mike says...

thanks to jill's ma for the cool stuff she gave me.

rick rodney

is a photographer from LA, California. his pictures are cool.









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happy cinco de mayo people!

here it is the groove slightly transformed

damn.

good run bulls. i remember when the MJ Bulls would duke it out with detroit falling short of the finals, but showing flashes of their potential and what was too come. with a solid backcourt and superstar in the making point guard, hopefully Pax can pull some moves to add that piece the Bulls need to compete with the NBA elite.

i wasn't ready for the Bulls season to be over. it was nice to rock my extensive Bulls gear with a sense of pride. but with it being over I shift completely to



give me the beers in the bleachers. give me t shirt vendors. give me ronny woo woo in full uniform. give me blatantly racist "Horry Kow!" bandannas. give me these two



continuing to hit the shit outta the ball. give me heckling every left fielder in the game. give me bobble-heads. give me a souveneir ball this year! dare i say give me a world series this year?!

summer time.

it's right around the corner kids.

JOAKIM FOR PRESIDENT.

for everyone i've agrued against that Joakim Noah would not contribute to the Bulls... i told you. don't hate! appreciate baby! when Noah made that steal and smashed on Pierce's face fouling him out and putting the bulls back into that 3OT thriller, i almost pooed my pants.

another epic game. hands down the best i've ever seen (agreed JD).

stay tuned to the BEST PLAYOFF SERIES OF ALL TIME. game 7 saturday night at 6:00 central time. SEE RED! DAAAAAA BULLS!

oh and again, thank you joakim.

money everytime = angel on horseback

even when it's grey and yucky outside, Louie's brightens the day.



nothing is more waukegan born and raised then Louie's. i have to convince jill to go there because she thinks it's too dark. Louie's is a wauk-town staple. a jump away from victory hospital and st annie's, as a kid Louie's was the best for a green river, a bag of vitner's (barbecue, or sour cream and onion every now and then to switch it up) AND a push pop for a buck. tucked away low key in a quiet, hard-working neighborhood on the corner of ridgeland and north ave, Louies continues to be the standard when it comes to lunch/dinner quality. perfect for any occasion: dinner with the lady, dinner with the fam, late lunch, new years eve (blanchard!), Louie's has got you covered.

i get one of two things everytime. 1.) the bomber. perfect french bread, italian sausage, marinara, and melted cheese. and the 2.) A.O.H. (angel on horseback) the Louie's go to O.G. bacon bits and tomato, melted provolone on roast beef and toasted french bread served open faced. money everytime.

jill's right about it being dim lit inside because you can't even make out the pic i took of the sandwich. you just have to take my word on it. it's excellent.

loungin.






Louie's Restaurant: 1009 North Ave Waukegan, Illinois 60085. treat yourself.

baby don't worry you know that you've got me.

within a week's time, the cd player in my car AND my ipod have managed to just bust on me. that's just bad luck.

also

if you try to delete your myspace and don't happen to remember the password to an old email that is linked to the same myspace account, it won't work. you become stuck forever. what a crock.

but i guess that's karma served for making fake profiles of people i know.

anyway here's a playlist i call "ode to broken music devices that make me listen to music from my myspace profile".

like a modern day gary.

haters!

treasure land in mpls (day 3 of 3)

so if you're gettin bored of mpls posts on my blog, don't fret... this is the last one. promise.

so we checked out of our awesome hotel and said goodbye to everything we loved about it. we hit up this breakfast spot that was in the same mag that we found the mexican joint in. we GPS'd it and we were there quicker than you can say kirby puckett.

the banana granola french toast was fucking amazing.


it being another beautiful day we parked a few blocks away, which was a blessing in disguise because we were able to walk off our heavy breakfast. on the way to the diner this resale/thrift shop caught my eye.


walking back to the car we almost passed it by, but at the last second i pulled jill towards it and decided to check it out. the place was packed wall to wall, floor to ceiling with random items. we must of looked around the place for a good 45 minutes. i found a old school digital watch. 4 bucks. a dwight howard rookie card. 5 bucks. a ron santo plastic cup! one dollar! at this point i was super excited in the goodies i found and was determined to find more.

check out the vinyl i found.


as i was sifting through the random awesomeness, jill found me and said "babe, you're gonna poop your pants when i show you what i found."



i didn't poo my pants but i may have peed a little. for a nerd boy, this is like finding gold. unfortunately we were running out of cash so i could only get one. it took me about 4 seconds to choose the darth vader/boba fett glass. (i've been drinking out of it everyday since)

after collecting 55 bucks worth of treasures we chatted with the old women who were as quirky as the things in their shop.

after hittin up the mall of america one last time and our GPS completely failing on us, our trip was over. we hit up wisconsin dells for some din din and we were home by midnight. overall trip: ten outta ten two thumbs up. go visit mpls. you'll be happy you did.

THE END.