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2011
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The man with the beer gut, and the aviator glasses always leaned in a little too close. His breath smelled like cigarettes, and he told bad, jokes. Yeah, sure the jokes were funny, but they were bad, truly bad. When he laughed, he laughed raucously and loud, and I could see the gold crowns gli...
03/29/2011
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It was wasy to overlook, when the image to the left appeared as the header on Google. It was memorializing the birthdate of Harry Houdini, even to this day, considered one of America's greatest magicians and/or escape artists. He was born March 24 (that was Thursday), in 1874. I hate it when pe...
03/26/2011
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I was recently contacted with a wonderful referral for a condo in an architecturally significant building in downtown Chicago. The condo is cool, the views are incredible, the location rocks! This is one of those well known, ohmigod world-renowned architect buildings that architecture students st...
03/25/2011
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Okay, full disclosure: The linked articles are not my content, but this introduction is, so I'm taking credit for it. I received it as one of those e-mails making the rounds through the internet, and it made me laugh out loud. It reminded me very much of Dave Barry's "A journey into my colon, ...
03/25/2011
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An agent in my office does a great deal of business in one particular condo. Because she does so much business in that building, she hired a professional photographer to take some additional photographs of some of the common areas, including the exercise room, the party room, and the pool and sp...
03/24/2011
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Evanston condos $100,000 - $200,000 It's been a little while since I've done one of these, so I thought it might be appropriate to refresh it. So let's take a little mini-tour and see what's available to you if you have $100,000 - $200,000 to spend, here in the fine city of Evanston, Illinois. He...
03/23/2011
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The world has lost a legend today. Elizabeth Taylor died this morning, at the age of 79 from congestive heart failure. My mother talked about Elizabeth Taylor as though she was a member of the family... that's the kind of relationship she had with her fans. My mother followed her ups and her dow...
03/23/2011
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We use playing cards in our daily lives, each of us has handled a deck of cards hundreds and hundreds of times, and we've all looked upon the faces of the Kings in those decks. How many of you know that each of those kings represents a great king from history? The King of Spades represents King...
03/22/2011
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Craig Daniels created the Three Gold Stars Challenge and asked us to name three of our favourites. I have created a few gold star challenge posts, 'cause there was no way that I was gonna be able to stop at only three. I lost track of several of my faves, and apparently slighted one, 'cause I've ...
03/22/2011
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Lenn Harley writes this morning about Kibbitzers but on a totally different subject than this one. (It's always nice when I can start off a post with the name Lenn Harley, isn't it? It's kinda like saying E.F. Hutton, and suddenly the room quiets down... nice). Webster's defines "kibbitzers" (f...
03/21/2011
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