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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.

You know me so well. Boyohboy does that man work hard for his money, and looks splendid doing it.

Absolutely astonishing pictures, Clay. They are freaking beautiful, as usual.

Very nice!

Love that movie.

I'll just bet there are definitely some "keepers" among your pics, Clay! I'm looking forward to seeing them!

Very cool photos, CommerceComet! I have some very fond memories of Cain's.

Wow, now that's a setlist! Thanks, Paul! Now go catch up on sleep. I too love Cain's.

Oh, if you get a cassette, you WILL share with me. That's, like, an administrative order, almost.

It's sort of a crispy, crunchy, fiery sensation that sounds like the late bell at elementary school. Also I smell smoke. Does that help? Why, were you talking about me?

I am a stooka fan, although I haven't yet had the priviledge of an in-person meeting. Someday.

(Look at avatar while reading.) "You talkin' to me? Well I don't see anybody else around here, you talkin' to me?" Kinda like that.

I should dip into that book again.....maybe get some assistance with my 17-yr-old son Brennan, who knows absolutely everything. (No, really!!! He does!!! Just ask him!!!) I think I can feel my hair beginning to thin.

I've just finished reading "Tying Up Your Spirited Child". A wealth of helpful parenting suggestions! Ok, no I haven't. Robyn, that's a terrific book and helped me to view my children less as being headstrong and defiant, at times, and more as having a need for things like transition time between activities. It makes good practical sense, too, if you stop and consider how we, as adults, can build that in for ourselves, whereas children are often expected to just do as we ask, unquestioningly and immediately. It's a kinder approach to them. I got a lot out of that book.

At the risk of sounding like one of those Wilco-can-do-no-wrong types, I have to say that I was pretty satisfied with all of it, given the limitations of the show's format. I saw the band as I know them, relaxed and having a good time, and I truly don't care who gets it or doesn't. The songs left me with a huge smile, and maybe some other listeners who didn't know them had the same reaction. They were who they are, and I was happy to watch it. I really enjoyed it.

Oh, make no mistake, I do too....in fact I want a pair of those cuties for mine own self! Thay are wicked pretty. I meant, "perish the thought!" from the viewpoint of an I-don't-get-this-Wilco-band SNL viewer.....as in, ack! Too much style! They must be pissy!