Since I skipped town and left off writing for Smile Politely, I’ve started, oh, let’s say “curating” an eclectic pro basketball blog called Negative Dunkalectics (at http://negativedunkalectics.com and that’s an Adorno joke just for you …
Posts by Kelly Innes:
Pedaling yogurt
Annie Lambla is traveling around the Midwest by bicycle, sharing yogurt everywhere she goes. Kelly introduces us to the Yogurt Pedaler.
A Metalfest by any other name…
Kelly’s not looking to convince you one way or another on this weekend’s Central Illinois Metalfest, he just wants to judge the bands by their names.
Don’t tell Cakes on Walnut, but…
…the Planet Money blog thinks we might be in a “Cupcake Bubble”: “If I were playing the dessert market, I’d have shorted cupcakes and gone long brownies the minute “Sex and the City” went off …
Secret pizza
Every Friday and Saturday, a fortunate few in the know enjoy pizza from Mirabelle. Kelly uncloaks this local gem.
Water on the brain
Aquatown, a new stage production with deep roots in water conservation, comes to the UC-IMC tonight and continues through the weekend.
Senator Durbin apparently supports breaking up too-big-to-fail banks
The U.S. Senate is taking up amendments to the financial reform bill and Senator Durbin has come out in favor of the Brown-Kaufman amendment, which would break up too-big-to-fail banks and cap the size of …
Learn to fix your bike now
Kelly ponders the significance of the new Campus Bike Project in the context of the theoretical coming oil apocalypse.
Bennett and Big Rig
Ever heard of an ’80s board game called Big Rig 18-Wheeler? Jay Bennett held onto a copy for some reason, and Kelly played it and offers this review.
Fed Up: School Lunch Project Blog
An anonymous Illinois teacher has recently started blogging at http://fedupwithschoollunch.blogspot.com about the grotesque lunches served to her school’s students. Her plan is to eat the same lunches offered to her students every day in 2010. …