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We're going to get Spiders tonight.

I love these online get-togethers so much! We really are all together, just separated by space. But it feels like not even that, doesn't it?

Can you all feel the virtual hug I have you all wrapped in, and us all swaying back and forth? And it's not just the beer, either! It's the spinach dip too.

I too love this song.

Shut up, announcer!!!!! ENCORE! ENCORE!! ENCORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

I find it very sweetly hopeful myself.

Do you have to keep doing that???

Yes, but you're here now. Here, have this lampshade & get dancing. Edit: I'd make more sense if I quoted folks. Hi AWATT!

Could somebody pass me a beer and some of that spinach dip please? Damn, I'm sitting here with a big satisfied smile. So excellent, my band.

I think it's a near certainty.

Hiya Mikey!!!!!

Hi Wendy!!!!! This day is finally getting better!

Yes please.

I'm here now. Yum, I'm always in love.

So sorry, Chris. Her blessings live on in you, Bethany, and everyone she touched.

That's pretty funny to think about now!

And I felt so bad about that, Drew! We'd stopped to pay respects at the WTC site, that night, and didn't realize how long the drive to your place was. Ah, but it was another excellent hotel, with first-rate staff who wait up for you! We need to try this again under less frantic circumstances....besides, I have yet to meet the Lukester! Someday, someday soon, I hope. Yep, both directions, and as Drew will tell you, we had to carry baked potatoes in our pockets to keep our hands from freezing on the way! It's true! And some days we had no baked potatoes so we had to carry baked rocks.

Man, I was so sick on that trip that I shouldn't have even been there....started out with only a mild cough, but when I get bronchitis, I get it, like, instantly. When I came home after the 4 shows I had fullblown pneumonia! Oddly enough, in spite of that those 4 shows are some of my very fondest memories.....terrific concerts, and surrounded by great friends. I only wish I'd been well so I could've enjoyed it more, but it still ranks as one of my favorite outings. Brennan had an absolute blast. But yes....we spent much of the trip lost, thanks to our carefully printed out maps from the int

Well for shame! I liked your brief review! AND I even read that entire Plain Dealer piece, and enjoyed it!!!!!!!! (Uh oh, don't get me started with the exclamation points; they've been getting away from me today...) Ok, so first I offer you: :blush and I will follow with heartfelt: as well as and So, are we good? Apologies, ol' Tugger.

Happy Birthday, Isadorah!!! I am so embarrassingly late, but I know you'll forgive me because..... I BROUGHT CAKE! May the year ahead bring wonderful things! Like cake!!!

Vulture19, welcome to the wonderful, frequently wacky world of Via Chicago! We hope you'll enjoy our community! Thanks to you and to Leo for your reviews! It's the next best thing to being there. All the commentary and details paint such a nice picture for this slightly Wilco-deprived Californian! For vulture and for dear Leo (Hiya Leo! )

I saw Leafy Sea Dragons at the Long Beach, CA, Aquarium of the Pacific....they were very beautiful and fascinating!

.....just when you think you have the world mostly figured out!.....check out this cool video, and try not to scare the poor sea spiders any worse than they've already been scared by these noisy videocameras. http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/tech/2008...s.sea.spider.ap

You and me both. But I'm happy they're having such fun with their back catalog!

Big changes underfoot.