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Absolutely, and -- maybe even more so -- AGIB.

Exactly. It's a tea party code word. Like "death panel", "Kenya", etc. Words that somehow indicate Obama's failures without really having any meat to them.

Gimme Fiction struck me as a band really trying and succeeding at making a serious rock album. From the album art, to the production, to the songs, it was a well-executed attempt at recognizing that rock can be high art. It doesn't really sound like any of these (except maybe VU), but in the legacy of bands like The Beatles, Velvet Underground, Bowie, King Crimson.

I am really quite certain the world doesn't need Miley Cyrus contributing to A Day in the Life.

Good lord, you really don't understand how the right wing media echo chamber works do you? I have 5 FB friends whose pages I could go to right now still ranting and Benghazi and they will be next week.

I love the Baseball Project. They always play eastern Iowa, never central. They're playing a date in Maquoketa, IA (hour or so north of Davenport) between dates in Minneapolis and KC. Des Moines is on the same goddamn Interstate as MPLS and KC!! Grrr... Of course, I doubt they'd play my favorite song (Don't Call Them Twinkies) because it was written and sung by Craig Finn.

Just got home from Arturo Sandoval. A lot of fun.

Pretty much because it follow the trajectory of the Stones' career. I finished it, but after 1980 or so, there's not much, just like their musical output.

I'm not sure this needs to happen after the post-Unplugged reunion. In fact, I kind of wish Gene and Paul would hang it up and help finance a new KISS tribute band as the "real" KISS. They're getting so old their make up is caving in.

Only King I've read. Loved it. Put in on a kindle or tablet!

Damn he'll be missed.

The kind of fishing that generates reactions like this: Though I guess that's more fish watching than actual fishing.

Maybe she caught a fish!

It appears as though the classic lineup from the Modern Lovers is all still living. Couldn't confirm Ernie Brooks. That would be sweet, though very, very unlikely.

So I went down the Internet wormhole researching the Kicks the other night. I remember a goalkeeper named Geoff because I had a good friend named Jeff and I thought the other spelling looked weird as hell. Anyway, I looked him up. He had a pretty successful EPL career before joining the Kicks near the end of his career. Turns out he's now a golf pro at Grand View Lodge in Nisswa, MN where my family used to vacation. Weird what you can learn through these tubes that make up the Internet.

Trip Shakespeare is the first one that comes to mind.

That will be a blast! My wife and I went to 2 or 3 MLS games when the K.C. team was known as The Wiz, then the Wizards and played at Arrowhead. It's really cool to see how they've grown into their own fantastic facility, although they've priced us out of their games with a family of 4 right now. It seems silly to still be discussing if soccer is ever going to "catch on". It's caught on and will continue to grow. It might not catch football, basketball, or baseball at the highest level, but it's definitely arrived. Oh yeah, and my new avatar. Anyone remember the NASL? I lived in the Tw

Give me another season and I might be interested. Started to watch last year on NBC and expect I will much more. Tim Howard finally helped me decide which team will be my favorite.

I don't often read Krauthammer and when I do, I'm rarely impressed. But this is a good piece.

Crappy casino gig in a town about an hour south of Des Moines, not a free show.

Oh, yeah.

I think Gin Blossoms recently played or will play a free gig in Des Moines. I can't name a song other than Hey Jealousy.

He just posted that he's playing a 90 minute set. I'd go if you still can.

Ames!!

In college I saw the Spin Doctors open up for Paulie Shore. Of course, shows were free in colelge.