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Bangkok Dangerous. Chicago Cold.

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:26:42 -0600

A sweaty night, stepping off the Bangkok Skytrain Ratchathewi stop and wandering down an alley past street vendors selling cuttlefish on a stick and rows of women saying "Massage?

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A question by the lake

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:31:29 -0500

Near Montrose Harbor, past the bird sanctuary where all the twitter twitters go, there is a small pier that curls out like a question mark.

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Zinesters vs. Comics: The Reckoning

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 16:54:12 -0500

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Life lessons and a short film from Depresso the Clown

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:20:26 -0500

I was dressed like a clown, traveling through a cavalcade of sugar skulls, monster movie posters, tiny calaveras and replica human skulls, one of which I had been assured wasn't a replica.

The walls were painted the color of blood, as was a good portion of my forehead. A bone-white cat sauntered by, pausing only to glance at me pityingly as I trod through the skeletal gauntlet toward the bonfire.

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And now, the gays

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:47:49 -0500

I have recently acquired the one thing every 20-something white liberal craves and longs after but never quite thinks he'll get - a gay, minority friend.

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Gogol Bordello versus music that sucks

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:52:49 -0500

You know what a bunch of drunken punks, tattooed slackers and the Gene Simmons-looking guy with the full-length white coat and the black leather shirt want to see?

A deeeeeee jaaaaaayyyyyy.

The show was Gogol Bordello. And the opening act made my friend leave.

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Pole dancing

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:38:59 -0500

When the bear started handing out smaller bears, I knew I had finally found something truly bizarre.

As readers of this blog - or at least readers of the caption in the upper left corner - might know, this blog is one man's search for a truly alternative culture. Something self-sustaining and utterly, insanely unique and good.

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Naked in the Abbey

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:56:08 -0500

The women were of the type who wouldn't make you look up from your Sudoku on the L, but on-stage, they were the sexiest I've ever seen.

Last week, I was lucky enough to be taken to the Belmont Burlesque at the Abbey Pub at 3420 W. Grace.

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Hoosier Daddy

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:22:25 -0500

So I just got back from Bloomington, Indiana, where I spent four days trying to help a gay friend find a gay bar and surveying folks, including a murderous hobo (sorry, "rail rider") and a 74-year-old woman who explained how often she gets to have sex with her lover in Vancouver.

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If the cosmologist ain't drinking, it's no party

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:38:58 -0500

So, I have a very simple job here at the Windy Citizen. Do crazy stuff, do it with crazy people and don't miss the damn zombie march.

I missed the damn zombie march. It was over the weekend.

But the way I even found out about it is my segue into this week's topic – astrophysics and cosmology.

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