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WEEK OF FEBRUARY 10, 2009
ChiCago edition Vol 1 no 3
TAGLINE WOULD ACTUALLY BE NICE HERE
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The BiTTer Cold
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Terry V. Merten
| 1/15/09 |
All You Need to Knowtpburl.com/b5p4wy 
You know what? It’s cold outside.Big whoop.That’s lie, people. Sometimes it’s hot. Sometimes it’s cold. And sometimes you step outsidein your boxer shorts to get the paper and think, “This is nice.”Everywhere you turn the story is all about the weather. Coldest in a decade. Sub-zero tem-peratures. Brutal windchills drop to 30 below. Windburn. Frostbite. Hypothermia!So what are we going to do? Stay inside?No! Say it with me.We’re going to put on our hats and gloves – just like we would i it were 10 degrees. Or 20.Or 30. Or 40, some o us. And we’re going to man up (or woman up, as the case may be). We’regoing to shovel o our stairs. We’re going to scrape o our windshields. We’re going to get onwith lie.I the news media weren’t reporting that it was so cold outside, do you know what you’ddo? You’d put on more clothes. Somehow, we know when to put on more clothes. Like the Na-tive American Indians living in the northern plains or centuries knew to bundle up when thatArctic wind would come rolling through with a wintry vengeance, we know.People have been living with cold or a long time. This is not the rst time it has been cold.In act, I seem to remember it being pretty damn cold in the not so distant past – a period histo-rians are now reerring to as LAST WINTER.Cold weather in winter is not news. WARM weather in winter would be news. Then you’dhave all these climate “experts” on television talking up global warming and citing the weatheras evidence o a trend toward impending disaster. No one’s giving airtime to those cats thesedays, and they probably wouldn’t want it. Hard to pitch the dangers o melting ice caps with icechunks stuck in your eyelashes.For the record, I do believe in global warming.But I also believe in global cooling. And right now, this spot o the globe is denitely cool-ing. I don’t need meteorologists, special interest groups, news media, or even a thermometer totell me that. All I need is to walk out onto my ront porch in my boxers to get my paper.“Nope…this is NOT nice. This is ice.” Better double up on the socks today.
A leTTer To my very AnAl husBAndwho is Asleep in The oTher room
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Jenny
| 8/04/08 |
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h.i k. t      , ? b  ’v  cv    - k . w,   i cv   i k  i c k   k  j      . i’ . ec           k  -    c    . i k ’  i   k c’ k    c      i’ j   k  . m ci’   v  v     k   v   . i’ k  . a  kv  k          kc. p    .a  “  ” i  “   ck  kc   v ”. i , i  c j c      k-      k   k. u i j     c  c !ok,   v      kc . i      i c’  ck . i’ . i ’ k ’   . d’ k    .ps. i     k     z. r  ck ckck-  c       “w! i        c -!” w,  C, .pps. i’  i c   . t  c . a,   ’v      c     k     c     , ’v     c . lk f  3      kc . i k. bi   i k     i c    k  f     k    ’ k. b i   . y’ c.ppps. s! ok, i      v   c ---ck k.t ? n  c. a   i’ c  f   kc  cv  ck i’  ’ j     . s i ’ c i k ’   jk  . ac      i  v  f   .pppps. ok, i j  f        cc. i    k   zz k  cc   c     v. i k   c c i j k       ’ j  ,  ccc. i v  k  v  v          c   v. i’k      f   . t    . n . i v .ppppps. i’               v      ’ v      . i’ . i ’ k  i ’ j k    f c.pppppps. n    c  c    . a’  v? i k  .a  ’ c  k  k     c, J, ’  k i      (c      i      cc   ’  c    v  v c   v? s    , ’ .) t   j  c  cv.ppppppps. d’ k    .
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sTeAk & BJ dAy
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Jon Eick
| 2/14/09 |
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Tonight, couples across America will celebrate their love or each other and singles willband together to drown their sorrows in pints o beer (yeah, I’m doing a bar crawl tonight). Iwould like to point out that while Valentine’s Day oten involves eating out or a ancy dinner,the day itsel is not ocused on any specic ood. That’s what makes the “man’s Valentine’s Day”somewhat more interesting, because it is ocused on a specic ood that most men love: steak.Yes, I’m talking about Steak & BJ Day on March 14th.While Valentine’s Day is ostentatiously a holiday about the relationship between men andwomen (or women & women and men & men) conventional wisdom seems to suggest that it’sa holiday that is more “or the ladies.” Fairly or unairly, it is sometimes portrayed as being ahassle or a burden or a guy to meet his girlriend’s expectations or the night.Thus the creation o the male version o Valentine’s Day, Steak & BJ day, which takes placeon March 14th. What is Steak & BJ day? Well rankly, no urther explanation is needed. Everyaspect o the day is summarized in the name. Eat a steak, get/give a BJ.Honestly, i you are a oodie at heart, then the ocus o Steak & BJ day on a specic ooditem should make it superior to Valentine’s Day, which alleges no ocus on any specic ooditem, with the possible exception o those candy hearts that taste like chalk.So don’t orget March 14th ladies and gents. But until then, So Good wishes you all a won-derul Valentine’s Day. May those o you already with someone relish the joy o their company,and may those o you who are still single nd a wonderul guy/gal tonight to spend some timewith.
Yijun Liao
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Anne Hall
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THE WOMAN’s GUIDE TO RECEssION DATING:CARRY ON, As YOU WERE
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Tania Khadder
| 2/3/08 |
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I get it now! Men are worse in the ace o a layo because once unemployed, they have tocome up with elaborate schemes to get any attention rom the ladies. From posting a lost dogfier to outright subteruge, broke, out o work men have to work extra hard to get some.When it comes to recession dating, unemployed women have it easy. Men don’t seem tocare whether or not we’re gainully employed. Sure, they’re drawn to condent, intelligent, am-bitious women. But i you’re attractive, kind and un to be around – or, let’s be honest, just at-tractive - they’re unlikely to ault you or an intermittent lack o cash. Just look at Matt Damon.Hell, I mysel snagged a prime catch since losing my job. He might be annoyed by my six phonecalls between 9am and 5:30pm, but he doesn’t really care that I’m not working.This observation, however politically incorrect or damaging to our notions o gender roleevolution, appears to be accurate.O course, being unemployed doesn’t give you permission to be a leach. It’s a delicatebalance between damsel in distress and shameless gold digger – so you’ll have to navigate thatspace with caution. On the one hand, men (i they are in a position to do so), love to provide.But that doesn’t mean they’re looking or a DABA girl. Make those unemployment checkscount. Pay or yoursel when you can, but accept his chivalrous gestures where appropriate.So while I had hoped to write a clever list o guidelines or single women acing unemploy-ment, there’s really no need. Men may be winning the career wars, but in the battle o recessiondating, women are denitely coming out on top. 
*This is, admittedly, just one woman’s perspective on the subject. If you have an alternative view- point, please share.
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Anna Roe
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Neal Boulton
| 11/12/08 |
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You miss the passion when the two o you have sex. For your partner it’s just become me-chanical. Now what? 
Q:
I have been with my partner or a decade. We are in love still or sure. But the sex iscompletely staid and robotic actually. I want my clothes ripped o and some re back in ourbed. How do I snap him back into sexual shape? 
A:
Years o amiliarity, busy schedules, and big careers can breed complacency in bed. Butwhen you are the one who wants your partner to get red up again—you have to be the one tomake it happen. First, think positions; there are a million o them, and nding out which onesare stimulating and work or both o you is un, and can lead to some hot new paths in bed. Werecommend Nerve’s
 Position of The Day Playbook
. It has one new position or every day o theyear in a well designed, tasteul book you can keep by the bed. Second, be persistent withoutpressuring. It has to be clear that your desire or him is motivating you to pursue the expansiono your intimate lie, not just the need or “good sex he ain’t giving you.”
Key Tip:
Experimentation is what made our rst sexual encounters the most un. Learningnew things is always exciting—and i you open the door to new ideas in your bed, you can rampup the excitement level there, too.
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Views expressed in Content do not neCessarily releCt the Views o the publisher or the printed blog inC.
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Anna Roe
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AT YOUR sERVICE
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Chri O’shea
| 2/4/09 |
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By now I’m sure you’ve heard the audio o Christian Bale screaming at the director o pho-tography or screwing up a scene while on set last summer. I not, what the hell is wrong withyou? Doesn’t pop culture rule your every waking moment aside rom when you’re longing ormy blog?Sorry.Okay, well I’m withholding judgment (not really) on you or now, but go listen to it whenyou desire to hear an actor yell a variation o “uck” 36 times.O course everyone is upset about this, and there’s talk that this tirade will orever tarnishhis career and blah, blah, blah.Well obviously I’m not one o those people.When I heard the clip, my rst thought was “That guy totally deserved it.” What otherthought could you have?This is Christian Bale people. Motherucking Batman. Motherucking soon-to-be savior o the Terminator movies.As ar as I’m concerned, he can do whatever he wants.So Bale yelled at some dude. He messed with the wrong man and he got what he had com-ing to him.You think Bale’s dry cleaners ever screw up his khakis? Nope! Because they know i hends his avorite Gap Relax Fits aren’t done when they’re supposed to be, there will be hell topay.You think Bale’s Chinese delivery guy ever gets his order wrong? Never! Because he knowsthat i Bale doesn’t get his Moo shu pork with extra Bok Choy dammit there will be no tip andpossibly a bloody nose as a result.Everyone else who may or may not possibly in any way aect Christian Bale’s lie knows tocower in ear and do exactly as he says, so why doesn’t this director o photography get it? Noexcuses. He should’ve been yelled at like that.Oh, and Mr. Bale? I you’re reading, I olded your underwear just how you like them sir.No need to thank me, I enjoy doing it.
Brandon shower
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Anna Roe
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Andrea Padilla
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Anna Roe
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CHIRP OFF
we Asked:whAT wAs The BesT gifT you reCeived on vAlenTine’sdAy? whAT wAs The worsT?
@WRs2
my rst and only glass o cristal (sp)
@lilypeak
my v-days o the past have all been pretty mediocre. my guy now = v-dayhater; i have plans to hopeully change his ‘tude
@Katiecat
The best git really is just a sweet and thoughtul card. The worst is FunDip, Nerds or Pixie Sticks - they cause cavities!
@stealthnerd
the worst? I rec’d a tip on Vday, while eating Twizzlers: You know, Twiz-zlers are a natural laxative. It ruined the mood.
@Jac3286
worst: a card saying “we will always be riends.” best: chocolate
@mkut
Worst? Ex obsessed with Ben Afeck orcing me to watch "Daredevil" onVday, reusing to even hold my hand during the movie.
@mkut
Best git, hal a dozen roses and a stued dog sent to my workplace lastyear rom the current boyriend.
@ahleymarie6
I was in Hawaii or a semester on our rst V-day, and my now-husbandsent me a CD o songs he’d written & recorded or me.
@ahleymarie6
(And the year ater that? He gave me a THERMOS.Yes, or Valentine’s Day. Iam still not quite sure what he was thinking.)
@Bboudreau
We spent our rst and second Valentine's day eating takeout pizza andwatching He-Man and She-Ra boxsets. Now THAT'S love.
o h  e
i love you, he conesses.she shushes him with the motion o reaching or her pack. silly. you’ve only allen in love withan idea o me. your human heart is as small as your st and as big the curve o sky. give it. giveit give it give it until you have given everything.this is how we must live, he says, wryly. in deance o broken hearts and death.
By Ella Ordona
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I look at her this woman, see her, smell her, admire her, this idealistic embodiment o beauty,she smells like rain, I can’t explain the way she makes my heart leap. She is simple, simple?Maybe not… She is a test o character. Is she so craty? Does she love to play games? Does shelove me? No probably not maybe I should ask her. Excuse me miss? Where did she go?
By Jaemin Yoo
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She loved making lists. Sometimes she made lists or hersel. They kept her eeling busy, even i she didn’t nish them. Sometimes she made lists or her husband, then nagged him until it wasdone. Once, she made a list or some guy at the grocery store. It began: clean bathroom / mailthank you notes / call Alred / go swimming / nish novel. She slipped it into his shopping cartwhile he wasn’t looking.
By Chanel Earl
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