Backup of my old LiveJournal blog
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20 Sep 2006It’s a shame that it’s the middle of the night in Israel right now, so there’s no one online to whom I can gloat exultantly that the Dresden Dolls are finishing their Australian tour next week and will fly back to the West Coast, where they will have several shows starting in San Diego and […]
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19 Sep 2006In the beginning… was Coca Cola. From the soda fountain to the bottling plant, to New Coke and back to Classic and Cherry Coke and Diet Coke and Vanilla and Coke with Lime, the line expanded and branched out. So until we reach the logical conclusion and are able to buy a Jalapeño Coke or […]
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19 Sep 2006For those Alces Alces-obsessed among my readers (I know you’re out there) I will share today’s lunch, eaten at the Moosejaw Pizza & Brewing Company in Wisconsin. The outside is wooden and outdoorsy and cute. The inside is a huge wooden hall with log-chairs and massive feats of taxodermy lining the walls – not […]
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18 Sep 2006In Douglas Coupland’s “Microserfs”, protagonist Dan, ever the consumer junkie, goes wild with excitement over the announced Crystal Pepsi: The day they introduced Crystal Pepsi, I harassed the local Safeway manager almost daily until it arrived. I thought this new Pepsi was going to be like regular Pepsi, except minus the plutonium stuff that turns […]
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18 Sep 2006It’s 1:27 and I just can’t sleep. My head aches and my back aches and bits of my heart still ache, though they have no right to. Every 4 minutes a train passes by my window and my battery will run out in a couple of minutes. It’s 1:30 and I just can’t sleep.
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18 Sep 2006This is the Chicago of the skyline and the shoreline, of parks and stadiums, wide streets and clean, clean rivers. It’s touristic but not overly so, urban but not as crowded as New York. It’s got green grass with joggers and the Magnificent Mile with shoppers and universities with slackers, coffee shops and poetry slams and […]
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18 Sep 2006Two more cream sodas for your enjoyment and edification. These two were purchased in Wisconsin on our way to the House on the Rock The first was Avshalom’s Point Premium Vanilla Cream Soda, which was really good. You could really taste the vanilla in it (click to enlarge) The second was my Blumer’s Blueberry Cream. […]
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18 Sep 2006(Update: Fixed the image links) Chicago is very different when you don’t drive a car. There is no subway in Chicago, just the “El” train – the Elevated train running throughout central Chicago. Its metal and concrete tracks run over the city, especially the central Loop, making the streets both distinctive and very, very loud. […]
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17 Sep 2006My first taste of Chicago was Chicago of the Ground. Chicago of the highway. It’s a Chicago of interstates and road construction, a Chicago of tollbooths and traffic jams. It’s a sprawling metropolis, 50 miles from north to south, criss-crossing streets, gas stations and restaurants. It doesn’t end. It looks small on the map but […]
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17 Sep 2006פעם היה לי לייבג'ורנל. עכשיו הוא כאן, מגובה.