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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.

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!

Love that reply.

Yeah, i liked that answer too.

New sticks that he hasn't been able to break! That's saying a lot, for Glenn. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8etgrCFrNc

This should be fun!

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!

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

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No worries, I'll be on that list momentarily, I'm sure.

Brian, I'm so, so sorry for your loss. Peace to you and your family.

Some up-and-coming little band called Wilco...outside under those California stars!

Aw, that's a damned shame, rwrkb! Next time for sure.

I can't help you with crash space because I'm traveling up too, but see you there! You might consider looking into the hostel beds at McMenamins Edgefield...they are very inexpensive and then you are right at the venue. They have to be reserved so you should call quick if you want to try that. Good luck!

Well, it's official now...the part that washed up on Reunion Island is definitely part of MH370. I hope somehow the families of the deceased can find some closure in at last knowing for certain.

Merged it for you so that mistaken title is also gone.

It's nice to see you again! And yeah, what an album they've sprung on us lucky fans! I get to see them the day after tomorrow, and I'm psyched!

Huge thanks to Curtis Nichols for capturing the moment of launch of our "Merry Pranksters" beach ball appreciation of 20 years of Wilco! At the end of the 4th song of Saturday night's set, we simultaneously launched 20 beach balls over the Solid Sound audience, first to Jeff's confusion and then to his delighted grin, as the band segued into a stellar "Art of Almost". What fun that was! Thanks to all the Merry Pranksters involved, and I hope some audience members (especially the kids!) got to carry home a beach ball inscribed "Celebrating 20 Years of Wilco!" as a unique and unexpected souvenir

It was terrific to meet you too, dag! And those cookies Beth brought were da bomb.

Same here...it was great to read and remember and compare. Everyone's SSF experience winds up different than everyone else's, but invariably it's a wonderful time. See you all in 2017!

Looks as if the uploader deliberately uploaded at wrong speeds. This comment is attached to RNG: "Slowed down to avoid copyright, just put it at 1.25x and it'll be alright. Great fucking song" I'm loving following Glenn's drumbeat in the slowed-down RHG. If I were a musician I imagine this would be really helpful in learning to play the song.