{"id":2863,"date":"2011-03-04T20:40:06","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T01:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/?p=2863"},"modified":"2011-03-04T20:45:27","modified_gmt":"2011-03-05T01:45:27","slug":"r-e-m-as-three-old-guys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/r-e-m-as-three-old-guys\/","title":{"rendered":"R.E.M. as three old guys"},"content":{"rendered":"

They’re almost as old as me – Peter Buck, December 6, 1956 | Mike Mills, December 17, 1958 | Michael Stipe, January 4, 1960 | me, August 11, 1955. So, as I told my friend Chris, born in March of 1957, the same as my baby brother<\/a>, “Well, we never woulda dated in high school, but now we’re the same age”. I am somehow home alone on a Friday night, listening to R.E.M.’s new Collapse Into Now<\/em> streaming from NPR<\/a> – what a middle-aged person’s thing to do – until my iTunes pre-order comes in the 8th. But there is enough Peter Buck twangy guitar on this to keep me happy.<\/p>\n

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R.E.M, January 2011<\/p><\/div>\n

So I took the bus from work to Trader Schmoes, and bought a bottle of wine, wanting to have a nice drink after work with snacks. And ended up coming back with salami and cheese and nuts to go with the good bread I made, pondering the eternal question, why does Trader Schmoes, snack central, have only crap olives?<\/p>\n

Mark decided to walk for coffee, leaving me to read the New Yorker with my appetizer course – and hey, we (Wisconsin) are Talk of the Town<\/em><\/a> this week.<\/p>\n

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Madison in the New Yorker<\/p><\/div>\n

Look, there’s a Union Cab<\/a> logo on the fridge way in the background.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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