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College campuses are generally pretty open places, which is part of what's great about them. I went to school at a place with a very large student population in the middle of a fairly large city, so there was always a mix of all kinds of people--students and not--on and around campus at all times. In light of something like this, its not hard to imagine how easily something like this could happen almost anywhere. So how to stop it seems to be the question. I don't know how you "lock down" a college campus that is, almost by definition, an open community--and even moreso, I don't even think

This is unreal. I don't think I know anybody who is still there anymore, but at the time it seemed like probably 50% of the people I went to high school with went to college there. I've spent a fair amount of time down there and it is truly the last place you would imagine something like this would happen. (not that you'd imagine it would happen anywhere, I guess) Words fail me.

Wow, I saw the headline about the first shooting. Holy crap, this is awful.

I'm not sure if mine follows the "rules" exactly. I made a list that compiles, almost year-by-year where my musical tastes have been over the past 15-20 years.(so it doesn't necessarily follow the order of what was new at the time--just when I was really into that band) I kind of dig it. It leaves out a TON of stuff in that it is mostly rock-centric and doesn't pay a lot of attention to other stuff that I was listening to that wasn't at the top of my radar (a lot of jazz, reggae, hip-hop, electronic), but its pretty cool. My *earliest* and most embarrassing hair-metal stuff isn't on here s

Well, we just bought a house up near Alum Creek Lake, so technically Delaware County is getting our tax money rather than Columbus. Sorry to disappoint.

Which shop?

The strangest part about moving out of the northeast for me has been NOT seeing a DD every five feet. I'm not really a frequent donut eater, but the coffee is decent enough (considering it is half the price of most coffee places anymore).

June 14, eh? Hmm. I was planning on holding out for a Columbus show, but that probably won't happen until sometime farther down the road. I might have to keep an eye on this for ticket info...

Thank goodness they didn't find anything bad in American donuts.

I'm not at all making light of the situation, but if ever there was a road that should inspire any sane person to buckle the hell up, it is the Garden State.

Hells no. Although Eddie Griffin has a certain ring to it... Thankfully, my wife has enough wisdom to keep popping out girls so I'm not tempted into such foolishness.

Not bloody likely.

Well that's kind of what you get for going to Milwaukee to escape the snow. (tho, as noted, they at least had the benefit of a roof) The cold is definitely getting kind of old. I'm ready for some springtime, tho I still think the most annoying part of cold streaks like this is the inevitable snarky "So much for global warming!" comments people keep making, which seems to have replaced the ever-popular "Cold enough for ya?" as the empty small-talk phrase of choice.

VC matchmaking...ya gotta love it!

This lovely lady is #3 for us. She has two big sisters, ages 2 and 4 (going on 16). Corrine is only a week old, so it is difficult to tell such things yet, but thus far she seems to be the mellowest baby of the three...but I'm sure that won't last. Kids are fun.

Probably something far more insightful and witty than I could ever come up with. He will be missed. I have a feeling I will be revisiting many of his books in the near future...

Ha! I just saw this thread and thought "Wow, somebody else here just had a baby, too?!" and then I saw the pic and I was like "Wait, I recognize that kid!" (sleep deprivation is doing strange things to my brain) Thanks, everyone. She is indeed a cutie. (take off that hat and she's got a whole mess of black hair already)

Still Feel Gone is still my favorite, too. That and March are really the only ones that still get spinned fairly frequently for me.

So the doors are finally closing on Tonic, eh? Put another check mark on my list of places I'm glad I visited before they closed. As for the sadness of the occasion--yeah, the music will inevitably move somewhere else--closing a club does not necessarily signify the end of a scene. But, at the same time, yeah, when a place like this close it is increasingly hard to believe that too many others will be lining up to fill the (obviously unsustainable) void. NY real estate is a pretty intense thing. For everything that I love about NY, there is an equally-long list of things I hate about N

I'm late to the party on this one since I've been away from a computer for a couple days. I only listened to the game on the radio since I was in the car the whole time. Congrats to the Gators. They were clearly the better team, which I knew going in. Still, good to see Oden finally play one of his best games when it mattered, but the rest of the team couldn't hit the side of a barn from outside all night. Oh well. Now seems an appropriate time to dig out this old gem again: Ah, yes, that one never gets old.

Marketing. And/or pure evil. Take your pick. I don't know what it is about the word "brand" that makes my skin crawl, but geez, whenever I hear somebody slip into advertising-speak I just want to pull my hair out. There is something about being made explicitly aware that you are being sold a product (or an "experience", which is maybe worse) that somehow cheapens the overall effect. I don't know what makes music venues a sacred bastion of individuality that they should be immune to this sort of chain-store branding that characterizes pretty much everyplace else, but somehow when I wa

If UF wins tonight, they've already done plenty to show the Buckeyes up this year, thank you very much.

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What's a billboard?

Don't make me bust out my English degree. I got credentials and shit. I majored in American Magnetic Poetry of the 21st Century. Jeff Tweedy was my academic advisor.