Joe: hey man how wasyour day? I hope that it was great. Mine was really boring. I did not really do anything. couldnt play. Have a great night. Love you man.

962: thanks, haha I'll take it. Its worth it.

Keniko: the thing about that movie... I thought the same thing. I was shocked the first time I saw that and your right about the Candians. "Got room for 4 americans?" Well all you need is a clean record, birth certificate, proof that you are living were ever your living, Id card, and I think that is all. I think.lol.

"Please tell me THIS ain't for real!!!" - What? Are they looking for a guitarist?

A Rock Star VH would be interesting...

6 days, almost only 5....dancin's continuing.....LOL!!

thanks

lusysorets...thanks for everything...i am really looking forward to yur next mail...god bless yu ,,,,yu have mail.....

steven....so happy to see yu post....hope yu will start posting more often again....peace...

marimari.....happy to knwo taht yu have safely landed in the UK............how is life ther?regards to suzie2000....

suzie2000......so finally yu have company from t2j in the form of marimari.....also glad to know that yu guys talked with steven...stay cool and happy a;awys teacher.....

tracie...yu have mail.....regards...........best wishes to chris....

everybody else...have anice day...

HI....JOE>>>>>>> yu are the reason why i am posting here.....

Neil, yeah man, but I want to learn it properly! haha. The widdly bit I can work out, chords are actually harder for me, I just don't have as good an ear for them.

Was cool to see you last night, hope you enjoyed the show.....I couldn't believe it when he played Sisters and then Rescue Me Or Bury Me, that freaked me out! haha, only 2 hours after we'd dismissed the prospects of him playing our personal requests, he only goes and plays them!

So, I didn't get a chance to look at buying some photos from you, sorry about that. When you get back home and sort through what you've got from your shots last night and at other UK shows, let me know.....maybe you could airmail one or two and I could send you a bankers draft or postal order.....I know there's some way I can pay you! haha. Enjoy the other shows!

PhryDom

Trying to defuse the situation or sticking up for Wolfie?

Is it mere coincidence that a certain someone's surname also begins with a 'W'?

Hmmm

Zen - what sort of mail am I looking for?
e-mail, post to home or work??

"The emotion is like touching each point of the execution"
that is a very nice observation indeed...

had a blast... we must do this again sometime but not wait for gig...

just get together and get lashed....

Clarky were you lashed before you got to the gig or did Steve Tony and Sheehan whip you into a frenzy??

House Votes to Ban Obesity Blame Lawsuits

WASHINGTON - The Republican-controlled House voted Wednesday to shield fast-food chains from lawsuits that blame them for making people fat.

Nicknamed the "cheeseburger bill," the measure stems from lawsuits accusing McDonald's of causing obesity in tens of thousands of children. The food industry has asked Congress and state legislatures to protect it from liability, and so far, 21 states have agreed.

"You cannot litigate personal choices and lifestyles," said Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., said potential costs from the lawsuits threaten the food industry and its 12 million employees and raise food prices for consumers.

"These suits would be laughable if they were not so harmful," Sensenbrenner said.

The measure, which won approval on a 306-120 vote, would prevent class action lawsuits blaming restaurants and food companies for weight gain or obesity. The House passed a similar bill last year, but the Senate ran out of time to act.

Two-thirds of American adults are overweight, and nearly one-third are obese, while obesity among children and teenagers more than doubled in the past 30 years, according to government estimates.

Critics of the bill contend that a better way to make people responsible for how they eat is to require nutrition information on menus and menu boards.

"But of course this silly legislative effort has nothing to do with encouraging personal responsibility and everything to do with pleasing a powerful and politically connected industry," said Michael Jacobson, director of the Washington-based Center for Science in the Public Interest.

A food industry lobbyist said lawsuits against food companies are the wrong way to fight obesity in America.

"More energy must be put into solving the problem of obesity, and less into assigning blame for the purpose of collecting legal fees," said Hunt Shipman, executive vice president of government affairs and communications for the Food Products Association.

Courts have dismissed most obesity claims, but an appeals court in New York reinstated one lawsuit against McDonald's earlier this year. It is still pending.

you should check the movie/documentary "super sized me"... really awesome!!!

"Star Wars" Spiked

Not too long a time from now in a cable galaxy not so far away, you'll be able to watch all six Star Wars flicks.

Spike TV has opened up the vaults to secure television rights to the entire George Lucas space opera. The Viacom-owned male-centric network signed an exclusive six-year deal worth a reported $65 million to $70 million.

According to Daily Variety, Spike won a fierce bidding war against NBC Universal's USA Network and Sci Fi Channel and Turner Broadcasting's TBS and TNT that pushed up the price from an initial $50 million, where it hovered a few months ago, to Spike's record offer.

The Star Wars blockbusters will begin their run on the net in April 2008. The deal includes both the original trilogy (Star Wars: Episode IV--A New Hope, Star Wars: Episode V--The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars: Episode VI--Return of the Jedi) and the prequels (Star Wars: Episode I--The Phantom Menace, Star Wars: Episode II--Attack of the Clones, and Star Wars: Episode III--Revenge of the Sith).

Sith will make its network debut as part of the package.

Of course, we've all seen the USA Network's original trilogy marathons around the Thanksgiving holiday. The first three Star Wars installments have been running on various network and cable channels for more than 20 years. The new deal will only permit Spike to run them.

However, the only time Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones have aired on a broadcast network has been on Fox, which paid a stellar $80 million in 1999 for a 10-year exclusive license to air Menace. The Spike deal takes effect once that window expires.

On the pay TV side, HBO forked over $15 million in 2003 for an exclusive 18-month window to broadcast Attack of the Clones on its channel. The deal also included rebroadcast rights for the four previous films.

For Spike, the agreement with Lucasfilm comes on the heels of the network losing its prime-time staple, World Wrestling Entertainment, whose rights were snapped up by USA. Spike had some of its best ratings with WWE Raw. Spike has been filling the void with CSI reruns, for which it paid a then-record $1.6 million per episode. The cable network has since snagge rerun rights to CSI: NY for $1.9 million an episode.

The network has also signed radio raunchmeister Howard Stern to develop a 'toon about awkward adolescence, but there's no word on when Howard Stern: The High School Years will debut.

Reps for Spike and Lucasfilm were unavailable for comment Wednesday.

Meanwhile, Lucasfilm continues to develop two TV-specific projects: another Star Wars cartoon that will pick up where the Emmy-winning Star Wars: Clone Wars left off; and a live-action series that will be set sometime between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope and follow lesser-known characters in the Star Wars universe.

MikeSB - well me and my most favoured apprentice [Yoda] - plus a bunch of ACM guys - were putting away the 1664's at a sensible pace... which is obviously pretty quick..
and that was all afternoon... woohoo!!!...

Mari was working [taking pics of the gig] so she obviously had to be a little more under control..

which meant we drank, talked utter shite and got louder and more abusive..
and she got to watch... and understand less and less of the conversation..
funny really, I was under the impression that she speaks English fluently.. lol..
so despite our crass and crude bullshit..
I think she still likes us... quite a thing really...

we went to the gig.... and after Eric's set, I bumped into Yoda again so we went to augment the alchahol blood level...

after the gig I was on Grolsch in the VIP lounge....