June 2010

San Francisco Panorama

06.30.2010 books

Here’s the deal; I have San Francisco envy in a big way. I’ve only spent a quick two days there during a trade show about 7 years ago, but it spiked my interest. The thing is, I don’t even know what I envy about it. I picture it as this cultural city with unlimited outdoorsy-type [...]

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The Girl Who Played With Fire

06.25.2010 books

I used to like to space out books in a series, but I’m moving off that trend. The dragon tattoo girl series hooked me on the first one big time. I loved it. So I recently grabbed book two in paperback with a Borders gift card. It was also good and I had trouble putting [...]

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Franks ‘N’ Dawgs

06.15.2010 food

Now that my bro is the hotdog king of Findlay, I feel the urge to eat more dogs. Like this one from Franks ‘n’ Dawgs on Clybourn. Click on it and see my notes on the Flickr picture for more info.

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Coming Off Life Support

06.10.2010 food

Welcome back to Tasty Chicago. I’ve now integrated this blog into my network and added some new technology, so I’m hoping it will be much easier to keep up. I’m planning on doing occasional updates as the urge hits me, but certainly not once a week like I did in 2007.

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The Chicago Way

06.08.2010 books

I wish I could remember the route I’ve taken to each book in my life. Something led me to find this book on my Kindle, but I can’t recall what. Harvey writes crime novels based in Chicago, so any number of reasons could have been involved. And for some reason it was only $1.59, which [...]

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