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"Collage can wait, Spence!"

Well if the Cuyahoga River can burn, why not the ocean?

When you're a kid, you tend to have some seriously imperfect ideas about how the world works. My (now grown) daughter and I were talking about this the other night and we had ourselves laughing until we were in tears about some of the things we, and others, had believed about the world when we were growing up. Sometimes it was due to white lies grownups had told us, or a misheard phrase on the news, or a simple "logical" leap we had made all within our own heads. For example: When I was somewhere around age 7, my family traveled to MN and WI to visit relatives who happened to be farming fami

I feel for you, but your friend needs you. See you at SSF 5 though!

There you are! So good to see your avatar! Pm to follow.

Depends how brave you're feeling, Sandy. At least the North Adams P.D. are on your side.

Here's some Solid Advice for all of you attending Solid Sound for the first time. Some of us have had to learn this the hard way, but I'm not naming names. http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/05/12/north-adams-police-don-drunkenly-chase-bears/EGPY1Kd3i8NmdqiXjJ4klI/story.html?hootPostID=b59724e4e0d2558ec8b1f8ee55af75e0

...to all you Wilco-loving mothers and your lucky children! Hope you are all having a beautiful day with the ones you love!

Have a grand adventure, Mariana!

I'm trying to get in touch with VC'er oceanman. Have any of you heard from him recently?

I'm trying to get in touch with VC'er oceanman. Have any of you heard from him recently?

Great Replacements photos, Tim!

Yes! See you there, Judy!

http://www.clickhole.com/video/what-do-these-college-seniors-wish-theyd-known-fre-2341 A bit of satire is nice on a Thursday. And if you happen to be a college freshman, there's some great advice to be had here.

^ that's such a great read!

Diane, take a look here: http://www.mcmenamins.com/Edgefield

Hahaha, those are great!

I am Trying to Break Your Arm Kicking Spiders and this one makes me think of Spinal Tap: Ashes of Drummer

Pick up the Seeds.

It's been awhile since we've played any Wilco-themed games around here, so allow me to start one that I think you'll have fun with. Something my daughter likes to do when she's bored or forced to wait somewhere is to graft songs together in her head, where they have common lyrics. So she'll mentally switch from one song to the next and the next, seeing how long she can keep a chain going. Try it; it's harder than it sounds! Hard to switch tunes midstream. Anyway, this game was suggested by that one, but it's simpler. All you do is take two Wilco or Tweedy song titles and graft them together

It's clearly no longer 2014, so it seemed a good time to retire this thread and start a new one. You'll find it here: http://viachicago.org/topic/50759-now-reading-in-2015/ I'm up for some fresh recommendations!

I've just noticed that our "Now Reading" thread is more than a little outdated...http://viachicago.org/topic/49623-now-reading-in-2014/ so I thought I'd start us off with a fresh new thread for this fresh bright Spring! I've been gone for at least the past week or so, at least mentally, my brain swimming in vivid images of wartime Europe cast up by these two brilliant, spellbinding books: and I can't recommend them highly enough. Both are stories that will play out in my head for a lifetime, beautifully told, original, utterly captivating. Both are lock-yourself-in-the-bathroom-so-th

Oh, that's too funny....a group of us just recently had the very same idea! The dates would seem to work, too. Nothing scheduled at Edgefield right then. I had the pleasure of lunching at beautiful Edgefield just after Tweedy's Portland show last month. What a setting!

Babies have a way of selecting their own birthdays!