Friday Afternoon Diversion
Jay-Z Announces 2010 Tour Dates. Chicago Not On List.
I Fight Dragon$
"Batman" Headline Is a Stretch, But Prison Escape Story Could Be Its Own Movie
Grates To Tear Up Schubas
Here are some things in the news while we do spit takes at the ticket prices for the upcoming Van Halen tour.
- A $300-a-year parking permit created for realtors, home health care providers, and social workers to plug a $2.4 million hole in the city's 2007 budget only generated $15,900 in revenue.
- Facing increasing criticism in allowing BP to increase the amount of pollution it can discharge into Lake Michigan, Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels ordered a review of his state's laws covering Great Lakes water quality and permits.
- Another woman was attacked on the north side, this time near Children's Memorial Hospital.
- Exelon, ComEd's parent company, expects earnings of $3.70 to $4 per share of stock, and a profit of up to $4.30 per share. Remind them of that the next time they ask for a rate hike.
- Thanks to Illinois Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias, now you can buy
junkunclaimed property from the state on ebay. - While Cedric Benson settles in as the Bears' lead running back, Thomas Jones suffers a strained calf muscle for the Jets.
- Congratulations to Eight Forty-eight host Steve Edwards, who is one of thirteen American journalists chosen for the University of Michigan's Knight-Wallace Fellowship for the 2K7-2K8 school year. Edwards will take a leave of absence beginning Friday to study how Latino immigrants reshape American politics, economics and culture.. Read the full press release here (Adobe PDF).
- Governor Blagojevich uses his power of amendatory veto to cut $500 million in pork from the state budget, funds health care with it instead.
- Someone's been watching "Deliverance": Extreme aerial bowfishing is the proverbial shit.
- Robert "The Douchebag of Liberty" Novak looks back at the career of his greatest source, Karl "Turd Blossom" Rove.
- "Your bodies, not ours." A Federal court ruled last week that Illinois pharmacists have the right to refuse dispensing emergency contraception, despite a 2005 state law requiring they do so.
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"Holy Mary Mother of God"
all aboard the train that is not a train, it is, in fact, a bus.
btw, i love chicagoist.
you guys are the best ist.
"When do we start pushing?"
With CTA funding threatened, several employees take desperate measures and rob a local Cole Taylor Bank, only to have their escape thwarted when the driver locks his keys inside their getaway bus.
When the Blue Line closed for repairs last month, not only did riders have trouble finding the alternative bus, they also had trouble finding the bus door.
"CTA: Inconveniencing people from every walk of life."
"I swear, the door was right HERE a moment ago"
"Open the pod bay door, HAL."
"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that."
LOL pantagrapher, I can't even try to beat that one.
"Do you see it?"
"No, do you see it?"
"I see it! It looks like the back half of the bus is over on Kedzie."
Great one, Pantagrapher!
"These port-a-pottys are getting bigger every year!"
God ... pantagrapher wins by a half-million miles.
Or ...
"My God. It's full of cars!"
"Did that stinky guy leave yet?"
"You're right, I can totally make out the Virgin Mary in that smudge on the glass!!"
that's my best shot. But kudos to pantagrapher!
"Participants in 'Yearly Kos' refuse to board shuttle bus until American flag decal is scraped off."
Ward Up.
Kos people aren't against America, you know. I'll counter with:
"Bushies wonder what that funny little decal is."
"After finally getting America's poor positioned just right, Republicans fail to find the gas pedal."
and the last poor people are kicked out of Wicker Park by gentrifying transplants.