Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
For the past ten months or so, I've been kicking around the idea of taking a multi-day bicycle trip from my house in Chicago to the base of the Spirit of Detroit statue in downtown D-Town. The distance? Approximately 300 miles.
Toward the end of last summer I set the plan ...
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Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
If you've talked to me within the past few weeks, I probably gushed about the fact that I was going to the NHL Winter Classic at Wrigley Field. Well, I did and it was awesome. I took some pictures, which you can check out here. Great weather (relatively speaking), a ...
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Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
Whoa, this post is long overdue. A little over three weeks ago, I moved out of Lakeview and into a new apartment in Wicker Park. This is approximately two miles south and two miles west of where I used to live. Moving was a bitch, and I am still getting ...
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Wednesday, June 6th, 2007
A while back, I wrote a post about how crappy FM radio is in Chicago - particularly Q101 (101.1FM). I don't know if this is entirely still the case, as I haven't listened to any FM stations since mid-September 2006, but judging by what happened last week the dumb-fuckery continues.
One ...
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Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
Last week, on Valentine's Day, I ate at The Chicago Pizza and Oven Grinder Co. in Lincoln Park. I didn't know ahead of time, but across the street from the restaurant used to be the building where the St. Valentine's Day Massacre took place almost 80 years ago. According to ...
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Sunday, December 10th, 2006
So, it turns out that on Friday afternoon some guy walked into the office of a law firm roughly 4 blocks from where I work and gunned three people down. You would think that I'd have heard about it, at least via RSS news feeds, long before I got a ...
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Friday, December 1st, 2006
It's days like this* that I am glad I no longer have to worry about commuting to a far-away office or dealing with airports as a requirement for my job. We're in the middle of our first big winter storm of the year and as a result, the roads and ...
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Monday, September 11th, 2006
Once again, it's hockey season. For right now, this means 2 things: One, I will be purchasing tickets to the Detroit Red Wings/Chicago Blackhawks games here in Chicago as they become available and two, I have started up a fantasy hockey league.
As for #1, there are 4 Wings games in ...
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Sunday, June 18th, 2006
As I mentioned a few posts back, last night I went to see Ænima, Chicago's Tool cover band. They were better than I expected, and definitely worth going to see. They played for nearly 3 hours, which is pretty impressive in and of itself. I kept track of their setlist ...
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Tuesday, June 13th, 2006
I just found out that Chicago has a Tool cover band that's been around since 2002. Why did I not know about this before?! Judging from some of the reviews at toolarmy, they aren't half bad.
They are playing at a place that is a short bus/cab ride from my apartment ...
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