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Slouch, Gorilla Tango Theatre
Monday night, I went to see Slouch, at Gorilla Tango Theatre. Its posting on the League of Chicago Theatres says this: “Three unlikely friends on the lookout for their friend Larry. Is he a friend? A...
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Getting Doored
A week or so ago, my friend John* sent me a text from the Emergency Room. He was “doored”. Riding his bicycle home from work like a good eco-commuter-getting-some-exercise, a parked car quickly and...
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BTT: Cereal
Booking through Thursday – the question was: What’s the oddest thing you’ve ever read? (You know, something NOT a book, magazine, short story, poem or article.) There is a pizza place in Chicago called...
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Tourists
The “group activity” for the conference this week was a trip into the city. The park and Navy Pier. I had to explain The Bean to the ladies from Montana and Idaho. “I think it has a real name, but I...
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Doing the Shakespeare
My awesome friend John did me a good turn by going to the Bird Walk with me on Monday. In the 90 degree heat. The joke was that my mother pledged $25 if I didn’t walk more than three miles. So that...
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Q101.com
A few months ago, Chicago lost its alternative radio station. There aren’t very many rock stations left, and Q101 was a Gen X staple. If I remember correctly, it launched the summer that I left for...
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Pictures Like this Are Why I Love the Chicago Tribune
That stupid Marilyn Monroe statue downtown during the first snowfall of the season.
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New Favorite Charity – Adopt a Classroom
I forget where I first heard of Adopt-a- Classroom, but the premise was very familiar: Teachers spend a lot of their own money for stuff needed in the classroom. School budgets are tight, parents...
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I Went to C2E2 and Didn’t Take Pictures
I had heard of the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo, but never attended. Yesterday, after my Book Club was postponed, I decided to go. A couple of authors I like were there, they were going to...
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Bernie’s Book Bank
I may have mentioned that my awesome employer allows for each of us to have two work days each year for volunteering events. Last week we spent some time at Bernie’s Book Bank. Their mission:...
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My Congressional district is the Illinois 10th. We seem to identify as Moderates, which has us sending the following people to Congress: 2010: Robert Dold – R 2012: Brad Schneider – D 2014: Robert...
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I Went on Vacation and It Was OK
My pack of friends had been talking for weeks about have a get together sometime, as COVID numbers were climbing and summer was waning. We’d also been talking about summer vacations. No one wants to...
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