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trump is such a dick that I don't even capitalize his name anymore. Enjoy those shirts!

Don't tell, but my boys are each getting one too! Every time I wear mine, I have people asking me where they can get one, so I encouraged the shirt's creator (Henry Owings) to make more since his stock had run out. He was having distribution problems and didn't have time to handle it all himself, but he contacted me when he found a new distributor, and I'm happy to spread the word. PS - trump is a dick.

Some of you really need to read the directions! Others of you, WOW, clever choices! Really makes you want to go back and mine the lyrics, doesn't it? Vince, I was sure you would want a bull black Nova! All I want for Christmas is a punch in the nose.

Finish with a Wilco lyric! Example: All I want for Christmas is a miracle every once in a while. What should Santa bring you? I know what Vince is going to ask for. Let's see some Wilcoesque creativity here! Bonus points if you make me laugh.

I guess I'm going to have to find out. Grrrrrrrr.

Scott would love to get a card from any of you who care to send one! Use this address: Scott McCaughey P.O. Box 11500 Portland, OR 97211

Hey All, I thought you would be gratified to know that Scott and his wife Mary are back home in Portland, OR now, and he is continuing his therapies there. He is doing well!

I've been meaning to give a shout-out to Henry Owings and Chunklet, where you can find this wonderful anti-trump tee. It's the one that a whole bunch of us wore at Solid Sound, after admiring one Jeff Tweedy was wearing. Our SSF design, with yellow font, is no longer available, but otherwise the shirts are identical. They would make a very nice Christmas gift, and come in handy for those January marches! I always get admiring comments when I wear mine. Go here:https://www.threadless.com/discover/s/chunklet

My thoughts in exhausted-poet form. My husband had a major surgery this week to correct a large esophageal diverticula...they go in between the ribs and under a lung! I'll spare you further details, but he is finally home and recovering, and I am exhausted, which apparently prods my brain to converse in bad poetry. So I give you last night's doggerel: If in some weird apocalypse You had to choose one single bliss Which Wilco song would you take home, And all the others gone? So ok, imagine with me. Easier to do than it should be, in these trumpian times! Suppose our world devolved to the p

As does the Professor from Stockholm, if I remember right. Welfare, Lotti! You are better at putting it into words than I am!

God but that is beautifully elucidated, Diane. You said all the things I couldn't quite put into words...not this exhausting week, anyway. So many frustrations about Franken.

I love that his voice conveys emotion so well...rough at times, smug at others, sassy in the attitudinal spots, and cracking at just the right moments.

He's got a really great voice. (Discuss.)

It is as expected. The ICU for the first couple of days, then a regular room. They will try to get him up and moving either this evening or at latest, tomorrow...they don't want there to be any chance of developing blood clots.

YAY! More time for sign-making! Today I am bleary from lack of sleep. Took my husband in this morning at 5:30 am to get him prepped for a fairly intensive surgery on a diverticula of the esophagus. I'll spare you the gnarly details but he will be on very soft or liquid food for awhile. I'm on my way right now to go see him in ICU.

This post was intended to happen around Thanksgiving, because I am so very grateful to call Scott McCaughey my friend. But Thanksgiving was just too busy and I couldn't find the window of time I needed. So now, settle back in your chairs and let me tell you a story about one of the sweetest, most generous guys on God's green earth! I have been a fan of Scott's for a long time. I fell very hard when I first knew of him, and harder still when I got to see him live. In short order, I became a rabid fan, and a friendship developed over the course of several silly emails and jaw-droppingly amazing

I hope you had a good day at least. Don't worry, we'll get trump out of office and everything will improve. Good blessings to count! You silly Canadians! (PS - Happy late Canadian Thanksgiving!) Sounds like you got a great new oven! I assume you must have cooked it unstuffed to get it done that fast! I do the thing where you run your hand under the skin over the breast, separating the skin from the meat below, and then you pack a layer of stuffing inbetween the skin and the breast. I usually do it about an inch thick. This way, without the bird stuffed, it cooks much quicker (7-9

With much love to all of you here. I am so grateful for our community! I hope each of you can look around and realize how much good you are surrounded by, even in this rough-and-tumble current state of politics. We'll get through, and we'll be stronger for it. Maybe that's the gift of 2017. Tell me what you are grateful for! But I get to say it first: WILCO, of course. Now it's your turn. What is in your life that still makes it all worthwhile?

Robyn Hitchcock too. I'm sure it's the real them. That's Spencer's fb avatar. $93K now! Scott being the nicest guy around is sure obvious right now. He is so very loved.

From Mary Winzig, Scott's wife. A way to show your love and help with Scott's recovery! https://www.gofundme.com/c3npfr-scott-mccaughey-medical-fund Let's help to defray the therapy costs as Scott's recovery begins. Our chance to show a really terrific guy that we can be really terrific too! I don't know about the rest of you but I can't wait to hear the songs he'll have about this experience! Love you, Scott!

I felt the same! So good to hear of him chuckling at the photos!

Ok, too funny....these are my pictures! Scott has them too. He had such a blast doing that sidewalk busking! Do you remember when San Diego's finest pulled up in their squad car and just stopped in the middle of the street and watched?!! I think they were scratching their heads at this bizarre mob scene! Eventually they just drove off. Peter, did I ever share the recording of that 4th and B show? It took forever to emerge...like, years....but it is pretty good! I think I only have Wilco's portion, not the Minus 5's. Remember when Jeff snuck out while Scott was playing and strummed a loud cho

Patience has never been a Wilco fan's strong suit.

Yeah youse louts, make up your OWN band! Not that these suggestions haven't been positively inspired! Haha, Side Burns! Carpet Burns! (the roadie?) Montgomery Burns. You guys are a card. Hell, you guys are an entire deck. The Offs, what a great band name! Don't forget Jack.

...to create onea those big hoohah concept bands! Taking the Ramones as your inspiration, you decide that your band will have only the most brilliant musicians, but in order to tie things together, these musicians will have a shared last name! Let's see now....I've got it, I'll call my band The Burns! Now, what would make it even more attention-grabbing would be if they had "themed" first names too! Hmmm. Ok, I've got it! Lead singer: Acid Burns Bass Player : Controlled. Controlled Burns Drummer....well, we want somebody wild and dramatic, a musical monster, so let's just call him "I