Thanks to Lonely Planet's excellent Road Trip: Lake Michigan guide, we had a pretty fantastic time exploring the west coast of Michigan over the long July 4th weekend.  We'd been talking about taking a few road trips throughout the midwest this summer (any place within a six hour drive of Chicago is on the table) and Tristan felt Michigan would be ( Read more... )

We're halfway through our roadtrip up the west coast of Michigan.  We started in Saugatuck/Holland and are now just outside Traverse City, on our way to Mackinac Island were we'll stay for a bit before heading back to Chicago.  Anyway, Tristan put together the soundtrack for the drive and one of the songs is in the running for my #1 guilty pop ( Read more... )

yeppers...more Japan photos...

Nara was the capital of Japan from 710 to 784 (hence the Nara Period.)  It was during this time that the framework of national government was consolidated and power restored to the imperial court.  Nara enjoyed great prosperity, emerging as the fountainhead of Japanese culture (e.g., the first works of Japanese ( Read more... )

We saw SiCKO Friday night...


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Gazillions of photos were taken...here are a few (more to come):


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My friend, Stefanie, celebrated a birthday two weeks ago...here are a few photos taken as things began to wind down (I'll probably post photos from earlier in the evening later...)

I found a bunch of film stock frames online so I'm probably going to have fun with them for a while...fair warning!  Enjoy the pukey colors!


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My cat groomer of the last four years is being a complete ass these days (taking forever to return calls), so I've decided to switch to a new salon, Soggy Paws.  They apparently have a good rep (Josh...I'm slowly caving ;) and were even awarded "Best Groomer" in 2006 by Chicagoland Tails (um...for whatever that's worth, lol.)   Overall, the place ( Read more... )