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Monday, 01 March 2010 | Chicago Sports, curling, Olympics, Ryan Miller
Among people I know, it seems everybody settled in with their favorite event (figure skating, ice dancing or snowboarding, generally, and in my case, ice hockey) and made the coverage on NBC or MSNBC part of their evening routine the past couple weeks. Then again, I realize there is a dissenting viewpoint out there that [...]
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Chicago Sports, curling, Olympics, Ryan Miller |
Monday, 08 February 2010 | Chicago Sports, 1984 Cubs, Caribbean World Series, Super Bowl, United Center
Watching the Caribbean World Series in Venezuela this weekend gave me an appreciation for Major League Baseball’s regulations on what’s permissible on big league uniforms, caps and helmets. The players down there are all walking eyesores, covered from head to toe with a jumble of advertising logos. Worst of all, it looks like every player [...]
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Chicago Sports, 1984 Cubs, Caribbean World Series, Super Bowl, United Center |
Tuesday, 02 February 2010 | Uncategorized, spam
On my list of life’s daily annoyances, spam should rank very low. Thanks to the delete key, it should be nothing more than an inconsequential blip in my day. Yet, annoy is what it does, because in some strange way it gets into my head and forces me to expend more energy thinking about it [...]
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Uncategorized, spam |
Thursday, 28 January 2010 | Smooth Jazz and Music
Whenever a radio format is around for a long time, there’s a lot of good music that doesn’t get played. It boils down to a numbers game: too many titles, not enough time to play them all. In the case of Smooth Jazz, it’s 24 years’ worth (!) of new releases, over a thousand titles [...]
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Smooth Jazz and Music |
Tuesday, 26 January 2010 | Uncategorized, character actor, Glee, Stephen Tobolowsky
(Ask me sometime to go into more detail about character actors. I’ve always been fascinated by them on several levels.)
Character actors have always fascinated me. The best ones seem to turn up again and again in movies and TV shows. But they all share a common trait: they’re able to completely transform themselves into the [...]
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Uncategorized, character actor, Glee, Stephen Tobolowsky |
Thursday, 21 January 2010 | Uncategorized, Brown Line, Busch Stadium, Disney, Facebook, Jeopardy, Wrigley Field
Yesterday I began sharing a few glimpses into my life during the past twelve months after leaving WNUA. Today we continue with a few more.
I enjoyed the experience of . . .
Taking the Brown Line into work at AccuRadio each day. Getting reacquainted with the heart of the northwest side neighborhoods through which the L [...]
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Uncategorized, Brown Line, Busch Stadium, Disney, Facebook, Jeopardy, Wrigley Field |
Wednesday, 20 January 2010 | Uncategorized, Facebook, networking, social media, WNUA
Has it been a year already? Last January 20, a few hours before the new President was to take his oath of office on the steps of the Capitol, my boss told me I had done my final show on WNUA. At that moment, 2009 became a year of upheaval and uncertainty. In that year [...]
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Uncategorized, Facebook, networking, social media, WNUA |
Friday, 15 January 2010 | Uncategorized, CARE, disaster relief, Doctors Without Borders, earthquake, Haiti, Red Cross, UNICEF
In the senior community where my mom lives they have a saying: Don’t give ‘til it hurts, give ‘til it feels good. Thanks to today’s technology, it’s never been easier to get that good feeling. And talk about an important time to give.
I remember seeing my mom burn the midnight oil, writing out five and [...]
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Uncategorized, CARE, disaster relief, Doctors Without Borders, earthquake, Haiti, Red Cross, UNICEF |
Wednesday, 13 January 2010 | Uncategorized
He’s been poked and prodded, he’s had his jaw forcibly held open, and he’s been pricked by a sharp needle. Yet, to our dog, Mike, it’s all in a day’s visit to one of his happy places, the vet.
Recently, Mike was required to visit a clinic he’d never been to before. It was filled with [...]
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Tuesday, 12 January 2010 | Uncategorized, Jan Gabriel, Super CFL, US30 Dragstrip, WLS Musicradio
“Smokin’ US-30 Dragstrip . . . where the great ones ride!” Words on a screen can’t do justice to the tag line of that (in)famous commercial. If you listened to WLS or Super CFL as I did in the ‘60s and ‘70s, you’ll never forget the turbo-charged voice of Jan Gabriel who, with the help [...]
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Uncategorized, Jan Gabriel, Super CFL, US30 Dragstrip, WLS Musicradio |
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