about the U.S. Open, which starts Monday. The responses in this news group grow noticeably just before a Grand Slam tournament. Some predict a Stephan Edberg-Andre Agassi match in the first round. Others simply state their boredom with the game, rehashing arguments made in Sports Illustrated earlier this summer.
The news group is becoming a bit boring, so I head to 'alt.rush-lim-baugh', always a great place for some lively discussion. Interestingly, the group is sandwiched between 'alt.romance.unhappy' and 'alt.satisman'. One of the first articles, under the title, 'Re: Aventhe the Pensacola Murders', someone writes, "Nietzsche, 'God is Dead' / Göd, 'Nietzsche is dead' Other post of the same title discuss whether the
alleged killer of a doctor who performs abortions was justified.
One person posts allegations Limbaugh made about the Clinton administration's attempt to buy a representative's vote on a bill. The
The wonderful thing about News is that it's like having multiple conversations whenever you want, because, with an estimated population of 15 million, there will always be someone who has a recipe for Borscht or wants to rap about the latest Seinfeld episode.
ensuing discussion leads to battle lines being drawn concerning Limbaugh's accuracy.
Because the news group has over 1,400 postings, and most of them seem to repeat earlier postings, I scan to the bottom for new threads. One person reprints a news article about a Democratic representative from Illinois who was charged with having sex with a minor. Another chears Garry Trudeau's decision to use a waffe to signify President Clinton. Just a few weeks ago, many decried Trudeau's cartoons criticizing Limbaugh.
But again I'm getting bored. No one is raring and raving about "feminazis" or "flaming liberals"; most discussions have some semblance of respectability.
have been censored or altered, and occasional questions about a Beavis and Butthead Sega game and a Beavis and Butthead movie.
So I head to the next best place: alt.tv.beavis-n.buthead. I started a great thread about a year ago when I asked which was smarter (my own feeling was that Beavis was an idiot savant). Now there are very specific questions about songs in episodes ('In 'Army' they headbanged to 'Rooster' by Alice in Chains'), many questions about whether episodes
A frightening amount of space is given to speculation on the pair's hometown. One person, the lucky originator of the thread, guesses Houston, while another thinks it's fictional. A third person writes that the show's creator, Mike Judge, is from Albuquerque. "Some of the things they've said were practically lifted from Albuquerque television."
Approximately two dozen posts later, the consensus is a suburb of Houston or Dallas.
Time for more politics. One of my favorite groups is alt.censorship, which gives me updates of all the interesting ways people are trying to censor other people. A long post talks about the disturbing trend of liberals getting into the censorship business, including pornography and hate-speech codes. This eventually, predictably, leads into a discussion of what the word "liberal" means, a discussion that can be found periodically on many news groups, from alt.rush.limbaugh to alt.acivism to alt.sports.basketball.pro.
A post about the founder of a neo-Nazi group in Canada leads me to alt.revisionism, a rather crazy news group that features the ranting of one anti-Semitite followed by the responses from dozens of people. The anti-Semite, Dann Gannon, makes absurd statements about Hitler's motives without any proof, then cries censorship when people tell him to get off News. One person, correcting another's German, gets called "a maggot from Brown U." The first person writes, "You are seriously misinformed. Brown's football team is called the Bruins, not the Maggots."
I log off, knowing that when I begin reading arguments about college mascots, it's time to quit.
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Posting: A message on News
Thread: A particular discussion within a news group.
Newsgroup: A set of postings about a specific subject, such as the Dallas Cowboys or cooking.
Flame: A harshly negative reply to a posting.
Moderated newsgroup: A newsgroup in which a person or persons decide which postings can be included in the group.
Unmoderated newgroup: A chaotic mess where anyone who wants to post to a group can.
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From bottom: Pat Grassy, bass; Charles Sharpe, drums; Scott Born, guitar, vocals; and Ron Hayes, guitar.
Braun, not the flogger, if you cannot even get this straight foot, how can you expect us to believe you have your feet straight?
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After six years of playing local bars, Kill Creek hits the big time.
By David Wilson
"Stretch" is intended to spark interest in the band before the release of a 14-song album called "St. Valentine's Garage" in October, said guitarist Ron Hayes.
Lawrence band Kill Creek is taking their guitar-thick sound nationwide this month with the release of "Stretch", a five-song compact disk released Aug. 8 on Mammoth Records, an independent label based in North Carolina.
Kansan staff writer
Both "Stretch" and the upcoming "St. Valentine's Garage" were recorded at Red House Recording Studio in Lawrence.
"We're working it pretty hard right now. We're introducing the band to the rest of the country," he said.
Hayes credits recording engineer Ed Rose with the polished sound of both releases. Rose has worked with Kill Creek since 1900.
Kill Creek has been throwing out their wall of noise for six years. Before that, Hayes and vocalist Scott Born bung out at the new-defunct Outhouse when they were still in high school.
"He's a wizard. He's got a great ear," Hays said.
Hayes said Rose favors unadorned drum and guitar tracks, which complements Kill Creek's guitar-oriented sound.
Recording in Lawrence had its advantages, Hayes said.
"We saved a bundle. We could have gone somewhere else, but didn't," he said.
Before signing with Mammoth Records, the band had released a cassette, "Chonic" (pronounced "thonic.") The cassette featured one song, "Cowhead," that got plenty of air play on KJHK, Hayes said.
Right now Hayes, Born and Bassist Pat Grassy live only a few doors away from each other on Tennessee Street. Recently married drummer Charles Sharpe also lives in Lawrence.
Regular commuters on Kansas Highway 10 may recognize the words "Kill Creek" from a green-and-white highway sign halfway between Lawrence and Olathe.
It's not just a coincidence. That's where the band got its name.
Historical details of the battle will be included with the artwork on "St. Valentine's Garage." Haves said.
The creek was named "Kill Creek" in remembrance of a battle between Native Americans and white settlers in Osborne County, Hayes said. Another nearby creek was given a similarly morbid name: Blood Creek.
Kill Creek will be at the Manhattan Parks Festival in Manhattan on Aug. 28 and at the SpiritFest in Kansas City, Mo. on Sept. 3.
People and places at the University of Kansas.
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People and Places at the University of Kansas.
EXHIBITIONS AND LECTURES
the Spencer Museum of Art.
Exhibition- Latter Days of the Law: Images of Chinese Buddhism, 850-1850, opens Saturday at
Exhibition-Basic Studies Scholarship Show, sponsored by the Department of Design and the School of Fine Arts. August 21 September 2 at the Art and Design Gallery.
PERFORMANCES
Staged Reading-English Alternative Theatre presents "Don Juan in Hell" by George Bernard Shaw, 8 p.m. Monday, September 5 at 100 Smith Hall, Free.
East Side Comedy Shop XVIII, 8 p.m. Friday and 8 and 10 p.m. Saturday at the Renegade Theatre, 518 E. 8th St. $6 public.
Lighten Up Improvisation Company presents "Play It By Ear," 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and "Outside the Lines," 10 p.m. Saturday at the Lighten Up Improvisation Co., 323 W.8th St. in Lucas Place, Kansas City, MO. $4-6 public.
MOVIES
"Angel at My Table." 7 p.m. today and 2 p.m.
Saturday at the Kansas Union.
"The Killing," 9:30 p.m. today, 7 p.m. tomorrow at the Kansas Union.
"The War Room," 9:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Kansas Union.
"Four Weddings and a Funeral," 7 and 9:30 p.m.
Friday, 7 and 9:30 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at the Kansas Union.
"Repo Man," midnight Friday and Saturday at the Kansas Union.
COMING IN SEPTEMBER
The Naked Truth with Dr. Jean Kilbourne on Sept.
1. Lecture on the portrayal of women in advertising.
Jurassic Park, Sept. 17 at the Lied Center.
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