July 2009
100 posts
Still listening to MJ nearly a week later, just...
Nearly 2 million Michael Jackson songs, more than... →
notthatkindagay:
Michael Jackson sold between 300,000 and 400,000 albums in the three fleeting days following his death, along with roughly 1.8 million individual digital tracks in that same span, according to Billboard Magazine.
By comparison, Jackson’s albums sold just 10,000 copies in the week before his death, while digital sales capped at 40,000.
The new figures - based on weekly...
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Speaking of college...
One time I hid from the cops in Boner Party’s basement. Only they didn’t go by Boner Party yet, just Ned and Gus. It was a garden/basement unit on Newport Avenue. The party upstairs got broken up and I was just a couple months shy of 21 and didn’t want a ticket.
Had I known there’d be mentions of book deals on Gawker involving them I would have stolen Ned’s grinder...
On college memories of befriending Chicago's...
College is the time when, ironically, I came to respect police. Whereas in most college towns the police have little better to do than figure out ways to covertly infiltrate parties with undercover officers and write tickets to generate revenue for the city (I once got a $200 ticket for holding an empty plastic cup that smelled like beer at Illinois State University), but when you go to school in...
June 2009
120 posts
"But in the Jackson story, there really is no... →
soupsoup:
charitini:
This is not only silly, it’s factually incorrect. There are all sorts of issues arising from Michael Jackson’s death: Who gets custody of the kids? How does the estate get distributed? What happens to that Beatles catalog? What happense to his unreleased music? What’s up with that second autopsy? What about that doctor?
There are secondary stories too: How much does death...
On using Facebook as an online dieting tool
The only thing better than people in their mid-20s who’ve been on Facebook since 2005 and still post every blurry picture from their weekend — where you’d swear they had a Miller Lite can and aviators surgically attached — is when you start from the very beginning of their timeline and work your way to the present and see the results of all those 12-oz curls over the past few...
Brooklyn Radio Mix - Alt Link →
1331nyc:
If for one reason or another you feel the need to circumvent the Brookly Radio website, now you can.
Download this if your Monday is dragging or you’d just like to throw an impromptu afternoon dance party. Stream it here.
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I just had a great, long post written up about how I chose to not go down and interview the obese people standing in line in Chicago at “The Biggest Loser Auditions” and went for a 20+ mile bike ride to do my part to be fit and healthy instead of contributing to the rising health insurance costs I am forced to be paying despite my good health, but maybe said post was way too ruthless...
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“He said, ‘Oh, yeah, wanna fire it?’ I got a cigarette hanging in my...”
– Johnny Depp, on his first encounter with Hunter S. Thompson and complimenting him on the 12-gauge shotgun hanging on his wall
NYTimes: Chicago’s New Wave of Microbrews →
ennuipartie:
This fall, the Revolution Brewing Company will open a 20,000-square foot brew pub in the Logan Square neighborhood in a 100-year-old building that formerly housed a newspaper printer. […]
About a mile away, on a sleepy residential stretch of Damen Avenue, Bar DeVille sits conspicuously among the old graystones and single-family homes of the Ukrainian Village neighborhood....
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I read too much HRO. I just read the name...
Or maybe I’m just dyslexic.
“The type of fame that Elvis had and that I think Michael Jackson has, the...”
– Bruce on fame and tragedy. (via fuckyeahtheboss) via : via : via
I cannot believe this exists →
newsandbooze:
Does this mean I can work from home?
I know what I’m doing tonight.
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On news outlets
TMZ might not be highly regarded as the ‘most important source of news,’ but can we all agree they were the first to confirm the biggest celebrity story in recent history?
“I’ve lost my little brother today. Part of my soul has gone with him”
– Quincy Jones on Michael Jackson, via Brian Williams
“If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and then...”
– Michael Jackson, “Man in the Mirror”
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Sources: Dad not cooperating in slaying of... →
The father of a 9-year-old girl slain in Englewood is refusing to cooperate as police question two suspects in the shooting, police sources say.
Police Supt. Jody Weis said this morning the shooting, which also wounded the girl’s father and two of his friends, was gang-related and he credited the neighborhood for helping investigators.
Sources said the father may have been an intended...
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Insensitivity in action
I just read that NBC’s “The Biggest Loser” will be casting in Chicago again on Saturday. The last time I wrote about TBL auditions in Chicago I ended up being called a “true ignorant jackass” by a commenter for pointing out the irony in hundreds of people spending eight hours waiting in line for a chance to be humiliated about their weight in front of millions of...
On saving someone's day, then wasting good karma
Driving home from taking a few photos this afternoon I saw a guy running down the road, shirtless and carrying a backpack in his arms instead of on his back — I assume to keep his shoulders from chafing. At one point he swung it from one arm to another and something dropped out of the bag but he kept on going without noticing. As I passed I saw that it was his wallet, so I pulled over and got out,...
Masked gunmen rob McDonald's in Oswego →
Two masked gunman entered a McDonald’s in west suburban Oswego early this morning, struck a worker with the butt of a handgun and robbed the restaurant before fleeing on foot, police say.
One of the robbers was described as white, 5-foot,5-inches and thin, wearing a black hooded sweatshirt. The other was a black man, 5-foot, 5-inches and thin, wearing a maroon hooded sweatshirt with the...
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Intervention: The Legacy Of Columbine Continues To... →
molls:
Damn.
Sorry to break it to Jason, but I thought that the myth that Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were bullied and targeted jocks had been debunked…
Cullen concluded that the killers weren’t part of the Trench Coat Mafia, that they weren’t bullied by other students and that they didn’t target popular jocks, African-Americans or any other group. A school shooting...
Chicago or Baghdad?
At least 46 people shot. At least 6 dead (we aren’t sure if that’s in addition to the 46 or part of the 46). Someone can tell us if they count the “weekend” as Friday afternoon to Sunday afternoon, but the totals make the rate at either just under or just over 1 casualty per hour. Warm weather. And getting warmer.
Second City Cop dishes out the figures we won’t...
I've watched The Dark Knight about 10 times and...
“One time I was in a bar in Shreveport and had a woman tell me I looked like an...”
– Andy Bellefleur, Deputy Sheriff of Bon Temps, La.
