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“Hawaii v. Illinois” - the battle for Barack Obama as a favorite son. Can’t we all just get along?
Actually, that headline looked like a college football or college basketball game.
When the economy tanks, Spam and similar canned meat or meat substitute make a comeback.
Time Magazine’s Joel Stein wants his readers’ help in naming [...]

A long post to recap on the Chicago trip with the siblings.
The weekend of the remnants of Hurricane Ike:
Flooded ‘burbs and their flooded roads made for scary moments (to me, but maybe not to my driver-sibling); certainly made it harder to drive around with no clear detours. (or, at least it seemed strange that [...]

In Chicago for a vacation until Wednesday. I still want a really great staycation, but this will have to do.
FC had done the Chicago deep dish (okay, “stuffed”) pizza and the Amazing Race-like escapade. Can’t say that my siblings and I had any Amazing Race; it was mostly smooth, but for [...]

Haven’t got my quota of deep dish pizza yet. The Giordano’s near my hotel closed down, so we’re going to try again today. Went throug Millenium Park yesterday — there was this water feature that was very nice, especially because it was so hot. The buffet dinner at the Park Grill was also excellent.
Chatted with [...]