So I get this email the other day out of the blue from some fool I don’t even know with the subject DO I HAVE THIS RIGHT??? I don’t recognize the name of the sender, but I see the contents in my preview pain and…
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Tom Long is one-third of the seldom heard Chicago band The Ethyl Mermen. The name Tom Long can be found in the dictionary, Baseball Encyclopedia and a pub in Ireland. Tom Long is not affiliated with any other Tom Long; he won the rights to use his own name after prevailing in a three-way game of Jan-ken-pon by choosing "dynamite!" No Toms were harmed in the making of this blog.
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The line to get into India House was out the door for the Friday lunch crowd, so we decided to come back Saturday. We had to; it was the last day our Groupon was valid.
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Holiday cheers to all y’all. (the opener)
And don’t you look beautiful today. (the come-on)
My band playing Tuesday, Dec. 28 at Subterranean (http://www.subt.net) with Young Jesus. (the sell)
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I woke this morning to the first snowfall of the season. Big deal. It snows in Chicago.
Here’s someone who did make something big about it. PRFer Rodabod filmed his mum’s reaction to what he built in the front yard after London’s snow storm.
To be warned, I consider this PG-13.
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So let me get this straight. The Tea Party helped bring the GOP back to power by capitalizing on an electorate that was frustrated with the Democrats over their inability to reduce unemployment. Now this same GOP refuses to extend unemployment benefits to those very people who helped put them into a position of power.
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“This is an important message from NCO Financial…”
That is about as much of the robo-message I listen to before hitting the delete button on the answering machine. Then I pause for a moment to think to myself that this is a really stupid way to try to collect on a bad debt.
Before you get the wrong idea, I am not a deadbeat. That is my girlfriend.
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The music industry has been dying. So what? People will still make music. And what we’ve been spoon-fed by commercial radio and the celebrity hype machine won’t be missed.
There is an inverted relationship between the number of units a band sells and how much I enjoy them. It is more the rule than the exception. I don’t say this as an elitist music snob, but as someone who truly loves seeing a band up close instead of a Jumbotron.