I saw these pumpkins on a stoop on Ashland Ave. yesterday. Also, my brother passed along this video clip (.mov, 18 sec, 904k) of a Milwaukee newscast. My niece is the plump little dragon at the end.

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Recently, Dallas discovered this band called The Go! Team and we’ve been listening to them a lot… to say the least. Especially him, he’s obsessed! Their album Thunder, Lightening, Strike is incredible.. one that you can put on and listen to over and over again. Every song is good. Last weekend we had dinner over [...]

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This story is rather embarassing, but I’m not above embarassing myself, so here goes.
Yesterday when I went to the Reid, Murdoch building, Mike told me to go to the LaSalle St. entrance and ask for a “young gentleman named Kevin”. So I got there and asked for him and was told he’d be down [...]

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This morning Mike pulled some strings and got me access to the Reid, Murdoch & Co. building. It’s that red building with the clocktower just north of the river between LaSalle & Clark. They had the clocktower open for people who work in the building and certain media types to explore and watch the White [...]

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I don’t know why it cracks me up that these bags of sand around the Trump construction area are called and sold as “Tubesand”. It seems like one of those things that’s so simple.. and whoever thought of it is a billionaire now.
Also, I noticed that they have a lot of the granite tiles [...]

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