Edie

I am hoping to come Saturday.... fingers crossed!

 

Martin and Baldwin weren't very good. Occassionally funny lines, but Martin seemed old and Baldwin seemed tight.

Do you mean his jokes seemed old, or he seemed old?

My $.02:

*Loved the show -- martin and baldwin were hilarious. Loved the bit where they were in bed together. Jake and I had a big laugh over that one this morning

*The Clooney thing seemed contrived though -- but there was not "anger" per se

*The acceptance speeches were mostly great, though I HATE when they cut people off

*I also thought it was very odd that there was mention of Michael Jackson who was maybe in one feature film (The Wiz if memory serves) yet none of Farrah who was in several (though mostly terrible films) and certainly was more of an actress

*Loved the John Hughes tribute

Next year I swear I will actually see one of the movies before the oscars.

Hi, I'm new, but I just wanted to say that it was a great show. I wrote a review on my blog, which is just me and my friend enjoying our dorkiness, so the review is also dorky.

Fun review. I think your dorkiness is quite entertaining

Welcome to the board!

The classic argument here is the Paul Newman loss for "The Verdict", which was arguably his best performance in his career, then winning with "The Color of Money". It was clearly a "career Oscar"

And Kevin Spacey should be awarded another Oscar every single year for American Beauty.

x2

It's one of my favorite performances in any movie ever.

It's now in the "news" section on Wilco world (I didn't see anyone else point that out....)

Sandra Bullock was terrific in Crash, but so was everyone else in that movie.

That picture is also kinda hawt. Good for them. So what, they are supposed to just get their medals and go home? This is the beauty of team sports, you get to celebrate together.

Hell is Chrome is brilliant. I also think that Radio Cure done by POB would be killer.

I'll bet there is a kids curling camp in Europe somewhere.

Holy crap this game is exciting.

The Uptown

Sweet. I'll book my plane tickets now.

got $875? I actually think its cheap. Plus I'll get to wear a hat!

Southwest flies to Little Rock which is only an hour away from Oaklawn.

It looks like we are going to the Derby in 2011 (in a box no less) and I think that's going to wipe out the money to be spent traveling to see horse races, sadly. I need to win the lottery to finance all of this.

I booked a room, and scored a box in Hot Springs when the original date was scheduled for April 3rd. No luck after the rescheduling.

 

 

This race is Friday 4/9 and the Arkansas Derby(one of the biggest Derby prep races) is 4/10. The crowds are supposed the largest ever for a sporting event in Arkansas. It will be insane.

Ha -- thrilled you saw the thread. I frankly forgot about it

Maybe you will get lucky and get tickets even for the infield. I wish I could get there. I almost don't care who wins as long at the trip is safe for both horses. I am a biiiig Rachel fan -- the way she swept through her races last year was amazing. A couple of her runs were just off the charts. Zenyatta is also a very special horse, but I will be rooting for Rachel!

Woo hoo!! Are you going??

Race on! Rachel vs Zenyatta in Ark. for $5 million

 

By RICHARD ROSENBLATT, AP Sports Writer 4 hours, 35 minutes ago

 

NEW YORK (AP)—Rachel vs. Zenyatta. The race is on!

 

One day after a matchup of racing’s leading ladies fell apart, the owner of Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Ark., worked out a compromise to match the champion females for the first time—in the $5 million Apple Blossom Invitational on April 9.

 

“The race is a go,” a delighted Charles Cella told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. “Both parties have signed off on it. I feel like we’ve been through the ringer on this thing. Now, we’re really excited about it. One day after a matchup of racing's leading ladies fell apart, the owner of Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Ark., worked out a compromise Thursday, Feb. 11, to match the champion females for the first time--in the $5 million Apple Blossom Invitational on April 9.

 

“This is truly a race for the ages.”

 

The surprising turn of events came less than 24 hours after Rachel Alexandra’s owner Jess Jackson said his filly was out of the 1 1/8th-mile race because she would not be in peak condition by April 3. Instead, Jackson proposed a three-race series in which the horses would meet, an offer Moss said he was never consulted about.

 

Cella said he worked the phones Wednesday night and Thursday morning trying to make his race a reality. He agreed to move the race to April 9—the day before the track’s signature event, the Arkansas Derby—and apparently Jackson was sold.

 

“We are delighted that the race is on for April 9 and want to especially thank Charles Cella and Oaklawn for moving the date,” Jackson said in a statement.

 

Zenyatta’s owner, Jerry Moss, had said his unbeaten mare would run in the Santa Margarita Handicap at Santa Anita on March 13 and then in the Apple Blossom.

 

“We appreciate and applaud Mr. Cella’s effort to make this happen, and we’ll all be excited about traveling to Oaklawn to watch a great race,” Moss told the AP on Thursday. “We’ve been focused all along on Oaklawn.”

 

Rachel Alexandra is training at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans and could make her first start of the year in mid-March.

 

The matchup has been the big story in racing for months, especially after Rachel Alexandra beat out Zenyatta for Horse of the Year.

 

Rachel went 8-0 last year, and beat the boys in the Preakness Stakes, the Haskell Invitational and the Woodward Stakes. The 6-year-old Zenyatta, 14-0 overall, capped her ’09 campaign by becoming the first female to win the Breeders’ Cup Classic.

 

Last week, Cella said he would boost the Apple Blossom purse from $500,000 to $5 million if both Rachel and Zenyatta ran.

 

“The conditions stay the same,” Cella said. “Both connections felt they needed a little more time so they could run in a prep and I agreed to that.”

 

Oaklawn Park appears to be the best place for what would be one of racing’s biggest showdowns.

 

Zenyatta runs primarily on synthetic surfaces, but won the Apple Blossom on dirt two years ago. Rachel Alexandra won twice at Oaklawn last year, taking the Martha Washington Stakes and the Fantasy Stakes. Jackson kept Rachel Alexandra out of the Breeders’ Cup because he dislikes synthetic surfaces.

 

 

In the 1970s we were in a hysteria about global cooling. Our answer was to melt the ice caps.

 

Really? I didn't remember this at all. So I did a little research and found this (one of many similar links)

 

Climate myths: They predicted global cooling in the 1970s

16 May 2007 by Michael Le Page

 

Indeed they did. At least, a handful of scientific papers discussed the possibility of a new ice age at some point in the future, leading to some pretty sensational media coverage (see Histories: The ice age that never was).

 

One of the sources of this idea may have been a 1971 paper by Stephen Schneider, then a climate researcher at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, US. Schneider's paper suggested that the cooling effect of dirty air could outweigh the warming effect of carbon dioxide, potentially leading to an ice age if aerosol pollution quadrupled.

 

This scenario was seen as plausible by many other scientists, as at the time the planet had been cooling (see Global temperatures fell between 1940 and 1980). Furthermore, it had also become clear that the interglacial period we are in was lasting an unusually long time (see Record ice core gives fair forecast).

 

However, Schneider soon realised he had overestimated the cooling effect of aerosol pollution and underestimated the effect of CO2, meaning warming was more likely than cooling in the long run. In his review of a 1977 book called The Weather Conspiracy: The Coming of the New Ice Age, Schneider stated: "We just don't know...at this stage whether we are in for warming or cooling - or when." A 1975 report (pdf format) by the US National Academy of Sciences merely called for more research.

 

The calls for action to prevent further human-induced global warming, by contrast, are based on an enormous body of research by thousands of scientists over more than a century that has been subjected to intense - and sometimes ferocious - scrutiny. According to the latest IPCC report, it is more than 90% certain that the world is already warming as a result of human activity (see Blame for global warming placed firmly on humankind).

 

Update: A survey of the scientific literature has found that between 1965 and 1979, 44 scientific papers predicted warming, 20 were neutral and just 7 predicted cooling. So while predictions of cooling got more media attention, the majority of scientists were predicting warming even then.

Is Rick Hanson one of these guys? If not, I vote for all three.

Here's the actual setlist, in order:

 

Bull Black Nova

You Are My Face

One Wing

I am Trying to Break Your Heart

Company in My Back

At Least That's What You Said

Deeper Down

Impossible Germany

Passenger Side

Handshake Drugs

Shot in the Arm

Remember the Mountain Bed

Jesus Etc.

Sonny Feeling

Hate It Here

Walken

I'm the Man Who Loves You

Hummingbird

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Broken Arrow

Via Chicago

California Stars

Late Greats

Heavy Metal Drummer

Casino Queen

Hoodoo Voodoo

I'm a Wheel

 

 

Excellent show, but other than throwing Broken Arrow into the mix, I think the setlist was about as vanilla as they come. I was hoping for a few more "reaching into the catalog" songs, and not quite as many "we play these every single night" songs.

Thanks for posting this. While I didn't check WilcoBase, the songs that are in bold have not been on regular rotation for the last couple tours as I recall. I did not highlight any song on their record; they are supporting it now. Deeper Down has been played pretty infrequently. Broken Arrow is a cover.

I just hope we don't get into this after every show

That being said, I am not a big fan of the Hate it Here/Walken/ITMWLY triplet.

So how was Broken Arrow? It's pretty awesome that they are playing it.

Shit, Man!!! After 26 years, I'm getting a divorce!

 

I would appreciate some VIBES, if anyone wants to share.

No way!! I'm so sorry to hear it -- you guys make such a nice couple

Oops

Pretty sure Amoco isn't a subsidiary of BP - they merged, and they took on the BP name, but I know that BP still uses Amoco brand gasoline and that there are Amoco refineries. I think BP Amoco is a U.S. operated company and BP is the UK branch of the same organization, though I would happily be corrected.

 

ETA: If I recall, Amoco bought out BP, and they assumed the BP name because of its better global image and established business model, though Amoco gas was superior.

Whatever. You get my point.

The "multi-national conglomerate" argument is a red herring. The SC's ruling left standing the portion of the law related to foreign contributions. In fact the majority opinion makes seven different references to the fact that the ruling does NOT apply to foreign contributions. The President and his supporters are intentionally using this lie to smear the Court.

So the US subsidiary of BP cannot contribute its shareholder money to the political candidates it thinks will be best suited to its interests, but ALCOA can? I call bullshit.

I can tell you I will be voting with my invested dollars. Companies who invest in candidates I disagree with and who I do not want elected will lose my money. I encourage others to do the same, as long as this is allowed (which hopefully will not be long).

What about the 120 years of case law that preceded? There are laws to deal with corruption so there's no need to limit speech "just in case" it might corrupt.

What kind of multi-national conglomerate did we worry about during the drafting of the consitution? It took about 100 years for it to become a concern, so much so that it was dealt with by the Supremes.

I find it hard to believe that the founding fathers would approve of this.