Archive for March, 2008
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
Meet the eco-chocolate.
Not only is it yummy and have neat tips on the wrapper, but it can assuage your environmental guilt. Why? This choco-tastic candystuff - brought to you by TerraPass, Whole Foods Market and Bloomsberry and Co. - comes with a verified TerraPass carbon offset for the average human's daily carbon ...
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
Every so often, I'll come up with a great joke but have no place to put it. Now, with lame self-indulgence, I can include my most recent example.
Past examples:
-- Making a movie about a team of semi-driving bounty hunters who, in 1997, have 24 hours to get to Florida and capture ...
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
The ongoing process of me realizing that no one in the US makes a damn thing anymore is constantly stymied by reality.
I'll find a small company that makes the greatest potato chips I've ever had or recall the trip to Iowa my family made when I was a kid to pick ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
His name is Roland. He's my friend Rob's son and his third birthday party was today.
Me being the good pseudo-uncle I am, I went to get him a gift. I went to a locally owned toy store, feeling all good and self-righteous. I rock. Then I tried to look for ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
Since starting this site and thinking more about these issues, I have noticed a change in my personal life.
I've been called bougie, a hypocrite, pretentious, pompous and all sorts of other crap.
And it really pisses me off. Here's why:
Would you call someone on a diet a hypocrite if the person doesn't have full-blown anorexia ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
OK, so it'll be a tight squeeze trying to justify putting this entry on a blog about consumerism.
As tight a squeeze as Richard Long into a futuristic jumpsuit! BURN!
Oh, wait. You guys have no idea what the hell I'm talking about.
A local Chicago station - one of the few I ...
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Sunday, March 2nd, 2008
That's not a clever title. There's a disposable video camera out there.
I first saw it a few weeks ago at my local CVS. That's a chain of drug stores for those of you outside Chicago.
According to this CNN.com article, CVS unveiled the disposable, single-use video camera in summer 2005. I ...
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