sweetheart-mine

hey tony, you are in for a great time. and it's way better that you won't have a car there -- driving is a nightmare and the T gets you almost anywhere you'd want to go in the whole boston area. in fact, just riding around on the T is a good way to get to know the area. it's been a long time since i lived there, but was there for 15 years and have a few things to recommend. like movies? don't miss the coolidge corner theatre, an oldie but goodie. it's at 290 harvard street in brookline, but you can get there simply by taking the cleveland circle streetcar (green line) out brookline

p.s. it's from "when the roses bloom again." they were the first words i ever heard jeff tweedy sing, after turning on the ovation channel and finding "man in the sand" in progress. about a year ago. ohhhhhh! no, probably not. the last guys to make it here were the dead and then dylan. although i'd been in something of a musical cave for quite a while before finding wilco, so ya can't go by me.

no, really, i'm seriously stupid about this. now the spray has deteriorated to a drool over here.

GNR . . . GNR . . . GNR . . . help me out, what does it mean?

yah, it probably would be. i'd bet my stimulus check on it. lou needs to take a long trip and discover his very own island.

now that is really interesting, you know? some people coming from almost every direction you can think of are supporting or considering supporting obama, which doesn't mean he'll win, but i don't remember another presidential candidate's backing by citizens ever being as varied as it seems to be now. it may not say that much about him, himself, but more about the multi-partisan collective view that the government has gone so awry since 2000. suddenly, and this is noticeable both in personal conversations and in public letters, articles, and so on, people with widely diverse political vie

no doubt, and it's funny how often that stuff works.

yah, but the rep is everywhere out there so i'm still wondering.

i figured someone would point that out! but it can't be found in my refrigerator, unfortunately, so i'm choiceless, poor moi.

can anyone tell me how obama got this elite-food rep? are some people upset that he's not eating ghetto food, or what? not that i know what he eats; i have no idea and am just curious.

i don't do turd or gourmet -- i'm a refrigerator picker -- but i'll be choosing organic over turd.

wow, love that graphic! the debates will be delicious.

"He certainly is the Engergizer Bunny for running and running and not getting anywhere." that's for sure! i agree with your thoughts on biden as president. since he apparently isn't going to make it, a cabinet position (with much responsibility) seems in order. he kept entering my mind as a v.p. for obama, but i suppose he will need someone more centrist than biden is. i suspect obama's having only a few years of experience in washington might be just right. he knows the basics yet hasn't been entrenched there since the revolutionary war or something -- so he would bring a lot o

wasn't biden one of the about twelve democratic contenders in 1984? i think the plagiarizing bit came after that, though. too bad, because i kind of liked him too, but the true plagiarizing bit didn't leave my mind (as opposed to the untrue plagiarizing accusation hillary tried to apply to barack obama, which was desperate and ridiculous).

HA, i love that! some people can't stand chris matthews's style and i can sort of understand why, but i like him especially because he's so irrepressible -- he's so into a discussion that he just can't hold back that HA when something surprising amuses him.

that was the only post i've ever made anywhere in my life that included the patronizing "my friend." it was intended to highlight its obnoxiousness as used in public life by a certain presidential candidate. so hey, believe me, i'm agreeing with your exasperation 100%.

it's not easy to understand why you're so upset about this, my friend, and i'm mostly a fairly innocent bystander so far, reading from some distance. no one said that stuff about obama ("gonna win by a landslide," "he's Jesus Christ walking on earth," and so on). it's hard to see where you got that. maybe it's just fear? i don't know. neocons, not general and genuine conservatives, have been driving this country, and certain parts of the world, into the dirt for at least the past 7+ years. john mccain will continue 95% of the policies that led to this, so . . . ? logical conclusio

yes, and they're calling it "bringing democracy to the middle east," a goal even a village idiot ought to be able to recognize as impossible, off the radar screen, and, to top it off, arrogant. since it's impossible, that goal ensures that we'll be there forever if this administration and its offspring have their way. mrrain422, i nominate you for obama's v.p.!

your "pandering" strike zone sounds wider than mine, i think that's what threw me. thanks for explaining -- i don't feel that way but now understand it.

oh that's lovely.

sorry for the side road here but whoa, is that THE screamin' jay hawkins? the guy who screamed "i don't CARE if you don't WANT me, I'M YOURS!!!"? memories.

yah, it throws me too. i like it but/and always have to think it out for a minute. usually i don't feel stupid (at least not all day!), but a similar thing happens with this from You Are My Face: "when we're not sure we're not alone."

it might be as simple as that, moe. i guess we're all affected by music as it relates to our whole musical and life experience, which obviously is different for everyone. since i literally just finished listening to SBS, as i do every day, and "on and on and on" was (almost) the last song, it's fresh in my mind and i'll try to tell you what i hear in it. to me it's about the life and death cycle, which repeats and repeats itself with all its pain and joy; about acceptance of death AND of the sorrow but also eternal-life-in-memory it leaves us with; and about trying to hang on, while we'r

yah, and there's some sweetness to an apple -- so sweetness (or just plain old good taste and nourishment in anything) is part of the aliveness of being alone as a "happening stone." it really speaks to me because my husband and i have a very close relationship yet i have a large need for solitude too. to me this image is one of the best on SBS.

oh i think you're right! i know how the sound of someone else's words can blur some kinds of blessings but wasn't sure what blessings he meant with "i'm this apple, this happening stone." they're the blessings of being alone, even though it's a mixed blessing. thanks.