Showing posts with label Max Weismann. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Max Weismann. Show all posts
Monday, August 27, 2012

Hailing Over the Stream - A Brunette Quearies a Blonde

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Dennis O'Mullally's  History of O'Mullally and Lally Clan, or The history of an Irish family through the ages intertwined ...
Saturday, October 22, 2011

Tales of the South Side: Bubs Murtaugh Goes to Mission

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Bubs Murtaugh had issues, as do we all, I know. Murtaugh's issues were legion. Bubs came from what was known back in the day as Scotts...
Sunday, August 28, 2011

Sweetheart, I Was Only Being Kind to a Scared Kid in a Bar. That's all.

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On 12 December 2010, following press reports linking her romantically with Australian cricketer Shane Warne, Hurley announced via her Twi...
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Monday, June 27, 2011

The Porcelain Unicorn - A Short Film That Says It All

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This summer, Philips and the renowned director/producer Ridley Scott launched a global filmmaker competition dubbed “Tell It Your Way” fol...
Wednesday, June 01, 2011

Tales of the South Side: Bub's Murtaugh's Silk Blue Jamies

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Bub's Murtaugh loved sea-food. Lent was a year round feast for Bubs. He ate pickled herring on toast made from good sweet Lithuanian bre...
Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Why Ellen Degeneres is no Oprah . . .Well, who is?

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Oprah never did anything for me. That troubles me. Ellen Degeneres does even less. That troubles me not. Click my post title for a palate c...
Sunday, January 02, 2011

Jews, Greeks and Romans - The Feast of the Epiphany -The Heart, Head and Hands of Man

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I fail to follow the Star over Bethlehem. I fail every time I fall prey to my personal monsters - arrogance, anxiety and anger. It seems tha...
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Thursday, July 22, 2010

Blago and the Cardinal - Healing Hearing

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Cardinal George said, "Anyone with 'special needs' who wants to be prayed over, please come forward to the front by the altar.&...
Wednesday, July 07, 2010

Hey, J'eat?" "Naw, J'ew?" - When Barry Met Bibi -Obama and Netanyahu Parlay Games

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March 25, 2010 "Benjamin Netanyahu was left to stew in a White House meeting room for over an hour after President Barack Obama abruptl...
Tuesday, June 08, 2010

Max Wesimann Happy Birthday - The Pump Room's "Most Interesting Man"

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Happy Birthday to Max Weismann*, philosopher, classicist, architect, bon vivant, raconteur, discerning pintsman, and Director of The Center ...
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Sunday, June 06, 2010

Super le truc, merci! From Max Weismann - Bon Vivant & Commodore de Pump Room

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I tried this on a Blatz Tall Boy - to no avail. Vous avez soif, pas de tire bouchon mais une paire de chaussure? Parfait ! vous pouvez ouvri...
Tuesday, January 05, 2010

New York Strangles the Puny Breath Out of Chicago - The Pump Room to be the Chump Room?

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Photo -Stairway to Heaven (Sun-Times photo by Scott Stewart) Maceys is Marshall Fields but they expect Chicagoans to buck-up for the Maple R...
Sunday, January 03, 2010

2010 Christmas Carols for the Pschologically Challenged - Get the Jump on Next Yule

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1. SCHIZOPHRENIA : Do You Hear What We Hear? 2. AMNESIA : I Don't Know If I'll Be Home for Christmas. 3. NARCISSIST : Hark...
Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Happy New Year! Happy and Productive and Above All Else Safe in 2009 and 2010!

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May This New Year Bring all of us Happiness, Fulfillment, Prosperity ( remember that one), and, God Help Us, Peace. God gave us another 365...
Friday, October 30, 2009

WHY MEN SHOULD NOT TAKE MESSAGES

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Monday, October 12, 2009

Max Weismann's Letter to Secretary Arne Duncan - Right America's Moral Compass With Great Ideas

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Secretary Arne Duncan United States Secretary of Education LBJ Education Building, Room 7W311 400 Maryland Avenue, SW Washington, DC 20202 D...
Thursday, September 10, 2009

This Budweiser Ad is For You! 'L of an Ad and Beatles Others Hollow

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Chicago's "L" says it all. Budweiser is a beer and pretty much a crummy one. De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum. Bud never did an...
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Saturday, August 01, 2009

Max Weismann's Letter to George - Orwell

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Letter to George Orwell RE: Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) Dear George, Many of us Americans scoffed at your book when it came off the press in...
Friday, July 31, 2009

Pat Hickey's Labor Confessio -Why I am Not in the Trades - It's Work!

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Behold His Handiwork ! Things Pat Hickey Fixed: He is no plumber, no engineer, no electrician, no mechanic and certainly no cosmetic surgeon...
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Hillel's Angels ! Would the Sun Times Editorial Board Actually DoThis? A Rhetorical Question

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A tough looking biker was riding by Lincoln Park zoo, when he saw a little girl leaning into the lion's cage. Suddenly, the lion grabbed...