kidsmoke

How are you all feeling? Start anywhere. What a wild ride we're on!

Is she open or closed?

Also, has anybody seen Charlie?

Is the lawn mowed?

Does anybody have the time?

Here's the deal: take a statement made in a Wilco or Tweedy song, and turn it into a question. For example, Are you the man who loves me? Now you.

I'm intrigued! Look forward to listening to this!

After the roughest year most of us have ever struggled to survive, it's hard to look ahead with real hopefulness. I know we all feel pretty beaten down. But a wise man once sang, "We can make it better", and of course he's right. In the end, "we" are all we've got. So I am going into 2021 looking for my own path to making it better. If we all do this in our own lives, maybe together we can create a critical mass of happiness and love that will build like a snowball rolling down a long snowy hillside. I don't see a reason not to try. We can make it better! Love to all of

Happy birthday Glenn, and remember the advice you scrawled on my copy of Modern Drummer when you were the cover story: "Never twirl your sticks!" I have clung to that advice and it has prevented what would doubtless have been innumerable head injuries. Thank you!! But YOU go right ahead. You seem to know how to keep your head out of the way, and you look so damned stylish doing it! Much love, and hopes that this last day of 2020 makes up for all the rest. HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Hope to see you in 2021!

...hopes you all have a Christmas this cozy and content! I do too! - Love, kidsmoke From the space formerly known as my gift-wrapping space.

It's been so hard on all of us, being separated from each other, and especially close family. I hope you can see your son again soon! I'm lucky in that my 3 kids still live here in the city, so at least we have that. So sorry about your mother in law. All the downsizing you're doing now is going to pay off in so many ways. I'm plowing through a lot of the same (altho not moving) and I'm calling it "reclaiming my space"! But yeah, it's an exhausting job because it's emotional, too. All the stuff we collect over the course of life has memories attached. HA! It's all in

I finally got my Christmas tree decorated! It was so hard to get motivated this year, since really nobody but me & hubby are going to see it. But I realized I need the tree, the traditions, for myself. It's been a rough enough year so I need magical, twinkly Christmas decor!

I can totally hear these songs now in Dolly's voice and style! Bull Black Nova is pretty chilling. What Light is gonna be a country standard in no time.

I laughed, TCP!

No, she hasn't yet, but I liked this suggestion that came up on tonight's Tweedy Show. So if Dolly were to do an album of Wilco covers, which songs would absolutely, positively have to be on there? And who has a Dolly connection so we can encourage this project into being?

John, your Deadpool tree is a near-perfect 2020 Christmas tree. It suggests one have a Merry Christmas, while never insisting upon it and trampling everyone's rights. Excellent! Thanks for the Gorillaz recommendation, too. Brownie, your tree has that essential Christmas magic to it, and I love your theme! Don't let the loneliness get to you...I'm there too!...but remind yourself this is temporary. We will all outlast trump, and this pandemic, if we are careful. And then we'll all go to Solid Sound and hug each other! It's going to be good again. Thanks for the Calexico

Congratulations to you both! What a sweet love story! I love a happy ending. Bring her around here sometime!

Vince and I are starting the Easily Amused Club. Who else is in?!

You can thank/blame Neuroglue for the snow effect. It's peaceful and lovely but he finds it mildly annoying that the snow blows in the direction of your cursor. Me, I played with it for a couple minutes. I'm pretty easily amused.

Hi all! How is everyone doing with the holidays? Can we talk about how we are all approaching it, and have maybe some happy decorated-tree pictures, or you could tell us whatever Christmas/Holiday story you've got going? Are there Wilco-related gifts involved? What music is getting you through right now? Holiday music, or something else? What about holiday baking? Are you slapping out dozens of cookies and quickbreads, or did you burn out on that last Spring? Lastly, whaddya want for Christmas? As you can see I have a lot of questions. Answer whichever you choose.

It's driving Susie crazy not being able to follow along! It did look sharper to me, so that's good, but we need Sue's interaction and the new format stifles it a bit. Ziggy, who are you on IG? I also love the TS community that's grown up around the show. I'm dmurphy948 there. Couldn't agree more. I'm glad that it looks like fb will have to divest itself of some of its properties under the anti-monopoly laws. All hail Kristofor, chronicler of Tweedys!

Yep, annoying!

Thanks for the tip-off!

And great news, today Susie posted that their test results have come back and ALL, including Sammy, tested negative!