Mar 4th, 2010
I grew up on mid-80s Chicago Cubs baseball broadcasts. Portions of my childhood are punctuated by exclamations of “Holy Cow!” and other such Harry Caray-isms. I have made the jump since then to White Sox fandom, but that doesn’t preclude the fact that I have many memories of spending summer afternoons camped out in front [...]
Feb 15th, 2010
You may (but likely didn’t) notice the radio silence coming from Camp Moi over the past ten days or so. This is because we were living the decadent life in beautiful Las Vegas, and I was terrified that if I tweeted anything about it we would be summarily robbed by social media burglars. I’m sure [...]
Jan 21st, 2010
I’ve officially set the DVR to record all the upcoming “Worst Cooks In America” shows from the Food Network, a channel I have mostly been ignoring for the past three years of my life. This is a major step and I commend FN for finally coming up with a concept that doesn’t just rehash recipes [...]
Nov 10th, 2009
Hey, did you notice that a guy named Anthony Bourdain was in town last weekend? Oh, you didn’t hear about it? It’s true – he sat down with numerous ticketholders at a theater in Waukegan and talked about…well, we don’t know. Because nobody really reported on it. At least, not after the fact.
While you, Dear [...]
For those of you who just came in, hi, good to see you, coffee and donuts are right over there, and before we get this meeting to order, why don’t you go back and peruse our the minutes of our last few gatherings.
You’ll recall that we have:
Covered Trader Joe’s and shoe shopping and more here,
Taken [...]
Jul 31st, 2009
As we shuffle through the muck of an attempt to flee occupied Chicago for the East Coast, the only thing I can think of in terms of departure are related around food. Is that bad?
I’ve been a Chicago-an all my life, unless you’re one of those dogmatists that believe you can only call yourself that [...]