Abbey Road

Nothing like a few people you know going up to the Pearly Gates to make someone sit up and take notice. While I didn’t know Tim Russert or George Carlin personally, I felt like I did since I’ve watched Russert on Meet The Press for years and Carlin … well heck, he an icon [...]

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It’s not fair that all the cool guys die early … first Tim Russert and now George Carlin, a man who set the world on its ear as he taught us to truly think about what we actually said rather than what we think we meant.
He was the Hippy, Dippy Weatherman the first time I [...]

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I walked out in the alley on Saturday near my home just north of Chicago and was surprised to see a bunch of kids all staring up at the azure-blue sky to the north. “Hey guys. What’s going on?” I asked. One small boy said nothing and only pointed up to the sky. That’s when [...]

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I found out today that my 2006 Cooper is worth more now today than when I bought it two years ago. How can that be? I remember the old story … new cars loose a chuck of their value as soon as you drive them off the showroom floor. So what gives?
I read a story [...]

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I was caught the other day listening in the car to the Rush Limbaugh talk show that runs around midday in Chicago. I told my passenger friend the truth. What else could I do?
I listen to Rush. Not everyday of course, but probably once a week. And you should too. Here’s why.
If you never [...]

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Even if you’re not a Chicagoan, you’ll probably recognize the stamp of our own Mayor Daley here as graphic designer Ken Smith - better known around You Tube as ArtistMac - turns his own brand of wry humor at the City that Works … or at least the city that hopes to work well enough [...]

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Remember the buzz about Senator Barack Obama not being black enough to run as the African American candidate for president? Obviously that wasn’t true as the primaries have shown.
But he obviously is not mean enough to fight the same dirty campaign Hillary Clinton would like to draw him into. As Bill Clinton said the [...]

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As a Chicagoan, I grew up on the likes of John Belushi, Dan Akroyd and Gilda Radner who all spent time at Second City here before hitting the stage at Saturday Night Live in the 70s. Way too often I laughed till I cried.
The last ten years or so I must simply be getting old [...]

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Only in Illinois, a state that seems to be able to put more governors in the slammer than any other - George Ryan a Republican went to jail this year for corruption - and who knows how many before Ryan - don’t ask about after Ryan, at least not yet - could we come up [...]

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Every so often you run across something that is so ridiculous that you can’t even believe one, that anyone produced it and put it up without giving it a second thought or that two, it is still in use.
The folks at Spam Arrest need to walk over and have a chat with their marketing [...]

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