Wendy

Oh, yeah, I've called all over Chicagoland, had quite a few tips from other helpful VC'ers over the months, but there were only 200 made, and this one is well sold out. So now I'm hoping to find it on the secondary market. That Steve Walters of Screwball Press sure did some amazing work. Still one of my all-time favorites: An original Sir Stewart:

I liked the Hoodoo Voodoo duel better when it was 3 ... Nels/Jeff/Pat.

My poster holy grail

I have that same problem on my work computer ... IE 6.0 WinXP But no problems on my personal newer laptop ... IE 7.0 Vista

That show's already on my calendar, especially after missing Neko on the New Pornos last visit in Cleveland (absent due to foot injury). Lou -- You should do this! I can getcha from NE Indiana to Cleveland!

I've moved the most recent "after the show" comments over to the "after the show" section here: http://forums.viachicago.org/index.php?showtopic=36584 so head that-a-way for more.

Not really listening to anything, but Scott McCaughey is pretty funny on this ESPN chat about The Baseball Project/Minus 5/Robyn Hitckcock/REM, etc. http://forums.viachicago.org/index.php?sho...t&p=1181007

I don't know if any of you baseball fans listened to this new album or not, "The Baseball Project" But Scott McCaughey (Minus 5, Down With Wilco, you know the REM/Hitchcock Venus 3 dude) ... he is chatting online right at this moment on ESPN.com about this and other funny stuff. His neighborhood Portland musician friends, Colin and Nate (The Decemberists) are chatting with him. http://proxy.espn.go.com/chat/chatESPN?event_id=21920 Here's a funny:

Check ticketmaster - apparently some have just been released. Maybe you can go!

((((sorry MattZ))))

Oh man. I think we recently had a "Spain is racist" controversy in another thread.

If I lived in Chicago, I'd check this out. http://www.myspace.com/shugotokumaru

He should sign up for the fan newsletter!

Man, this is like the Birthday Olympics! Greg, have a fantastic day & see you soooon! Can't wait!!!

Celebrate! Hope it's a great one!!

See you soon birthdaygirl! Have a great day!

Hope today rocks your world!

Wow! Today! Happy day of birth!!!

Erin! Hope you have a wonderful day! Don't be such a stranger around here!

So Greg, when are you heading to Chicago to start waiting in line for Wilco's 2009 residency shows?

Nice!

Luckily you have plenty of time before the NYE show to come up with some sort of "ms yvon wild flipping ponytail action protective headgear."