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April 1, 2005

I guess it's not just me

avoision: april fool's! My WEBSITE!!!!!!!!11 04.01.05 FIRST POST Hey, thanks for stopping by. This is my website and you should totally bookmark it like RIGHTNOW!!!!!!! I'm going to be making tons of updates here, so you won't want to mis out!!!!!!! Check back everyday because you never know when [read more...]

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April 2, 2005

Matt and Mel Move

Today, I went to go help Matt (aka Tha.Riddla) and Mel with their move. Showed up around 11AM, and took a quick survey of the place. Overall, it was me, Matt, Matt's boss Mark, and Will (aka RogueDesigner). There wasn't really all that much stuff, all told. But here's [read more...]

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Justin @ Danny's

Hey, I think I know that guy. Also, I found out that Justin was opening for Jeff Parker. Justin, spinning the vinyl. I gotta say - for someone who had his first gig not too long ago, it seems that Justin's progressed pretty quickly. Getting a DJ gig at [read more...]

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April 3, 2005

Updates!

Moving Day: Matt and Mel Justin @ Danny's [read more...]

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*sore*

Man, my legs are totally shot. I figured I'd be sore, but I didn't realize how out of shape I was. I think the stairs were what did me in. Ah well, a good excuse to spend a Sunday just lazing around. [read more...]

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I Am Stamos

I happened to catch a promo for Image Union tonight, an indie film show that's on PBS here. I'm not a regular viewer, but I just happen to know of the show. Tonight though, I saw a brief trailer for a short film called I Am Stamos. It had [read more...]

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Make It Sparkle

Silver Pills, by Tobias Wong. Shamelessly stolen from Ektopia. [read more...]

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April 4, 2005

Thinking About Outside

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Exchanging Gifts: Chicago

So a pretty incredible thing happened to me a few weeks back. I got this great email from someone named Rachel, who had stumbled across my site during that window when a lot of folks got interested in that pi experiment. She happened to wander over to the blog, and [read more...]

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Lava Lounge

Hopped over to Lava Lounge for a bit, and hung out there waiting for Justin. Had a few drinks on my own, and talked a bit to Tracy, the bartender. She's been under the weather lately, and wasn't doing so hot at all. Doing so bad, in fact, that she [read more...]

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From Jerusalem

Here's the gift I got from Rachel: a cool lion statuette. I need to get some nice paints for this guy, and color him up some. I think this officially counts as the one gift that's travelled the farthest distance to get to me. [read more...]

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April 5, 2005

Either I got Sick, or I have the worst hangover ever

What in god's name happened today? I felt queasy all day, to the point where I couldn't even eat lunch. I don't think I went on that bad of a bender last night, but apparently - something happened. Too much to drink? Did I catch Tracy's cold? Did the chicken [read more...]

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April 6, 2005

Dinner and a Movie

This is a bad pic, but one of the few I have of the rest of the evening. I bought some Guiness and Harp on the way to Justin's, and we were working on some Black and Tans prior to dinner. Justin and Stu got some potatoes going, some [read more...]

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Lunch with Justin and Stu

Decided to get out of the house today, and walked over to Division to meet up with Justin and Stu (who's in town again for another photo gig). Took some photos en route. Not sure how this guy got up here. Are Tazmanian Devils indigenous to the Midwest? Signs of [read more...]

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Everyone, Meet Kashif... Again!

It wasn't too long ago when Kashif first stepped in to our department. But fast forward a few months, and I'm excited to say that he's now officially a part of Emmis Interactive. Woot! Today, he stopped by Justin's apartment to discuss some things, and I stuck around just [read more...]

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Walking Home

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Krazy and Ignatz

Got this great gift from Justin, as a thank-you for looking in on Nebula a week or so ago. Awesome! [read more...]

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Artful Dodging

Got a call from Liz and Steph tonight, asking me out for a drink. I originally said no (as I was planning to head over to Justin's for dinner), but ended up stopping by for a quick round prior to. I also met Charlie tonight, who happens to be [read more...]

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April 7, 2005

Updates!

Ok. I've been bad the past few days. Here are some long overdue updates: 04/04/2005 04/06/2005 [read more...]

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I Am Here

Google Maps. Try entering in your address and zooming in. Then, click that "Satellite" link in the top right corner. Clear some space in front of you, for when your jaw drops. [read more...]

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Random Downer

Not sure why, but I'm feeling totally crappy right now. Sad for no good reason at all. It's not a crippling sadness, but a general unhappiness with something... I apparently can't identify. This sucks. I'd like to shake it, but I don't even know what it is. [read more...]

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April 8, 2005

Home on a Friday Night

Felt like staying in tonight, and just pulling the hermit thing again. From the sounds of it, Justin's got some bad ex-girlfriend mojo going on right now. And I wonder if that's not the thing that had its hand on my shoulder last night. We were talking a bit on [read more...]

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Switch Up

Since I stayed up late last night catching up on the blog, I thought I'd try to see if I could do this whole "advance" thing. I'd like to see if I could get a day ahead, so that this thing isn't always in the past tense. Sort of cheating [read more...]

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Your Mother is SOOOOO FAT...

This is one of the many reasons I absolutely love the Internet. Big thanks to Knevel for finding this gem of a video. [read more...]

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Ted Kooser

Ok - where has my head been? Ted Kooser has been our Poet Laureate since last August, and I've been oblivious this whole time. Jebus. And the only reason I know this? He recently won the Pulitzer for his collection Delights and Shadows. And I'd like to take a [read more...]

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The Time of Their Lives

by Ted Kooser Today my ducks are eating windfalls under the broken Jonathan tree— nine white Pekins laughing like nuns on a picnic, rolling the apple around in the grass with their orange bills, having the time of their lives. Nothing escapes them. Near them, a red leaf rides the [read more...]

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April 9, 2005

Sometimes

Headed out to Clubfoot with Justin tonight. I should have known by my initial reactions on walking into the place that it wasn't going to be that great (or long) of an evening. I barely sipped my drink, and after an hour or two, I started to get fidgety. I [read more...]

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West Wing: Season Four

I bought Season 4 of The West Wing today. It's like I now have my own vial of crack around the house. I'm still amazed that, as popular as this show is, it's only got the crappiest of websites. For people like me (who don't really watch all that [read more...]

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April 10, 2005

Walking Down Milwaukee

I got an email from my friend Matt today, letting me know about a show of his at Foundation Gallery. Turns out that today was the last day, and when I mentioned this to Chris, he seemed interested in going with. My intent was to just hoof it down there, [read more...]

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Foundation Gallery

Foundation Gallery, entrance. A few materials by the front door. It was kind of cool to notice that Bail magazine was here, as was a You Are / I Am book. I't's kind of nice - and makes me me feel like I'm hanging around the right group of [read more...]

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Walking Up Elston

Chris and I said our goodbyes, and headed out towards Elston. Outside the gallery, I caught the eye of this cute girl who was inside and... I really should have said something, in retrospect. I didn't really have anything more elegant than "wow you're really pretty" in my head, [read more...]

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On the Way Home

I walked up Damen and stopped in to Filter to grab a cup of coffee. There, at the trisection, I came across two guys working an incredibly ancient camera on a tripod. I got talking with them, and learned that the camera they're using is a really old WWII [read more...]

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April 11, 2005

2:26 AM

Can't. Stop. Watching. West. Wing. In about 30 more minutes, this will cease to be some kind of "quirky" affinity for a television show, and start to take on a problem that may actually require intervention by friends and loved ones. I think I've watched 3 episodes, straight through. Gonna [read more...]

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Kung Fu Hustle

Ok. Holy shit - go see Kung Fu Hustle. I guarantee that you've seen nothing like it. Hysterically funny in a whole different way that you're probably not used to. If I had to categorize it, I'd say it's a slapstick Chinese comedy, with a hell of a lot [read more...]

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Oh yeah? Well, one time I...

Post-movie, we all went our separate ways. Chris and his roomies all headed home; me, Justin, Stu and Ben all stopped by Danny's for a quick drink. After hanging there a bit, we meandered over to Lava Lounge, and had a few more. This is totally weird, but... of particular [read more...]

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April 12, 2005

Degrees of Right and Wrong

From: Will To: Felix Subject: The West Wing If unnatural love for the West Wing is wrong, then I don't wanna be right! ----- -------- [read more...]

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Who's Next?

This is something I've been meaning to post on here for a while now. This is a site that we launched recently at work: Who's Next Online. Basically, this site gives you the ability to listen to mp3 files that other people have posted, of their own music. It's [read more...]

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April 13, 2005

Wasting Real Time in Imaginary Places

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April 14, 2005

What's this now?

From: Andy To: Felix Subject: Yo What's your address, got a DVD I think you might be interested in. ----- -------- [read more...]

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Walking Home

I think the red ashtrays had me seeing red all day. Screw you! Get your own f***ing paper. [read more...]

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Andy's Deli

On our way back from Foundation Gallery last Sunday, Chris and I both passed by this deli on Division. We both remarked about how we wondered about the food, and right then and there decided we would have lunch here this week. Around noon, we met up with Justin [read more...]

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