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Don't forget whomever was the coach of Toledo back when you guys used to beat them, too.

Oh wow, Mr. Ray! Haven't seen that one in quite a while...

I hear ya. The ticket prices definitely dampened my enthusiasm, too. Funny, I thought I'd be a lot more excited about the prospect of a full-band tour, but now that its here my thinking is "Meh, I'll just hang out and wait for Bobby or Phil to come around with their bands." Its not just the prices, but I just generally hate arena shows. I'd be more likely to go if they played some sheds over the summer--tickets would undoubtedly be cheaper, too. My dad and I used to do the ABB at the Beacon every year when I lived in NY--totally worth it, every time. This? I dunno, I'm not feeling the

Yes.

Because who doesn't love a heavily-corporate-sponsored random exhibition game played a month and a half after the season ends and they players have spent a few weeks at the buffet table? And, Basil, I'm having a hard time psyching myself up for the "Boom" era in Columbus. Seems to me that guy runs for no gain 10 times in a row and then springs a decent run and then runs for no gain a bunch more times. I guess it could be fun if Pryor runs the wishbone with Boom and Saine, but Coach T doesn't go for that kind of silliness.

I'm trying to go cold turkey on soda--or at least make it only a very occasional drink. My problem is that I habitually seem to be always drinking something, so if I have soda* around, I tend to drink more of it than I should. (* same with beer, but lets not get too crazy about giving that up) Diet soda seems to give me, ummm, "pooping issues" and/or headaches, so for me it is regular or nothing.

Heh. In college, I considered soda to be a "healthy alternative" to everything else I was drinking. Nowadays it is pretty much water and coffee for me.

I have no opinion about the bottles, but have to admit that the discussion below made me cringe endlessly. Does anybody (other than the people who design them) care that much about product labels? Yikes. Most soda drinkers already have a set preference one way or another to Coke products or Pepsi products. I would think that these people will continue to buy whatever they customarily buy anyway and will likely not even notice that labels have changed. But at least a handful of marketing junkies will think this is really fascinating for about a week or so.

Ha! I actually turned off the TV in disgust when then score hit 17-6 at the end of the 3rd so I could prepare a little sweatervest effigy fot the front yard. Evidently they still had some life left in them.* Who knew?? * This continues a longstanding OSU tradition under Tressel of them never doing anything good in big games while I watch. True story. Buckeye Nation should pay me to stay away from the TV at all times. Congrats to Texas on this one.

Do it. I promise to root for Michigan at some point in the future to be determined later.

I'll admit it, I'm still trying to muster up some excitement for tonight's OSU/Texas game. Must be residual shellshock from OSU's recent big game no-shows. Still, this might turn out to be a better matchup than it initially appears. OSU went 1-1 with Texas in recent years, and this year's models of the teams aren't fundamentally different from those teams from a couple years ago, minus Vince Young and Troy Smith. McCoy is a solid QB and it will be interesting to see how Pryor responds to the long layoff after steady improvement all season. I'm worried about a dropoff in momentum there,

Well, yeah. I had forgotten that one--I will have to pull that out and see I can still tolerate that.

I haven't listened to that one in some time, but I like the first half of it quite a bit.(love the first song, especially) I can see that one being an acquired taste, though. Ragged Glory and Harvest Moon are damn solid, though.

I'd go for the entire Gentlemen album, myself.

Nice that they've built these in, although I've been running Firebug and the WebDeveloper extensions for so long that I forget they're not actually part of Firefox. I'm curious about Chrome--it sounds neat, but I haven't found anything yet to compel me to run out and try it now.

I had downloaded this at one point from emusic.com. Doesn't look like it is still available there, though.

We started off with an agreement of "not spending too much" this year, although that seems to be going out the window little by little as we inch closer to xmas. There are definitely no "big" items on the list for anybody this year, though.

Wasn't he supposed to leave the gun, but take the cannoli?

In the case of a performing artist, I guess I can understand fans wishing a performer would play more stuff from a certain era or whatever. I complain about that shit all the time.

Look at it this way. From a listener's perspective, a body of recorded work always remains somewhat current--whatever you feel like listening to at any given point, you can queue up the songs and listen to them in the present tense. But to the person that created those things, the songs are very much tied to the time and place in which they first came into being. Even if you enjoy still playing the old ones all the time, they are still parts of an increasingly-distant past. Asking Ryan questions about Whiskeytown now is probably equivalent to somebody coming up to me and congratulating

Hey! (Hey!) You! (You!) Get Off of My Road!

No, really, all Toby Keith ever really wanted to do was to sing a few songs about was puppy dogs and Matchbox cars, but Rove locked him in the studio until he agreed to sing a few songs about putting a boot up someone's ass.

This could be interesting. I've always wondered what a re-mixed version of this record would sound like, but as it is, I mean, Ten was released my sophomore year of high school and remained in heavy rotation pretty much throughout college--that album, in all its original questionably-produced glory, is burned in my DNA. Sure, the production is somewhat dated, but there's a part of me that almost doesn't want to hear it messed with. (still curious, though)

Heh. The stage-times thing seems like it is more of an issue in the larger cities. I underwent a bit of culture shock a couple years ago when I moved back from attending shows in the NYC-area back to the semi-"big"-town midwest here in Columbus, OH, where every place seems to operate on a curfew and everything is always neatly wrapped up by 11:30. I guess the consistency of start times is nice. I've never really thought about it that way--I usually bitch about it because when there is a show that is really smokin' and you want them to play all night, you know they're only going to make it

Despite the whole getting older thing and not getting to very many shows, I am somehow actually more into live music right now...in the form of live recordings (cod bless you, Internet!). I actually prefer (always have, to some degree) the energy and feel of a good live recording to the relative sterility of studio recordings. All depends on the recording, though. A bad live recording, whether a bad official release or a bad AUD recording, is pretty frustrating. But a really good one? Bliss. Again, it all depends on the band and the recording, of course. As for going to shows? Yeah, I