Happy new year, everyone! Welcome to 2012. May it be a thousand times better than 2011, no matter how your 2011 went. :o)

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Rating: ***1/2 (3.5/5) If you enjoy extended fight scenes and shots up the backs of girls’ legs — in other words, if you’re a boy — you’d probably give this movie 4 to 5 stars. If you prefer rom-coms, you’d probably give this a 1 or a 2, with a sympathy point thrown in just [...]

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What did I do this weekend? Oh, just, you know . . . jump out of a plane: Thanks to Pedro, Liana and Todd for jumping along – mostly to Pedro for coming up with the idea! =) In case you’re wondering: SUPER fun, but also VERY loud. I think my ears just stopped hurting! [...]

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I thought I would keep with the recent theme of morbidity/mortality that seems to have overtaken this blog lately, yet keep it light by at least being a little less agro than yesterday. I’ve been meaning to get the word out about this topic for a while, ever since it came to my attention that [...]

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All right, I’m just gonna say it. While I know some people are totally going to take this the wrong way, I’m gonna say it anyway, because it has really been weighing on my mind for a while now: Some people get sick or injured and get better. Some people even get really, really sick [...]

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I know, it seems like there should be an entire blog devoted to food in Chicago. There probably is one, but that blog isn’t mine, so Chicago food is only going to get a few entries here – a few entries per year, anyway. I thought I’d tackle salads first. Here are my favorite salads [...]

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While we were in Chicago, I had the pleasure of seeing the new, revamped, 25th anniversary version of “Les Misérables,” which is currently touring the U.S. OK, let’s not lie: I totally planned to be there for this production. I have not seen a union production of “Les Mis” in 15 years, and when I [...]

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Hey, all. I have been getting a lot of questions and status requests via text, Twitter and Facebook, so I thought I would just put a little announcement here, for the record: At about 7:45 last night Hawai‘i time, Japan – our neighbors to the northwest – suffered their strongest earthquake in recorded history. The [...]

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I’m on vacation in Chicago. It is nice and chilly! Ice skating at Wrigley Field. Will write more when I get home. IF I get home. Ha!

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As I mentioned in a previous blog entry, the Chuy’s Gang from Austin eventually morphed into the Eddie George’s gang in Columbus, and among the friends we made our first night in Ohio was a really cool guy named Ty Wakefield who was in the middle of his battle with osteosarcoma. If you’ve ever had [...]

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