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Got mine, and I've been a slowpoke about thanking Bjorn. The coffee's excellent (I love peaberry!) and the FDR gear's awesome! Thanks!

Did her contractions speed up, or did she decide to go to work?

Happy birthday! May the next year of your life be filled with interesting public bathroom meetings.

I still love that show and I'm not ashamed to admit I watch a few episodes every week on Lifetime.

I'd read somewhere that Estelle suffered from dementia during the last few years. I'm glad she's not suffering anymore.

I remember Golden Palace! A few years ago Lifetime showed the pilot episode of it in the middle of the night when I happened to be awake. Pure cheesy bliss! Cheech was in it, too.

This is pretty much the opposite of "out and about", but Wilco is mentioned in the "One Handed Read" section (yeah, it's what you think it is) in this month's Bust magazine.

My word, I love Bust! Still need to get the new issue.

There was a guy loitered at my favorite coffeehouse recently, and he played a bit of "California Stars" on the store's acoustic guitar. I refrained from singing.

Happy birthday! I hope today's the beginning of a wonderful year!

Glad you're home safe and sound, and that you had such an awesome time! Although that drive today? Damn!

Oooooooo....was it the killer that wears the 1970's door-to-door salesman outfit with the hot short sleeved white t-shirt with the wife beater showing thru and sloppy over sized dress pants to hide his excitement?

Maroon short-sleeved button-down, buttoned all the way to his neck (very tightly, possible autoerotic asphixiation fiend) with baggy pleated khakis to his excitement.

I think Maggie remembered the set list. It was phenomenal! Today we slept in, had a great lunch at Pancake Pantry, did a little shopping in the Hillsboro Village district of Nashville before parting ways. I'm in Clarksville, TN, having a latte and trying to get my brain wrapped around the past few days.

Which reminds me, one of the highlights last night was the young guy sitting next to Maggie who said, in regards to the performance, "I don't know what to think! My brain! It's too much! My brain hurts!"

Safe travels to Maggie as she hits the next two shows! Thanks for talking me into going to Nashville. Totally unforgettable, amazing experience!

Not dogging the cuteness factor but a big GOOD LUCK in house-training him. They are notoriously difficult to train. If I were to ever get a Basset, I want a full-grown slug, thank you.

Ah, so true on the housebreaking, and training in general. Our Chloe was two when we adopted her from a rescue group. She'd been neglected pretty badly by her previous people. One of the things they neglected to do was housebreak her. We've had her for nine years and we still have to be super-diligent about keeping her on a schedule, or watching for her subtle signs that she wants to go outside. That, and we buy Nature's Miracle by the gallon.

You've been CLINE'D

I'm sitting in a hotel room in Nashville, Tennessee with Three Dollars and Sixty-Three Cents, and we are laughing our asses off at this! We got CLINE'D again tonight, and it was once again mind-blowing. I'm so glad I made the spur-of-the-moment trip to get two NCS nights. I'm just wishing I'd gone to the Indy show last month.

Hey Moontower - we think the serial killer guy was at the Nashville show tonight. I don't know, since I didn't see him in Columbia. Maggie did, though, and she thinks it was the same guy. Only this time he had a following.

Congratulations, Dr. Canuck! That's one adorable hound. Love that big freckle on his nose! I'm with Mountain Bed - Bassets are beyond awesome. You're going to have so much fun with Monty.

Mmmmmmm ... now I wish we'd made it to Flat Branch. LOVE those pretzels and mustard!

We were all bemoaning the burrito/nacho alien babies by the time we got home.

The president of Slow Foods StL is the woman who started our CSA - http://www.fairshares.org. So maybe you guys can get in on the supply side! Chicken fat mochas for everyone! Yay!

Maggie and I are headed to Nashville in mere minutes to start the adventure all over again.

Thurstonius

This melted my mofo face off. So incredible.

Guess I could have told you that in person, since you just walked into the room!

Awesome, incredible performance. The 37 of us who bothered to show up were given a performance worthy of a much bigger audience. This was my first Singers show and I didn't know what to expect. Mesmerizing.

And for the record, Party @ the Moontower and Fatheadfred are good people. There. I said it.

Plus, it's not like Bud was a great company. Buying Rolling Rock and shutting down that town the way they did. Why should I care about them all of the sudden?

Yep, the Rolling Rock buy-out sucked. But it's not the A-B corporation that I care about. It's what this buy-out is going to do to the local economy. My husband's worked for two companies that were locally-owned but purchased by larger corporations while he worked for them. In both cases he watched co-workers lose their jobs and benefits get slashed on every level. Just like what happened in Latrobe.

as long as guinness stays irish, all is well with my beer universe.

I learned last night that Bass is owned by InBev. No more black and tans for me.

This gave me a grin today: Happy Birthday, Woody Guthrie!

I don't drink any A-B beers, but living in the St. Louis area, this hits hard. I'm anxious about what the restructuring is going to do to the local residents and economy.

The scariest part: A-B gave $13 million in charitable donations in the St. Louis area in 2006. Amount of charitable donations made by InBev anywhere? Not a coddamn dime. I'm watching the local news right now and the head of InBev is claiming that they will continue A-B's charitable ways. I'll believe it when I see it.

Noodle's a love and so are you and your son! Here's to many years of happiness and puppy love, along with a few bonus jewels in your karma crown. He's absolutely adorable!

I drank 48 ounces of that particular roast on Thursday. Felt like hell for the rest of the day, but it was worth it! Glad you like it.

I'm trying to finish the umpteen knitting projects I've started over the past six months. Mainly working on this pair of socks:

this scarf:

and this scarf:

Recently finished this:

and this:

So you could have had one of Mick's kids?

I might have been okay with that, aside from the STDs I probably would have contracted. Putting out for the rather creepy co-worker of mine who was old enough to be my dad (and yet, younger than Mick) in exchange for a ticket was out of the question. I have my standards.

Lots of Uncle Tupelo/early Wilco/early Son Volt shows when I was a student at MU-Columbia in the early '90s. Sadly, I don't remember much in the way of details. At the time they were bar bands I liked and I didn't think much beyond that.

Chuck Berry, as he still plays in St. Louis once a month. Obviously, I didn't see him in his heyday but for a guy in his 80s, he can still whallop that guitar at times.

Bo Diddly in 1987. Again, not in his prime. He was playing the Missouri State Fair in my hometown.

I saw Beck at Lollapalooza in 1995. Early on, but late enough that he was playing on the main stage.

In 1994, when the Stones played college stadiums, I sat on the hood of my car outside my apartment two blocks from the stadium and listened to the show. Too broke to buy an actual ticket. I was offered a free ticket to a show on their '97 tour but, 1) I didn't have much interest in seeing them, and 2) I was pretty sure I was expected to put out and it wasn't worth that. Yuck.

Johnny and June Carter Cash stayed at a hotel where I worked during the tour for his first American Recordings album. He sang "Amazing Grace" with my boss. The irony is, I missed not only this display, but the concert itself because I was on a business trip. In Memphis. So while I was listening to his original recordings at Sun Studios, I was missing the opportunity to meet him. Fourteen years later and I'm still kinda bitter about that.

I'm drawing a blank on any other legends I've seen. I was born too late (1972) to see a lot of them in their early days or prime. I've seen lots of U2 and Springsteen shows, but those have all occurred in the past decade. I'm generally not a fan of nostalgia acts. Aretha Franklin played a venue near my hometown a few years ago, and as much as I love her I didn't go. I can't stand seeing performers long past their prime, doing shows where they're obviously phoning it in. It makes me feel dirty to be a part of that.

That said, I saw a "reunion" of the Mamas and the Papas in 1990. It was John and Mackinzie Phillips (Julie!) and two unknowns. The whole event was pretty disenchanting.

The Ozark Music Festival was in my hometown shortly before my second birthday. While no one in my family was at any of the shows, I've heard many, many tales of The Week the Hippies Invaded Sedalia, including stories from my grandpa about people skinny-dipping in the creek near his farm. I have all the newspapers from that week, which my aunt saved. Personally, I think the hyperbole-ridden stories are probably as entertaining as the concerts themselves must have been. But I like stories.

this is true! tonight i'm drinking a bit of red wine out of a newfangled box. it's shiraz, and in this smaller box it is really not bad. of course, they're making the smaller boxes look friggin fancy compared to the old big ones, so maybe i'm a sucker. i don't think so but will confirm tomorrow.

I'll admit it - I'm a fan of the Wine Cube from Target.

The holiday weekend is blessedly unplanned. Just spending the three days hanging out at home with the spouse and kiddo. And maybe a Wine Cube.

Great news! Congratulations!

Absolutely love the name. My granny's name is Vivan Clara Jane. We used the last 2/3 of her name for our daughter, and I always like it when others use the first 1/3.