October lyrics Found!!

Unfortunately they can't go back in time and make it a better album.

Apple Special events are generally related to new product announcements and introductions. Past special events have included the unveiling of the iPod and Apple Retail stores, as well as the XServe.

There's a limited edition iPod to be released with the new U2 album preloaded on it. That's probably it.

More on the briefcase thing:

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When fandoms collide: The people behind that U2 blog, are also responsible for Whedonesque.

Sigh. I like the commercial, but I still wish they weren't doing this corporate partnership thing with Apple. It seems so Aerosmith of them.

Actually I think that U2 have some kind of small stake in Apple. IIRC they invested heavily in some small Irish tech company that has a technology partnership with Apple.

Well, they have good taste.

Hey, congrats, Alicia!

So, were you embarrassed to be meeting Bono? I've been working on a piece about how embarrassing I find meeting admired celebrities.

oh god Hayden. I was so embarrassed when I went to a Dwight Yoakam signing and he remembered me from standing in a previous line for signitures (there was a limit to # of albums to be signed and I had something like 12 there). Wanted to die, could not speak or smile or even tell him that I really enjoyed his songs, although with all but one of his albums there I guess that was obvious.

Also terribly embarassed when I met a favorite college basketball player, but I think that had more to do with people I knew screaming "She thinks you are so hot" when I was talking with him.

Yikes! I had Richard Thompson remember me from a particularly dumb hat I was wearing at two shows 4 months apart. I still have gotten over the embarrassment from that, and it was 12 years ago. He said, "Hey, you're that guy with that silly hat!" I realize he meant to be chummy (after all, the man sports a beret), but, y'know, goodbye cool, hello Silly Hat Guy.

I've been working on a piece about how embarrassing I find meeting admired celebrities.

I find acting like a fan incredibly embarassing -- it makes me feel vulnerable. I'm relatively okay with getting something signed when someone is there specifically to do that, but if (e.g.) Michael Stipe was sitting in front of me on the train going home tonight, I would be utterly paralyzed between not wanting to bother someone in his private life, my desire to talk to him, the fact that I doubt I have anything to say he hasn't heard at least 500 times before, and my knowledge that I'm not a cool person, and would be unlikely to handle the interaction in anything but a geeky fangirl fashion.

Luckily, I don't tend to bump into celebrities, so the issue doesn't come up often.

I've been working on a piece about how embarrassing I find meeting admired celebrities.

Hee! I talked to Bob Mould last year and I'd be embarassed about how I acted except I think it was funny, too. I was all,"OHMIGOD BOB MOULD I LOVE YOU BOB MOULD I QUOTED YOU IN YEARBOOK BOB MOULD I DO PILATES BOB MOULD I SAW YOU AT ELK'S LODGE BOB MOULD A LONG LONG TIME AGO BOB MOULD."

I had a reason for telling him about the pilates...um...oh I said I saw husker du eons ago at the Elk's Lodge in Philadelphia and he said somebody else who'd been to that show had just come up to talk to him to and I said, "dag we're old." And he was like "if you're old think how old I am." And I told him how super-fit he was looking (he was! looked way fitter than he did 20-ish years ago). So he was telling me about his workout regime. So, it was funny becuase he was having a fairly normal conversation and I was all bug-eyed, sputtering, over-sharing fangurl.

My friends were laughing and laughing at me. Then I bought everything he had for sale.

You should've talked to him about professional wrestling. Mould was a writer for the WWF (or one of those groups) for a while.

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Mould was a writer for the WWF (or one of those groups) for a while

That's hilarious! If I'd known I'm sure I would have brought it up.