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Right after the Cop says the second time, “Step up to my car,” you can barely hear the Kid’s response: “I’m not doin’ nothin’.” The Kid and his friends weren’t doing anything much out of the ordinary for a warm Saturday night in June on the campus of the University of Illinois. Along with dozens of other people, mostly young, they are sauntering down the sidewalk on Green Street, unconcerned. When the squad car pulls up behind them unexpectedly, almost …
Around 4 a.m. the other day, three cub coyotes, testing their adolescent oats in the middle of County Road 500N, stared into my approaching headlights. At the last minute, when it was clear that this big thing coming at them wasn’t a burning bush or a wayward tree, they ran off together into the cornfield. It is my impression that coyotes abandon their companions, their siblings, after a while. Deer, on the other hand, may continue to associate much longer. Even …
2:30 a.m. Start route. First tube. No cars. 2:36 One skunk. 2:38 Swerve around discarded paper bag, beer cans. No moon. Replacements. Police. 2:39 A kitten in the ditch. The Turtles. New white gravel reflects on brights. 2:40 Gliding hawk or owl.
Alice's old barn, faded red, was the only place I could rely on to observe a swooping owl at dawn. Once, a tiny owlet, perched in the orange tube, startled me when I attempted to deliver the Sunday paper. Wary or curious, it glared at me and the oversize bundle of newsprint before flying off. I was thankful it didn't fly through the open car window. I lost track of the number of years I have delivered papers to Alice. …
Befuddled, or maybe bored, by The Tree of Life? People can be reluctant to describe or explain Terrence Malick's cosmic non-action movie, understandably so. They may evade the question "did you like it?" or "what's it about" by advising the questioner to go see it, which is really the only sound advice one can give about a movie that doesn't lend itself to the earthbound rating systems. It is rare to find a movie that focuses on the workings of …
I was pushing the cart along the aisle toward the cashier, nearing the no limit self-checkout line, having made the right decisions, choosing the 99 cent name brand mustard on sale (with only 9.5 ounces) instead of the generic mustard (also 99 cents but with 12 ounces), and having made a series of similar careful mental negotiations, when I saw the tuxedo T-shirt for $7.99, just in time for the holiday. I picked up the T-shirt and considered what easy …
Poverty is wealth.To hoard wealth is to be poor.Be content with what you have;Rejoice in the way things are.When you realize there is nothing lacking,the whole world belongs to you. - Tao Te Ching, verse 44 Osama bin Laden was born into privilege. He had a private education, rode black stallions, played football, watched Maverick on TV and inherited money. He claimed to give it all up, funding terrorism and seeking to wrest all traces of comfort and culture from …
As long as the national discourse continues to be about spending or the budget, I'm on vacation. Whenever I hear the name Paul Ryan, I change the channel. If I were reading instead of writing this column, I would not have reached this sentence. Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman called the shots correctly for the past ten years, predicting the economic collapse and discrediting Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan when virtually everyone else thought Greenspan was butter. But no one listened. …
The barber tinkered with my head at his leisure. But he and his partner rattled on in a clipped Caribbean dialect at breakneck pace, discussing the sexuality of their rival down the street. A full stalk of green bananas sat propped up in the empty chair in the corner. A very pregnant young woman in a skin-tight, belly-revealing outfit chimed in before suggesting she go out to the plaza to buy us all bacalaoitos, breaded fried fish fritters. Did I …
Moloch fucking killed poetry, just as Moloch did the air, water, and earth, even the moon for all we know, took Whitman's liberation and crammed it into a useless degree program, with right ways and wrong ways and bottomless scorn, shaming the expressers, correcting the hopeful, becoming the decider, critiquing those just wishing to smell a gardenia again, a carnation, using old semiotic systems to re-encrypt the banality of goodness, dashing the mere glimmer of a dare-I-say-it dream upon the …
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Thanks for that, Louis CK.
Your call to stay pissed is precisely why global warming fanatics will fail. Emotion has no place in hard science. The problem with the issue of global warming is that is has been pumped full of emotion and politics, and the science is becoming a by-product. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204301404577171531838421366.html?KEYWORDS=global+warming
Clearly the Postal Officials in favor of this cannot make an economic argument, as this saves the post office $0. What is their rationale?
Earlier today I received this response from the President’s office (via e-mail) - Dear Jason: Thank you for taking the time to write and share your thoughts. I deeply regret the embarrassment that the anonymous email incident has brought to our great University, and the personal hardship…
This posting expresses frustration—where is the investigative reporting about the current situation at the university? There are news reports, but basically no investigation? Why? None of the potential news outlets seem to be digging, unless doing so in the quiet of the night—not CU Access, the DI,…
Thank you Childrss for the correction. I actually only know a very small bit about Miscanthus specifically (and not much, obviously). My support for cellulosic has more to do with all the various upsides. The stalks and husks of feed corn, for instance, could provide a secondary…
More on Miscanthus can be found at http://miscanthus.illinois.edu Depending on market demand, miscanthus CAN impact food costs if it becomes more profitable to grow Miscanthus on land rather than foodstuff crops. While Jason didn’t explicitly state it (so I don’t want to imply that he was wrong)—it…
“Doing so would leave the entire university community without a way to send mail.” Ever heard of a mailbox? I can tell you where some are. “The Green Street office is always busy ...” Wrong. In fact, back in the day, I would go there during the…
I still have a very strong belief in bio-fuels as a sensible alternative, so long as it’s done sensibly. The one that makes the most sense, in my opinion, is producing ethanol from cellulose instead of grain. It’s essentially turning a waste product into a usable fuel…
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Nope. It’s the back (east) side of Urbana Tire Company at 202 S. Vine. How much is a hug and kiss worth? Do I have to take them all at once or can I break it up?
FACT: Silverfish feed only on carbohydrates, such as starches and sugars. They will not consume proteins or fats (the main materials from which human beings are constructed). THUS: That was not actually a human waiter we were conversing with, but rather a lifelike simulacrum created from semi-digested Fruit Loops.
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The geniuses at the News-Gazette site have it all figured out. This happened because we don’t have the Chief!
Pamela - Are the roasteries in Seattle as clean as CSR? It always disturbs me a little that it is so clean in there.
Now you will be able to munch on pizza and shrimp cocktails in downtown Urbana (whilst a DJ spins?) after your dissolution of marriage http://www.news-gazette.com/news/business/features/its-your-business/2012-02-05/its-your-business-new-pizza-place-downtown-urban Is this a franchise of a Reno pizza joint, or just a coincidence of name? http://www.blackrockpizza.com
Signs someone is “fishing” for a factual anchor: 1. Starts call to radio with: “I’ve been an Illini fan for (XX) years” or “I’m a diehard fan,” as if somehow that unverifiable claim will justify the 5 minutes of B.S. that follows. 2. Makes reference to KenPom…
That’s what she said.
Black dog and Siam terrace is where I always go after my divorces.
Love CSR. Apart from making my way through the regular roasts in 1/2 pound increments, I also like to pick up some of the little sample packets of the flavored stuff for when the lady and I feel like getting crazy. Sticky Bun is pretty nice.
If you happen to be getting a divorce, or fighting a DUI prosecution, downtown Urbana is a great place to eat.
HUUUUUUGE fan of their Black Velvet roast…It makes up about 75% of my coffee intake. LOL CSR is definitely one of those Champaign institutions that I brag about to people not from here. :-)
We like CSR too! We french press at home and I leave the lid off while it steeps—letting the ground beans bloom. Then, like in your tasting, I scoop off the top layer before pressing. We really need to invest in a burr grinder though, as I…
Confidential? In this state? Hahahahahahahhahahaha
just confirmed: there will be white russians served. the art abides.
big lebowski at the art. mark it, dude.
There’s a great video promo out for “Company” too: http://vimeo.com/36077847
Wow, His Majesty took the time to answer your polite plea. It’s been a while since I spoke fluent arrogance, but allow this attempt at a translation: “I deeply regret the embarrassment…” = I wish we hadn’t got caught and it wasn’t a big deal really. “...and…
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Wow, His Majesty took the time to answer your polite plea. It’s been a while since I spoke fluent arrogance, but allow this attempt at a translation: “I deeply regret the embarrassment…” = I wish we hadn’t got caught and it wasn’t a big deal really. “...and…