Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
Let’s imagine your name is Robert, a fine name from the get-go. But an associate at work calls you Reeper. Dos this bother you We all hear the word Robert in our legalized American citizen’s lexicon of modern words, so are you annoyed that a ...
Posted by Just Two Guys 1 year ago.
Tonight's screening of Leon (The Professional) will take place tonight at 7:30 at Capital City Bar and Grill. I'd like to get a show of hands as to who is planning to attend tonight. If you plan to attend, please drop us a comment and let us know.Additi...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 1 year ago.
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Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 1 year ago.
I posted my syndicated column on Saturday, but comments were disabled. So, let’s do it again, shall we
As you probably know, Gov. Rod Blagojevich has flatly ruled out an income- or sales-tax hike in exchange for a property-tax cut and more money f...
Posted by Misc. 1 year ago.
Tonight’s movie is Léon (The Professional).
And here’s the trivia from IMDB…When the villains are turning Mathilda’s home upside down, the crook with the dreadlocks finds a reggae album in the record collection. The record he is ho...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 1 year ago.
This is exactly right…
The unintended byproduct of Illinois moving up its primary to boost White House hopeful Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is putting the state in major play for the GOP presidential candidates.
“It really is wide open on the Re...
Posted by Where Dave Is 1 year ago.
Dave is…on a tangent.This has nothing to do with travel other than it entertained me while traveling, but my friend Noah, the author of NoahBrier.com, who normally sits on the post-modern end of the long tail (I have no idea what that means but I ge...
Posted by Anonymous Communist 1 year ago.
The convenience of a garage door opener may have made us soft, but it really is a hassle to have to drag one’s ass out of the car and lift the bitch by hand. Every. Single. Time. For about six months.
Well, no more. We finally got around to buying a...
Posted by Disarranging Mine 1 year ago.
Abe Lincoln on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
San Francisco, again
Bricks on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
We love antique brick
Historical Bricks : Historical Bricks in the News
They buy and sell antique brick
Taylorville: Yes, We've Got A Statue of Lincoln with a P...
Posted by Disarranging Mine 1 year ago.
Watched way too much Patton, which seems to be running almost non-stop on A&E.
Went to the cemetery.
Just spotted these photos from recently un-embedded Getty photographer, Joe Raedle. Particularly interesting is the first photo because it features Marin...
Posted by daveheinzel on Humzoo 1 year ago.
This weekend was rad. We dropped the kids off with Courtney's mom on Friday after dinner, and we came back to our house to pack for a weekend trip to Virginia to see my cousin Mark get married.We hadn't done much of anything at that point to prepare for t...
Posted by Matt Penning Images 1 year ago.
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.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }My niece Katherine and the love of her life, Chris.
I snuck some photo time in du...
Posted by Blevins Blog 1 year ago.
Got a letter from a campaign committee of an Illinois state senator when I got home from training Friday night. Apparently it was his birthday on the 26th and the epistle was asking for a special “birthday contribution.”
Poor Samantha’...
Posted by CES Blog 1 year ago.
Two big events this week: Tuesday night, Sustainable Springfield and CES are hosting a meeting with the Mayor Chris Koos of Normal. Mayor Koos shepherded in Normal's green building ordinance, which requires LEED certification for buildings over a certain ...
Posted by Springfield Rewind 1 year ago.
Posted by Illinois Issues blog 1 year ago.
Is a state budget possible by May 31 Thats still a mystery, but the ball may be in the House Speaker Michael Madigans court. His Democratic caucus spent nearly three hours meeting with Gov. Rod Blagojevich Monday evening, but members dont feel any clo...
Posted by gotshoo? 1 year ago.
Sterno called me up a few weeks ago “Shoo, I bought a condo. I need to move stuff.” That was code for you own a truck, you are my personal UHaul. It didn’t actually go down like that, but I gave him the heads up that I would be in town o...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
I was old enough to serve in the Vietnam War, but I didn’t. When I thought I was flunking out of Springfield Junior College in December 1965, This was a year before it changed its name to Springfield College in Illinois. I visited the Air Force rec...
Posted by The Capitol Fax Blog 1 year ago.
This will be the extent of the blogging today unless something major happens. The list, as always, was compiled by Paul Richardson. We’ll reopen comments on Tuesday…* Debating the governor’s Illinois covered plan: Pro vs. Con* Lawmaker...
Posted by Johann Drops a Blog 1 year ago.
A few weeks ago, the grandstand lineup for the State Fair was announced.
Once again, the lineup sucks.
Apparently, the fair manager or president or Grand Poobah or whatever she is is only interested in taking money from country music fans and 13 year old ...
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