Ginny I can has iPhone? Via: Flickr Title: New Snow Boots By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 18 Dec ’08, 6.57pm CST PST Ginny I can has iPhone?
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Last night’s snow (or as I originally typo-ed, slow), dumped only about 4 inches on suburban streets in the area, but the traffic was horrendous and there were enough minor accidents to put corks in all the bottlenecks. And due to the way the east-west arterials around here are blocked by large tracts of parkland or shopping malls, there’s only a few ways to get between work and home. If there’s bad weather, or traffic, everything gets choked off at one of two places. I started out pissed, as I had a late “hit” call where someone needed an exchange…
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Just an hour or so ago, I finished reading[amazon-product text=”The Blade Itself, by Joe Abercrombie” type=”text”]159102594X[/amazon-product], and had to get my husband David’s help so that I could do a proper review. The book, in paperback, is an attractive, hefty size for someone like me that doesn’t like wimpy little short books about heroes, rogues, and adventure. The cover art alone made me want to pick it up and look at it; it’s made to look like a tattered old leatherbound volume, stained with blood and God knows what else. It looks like it’s been through the wars and back.…
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Too bad for the New York hotel that sent this very nice basket of holiday treats that I’m no longer a hotel group agent. But it’s lovely! And I’ll take most of this to Holy Moly tomorrow. A true standing ovation! An overstuffed willow basket holds Elsa’s Story orange butter cookies, Almondina original almond biscuits, Zabar’s cinnamon rugelach, Zabar’s chocolate babka, Zabar’s cinnamon babka, Delancey cinnamon raisin rugelach, Zabar’s black and white cookies, Erica’s apricot-raspberry cookies, Beth’s ginger cookies, Dancing Deer Baking Co. lemon cookies, and Walkers short bread petticoat tails. Via Zabar’s Broadway Bakery Basket-Kosher – Gift Basket
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While putting off the task of adding a personal note to holiday cards that MUST! GO! OUT!, I decided to review My Year In Blogging. January: Today, at Holy Moly, we had some excitement too. I ended up staying for both services just because there was a rehearsal for the big day after the second service. There was lots of laughter, a little girl threw up in front of the choir, Pat Kalicki stood in for Bishop Katharine in the run-through wearing a paper bishop’s mitre, and there was lots of chaos and general anarchy. Later on in February, Presiding…
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Long ago in Seattle, I used to sell Bill Irwin airline tickets … yes, the neo-vaudevillian clown Bill Irwin. And now he’s “the scary new serial killer on CSI” Bill Irwin. My husband David didn’t know his work, but this clip from an appearance on the Cosby Show is pretty representative of what he was doing then. His current work on CSI is absolutely chilling, especially as he’s seated and mostly immobile the entire time. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/EDIQp5pbAl8" width="425" height="344" wmode="transparent" /]
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The Obama transition team has set up agency review teams that are meeting with a boatload of government fiefdoms agencies. The team leader sent to meet with NASA administrator Michael Griffen ran into some trouble.
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The photo gallery from the Chicago Tribune features a number of people wearing a particular kind of expression; it seems to be common to many Illinois political figures in times of stress, bad news, or legal trouble. Gov. Rod leaving for “work.” Anybody up for a spontaneous protest march past his home and/or office? I bet we could get 100,000 people, based on the latest poll. Gov. Rod in court. Yes, he was in running clothes. Even though he was called and apparently awakened by the FBI, he chose to look like this in court. Must have laid out the…
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Chicago’s comedy troupe is tearing their show apart to feature R. Blagojevich
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Nearly 100 years ago, a scandal from Illinois led the nation to change the way US Senators were selected, from being elected by state legislators as originally laid out in the Constitution, to direct election by the people. The Progressives were the ones that cleaned up the mess. Predictive? Early 1900s Illinois scandal led to direct election of U.S. senators — chicagotribune.com The Chicago case of alleged corruption played a prominent role in the nation’s decision to amend the Constitution and allow state voters to elect their senators. It was a solution that seems to have worked for 95 years,…