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  • KristineD
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    I miss...
    I miss WXRT, Chicago's Finest Rock. At one time, you could have heard any and all of these tunes in a day's mix from the old 'XRT. The Dead Hour on weekends, the Sunday-night Un-Concert. The award-winning News at Noon. Ken Nordine's Word Jazz, for goodness sakes. They played anything -- absolutely anything that was interesting. Even if it was CRAP, you didn't really care, because they never, ever played the same song twice in one day, sometimes not in the same week or month. Who cares if they played Linda Ronstadt or Spandeux Ballet, as long as they followed it with Frank Zappa, Talking Heads, Little Feat or the Cure, eh? (No disrespect to Ms. Ronstadt -- a fine set of pipes if there ever was, so sad to see her lose her voice.) I wouldn't know what the heck a Wild Tchoupitoulas was without WXRT. Then, Westinghouse bought them. Then, CBS bought them. *sigh* The worst part is that it's still the best radio station in Chicago. Great connection to local and live music, but oh, the play list gets old nowadays. Good new stuff (can 'ya say Shakey Graves?) An occasional nugget, but mostly corporate crap, played six or seven times a day. Even great new stuff, like that new Beck tune, is overplayed and old in a week. Most days I don't even bother to turn it on.
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    Ain't no use to keep taking abuseFrom a friend who isn't kind A friend in need or a friend that you need Who can help you through the troubled times So reach on out and take a hold of my hand And let me know that your ready to go There ain't no dues and you can leave your blues behind And have a little peace peace of mind Give me some peace, Peace of Mind There comes a time when your friends go blind And thier words become diseased They threaten your life with the blade of a knife And set you down upon your needs Make no mistake for your very own sake Heres a little word for now Take off your shoes and let your thoughts be kind And have a little peace, peace of mind Peace Peace of Mind... make us feel better Some folks you find speak a mighty good line They charm you all the way They take you along on a sweet sweet song Then they steal your heart away But blessed be the one who can understand why People have to act that way Cause if I knew I wouldn't even want to say But have a little peace, peace of mind Give me some peace, Peace of Mind Everybody wants Peace, Peace of mind Peace Peace of mind All we need is some... Peace...peace of mind...
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    Yes KDED...but for real on the air, like pirate radio or Mexican Radio If you could read my mind, love What a tale my thoughts could tell Just like an old-time movie 'Bout a ghost from a wishin' well In a castle dark or a fortress strong With chains upon my feet You know that ghost is me And I will never be set free As long as I'm a ghost that you can't see If I could read your mind, love What a tale your thoughts could tell Just like a paperback novel The kind the drugstores sell When you reach the part where the heartaches come The hero would be me But heroes often fail And you won't read that book again Because the ending's just too hard to take I'd walk away like a movie star Who gets burned in a three-way script Enter number two A movie queen to play the scene Of bringing all the good things out in me But for now love, let's be real I never thought I could act this way And I've got to say that I just don't get it I don't know where we went wrong But the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back If you could read my mind, love What a tale my thoughts could tell Just like an old-time movie 'Bout a ghost from a wishin' well In a castle dark or a fortress strong With chains upon my feet But stories always end And if you read between the lines You'll know that I'm just tryin' to understand The feelings that you lack I never thought I could feel this way And I've got to say that I just don't get it I don't know where we went wrong But the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back
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    @whatchu talking bout Willis.....?
    We already do.....K DED is communal...... You meet someone.....stops you DEAD in your tracks.... Just saying.....hit it Sarge...... Don't misunderstand me, though I know that I've been mean Woman can't you see that I'm in need Although we may be far apart In heart and soul we're near My body aches for you to just be here You are every woman in the world to me And every season I go through You are every woman in the world to me Especially when I'm making love to you Like a falling tear drop You can wipe away my blues Live honey you can make the bitter sweet You're a child, a girl, a woman You are everything I'd choose That's why I sing this song to you That's why I sing this song to you
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    We should have our own radio station... I think I may have missed my true calling. Only you know and I know All the love we've got to show So don't refuse to believe it By reading too many meanings 'Cause you know that I mean what I say So don't go and take me the wrong way You know you can't go on gettin' your own way 'Cause if you do, it's gonna get you someday Now if I sing to mislead you It's just my craziness comin' through But when it comes down to just two I ain't no crazier than you 'Cause you know that I mean what I say So don't go and take me the wrong way You know you can't go on gettin' your own way 'Cause if you do, it's gonna get you someday Yeah, yeah, yeah, appear to be pleasin' Oh no, no, not deceivin' But it's hard to believe it When you been so mistreated 'Cause you know that I mean what I say So don't go and take me the wrong way You know you can't go on gettin' your own way 'Cause if you do, it's gonna get you someday Only you know and I know Only you know and I know, oh yeah
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    sorry.....ok after this done with EC.....not you, it's me...... Further on up the road Someone's gonna hurt you like you hurt me. Further on up the road Someone's gonna hurt you like you hurt me. Further on up the road, Baby, just you wait and see. You gotta reap just what you sow; That old saying is true. You gotta reap just what you sow; That old saying is true. Just like you mistreat someone, Someone's gonna mistreat you. You been laughing, pretty baby, Someday you're gonna be crying. You been laughing, pretty baby, Someday you're gonna be crying. Further on up the road You'll find out I wasn't lying. Further on up the road Someone's gonna hurt you like you hurt me. Further on up the road Someone's gonna hurt you like you hurt me. Further on up the road, Baby, just you wait and see.
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    Blasphemy...really Damn music snobs Well she's walking through the clouds With a circus mind that's running 'round. Butterflies and zebras, fairy tales, That's all she ever thinks about. When I'm sad she comes to me With a thousand smiles she gives to me free. Said, "It's all right, take anything you want, Anything you want, anything." First Verse Second Verse Fly on, little wing.
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    ....for awhile......then he found a better way....blasphemy here but Derek n the Dominos.....Layla and other assorted Love Songs is my favorite album of all tiime..... and the song I resonate with......to this day..... Have you ever loved a woman So much you tremble in pain? Have you ever loved a woman So much you tremble in pain? And all the time you know She bears another man's name. But you just love that woman So much it's a shame and a sin. You just love that woman So much it's a shame and a sin. But all the time you know She belongs to your very best friend. Have you ever loved a woman And you know you can't leave her alone? Have you ever loved a woman And you know you can't leave her alone? Something deep inside of you Won't let you wreck your best friend's home.
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    You were saying EC was the king... Bell bottom blues, you made me cry. I don't want to lose this feeling. And if I could choose a place to die It would be in your arms. Do you want to see me crawl across the floor to you? Do you want to hear me beg you to take me back? I'd gladly do it because I don't want to fade away. Give me one more day, please. I don't want to fade away. In your heart I want to stay. It's all wrong, but it's all right. The way that you treat me baby. Once I was strong but I lost the fight. You won't find a better loser. [Chorus 2x] Bell bottom blues, don't say goodbye. I'm sure we're gonna meet again, And if we do, don't you be surprised If you find me with another lover. [Chorus] I don't want to fade away. Give me one more day please. I don't want to fade away. In your heart I long to stay.
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    All the world over, so easy to see People everywhere just wanna be free Listen, please listen, that's the way it should be Deep in the valley, people got to be free You should see what a lovely, lovely world this'd be Everyone learned to live together Seems to me such an itty bitty thing should be Why can't you and me learn to love one another? All the world over, so easy to see People everywhere just wanna be free I can't understand it, so simple to me People everywhere just got to be free If there's a man who is down and needs a helpin' hand All it takes is you to understand and to pull him through Seems to me we got to solve it individually And I'll do unto you what you do to me Shout it from the mountain on out to the sea No two ways about it, people have to be free Ask me my opinion, my opinion will be Nat'ral situation for a man to be free Git right on board now Oh, what a feelin's just come over me Love can move a mountain, make a blind man see Everybody sing it now come on let's go see Deep in the valley now, we ought to be free See that train over there? That's the train of freedom It's about to 'rrive any minute, now You know it's been'a long, long overdue Look out 'cause it's a'comin' right on through
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What you talking about Willis? I say.....Damn son....quite the accomplishment....
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Just demonstrating my nonpareil focus! ;-)
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did someone say Chocolate ??
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I'm chock full of confection!
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'o nuts? OK, now I really do have to go find some chocolate. Tough road -- there is danger in learning to appreciate fine chocolate, sorta like good wine. Impossible to go back to the plebian, when you get used to good stuff.
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The dark stuff (w/out nuts) is my fancy, but it's not the most patrician chocolate. Good for the heart, though. OK, I gotta get back to work before I end up separated from my gainful employment. Peace out, Daydreamers!
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.....this is some mindful communication here..... Back to the mines for me..... Work blows kids.....
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I know....
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OMG THE BEST !!! They make a killer chocolate chip macadamia nut cookie too !! But the ultimate are the GS Thin Mints, out of the freezer, w/ a tall glass of milk - SEE YA LATER !!! :-)
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just has some with cold milk...mmmm
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Thursday here, sun is rising in the east... Hot coffee and cocoa ready... Today marks the anniversary of the first of the 3 back to back to back Dead shows in 1977....my personal faves of that Spring run.... Boston Cornell and Buffalo.... Amazing playing and great memories.... Have a great day...make someone happy...
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Cannot put any cookie above the noble Oreo. Good morning to all. Up and running to enjoy my midweek day off. I broke my phone yesterday, so much gone, how can I have become so reliant on these fragile things? 7 days till Dear Jerry! Pails and snails..
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Last night and I brought home some peanut butter and birthday cake Oreos. O-r-e-o. Yum. Especially the birthday cake flavor me thinks. Did you know those cookies are vegan?! You don't have to feel so bad for those folks. Good morning! Have a great day!! Okay goodnight.
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Literally impossible come think of it cause the mighty Oreo is the cat's meow as well. And Milano's and a ton of others... God bless the cookie :-) And God bless the Grateful Dead !! G'mornin peeps - where's our boy and his rails, pails and sails???
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Reese's Peanut Butter Oreos.... mmmmmmmbop bop .....bop bop
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Rise and Shine Sunshine Daydreamers. Patch those sails and shine those rails! Only 7 weeks, 2 days, and 11 hours until the boys in stage at Santa's sisters. Only 8 weeks, 1 days, and 12 hours until the big shebang in Chicago. mmm bop, bop one - mmm, bop, bop - two - slurp coffee, mmm, bop, bop, three
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I had to stop at three. I'll try four tomorrow.
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A bit early to bop til you drop...isn't it?
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...sounds like breakfast!! OMG, could those be even half as good as they sound? I'm a traditionalist when it comes to Oreos, but I'm on the hunt! Have a lovely day, all!
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I like the half golden and half chocolate oreos. Happy Thursday everyone, hope it turns out to be a grand one.
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We don't need no stinking tradition....Reese's Oreos on the shopping list for the pic a nic.... It's like a tastebud orgasm... Bestest Oreo ever....add some French vanilla ice cream... Have a great day Katwoman.... Morning Mr Mayor...
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Break out your brooms. Cleaning up tonight. 2030 local.
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GO HAWKS !! Gotta admit, the best sweater in the business.
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Pat Kane for Stanley Cup MVP perhaps..... If you guys win the cup, Pat comes home with it to West Seneca NY for us to touch it..... Go Hawks.... Have some coffee and Reeses Oreo's your tastebuds with thank you..... Oooohhhhhhhyeahhhhhhhhjhjayyyahhhhhhhh! Damn those Oreos are tasty... Bringing them to the pic a nic....
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Never heard of Reeses Oreos and I'm a big fan of both Reeses and Oreos... re: Hawks - If your Cup is full may it be again.
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was that Donna after an Oreo?
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Mad Swan, I broke my phone yesterday as well. The screen at least. Oh, well, such is life when you forget that picking up that piece of litter means that gravity will induce a separation between phone and pocket. One man gathers what another man spills. Errrrg, sounds like you and Reese's Oreo need to get a room! You know this space is getting hot. I never knew tastebuds had such vast capabilities.... Have a grate day everyone!
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That was me doing my best Donna while eating an Oreo ..... In 2 part harmony..... ;-) Morning Loblaw....
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...my bet is Lord Stanley's chalice will grace at least one of the shows. Watching it show up all over town was one of the fun-nest parts of the Hawks win. Hey, does anyone remember the year of the giant inflatable purple dinosaur? What about the "unbroken paper chain" that got passed from one side of the Horizon to the other?
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Buff is the same...Hawks won, Kane brought it to Buffalo for a week, at baseball games, malls, bars....what an incredible experience....as our Sabres blow for lack of a more descriptive term, hockey wise I live vicariously thru our homeboy #88.....
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Cookies are in my top 5 desert island foods. I thought it would be fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies (maybe oatmeal chocolate chip - hold the raisins please), but I might include ALL cookies so that ALL Oreo flavors and maybe some Pepperidge Farm might be included. Kristine - YES. Any kind of peanut-butter related Oreo sounds like breakfast. My tutu (grandmother in Hawaii) and I had been known from time to time to enjoy a nice moist piece of chocolate cake for breakfast there in paradise. All - there exist both peanut butter AND Reeses peanut butter Oreos. The Reese ones are among the limited edition, such as are the Red Velvet Cake ones... peanut butter > Reese peanut butter ones. Birthday cake flavor > peanut butter. Red Velvet = birthday cake (maybe birthday cake slightly better than Red Velvet). Klang I will have to try the half and halfsies. I have not tried the mint or the (lemon?) yellow ones yet. Anyone? Okay. I have some strange strains of OCD, but you still love me. xo Stellz
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Good morning....glad you chimed in on Oreos ....while none are indeed considered bad ....skip the mint n lemon....red velvet however float my boat....can't speak on the black n white though...not much of a risk taker here...
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But of course we love you, Stella - what a post....FANTASTIC !!
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all cookies, all the time! I'll take the homemade oatmeal-pecan-chocolate chip with dried sour cherries for $250, Alex! I dreamed of Dastardly Mash again last night.
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And just coming off if dinner and ready for dessert, the oatmeal-pecan CC cookie, dare ai say ala mode with a little Bryers vanilla bean is a home run !! So is it "PEE-can?" Or "Pa-Cahn?" Here in the south of course, home of Pecan Pie, it's "PEE-CAN" :-)
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peh-khans, if you please. And, double what the recipe calls for.
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Y'all have done it to me now. I couldn't just get the coffee from Starbucks this afternoon. No, I felt strangely compelled to see if there were any CHOCOLATE COOKIE treats. Found one--they call it "flourless" but it tasted just fine to me. They looked at me funny when I tried to order a Reese's Oreo cookie, though.
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Please ....No more peeing in cans, on Kane's...#88 might get upset....and the Hawks need to sweep... or on Cain's....nuff said there... But especially not on my Reese's Oreo's..... this is our bus...lets preserve its integrity....and cleanliness.... Watch out where the huskies go...and don't you eat that Yellow Snow..... don't know bout you guys but 81 degrees in da Buff at 7:45 pm est..... This space is getting hot....
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I have one seat, Section 311, Row 8, seat 7 (see seat geek for virtual view) for the 4th of July in Chicago. Interested in a floor ticket or two seats at Santa Clara for Saturday the 27th lytweaver at gmail
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....cuz I can party late...... Another week has gone by.... Summer weather has hit Buffalo.... Coffee is on.... Here comes the weekend..... How bout them Hawks.... Oh yeah....some new tangled fancy schmancy website.... Thanks Zeke, Lisa and the crew responsible.... Getting too old for this stuff.... #88 got another goal and an assist! Brooms away....getting ready to move on! Hey Totes....wake up....
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What happen to our daily count down missing it but it is just just 49 days 21 hours till I hit the friendly skies for the golden coast , I might have to sneak some chocolate chips cookies on board for the late night cravings
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Cobwebs this morning. Make that coffee a double. Your hometown prodigy always brings it in the post season. Great game. Crazy finish.
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Bom-bom-bom, bom-bom I can now hear the distance drumming calling me home to FTW. 7 weeks 1 day, 10 hours until Santa Clara! 8 weeks, 0 days, and 11 hours to Chicago! The energy slowly builds....... Can't wait. Have a Grate weekend!
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Oh you crazy money-focused Deadheads you. Personally, I wouldn't have thought it. At least they're not bankers. Not that I have an opinion on that.