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Dan, you missed the VC gathering at the Acropolis that night. A flashback to my college years! Although in my college years, the M's were never eating at a table across the way...

Don't hate! I love Firefly/Serenity ('too much snow! the roof is in danger of collapse!'

P.S. Speedracer, I anyone who loves firefly!

I'm in, too! Joss Whedon:

speaking of favorite people: has anyone heard from our ms yvon lately?

She's been traveling and being off work, as far as I know. I think her new gig starts in August.

find the right program or website, and anything can be a ringtone.

Reni posted this one http://mobile17.smashsworld.com/ a while back and it worked great for me. Upload any mp3, and it'll send it back to your phone as a ringtone.

As he vetoed the bill, he signed another that was passed unanimously in both chambers that would ban "fetal farming," the prospect of raising and aborting fetuses for scientific research.

Is this even a real thing? Has anyone ever actually proposed doing this?

Which, comes back to the fact that the third bill for another viable option for adult cell research being overturned makes no sense to me and makes me think that this is just another political issue to garner votes by BOTH sides and has little to do w/ actually saving lives pro-research or not. I'm still the only person to bring that up here.

The whole situation stinks of political posturing, on all sides. See the "fetal farming" issue, above; the bill passed unanimously in both chambers, because it's an easy sell to pro-life groups, and really, the fetal farming lobby is useless. Bastards can't get a bill passed to save their lives.

What about Bing Crosby? That guy loved to drink.

You just shut it, Satchel-Ass.

I don't have any facts and figures either. There are plenty of avenues and options, but all of them have the potential to be extremely difficult and insanely emotionally draining. I will say that knowing the cost of adoption of someone else's child and even more so, the years it can take to actually find a match...implantation of someone else's embryo would have been our next choice would we not have been able to make our own. I know you don't like the 'if you haven't been through X you don't understand' argument, but in this case, it does offer some perspective. We would have gone to adopting someone else's child, eventually...but really wanted to explore every option to give birth to ours oursleves first.

I do understand your perspective here. And I know lots of infertile couples, I'm well aware of the physical and emotional toll this takes. But I'm still wondering, aren't some couples infertile because the woman can't carry a baby? And with all the medical procedures that now hold out some hope of producing a child that is biologically yours, isn't adoption (of any kind) getting further down the list for most couples? A couple very close to me has been dealing with this for the past ten years and has chosen not to adopt, based on some adoption scenarios that they were close to in their lives, which were problematic to say the least (this is not to say that I'm not a big supporter of adoption; I'd love to see them be able to come to terms with that as an option, because I know they'd be great parents). I think Tracy said it earlier, there are a lot of people out there already, looking for families. If a couple with frozen embryos doesn't think of them in the same way you think of yours, and if there aren't people clamoring to adopt these embryos (again, I don't know), then we come back to the more basic issue, of whether or not it's moral to use those embryos for research purposes. And I'd be in the "yes" camp on that one.

it just seems a little crazy to me that so many couples are looking to become parents, having such a hard time and we have an "excess of the clinical need of the individuals seeking such treatment", but I obviously don't have the full details. fuck 'em.

I don't have any facts and figures in front of me, I'm just wondering, for couples with infertility problems, how many would choose to adopt a frozen embryo? It seems to me that there are so many options and avenues for couples to explore, including adoption of babies carried by other women, would adoption of an embryo (with the benefit to the couple, over traditional adoption, being that the woman could carry and deliver her own child), be something that a lot of couples would be interested in? Again, I don't know, I'm just wondering.

It's the work that they do that most of us don't see that's so impressive to me.

Anyone else think "I Thought I Held You" is wonderful and beautiful? I don't when the last time Wilco played this....probably back before Being There. That'd be one to bring back live....I KNOW Nels could absolutely nail the slide guitar part.

Wow, according to Wilcobase, it's been played... once.

From there it just gets better with every track, except you know which one that all of us usually skip.

As he vetoed the bill, he signed another that was passed unanimously in both chambers that would ban "fetal farming," the prospect of raising and aborting fetuses for scientific research.

Is this even a real thing? Has anyone ever actually proposed doing this?

I can't watch any of these youtubes at work, but if one of them isn't Elvis in black leather, then you're all wrong.

You could think of it as 1-and-a 2-and-a, 1-and-a 2-and-a, so the emphasis is on two beats. Like two sets of triplets.

the same 3 / 4 / 5-year-old kids in strollers

You don't have kids, do you?

My mom raised five kids, and is actively involved with raising her three grandkids, and I suspect she'd be with Dude on this one.

Since it's registration-only:

Recalling the Twang That Was Alt-Country: A Genre Rides Into the Sunset

WHATEVER happened to alt-country?

You can still find the phrase, a 1990

I save every freakin' e-mail! This came from WilcoWorld in February 2005:

Wilco and Nonesuch will be re-releasing A Ghost in Born in Europe with a 5-track bonus disc in conjunction with the band's March tour. For those of you who already own a copy of the CD it will also be available as a FREE download via the enhanced content on "ghost", meaning you'll be able to access the download only with the CD in your computer drive. If you purchased ghost on iTunes, it will also be available there as a stand-alone item. The track listing

• Panthers
  
• At Least That What You Said (live)
  
• The Late Greats (live)
  
• Handshake Drugs (live)
  
• Kicking Television
  

All three live tracks are from the band's October 2004 show at the Orpheum Theatre in Madison, Wisconsin. The two studio tracks are from the Ghost album sessions.

Prior to that, Kicking Television was the 13th track on the Japanese import version of AGIB, and the "b side" on the I'm A Wheel CD-single.

Thanks to http://www.rwin.nl/wilco/ for the details!

Oh, and if you've bothered to read this far... this is what I have in iTunes, listed as "Track 13"; although I'm not entirely sure where I got it.

last time i saw them jeff looked at glenn on the 'he twirled his stick' line and glenn shook his head...i guess glenn doesn't do heavy metal theatrics.

It was a running joke at the west coast solo shows (well, "solo" except for when Glenn and Nels joined him). Glenn would give them a twirl when Tweedy wasn't looking.

ugh, Proops has always come off as a smarmy douchebag, IMO. but i'm glad you you had a good time.

Huh. I like him. Seeing him always reminds me of my misspent youth (far too many high school school-nights spent at open-mic nights...).

damn it, gogo! i tivo-ed and was going to watch it tonite!

Isn't that one about 3 weeks old?

reading Brianne's blog

adding stuff to my Netflix queue

reading reactions to the Rescue Me rape scene on the TWOP forums

browsing VC

"working"

If you have not seen The Comedians of Comedy, please run out and rent it right now. Brian Posehn's description of his reaction to episodes 1-3 is fantastic.

1. Freaks & Geeks: Disc 1

2. The Red Violin

3. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

4. Hairspray

5. Dogfight

Just signed up for Netflix! Top 5 in the queue.

They had a good write up and pictures. They haven't been pestering you to set up their West Coast tour yet?

I've been pestering them!

Now, I may be internet retarded, but has anybody brought up the fact that Jeff's leg was encased in a sort of brace/cast at the show?

Yeah, he's got stress fractures from running too much.

Cool pictures! The first one looks like you're slow dancing at the junior high graduation dance; and the second looks like you're kneeling to kiss his ring.

Seriously though, what a cool thing. You're a part of Wilco history now!