October 2009
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“We have purposefully ignored the mean spirited, malicious and untrue attacks on...”
– Sarah Palin spokeswoman Meg Stapleton responding via e-mail to Levi Johnston’s accusations that Palin calls Trig “retarded.”
Why would you use the word implied and then put quotes around blessed little angel? Is that supposed to be wink-wink nudge-nudge for the R word?
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NHL players > NBA superstars
The Edmonton Oilers have confirmed that defenseman Ladislav Smid has contracted swine flu.
The Oilers made the announcement Tuesday night following their 3-0 loss to the Colorado Avalanche. Smid did not miss any games due to his illness, and played 19 minutes 47 seconds against the Avalanche.
There are no other confirmed cases among the Oilers players, coaches and support staff, although the...
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talkingtalking:
Memory Tapes - “Bicycle”
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Do I spend way too much time on the internet or does the person who just made a balloon boy joke as a Facebook status update not spend nearly enough?
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Another ghost bike needed in Chicago →
Loyola University student Liza Whitacre loved life — especially one where she could roam freely through Chicago’s streets on a bicycle.
But a freak accident ended her life on Wednesday as she and her roommate rode their bikes through the Lakeview neighborhood.
Whitacre, of the 4900 block of North Winthrop Avenue, fell from her bike, landed underneath a truck and was run over by the...
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The Shadow Budget →
On October 15, Mayor Richard M. Daley held a press conference to break some bad news: To erase a $500 million budget deficit for next year, he would probably have to eliminate jobs, cut services, and dip into reserve funds generated by leasing the Skyway and the parking meters.
But behind the scenes, the mayor and his chief aides were proposing to spend millions of taxpayer dollars on a rehab of...
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Versus now on WOW!
Everyone will be happy to know — if you didn’t already skip over my rants on the topic — that my cable provider, Wide Open West, now has Versus. Which means that I won’t miss the seven or so Blackhawks games that are scheduled to be on it further along in the season and won’t miss the playoffs should the Hawks make it to the Conference Finals or beyond. And now I can watch hockey...
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Balloon Boy Saga Goes From Kinda Funny To Very Sad... →
soupsoup:
dailyhuff:
There can’t be anything good about Falcon Heene’s mom being seen leaving the family home with a “victim’s advocate.”
Not surprising. Have you seen the way he yelled at her then kicked something for “not putting the fucking tether down”?
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On riding outdoors when it's 45 degrees
My face, hands and feet are numb. My ears ache. My legs burn. There was a brutal headwind. I got rained on.
And you know what? It was all worth the ride.
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“Yeah, we joke about throwing the cuffs on some jagoff and tossing them in the...”
– Second City Cop, responding to calls that they should have stood behind the CPD officers caught photographing a prisoner at the G20 summit rather than railroading them like they did
Tonight I became a newspaper photographer
And it was awesome. It was cold, my hands were numb and it was muddy. But it was awesome.
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Tonight I become a newspaper photographer
It took a few months since I got added to the stringer list, but I got my first assignment. I am a newspaperman (if only for tonight).
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The Fifth Dimension - Up, Up and Away
Should have known it was fake. Who names a real...
Greatest Hoax Evar?
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Two Weeks in Forever →
An audio slideshow with the Marines of Echo company in Helmand province, Afghanistan. (via thedief)
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“Fixed-gear riders really should stop congratulating themselves for riding their...”
– Bike Snob NYC, referring to this shot from this video.
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Not a good week for Indiana veterans
The young military veteran who shot and killed himself in a Muncie movie theater late Monday has been identified as Jacob W. Sexton, 21, of Farmland.
Sexton was on leave from serving in the Afghanistan war, but was set to return, according to the coroner’s office.
Sexton was in the movie theater with three companions, two of them his brothers, watching “Zombieland.”...
MCS to play 3 shows, 3 nights in Chicago →
jessicaxmaria:
fuckyeahmotioncitysoundtrack:
December 18 - I Am The Movie
December 19 - Commit This to Memory
December 20 - Even If It Kills Me
each album from start to finish.
It’s going to be RAD!! Get your tickets!
I Am the Movie from start to finish?! Talk about taking me back to sophomore year of college! I’m in!
EDIT: Worlds would collide if they could get The Anniversary...