kidsmoke

Wonderful review. i honestly read it with a big smile the whole way through. Fiona, one of my dreams is to travel to Australia and New Zealand some time. If Wilco turns out to be the catalyst, well, wouldn't that be perfect! I would love an excuse to meet you in person. Next Wilco tour through Australia? Mavis is so fabulous. I'm really glad you got her for the opener!

What an endearing photo that is! Lucky you...and you do look luminous!

You absolutely should, Fiona!!!

Ah, I love the Belly-up! great little club. I probably can't go as I'm saving my funds carefully for SSF#3, but you've made this band sound like a lot of fun. Edit: I just listened to them and wow, they are excellent!

Where, Anthony?

Agreed on The Hub...I would have posted this myself but I was unsure I was remembering the name correctly. Their food was good, and very reasonably priced.

Thanks Plumplechook, if I'm still awake at 3:30 am PST I'll be tuning in!

I hope your day is filled with peaceful, pleasant activities and chocolate bunnies. I heard that if you take two marshmallow peeps and stick toothpicks into them & put them on a plate in the microwave, you can make them "joust". Let me know how it works, somebody. I am peep-deprived.

It's yours. Watch out for the swinging doors. Hey that rhymes. I should offer it to Tweedy. Diane, you're on. Donna Quixote...I like it. now excuse me, I have windmills at which to tilt.

But Diane, I was just putting your name down as committee chairwoman...!

Congratulations! You won't regret it. We will have to stage a VC get-together at some point so people can meet. Maybe Friday?

I don't think polygamy is analogous to a committed relationship between two people, whether those two are gay or straight. Polygamy involves one man having multiple wives, and I find that jarring and ugly because I see it as very sexist and controlling...whether the women claim to be happy or not. I suppose theoretically polygamy could involve a "marriage" between one woman and multiple men, but I've never heard of such an arrangement. I don't think the men would tolerate that scenario because I believe they would feel diminished and subjugated. Why should women tolerate the same? Because male

Nice!

Totally agree, MrRain & Shakespeare. It has always seemed to me that issues like this are mostly hystrionics pumped up to avoid society dealing with the larger, more serious issues...fiddling while Rome burns. For fucks sake, let's leave the gays alone and focus on figuring out our political budget mess, or what we are going to do to rescue our ruined seas or begin to deal with global warming!

As if anyone would choose all the hardship that (currently at least) goes with being gay! I don't believe a person chooses their sexual orientation any more than they choose their eye color. It's so past time everyone stepped back and just let others be who they are.

Adam Ross' short story collection, "Ladies and Gentlemen" is also great. I loved Rock Springs, but man some of those stories are dark.

Please don't even mention "Puppy". omg.

Fritz, I'm crazy about Canadian George Saunders. His latest, "Tenth of December, is excellent, and I'd highly, highly recommend his earlier book, "CivilWarLand in Bad Decline". His stories go directions you don't see coming, and there is much sly humor. He's a wonderful writer.

That was stunning. Thile and the band really get the song. Thank you so much for sharing that! I'll be watching it several more times. Really moving.

Thile is a local boy, from Idyllwild...you probably knew that. I met him once after a show in St. Louis, out back of the venue in a drizzling rain. He was just as he appears, approachable and friendly and a big kid at heart. I loved Nickel Creek but haven't followed him in Punch Brothers. Clearly that needs to change! Sometimes there are just too many good bands to follow them all. A wealth of musical goodness. Keep posting the great videos, Anthony.

That was freaking adorable.

I loved "Skinny Legs" and "Jitterbug Perfume". Still need to read "Still Life With Woodpecker". Thanks for reminding me.

I loved this interview but I have to agree that both the "impotence" and "puppet master" bits were odd. Yes, I think they were after "impetus". And I doubt Mavis is anybody's puppet. That girl has her own mind for sure! More importantly, I'm going to hit Lou Malnati's next time I'm in Chicago. Deep dish, cheese only. You're all welcome to join me.

What a heartbreaker. Rest in peace, Jason. Join up in that amazing band heaven's got.

I love Mark Twain. Also Jane Austin. Both, in very different ways, are wickedly witty observers on the human condition.