FairySari

I dunno, I'm kinda happy for Franz. I'm sure the Hold Steady will be fine without him.

Besides, now that he's announced this, they can start announcing some tour dates. April 14th in Pittsburgh has been announced sort of, so there's bound to be a tour...

Joel Plaskett

www.canadabenefits.gc.ca

searching for 'film' gives a few results.

Once again, I'm disappointed in Toronto from an audience perspective; really tame and unenthusiastic.

I have to completely disagree with this. I have never seen a Toronto crowd more into a show than the Saturday night show. Maybe only up in the front half of the sunken area, but it was violent in there, I think I have bruises from all the failed attempts at bodysurfing around me.

I had an awesome time, I love how much fun the band is always having on stage. I think I liked Sunday better, better crowd and a few songs I was hoping to hear after not hearing them Saturday (Joke about Jamaica, One for the Cutters).

Found the setlists:

Sat. night:

Positive Jam

Magazines

Barfruit Blues

Hurricane J

Sequestered

Multitude

Stevie Nix

Hot Soft Light

Heaven Is Whenever

Chips Ahoy!

Yeah Sapphire

Massive Nights

Party Pit

Slight Discomfort

Southtown

Hoodrat

Goin' On A Hike

Slapped Actress

ENCORE:

Certain Songs

Constructive

Stations

Killer Parties

Sun Night:

Hornets

The Swish

Navy Sheets

Bangin

Our Whole Lives

Magazines

Sequestered

The Cutters

Constructive

Heaven Is Whenever

You Can Make Him Like You

Stations

Chips

Jamaica

Charlemagne

Hurricane J

Explode

Stay Positive

Sweet Payne

ENCORE:

new song (Gideon's Conversion?)

Hoodrat

DJ's

Resurrection

you c'mere a minute!

and i can't take all the credit, craig helped bedazzle the sunglasses

it was very fine

wtf? already sold out at 9:58?

We had Icons in elementary school. (like '91 ish?)

We played mathville and IPaint and Northwest Fur traders. Just don't put paint in the potluck stew!

The dudes playing drums were roadies, not fans. Tweedy has an interesting sense of humour. He also said Glenn fell down a well . And one of them got to play heavy metal drummer, I nearly wet myself! I was there both nights and I think Wilco was better last night. Ummm from memory they played (probably in the totally wrong order)

Hesistating Beauty

War on war

Jesus etc

Passenger Side

Hummingbird

California Stars

Handshake Drugs

Impossible Germany

I got you

Outtamind

Heavy metal Drummer

I Shall be Released

thomson, you were probably just in front of the guys in front of me. They stood totally still the whole time.

I'm so jealous, I would love to have pet sheep! Yay for pets that you can make sweaters out of!

found the necklace. thanks for having us all!

Is it time for more puppy pictures yet?

some suggestions...

bruiser, butch, hector (like the looney tunes bulldog)

I really like Banjo.

And wow is that ever a cute puppy

I wanna be a fibre farmer!

I want a farm full of sheep and alpacas and angora bunnies, so I can spin all their fur and fleece into yarn, then knit it into nice warm sweaters and socks and mittens.

Rock 'n' Tees on King St in Hamilton probably has them.

...

I'm not in Ottawa, but I knit...

check out ravelry.com for tons of knitting inspiration

If you go to Express, chances are they will send you to work at Protocol, the call centre where everyone seems to hate their job. But if you go directly to Protocol, maybe they'll hire you directly, so you can avoid the placement agency.

happy birthday!

I think the best biography I ever read was Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

I read it when I was 11, I think. My mom read it first, then gave it to me. There's some stuff about sexual abuse (from the victims point of view), but there's no glorifying sex and drugs.

I don't know that a 13 year old boy would really want to read it, though. I have a feeling at that age a girl would appreciate it more.

Kevin Smith has a new biography out, I've only flipped through it, but its basically a day to day account of his life over the past few years. Seems like it might appeal to a 13 year old boy.

happy birthday

I took the Handmade Pledge this year. Lots of knitting, and a little shopping on Etsy.

You can never have too many handknitted scarves! And even if you do, you still have to appreciate the time and effort put into creating the gift.

Happy Birthday!

we should take all the garbage on the planet and compress as small as possible, load it onto the space shuttle and send it hurtling off into oblivion.

it'd make more sense than experiments to see how ants behave in zero gravity. although i suppose the experiment could be lablled "How garbage, rats and other gross shit is affected by zero gravity".

You mean like this?

It'll just come crashing back in the year 3000....