[Trombone-l] fictional account

[Chris Tune]

MTC:  Sometimes I've felt as if I'd LIKE to hit a trumpet player in that 
spot right behind the ear, where you can instantly kill them. . .BUT they 
are usually behind the trombone section or next to them (maybe that's why 
they set the groups up that way!). . .all I've got in the way of targets are 
spindly, geeky woodwind players who don't have the truly obnoxious aspect of 
a really loud trumpeter clamming and botching lick after lick after lick. 
The saxes are just kinda out of tune.

MEDIA:
Boy!  The Weekly World News should be inducted into the Mainstream Media 
"Hall of Fame" . . .it seems that only WWN are steadfastly revealing all 
these alien invasion plots, half-human canibal tribes, and other important 
stories that no-one else will carry (I'd doff my hat to them, but I MUST 
keep the tin-foil over my brain).

I'm sure that their journalist staff can be proud of the fact that these 
stories are moving people's opinion. . .despite being "made-up", fictional, 
pipe-dreams. Perhaps the better, more subtle staff are recruited to work at 
the Washington Post, or the New York Times. . .where extra subtletly is 
required in your lying . "Position" and "ommssion" are extra-special 
obfuscation techniques used by the MSM--current example-almost entirely 
ommitting any continuing story about THREE WEEKS of rioting in France and 
western Europe. . .the SIN of ommission!.  Perhaps they can point proudly to 
their excellent article below the fold in the back of section two. . . 
.while some piece which, in essence, furthers some agenda of their own, is 
above the fold on page ONE!

I hate to point this out to reporters when I meet them, but the internet 
(Google News for example) has changed that a LOT.  And now, when 
internet-saavy news fans read a MSM paper they ask themselves--". .why the 
heck is THIS story given such a prominent place?"   Because the internet 
news fan sees news based upon the main stories as brought up by a largely 
automated process. Search engines are not known to do political "filtering" 
(at least the more fully automatic ones).

I'm going to go play "When the Saints Go Marching In. . "

Hope we all have a great Thanksgiving.
Chris Tune

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <dslide13 at aol.com>
To: <trombone-l at samford.edu>
Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2005 10:02 AM
Subject: [Trombone-l] fictional account


>I remember getting this story from someone on this list.  I was checking 
>snopes for something else recalled it.  Here's what snopes says....
>
> http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/trombone.asp
>
> David Gibson
> trombonist/educator
> www.jazzbone.org
>
>
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