Right? I did see Foo Fighters at that same arena last fall and they managed to fill that up pretty well. It’s a nice venue too, although I’m wondering why SP might have booked it for this go-around myself...

My estranged brother fell asleep at Bob Dylan with me. That’s about as close as I’ve gotten, I think?

Chicago seems to be selling okay from the looks of it. Seems like they should have done the mid-sized venues elsewhere and then kept the United Center and MSG for the lone arena visits to get some attention.

The seat map came up for me when I got tickets, so I got four for $60-ish in the front row of a close upper deck section, which is about where we wanted to be price and location-wise. I don’t think it will be a bad show. I’ve never seen them before, while my friends were fans back in the day (and also caught the…

I’d probably go.

U2's doing okay on this arena gig they have coming up, which comes pretty soon after they played all those stadiums for The Joshua Tree tour last year. Safe to say that their fanbase is a big bigger at this point too. They might not sell out every arena this time around, but they’ll get decent to great numbers anytime…

I can practically smell the flannel and Zima just by reading that!

Absolutely. For past diets that have had successes, I usually try to eat right Monday through Friday, then from Friday to Sunday night eat whatever the heck I want (in decent amounts, of course - not in excess). When I stick to just fruit for lunch, that tends to help a bit in the long run too. By the time I get home,…

I made it just over six months. To be fair, it gave me some stability after college to move into the metropolitan area I live in now. But yeah, I tell people I was on the verge of having a mental breakdown towards the end of it. The negativity in doing that work and responding to debtors, and the frustration of the…

I didn’t know Dennis Quaid and Randy Quaid were brothers until about five years ago, so I can’t criticize you there.

When I had a debt collection job, it was exactly like that. We were told in training that the debtor could basically yell and scream whatever to us over the phone and we could NOT say anything back. I understood why, but it was frustrating to be called every name in the book just because the person couldn’t keep up…

I’m so sorry you went through that. I’m starting to hope the Me Too movement hits these call centers full force now, honestly.

I’m so sorry you went through that. One or two people who I knew in the past that were in a similar position had very positive responses from their co-workers, so it makes me sad to read when it’s not always the case.

A friend of mine worked at Mernards for awhile and said he had to clock in and out every time he had to use the bathroom.

My sister pointed out recently that he’s the “Cuban” version of a cousin of ours - whose looks like him, but is primarily of Norwegian/British descent I think. Now I can’t look at Rubio without thinking of my cousin (and who voted for Trump, I guess!).

My first trip to New York... Creed’s One was the song was playing at I entered Manhattan for the first time. I suppose we could crack all the Creed jokes we want as a result of this sad scenario, but I suppose it could have been a worse tune of theirs, haha.

I’m still stunned that I’ve hardly seen any of the DC or Marvel movies yet. I did see the first hour of Batman v. Superman on a Delta flight one time though.

I just think of the Will and Grace scene during its first season when I think of the 1998 Nagano skates...

I’m not crying! YOU’RE CRYING!!!

Well, Al did appear in one episode of the space suit series, so you’re probably onto something...