Date archive for June, 2009
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Taste for the Taste of Chicago
I admit it, for the first time in the six-and-a-half years that I’ve been a Chicagoan I had a good time at the Taste of Chicago. Not that I don’t love shuffling at one mile an hour in direct 90-degree sunlight, eating over a trash can, running from wasps, and peeing in a porta-potty…
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Introducing the CARLESS Cast of Characters
It had to happen sometime. I’ve finally created a comprehensive list of the friends, colleagues, dates, and various miscreants I’ve featured here in the virtual pages of CHICAGO CARLESS for the past four years.
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Jeff Ramone’s Supersensibly Perceptive Gay Ten Commandments
Even on Chicago’s Gay Pride weekend, some queers don’t run with the crowd. Such is the case with Jeff Ramone, a Lakeview blogger and licensed massage therapist (a real one, folks) with a sardonic style that doesn’t take the status quo–gay or otherwise–for granted.
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Don’t [Blank] Around with The Daily Blank
‘Fuck you, I’m from here!’ Such was the reply from Justin Vestal, a staff writer at The Daily Blank, Chicago’s new news satire site that yesterday launched into beta. Sitting down with their stable of comedy bloggers earlier this month, I had asked him what people should make of the fact that this Windy City-centric comedy blog got its start–and seed funding–from an Iowa newspaper. His response was instructive: don’t [blank] around with the Daily Blank.
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Pride and Piquedness
I rarely engage with other Chicagoans in the city’s seemingly official pasttime of grousing about winter weather. But when it’s 90 in the shade, my plaintive side takes a more public turn. No matter how cold the spring, we always face Divine retribution come late June. This city bakes from Gay Pride through the Taste of Chicago. Why? I think it’s in the Bible.
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Cocoa Condom Coffee Klatsch
When Pastry Chef Chris gave Hoosierella the 18 extra chocolate-flavored condoms in May at our weekly Lido’s Caffé coffee klatsch in Oak Park, no one expected them to come back.
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How to Be a Healthy “Hottie” with ChronicBabe.com
Jenni Prokopy is not to be underestimated. Founder and ‘editrix’ of ChronicBabe.com, a Chicago-based blog about young women experiencing chronic health issues, since June 2005 she has chronicled her personal journey with persistent illness. Along the way, she’s provided messages of hope for young women suffering in a similar way. Her mantra in the midst of it all? Never forget the babe that you are.
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I’m Not a Mac #1–The Great Migration
This Apple fan has officially downsized his digital life and I couldn’t be happier. For the first time since the mid-1990s, I’m down to one phone number and one email address. I know, I can’t believe it, either. I’m officially calling Wednesday, June 17th, 2009, the date of my long-needed virtual house cleaning.
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Mike Doyle Calls for Community Blogger Strategy Session on Outside the Loop Radio
Today, WLUW 88.7-FM’s indie audio magazine, Outside the Loop RADIO, interviews Yours Truly sending out a call to action to local bloggers. Last week, I participated in a major local media conference and attended another. Both were aimed at finding ways to make online news sustainable in the Windy City.
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Mike Doyle of Chicago Carless Calls for Community Blogger Strategy Day on Outside the Loop Radio
Today, WLUW 88.7-FM’s indie audio magazine, Outside the Loop RADIO, interviews Yours Truly sending out a call to action to local bloggers, finally, to organize amongst ourselves.
