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Did you thank God when you won, or did you forget all about the prayer?

That's a good point. There's the "thank you" variety and the "fix this for me" variety. However, it seems to me (from experience) that people are more inclined to pray, or to ask for prayers on their opr their loved one/friend/etc.'s behalf, when things get kind of rotten, so I think the "fix this for me" variety is significantly more common.

That's kind of preachy and obnoxious. See you in another thread.

Ok, so... Most prayers I've heard, participated in, or have been asked to participate in. Are you trying to tell me that most of the world's prayers AREN'T of the "please fix this problem" variety? No way of knowing, right? And yet, here I am pretending I know.

Most prayers ask for the solution to a problem, which is a pretty concrete change. Most of the times I am asked to pray for something, or I hear or read of a call to prayer on behalf of something or someone (which happens almost every day), it is because some kid got cancer, or someone is in the hospital after a car crash (all God's doing, of course). I went to catholic school and hearsd lots of prayers. I don't recall any prayers that acknowledged that perhaps God really did want that kid to die of cancer.

If this is true, then virtually every prayer is an attempt to get God to see the error of his ways and change course. How far in advance has God foreordained things? For all eternity? In that case, what is the point of God still existing?

The backstory of the band would suggest that the spotlight will remain on She.

Hyundai gave me that one. Not even a watered dowmn version...word for word.

I've had good and bad experiences. We just bought a Subaru Forester last month (from a Subaru/Cadillac dealership...which seems like an odd pairing) and were pleased with the experience. We got what I feel is a fair trade-in value for our ten year old Hyundai. No sales pressure, or perhaps they were just extremely slick about it, but we left happy. The only sort of unpleasant part was when we signed the papers, the business guy did a little bit of hard-selling for their various add-on coverages/warantees. Prior to that we bought a Scion XB. No pressure, no haggling. In and out. Supe

Feds raid Gibson Factory. Gibson is allegedly using illegal wood. http://consumerist.com/2009/11/feds-raid-gibson-guitars.html

The camera work on that was great, too. Very period appropriate.

Jimmy Fallon is terrible at a lot of things, but that was spot on.

You must not spend much time on music forums.

Carla Kihlstedt...probably the best musician I've ever seen. Mary Halvorson

The new Paste Magazine sampler. God damn is there some horrible music being made these days. Of course, I knew going in I would only like one or two songs, as is par for Paste samplers. Most of this garbage makes that awful Status Quo record I listened to yestedday sound like a masterpiece.

I should have added: Kim Deal Tonya Donnely/Kristin Hersh

Aretha (duh) Mary Timony Janis Joplin Grace Slick

That looks pretty great. It's now on my wish list.

I'll go along with that.

That was just a guess. I don't think I've ever heard an Elliott Smith song all the way through. The snippets I've heard went in one ear and out the other. To be fair, that was also the case for some things I ended up really liking.

I've never heard any of that.

Because he's dead.