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Hi Gang! Can you believe we are in (or almost in) the year 2020?!?! Where are our flying cars we were promised? But anyway, I was thinking to myself that a fresh new year like this demands a snappy motto. So here's your task: tell me your motto for 2020...but it must be a line from a Wilco song. C'mon, entertain me in this sparkly new year! Let's try to be on the optimistic side, even if the world has so much ugly. We can make it better. Ok, what's your motto for 2020?

Same here. Stop making me blush. This is the greatest gang of people; always has been!

I love all of you, and this band that inspires us so much. Have a beautiful holiday, and may we all see a more peaceful, progressive 2020 (which date still sounds impossibly far in the future! So weird.) Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, or whatever you celebrate. wherever you are. Let's make a better future for ourselves. Let's not. settle.

That'll be a great one. Jealous! Let's hear your reviews!

That one was for you, Vince!

Omigosh I've had a busy and exhausting day, and I check in and you guys are on fire!!! More opinion once I've slept. Wow you are a creative bunch! And may I just add this silly oldie that so many love... Grandma Got Run Over by a Bull Black Nova

These are great! Getting carried away in a manger sounds very rude I think. I mean, get a room! Also I think all "Misunderstood" needs is the word Mistletoe. Doesn't that have the ring of a sad holiday classic? Like Blue Christmas. "Misunderstood Mistletoe" A song about a night that went so wrong and the tiny sprig behind it all

I am sitting here laughing with tears in my eyes. You guys are brilliant! Somebody do something with Misunderstood. I think it would involve mistletoe.

Hello All, We are living at such a clip, in such serious impeachy times, and I was thinking we still need to play. Seriousness calls for Silliness to keep its balance. With that in mind, may I present a new Via Chicago game! I'll call it, WILCOFIED HOLIDAY TUNES Here's how it works. You take a Wilco song title, and using slight wording changes, you convert it into a holiday classic! I'm sure you all remember the warm nostalgia of "Heavy Metal Dreidel", a song about innocence! Or these chestnuts: "Box Full of Glitter" A song about Holiday crafts "Far, Far Away in a Manger" The story of

My dear Lotti, celery also makes a wonderful crudite! But beware its stringiness. A dip will help.

I hope this is being a beautiful day out there for everyone celebrating Thanksgiving! Despite the crazy times we live in, it is still just such a gift to be alive in November, 2019. Hug your family and friends, even the irritating ones. Even they "bring something to the table". Maybe only napkins, but something. And if you haven't yet listened to Arlo Guthrie's Thanksgiving-traditional "Alice's Restaurant"at a goodly volume, well what are you waiting for?!! And after today...leftovers and a long weekend. Cheers!

Oh Lotti, I bid you and Anders and Olsen the spirit of this American holiday! Be grateful and eat and drink excessively, and then relax and unzip the tight pants (but nothing more!) and then, welfare to you!

So I'm trying to cut up some carrot sticks for crudites for Thanksgiving, and I'm being really careful and cutting them up neatly, all the same size. They were very long carrots so I was cutting them in thirds. Our conversation started out pleasantly enough: Me: See, Jeff, I'm peeling these carrots and then... Jeff (at far higher volume than was probably necessary) "...then you cut it in half!" Me: No Jeff, these need to be in thirds. Jeff, loud and insistent: "THEN YOU CUT IT IN HALF!" I just ignored him but honestly he kept carping about it for like 3 minutes! I cut them in thirds. Don

That"s adorable. He's just trying to understand his daughter's fascination with them. I'm sure he'll go on questioning musicians until he finds the right ones.

It's ok. A couple of late-activating bots weighing in. Any new bots have been shut down but we may still have a few old ones activate. At least these were amusing.

You'll have to tell me how these are...I know a bunch of these people, too!

Have fun, Gary!

Yes! That book covers so much ground that I can't see a single movie managing to encompass the entire story. Great book!

This sounds like exactly the sort of biography I love!

Nor did it look like me at any point in my life! I have never had a beard, for instance.

That she is!

Thank you Brennan! And boy o boy do you need to update your avatar picture!

Thanks, we are aware of this. An update is underway, which will resolve this & other glitches.