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"I have the cool jacket*, so now I'm ready to hit the town!" "Agreed." "But if you go with me, you have to look cool too...but not too cool." "What?" "You can't overshadow the jacket." "That's like Batman telling Robin he can wear the tights but not drive the Batmobile." "Nah, that's like Batman telling

An instructor in my program recently recommended It's Alive, The Coming Convergence of Information, Biology and Business, and said she may use excerpts in her upcoming class. Being the intrepid student I am, I went ahead and ordered it. I got three paragraphs into the introduction and was jarred by this: How can we hope

"...so he stayed down there and the shark pushed him again.""What happened?""The shark ate him!""It's obvious why the shark ate him instead of swimming away.""How's that?""It's more fun to eat prey that's challenging. The guy fought back, so of course the shark wanted to eat him.""...""Why are you looking at me like that?""I have a

I almost ashamed to admit this, but I remember all the songs and all the dance moves in Grease. Of course, if you were sitting in front of me at the Loews Theater this evening, you know that. Sorry you had to get up and leave, but I was hopelessly devoted. A girl just has

The Tori Amos concert last night caused a controversy because the Park charged for it when, according to the article, they initially said all lawn seats for concerts in the Park would be free. Hmmm. I'm more upset that they confiscated all beverages -- even bottled water -- because they claimed they couldn't make money

A.) Go to musicoutfitters.comB.) Enter the year you graduated from high school in the search function and get the list of 100 most popular songs of that yearC.) Bold the songs you like, strike through the ones you hate and underline your favorite. Do nothing to the ones you don't remember (or don't care about).1.

To listen or not to listen to albums prior to a concert, that's the question. B contends that listening prior to a concert will ruin your experience because the concert will be nothing like the albums and the mismatched expectations will kill.I think it's better to sing the right lyrics to Cornflake Girl rather than

"I had a salad conversation today with an SVP.""Salad conversation?""Yeah, we were at the salad bar and he started small talk about the salad.""Really? What'd he say?""Something about how the salad seemed crispy but he didn't know what kind to get.""That's not so bad.""No, it's horrible. I'm the person he had the salad conversation with.

...how long it will be before the "intelligent design" people start protesting the evolution mural at the Roosevelt transfer tunnel.

If the CTA sells line naming rights to corporations, I'll scream. I shudder to think what it would look like:Brown Line -- sponsored by UPS?Purple Line -- sponsored by Royal Caribbean Cruises?Green Line -- sponsored by the EPA? Red Line -- sponsored by Red M&Ms?Orange Line -- sponsored by Tropicana?Or maybe they would change the