Time.com reported this last week, but I didn’t have time to post it then A woman pretended to be a 17-year-old to draw out incriminating evidence from her ex-husband via Facebook, but he turned the tables on her. The pair are in the midst of a nasty custody battle apparently. The woman, 29-year-old Angela Voelkert, […]

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Two words: GOOD RIDDANCE!!!!

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The Huffington Post reported today that Charlie Gilmour, son of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour has pleaded guilty to participating in a rampage during student protests that included an attack on a royal convoy last December 9th. Thousands of students demonstrated against rising university tuition fees, with some protesters having broken away from the main […]

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I know that I have two children named after female British monarchs, and I love James Bond, Doctor Who and Monty Python, so I’m an Anglophile. However, I was able to avoid the pomp and pageantry when Prince Charles married Diana 30 years ago, and I will not pay much attention to their son William […]

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Why would anyone renew an argument that you’ve already won? As long time readers of this site know, I got into a spirited debate with John Farneda of WXRT a few weeks ago in which it was determined that we will never see an expansion of the playlist beyond the same old songs because the […]

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I haven’t learned my lesson. I have been taking an Elvis Costello ensemble class at the Old Town School of Folk Music, and once per month, they have the ensemble classes play on the main stage. They call it – understandably “First Friday” because it is on the first Friday of each month. We were […]

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I saw none of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Final. I heard that it was boring and from what I heard, Butler couldn’t throw a basketball in the ocean if they were standing on the beach (an old line stated by the late DePaul Coach Ray Meyer). One could say that I’m bored with basketball, and […]

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