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Ah, Wizard World Chicago. The show's mellowed out A LOT. It was better when there were only a few major shows and Wizard only owned one of them. Now they own at least 4. The weekend went smoothly but I was ready for it to be over about halfway through Saturday. I got autographs from Takeshi Miyazawa (Mary Jane) and Zander Cannon (Smax) for THE...
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An Ode to Matt McCormick

Alas, poor Matt. I hardly knew ye.
Never did I compete 'gainst your gambling fury.
I saw him at the Cubs game the day before
Sadly, they lost -- 6 to 2 the score.
While the rest of us drove, he took the train,
And for that day, I wasn't to see him again.
Next, Shawn's party, fireworks galore!
Matt...
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There is no greater ignominy than food poisoning. I originally thought it was just one of my semi-regular bouts with indigestion and thus tried to treat it by drinking a lot of milk. Milk doesn't go well with food poisioning. Actually, not many things do. Except maybe toilets. With food poisoning the question really is, "which end am I going to stick in the toilet?"...
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So my friend Pat had his birthday thursday and is having 3 days of celebration! (That's him up there, Mantek, my one friend.) Saturday is the official one to celebrate but I'm not going to that.

I decided to go and surprise him on wednesday where festivities were held at Lago and Green Door. In addition to Pat, there was Streets, Fallon, Ryan, other...
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So I returned to find the new, super CSSed SG and it looks hella good.
My computer died so I'm using the backup which is just as good but I'm sad. I had a lot of good memories on that puppy and I'm grateful I was able to back them all up.
Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie are finally releasing Lost Girls but even better...
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ブローグの日本語の私権をしませんでした,ね?
やった! すごい,ね?

Well, I'm baaack! At least for one more year.

Gonna see City Lits adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyles A Scandal in Bohemia and The Final Problem. Those arent necessarily the 2 Holmes stories Id adapt but Im just going to see the play. A Scandal in Bohemia is the first Sherlock Holmes story and my favorite. It was brilliantly changed into the film Zero...
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The trouble with buying Japanese CDs is that they're hella expensive. I know enough nihongo to have a pretty good idea of what I'm getting but until you actually listen to what you get you never know. I tried to buy a japanese christmas cd which had japanese artists singing traditional english language songs. The kitch factor on stuff like this is incredibly high. my...
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So I buy a buncha stuff from amazon.com including the West Wing season 2 and Ironbound Vampire for Al. (I tried to buy her underwear, I figure this may go over a bit better.) Now she's already received her presents while the rest of my order is still awaiting shipment. What's up with that?

Edit: No sooner do I complain about it here and...
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