gogo

I had started to read The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat many years ago, and just wasn't that interested in it, but then I picked up this one on Guam last year (it's partly about his work with the native population there), and really loved it. He weaves so many different areas of expertise together so seamlessly:

Eeeee...!

I know!

Bellissimo! Bevi molto caff

Quando vai?

maggio 7: L'Irlanda ()

maggio 15: L'Inghilterra ()

maggio 22: Trieste e Venezia ( )

In anticipation of my next trip:

i hadn't been able to access VC all day...just finally tried going to viachicago.org instead of putting in the usual board URL (www.viachicago.org/main.html) and got taken right to the page. i guess the URL has changed?

I find that forums.viachicago.org is the best way to get directly to the board.

Hey there folks, I'm the sax player.

 

Thanks to whoever shot and posted that video - the internet is a really a silly little place. Speaking of YouTube, John and I had a funny conversation about OK Go's dance routine being a YouTube sensation - which means that even rock stars watch stupid internet videos. I found that comforting.

 

Anyway, just to repeat what everyone else said - Wilco's sound was acceptable, but OK Go and Ted Leo got lost in the arena, which was (at least in Ted's case) really a shame. But yeah, OK Go was just pretty bad. I did pass my e-mail on to the one taper in attendance, so we'll see how it sounds when I get a copy (I'll be sure to post it to the BT).

 

So now we're trying to get down to Jersey to make tonight's gig. Wish us luck!

I'm afraid that rock stars probably look at more stupid stuff on the internet than most of us would like to think.

The Brown horns rock - great clip - they should join the tour! Sax guy - how'd you get the gig?

That would have been my question too, how did you get set up to play with Wilco? What a cool thing for you guys!

This was posted on the VC tracker this morning: http://bt.viachicago.org/details.php?id=513

Although there is currently no seeder.

There's no user limit there, but you do need to sign up with a separate log-in than the one you use here (it's a different board, but most people just use the same name over there that they have here).

not only did our server HD crash last Sat, my mp3/music drive partition took a crap on Tue night as well, yay me! :-/

 

oh well, such is life

Ouch! Sorry to hear it, Kyle.

Shoot, I thought this would finally be my chance to get ahead of Maudie in the upload stats...

I fear you, man. You know you could destroy me anytime you felt like it!

If I don't get my stats back I'm going into an A-man style snit.

The tracker is down, and will remain down until solace posts to let us know that it's back up. The whole deal (this forum site, the tracker, etc.) was down last weekend, and solace worked hard to get the forums back up and running. Now he's using the tracker being down as an opportunity to make some changes/improvements to the system. He'll let us know when he's ready to open it back up again.

bare with us

Thanks for all the hard work, Kyle!

gogo, have you ever read this?

 

 

The title sounds like the punchline to a joke, but it really happened and it's an interesting book.

Looks good to me! Thanks, that's another one for the list.

Maudie, I'm definitely going to borrow Stiff to read in line at the Fillmore today.

It's on the radar a little more now with all the talk of the avian flu, but yeah, strange how that nearly disappeared from our history.

Rising Tide looks great, too. I heard the author being interviewed on NPR just after Hurricane Katrina. He discussed how the 1927 flood changed the demographics of the entire country by displacing so many southern blacks, and how Herbert Hoover's response to the flood (in his capacity as Secretary of Commerce, he oversaw much of what FEMA would do today) brought him into the national spotlight and was a large factor contributing to his election as president in 1928.

I don't read a lot of non-fiction, but these stories fascinate me.

I'm going to start this one today:

I've been obsessed with the flu since way before this latest avian flu scare, so I'm long overdue to read this one. And if it's even half as good as I've been led to believe it is, I'll likely follow up with another of his books:

I could only find a decent cover shot from the audiobook. But I'll be doing the reading myself on this one.

Not sure why they were able to name-change in the first place......that generally has to go through an admin, but perhaps solace changed some setting, advertantly or inadvertantly, while working on some detail of the boards.

Hee! Donna, it's in My Controls now, as "Change Your Display Name". And for anyone who's confused by all the name-changing, if you click on the user profile, there's an option to see Display Name History.

Mary Roach's second book, Spook: Science Tackles The Afterlife was disappointing to me. I know it would be nearly impossible to follow up Stiff, but it really fell flat. Um, not that you actually asked, but just a little warning.

And the subject matter doesn't sound nearly as intriguing to me, so I may just give it a miss, then.

Well now I have to read it! I actually recognize the cover because my mom read it awhile ago, and I think she enjoyed it.

 

I have finally begun reading All Souls, and I'm liking very much.

I once heard Janeane Garafolo say about George Clooney, "I'm not made of wood"; and I know a whole lot of women who feel that way about Michael McDonald.

I have my plot all picked out.

More environmentally friendly than cremation, you get to feed a tree that your family and friends can go to visit, rather than being in a box buried under a granite slab in the middle of a field of other granite slabs... seems like a perfect solution to me.

Maudie, how weird that there's another book all about garbage that's just been published. Garbage Land was really, really good, but it's been haunting me (all kinds of stories about the dark side of recycling) so I don't think I need to read another book on the topic right now.

 

I really loved Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, so you MUST report back.

Just hearing the short discussion of garbage and recycling the other night really disturbed me, so I don't know if I need to read either of the garbage books just yet! Apparently Heather Rogers made a documentary on the subject first, then was approached by a publisher to write up her documentary research for publication. I thought that was an interesting side note to her story.

I'm nearly done with Stiff, and yes, I'm loving it, too. Her writing style and sense of humor keep reminding me of Brianne! I'm a big advocate of organ donation, and I've been saying for years that I want whatever can't be donated out of me to be given to the UCSF anatomy lab, so I appreciate her support of those programs. But what I'm really loving is the composting idea! I'm going to get all the forms in order one of these days, with all of these things spelled out. I will come back and haunt anyone who tries to embalm and bury me.

This is fascinating.

 

I was at a reading last night, and when they introduced the first author, I thought oh, that's the book that la* posted... but it wasn't, turns out it was this one instead:

There were four people reading, I was there to see this woman:

She was adopted at birth by a Jehovah's Witness family, and was abused by her mother and step-father. She makes clear in the book that the abuse she suffered was not necessarily condoned by the larger community of Jehovah's Witnesses, but that they did consider what went on inside the family to not be the business of the community. Her adoptive father was excommunicated for being a smoker, but her stepfather was allowed to sexually abuse her without any reprisal from the church, because he behaved acceptably in public.

She later made contact with her birth mother, whose sister has been a good friend of mine for many years.

It was a very strange collection of writers. One of the other women was the author of this:

She read a short story that was recently published in Playboy. The story begins with a woman giving a hand job on the N-Judah, which is the bus I take to work. Again:

Next up:

Clicking on the torrent sub-forums redirects you to another site: http://bt.viachicago.org/

That site requires a separate log-in, so just register there with the same log-in name you use here, and you should be all set.

Needless to say it was fantastic, with Jeff playing with the Wilco Ensemble from the Old Town School and frankly he couldn't have been happier.

Oh, very cool. Yes, this needs its own thread!

For those of you keeping tabs on my looks, I do indeed have long hair and have had it for at least a year or more. I can grow a beard in no time at all, and I do grow one on occasion. Depends on my mood. So, it is very possible to encounter me with a beard. And, finally, I got new glasses today, so none of you will recognize me ever again.

Jesse, as soon as I typed that, I had to do the math in my head, and yep, it's at least a year and a half since I've seen you. And all this time when I pictured you cuddling Laurel, you were clean-cut!

Hi Megan! Your memory serves you well - we are indeed from Sacramento. Let us know when your snowboarding trip is and we

jesse! no beard! is that your fresh for spring look?

Beard? It's been so long since I've seen Jesse in person, I was thinking, "when did he grow all that hair?" I never even saw the beard, and now it's gone already!

Yes, please. I know some of you, and can almost make out the names on the name tags for a few others, but I'd love to know who everyone else is.

Looks like you all had an amazing time. I love hearing all the stories!

Here's my contribution. gawd, I hate digital cameras.

I now officially hate your camera.