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Pool Daze: No Lifeguard on Duty

By Leigh Novak

Previously: “Pool Daze: It Happened One Summer.”
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“That sounded like a pool falling!” observed Joanne Kimzante, an almost-daily poolie who never once lived in the pool’s apartment complex. Joanne was referring to one of the many construction clanks and bangs that sounded during Chicago summer days; although this particular noise, in my ears’ opinion, was no different than any other to occur that morning. Joanne’s comment was just one of the batty remarks I heard pass her vampiric mouth in all the summers of her polluting our pool.

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Posted on September 5, 2007

Worldview: The Class of 2011

The Beachwood Mindset Affairs Desk

“Each August for the past decade, as faculty prepare for the academic year, Beloit College in Wisconsin has released the Beloit College Mindset List. Its 70 items provide a look at the cultural touchstones that have shaped the lives of today’s first-year students.
“Most of the students entering College this fall, members of the Class of 2011, were born in 1989. For them, Alvin Ailey, Andrei Sakharov, Huey Newton, Emperor Hirohito, Ted Bundy, Abbie Hoffman, and Don the Beachcomber have always been dead.
“They’ve never ‘rolled down’ a car window, and to them Jack Nicholson is mainly known as the guy who played ‘The Joker.’
“As usual, they remind their elders how quickly time has passed. For them Pete Rose has never been in baseball. Abbie Hoffman’s always been dead. Johnny Carson has never been live on TV, and Nelson Mandela has always been free.”
Which is all very interesting, but not exactly scientific. For that, the good folks at Beachwood Laboratories have sprung into action and divined their own Mindset List for the Class of 2011.

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Posted on August 28, 2007

Meetup Match Game

By The Beachwood Meetup Affairs Desk

Looking for a Meetup? Thirty of the following are among the newest Chicago Meetups announced this week. Fifteen are not. Can you determine which are which? Answers below.
1. The Long Grove Dungeons & Dragons Meetup Group
2. The Westfield Mall Dungeons & Dragons Meetup Group
3. The Aurora Playgroup for Kids, Chatting for Moms
4. The PETA There’s-No-A-In-Meetup

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Posted on August 24, 2007

Chicagoetry: The City

By J.J. Tindall

THE CITY
I am just a boy from a
quiet town
The brights lights of The City got me
hangin’ round
The North Side, the West Side, the
South Side

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Posted on August 22, 2007

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