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Mart talking Jeff through it... Yes, it was.

One of the kids said the other day that someone at school called someone a bad word that started with an F, but it wasn't the F word.

I wish I was crafty, Kate! That stuff looks so cool, and I know from getting gifts from my mom, it means so much when a gift is not only handmande, but specifically designed for the giftee. The skulls crack me up. Em's got a cool mom! The extent of my craftiness for the season was describing to the woman on etsy what I wanted... and then she offered suggestions that were much better than my ideas, anyway! The knitting stuff is my gift to mom in the family secret santa; for their real presents, we "kids" are giving Dad an ipod nano so he can listen to audiobooks, and Mom's going to ge

Looks like $175 for 5 nights. So, no discount over the single-show price. http://wilcotickets.musictoday.com/Wilco1/moreInfo.aspx

Update: this woman made the most fantastic knitting bag and assorted little bags to go along with it, for my mom's gift! I'm thrilled with it!

If I recall correctly, the last few times I've bought presale tickets through musictoday, there was not a specific presale password. You do have to be pre-registered on the site, though. http://wilcotickets.musictoday.com

Just to confuse things as much as possible, I merged that thread with this one. So now it's here. Or, here:

I know! I'm off work on Friday the 15th, so I fly in on the Thursday night red-eye, to be there for the first two shows. Then I fly home on the 6:00am flight Sunday, to be back for my nephew's 9th birthday, then back on the Sunday night red-eye. Monday is President's Day, so I'm off work, I take two vacation days for Tuesday and Wednesday, then fly home again 6:00am to be back at my desk by 9:00am Thursday. Totally do-able!

Mende's definitely a good 'un. Best to you, Mr. Frog.

Hope you have a great day with the pets and the monkey!

Awww!! Happy happy day to you!

Unfortunately, that thread may be lost. The archives cut off in December 2005, and the stuff saved here seems to start up again in April 2006. So the 1/14 show from that year is still there, because somebody posted in that thread again in April, but I'm afraid that anything that existed just between 12/7/05 and 4/7/06 is gone. Here's the link to the setlist on wilcobase, though, and if you all have any links to pictures, maybe post them here, and they'll be in the archives through this thread anyway.

No, I think those are two unrelated gripes, people complaining about the Foo Fighters being nominated, and people complaining about the Delilah thing. Not that I have any idea about what the kids are listening to these days.

Because this comes up a lot and people want to hear about the past shows (and then they're sorry when they actually see the threads and they're all just gushy ) and because I'm bored at work today and don't really feel like doing any actual work, here are the threads from the previous shows: 1/29/05 1/14/06 4/8/06 (there was one more in 2006, wasn't there? I can't find the thread...) 2/17/07 2/24/07 3/3/07

True! Even Jeff didn't know what to expect! Yes, absolutely.

That's why I posted it! I think it's great, so I post it every chance I get. Brian is not a VCer, but he's a Wilco fan (obviously), and a friend of Hodie from here, and he won the Letters to Santa auction to record a song with Jeff. I'm trying to find the thread where it was discussed before, hang on a sec... Got 'em! Links to other threads! http://forums.viachicago.org/index.php?sho...c=24186&hl= http://archive.viachicago.org/index.php?sh...c=11095&hl=

Yes, sorry, the 2007 Hotel S'n'S show is the show that I don't have. As Mr. Koch noted, it's just taking a while to get that distributed. I got in on this show because some friends who live in Chicago were going to the Second City thing, and knew the auction was happening, and very generously asked if I wanted to get in on it. And I said YES!!! Stuff that Jeff has auctioned in past years included a listening party for AGIB, and a day in the studio with him (and as it turned out, Mike, with results here: Shine, by Brian, Jeff & Mike).

***merge***

If you've got a copy of the show I was at last year, can I get a B&P? I've been in a group for the past three years, although at the last minute, I wasn't able to attend the second year. Our shows have been at "Hotel S'n'S", which is the home of two VCers who very graciously host us every year. The deal in previous years has pretty much been that people get there early with a ton of delicious food (it's by far the best pot luck I get to attend in any given year), and we hang around and eat and drink and listen to some of the members of our group sing and play (we get amazing opening a

So is providing clean water, but I still don't want to live in a country where the government doesn't at least take some responsibility for those functions. Damn it! OK, now I'm scurrying...

"Hop in" and "scurry away" are accurate.

Anyway, that was my "I'm going to be sorry I ever posted in that thread" post for today, so I'm just going to let it lie.

Build roads? Ensure the safety of your water supply? Deliver the mail?

I'd love to go to the Ryman, but I think I'm contractually obligated to attend all shows at the Val Air.