Archive for the 'chicago' Category

Holding Steady

Posted by Tommy on August 9th, 2007 filed in Lollapalooza 2007, music, chicago

It’s good to know that I’m not the only Hold Steady fan around here.

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Mission Accomplished

Posted by Tommy on August 6th, 2007 filed in video, music, toronto, parties, geeks, life, chicago, detroit, travel

It’s been a helluva few days here. But I feel really refreshed, and excited for life. I’ve had some time to myself here, along with seeing some things and people that I think I really needed to see. Everything is alright. Party stories later, I have to work in an hour.

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Insane travel? [update]

Posted by Tommy on August 1st, 2007 filed in video, toronto, parties, geeks, detroit, tech, chicago

This idea is so completely off the wall batshit insane, that I just might go through with it.
1. Brief appearance at Christina’s 21st b-day in Royal Oak, like brief brief.
2. Drive 4 hours, across the border to…
3. No Regrets in Toronto for the Command N Episode 100 Party
4. Briefly pass out in Erik’s hotel room […]

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Chicago’s gonna be tired that night

Posted by Tommy on July 14th, 2007 filed in chicago

August 3-5 my mom has a dance convention she’s going to be attending. The fact that it’s in Chicago and our family hasn’t really taken a vacation together in some time means that my family is all going with. So the other day I go online to check out what’s going on in Chicago that […]

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Conquering Chicago, part 3

Posted by Tommy on June 4th, 2007 filed in chicago, life, travel

The adventure continues.
We left the Contemporary Art Museum a little underwhelmed, to be honest. The plus side was that we were in Chicago, and there was still plenty to see and do.
We walked up Michigan Avenue and the Magnificent Mile to see all the other visitors walk by and to window shop all the stores […]

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Conquering Chicago, part 2

Posted by Tommy on May 30th, 2007 filed in chicago, life, travel

Long awaited, much anticipated, and over a week late.
So we hop on the Redline L station at Morse and head south. Just like the theme of this whole trip, I had little idea of what station we were going to stop at. I just knew that we were heading downtown and I wanted to show […]

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Conquering Chicago, part 1

Posted by Tommy on May 22nd, 2007 filed in chicago, life, travel

It starts Friday morning, around 6:30 in the morning, when Amy called and woke me up, letting me know she’d be over in about half an hour. I made sure that I had everything I wanted packed up, prepped the Cruiser for a road trip, and after a quick splash and go at the gas […]

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