Cleaning out the snaps from the mobile (Blackberry) in anticipation of the iPhone 4 with the loveable Siri. That and a few others on my computer I’ve recently collected. And here they are. This one I think I got from The Sartorialist. I call her the “Irish Princess.” What a beaut. That hair color. And the classic style. I’m in love. Another beautiful (and smart) gal: Lisa Ling signing for me a copy of her great book Somewhere Inside that she co-wrote with her equally becoming sister Laura. I probably could have snagged a pic with her. I flaked out. Dammit. The marquee from Chicago’s great Double Door. About 10 years or so ago that marquee read “The Rolling Stones” when those boys did…
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A typical Liffey weekend at a local pub? Yes. But this blog title shares that of a cool INXS song. One you’re not likely to hear on WXRT-FM (93.1) in Chicago. Or any local station, for that matter. I like to touch on the uninspiring playlist of ‘xrt once in awhile. Because I know they can do better. I punched them up today during an afternoon drive and my ears were assaulted once again with “Devil Inside” by INXS. INXS has a lot of good songs. Quite a deep catalogue. And yet xrt only knows a few of their top 40 old tunes like “Devil.” Does anybody there care? You think someone might say, “Hey guys, instead of playing this song yet again how…
So that time a few weeks ago when I was sitting with recluse author Clive Javanski at Quenchers Saloon, he asked me a question in between our pints. “Liffey, whatever happened to V?” Clive was talking about that tv series from about a year ago, about the alien invasion of earth. Or alien visit. Whatever. I was a little taken aback because Clive doesn’t watch much television, as far as I know. And he’s more of a Wire kind of guy, or so I thought. But Clive is the type who might tune into an episode of MTV’s Real World just because it might give him some kind of inspiration for one of his weird but brilliant essays. Anyway, I told him from what…
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