June 2009
120 posts
Ouch
I should have looked at the red print and listened to Sheldon Brown before I set out on my new bike over the weekend:
If you are coming off of a layoff of months or years, start with very short rides, maybe a mile or two, no more. Only gradually should you increase your ride distance. This may seem frustrating, but it does take a while to re-accustom your derrière to cycling. Anybody in decent...
May 2009
138 posts
I hate the Detroit Red Wings with all my heart
But how can you argue against the toughness of Jonathan Ericsson? Dude was in the hospital on Wednesday for surgery to get his appendix out and was on the ice tonight in Detroit’s Game 1 victory over the Penguins.
That’s dedication.
You stay classy, Catholics →
A SENIOR Vatican figure, Spanish Cardinal Antonio Canizares, prefect for the Congregation of the Divine Worship, this week appeared to downplay the findings of the Ryan report when suggesting that the millions of lives lost through abortion represent a much more serious crime against humanity than clerical sex abuse.
Speaking in the context of an abortion debate prompted by a Spanish government...
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nedhepburn:
Daft Punk “Encore (Alive 2007)”
This...
Just got talked out of a single-speed/fixie
Losing hipster cred by the second!
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Real Housewives of Chicago now casting →
A show revealing the lives of upper-echelon housewives — Botox parties, tennis matches and all the drama in between — is coming to Chicago. Towers Productions is casting for the Midwestern premiere of a housewives show similar to Bravo’s “Real Housewives,” which has focused on Orange County, New York, Atlanta and New Jersey.
I think Towers needs to look just...
Raise a glass for the Chicago Blackhawks
For a team whose marketing campaign this season was One Goal—meaning to make the playoffs after missing them by only a couple of points last season—losing to the defending Stanley Cup champions in the Western Conference Finals in a hard-fought series can only be seen as a positive.
And don’t let the 4-1 series tally from the Conference Finals or Detroit Red Wings “fans” fool...
Don’t Stop Believin’
The...
“Gordon S. Wood, in his 1992 book, “The Radicalism of the American Revolution,”...”
– Rev. Richard T. Zuelch, Letter to the Editor, Los Angeles Times, August 1995 (via soupsoup)
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What is a degree worth these days?
First my alma mater, Columbia College Chicago, offers a course on Zombies in Popular Media, and now Aurora University is offering a seminar titled “Got Blood? Vampires in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture.”
These courses are way more interesting than reading about old dead white guys, but college-level classes zombies and vampires? Isn’t that what Gawker is for?
You're 25, time to grow up. →
(via soupsoup: lesbenjamin)
This will pertain to me next week. FML.
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Milli Vanilli - “Blame It On the...
WatchYou’d think that since Detroit earned the moniker of “Hockeytown” and the Blackhawks/Red Wings rivalry is one of the oldest and most heated in professional that at least some of these people could name a player on the opposing team. You’d think…
excitablehonky:
jeffcagle:
And we have ourselves a series again
There’s still a lot of talk about that hit on Havlat and what penalty (if any) should have been called. I thought when I first saw it that it was just a clean, vicious hit with a momentarily frightening outcome. Puck Daddy thought skates left the ice upon impact, but Empty Netters seems to believe Kronwell left his feet to...
notthatkindagay:
Top 15 weirdly specific animal blogs
jeffcagle:
#7 FuckYeahSharks
Wait, hold up. You got a fuckyeahsharks book deal?
Unless they know something we don’t, it’s just a typo on the part of heylookanimals.com
Top 15 weirdly specific animal blogs →
#7 FuckYeahSharks
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ZZ Top - “Sharp Dressed Man”
So happy...
And we have ourselves a series again
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On fast food
Other than one drunken craving for steak quesadillas in the summer of 2007, I haven’t eaten Taco Bell since 2002. I’ve had Wendy’s once in the past two years, no McDonalds since I tried to soak up a hangover with an extra-value meal in 2004 and ended up sicker than I was from the booze to begin with, and no Burger King since at least 2001.
That all said, I’ll be eating at...
WatchKris Versteeg is quickly becoming one of my favorite Blackhawks. With his off-the-cuff answers and his memorization of Fergie’s “Glamorous,” he’s giving Adam Burish a run for his money as the locker room funny man.
And with his performance in the post-season he should be bringing home the Calder Cup to give Chicago back-to-back Rookie of the Year honors
“I am profoundly sorry and deeply ashamed that children suffered in such awful...”
– Cardinal Sean Brady, leader of Ireland’s 4 million Catholics, on the alleged beatings, rapes and humiliation of thousands of children in reform schools run by the Church. Just another man-made evil perpetrated under the “holy” guise of religion
DownBeat celebrating 75 years on jazz stage →
DownBeat—which calls itself the world’s oldest jazz magazine—turns 75 this year. And the big anniversary has stirred memories at DownBeat’s main office in Elmhurst, a place where photos of jazz greats line the walls, where mail crates overflow with constantly arriving CDs and where a phone call could be anyone from Tony Bennett to Diana Krall. The venerable jazz publication...
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tanya77:
Last night we were lucky enough to walk around downtown Chicago with the cool Jeff Cagle. Thanks for driving out to meet us, Jeff!
Thanks again for the invite! It was great seeing you, Alan and Jill. Next time the FM78 crew blows into the Windy City we’ll have to get a Tumblr meetup scheduled so the west coast can meet the midwest coast.
“A diet book should have two pages in it: “Page 1 – Eat right. Page 2 – Exercise....”
– Bill Maher (via excitablehonky)
Does the journalism world implode when a NYT...
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd has admitted to using a paragraph virtually word-for-word from a prominent liberal blogger without attribution. Dowd acknowledged the error in an e-mail to the Huffington Post on Sunday, the Web site reported. The Times corrected her column online to give proper credit for the material to Talking Points Memo editor Josh Marshall. The newspaper is expected...
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Error forces AL pitcher to hit →
An error on the Tampa Bay Rays’ official lineup card forced starting pitcher Andy Sonnanstine to bat in Sunday’s game against Cleveland.
The Rays listed Ben Zobrist and Evan Longoria as the third baseman on the card given to the umpires before the start of the game. Longoria was supposed to be the designated hitter.
After going hitless in his first two at-bats, Sonnanstine had an...