Demolition near the office. Between Green Door and the parking lots. (Taken with instagram)

Demolition near the office. Between Green Door and the parking lots. (Taken with instagram)

Axe the Premier Weather Forecasting Dog says to cover your plants tonight, it will be COLD! (Taken with instagram)

Axe the Premier Weather Forecasting Dog says to cover your plants tonight, it will be COLD! (Taken with instagram)

The bunny that lives under the rosebush next door is my first Instagram victim. Yay Instagram for Android! (Taken with instagram)

The bunny that lives under the rosebush next door is my first Instagram victim. Yay Instagram for Android! (Taken with instagram)

neil-gaiman:

I’ve seem to be hitting writer’s block far too often now. My grade in my creative writing class is suffering because i don’t turn in anything because i’m never really satisfied with anything i do. all my good ideas seem to turn into bad ones once i write it down. How do you get pass writers…

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Hello Augie

Read this for the first time as a college freshman and brand new Chicagoan (well, okay, at the time I was still in the ‘burbs). Great choice for 1B1C and I think I will be joining in on this one.

onebookonechicago:

We have announced! This fall, we are thrilled to be diving into Saul Bellow’s magnum opus, what Martin Amis called the greatest American novel ever written—The Adventures of Augie March.

Join us for programs, discussions and more, and take a look at our fantastic guide to this great work of literature.

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Equal?

Skip on by if you haven’t done the August 1 http://www.freekibble.com/ trivia question yet…

An amazingly high percentage of people answered that they considered their dogs to be equal members of their family.

I love my dogs as much, possibly more, than anyone else loves theirs… but c’mon. Equal? I guess everyone else’s dogs have jobs and contribute to the mortgage payments. Or at least they have paper routes and help out by buying their own treats.

Equal? C’mon!

Hey, jagoffs…

To the jagoffs who think that racist tsunami and radiation jokes are funny…

FUCK YOU.

To the jagoffs who cringe in horror at jokes targeting other minorities or protected groups, yet think it is fine to make Asian jokes because… heh, I have no idea why, I cannot think like a jagoff…

FUCK YOU.

That is all.

Same as the old…

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I didn’t make the difference I wanted to make this time. That doesn’t mean I’ll ever stop letting my one voice be heard. Because sometimes it will make the difference. Just not this time.

Just one more thing. This, from the fake Rahm Emanuel’s Twitter account:

Almost, but not quite true. The real dumb fucks are the ones who didn’t bother to get off their sorry asses and vote.

Damn tourists

Let me start out by saying that on one level, I am happy that two favorite local businesses, one in my current hometown and one in my real hometown, got some national media shout-outs. On another more selfish level…

OMG they are gonna be overrun with damn tourists!!!! Like it is not hard enough to get in there already!!!!

Since the damage has been done already, I guess I will add my congratulations to Gene & Jude’s for being named as America’s Best Hot Dog by Rachael Ray Magazine and SeriousEats.com and to Liliha Bakery for the well-deserved coco puffs plug on “Hawaii 5-0.” Both this past Monday. Is that not enough to take in one day or what?


Fender and Sanrio have retired the Hello Kitty Squier Stratocaster, and apparently all of the related accessories. Including these picks, which are the ones I saw at the Sanrio store at Ala Moana Center in November and decided NOT TO BUY, because I could get them any time with my Amazon gift certificates. Which now I can’t. Wah. I suck.

On the bright side, I guess that now makes my barely-played Hello Kitty Strat (with the matching HK headphone amp and HK guitar strap) a collectible!