Entries from December 28th, 2004

Books of 2004

December 31st, 2004 · 3 Comments

This year I set my hands on 50 books and finished 31 of them. Here’s a complete list.

  • Naked Pictures of Famous People by Jon Stewart
  • Great Expectations: Novelization by Deborah Chiel finished 12.16.04
  • Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck finished 12.05.04
  • And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie finished 11.30.04
  • Population: 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time by Michael Perry finished 11.27.04
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald finished 11.27.04
  • Minipops : Famous People Drawn Really Small by Craig Robinson
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith finished 11.05.04
  • Never a City So Real : A Walk in Chicago by Alex Kotlowitz finished 10.15.04
  • The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book): A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction by the writers of The Daily Show & Jon Stewart
  • The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathon Lethem finished 10.02.04
  • In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez finished 08.29.04
  • An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving and Other Stories by Louisa May Alcott finished 08.24.04
  • Old Yeller by Fred Gipson finished 08.08.04
  • The Risk Pool by Richard Russo finished 07.29.04
  • Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss finished 07.21.04
  • The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin finished 07.18.04
  • The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton finished 07.11.04
  • A Cook’s Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal by Anthony Bourdain finished 07.06.04
  • Middlesex : A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides finished 06.18.04
  • High Fidelity by Nick Hornby finished 05.27.04
  • The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson finished 05.19.04
  • New Pocket Hawaiian Dictionary: With a Concise Grammar and Given Names in Hawaiian by Mary Kawena Pukui & Samuel H. Elbert
  • Discover Kaua’i: The Garden Isle by Stu Dawrs
  • A Pocket Guide to Hawaii’s Birds by H. Douglas Pratt finished 05.05.04
  • A Pocket Guide to Hawaii’s Underwater Paradise by John P. Hoover finished 05.05.04
  • Hawaii Blossoms by Dorothy Hargreaves & Hargreaves finished 05.03.04
  • Atonement : A Novel by Ian McEwan finished 04.24.04
  • Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right by Al Franken finished 04.20.04
  • The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan finished 04.08.04
  • Chocolat by Joanne Harris finished 03.15.04
  • Honky by Dalton Conley finished 02.03.04
  • 97 Orchard Street, New York : Stories of Immigrant Life by Linda Granfield (Author) and Arlene Alda (Photographer) finished 01.26.04
  • The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown finished 01.24.04
  • Greenwich Village: A Guide to America’s Legendary Left Bank by Judith Stonehil finished 01.19.04
  • The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom finished 01.11.04

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Bigger Than the Lexus Bow.. oh and my camera just busted

December 30th, 2004 · 25 Comments

Big Bow Wreath

Big Bow Wreath

And then my camera broke. I guess it was a good run. I got it back in July 2002 and used it almost every single day. Still, standing in the middle of the Nordstrom Mall with a thousand people swirling around me and not having eaten lunch yet, I couldn’t help but cry a little bit. You know how I get when I haven’t eaten! I came back to the office and was talking to Tien. He told me “#1. EAT.” So I did. But only half of my pita because by then we started talking about the cost of a new camera and I seriously felt like I was going to puke on my Dell laptop (finally, it would get what it deserves).

If you enjoy my photography, want to see it continue, and have already donated to the tsunami fund, consider donating to my camera fund. If not, please donate to the tsunami fund.


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Gone in Name, Not by Fire

December 30th, 2004 · 1 Comment

Sun Times

Sun Times

I took these photos about a week ago when John at Ascent Stage alerted me that they pulled down the “Sun Times” name on top of it’s building. He has better photos of it actually happening here. Of course, after yesterday’s fire in the building this doesn’t seem like such a big deal any more. .. but I thought I’d post them anyway.

See also:
» That’s One Way to Take It Down (12.29.04)
» Sun-Times Demolition Continues (11.29.04)
» Sun-Times Demolition, or Lack Thereof (11.05.04)
» Sun-Times Building to Trump Tower Transformation (10.29.04)
» Sun-Times Building Empty, Employees May Strike (10.18.04)
» Make Way for Chicago Trump Tower (03.19.04)

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rachelleb.com: The Year in Review

December 29th, 2004 · 8 Comments

These are my personal favorites of photos I’ve taken throughout the year. Which are your favorites?

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Heat Available Nov 1 to March 31

December 28th, 2004 · 2 Comments

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Irving Park Brown Line station, Irving Park, Chicago

Even though I’m thankful that my El stop is underground, one good thing that I like about the outdoor stations is that they have areas where you can go and press a button and heated lamps will keep you warm.

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