Atticus

Very much agree with all of this. I teared up more than once in this movie, and it's because I just left all my grown-up stuff at the door and sat in that theater like a kid and enjoyed the ride. It was fantastic. I'm grateful I didn't have this perspective while watching the movie (and it seems to be a fairly wide-shared opinion/view). I thought the familiar plot devices were cleverly done and sort of homage-ish, and I felt like I was seeing a new story at the same time. Because of how unengaging I found the prequels, I was fully expecting to struggle with adapting to new charac

Yeah

Exceeded every expectation I had and was brilliant in every way. Abrams is a cod damn hero.

I don't know that this was ever resolved to everyone's satisfaction.

Any fun trips planned for summer break?

"The gate"

I totally forgot to response to this part of your post, my apologies. I started wearing glasses sometime earlier this year while at work and it really seems to help, what with all the time reading docs and looking at screens and doing lawyer things. I guess we're getting older.

good luck on the shrink hunt. I had a rib injury in December of 2008 which landed me in the hospital (it was slightly exacerbated by my having a .38 blood alcohol level upon arrival). No fun. Be careful with those stairs, dude/bro. I have been mostly working on compartmentalizing my god-forsaken job so that I can maximize the brilliance of every available second with my baby girl. I've learned that everyone seems to have an opinion about parenting and that I am free to ignore them instead of reacting to them, so that's an improvement. Gram continues to wow and entertain me on a consi

How's it going? --Poon

Rudy's has a great sauce. Love that place. Good sausage.

As someone with 2,404 days sober, I would just throw in the ideas that addiction is a progressive disease and addicts are brilliant liars and manipulators by necessity. I don't think it's fair to second guess a person's motive for entering a marriage and/or what that person knew or should have known about the horrendous potential of her future spouse's spiritual and mental illness(es).

A while back we turned on closed captioning for everything we watch, and it's been particularly helpful for shows like that. Also allows us to play shows at non-deafening levels.

If Ted Cruz is elected president we need to have another civil war.

Agreed

1. Not sure what group you've decided to throw me in with "you guys" 2. Don't have a gun in the house, haven't lived in a home with a gun in it since leaving for college in 1990. 3. Have spent zero time thinking about killing an intruder in my home until reading this thread and considering how I'd feel under several different hypotheticals. 4. Have no desire to kill anyone. 5. Have no gun "fetish," spend zero time thinking about guns. Too busy thinking about guitar pedals. 6. I have no problem with someone risking death as a part of the social contract if he or she dec

I don't keep a gun in our house but I would live with myself just fine if I killed an intruder in order to protect my baby. This is not an intellectual exercise, it is a genetic, evolutionary impulse.

"Whom"

If you come into my house with a weapon and my baby girl is there, I have no moral or ethical issue with you getting dead.

Why should they be different?

I guess there are two mindsets on this issue. I would absolutely blame the audience, taking into account all of the factors you mentioned. It's just bad manners. I have never understood the idea of going to a musical performance and ignoring the performer in favor of talking. Based on decades of attending shows I'm clearly in the minority and I do my best to ignore it, but the girl who rushed the stage during Tweedy's set--based on the descriptions above--should have been thrown out. In a perfect world, literally.

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Yikes

That's true. I agree with you. You had made a point about a Wilco message board and Wilco recording Woody Guthrie songs and irony and fascists (it went: "(ironic that we're on a Wilco message board - Wilco having recorded songs by Woody Guthrie - Woody wasn't a big friend of fascists.)"), and I was making a whole new, somewhat parallel point about a Wilco message board and Wilco recording Woody Guthrie songs and irony and censorship (it would have gone something like this if I had phrased it differently: "(ironic that we're on a Wilco message board - Wilco having recorded songs by Woody Gu

As my notice stated, my comment was not a judgment on the moderation of this site. I thought it was an interesting point in juxtaposition to the citation to Guthrie, who had some strong feelings about censorship.

Notice: The following post is in no way a criticism of the moderation of this forum, only a reminder of its terms of use: A Wilco message board that censors content, prohibits by rule any criticism of the moderation of the site, provides the members no input on who moderates the site and bans members permanently without recourse and without input or approval from the membership.