WXRT Radio Chicago – On-Air Personality Bios – Lin Brehmer On my way in this morning, I was listening to Lin Brehmer on WXRT and caught the tail end of his show. For some reason, Terri Hemmert was attempting to lure him back into the studio from the window ledge. All very funny, but there was an undercurrent of something that sounded like Management was screwing around with the talent. I have no idea if this was just silly morning schtick, or if Lin’s been let go, because I missed all but the last 5 minutes. The “bumper” song to…
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The concert was awesome. This picture can’t really do them justice, especially with the bad backlighting, so I’m hoping that David’s pictures came out better with the good camera. This time in addition to their usual sort of repertoire, they played one original piece by trumpeter Bobby Thorpe, a compostion on September 11th. It was a really accomplished and moving piece; you can hear influences from the age of Baroque to the age of Jazz. They report they’ll have a new CD out soon – I was urging them to see if their new management can get them up on…
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Tickets: $12.00 senior/students/advance, $15.00 at the door. Synergy’s concert at Holy Moly is today at 4pm – the musicians will arrive some hours before that and I have a few errands to run and chores to do after church. It’s going to be an exhausting but fun day, and I’m really curious to see how many people turn up after my various attempts to get the word out. I was listening to their CDs “Transmissions” and “Baroque and Renaissance” last night and was struck again at the high quality of their musicianship – it’s exciting to be able to host…
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This is Ginny’s brain, not on drugs, at the end of the work day and on the way to Holy Moly to do some emergency cleaning. As you can see, she is not a happy camper. This was the scene yesterday as I drove away (finally) from work after a long frustrating day trying to keep up with about 4 different accounts’ worth of niggling little problems, ticketing errors, questions, last-minute hotel group changes, and a couple of things that I can’t even categorize except that I now know that I had the information I so badly needed at the…
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Okay, this photo has been making the rounds of the Net; I spotted it at BB: Now, all of the news items I’ve seen (and oddly, though it’s an AP photo, it’s kind of hard to find) are from “blue-stater” sites, so they’re all trumpeting how the loveable old battle-hardened codgers were sitting on their hands and not clapping for the Prez while he blathered on repeating the 9-1-1 mantra (did you know that September 11th was the opening salvo in our war on terrorism? I did not know that). Anyway, the gentleman in the photo is identified as Bill…
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Hey, it’s late summer! Time for a good story about a guy on a bulldozer going on a rampage, like this one: Man Charged With Drunken Bulldozer Ride – Yahoo! News Last June, a man went on a tear through a small Colorado town because he was pissed off at local government. Remember, friends don’t let friends drive bulldozers.
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It always amuses me no end when I’m going through the error queues and come across a record where someone is carrying on an argument in the quality control remarks. In this case, someone was trying to get the quality control program to package up some paper tickets and send them to the address in the reservation. As the packaging people are known to read the quality control remarks, the agent thought they had to send the record to the QC program for the packagers to “see” the updated remarks. This is not the case, however. Only the faithful computer…
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Chicago Tribune | Televangelist Calls for Chavez’ Death Yes, he thinks our gummint should send some special ops guys in to kill Chavez, because it’s cheaper than starting a war to take out a nasty horrible anti-Bushite, and by the way the oil won’t stop flowing. You know what? Pat Robertson is a kook. He’s been saying kooky, wacky, zany things for years. So why is he a major religious leader? Is he the head of a movement made up of other like-minded people? Sometimes I wonder. Robertson has made controversial statements in the past. In October 2003, he suggested…
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My week from hell, day two: My supervisor is out of town all week. My colleague whose job is similar to mine is out of town all week. I back both of them up when they are not in. I work in corporate travel, and there’s an airline strike this week. I am still expected by a service coordinator to somehow take calls. I have been given more latitude by another supervisor, however. I have 1 2 special projects to do this week. I have a hotel group in Vegas this week; last year was a nightmare. I have a…
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CBS News | Bush To Rally Iraq Support | August 22, 2005?11:00:05 My lucky family in Salt Lake will have the dubious pleasure of a Presidential visit there; meanwhile the anti-war activists on the Cindy Sheehan bandwagon couldn’t even get an ad on one local TV station, because it was deemed likely to be “offensive to the community.” No, really it’s likely to be “offensive to the conservative power base most likely to support Bush while his ratings take a dive with everyone else.” A comment on Dan Froomkin’s Washington Post “live interactive” page from a while back comes to…