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The biggest problem with making a lot of great friends at VC is missing a lot of great VC friends! Kevin & Johnny, hugs to you both! Hugs to everybody else who thinks I might mean them, because I do! So many people to miss, scattered across so many miles.

A la* recommendation always adds a book to my list!

Sounds like it was every bit as wonderful as you charitable folks deserved! What a setlist.

One of my favorite scenes, in one of my favorite movies.

I'm so glad she'll be coming home soon, Dunja! I hope things get peaceful for you and yours very soon. Tara, sweetie, get yourself well. Much love to you!

Wow, Dunja, that is one horrible looking mashed-up car! It looks like most of the impact was on Tara's side. Thank God she is ok. to you all.

Oh, sure, read the album lyrics. Too easy and obvious!

The full picture is even better.....the whole band with chicks and butterflies and ducklings and Easter stuff....but it is the band circa about 2002, with LeRoy, Jeff, John & Glenn, so is rather outdated. Perhaps I'll be inspired sometime to make a new one. Nels would be adorable in bunny ears. In the full picture, Jeff is gazing at a butterfly. I'm sure Dunja will be gratified by the outpouring of support here. With these kind of get-well vibes, I'm sure Tara will recover in record time.

Dear Via Chicago Community, I know you'll all be as distressed as I was to hear that our dear Pillowy Star (Dunja) has had a traumatic event in her life over the past weekend....her daughter Tara was involved in a horrible car accident. Now, put your hearts back in your chests where they belong....Tara is ok, though hurting plenty. I didn't want to leave you hanging, wondering. Tara was with her boyfriend, and they hit a tree. Luckily for him, there was a driver's side airbag, so his injuries were minimal. Tara, the passenger, had no airbag, but fortunately was wearing her safety belt. Sti

Jeff has said it's "life". And, welcome to Via Chicago!

Yes, nicely put, Eric. A beautifully atmospheric little film, though I too kept waiting for more of a plot to develop.

I've HAD it with these motherf*cking snakes on this motherf*cking plane!"

....if your computer contains little seasonal avatars like the one to the left. Happy Easter, happy Spring, everybody!

Thank you, Judy, I enjoyed that tremendously, as I know Nat would have.

Haven't had the chance to play that yet. Tom loves it; he & his roommates play it all the time. As for me....showing my age here.....I kinda miss "Space Invaders". Aaannnnd.....just getting us back on track.....I'm currently reading a terrific little novel called "Love Walked In", which sounds as though it might just be trite as all get-out, but has turned out to be a wonderfully involving story with good plot twists (because they aren't obvious!) and characters you come to really care about. Author is Marisa De Los Santos...it's her debut novel. Not great literature, but I haven't been

Oh, you are ON! I can send you "March", too, and you just return when finished. PM on the way! So......no Wii's, huh? I keed, I keed.....keedsmokes are prone to that! ....actually I may be the last human on the planet with absolutely zero interest in a Wii. Just no time for it. We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread.

Is there anybody who doesn't love Drew? I think not! Let's all have pie.....because Drew likes pie better'n cake....in honor of one of Via Chicago's very finest! I'll let you choose, Drew, but please save me some of that blackberry one in the back! Have a wonderful next year of your life!

If you do read it, let me know how you like it. It's settled comfortably into my brain now, and I like the memories it brings. A really haunting kind of story. I almost bought that Jodi Picoult the other day. May have to, from your description. All I've read of hers is "Nineteen Minutes", which I really enjoyed. Unrelated, but once I get a free moment, I intend to pick your brain about tv's, now that I know you work at Best Buy. You've been forewarned.

You're very welcome, but thank Jesse Hamm....he's the hard-working guy behind all those dvd's!

Have a look here: http://www.thedvdproject.net/Wilco_DVDs.htm

I too love Eef.

With love and warmest birthday wishes to one of VC's finest! Have a wonderful day, and a wonderful year!

I've just finished this beautiful, poignant little book: It's an interesting premise: the "March" referred to by the title is the absent father of "Little Women". As that book described a year in the lives of the four March sisters and their mother, living their lives against the backdrop of the Civil War, and how that changed them, "March" tells their father's harrowing story of that year, as author Geraldine Brooks images it. It's a really interesting device, and Brooks is a terrific writer. The story moves quickly and often unexpectedly, and the horrors and strangenesses of the war are

It was me & Tom actually...it's a 21+ club & Bren is only 17, much as he'd have liked to go. And yes, Spaceland....you have a good memory, Mr. Bed! We had a fabulous time.....definitely go, Lynch! Uyen, that's a great looking setlist. Now what's all this gogo was saying you'd told her about security having had to step in to control (not the audience but) the band??!! We only had one bit of piggyback-riding at our show. PS - Is Canvey Island a gorgeous song or what? Gives me chills. keeprighton2, thanks for sharing the marvelous photos!

Damn, I need some Wilco.