What's Makin' Me Sorta Antsy This Week

Is one of my favorite Inman Square music venues, the Lily Pad, going to close? If so, will it just be replaced by more generic not-punk "punk" rock parading up Prospect Street from Central Square?? And if so, will somebody tell those kids if it's just two guitars a bass and a drummer it's rock, like just-plain-rock rock???

Do I, umm...I'm even embarassed to ask this... to get new listeners, do I now need to create a Second Life avatar in addition to the MySpace profile that I neglect? Will my Second Life avatar be incomplete like said MySpace profile, and live in a two-sided house, have no clothes, and stand in place for weeks at a time?? Do I have any friends on Second Life??? Am I their First Friend or Second Friend????

Will the in-progress Smashing Pumpkins album restore my love for angsty late-90s melodic rock? Will it restore my faith in Billy Corgan? Will it remind the country that Chicago is a kick-ass rock factory?? (I mean, besides the organizers of the Lollapalooza, Intonation, and Pitchfork Festivals, the crew from KEXP, and everyone who lives in Wicker Park???)