I’m supporting Rudy Giuliani for President in 2008. I like who he’s picked to head his campaign in Illinois: Tom Cross and I like what he brings to the discussion. I also think he can actually win in November and not make this election a referendum on Iraq. Over the long […]
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 […]
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 […]
I have a confession. I’ve been going to McDonald’s. Yup. Guilty. I’m apparently not alone. The Sun-Times Ted Pinkus writes that McDonald’s profits are soaring and has widened its lead as the world’s largest restaurant network with an all-time high market cap of $60 billion, vs. $17 billion for Yum! […]
Just yesterday, the Sun-Times Lynn Sweet posted that Illinois’ very own Bob Kjellander was named as the vice chairman of the 2008 Republican National Convention Committee on Arrangements for the 2008 Republican National Convention to be held in Minneapolis/Saint Paul. The Committee on Arrangements is the RNC body charged with the planning and management […]
Over on our wedding blog, we’re trying to gauge people’s honest opinions on these “buttons” for our rehearsal dinner. I think they’re cute and a good way to get folks talking to each other. We’ll probably have a pretty big sized rehearsal dinner, so we don’t want people to not socialize. It’s […]
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RhodesSchool is a blog written by Jake Parrillo.
Jake is 30 years old, lives in Frankfort, works at Google with Rick, Don, and Steve, used to be a Village Trustee, loves his dog Maisy, is getting his MBA from Kellogg, chronicles all the Friendly Political Wagers he can find, is working on perfecting his pizza recipe and is getting married.
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