Re: LOTR credit line

In a message dated 2003:12:29 10:00:22 PM, elemtilas@YAHOO.COM writes:

>> More effective - and possibly creative -
>> woulda been the Tengwar
>> graphically morphing into Latin uncial,
>
>Oo, that would have been neato!
    I knew ya'd agree, mon ami.

>> BTW does any one know if
>> cellist/multiculturalist Yo-Yo Ma maintains a
>> family altar?   Eh?, Teohie, Kou, Padraic,
>> J.Cowan, etc... 0_o?
>
>I would not be at all surprised. He seems to be a
>spiritually motivated man, and has commented on
>the traditions of his upbringing in several
>interviews - and the importance his parents felt
>in keeping alive their Chinese culture in France
>and the US.
    ::re-reads liner notes on Ma's _Silk Road_ CD::
Yepyep... he's prob'ly one of the New Generation
of Ancestor Worshippers. Just doesn't say it aloud
for fear of seeming too "heathen" and "Asia-centric"
and thus _alienatin'_ his mainly upper-crusty patrons
of the old-bone-moon pigmentation (my uncle Kai can't stop
his gigglefits at the idea that there are "Whites" and
"People of Colour"... he grew up in British Colonial Malaya
but clearly recalls the Americana of the '50s -
the whole "Whites" and "Coloured"bs-biz:
 "Gor-frikkin'-Blimey! Are not we going a tad little
 _retro_ here all-a-sudden 'gain, lah?")

>> How many of ya
>> _actively_ maintain some form of "spiritual
>> lineage-consciousness" and/or
>> "genetic ancestor memory worship"?
>
>Not actively. As far as I'm concerned, they have
>their own lives to get on with, and probably
>don't want to be terribly bothered with me.
    LMAO... Afterlives, ya mean, eh?
I sure wouldn't like any of mine "terribly bothered"
with me - esp'ly from me Mumzie's side, the Dreaded
Hardcore Republican-Xianized-Americanized Vulgar Confucianists of the
_WONG Side of the Family_...
the Wild'n'Kwazie Taoist-Existentialist British Born ZHANG leFamilia.

    Hey we got a particularly nasty Culture Clash just on the edge o' Civil
Warfare
in our family... that counts for more than mere family dysfunctionalism, lah?


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