February 2009
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Buffalo Chow →
Wings aren’t the only item on the menu in The Queen City, although that wouldn’t be such a bad thing.
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“Basically, the political philosophy of the GOP right now seems to consist of...”
– Paul Krugman - Economist, NY Times Columnist, Nobel Laureate and unabashed non-Conservative
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Watch“Prices” - from Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
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This Week's Canceled DVR 'Season Pass'
Dollhouse - DOA on Fox Friday night, laid in a matching burial plot beside Sarah Connor’s rusting metal bones.
Eli Stone and Dirty Sexy Money - Had hoped ABC would chum their remaining unaired episodes during the post-February Sweeps doldrums. Online, they say. Like that will go over great with SAG.
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Kraft Unveils New Brand Identity →
New design on left: as blandly generic and uninspiring as it gets. Do Amazon and Pepsi know their smiles have been co-opted? Does Wal•Mart recognize their recently unveiled flower? The conglom says the trusted logo stalwart (right) will remain on specific products. If it’s not on my Macaroni & Cheese carton, I’m outa here. Like their old jingle used to say,...
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Sparks →
Was curiously tempted to take in the perennially-current musical chameleons at their UCLA gig on the 14th. Perhaps I didn’t feel as ageless, so I just took a mini re-appreciation tour on YouTube. How LA-based art/pop/glam/rock songsmithery found its way to a tween in Buffalo is lost to mushy memory, though it was most-likely the song “Tits” on Indiscreet (left).
Get In The...
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CubWorld: Wrigley Field Cam →
Sure, Hohokam’s where the action is for the next six weeks, but on April 13th it’s a whole new ballgame.
And what’s this shit about the Cubbies not visiting the Dodgers until August? They’re in San Diego twice before making it to LA. Thanks for the knuckler, MLB schedulers.
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A Flowchart That Describes 90% Of All Porno Movies →
Pizza delivery has its perks. (via)
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The Crisis Of Credit Visualized →
Entertaining. Concise. Scary as shit. CNBC ought to pinkslip their stable of hair-on-fire windbags and corporate fat cat apologists, and marathon these videos during the trading day instead.
Most disturbing, though, is that, once again, it takes a cartoon to cut the crusts off of an important social/economic/political issue in order for my gray matter to want to eat it.
I do remain comforted by...
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AlphaDictionary: The 100 Most Beautiful Words In... →
By no means a panoply (#79), but felicitous (#37) to a wordie. (Via)
A few to ponder:
blandiloquent - Beautiful and flattering (#7)
colporteur - A book peddlar (#13)
niveous - Snowy, snow-like (#70)
sempiternal - Forever and ever (#97)
Personal addendum:
please
thanks
forgive
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Cubs Launch 2009 Advertising Campaign →
A sampling of what’s coming to a billboard near you (you Chicagoans, anyway). Good, but not great. Too wordy? Maybe. Whatever it is, it just feels klunky.
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The Moth →
Live storytelling. Campfire, optional.
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“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all...”
– Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States, b. February 12, 1809
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"Uncle Jim"
by Peter Meinke
What the children remember about Uncle Jim is that on the train to Reno to get divorced so he could marry again he met another woman and woke up in California. It took him seven years to untangle that dream but a man who could sing like Uncle Jim was bound to get in scrapes now and then: he expected it and we expected it. Mother said, it’s because he was the middle child,...
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Muzak Files For Bankruptcy →
“Express elevator to insolvency, going down.”
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Biddy Murphy Celtic Goods →
If it’s Celtic, or of it’s green, you’ll probably find something here to tickle your Irish fancy. And now I’ve got a hankerin’ for corned beef. Dammit.
(Disclaimer: Owner is a friend of Mom’s) </shamelessplug>
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Actor James Whitmore Dies At 87 →
He was pinched in half by giant ants. He was Harry Truman. He pitched Miracle Grow. He went to my high school.
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“Ooh. He just blew up that kid.”
– Liz Lemon, from 30 Rock
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Chicago Tribune: 'Sox Fan In Oval Office — How... →
Yeah, well. Can’t wait to see the expression on the President’s face when he’s handed his ceremonial Cubs jersey while congratulating the 2009 World Series Champs in the rose garden. Don’t spurn the North Side love, Mr. President. Wear it.
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Bills' Smith And Wilson Voted To NFL Hall Of Fame →
All-time sack leader Smith and team owner Ralph Wilson. Even without rings, you’ll eventually see most of the stars from those 90’s AFC Championship teams enshrined, and justifiably so. Go Bills!
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29 Disturbingly Creative Ads For The Environment →
From the WWF’s Forests for Life campaign. (via)
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Digital TV Transgressions
House Delays Digital TV Transition
Wow. Never saw that one coming. </sarcasm>
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“Any idiot can face a crisis - it’s day to day living that wears you out.”
– Anton Chekhov (via)
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