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wahh!! thank you for a real good time

blane have you ever been to the Festival Arabe? end of Oct. i'm thinking of going for the club d'elf night but can't figure out too much info about this fest or the show. do they turn place des arts into an arab village type thing? having trouble with their website, so just wondering if you'd been.

happy birthday!

i don't see how he's a hypocrite at all. these are special small shows and his shows usually are less expensive than this. i know i dont' earn more money than the others on this board. perhaps we just choose to spend our money differently. i don't have a car, house, cottage, pet, etc. everyone makes their own choices. if anyone (not referring only to big woolly here) says they can't afford a ticket i'd say what are you spending your money on? well, you're spending it on something else that is more important to you, and that's fine. this is important to me, moreso than a car or whatever, and in that light it doesn't seem like that much money. it's like when people i know tell me i'm so "lucky" because i "get to" travel a lot or this or that. that bugs me because it's not luck, it's a choice. trips don't fall out of the sky. neither do your cars, houses, etc, you see where i'm going with this...everyone gives up some things in order to pursue others. neil is a good man and has done plenty for the world, imo. i have nothing but respect.

happy birthday AD!

good luck out east guys

i sure miss living 2 blocks away from kettlemans. i haven't had a bagel in ages.

i'm with ya on this one, they're yummy. though i haven't had them in ages. old dutch were the best. i used to send bags/boxes down to my american friend that liked them and couldn't buy them too.

drawk/AD, guess i'd better give a serious answer to clear up the confusion the country is myanmar (actually myanma, the r in english denotes a long vowel a) and the language and people are myanmar as well. i have heard that people (foreigners i mean) still refer to it as burma in an effort to show that they do not recognize the current government. but burma was a name given by the british during their rule and is not the real name of the country. the british had their own form of tyranny there for a long time so it doesn't make much sense to me to use that name. myanma is truer to the original name of the country. everyone in the country calls in myanma whether or not they are opposed to the government. no one ever would refer to it as burma there. also...there is barely any internet there as is...which is why until now no one really cared about this situation (which has been ongoing for 40 years!) i was there in 2004 and internet was illegal (though i did find it twice). but normally if you wanted to send email you had to do it through a govt. server and your email would be read by them first.

so cool! i love this one my last nikon had the same problem after getting dropped and when i took it back to nikon they told me they couldn't fix it (well they said they no longer make the parts - which is my biggest pet peeve ever!!! on a product only a few years old - and told me to buy a new camera. grrr.

aaaand....so this is somehow their fault that you missed half the show and were "overcharged"?

very cool

hehe you could live in india for 2 years on the cost of that 3-week trip sounds like a sweet deal for the monkey!

they want to make jay seem available so that all the young chicks in town will sign up like crazy for his tours.

::drool::

do you really need to ask? see: metric system

those pics are great! so funny to see the looks on your faces

has anyone been following this story? it really breaks my heart and i've been thinking about my friends there every day and wondering how they are doing. myanmar is really the most magical place i've ever been. and with kind, peaceful people who have been in this struggle for so, so long. monks hold a unique position in the country to evaluate the political/economic climate since they live off alms, so when they protest, it is a really big deal and garners tremendous popular support. when i was there you are not supposed to fraternize with the locals and i and another friend (who was traveling around with a monk) had some problems with being followed. not that we let that stop us, but we had to be careful so as not to get our myanmar friends in trouble. i really hope that this round of protests will get some notice in the world. today's update: Myanmar troops open fire on protesters, 9 dead YANGON (Reuters) - Troops cleared protesters from the streets of central Yangon on Thursday, giving them 10 minutes to leave or be shot as the Myanmar junta intensified a two-day crackdown on the largest uprising in 20 years. At least nine people were killed, state television said, on a day when far fewer protesters took to the streets after soldiers raided monasteries in the middle of the night and rounded up hundreds of the monks who had been leading them. One of dead was a Japanese photographer, shot when soldiers cleared the area near Sule Pagoda -- a city-centre focus of the protests -- as loudspeakers blared out warnings, ominous reminders of the ruthless crushing of a 1988 uprising. About 200 soldiers marched towards the crowd and riot police clattered their rattan shields with wooden batons. "It's a terrifying noise," one witness said. The army, which killed an estimated 3,000 people in 1988, moved in after 1,000 chanting protesters hurled stones and water bottles at troops, prompting a police charge in which shots were fired and the Japanese went down. Soldiers shot dead three more people in a subsequent protest outside the city's heart as crowds regrouped and taunted troops. Their bodies were tossed in a ditch as troops chased fleeing people, beating anybody they could catch, witnesses said. Another Buddhist monk -- adding to the five reported killed on Wednesday when security forces tried to disperse huge crowds protesting against 45 years of military rule -- was killed during the midnight raids on monasteries, witnesses said. Monks were kicked and beaten as soldiers rounded them up and shoved them onto trucks. Some of the monasteries were emptied of all but the very old and sick, people living nearby said. The raids were likely to anger Myanmar's 56 million people, whose steadily declining living conditions took a turn for the worse last month when the junta imposed swinging fuel price rises, the spark for the initial, small protests. "Doors of the monasteries were broken, things were ransacked and taken away," a witness said. "It's like a living hell seeing the monasteries raided and the monks treated cruelly." After darkness fell and curfew hour loomed, sporadic bursts of automatic rifle fire echoed over the city of five million people. MONKHOOD VERSUS MILITARY Elsewhere in the former Burma, the Hong Kong-based Asian Human Rights Commission said it had received reports of a big demonstration in the northwest coastal town of Sittwe, as well as incidents in Pakokku, Mandalay and Moulmein. Details were sketchy. It was unclear whether the protests in Yangon would regain momentum in the absence of the clergy, whose marches drew large numbers into what has become a head-on collision between the moral authority of the monks and the military machine. The junta, the latest incarnation of a series of military regimes, sent in the troops despite desperate international calls for restraint. It told diplomats summoned to its new jungle capital, Naypyidaw, "the government was committed to showing restraint in its response to the provocations," one of those present said. But international anger mounted sharply, despite the junta's long track record of ignoring the outside world. The generals have managed to live with tough sanctions from the United States and lesser ones from Europe for a decade. Even China, the closest the isolated junta has to a friend, said it was "extremely concerned about the situation in Myanmar." The Foreign Ministry urged all parties to "maintain restraint and appropriately handle the problems that have arisen." The White House demanded an end to the crackdown, and the European Union said it was looking urgently into reinforcing sanctions in response to the crackdown, which has already drawn more sanctions from the United States. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called it a "tragedy" and urged the generals to allow a U.N. envoy to visit and meet detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. "The regime has reacted brutally to people who were simply protesting peacefully," Rice said during the U.N. General Assembly in New York. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he would dispatch special envoy Ibrahim Gambari to Southeast Asia in the hope the generals would let him in. U.N. sources said Gambari was heading to Singapore to try to get a visa. However, in a sign of rifts within the international community at an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting, China ruled out sanctions or an official condemnation of the use of force.

who are his famous parents?

just invite me over and i'll take care of it

or...we could have a fun party up there!! RCG2 row B, seat 95 RCG2, Row C, seat 92

well they are still cheaper. i got gallery tix one night for 150. but floor and balcony tix were 200. secondtube, how is the 5th row in the balcony? LOL that's where i'm sitting. do you only endorse the first 3 rows?

i hear ya DEM. craving japanese food i am. i'm gonna cook up some sake short ribs this week. and of course drink sake

i have one extra maybe two...guigsy lemme know if you need one or what)! the show is on 10/14 $130 per