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Ok, i bought sky blue sky last night and listened to it with all the lights off in the living room with some blackberry brandy. I confess I was a bit disapointed. A lot of it was just very jam bandy no? I mean, some of those songs just went on forever. I nodded off at one point and dreamt I was at a Wilco concert - of course that may have been the blackberry brandy talking. Lol!

I know right?

Oh and by the way, " I dont dig on swine"

Haha.

But i guess you get that a lot.

I dont know about the Jeff stuff

But yeah, cockfighting. I really dodnt know where or when it started but from what i gathered there was a bunch of ppl on here who lived in the chicago area and a bunch from minneapolis, there was some cockfighting teams from within multiple areas within the cities, talk of road trips to each other's city to fight. Really seemed out of place and strange.

Word up. Also back in 03 there was way way way too much talk about cockfighting. It was completely ridiculous. Turned me off right away.

i actually thought this was a son volt site when i first joined

that's what i'm talking about.

Hungry Hippo deserves our applause. One, for having such obvious good taste in music. Two, for his charitable work.

no one else cares to wish this guy, as the french say, Bon Anniversaire!?

what's next? No emoticons?

Ans say Happy Birthday Hungry Hippo. I mean come on. that guy is the batman to my robin and farrar to my tweedy. I hope he gets all of his wished to come true. Fella deserves it.

WHoa! I'm married! and i have a fear of anime

Sweet! thanks man

So where should a guy start with Wilco? I got one of their "old-school" albums, A Ghost is Born. I like it quite a bit.

i love it a lot more than some cities. it's really grown on me with each new listen

thoughtful = fart noises?

ok...

so weird that Pitchfork would pan it...and using fart references too.

that's not like them!

LIFE OF REILLY

I needed to know: can Obama pick a fantasy team? So I asked him.

by Rick Reilly

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I have the absolute worst fantasy league football partner. Just try to get the guy to return a call. Or a text. You need a damn court order.

He's Barack Obama. And, yeah, I guess he's busy, but why was I the one who had to fly to Dayton, get frisked and have bomb dogs drool on my bags just so I could meet him getting off his tricked-out, chartered 757? He can't meet a guy halfway?

I asked each candidate to be my running mate for one week in a fantasy league, just to see what kind of president he'd make

i hope there are no holes in those.

sorry Jules -- thanks for responding in record time though.

looks like a picture of a guy in comfy shoes he doesnt want to get rid of. I see two holes in the shoes but there's plenty of more holes than that posting in this thread.

>rinshot

Exactly -- the point is that they shouldnt have gotten involved in the first place. And i know abortion is an important issue (i guess) but if your vote simply comes down to that one issue - despite all that is going on in the world at this point in time - i dunno. I look forward to the day when abortion and gay marriage are the 2 things gripping the country.

if he's in favor of the federal gov't staying out of the decision, shouldn't he be in favor of repealing roe v. wade?

No. Roe vs. Wade was put in place to combat laws making abortion illegal. If the state and federal governement had the good sense to stay out of a woman's uterus in the first place then the courts could have stayed out of it.

That's Sweet Messiah to you

I love the "calm down" stuff by folks who continue to try and stir the pot.

I'm not a Reagan fan, but I do believe thats a bit of a stretch

I think it is hard not to be hung up on the idea of Sarah Palin. Speaking as a person, an American, I find it so troubling that a candidate who only speaks in catchphrases and colloquialisms (sp?) be allowed to do so on the national and, moreso, the world stage and still be considered abolutely ideal as a candidate for the highest office in the land. That's not me being elitist or whatever catchphrase umbrella-term, dumbing down the arguement way you wish to paint me as -- that's just how I feel. There is absolutely zero substance in anything I have ever heard Mrs. Palin say. I know that McCain and Obama both speak in political double talk frequently, but there is some substance every once in a while.

We have had 8 years with a president who has sounded - for lack of a better word - unintelligent on both the national and world stages. If we are still an alleged super power I just don't think that is ok. I think it is embarressing. Sarah Palin makes W look like a gifted orator.

i have been here.