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Soldier Field 10 2013
I thought freelancing would mean blogging galore, but instead it's a lot of running around working for other people (I mean, who knew, right?) and being, for example, two weeks late talking about a...
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LOL 5th Anniversary
*Me in my usual show shirt, looking extra hilarious in 2008.* About a hundred years ago (well, around ten) I was occasionally working with a corporate comedy group called Chicago Comedy Company founded...
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Dream State
If I'm chewing on an artistic or technical problem late at night, I'll go to bed and then toss and turn and keep half-waking up and mulling over the problem and possible solutions. One in ten times...
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Tattoos in Paris
Last year our friend Jeremy, who you may remember from such adventures as "the guy with his jaw wired shut [at our wedding](http://www.flickr.com/photos/fuzzy/214852883/in/set-72157594236637056)",...
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National Handshake Day
It's National Handshake Day. Did you know that? I did not. Who makes up these things? But then, who cares because it's an excuse for WGN Morning News, our old friends, to have NGPC on this morning to...
View ArticleOn Track
I've been really busy with a couple of freelance projects, two of which drop, separately, on Monday (you can bet I'll be plugging them then) and also with my Ironman training. It's worked out oddly...
View Article4000 meters
OK, I can't leave us all hanging with a cliffhanger like [that](http://fuzzyco.com/news/running/on_track.html): yesterday I swam 4000m in open water (in the lanes down at Ohio Street Beach) and I did...
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Zulkey.com
I'm very proud to announce that the brand-new [Zulkey.com](http://zulkey.com/) has launched today, with a brand new design by, well, me. Claire's last design was elegant and simple and served her well...
View ArticleSteve Gadlin's Star Makers
I know it's asking a lot in these frenetic times, but if you can carve out 29 minutes from your schedule today, please watch the entire pilot episode of [Steve Gadlin's Star...
View ArticleExcession
I started filling in my reading gaps in the Culture novels [last year](http://fuzzyco.com/news/books/consider_phlebas.html) and actually (despite the lateness of this post) finished all of them before...
View ArticleMatter
[Matter](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0553575376/freef0c-20) has a couple of sequences that just define, for me, the charm of Banks as a writer. Banks likes to remind us that he's chosen as...
View ArticleSurface Detail
[Surface Detail](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0085S12EW/freef0c-20) has a lot of standard Culture novel elements: resurrections, Ships interfering, or not, in unenlightened civilizations,...
View ArticleHow to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
If you like things that could be described as "meta" then you will love *[How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0307739457/freef0c-20)*. It's by...
View ArticleThe Hydrogen Sonata
I really hesitate to say that *[The Hydrogen Sonata](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0316212377/freef0c-20)* is "more of the same" for a Culture novel, because that sounds like a bad thing. It's...
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Lemonade Band / Agudas Achim
So this weekend I helped crew a video shoot for a new Steve Delahoyde joint, Lemonade Band. I think I will leave that as mysterious as it is until the video is done. But I do want to talk about the...
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