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  1. I got the vinyl from Kung Fu as well as the white vinyl album from Bull Moose, and both of those contained a download card, so I think it's all the vinyl.
  2. I haven't even had time to listen yet, but the download lists the material as "Star Wars - Live at the Pitchfork Music Festival". Edit: The Pitchfork material is the entire show..the Star Wars songs and beyond! Can't wait to have time to re-listen to this!
  3. The exclusive live tracks are from the Pitchfork Festival.
  4. Every city's food pantry could use generous souls like Jeff and Dawes!
  5. Jeff Knurek, who draws the Jumbles, is a huge Wilco fan and often draws his characters wearing Wilco tee shirts or small references like that. A little shout out to his favorite band.
  6. That's so intense, but so well written. Read "Finding Iris Chang" as a follow-up, if time allows. She was so driven, so interesting.
  7. History buffs take note of this brilliant new book from James Bradley. Bradley is the author of "Flags of our Fathers" and the son of John Bradley, one of the men who raised the American flag on Iwo Jima. "Mirage" is capably written and deeply researched, and details how the American view of China created the history of the past several decades, reaching back to Teddy Roosevelt's administration and beyond. It deftly shows how our misperceptions and yearning to believe in a China that aspired to be both Westernized and Christianized (an American mirage) created policies which led to repeated f
  8. Nice! Thanks for posting this! I wonder what color vinyl it'll turn out to be?
  9. I'm currently reading Sacks' autobiography, "On the Move", and he speaks frequently about the experiences that led to that book and others. It's fascinating to know what was going on behind the scenes as he compiled his material and worked to create something publishable. He fleshes out several of the accounts that made up that book. What a fascinating life he had! I'm glad to hear that you've apparently outgrown your migraines. Miserable things.
  10. I've just finished this: Her writing is so gorgeous and her stories so compassionately human. Highly recommended, along with another of hers, "The Weight of Heaven". Very moving!
  11. New sticks that he hasn't been able to break! That's saying a lot, for Glenn. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8etgrCFrNc
  12. How could I have forgotten "An Anthropologist on Mars"?!! That's an amazing book, and "The Last Hippie" is one of my favorite stories from it!
  13. Even knowing it was coming hardly blunts the loss today of this brilliant and compassionate soul. For any of you who have never read any of the famed neurologist's writings, I recommend either "The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat" (read it & that title will make sense) or his best known work, "Awakenings". Both books had me so enraptured that I carried them around with me for the time it took me to read them, taking bathroom breaks as needed to escape the kids and read just a bit more of his fascinating writing. Sacks had been diagnosed with a cancer of the eye, which had resulted in
  14. Yes, in November 2004. She was suffering from depression, which may have been related to the horrors she had researched for "Nanking" and the book she was currently writing on the Bataan Death March. "Finding Iris Chang" has been an interesting psychological profile of a fascinating woman, so far. I'm about halfway through the book. It's written by her friend Paula Kamen. Reading the two books back to back has really given her story extra depth.
  15. Don't miss that innocence too much, Jeff. Just keep getting better & better as you go, like you've been doing! Have a wonderful day!
  16. Be warned, though, as well as the story is told (and it is!) it is nonetheless a horrifying story. But well worth the read, a fascinating piece of history.
  17. I've just finished this horrific,powerful, brilliant book: And am now following it with a poignant look at its author's life, written by a close friend of hers, after Iris Chang's suicide in 2004. What a short, profound life, and what a loss.
  18. No worries, I'll be on that list momentarily, I'm sure.
  19. Brian, I'm so, so sorry for your loss. Peace to you and your family.
  20. Some up-and-coming little band called Wilco...outside under those California stars!
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