Reni

We are actually staying in Virginia (much much cheaper) and taking the metro into the city. Alexandria, VA I think....... I am open to most kinds of food (except seafood...blech)

Graham and I will be in DC in March. While we have a good day and a half booked up with workshops and a demonstration, we will have day or so to see some sights. Any recommendations for good (and cheap) restaurants and maybe some sights,which might typically be overlooked, would be greatly appreciated. I haven't been to DC in over 15 years. I am thinking about going to the Holocaust Museum and the Vietnam Memorial.....have never been to either. Any ideas? Thanks!

It said I was a man, too.

Allison - you'd better be there tonight - and if not, I hope to see you when I attempt to hook up with Evonne on Sunday.

CAPITALISM

just finished: now reading by the same author:

we will try and be present

I am so glad I am not the only person who caught wind of this.....he was very stealth is his word usage when addressing this issue......it was sickening.

I think there already is a song - and a movie is in the works. Glad you are enjoying it! I couldn't put it down and thought about it constantly.

NOT

indeed.

wow - I had no idea this was happening......I have seen many a show there. Best ones I went to have to be Ween (when they played for about 3 hours) and the Cramps. Oh yeah, and Jawbox.

The Autumn Defense makes Lawrence Welk look hard core.

was that, "won"? *cough* KENNEDY *cough*

Well he was a state senator before being elected to national office - he has a stellar resume and is a very intelligent human being. I was in grad school in Southern Illinois in 2004, and he was paying visits to communities all over the place down there. People really took to him, and he is a stellar orator. I watched his run in 2004 very closely, and that address at the convention was amazing. We desperately need a leader who is capable of both abstract and concrete thought on a complex level AND one who can speak to the people in a way that touches them without using fear tactics and simplis

I think Obama has a magnetic personality - and of course it doesn't hurt him that he is also very handsome.

As long as Bush is in office, rattling the sabers of war, arrogantly turning a deaf ear to his own advisors, military officials as well as the majority of his own citizenry - and laying down the groundwork to expand his current failure of a policy into Iran - I will bash him left and right. As for Obama - I was carrying the Obama '08 flag in 2004. The thing about Obama that I have never felt with any other politician in my lifetime is the feeling of hope. He gives me hope......he is articulate and intelligent.....comes across as intensely diplomatic and is a critical/deep thinker......this

I still don't think I know anyone that connected with him pre-2000......everyone I know, and knew then, thought he was an arrogant, bumbling prat - he has proven them correct.

If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have read so many of her books - You are the one who gave me Blue Shoe I, too, love Plan B and Traveling Mercies.

I have Bird by Bird on my shelf, and have read a little bit of it, but never finished it. I am usually not much of a fiction reader, but do love Anne Lamott's stuff. Her writing is so delicious and relaxing. My favorite, of her fiction, I have read is Blue Shoe. I read it while held up, unable to walk for a few weeks early last year and it was such a soothing book to read. I loved Rosie and am thoroughly enjoying Crooked Little Heart. It is my bedtime reading, and I look forward to it every night. (sorry, I am too tired to italicize my titles)

I got to see go see Becks play back in my days spent in Manchester - so, I have satisfied that desire thoroughly. That said, I would like to see a Chicago Fire game sometime. After all of my time in England, obsessing over football and going to matches from Newcastle to London, I would like to see how it is done over here.

*sigh* wow, this takes me back

Started this months ago, but want to pull it back out and finish it as I am seeing Greg Mortensen speak in a few weeks..... I am also loving this.....which is a sequel to Rosie which I finished a couple weeks ago. Christy - I just ordered The Glass Castle - looks really good! Thanks for posting it!

I saw O Brother Where Art Thou about 5 times in the theatre. I lost track.

last movie I saw more than once in the theatre is almost the last movie I saw in the theatre - Star Wars III - Revenge of the Sith *shrug* I don't get out much.