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LOVED that book, and I had to read another Lincoln book after I finished it, too. I picked this one (which I highly, highly recommend): I am reading this now, and enjoying it immensely:

dear dear Jefferson, Thank you for all you've done for this crazy place. Good luck with the retirement, my friend! A picture from a few years back... with not only you, but solace too!!

Thank you for adding your two cents, K-Train. Yeah, we got two new new songs within a three song stretch and I thought the timing was bizarre. I too love the 20+ minute Broken Chairs, but found it slightly less enchanting when they did it as the encore again the second night. That's just not ok.

Yeah, Doug's not the chattiest dude, but I love watching him play guitar. Where did they play in Boston? I saw them play a couple nights at the Paradise a few years ago and they were fantastic shows. Why Kristina, I thought you'd never ask! I'll spare everyone the complete setlist, but here are the songs that were new on Saturday: Liar Else Carry the Zero Randy Described Eternity Big Dipper Untrustable ps. Kyle, why in the hell haven't you piped up yet?

Built to Spill was raucous and great last night at Metro. The new songs sound excellent and the old songs make me really happy. Setlist: Traces Sidewalk Goin' Against Your Mind *new song* ("and when you're gone/you're gone/and when you're here/you're wrong" ??) another mystery (new?) song ("I need a ride across the frozen Amazon...desperate me/desperately/you and me"?) The Plan Made Up Dreams instrumental with video about ecology activists in the background Distopian Dream Girl Re Arrange (Gladiators cover) Kicked it in the Sun Conventional Wisdom Broken Chairs Looked forward to anothe

I thought the show at Metro on Friday was absolutely mesmerizing. I haven

Happy Birthday, my friend!! Hope your day and year are outstanding!

Happy happy Birthday, my friend! I hope your day and year are wonderful..

My city's still breathing (but barely it's true) through buildings gone missing like teeth. The sidewalks are watching me think about you, sparkled with broken glass. I'm back with scars to show. Back with the streets I know. Will never take me anywhere but here. The stain in the carpet, this drink in my hand, the strangers whose faces I know. We meet here for our dress rehearsal to say " I wanted it this way" Wait for the year to drown. Spring forward, fall back down. I'm trying not to wonder where you are. All this time lingers, undefined. Someone choose who's left and wh

This is awesome. Did you go to the reading/concert he had in Newton? It was outstanding! First he read from the book, then he played some of the tunes. It was one of my favorite readings ever. I'm also a huge fan of the 33 1/3 series. I got the Neutral Milk Hotel one for my birthday but haven't read it yet. Only the Jeff Buckley one has disappointed me so far..

Kate, you weren't asking me, but I thought some chapters of Assassination Vacation were excellent, while others were just decent. I'd recommend it, just not with complete enthusiasm. Also, while I'm giving unsolicited opinions: since you liked Prep, you might like Man of my Dreams ,Curtis Sittenfeld's latest book. I loved it (terrible title notwithstanding). I'm reading:

Happy, happy Birthday, Kate! Hope you have a wonderful day and year!

Happy, Happy Birthday, my friend!!

Jeff did play guitar on that song, which was lovely. What a fun show-- good cronies, nice weather, tasty food (champagne! funnel cakes! fried cheese curds!) Well worth enduring those three cover bands.

Oh sure, you *finally* come to Boston after I move away?! Glad you made it, Jim! Sounds like a great set...

ladies and gentlemen welcome tonight peforming here for the very last time is your life so please take a seat the physics of innocence falls to the side leaving the citizens nowhere to hide so down the back stairs went all we know i'm breathing out loud to pretend i'm alive while strangers throw flowers and kiss me good bye i guess i'm not as well as i had hoped what ever happened to the greater design it must have stepped off with the first it could find with the way it's all turned out who's to blame rest your head here tonight it's not supposed to turn out right there's no

Losing the star without a sky Losing the reasons why You're losing the calling that you've been faking And I'm not kidding It's damned if you don't and it's damned if you do Be true 'cause they'll lock you up in a sad sad zoo Oh hidy hidy hidy what you tryin to prove By hidy hidy hiding you're not worth a thing Sew your fortunes on a string And hold them up to light Blue smoke will take A very violent flight And you will be changed And everything And you will be in a very sad sad zoo. I once was lost but now I'm found Was blind But now I see you How selfish of you to believe in the mean

I'm a huge fan of his books, but this one is a bit muddled at times (so far..)

I have not. Is it good?

I agree 100%. I love "Somehow Form a Family" and his fiction is wonderful as well. I'm reading this right now (also by a Southern writer!)

It's a great book. I am currently reading:

Donna, I really liked "Complications" too! If you're in the mood for another book by a doctor, this is one of my favorites. It's a collection of beautifully written short essays about his work in the emergency room.

Headlights race towards the corner of the dining room. Half illuminate a face before they disappear. You breathe in forty years of failing to describe a feeling. I breathe out smoke against the window, trace the letters in your name. Our letters sound the same; full of all our changing that isn't change at all. All straight lines circle sometime. You said "Somewhere there's a box full of replacement parts to all the tenderness we've broken or let rust away. Somewhere sympathy is more than just a way of leaving. Somewhere someone says 'I'm sorry.' Someone's making plans to stay." So t

We were only on one side of Charles..

No pictures of the shoe collection are at the ready (nor is it very well organized), but I do have some of the purse collection.