March 31, 2007
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I don't watch American Idol, but the acts that come out of the show and the endless commericals are enough to make me hate the show. I love that this 'worst' campaign is happeing.
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"Just seven days after Pat Tillman's death, a top general warned there were strong indications that it was friendly fire andPresident Bush might embarrass himself if he said the NFL star-turned-soldier died in an ambush, according to a memo obtained by Th
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"The Upgrade"
March 30, 2007
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A collection of '300' spoofs. Make sure to check out the '300' PG trailer at the end of the page.
March 29, 2007
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Two fourteen-year-old students busted Glaxo for lying about the Vitamin C content of the Ribena drink.
March 28, 2007
View From Our Hotel Room
The view from our hotel room. It turns out that neither of us took photos of the front of the hotel - Garden Court Hotel, which was very charming in Bayswater. Next time...
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Posted by JB at 11:02 PM | Permalinklinks for 2007-03-28
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Will Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit see the light of day again in the U.S. ?
March 24, 2007
Closer Than You Think
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Posted by JB at 9:36 PM | PermalinkMarch 23, 2007
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A Geek's Life
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Cardinals manager, Tony LaRussa gets a DUI after being found asleep at the wheel at an intersection.
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Wonder Woman doesn't want to damage her eyelashes, Robin has to expose himself, Joker wants the world to respect his boner and much much more! My favorite is #1. I also have a nagging feeling that I might have that Betty comic (Archie) somewhere.
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576 Megapixels, but your eyes can tell much past 300 DPI.
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Via Merge - A list of factory tours in Illinois.
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The five-million-year-old skeleton, 33ft (10m) in length, was dug up in the northern grape-growing area of Tuscany.
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RIP Larry 'Bud' Melman
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"...an explosion rocked the Baghdad press conference of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Thursday after he made an unannounced visit to the Iraqi capital."
I bet Ban Ki-Moon hopped on the first plane out of Baghdad. I would have!
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March 22, 2007
Stella!
Phil Wackerfuss from Palatine, wins the Stella! Yelling Contest at Peggy Kinane's. The competition was sponsored by the Metropolis Performing Arts Centre to promote 'A Streetcar Named Desire' which opens today.
[Via Merge]
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Posted by JB at 9:01 AM | PermalinkMarch 21, 2007
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via BoingBoing - Replace the screaming girls chasing the Beatles with flesh eating zombies. Classic!
March 20, 2007
Bye Bye Bovis
Alas, Bovis is gone. If there was a full sized sedan going slowly down Northwest Highway (more often than not driven by a man in a hat), odds are it was headed for the Bovis House.
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Posted by JB at 11:07 PM | PermalinkMarch 18, 2007
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Mags wonders if she is out of touch with today's beauty products upon seeing a box of 'Fun Betty'.
March 17, 2007
Could You Tell?
Maybe you could tell by the photo on the last post that I have a new toy. It's a new 15" MacBook Pro and so far, I'm digging it. The Mac way of doing things is a little different, but so far so good. The Photo Booth feature might get more use than I thought. It's a pretty cool feature but then again who really wants to see more of my smiling face.
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Posted by JB at 11:40 PM | PermalinkLos Lobos @ Metropolis
I never know what to say after I see a concert. Los Lobos last night at the Metropolis was great. You really can't go wrong with a concert there. In such an intimate venue with great acoustics, the artist would really have to have a bad night for the show to not be at least decent. The first half of the show was mainly traditional Hispanic music (mostly Mexican but at least one Venezuelan song). After the intermission, they switched more into rock mode and hammered out a rousing version of 'Cinnamon Girl'. On their encore, all the women who wanted were pulled on stage to dance with the band
After the show, Los Lobos stuck around to sign autographs and take photos with fans. We didn't stick around for that, but I did get a cool toque and t-shirt.
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Posted by JB at 11:31 PM | Permalinklinks for 2007-03-17
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"Scientists studying pictures from Nasa's Odyssey spacecraft have spotted what they think may be seven caves on the surface of Mars."
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"Enough water is locked up at Mars' south pole to cover the planet in a liquid layer 11m (36ft) deep."
March 16, 2007
Timing Is Everything
I was going to do a post about a photo of mine being the 'Daily Photo' on the Chicago Public Radio - WBEZ 91.5 website today. Unfortunately, I got a note that they had to take my photo down, of the Air India 747 that I posted a few days ago, because there is a news story about a plane making an emergency landing at O'Hare this morning. They didn't want there to be confusion between the news story and my photo, so they took my photo down.
Oh well, timing is everything. No hard feelings WBEZ (and Andrew)!
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Posted by JB at 12:02 PM | PermalinkArlington Heights Trustee Candidates Video
Campaign signs have sprouted up all over town signaling the arrival of local election season. Polls will open on April 17th for electing Arlington Heights trustee, school, park, library and township boards.
I'm especially interested in the Village Trustee elections (as there is a certain current nasally -voiced trustee that I think needs to go). The Daily Herald and Arlington Heights Memorial Library have put together an informational video that introduces the candidates for Arlington Heights Trustee. Each candidate gets one minute to introduce themselves and give a quick pitch on why you should vote for them. Please watch and of course, vote too.
Recorded at the Arlington Heights Memorial Library.
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Posted by JB at 10:21 AM | Permalinklinks for 2007-03-16
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Bird Yummies!
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I've been waiting for a story taking this angle...
"Towards the end of The Wire's first season, Ronald "Wee-Bey" Price -- soldier to Baltimore drug lord Avon Barksdale -- gets nailed for a murder. He knows he's headed to jail for a long, long time.
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March 15, 2007
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Check out the view of the recent lunar eclipse from the view of a NASA spacecraft. Cool and eerie at the same time.
March 14, 2007
Bovis House Meets The Wrecking Ball
Drove down Northwest Highway towards the end of the afternoon and saw a fence surrounding the closed Bovis House restaurant. As I pulled closer, I saw that the back quarter of the restaurant was already leveled. Bye bye Bovis House. I assumed that someone would move in an try to make a go of it, but the parking is not all that great there. Several times I saw vehicles from the Accent Cafe (in Des Plaines I believe) in the lot and thought they might be interested in a new location.
My guess is that the space stays vacant for awhile. Then again, maybe they'll try to wedge some sort of housing in the space.
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Posted by JB at 11:23 PM | Permalinklinks for 2007-03-14
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Don't like Metallica, but you have to give this person points for creativity.
March 13, 2007
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"US stand-up comedian Richard Jeni, who was a frequent guest on the popular Tonight Show and appeared in several films, has died in an apparent suicide."
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Well this is going to be hard for him to explain to the folks back home...
"Israel has recalled its ambassador to El Salvador after he was found drunk and naked apart from bondage gear. Reports say he was able to identify himself to police only after a
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London - Waiting At O'Hare
The official start of the London vacation photos.
It was my first time at O'Hare Terminal 5 - The International Terminal; where all the exotic airlines hang out. While the British Airways plane we took was smartly attired, it didn't have the style and flair of this Air India 747. Painting the port hole windows makes all the difference.
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Posted by JB at 12:15 AM | PermalinkIn The Park
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Posted by JB at 12:12 AM | PermalinkMarch 11, 2007
Enter - A Piano Bar
Catching up on a weeks worth of email and RSS feeds and my body is still trying to get into synch with Central Standard Time.
This little local news nugget was in the pile. I've heard rumors of a piano bar coming to downtown Arlington Heights for a while. Turns out those rumors are true as the village board approved plans for the Big Shots Restaurant and Piano Lounge in the space formerly occupied by The Boiler Room (2 S. Vail Ave). Hope they can make that space work out, as it seems like a cool spot for a little music venue.
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Posted by JB at 9:57 PM | Permalinklinks for 2007-03-11
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Seeking the path to enlightenment through our felines.
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Brad Delp, lead singer of the band Boston, is found dead at age 55. Classic rock radio stations around the country prepare to squeeze block of Boston into their playlists.
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"The Pill Towel is the official weapon of the domesticated James Bond. Stored in an ordinary pill pack, a few drops of water transforms this ordinary-looking pill into a 11x9" multipurpose cloth of doom."
March 9, 2007
The Other Side Of The Pond
So, why no posts this week? London! Inga and I flew to London U.K. for vacation and just got back this afternoon.
We had a great time, though we're a little beat up by the lousy Dollar to Pound conversion rate. It was my first time outside of North America, so it was an super-special trip for me and exceeded expectations. I took over 700 photos (lots of double/triples/quadruples though) so as I post photos, I'll recap the trip.
We're tired now. Posts will start again tomorrow.
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Posted by JB at 8:26 PM | PermalinkMarch 4, 2007
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170 Swiss soldiers accidentally wander into Liechtenstein during night maneuvers. An accidental invasion. Liechtenstein has no army.
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Coop Buys a 1965 Ford Falcon Station Wagon. Sweet!
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Like I need another reason to hate Best Buy.
March 2, 2007
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Japanese car makers walk away with the best of the year honors in all auto categories with Consumer Reports. No American, Korean, or German makers. Surprisingly, there hasn't been a German car on the Consumer Reports 'best' list since 2003. The last Am
March 1, 2007
Ray!
I heard the about the song 'I'm Gonna Whip Somebody's Ass' by a person only known as Ray on 'The Show with ZeFrank'. If you haven't heard the song, it was recorded by a man named Ray for his daughter who was having a hard time at her job. He told his daughter to sing the song to herself whenever she got frustrated at work. The clip made it's way around the internet and to radio stations across the U.S. with only a few people knowing who Ray actually was.
Sports Racers (aka fans) of 'The Show with ZeFrank' started remixing the clip into full length songs and eventually a video was made. Ze put out the call to find Ray who was found to be a Minister in St.Louis. Ze traveled to meet Ray in St.Louis and give him copies of the remixes and video. The clip below is Ze's meeting/interview with Ray (or you can go to The Show to see it). Ray is seems like a great guy with an equally great story. Check out the video...
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Posted by JB at 2:32 PM | Permalinklinks for 2007-03-01
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Weird. Two videos of Robin Zander and Rick Neilsen of Cheap Trick on the children's show 'Kids Are People Too".
