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Send good thoughts Roger Ebert's way tomorrow. He's having surgery again. [S-T]
Mary Schmich is so desperate to write something poignant about the woman whose body was found in Lake Michigan she quotes the tagline from Shawkshank Redemption. [Trib]
Internet genius Adrian Holovaty and co. have launched Everyblock, a magical local news aggregator for Chicago, New York and San Francisco. [Everyblock]
Want to work for the state? Now they have a new website that compiles all the available jobs. If Rod Blagojevich can do it, so can you. [Work 4 Illinois]
You're supposed to pay tolls. Seriously. One suburban man owes $17,000 because he failed to pay about $100 worth of tolls. [CBS 2]
The Sun-Times sold its Skyline, Booster and News Star weekly suburban papers. [Crain's]
But someone loves the suburbs. And it's Chicago Magazine's Jeff Ruby. [Chicago Mag]
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Mary Schmich is so annoying I have to avoid her yoga classes because my dislike for her column would be counterproductive.
Tomorrow I'll have Ebert in my thoughts tomorrow.
What's so wrong with Mary Schmich's article that it merits derision? I see a well-written and appropriately-toned piece about something sad that happened. It's not Dostoevsky, it's journalism, and it's not bad journalism at all.
No mention of Dustin Seibert?
Don't get me started about Mary Schmich! She just took all the info of the victim from her Myspace page!
And it was weird, the victim had two Myspace accts...but no friends, other than Tom!
Actually, she had a Friendster, Myspace, AND a Facebook. Her other accounts were a lot more active. come on, NOBODY cool uses myspace anymore!
And i liked the mary schmich column. People just like to bitch because its hipster cool.
Thankfully, Skyline, Booster, and News Star are in good hands. They will be purchased by Wednesday Journal, Inc., publishers of Chicago Journal.
Skyline, Booster and News Star have been extremely important in bring at least SOME falrness to neighborhood controversies, especially development controversies. Shining the light of news coverage has helped inform citizens how to use their voices to make this city a better place.
Also, Skyline and Booster were instrumental in the elections that unseated Burt Natarus (42nd) and Ted Matlak (32nd). Those papers brought people the facts about pay-to-pay development and demolition of historic buildings, week by week, that brought those politicians down, and rightfully so.
Chicago Journal provides the same sort of functions in its neighborhoods, as seen by recent development debates and by the unseating of Madeleine Haithock (2nd) and Pat Dowell (3rd).
Good luck, Wednesday Journal! And bring back NEIGHBORHOOD-oriented editorials to Skyline, Booster, and News Star!
Oops! My typing-in-a-rush led to two mistakes in the above post. It should be "pay-to-play" and it was Dorothy Tillman (3rd) who was unseated. She was beaten by Pat Dowell. Sorry!