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24 November 2009 ~ 3 Comments

Price Check on Aisle Two, or Why I Shouldn’t Be Running A Business

This is why I have a hard time giving myself enough credit for running my own business: even when exciting things happen, I somehow inevitably end up taking a Third World mode of transport to an important meeting.

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02 November 2009 ~ 6 Comments

Band reunites on Halloween for werewolf bar mitzvah

Chicago, IL (October 31, 2009) — For the first time in more than ten years, the legendary band Recollection has reunited under a new name — Guy Incognito — to christen Amp Rock Lounge in what some are hailing as the band’s werewolf bar mitzvah.

“Get it? Werewolf bar mitzvah?” said Amanda Newman, band manager and [...]

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31 October 2009 ~ 1 Comment

Happy Howloween …

… from your favorite deranged bumblebee.

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02 October 2009 ~ 0 Comments

The Olympics: its for your own good

Update: I published this post just moments before Chicago was the first city eliminated in the IOC’s voting.
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It baffles me that so many Chicagoans don’t want to host the Olympics.
Its only about an hour before we find out if the International Olympic Committee has selected Chicago to host the 2016 Olympic Games, so I guess [...]

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25 September 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Now I want a Dreamsicle.

So … the bathroom remodel isn’t coming out quite as I had hoped.
The cabinets are painted, and the color is fine. If you blur your eyes, or, for instance, look at a photograph taken from a distance, it looks halfway decent. (Note sample paint color on wall.)

But if you look closer (and how can you [...]

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