Monthly Archives: August 2007

In a little while we’ll be on the road to Saugatuck. We picked up the rental car yesterday without any problems. It’s so weird how exotic it feels to have a car and be driving it around Chicago. I reserved … Continue reading →

My week-long vacation begins in just over an hour, and boy am I thrilled. Andy and I will start things off right with a free concert of Mahler at Millennium Park this evening. There’ll be a nice bottle of chilled … Continue reading →

Only six weeks later than when it should have occurred, I’m finally having my performance review here at work in half an hour. Wish me luck. I gotta give ’em hell.

Anyone up for the 7:30 show of Killer of Sheep tomorrow night at the Music Box?

I created this last night for  sumsinnow and it went over well, so I’m posting it here. If you like minty things it’ll be right up your alley. GREEN CHIMNEY juice of 1 lime2 oz. light rum3/4 oz. white creme … Continue reading →

Bergman 101

Good stuff: http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/5/26/1113345/01%2001%20Twelve%20Twelve.mp3 It’s a track by Head and Neck Sessions.

SIGN UP FOR MY THUMBCAST!It’s free. O, the irony of ME doing a thumbcast. But still. It’s only gonna be good stuff, I promise!

My job is driving me to despair, one day at a time. If anyone out there who knows me well enough to know what job I might like actually knows of a job for me, … let me know.

Yesterday I stopped by the library and picked up two books for vacation reading (which, by the way, starts a week from tomorrow and cannot get here soon enough): The Stories (So Far) of Deborah Eisenberg Turn the Beat Around: … Continue reading →