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Here are some pics of the flooding around Chicagoland. 7 Illinois counties were declared disaster areas. The rain on Saturday was a stalled cold front, and the rain on Sunday was the remnants of Ike.

I Love Lucy and LOST!

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Ronnie did it in the 5th when he mentioned it on the radio.

I AM GOING TO PUKE BY THE END OF THIS GAME!! I am so nervous... edit: also, look what your post almost did. edit edit: fuck.

Brewers fired Yost. http://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/stori.../15/daily7.html

Yes, I really like it. Those songs are gonna sound great in the venues she's got lined up for this tour.

He's off to the great gig in the sky. RIP.

I was gonna go but had a directv appointment scheduled for 8am-noon... and the guy showed up at 3:30.

Vibes to everyone this hit. Besides images of flooded Houston streets, yesterday I kept seeing footage of the Chase building with all the windows blown out on its east side. How bad is the building damage in other parts of town?

Growing up in the western burbs of Chicago, air traffic is a fact of life -- it's background noise and objects in your peripheral view of the sky every 60 seconds. The eerie stillness of the skies in the post-9/11 days was deafeningly silent. It felt like calm before the storm every time you were outside. My high school marching band practiced in the school parking lot, and at practice on the night the air traffic grounding was lifted, everyone stopped mid-march and stared at that first lone plane in the sky. After a few days of silence, the faint sound of its engines felt like it was landing

Your horny opinion would be about wood. That was a brutal patch. Overall he has been amazing, but that rough patch had flashes of how he looked last year, which was terrifying.

Notre Dame. And all the unnecessary letters in his last name.

Marmol's been just as hot and cold as Wood. And I don't know what the hell Samardzija did last Saturday, but I blame Notre Dame football for that turd of a performance.

They're talking about teaching 9/11 on Chicago Public Radio's Eight Forty-Eight right now. The podcast will be up this afternoon if you can't catch the live stream, I think.

That's an interesting theory and while the White City no doubt played a part in the development of disposable commercialism culture, it's an oversimplification to say that it was the beginning of such a culture. The industrial revolution made mass production possible, and for some time before the Fair material culture was already moving away from homemade artifacts to mass-produced objects. Instead of owning a small amount of family heirlooms, people were buying factory-produced items. The rise of department stores and mail-order catalogs (like Sears and Montgomery Ward in Chicago) in the ye

It goes back at least to the Kansas-Nebraka Act of 1854, when Stephen Douglas stole St. Louis's thunder by proposing the eastern terminus of a transcontinental railroad in Chicago. Chicago is what it is today because of Douglas's eventual success in getting us the major Midwestern rail terminal. edit: I am from Chicago.

The trivia is very cool and helps bring the events to life as well as place them in context with things readers may be more familiar with. Scattering trivia throughout the text illuminates history and I feel might convert people who previously thought history is stuffy (wishful thinking? ) Like llynn said, the trivia gave me a lot of inspiration to go out and research this era. Also, when I saw him speak, Larson confessed to being a trivia nut. So good call!

Happy birthday, Dunja!!! Lots of love to you!!

I'll take a stab at the first question, gogo! My response takes into consideration the notes and sources at the end of the book plus something Larson said when I saw him speak last year, so if you consider those spoilers, skip over my post. *possible spoiler alert*(if you think end notes can be spoiled!) Popular history and academic history read as very different things, but as long as they draw from primary sources (as opposed to popular history just "making things up" or regurgitating secondary sources) both are "real history." The difference in a historical text being a bestseller

My brother's working for the Colts and texted me some pics of the roof opening. Pretty sweet new facility, although the field doesn't have drainage so if they don't get the roof closed before bad weather rolls in, there could be trouble.

Happy happy birthday!!! yayayayyayyyy!!! :party Drink up!! Cubs AND Bears trying to give you birthday victories today!!

Happy birthday, Sam!!!!!

That's how baby threads are made.