August 2005

The Money Pit I Call ‘My Truck’

August 26, 2005

You know, I thought was doing good. I’d finally landed a good job (that I promptly quit a few months later) and was getting ready to settle down. So, I figured, what the hell! I’d promised myself an SUV all through college and I’d be damned if I was going to buy one. My Saturn finally giving up the ghost – well, really all that happened was the clutch finally [...]

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Riviera : Broken Sounds from Chicago, IL

August 19, 2005

Riviera : Broken Sounds from Chicago, IL It’s funny the things you run into on the net.   The other day, I was digging through my CD collection and came across a CD that I had burned for me a few years ago.   It was my old college roommate’s first studio effort with his band – Sugar Maple Voodoo.  The CD was titled Jibe.   Anyway, I went and [...]

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Surfboard Hysteria…

August 10, 2005
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So, with the knee on the mend, I’ve gone in search of some new rides! And, what better time of year to start looking than the end of summer when all the posers decide to pawn off their barely used sticks so they’ll have some pocket cash to put towards a new snowboard (which they’ll ride twice all season)? Lucky for me, I’ve found a few gems: First up is [...]

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Atrophy…

August 4, 2005

It’s such a nice looking word – you’d almost consider it to be a nice word considering how it’s put together “a-trophy.” But, alas, it’s anything but nice. Merriam & Websterdefine it as the following: Main Entry: at·ro·phy Pronunciation: ‘a-tr&-fE Function: noun Inflected Form(s): plural -phies Etymology: Late Latin atrophia, from Greek, from atrophos ill fed, from a- + trephein to nourish 1 : decrease in size or wasting away [...]

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