11/29/01 i'm.... sad.  george died today.  harrison - for those of you who don't know.  having grown up with the beatles and the stones and all those groups... i'm just sad.  not like the day john died tho - when john was shot and they finally came on the radio and said he had died... i was in total shock.  i can remember that like it was yesterday - even every piece of furniture in the house we lived in then.  i knew he'd been shot, and i was playing his and yoko's new album - and when they said he was dead, i kind of staggered into the back room and told my husband "oh my God, he died".  this isn't quite like that, because he's been ill and not so unexpected, but... God speed, george.  you'll be missed, and thank you for years of enjoyment. 

 

GEORGE HARRISON DIED at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at a friend’s Los Angeles home following a battle with cancer, longtime friend Gavin De Becker told The Associated Press late Thursday.

 “He died with one thought in mind — love one another,” De Becker said. De Becker said Harrison’s wife, Olivia Harrison, and son Dhani, 24, were with him when he died.

With Harrison’s death, there remain two surviving Beatles, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. John Lennon was shot to death by a deranged fan in 1980.

In 1998, when Harrison disclosed that he had been treated for throat cancer, Harrison said: “It reminds you that anything can happen.” The following year, he survived an attack by an intruder who stabbed him several times. In July 2001, he released a statement asking fans not to worry about reports that he was still battling cancer.


11/23/01 and today is *my* birthday, so happy birthday to me :-)
 

11/22/01

happy thanksgiving all!  hope you all have a good one!  we'll be out at grandma's all day, stuffing ourselves :-) 


11/19/01 having been duly chastised, i offer the following (with the one justification that i *did* write lori personally on her birthday ;-)



happy belated birthday:

mandy ;-)
 

haven't been back online all week, too much junk at work going on.  for all of you writing and asking me for tourdates for the non-equity tour - go to http://www.rentthetour.com - i'm not keeping track of them here (note the *name* of this site: www.bennytour.com). 

and sheesh, keep up folks.  the movie was scrapped in august (look under the movie on this site).

i can't believe it's thanksgiving already.  2 years since the beginning of - i still can't describe it.  so i won't.  

i have to post this spam karen c. got.  i wonder how many people fell for this!?   oy vey, LOL!  someone write to this 'prince' and let me know what your hear back! ;-)


Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 15:34:35 -0800 (PST)
From: "PRINCE IBE" princo_300@yahoo.com
Subject: VERY URGENT

3/5   RIDER HAGGARD
CLOSE, JO, BORG
SOUTH AFRICA.
Email:princo_300@yahoo.com

             [URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL]

(RE:  TRANSFER OF [$ 152,000.000.00 USD]
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY TWO MILLION DOLLARS

Dear sir,

We want to transfer to overseas ($ 152,000.000.00 USD). One hundred and Fifty two million United States Dollars) from a Prime Bank in Africa, I want to ask you to  quietly look for a reliable and honest person who will be capable  and fit to provide either an existing bank account  or  to set up a new  Bank a/c  immediately to receive this money, even an empty a/c can serve to receive this money, as long as you will remain honest to me till the end for this important business trusting in  you and believing  in God that you  will never let me down either now or in future.

I am Mr.prinec ibe., the Auditor General of prime banks in Africa, during the course of our auditing  I discovered a floating fund  in an account opened in the bank in 1990 and since 1993 nobody has operated on this account again, after going through some old files in the records I discovered that the owner of the account  died without a [heir]  hence  the money is floating and  if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing. the owner of this account is  Mr. Allan P. Seaman, a foreigner, and an industrialist, and he died,  since 1993. and  no other person knows about this account or any thing concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that Allan P. Seaman  until his death was the manager  Diamond Safari  [pty]. SA. 

We will start the  first transfer with fifty two million [$52,000.000] upon successful transaction without any disappoint from your side, we shall re-apply for the payment of the remaining  rest amount to your account.  The amount involved is (USD 152M) One hundred and Fifty two million United States Dollars, only I want to first transfer $52,000.000 [fifty two million United States Dollar from this money into a safe foreigners account abroad before the rest, but I don't know any foreigner, I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money can not be approved to a local person here, without valid international foreign passport, but can only be approved to any foreigner with valid international passport or drivers license and foreign a/c  because the money is in us dollars and the former owner of the  a/c  Mr. Allan P. Seaman is a foreigner too, [and the money can only be approved into a foreign a/c However, we will sign a binding agreement, to bind us together.   I got your contact address  from the Girl who operates computer,  I am revealing this to you with believe in God that you will never let me down in this business,  you are the first and the only person that I am contacting for this business, so please reply urgently so that I will inform you the next step to take urgently. Send also your private telephone and fax number including the full details of the account to be
used for the deposit
. (yeah, that's the ticket!) 
(sorry, sarcastic interruption on my part).

I want us to meet face to face to build confidence and to sign a binding agreement that will  bind us together  before transferring the money to any account of  your choice where the fund will be safe. Before we fly to your country for withdrawal, sharing and  investments.

I need your full co-operation to make this work fine. because the management is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has correct information of this account, which I will give to you, upon your positive response and once I am convinced that you  are  capable  and will meet up with instruction of  a key bank official who is deeply involved with me in this business. I need your strong assurance that you will never, never let me down.

With my influence and the position of the bank official we can transfer this money to any foreigner's reliable account which you can provide with assurance that this money will be intact pending our physical arrival in your country for sharing. The bank official will  destroy all documents of transaction immediately we receive this money leaving no trace to any place and to build confidence  you can  come immediately  to discuss with me face to face after which I will make this remittance in your presence and three of us will fly to your country at least two days ahead of the money going into the account.

I will apply for annual leave to get visa immediately I hear from you that you are ready to act and receive this fund in your account. I will use my position and influence to obtain all legal approvals for  onward transfer of this money to your account with appropriate clearance from  the relevant  ministries and foreign exchange departments.

At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 35% of the total amount, 60% will be for me, while 5% will be for expenses both parties might have incurred during the process of transferring.

I look forward to your earliest reply through my email address: princo_300@yahoo.com

Yours truly,

Mr. prince ibe

AIDA has finally opened to glowing reviews here in el lay - people are lovin' simone.  i need to go see it again - i don't think anyone can match heather for me, but ya never know!

i still have RENT SF closing pictures sitting in my camera.  i should post those one of these days.

BOBBY, what's the next challenge???  we're getting impatient! :-) 


11/12/01



happy birthday karen c. !!!
 


11/3/01 go bennies, go bennies, go bennies, LOL!  the bennytribe won the 1st survivor challenge on sonic.  yay us ;-)

this is kinda cool (probli old since the message sent to me about it is a month old), but there's a little video here with owen, jai and dean, and other shows too.  you need quicktime to see them.

i just migrated the webring off of yahoo (i *wish* all these things would quit merging and unmerging).  if you're having problems with your part of the ring, go here.

looks like the outsourcing at work is going full speed ahead and i'll soon be working for keane/ibm.  weird, after all this time at the same company.  just got a good raise yesterday tho :-)

everyone keeps asking how i am.  i'm the same, or maybe worse.  my right ear is like, totally fucked up.  i'm seeing specialist #6 (?) sometime in the next month or so. we're talking about surgery again.  wtfEVER.


 

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