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I'm a newspaper reporter who has been in the business for 20 years. In the past two or three weeks I've made something like five or six mistakes in stories (we've run corrections for all of them, as per company policy). Every time this happens, we have to fill out a form and turn it in to the...

:scream: I have this huge CD case that holds almost 100 CDs that I keep my favorite CDs in. Sometimes I leave it in the glove department of my car overnight, especially if I have a lot of groceries or whatever to haul up to my apartment (most of my music is stored on my computer anyway, so I...

I was working on an important project today at work with one of my co-workers. I didn't get the exact information my boss wanted from one of my contacts (information he never asked me to get before I called) so while I was out of the office for a bit he sent me an e-mail berating me for it -...

So I was trying to update my iTune software so I could redeem the $15 iTunes card I got for Christmas and when I got to the part where I install the new software I kept getting error messages and had to cancel. Is anyone else having this problem? I shut down my computer and re-started, but I...

I read the first book shortly before the first movie came out and was pretty underwhelmed. I admit, J.K. Rowling is up to some fairly sophisticated stuff for a children's book. I just couldn't work up enough interest to keep reading. I think my biggest problem was that as a character Harry is...

I know I could have put this in Zoo Confessionals, but since it involves politics and some FYM'ers might be in the same boat as me I'm putting it here. I have an aunt who is always forwarding me e-mails. Most of the time it's just harmless, but sometimes it's stuff that aggravates me. She, like...

Judah brought this up in the thread about the 9/11 documentary on CBS, but I thought it deserved its own thread. http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003087654

Does anyone else love this album? Or am I just insane?

I just heard a cover of U2's "When Love Comes to Town" with vocals by Johnny Lang and Joss Stone on my local college radio station just now. My jaw dropped open because I hadn't heard anything about it until that moment. It was quite different from the original, but pretty cool IMHO. When the...

I was watching VH1 Classic tonight and they showed the video for Clannad's "In a Lifetime" which features Bono as a guest vocalist. I was really, really excited because although I've seen it online I hadn't seen it full-size on a TV screen since they showed it on MTV back in the 1980s. (I only...

First of all, this is depressing because it's our 20th reunion and I just can't believe I'm that old! But seriously, I don't want to go. I was a nerd in high school with very, very few friends and most of them weren't even in my class. And the people on the reunion committee are the very same...

Anyone know anything about repairing turntables? Mine isn't working right. It either won't run at all or the sound is way lower and slower than it is supposed to be. I bought it used but it came with the manual. The troubleshooting section told me I needed to adjust the belt so it is on the...

I got home from work just in time to tape this. It was pretty nice, but I think the best thing about it was Bono said they want to play ALL the songs from HTDAAB live - not all of them every night, but rotate them in and out of the setlist during the tour. Which is really good news because I was...

Right at the beginning of tonight's episode, Joan tells her therapist, "Lots of people believe in God who aren't crazy...Isaac Newton, Bono, anyone who wins an award." I love it when U2 gets a shout-out on TV shows I love!

Anybody listening to the all-day U2 marathon on WBWC Radio in Cleveland? They do it every year and this is the first year I've ever been able to listen, thanks to the wonders of broadband Internet. The DJs are genuine U2 geeks and they are digging up all kinds of b-sides, rarities and live...

I just heard the song and saw the video for the first time this morning. I was very impressed - not jaw-dropping-on-the-floor impressed like i was with Purple Rain and Sign o' the Times, but the song was really good. And the video is cute! Has anyone heard the whole album yet? It seems to be...

If I see a person only a couple of times at long intervals apart, I tend to not recognize them when I see them again! :reject: It's so embarrassing. I know people think I'm some kind of horrendous snob because of this. I don't mean to be - it's just that I meet so many people through my job...

Tonight I got home from work in time to see most of "Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night," on my local PBS station. What a great concert! All the great man's back-up musicians (Elvis Costello, Bruce Springsteen, T Bone Burnett, Jackson Browne, Tom Waits, etc.) look thrilled to death...

I had three loads of laundry to do today. I went to the laundry room in my apartment complex, which is in the building across the parking lot from the one I live in so I have to get all bundled up to go over there since it's cold and snowy outside. Anyway, there was only one empty washer. The...

It's so cold outside today that I nearly froze my fingers off even though I was only outside about five minutes and I was wearing gloves! And I have to work tonight, so I have to venture out yet again! Can some of you post pictures of U2 in the desert - or the beach or anywhere else that looks...

I don't mind that much - I plan on watching movies or maybe some music videos/DVDs and drinking eggnog :drool: - but it makes me feel like such a loser!

As I'm sure most of you know, Red Hill Mining Town was originally supposed to be the first single off The Joshua Tree, but Bono couldn't sing it live so With or Without You was chosen as the first single instead. So I was wondering - would the album have been the monster it was sales-wise if Red...

In my dream I went to the store, bought it, took it home and listened to it! :hyper: It was a double album, and the music reminded me of Zooropa.

I didn't do any damage, I was just trying to get the item I paid for to come out - it was just hanging by a thread, I didn't think it would take much. Then I suddenly remembered the security cameras that got installed at work recently. I looked around the break room and sure enough, there was a...

The copy I ordered online from Best Buy finally arrived today! :hyper: I'm listening to the bonus disc right now. I can't get over how most of these songs are tunes that didn't make the cut to be included on Bruce's studio albums, but they are so amazing!