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Let the games begin!
You know what? I love the Olympics. Throw the absolute weakest sport into the Olympics (synchronized swimming?), and as long as the event has anything to do with my country, you bet I want to see an athlete draped in the red, white and blue flag standing on the winner's podium. It's been a thrill seeing Michael "The Human Fish" Phelps embark on his ( Read more... ) -
Secrets in a box
Here's the scoop. A retired junior high art teacher at James Heart in Homewood, Ill., kept a crusty brown pile of human bones in his basement since he first bought them at an estate auction in Shipshewana, Ind. The books were packaged inside an 150-year-old book titled "The History of the American Indian." To his displeasure the dealer would not ( Read more... ) -
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My story about the Matteson Trustee who is losing his home to foreclosure made it to page three of today's Chicago Sun-Times ( Read more... ) -
Let the beat build.
I think we can all agree that Lil Wayne's That Carter II is pretty much the best thing ever, given the album cover alone (in the inexplicable tradition of great rap records with babies on the cover). My conversation with the Target desk clerk ( Read more... ) -
Strange people
One of the characters in David Foster Wallace's absolutely mindblowing "Infinite Jest," theorized that the grim reaper, the dark passenger culling you to the grave, always appears in the form of your next life's mother. When you get born again, (as in out-of-the-womb ) as an entirely new being, you are born unto her. Unconsciously, she spends her ( Read more... ) -
Announcement.
'Sup Windy City.
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Items...
1) Has anyone ever called you by the wrong name, and you thought it was funny, so you let them continue to the point where you'd be a tremendous asshole if you called them on it 45 minutes later? I attended this "How Not To Marry A Jerk" class for the newspaper, and the teacher was calling me "Tobey" for five hours ( Read more... ) -
This just in!
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Notes from the show
Cat Power was laughably bad. Like her band sounded like they just stumbled out of their parents garage. Couldn't believe it. The part that really did her in was when she started reading lyrics off a piece of paper. John Legend brought home the bacon, though. -
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Shit is a hassle.