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    @dont tell me this town ain't got no heart.....
    A little Nick Lowe and Rockpile.....love those guys.... We're in the heart of the city, where the alligator roams I'm a little lost lamb, ain't got no place to go I ain't got one penny, just got a shirt on my back I left home in a hurry, I ain't never goin' back I'm lookin' for a lover in the heart of the city Well I'm a standin' on the street and I'm a steppin' off the end Yeah I'm lookin' for a lover, lookin' lookin' everywhere Maybe I'm in with a chance, I hear a clickety clack There's a girl my Lord, I see her stop, check, turn and double back I'm lookin' for a lover in the heart of the city I'm lookin', I'm lookin', I'm lookin', I'm lookin' I'm lookin', lookin', lookin', lookin' everywhere In the heart of the city We're in the heart of the city, we're in the heart of the stars I hear the crash of music and a thousand guitars And the boys are on the prowl and they're checkin' on me They know a bird up in the hand, is worth two out on the streets Checkin' on neat in the heart of the city Heart, heart of the city Heart, heart oh yeah Heart, heart of the city Heart, heart oh yeah
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    Took the bus downtown this Morning. 10 minutes to downtown. I love my city. Even the homeless sleeping in the park or those waiting to get free breakfast from the Salvation Army. I was born here. My soul grew here. Big city, big problems but it's home. I know it like the back of my hand. These streets have memories, of harder times and slower days. When horses were pulling wagons down the cobblestone streets. The Dred Scott decision was handed down right across from where I sit.
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    It's ok I will spin one for you.... 5 a.m. on Tuesday, why am I up so early? Drive out to Santa Ana 'cause I've got jury duty No breakfast, short tempered And I cut my head shaving Ten miles out, I hit traffic Some days just aren't worth saving You know I haven't had the best of days But I want to stop and thank you anyway At the courthouse I waited And waited then I waited At lunchtime my car stalled out I couldn't get it started Had a book by C.S. lewis I finished the last page and Slept on my desk for three hours Just like my high school days 'Cuz every single moment Whether sleeping or awake is your creation And what you've made is good I don't always thank you for the rough days And the hard times in my life Even though I should Got home and decided I'd be in a bad mood My shy and quiet wife said she didn't like my attitude Got a call from my mother Forgot my sister's birthday I'm a lousy older brother safe to say I've had a bad day
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    As soon as the panel was called, the case was setled. Now I'm drinking my lunch at TGI Fridays in the shadow of the Arch. I never get to have a coctail at lunch. Hopefully I get called up cause the book I'm reading sucks...should known it was a rape story, its got my blood pumpin. Good to see other jurors at the bar... Cheers! ;-) My song now is Tennesee by Arrested Development. Takes too much battery to post lyrics.
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    @Shadow of a Doubt....
    Coffee is on...... Remember and weigh the testimony..... Well he was cold, tired, and hungry Came a beggin' for bread The lady took him in and fed him breakfast in bed It wasn't me No no baby it wasn't me Ah, that must have been some other body, No, no child it wasn't me Well, there's a cool, young whipper snapper Loves to run and play But the draft board got him they inducted him today It wasn't me No no baby it wasn't me Yeah, you must've met some other body, No, no child it wasn't me Callin' out for volunteers on the front row Lieutenant said which one of ya'll will volunteer to go It wasn't me Woo, it wasn't me Yeah that must've been some other body, No, no child it wasn't me Wailin' down the freeway adjust the cruisin' power The state trooper clocked me at ninety miles an hour It wasn't me No no sheriff it wasn't me Well you must have met some other body, No, no it wasn't me Well you say you saw my car parked By the drive-in one night Came over to speak to me but I was outta sight It wasn't me No no baby it wasn't me That must've been some other body, No, no child it wasn't me I met a German girl in England Who was goin' to school in France Said we danced the Mississippi at an Alpha Cappa dance It wasn't me Woo, it wasn't me Yeah, you must've met some other body, No, no child it wasn't me Good luck.....
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    I'm juror # 21. Chosen in 1st panel. At least this process is moving fast today. This is the 3rd time I've been in Jury duty. It is interesting to say the least. I need more coffee though...
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    Morning and you are indeed welcome...carrier pigeon stopped in the park for a spell.... Serve and protect.... Well good morning Judge, how are you today I'm in trouble, please put me away A pretty thing took a shine to me I couldn't stop her so I let it be I couldn't stop her so I let it be I couldn't stop her so I let it be I couldn't stop her so I let it be He didn't do it, he wasn't there He didn't want it, he wouldn't dare Well good morning Judge, yes I'm back again I'm in trouble, so it's back to the pen I found a car but I couldn't pay I fell in love and I drove it away I fell in love and I drove it away I fell in love and I drove it away I fell in love and I drove it away He didn't do it, he wasn't there He didn't want it, he wouldn't dare I didn't do it, I wasn't there I didn't want it, I wouldn't dare Alcatraz is like a home sweet home I'm so wanted and I'm never alone San Quentin is the place to be I'm so happy I don't wanna be free So happy I don't wanna be free So happy I don't wanna be free So happy I don't wanna be free
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    Hey now Daydreamers it is a beautiful morning here in Saint Louis. I'm sitting here in the Jury pool looking out the window at the Gateway Arch. What a great weekend it was indeed! Thanks to rrrgrrr and a carrier pigeon who is headed back to da Buff for my package. Matt and I were so excited to get "show tapes" in the mail! Now we'll see if I get chosen to help decide someone's fate... Good morning, Worm your honor. The crown will plainly show  The prisoner who now stands before you Was caught red-handed showing feelings Showing feelings of an almost human nature;  This will not do. Call the schoolmaster! I always said he'd come to no good In the end your honor. If they'd let me have my way I could Have flayed him into shape. But my hands were tied, The bleeding hearts and artists Let him get away with murder. Let me hammer him today? Crazy,  Toys in the attic I am crazy,  Truly gone fishing. They must have taken my marbles away. Crazy, toys in the attic he is crazy. You little shit you're in it now, I hope they throw away the key. You should have talked to me more often  Than you did, but no! You had to go Your own way, have you broken any  Homes up lately? Just five minutes, Worm your honor,  Him and Me, alone. Baaaaaaaaaabe! Come to mother baby, let me hold you  In my arms. M'lud I never wanted him to Get in any trouble. Why'd he ever have to leave me? Worm, your honor, let me take him home. Crazy,  Over the rainbow, I am crazy, Bars in the window. There must have been a door there in the wall When I came in. Crazy, over the rainbow, he is crazy. The evidence before the court is Incontrovertible, there's no need for The jury to retire. In all my years of judging I have never heard before  Of someone more deserving Of the full penalty of law. The way you made them suffer, Your exquisite wife and mother, Fills me with the urge to defecate! "Hey Judge! Shit on him!" Since, my friend, you have revealed your  Deepest fear, I sentence you to be exposed before  Your peers. Tear down the wall!    
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    @another great weekend over.....
    a peaceful easy feeling here in da Buff...... I'll light the fire, you place the flowers in the vase that you bought today. Staring at the fire for hours and hours while I listen to you Play your love songs all night long for me, only for me. Come to me now and rest your head for just five minutes, everything is good. Such a cozy room, the windows are illuminated by the Sunshine through them, fiery gems for you, only for you. Our house is a very, very fine house with two cats in the yard, life used to be so hard, Now everything is easy cause of you and our la, la, la: Our house is a very, very fine house with two cats in the yard, life used to be so hard, Now everything is easy cause of you and our I'll light the fire, you place the flowers in the vase that you bought today. Coffee is on.....Happy Monday...
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    These posts of yours are better than calling a 900 number....enjoy dinner... Mirrors on the ceiling, The pink champagne on ice And she said "We are all just prisoners here, of our own device" And in the master's chambers, They gathered for the feast They stab it with their steely knives, But they just can't kill the beast I'm hungry.....
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Preach it girl... My better half is along for the ride.....and that's it..... As are Id say 80% or so just of our merry band of 35 or so Give or take a spascarella.... If he ever shows up for his welcome package........ Hey Steve? Where's you at brah? Seriously Geeky if only true heads had tix.....there would be 40% more miracles..... I like math.... but I miss Jerry!
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Hey maybe we can do something nice for those widowed by the Dead? Even a pretty card with some tie dye wonderment and a little thank you special one sentiment... I think tie dye would look very cool on a vellum...for you guys that's a paper!
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I second that emotion, spouses, friends, soul mates who love US more than we love ourselves....!!!!!! We need an artist and ideas..... Volunteers????? On behalf of the congregation....Yay we say!!!!!! Klang I'm voting yes for you, mmmm ok? Tony we need boxes and columns and a subcommittee.... Somebody take the wheel....I gotta go opine a minute.....
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OMG folks....my guess is virtually all of our beloved and patient spouses are on that same bus. It was last week I think when Klang had a great idea that we should create a t-shirt for them. I ran it by my wife and she came up with this: "MY MARRIAGE SURVIVED THE FTW-GD 50th !!"
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Have totes make them a flag that says I'm with Buzz..... We need rails shined, we need digital countdowns, we need pontification, we need Canadian bacon, we need Florida Sunshine, Cuban spice, Texas hospitality, California Fun, Horses, Chicago BBQ, #88,Rochester soul, Buffalo snow, that grass growing in Saundra's state....and whatever else it takes to make this happen....we need drums and space and Bieber....And we need Stella! Klanger, I'm your proxy here.... Unanimous..... Hey I still miss Jerry here, focus please..... Don't leave me hanging..... Can I get an agnostic. "I know"?
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Sorry, responded to your nice emails. Ready for the welcome package and ordered my t-shirt already. My girlfriend will not be coming. Tried to convert her but she's not interested. Played her all of the Dead's country tunes but to no avail. Oh well. Steve
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On behalf of Munchkinland I speak for Mayor Klangstone as well... SO GLAD YOU MADE IT....... Coffee is on, shuggah in the house.... Roll on up to the bar, and smoke em if ya got em.... This is a free form forum for the most part.....kinda performance art with soul... We are all one in Jerry and all you need to say to us to complete initiation is.... Confess you are a deadhead and you miss Jerry... Fate will decide the rest.....
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Steve welcome. my wife is along for 1 show. kids along for the rest. big debate whether wife should attend 4th of July...we "feel" this will be the rocking-est; or the Sunday shows, which "could" be more emotional. So far, she picked Saturday, anticipating US Blues and Jack Straw. Oldest son's job on Sunday is too keep me from completely melting down at the last song. Good luck with that, son. grrrr...what happened to your buh-wheat post?
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Not sure how I feel about Mondays. "I like it, but it doesn't like me" or something similar to that Jimmy Stuart said in the best Philadelphia Story. Want to drop out but also want to patch those sails... I once heard that political correctness was invented by the right. Without making a judgement call on directional leanings, the nature of each make political correctness a farce and parody of itself. Nothing wrong with consciousness, inclusion, awareness, tolerance, and respect though. I'm all about that. I have ten fingers and ten toes and I miss/ed Jerry. My sister is not coming to Chicago but she's along for the ride in Santa Clara. I ask if she wants to come just Saturday or Sunday and - bless her heart - she says "I want to go Saturday. That way if I want to go Sunday too I can." She's got a spark of faith she do. Know telling how far she'll go down the road ;) "And nobody knows it like you do babe, nobody knows it like you do Nobody knows it like you do babe, the lengths we will go to" - Shovels and Rope Everyone get enough coffee? I'm tempted to make another pot.
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Most likely you go your way and I'll go mine.... Love 75 Rolling Thunder Dylan.... Have one more cup of coffee...for the road.... heavy cream n sugar is flowing like wine.... ....dogs begin to bark now...HOUNDS begin to howl....watch out stray cat people....little red roosters on the prowl ..... just cuz I could.... and we know, all of our respective digits know....
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Okay I am slow on the uptake but as I was reading about your wife's t-shirt idea - grate idea BTW -it finally hit me that when my husband is saying WTF?!?!? He is just spelling FTW backwards right? He is actually, subconsciously, calling on all Freudians here, expressing his joy about the shows! Am I right?
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Sigmund at your service... 4 years of psychoanalytic training....... Zo you dreamed of a tunnel unt a banana? Shirts are good.... Or thank you cards.... Gift baskets... Party favors..... Little baskets with seashells and sea horses..... Gotta do something... How about we just tell our significant others we love them and appreciate their co dependence of our addiction....I will..........just sayin' Or have Klangman preside over divorce court at the fountain.... Your mileage may vary..... Follow your arrow wherever you go.....
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But what a hoot to read :-) Mama Bear's making home made Za for dinner tonight - yeah baby !!!!!
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And make lots of noise n kiss lots of boys or kiss lots of girls if that's something you're in to.....if the straight n narrow gets a little to straight... Roll up a ..... I would! And follow your arrow wherever you go.. White chili here..... goo goo g' joob yo!
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Baltimore is in chaos.... Prayers for you guys.... to quote the Tragically Hip.... New Orleans is sinking and I don't want to swim..... All we are saying is.... Give peace a chance....
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Roger that, rrrrrgrrrrr. Bal'more on fire - literally. Ugly, ugly scene... O's cancelled their home game too. Trust our peeps are home and safe. STAY HOME !!!
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"If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously." Jerry Garcia
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Cuz the vandals took the handles. When will we learn this never works. Just sucks and riding out the rage. This town had a chance for a few days to make a statement that would have been heard. There was a lot of sympathetic ears to the story of a young man dying in police custody with a broken back. Even the proper folk round here looked beyond a criminal record to see things went too far. All that gone. Pleased to meet you. Hope you guess my name
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..how early the first pick-ups are on this bus route.I recall hearing bold talk about a 4:30 am shift.
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Bro, I hear you... From Ferguson to Baltimore, protesting is one's 1st amendment right; but looting and destruction of property are crimes. Extremely sad societal statement. Don't blame your great city - the issue is much, much larger.
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Better than Monday.... Coffee on.... Ready to face today's challenges.... Hi ho, hi ho.....back to the mines I go..... @baltimore..... ....I pity the fool who doesn't let there be peace in the valley...... Mr. T don't dance with Mr. D......
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Tie down the deck, a huge storm is coming my way off the Gulf of Mexico. Sorry California, keep patching those sails, and if it's clear, leave it there! 61 days to SC. 67 days to CHI. Watch those skies fontsman, it might be coming your way!
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Yeah baby - I'm getting weather advisories now...looks like mama nature gonna put a bit of a hurtin' on us today. Hey bro, as you know, it's the price we pay to live in paradise :-) How's your flip-flop tan lines looking today? Patch-em' !!!
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we pay a different price for a different form of paradise up in the northeast, Eh rrrgrrr? Beautiful day today, nothing but blue skies and mid 60's, could use 10 more degrees, but this ain't bad at all, not after this winter. So nice out I had to break out the bike, nothing like pedal power..pass the java if you would be so kind, maybe one of those scones...
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Right you are Boo buddy..... 65 and sunny here, no wind and cloudless blue sky..... Guess us Nor'easter's adapt to it...we have all 4 seasons, past 2 winters proved to be a harsh mistress, but Spring, Summer and Fall in the Buff and Rachacha are the cats ass..... Assuming Toronto weather is similar, eh? Nanuk?? Fresh pot of coffee is on, scones out of the oven.... cream and some sugar on the table.... back to work on the southernmost regions of mental health.....
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Yo Boo, cool cat dude !! And bro, I grew-up in Philly. You can keep your "four seasons" and frozen tundra, and mountains and mountains of snow. I paid my dues. Kinda like it where the weather suits my clothes :-) (although we're gonna get slammed in about 15 minutes with a big ass storm...lol) Later !!
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That is one of my boys, Black Bart, he's a Bombay and he likes to greet me when I arrive at home, that is him with front paws up on my thigh, he is quite a character. It isn't the 4 seasons that are so nice, but living through a winter up here makes you really appreciate the nice weather, and when it is nice here, it is fine! and a little snow doesn't bring down the house......
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Yo T, I know...... somebody help a brother out....that avatar was a nice memory of Philly but we are done with the past....tear that old building down...btw great run in 09.....saw it with JeffTOO @Boo... Where you been living, son. West Seneca NY had 7 feet of snow in 3 days November 2014...... Now that's a lot of melting....
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anywhere but south Buffalo..............here to the east we got an inch that November ah Philly the (sp)rectum, which year did they bring out the teargas, '87, '88????
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reading that title over again....mmmmm...let it be...might spur new interest in our mindless banter..... I remember being there in the 70's for a Rangers Flyers Stanley Cup Game....Eddie Giacomin vs. Bernie Parent.... Great memories of an old careworn barn..... I would tear that old building down.....
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Hey now brother, don't you be messin' with the Spectrum. Most famous and MOST PLAYED building in the entire east coast. We were nice enough to let you "up to Buffalo" folks even come down for a few shows :-) Sat row 2, sect 102 (dead center) for the last show in '09 (The Dead") with they unveiled the tie-die 53 banner in the rafters. What a moment.... If I had my way, I would tear this ole' building down... And with that they closed and after that came the wrecking ball on the old gal.
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Nanuk from the North reporting blowing winds.May on its way...sell in May and Go away? Taxes on my Mind. Can't complain, at least the health care is Covered. Right doc? By now my mental health bills would have made me house poor. Socialism communism canadian ism. All I am saying is give peace a chance.
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I've jumped thru the avatar hoops too, and the solution seems to be to do the following: 1) Remove picture from profile. 2) Do not add new picture. 3) Close your computer down. 4) Click your heels three times. 5) Turn your computer on again. 6) Wait 48 hours. 7) Add profile picture. It appears there are avatar gremlins and trolls lurking about, and they quickly replace all new pictures with the old one. The trick is to wait a couple of days, using no picture at all when you post. When you finally do log on and decide to add the picture, the gremlins and trolls have partied, slept, have awoken with groggy minds, and have forgotten about the old picture, allowing your new picture to appear in its rightful place. Good luck...btw, Item #4 is not mandatory, but if it feels right, do it anyway. Disclaimer: Void where prohibited, not valid in states with snow, results may differ, and objects in mirror may be closer than you think...allow 46 weeks for delivery. all the best....and good luck geo
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I overrule... Foul I say... There may be many paths And only one way to rock..... but.... It's the only way back to Kansas, ask Dorothy...the meek.... there's no place like home..... rrrrrgrrrrr out!
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I didn't mess with the spectrum, it messed with me,har har, saw many a show there.
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public service announcement brought to you by geothere'snoplacelikehomemeister. ;D
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LMFAO....... way to bring it.....
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All hail the geotechweeniemeister !! Thank you my brotha !! I will now go avatar-less for a brief spell.... Click... Click.... Click....
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A lost little kid up here named Frank..... Anyone missing a little kid named Frank......? sorry....carry on.... you know it's gonna get stranger....... Tony click them heels thrice....
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And Frankly, I've always wanted to be a weeniemeister.... but methinks I've created a monster...or a legend in his own mind...or a lone ranger...or maybe just a silly signature that strikes a G major chord on the wayfaring dus ribing friends who are whiling away their valuable work and play hours thustly engaged... Thanks guys... geohotdiggitydogwe'rehavingfunnowmeister
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Shirley just got the 3:10 to Yuma... I'll be waiting at the Marriott with Jesus n John Wayne..... RIP Warren Zevon..... almost miss you as much as Jerry......
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Peace and prayers go out to those in chaos. Don't understand the mindset of destruction of property and disruption of innocent lives to make a point "against" the establishment. You are defending the rights of individuals against such crimes by committing worse crimes. Senseless! Violence begets violence. When will people ever learn...(super sad)
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Yessir, despite all the chaos here, you drove the point home.... mean people suck..... just give peace a chance....John Lennon sang that at that Live Peace thing.....eh? Montreal, Ottawa, Saskatoon? Nah that place with Yonge Street, Bay n Bloor.....and all those cool record stores back in the day...... anyway welcome back Mr.Mayor....