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Nov.27.2009
Recently, I experienced the movie, "The Baader Meinhof Complex." It's a difficult movie to experience - a German language film, subtitled casually (meaning the German isn't always translated precisely) in English, with Bourne-style. thumping music and sharp, quick cinematic cuts, clearly...
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Nov.12.2009
I have had another Significant Idea I have discussed with John HodgMan, the Smartest Man I have Ever Known. My proposal follows. I am sure everyone all Emeryville Residents will agree with me that it is a Neat Idea.
"Dear HodgMan:
I see from your blog post above that you have given...
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Nov.08.2009
Nancy Pelosi couldn’t have announced the new House healthcare reform bill, the Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962), with any more pomp and circumstance. It was certainly more impressive than the Senate’s mouse-like rollout, apparently intended to avoid rubbing salt in the Baucus “...
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Nov.02.2009
I was alarmed by news reports of two Chicago men arrested in connection with a Pakistani plot to attack Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard and Flemming Rose, the culture editor at Jyllands-Posten. One of the men allegedly wrote in a Yahoo! chat that he was “disposed toward violence” toward...
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Oct.29.2009
In my latest guest blog post, I give some details to the Chicago Tribune's Printers Row blog about the secret shame of the Dickens family buried in Chicago.
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Oct.23.2009
When the maple leaves start to turn orange and drop to the wet ground when the rains turn cold, I always think of my favorite city, Chicago. The perfume of wet, freshly fallen maple leaves takes me back to the mid-80s, when I spent all my weekends in Chicago to escape the quirky college I...
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Oct.01.2009
The BOBBY VS. GIRLS (ACCIDENTALLY) World Wide International Cross Country Midwest Division Tour is underway . . .
Earlier this week I got to visit some incredible Chicago area schools like St. Francis Xavier Elementary in Wilmette, Sauganash Elementary in Chicago, Harper Elementary and Hubbard...
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Sep.30.2009
After the Anderson's YA Conference in Naperville, Peepy and I went to Chicago. We stayed at Hotel Monaco and especially liked the window alcove. It was perfect for writing . . .
So we decided to stay in and work all day. Only, we didn't. Instead we did stuff . . .
And here . . .
Later we met up...
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Sep.26.2009
On Thursday morning, we left the house at 6:30 a.m. and one delayed flight and four Advil later, made it to Chicago!!!
Peepy and I were meeting the rest of our Scholastic posse, so while we waited, Peeps went on the rides at O'Hare . . .
A short time later, our Scholastic publicists, Becky Amsel...
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Sep.24.2009
In his first address to the UN General Assembly, the President denounces reflexive anti-Americanism and calls on the world's leaders to recognize the common challenges we face while delivering a litany of internal accomplishments and policy changes his Administration has impleminted. Image Credit...
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