Pip - big cyber-hugs from me buddy. Drop me a ilne if you can.

Nice job Civ! Happy for you and your band :-)

One of my favorite Stuuuuuuuu songs - The Castro Hustle

BS - After Forever

More than a dozen persons, including children shot and killed at Newtown, Conn., elementary school

:'( what is wrong with this world? Children killed ....breaks my heart.

Love you Joe! You are my guitar hero since Surfing! I can't believe it's been 25 years! I'm classically trained guitarist but have always played rock 'n' roll too since mid 80's. Surfing is such a benchmark album in music and guitar that I make my students choose a song to learn from it to learn, any songs that you recommend for guitar students to learn?

Something to smile about after a brutal news day.

...and then there's...this.

Michelle - thank you very much for all your messages and for asking the collective here to pull for me and mine. I really appreciate it

Cheese101 - a big thank you to you too friend, too kind indeed

Peace Lilly - thank you for your messages, they all help

Skippygirl - hey Skip, thank you and I will try, better than I have been trying!

I will write some more in a minute or two, I think it might help

Hugs to ya Pip. Talking about it helps. If it wouldn't be for friends like Tracie and Joan, and Al...I don't know what I would have done this year.

Tracie...I love you, man. lol! You're in my prayers always.

Going to Baltimore today to pick up our daughter. Feeling blessed to be able to hug one of my kids today.

I'm gonna say it again...2012 - fuck you.

Shame on these idiots!

Anything you need Pip, just ask. I well know some of what you're going through and if listening will help, I'm here :) You and your mum are in my thoughts and prayers every day.

Chelle....I love you too, man, lol!! U knows it!!

To all here, both near and far away....sending much love and good wishes out to all the corners of the earth. Love is all there is, and all that we need. The rest is just....fluff, I guess.

Civ, that's the most awesomest news ever, congrats on that!! I know you're stoked and will totally enjoy!! Post vids if you can!

Love ya Joe. Happy holidays to you and your whole family. I hope you get a little time off to spend with them and draw everyone close.

Toosh, Pip's dad unexpectedly passed away.

The media is still sensationalizing this shooter, and the mass shooters of the past. I think it's beyond irresponsible that they continue to concentrate so much time on this, saying the same things over and over, and the worst EVER are the ones interviewing 6 year olds to make them tell what they saw in the school. We need to HONOR AND PROTECT the children and adults who were brutally taken from us that day, and we need to honor their families. No need to hash out details and give other sickos ideas for their sick minds to try to outdo for their moment of 'glory". Tell the story, say what happened, and stop sensationalizing it to make ratings!

I said it before and I'll say it again - there is NO need for the public to own semi-automatic weapons! They should be kept (if kept at all) in shooting ranges, and if you need to have that sort of "fun", then show your ID, join the gun club, and have at it in a controlled environment. If you're not in the military or law enforcement fighting for your life, you do not need this sort of weapon.

Guns don't kill people. People with guns kill people!

Hey my fellow Satchlings *waves*

i don't post on here enough :( just wanted to say a big HELLO and HAPPY CHRISTMAS! to Joe and my fellow Satch fans around the world! >=:)

very sad about the shooting in Newtown :_( i've prayed for the parents of the 20 children who were so cruelly taken from them. when looking at the photos of the kids on tv, i said to my mum "Jesus was busy last friday", i know he holds them in his arms. i wish the news would stop showing the photo of the awful man who did this >:/ it just sends a bad message that if you do something this bad, we'll put your face on tv over and over again for the whole world to see.

dear joseph!!!!Greetings from beautifull greece!!!! I took a look in your upcoming concerts for 2013!!I was very diassapointing!!!For the 8th year in a row you haven't visit greece for a concert!!!!I'm a big fan of yours and i want you to know that life is short!!!especially here in greece with all the economi problems that we have alreday!!!Think again my proposicion for a concert in greece especially in summer time(SUMMER SONG!!!!!) and visit our islands and old history!!!! waiting for your new cd soon!!!!!

Thank you all for the love and support - this is weird and surreal and everything else... just wasnt expecting Dad not to be here, he had at least another 10 years yet

If you love someone, and you haven't told them recently, make it a christmas present from you to me, and tell them you love them and how much they mean to you please, 'kay?

Anyways....