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Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:57:32 -0500

Electric Six - Down At McDonnelzzz

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:05:01 -0500

Electric Six - Down At McDonnelzzz

BRISTOL PALIN HAD HER BABY OMFG

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 02:15:16 -0500

caro:

justsayjolie:

Tripp? Come on!

Ladies and gentlemen, Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston!

Which of these isn’t a baseball bat manufacturer?

Mars Cheese Castle — Kenosha, Wisconsin

Sat, 27 Dec 2008 21:30:16 -0500

Mars Cheese Castle — Kenosha, Wisconsin

How Wesley Willis got me on the cover of the Evanston phone book

Sat, 27 Dec 2008 19:36:00 -0500

How Wesley Willis got me on the cover of the Evanston phone book

Newsweek’s 1997 Christmas gadget shopping guide

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:00:00 -0500

Newsweek’s 1997 Christmas gadget shopping guide

‘Bush Shoe’ Gives Firm a Footing in the Market

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:16:40 -0500

‘Bush Shoe’ Gives Firm a Footing in the Market :

When a pair of black leather oxfords hurled at President Bush in Baghdad produced a gasp heard around the world, a Turkish cobbler had a different reaction: They were his shoes.

A new run of 15,000 pairs, destined for Iraq, went into production on Thursday, he said. A British distributor has asked to become the Baydan Shoe Company’s European sales representative, with a first order of 95,000 pairs, and an American company has placed an order for 18,000 pairs. Four distributors are competing to represent the company in Iraq, where Baydan sold 19,000 pairs of this model for about $40 each last year.

Home for the holidays

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 20:49:07 -0500

Home for the holidays

President-elect Barack Obama is expected to name Chicago...

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:11:38 -0500

President-elect Barack Obama is expected to name Chicago schools chief Arne Duncan as education secretary, in his first hometown cabinet pick.

Sure that’s a good idea?

From my archives: Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich radio...

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:17:00 -0500

From my archives: Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich radio commercial, 2002

poobah: Part 4: New York Hi-Tech-Weenie Senior Editor, Dan...

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:42:11 -0500

poobah:

Part 4: New York Hi-Tech-Weenie Senior Editor, Dan Frommer, from the AlleyInsider.com shows up at the last minute. It’s Miller Time!

Thanks, Dad!

Google Street View Paris is going to kill my productivity.

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:47:00 -0500

Google Street View Paris is going to kill my productivity.

Calling All Cars: Trouble at Chuck E. Cheese's, Again - WSJ.com

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:52:11 -0500

Calling All Cars: Trouble at Chuck E. Cheese's, Again - WSJ.com:

Live in Milwaukee and die:

In Brookfield, Wis., no restaurant has triggered more calls to the police department since last year than Chuck E. Cheese’s.

Officers have been called to break up 12 fights, some of them physical, at the child-oriented pizza parlor since January 2007. The biggest melee broke out in April, when an uninvited adult disrupted a child’s birthday party. Seven officers arrived and found as many as 40 people knocking over chairs and yelling in front of the restaurant’s music stage, where a robotic singing chicken and the chain’s namesake mouse perform.

Control Freaks

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:30:00 -0500

Former Chicago Cubs pitcher Greg Maddux, one of my childhood heroes, retired today after 23 seasons, including nine and a half with the Cubs.

Maddux, no. 13 on the all-time innings pitched list, was a control freak: He walked only 999 batters in 5008 1/3 innings. That’s an average 1.80 batters per nine innings pitched.

The next closest whose career overlapped at least one season with Maddux’s: Mike Mussina, no. 66 on the all-time innings pitched list, who is also retiring. Mussina walked 785 batters in 3562 2/3 innings, or an average 1.98 batters per nine innings pitched.

Neither compares to legend Cy Young, no. 1 on the all-time innings pitched list, who played from 1890 through 1911. Young walked just 1217 batters in 7354 2/3 innings pitched, or an average 1.49 batters per nine innings pitched.

But here’s a real freak: Tommy Bond, who played for the Brooklyn Atlantics, Hartford Dark Blues, Boston Red Caps and Worcester Ruby Legs in the 1870s and 1880s. Bond walked just 198 batters in 3628 2/3 innings (including three crazy seasons with more than 520 innings pitched). That’s an average 0.49 walks per nine innings pitched.

Colonel Sanders and my dad. See where I get it,...

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 12:22:16 -0400

Colonel Sanders and my dad. See where I get it, people?

poobah:

Here is a picture of me and the colonel in 1973-74 taken during a photo shoot in Louisville. Check out the belt, the hair, the watchband… hell, the whole outfit! — Billy Poobah

"A PR person? Facebook friend request denied! If we don’t get drunk together, we’re not Facebook..."

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:44:36 -0400

“A PR person? Facebook friend request denied! If we don’t get drunk together, we’re not Facebook friends.”

- Dan Frommer, Silicon Alley Insider (via ekrangel)

blakeley: FromeDome Caught in the act!

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:30:25 -0400

blakeley:

FromeDome

Caught in the act!

poobah: Make yer own dog Hell yeah!

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:49:49 -0400

poobah:

Make yer own dog

Hell yeah!

Google walking directions = fail.

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:47:50 -0400

Google walking directions = fail.

Two Chicago Media Legends Fade

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:35:00 -0400

Sun-Times movie critic Roger Ebert has pulled out of the TV show that was once “Siskel and Ebert.” I watched “Siskel and Ebert” routinely growing up and it’s probably one of the reasons I studied broadcasting at Northwestern.

The good news: Roger and Gene Siskel’s widow own the rights to “two thumbs up.” Ebert says they’re “discussing possibilities, and plan to continue the show’s tradition.”

And one of my heroes — former Tribune baseball columnist Jerome Holtzman, who invented the ‘save’, died over the weekend.

I grew up reading Holtzman’s columns in the Trib before school, and had the pleasure of interviewing him two years ago for a wacky Forbes.com story about sports stadiums.