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Thursday, March 16, 2006

BASFOTD

Posted by CHRISTOPHER FRIZZELLE on March 16 at 17:47 PM

The singer and main songwriter in Belle and Sebastian, Stuart Murdoch, is a Virgo.

Other Virgos in world history include D.H. Lawrence, Mother Teresa, Michael Jackson, Ivan the Terrible, Swoosie Kurtz, H. G. Wells, Eli Sanders, Erica C. Barnett.

[This has been a Belle and Sebastian Fact of the Day, posted after Megan Seling has left the office, so she won’t follow up with one of her mocking Mayonnaise Facts of the Day, which she posts with the intention of trivializing me, Belle and Sebastian, and Scotland in general. Seling is not a Virgo. Belle and Sebastian play the Paramount on March 25.]

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I've come to learn that Josh Feit and Hannah Levin are also Virgos, as am I. Just about every other person on the editorial staff of The Stranger is a Virgo. Is this some kind of vast, Virgo-wing conspiracy?

Posted by christopher frizzelle | March 16, 2006 9:48 PM

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christopher, this thread, "basfotd" is making the slog really lame. please stop it. thankyou.

Posted by hma | March 16, 2006 10:17 PM

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Astrology is a steaming pile of bullshit, as I hope YOU of all people would know, CF.

Posted by amy kate | March 17, 2006 10:38 AM

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Is it TRUE that Megan Seling is ANTI-SCOTLAND? Whoo, that gets my Irish up. I'll send her a canned haggis as punishment. Wait -- she's veggie, isn't she? They have vegetarian haggis at Husky Deli. I DARE you to bring a can to B&S and leave it on the stage near a monitor.

Posted by fnarf | March 17, 2006 10:44 AM

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I'm sorry you feel that way, HMA, but I'm not stopping until March 25. I know it's not "cool" to like Belle and Sebastian but can't help who I am. For your sake I will endeavor to make my BASFOTDs jucier. In the meantime, please know that I don't really care who's a Virgo and who's not, I just wanted an excuse to post that picture of Eli. Seriously, if you have not seen this photo of Eli, click on his name in that highlighted list. He is on the bottom right, with the hair, sitting next to Mr. Rooney.

Posted by christopher frizzelle | March 17, 2006 11:34 AM

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Christopher - don't listen to HMA. BASFOTD rules. Bring 'em on!

Posted by Johnny Marr | March 17, 2006 11:55 AM

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Nice site

Posted by stacey-keebler | March 28, 2006 9:50 PM

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