Someone, somewhere once wrote/said that The Band played Mavin Gaye’s “Don’t Do it” like it was their own. There are a few songs that a group or artist plays so well and so convincingly that it somehow/someway becomes “their” song.
This is one example.
Although some will squabble with this, for me, below […]
I kinda-sorta made the Sun-Times today via Richard Roeper’s column. In it, he takes on the Amy Jacobson story and points to some headlines in the blogosphere:
I loved all the talk about whether or not it was “newsworthy” for WBBM-Channel 2 to show that videotape of Amy Jacobson, formerly of WMAQ-Channel 5, hanging […]
Some of the folks who are reading this blog may be startled to find out that I was once an exercise fiend. Yup. I was in a daily routine that included plenty of exercise and a healthy consumption of food. Somewhere in the midst of training for my 3rd marathon, I had […]
The tragic story of the disappearance/killing of Plainfield resident Lisa Stebic took a bizarre twist yesterday. Her husband, who by all accounts is the chief suspect, apparently had some company in the form on NBC5 Reporter Amy Jacobson. That’s her on the right with one of my other favorites from NBC 5, Anna […]
Natalie and I celebrated the 4th of July up in Coloma Michigan on Paw Paw Lake. It’s an (almost) annual tradition that includes a sunset boat ride that leads to 360-degree fireworks. Pretty sweet. Yesterday, on our way to Meijer to pick up some supplies (meat, beer, etc), we saw a new […]
As a few others have pointed out, FeedBurner became FreeBurner a few days ago. I’ll claim it’s because we’re patriotic and we’re celebrating our country’s independence, but it’s mostly because we have the ginormous resources of Google behind us that allowed to give up our MyBrand and TotalStats features for free.
This is the first […]
Natalie’s been very “in to” our wedding planning lately and it’s becoming a little contagious. She’s been writing blog posts over on the wedding blog and just this week, she unveiled what I will call her wedding “touchstone”. She calls it her “inspiration board”. It’s basically a bunch of reference points. […]

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