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Well, different strokes, and all that... Like I said, I'm looking forward to it. Doesn't really matter to me whether other people feel the same way.

Welcome to the internet! I don't think people here are any more argumentative than at most other message boards I've been on. I do think that people might not be all that worked up about an official release, because we're all a little bit spoiled by JHamm's fabulous work. While I agree that an official DVD will be nice, and I'm certainly looking forward to it, we're not exactly hurting for live Wilco footage.

Yep, some earlier discussion here: http://forums.viachicago.org/index.php?sho...mother&st=0 Much of it centered on whether or not a band/label/whoever pays for a mention like that. We never did find out how much Marquis Jets was paying that one guy.

I was just getting set to post that!!! I loved that bit.

When a friend of mine (you may have met her, Jen, beautiful blonde Jen?) wanted to learn Spanish, she bought the first Harry Potter book in Spanish, so she'd have something to read, would be forced to look up words, etc. If Harry Potter's not your thing, maybe another book you're familiar with would work. I'm just thinking now, something like Charlotte's Web would be awesome in Spanish!

There was a bit of discussion about this in an earlier thread, here: http://forums.viachicago.org/index.php?sho...81&hl=ghost I'd have to disagree with most of the posters there, much as I like Ricky Gervais, I wasn't wowed by this movie. But then, I did see it on a plane, which is never an optimal viewing environment.

Ooh, that sounds good! I'm also hoping to squeeze in a re-read of Wicked before we go see the show next month. There's a third in the series out now as well, A Lion Among Men, I think it's called. I wasn't crazy about Son of a Witch, but I did enjoy his take on the Cinderella story (can't recall the name of that one right now...).

I'm currently reading this: and enjoying it very much. Next up, in my on-going DFW binge: And recently completed, I don't know why I tortured myself by actually dragging my way all the way through to the end:

A good chunk of my reading gets done on my commute (1 to 1-1/2 hours a day, total). Also, I never mind in the least when a flight I'm on gets delayed, as I do a ton of reading in airports (and on the plane, of course), too. I find that I can concentrate on one thing at a time, whether it's books, or music, or whatever. So I'll go months without picking up a book because I have a bunch of new music on my ipod, or I'll listen to no music at all for a few weeks when I'm trying to catch up on episodes of a podcast I like, that kind of thing. So this year, when I was away from my computer for

I've only read Go Down, Moses, but I loved it, and I keep meaning to read more Faulkner. My schedule's kind of busy with reading trash, though. Also want to read Frank O'Hara, that's been on my list for a while.

OK, I come up with about 60 for the year, not counting children's books, graphic novels, and a few that I re-read (I love a good breezy re-read for vacation!). I need a better way to count them, though. I've never really kept a list. I think I'll add whatever I finish in 2009 to a list on the facebook Visual Bookshelf thing, keep track that way.

I've been wishing all day that Natalie was here to help us celebrate.

Yeah, that's what gets me, that courts are ruling on all these different subcategories of ballots that were or were not counted for different reasons, and then those rulings are appealed... You'd think in the past 8 years, every jurisdiction in the country would have tightened up the procedures on this kind of thing.

Really quite amazing, the counting process, the challenges to certain ballots, etc. What's with that extra 650?

Does this still go in the political thread? Bristol Palin had a baby boy, named Tripp (not to be confused with her 7 month old baby brother, Trig).

After years and years of buying and hoarding books, we cleared out hundreds of books from our house this weekend. We kept quite a few that had sentimental value, that we want to have around to make the kids read them later, that we just love too much to not have them living in our house, etc., but still, I was sad to see so many of them go. I just hope they'll find happy homes elsewhere. So for now, it's the public library, and book-swapping, for me. Even when the book isn't mine mine mine, the physicality of it is still important to me. I can see the allure of something like a Kindle

Got 'em, thanks.

Wow, we were talking about Delaney & Bonnie all weekend. One of the local columnists does a Christmas Quiz in his column, this was one of this year's questions: Answer:

This one caught my eye in the SF Chronicle's "Highs/Low/Top Tens/etc." this morning, as the Pop Music high point of the year: Also, Wilco side project-related, in the Jazz section:

There is some serious adorableness in this thread. Here are the cousins, in their traditional matching jammies on Christmas day:

But he's doing it so cheerfully! The great candy swap looks like fun. But then, I'm a sucker for paper crowns.

I don't think I had heard that before, but that is lovely, thanks. I'm a sucker for Silver Bells, anyway.

I can see how people would prefer to listen to just Jeff, but having been lucky enough to attend a few of these, I can tell you that seeing your friends getting to perform with Jeff, and Jeff being so gracious and generous to his fellow performers, is absolutely one of the coolest things about the night. And then, there are also the loud and raucous sing-alongs, which are a big part of the reason why some of these shows are virtually unlistenable.

OMG, I was just looking for that!