3 Stations East

Various & Sundry

nobody@vox.com(Paul) — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 00:23:07 -0500

Last night I made the trek to Petaluma's Mystic Theatre to witness Various & Sundry, a west coast tour featuring a number of my favorite artists, and one I didn't know. The lineup: Glen Phillips, once of Toad the Wet Sprocket and master of s...

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Book It's Revenge

nobody@vox.com(Paul) — Mon, 07 May 2007 21:28:03 -0500

I promise, I'm not reading books in order to get a free personal pan pizza. Yesterday I started Self-Made Man. Today, I finished it. I know! It really was a quick read (of course, giving it 2.5 hours of a 4.5 hour flight didn't hurt any.) Overa...

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Follow-Ups: My Teeth and Our Car

nobody@vox.com(Paul) — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 11:48:08 -0500

It's not lost on me that my "regularly scheduled" posts on our car and my teeth aren't here. Consider this, then, a two-fer. Our 2003 Honda Element at the Nearly 10 Month Mark We love this car. Two problems cropped up fairly recently. Back in S...

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Lumix TZ1: First Impressions

nobody@vox.com(Paul) — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 10:38:52 -0600

As part of my two-camera strategy (one general purpose, one DSLR), I decided on the Panasonic Lumix DSC-TZ1, or "TZ1" or "Tizzy" for short. It was a tough decision, honestly, but after the E18 error on the S2 IS I didn't want to even consider a C...

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D50 Test Drive: Day One

nobody@vox.com(Paul) — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 19:54:15 -0600

Thanks to fellow local flickrite Paul, I was able to take a test drive of his Nikon D50 setup starting today. So I did what I usually do on Sundays: I went into the city to snap photos. (There are some now up on the flickr device.) Here are my fir...

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Paul on the Street: Cereality Evanston

nobody@vox.com(Paul) — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 11:02:55 -0600

No video review for this edition. Cereality almost seems like a ridiculous concept: sell cereal for $4 a pop, with ancillary items like smoothies, parfaits, milk, and coffee. But I tell you, it works. The price is the big deal here, so let's get ...

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Paul on the Street: Five Faces

nobody@vox.com(Paul) — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:08:41 -0500

Introducing Paul on the Street, a semi-regular video food review. For the inaugural edition I review the hot dogs at Five Faces in Chicago. Do watch my marginal editing skills, won't you? The Place Five Faces Ice Cream/Gyros/Hot Dogs 10 W. Div...

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Today's Tip

nobody@vox.com(Paul) — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 09:27:56 -0500

If after reading this Engadget article on a new Casio camera you decide to Google that camera, be sure to include "casio" in your search and don't search on just the camera's model number. Trust me.

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Diet Pepsi Jazz (Verdict: Meh!)

nobody@vox.com(Paul) — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 19:46:59 -0500

At Target on Friday night, we spotted an endcap filled with two new, odd beverages: Diet Pepsi Jazz Strawberries and Creme, and Diet Pepsi Jazz Black Cherry French Vanilla. In the interest of solid web content, I tried the latter. Plus it was 79 c...

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Our Date With My Date With Drew

nobody@vox.com(Paul) — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 09:03:54 -0500

Last night we were in the mood for something lightweight to entertain us, and we had My Date with Drew on TiVo. We didn't have high expectations when we asked TiVo to record it a month or so ago but, you know, it was really good. The whole pl...

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