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Yeah - House of Cards was a complete waste. The wife and I sat down to watch another episode one night and realized the season only had 8 episodes. We watched the 8th one about a week prior, never realizing it was actually the last episode.

Looks like Betts is recovering nicely. Looking forward to the Rather interview - I thought Rather's interview with Gregg was great. From Relix

I could have swore I was at a 90's Dead Soldier Field show and during space they played some Marv Albert announcing 'he shoots and scores' bits - this would have been during the 1st 3 Bull championship run (91-93) Can't seem to verify that via google, though.

I don't think I ever heard him do a game ---- though 90% of the time I watch football, I have the volume on the TV off and have music playing. Football announcers bug me for the most part.

I think the Bears will pull out a win in at least one playoff game --- guessing it will come down to how Trubisky handles the playoffs. Man, Cutler was insufferable...

Yeah - my brother-in-law is pushing 60 and is die-hard Viking fan - I enjoy ribbing him, but I do feel bad at times. His garage is decked out with Viking stuff - it cracks me up every time I venture up there for a visit. I look forward to the Rams/Bears game - hopefully the defense rebounds a bit and Trubisky comes back strong. Wish it was a noon game, though - not a big fan of night games.

I guess they could have went without a keyboardist for at least the tour that was booked prior to Brent's death, like they did when Pigpen was absent a bit, but I am guessing that was never an option. I seem to remember hearing that Brent was going to have issues going to the Europe for the fall 90 tour (due to legal issues) -- I wonder how they would have handled that, if Brent would have lived.

The below was in the subject line of a Pitchfork email that I got today - I chuckled a bit.

I tried to get tickets for their Licks' Chicago club gig - at the Aragon, but had no lock. Aragon has a much larger capacity (5,000) - plus it's not the best venue for sound. It would have been cool to see, though.

They played a surprised show in Chicago at the Double Door in 97 - I can't say I was hip enough to hear rumors or if I was I forgot - but a month later, I moved into an apartment that was a couple blocks from the Double Door, it would have been fun at least to hang around the club during the show.

Well, he will be in Buenos Aires soon enough --- many Nazis fled to Argentina after WW II -- (that Nazi comment is just a completely random statement - sometimes I just want to make use of my History major, since I never used it in my real life, just being in the trades and all...)

Thanks for the code -- I was trying to get tickets for my brother-in-law, but nothing was really great popping ups so far. So we are going to wait until tomorrow. Esp. since I already have tickets for Friday.

Which club show did you catch? My best seat/venue I ever saw them in was Alpine Valley in 89 -- we were about 25 rows back dead center. All the other times was in large arenasdomes or football stadiums.

I saw that the Keys' doc was on AXS last night, but didn't have time to watch it - looking forward to it.

Looks like they added a 2nd show for Chicago on the 25th.

WXRT is having another pre-sale tomorrow at 10 am (central) - their code will be - cloud

Don't know the bears code - the stones one is midnight - though I am guessing you knew that.

Yeah - one of the 1,000,000 pre-sale codes in Chicago is a AmEx one --- actually it's the one I used to grab my 2 tix. In Chicago there is another few pre-sales tomorrow and the general on-sale date is Friday.

Just scored a general admission ticket on the field -- $155.20 with fees. It's in the back of the field, but I'll take it.

When did Ticketmaster start this "you are now in the waiting room" stuff? I happen to get on the site around 9:45 or so to check out the prices of the tickets and 'got in line' - at 10 am a screen came up an there' 2000+ in line. I just remember hitting refresh a bunch of times until I got tired of it... 7 minutes later there are still 2000+

Never heard of it - the trailer looked pretty intense. Need to remember to catch it when it hits Prime.

Are you talking about Suspiria?

Did you make it to the Allman Brothers' Big House? Was in the Savannah this past summer and almost dragged the family on side trip. Now that would make a nice day .

It has been fun to watch - even the loses were close and entertaining. I think they, if they stay healthy, will win at least a playoff game (maybe more).

Just threw on the L Olympia, Paris, July 3rd 1995 show from the Stripped blu-ray box -- it really is a great show. I think I picked this set up while some site had a great sale going on - glad I did. Still crazy to me that Wyman walked away.