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I want to make sexy time!
Posted on September 13, 2011
Ten Years Gone
By J.J. Tindall
TEN YEARS GONE
Again: For CDR Dan F. Shanower, USN, who was my friend.
I.
You linger in my mind, an art-deco
showplace
built in 1921,
recently restored to its original
cathedral-like glory,
where Frank Sinatra
used to play
seven shows a day.
You permeate my grief, designed by
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill,
completed in 1973
and still
the tallest building in America.
They actually evacuated it
after you were killed
at the Pentagon.
Posted on September 9, 2011
The Week in WTF
By David Rutter
1. DuPage County, WTF?
The reality of public life and what constitutes free speech has tilted so far into the twilight that spending public money this way appears to have no antidote. Who knows, maybe real folks who work for their wages and hope to live normal lives have become so inured to this trend that it no longer seems philosophically preposterous. Even Alice eventually forgot she was in a bad dream.
It didn’t take the Supreme Court ruling on “corporate free speech” to validate this insanity, but eventually the inertial forces make this oozing slide back to the primordial pool as inevitable as a noxious glacier.
Posted on September 9, 2011
The Chicago Opener: The Best Card Trick In The World
By The Beachwood Chicago Way Affairs Desk
“Chicago Opener also known as Red Hot Mama is a card routine in which the back of a freely selected card changes color (e.g. from blue to red) and is set aside,” IllusionWiki explains. “A second card is selected and the red-backed card is seen to have transformed into the second selection.”
Here’s a tutorial from Yovah Magic, uploaded this weekend.
Posted on September 6, 2011
The Week in WTF
By David Rutter
1. Sara Lee, WTF?
WTF’s bullshit meter was wailing aplenty this week with word from Sara Lee’s boss sodium sifter Christopher J. Fraleigh who apparently managed an entire speech on the health effects of Sara Lee products without ever coming close to a true statement.
His basic theory is that President Obama is making his life hell by requiring Sara Lee products to contain less sodium. The horror.
Sara Lee’s new corporate motto – “Fatter Kids; Fatter Profits” – was not in evidence in this particular dog-and-pony exhibit.
Posted on September 2, 2011
Chicago’s Oldest House Is Turning 175
By The Beachwood History Desk
“On Saturday, September 10, the Prairie Avenue Historic District of the city’s South Loop will be the site of the 5th Annual Festival on Prairie Avenue. At the Festival, hosted by the Prairie District Neighborhood Alliance, visitors will experience an atmosphere of Prairie Avenue in the 19th century with activities spotlighting a unique variety of art, history, architecture, music and family-style play. A special emphasis of this year’s festival will pay tribute to the 175th anniversary of the Henry B. Clarke House, Chicago’s oldest (1836) and the 125th anniversary of the John G. Glessner House, an internationally-known architectural treasure (1886).”
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A look inside the oldest house in Chicago.
Posted on August 30, 2011
Cardboard Chicago
Uploaded to YouTube by DramaticBubbles
“This is a cardboard version of Chicago made for a project with Otisforpresident. This isn’t the project, this is just spare clips put together so I could remember this for always.”
Posted on August 29, 2011
The Week in WTF
By David Rutter
1. The Tiawanda Moore Case, WTF?
As legal case to be prosecuted, this was always a stinky bag of horse hockey.
So why prosecute a case so ripe with the likelihood of jury nullification? No valid excuse except that this verdict makes it almost impossible that another Illinois citizen will be prosecuted this way again.
It also suggests that the Chicago police Internal Affairs Division seems just as much interested in thwarting investigations of police conduct as it does in pursuing them. Once the jury heard the tape, the law would not matter to a jury.
Hail, Tiawanda.
Posted on August 26, 2011
70th and Western
The Week in WTF
By David Rutter
1. Property Taxes, WTF?
Sort of about time, don’t you think?
The same principle might also be true for private universities that function the same way – Northwestern University, for example. Or maybe the Catholic Church?
Posted on August 18, 2011