Doug C

I love AM. It is rockin', jaunty and fun. It is also the album that turned me onto Wilco (though No Depression was my first Tweedy). This will sound like a lame cop out (copout?) but I can't really pick a favorite wilco album. My honest answer would be the one that I choose to listen to at that moment.

Thanks. Yes. My 'inner voice choir' has also been singing it throughout the day!

Umm... "I'm plenty happy. Just not in the election thread. This is super serious business". I hope that you do not actually believe that this thread is super serious business. If so, then all is lost for you.

If this has been posted somewhere, I apologize for upseting the people that are oddly upset by multiple posts of the same information. Jaysus, pet a dog or something. On the way to work this morning, the community radio station was playing a song about how 'there's no one as Irish as Barack Obama'. Hilarious. Lines like, "from Dublin City to Connemara there's no one as Irish as Barack Obama" and 'too ra lu ra lu ra lama there's no one as Irish as Barack Obama". It was recorded live in a pub. I meant to post earlier but I forgot. I found a youtube. I can't watch vids at work so I hope the l

I agree. It is a well-written eye opener. I'm glad that I have kept my Rolling Stone subsciption current since I was 14.

Please tell me you are demonstrating your wit. Otherwise all is lost for you.

bob, Louie and I are old. We have be cantankerous, curmudgeonly cudgels. It's all that we have left. You are a young man. Enjoy life. Be happy. It's all in front of you.

With all due respect, you should contact the boys at Guinness (not the brewery). You are hands down the youngest curmudgeon in all of curmudgeondom.

I feel for you all getting the wacko emails from parents. That would be grating. Fortunately, I cannot relate. My parents most always vote (mom)/voted (dad) a straight Democratic ticket. My 81-in-a-few-months-mom proudly voted for Obama Monday. She told me that she staight-ticketed it except for a couple of local races where longtime Republican incumbents 'have been doing a good job'. She is an anomaly because she attends a fundamentalist-type church but disagrees with the congregation on taking the Bible literally, abortion, gay rights, military spending, taxes, etc. I personally couldn't att

Okay then. Who am I to doubt your precocious political awareness? Kudos to you and your parents.

First of all I can't believe this was allowed to pass.. bob, I must say that you likely "don't remember it being a big thing for Democrats until '04" because you weren't following politics very closely as a pre-teen. My point isn't that your age is a negative but were you seriously aware of the specifics, hell aware of much of anything, about the Democratic party platform in 2000 when you were 12 years old, much less earlier? Come on, man!

Ha ha ha ha ha! Thanks for the laugh!

No problem. My mom's family is from the Flint area and my wife and I always go to see some snow each winter.

Oh to be in Ann Arbor on 30 January.

If Rock and Roll is his worst, then that is reason enough for him to quit pushing the caricature of the tortured and unstable artist. If RnR is his career low then he's doing fine. And Ryan, if your're reading this, you still owe ATL 80-110 minutes of doing what you do best (no, not whining).

What the heck is wrong with Rock and Roll? It's rock and roll. It rocks.

But it's a reality TV show.

His apology has no mention of redoing the ATL show. From reading his posts you would never guess that he was 33. His blog reads like some college kids facebook/myspace.

Excerpted from my post on page one: "... The only possible problem I see is in a small town without a chain pharmacy where the majority of the residents are of a likemind - crazy! ha ha. I could see the non-crazy segment of the population not being served but I'd be willing to bet that in a case like that a Soros-esque person/people would open a competitive pharmacy even if it lost money. ..."

If you are referring to 'Live In Seattle', it is excellent. It is Jay, Mark and pedal steel master Eric Heywood who was the 5th Son Volter. I highly recommend it. Many Jay fans cite it as there favorite live recording.

Yes.

I don't have a problem with it. A private business can do whatever the hell it wants. I think that it is a stupid business decision. You aren't going to see CVS, Walgreens, etc. doing it and they'd fire any pharmacist that refused to do the job they wee hired to do. A small pharmacy can possibly get away with it but the idea that a chainreaction will occur is laughable. For-profit businesses are just that. Even if a neighborhood is inundated with these type of pharmacies, a 'full-service' pharmacy will move in to pick up the business. The only possible problem I see is in a small town without

It is certainly different and only a tiny minority do it but that it actually bothered you to the point of asking why is equally, if not more, interesting. (I guess the same could be said about my need to respond. Hell, about every damned post in the history of message boards. Well, shit every word ever spoken too. I'd best shut up now). I can't find an emoticon for feeling like a fool...

I'm late to this thread but the above made me laugh out loud. Thank you.

It was very sad news yesterday indeed. I am a huge Rudy Ray fan. Dolemite is my av on the 2 other boards that I annoy. The movies are hilariously campy but his stand up act was great. Dirty as could be. The rhyming probably isn't everyone's cup of tea but if you just listen to the words and the delivery, you'll be laughing. He is underappreciated as an influence. But as the article said, that's what happens when you are too true to your art to crack the mainstream. If you want to check him out for the first time rent Dolemite, though Petey Wheatstraw, the Devil's Son-in-Law is often overlook