June 2008
27 posts
I saw Wall-E two days ago… which despite my...
Off I go!
Sushi, burritos, my parents, and who knows what else awaits me in sunny PACA…
this one, this one i'll miss a lot →
Six years ago I moved to Chicago. I mailed myself three boxes and arrived with two huge suitcases.
On monday, I move back. It’s a little shocking when I think about what I’m going back with. Eight boxes (three are books) and two huge suitecases.
When your life (or the consumption aspect of it) can be summed up in a mass accumulation of five more boxes… it’s a strange...
The poodle, too? Now that's cold...
Charges were filed today against a 25-year-old man for the murder of an elderly woman in a South Shore apartment building earlier this week, police said. Dorothy Brown Taylor, 71, and her poodle Frisky were killed Monday. Danelo Solis of the 3400 block of West 37th Street, is accused of raping Taylor and then bludgeoning her and her dog to death, police said.
“But the bird’s favorite targets appeared to be passing bikers, who flailed...”
– Male blackbirds intent on protecting turf — chicagotribune.com I can’t believe the biggest risk to urban bikers is no longer being doored, or hit by a car — it’s being attacked by birds.
Small, lovely things
When you take out a bathing suit from a dresser drawer, and even though it’s been in there for probably eight or nine months, it still has the smell of beach and sun screen.
Texting Your Way To Love // Current →
oliviaisferosch:
Embarassing how everyone I know can relate to the exact situations in here. When I am to pen that book chapter, L’ops? Scrabble chat FTW.
They forgot the section on when it gets really bad — sexting.
Watch
An essay on wine I wrote for a recent application
My grandmother, Bobbie, was recently diagnosed with ovarian cancer. We shouldn’t have been surprised—she’d already battled breast cancer twice—but it still came as a shock, especially to me, since at the time I was living halfway across the country and would only hear occasional snippets of her day to day life. She quickly began chemotherapy, which zapped the cancer cells, her energy, and any...
And the interwebs responds in kind →
No idea what the Tastespotting story is, but pretty crazy that someone already has a replacement site up.
Time Out Chicago: Your new summer job →
I like being paid—and paid well—to blog.
“Your shy pencil can be a huge marker.”
– more awesome spam.
I got stimulated and it feels awesome.
“Members at Lord’s Gym in Clermont, Fla., join in a kickboxing class, while a...”
– A Gym Designed to Cater to Christians - NYTimes.com
(best caption I’ve read in weeks)
“Chicago is in Illinois, one of the many states in this country that does not sit...”
– Uno’s, Chicago’s Original Deep-Dish Pizza | Slice Pizza Blog
Fist pumps? →
Just what is the close-fisted high five called anyway? Inquiring journalists want to know.
“You look really stupid laura.oppenheimer”
– Subject line of spam email I received this morning. How does that make me want to watch their porn/enlarge my nonexistent penis?
The Aims of Education Address →
Of all the things I listened to over my tenure at the U of C, this is the most everlasting in my memory (high praise, for a speech given during my very first week on campus).
For the records, l'ops...
I stand corrected. But why, oh why, would they do this? oliviaisferosch: The other copy of Bon Appetit I have is also free from stuff on the cover. TRICKY, INDEED.
This weekend
Things I saw: A woman walking her cat in a harness in Logan Sqaure. The Broadway in Chicago presentation of Avenue Q. A man kiss his muscle in an attempt to intimidate another man at a concert at House of Blues. Ted Leo at Do Division. Things I ate: Mango with lemon and salt from a street vendor. A delicious omlette with ramp pesto from Lula Cafe. A bacon and egg sandwich (heavy on the bacon,...