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Category Archives: Zappa Misc
Dissecting TRFZB
Amazon provides a fun little thing called “Text Stats” when you’re on a book page. Here’s what it threw up for TRFZB. We learn that the book’s Flesch-Kincaid Index is 10.2, that it contains 4503 sentences, and that a whopping … Continue reading
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It’s A WikiWiki World
Touring Can Make You Crazy is “a new website dedicated to investigate the live entertainment activities of Frank Zappa. It’s a work in progress, so new material will be added every few weeks.” As Unimuta puts it: maybe someone should … Continue reading
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Zappathon 2005
This just in (via SOFA): there will be another Zappathon! It’s scheduled for April 17 between noon & midnight. The details: It will be webcast at wusb.fm for those who want to tune in. It IS tied into our spring … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Zappa Audio/Video, Zappa Misc
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Cheap Thrills?
The Cheapening of Music: When my friend said that he believed music has been cheapened, he was referring to the fact that music is now everywhere. It’s in your cellphone, on the web, on your microwave, TV, toys, etc. It’s … Continue reading
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Bruce Bickford Dot Com
Bruce Bickford finally has a worthy homepage, put together by some helpful fans with his co-operation.
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Zappa, Dweezil, and Naming Conventions
So, let’s say hypothetically, you’re working on this thing called a wiki, right? Let’s say it’s a wiki on Frank Zappa, and you’re setting up a basic structure (bio, discog, videog, …). All goes well until you hit a bit … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Personal, Zappa Misc
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Zappa Wiki Forum
Introducing The Frank Zappa Wiki Forum. More later…
Posted in Frank Zappa, Site News, Zappa Misc
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Grunion Pun
So many things to do, it boggles the mind: witness a grunion run, visit a zircon rock concert, create the ultimate Frank Zappa encyclopaedia.
Posted in Frank Zappa, Randamonium, Zappa Misc
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Memories Of El Monte
Shocking news from the world of Little League Baseball: The team says El Monte is 12 and has a Web site to prove it. Born on April 7, 1989, Kenny’s mother was a groupie who traveled with Frank Zappa’s Mothers … Continue reading
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On ebay Shopping Mall
1968 Zappa WE’RE ONLY IN IT FOR THE MONEY w/ Insert. With several censored lyrical edits on rare version. Looking good!
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Zappa And Linux
Duncan writes: My son has just informed me that a programme on TV last night mentioned FZ getting a credit in the Linux manual…. He seems to be all over the Linux world. Did we know about this already? No … Continue reading
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Billy The Musical
And then there was Billy The Mountain, The Musical. “With this show we’re just trying to get people to be more discriminating about where they get their information, what they take away from it and how they balance it.” says … Continue reading
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One Of These Days These Boots…
Please excuse the poor attempt at anything remotely humourous in this post’s title. However, here’s a question for you: how do you guys go about managing the various boots you download here and there? Textfiles? Access-databases? Copy-paste Word documents *shivers*? … Continue reading
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El Hombre de la SÃndone
In the “People Who Have Way Too Much Time On Their Hands” department, I give you this: — El Hombre de la SÃndone es Frank Zappa! Via Balint who also babelfished the Spanish text to English.
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Gadget CC
Top 100 gadgets of all time — first one to spot the Conceptual Continuity clue there gets a Gmail account will not be flooded with Gmail invites! (Thanks Frippe!)
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