ALA's list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000 ( Read more... )

From here'The station's even been immortalized by Chicago native Common. Conscious rap's noted leading light, then known as Common Sense, used to drop by the station -- "to play tapes and freestyle on the air, before he released any records," as JP Chill remembers. Later, Common paid tribute to WHPK on "Nuthin' To Do," a track from his classic ( Read more... )

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So it's awesome when you TA every Saturday and then one Saturday the teachers are holding a Walk-A-Thon so you have to watch their classes but they tell you they'll have lesson plans for you, which is perfectly fine and even kind of fun that you get to be teacher for a day, but then you get to class and you realize that no, no one has any lesson ( Read more... )

The funny thing about dandelions is that you can eat them and you wouldn't even know it from looking at them. They're weeds and they're fuzzy and the leaves are spiky-looking. But when they get really big the leaves are green and tasty and almost like spinach. My dad used to make them for us, God only knows where he got them from. He pronounced it ( Read more... )

I've decided that dandelions might be the awesomest things ever. I have never seen so many in my life as there are right now on the Midway alone. And they all bloomed at the same time and they all turned into the puffy white things at the same time. And I was walking to Jake's house to borrow his calculator cause I, like a dumbass, left mine at ( Read more... )

So umm... I'm thinking Chemistry needs to end right now. I hates you ( Read more... )

explore the world to return to where my soul begunSo I'm listening to hip-hop radio (on the internet) cause I haven't in a long time and Common just came on, playing my favorite song. MmMmMmMmMm. He will be at Lollapalooza in Chi-town along with one bajillion other people I want to see but tickets are almost $150 and I'm not down with that ( Read more... )

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