Monthly Archives: December 2008

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Does anyone else feel as if Mother Nature is toying with our emotions. 5 degrees? And it’s supposed to be 62 by the weekend. Can we prescribe the Earth some lithium?

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Remember that holiday-themed pub crawl I told you about a few weeks ago? Well, it’s happening tonight in the Highlands. It’s called SantaCon, and you may see some Santas stumbling from bar to bar … spreading good will to everyone. Click here for all the details.

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If Thursday = Happy Hour.
And Me = Happy.
Does Me = Thursday?
Wow, that took me right back to the sixth grade. And I had braces in the sixth grade. So if two trains leave the same station at the same time going in opposite directions, how cool was I in junior high?

Bar Belle column from 12/17/08 LEO Weekly

All I want for Christmas is …

Today’s Reason To Drink

Hot damn … I stumbled upon a drink so yummy and warm that it’s like snuggling up to a piece of burning firewood … if it were possible without getting hurt. The Bluegrass Brewing Company on Fourth Street, conveniently located a few steps from the LEO offices, has a new beer on tap that’ll put [...]

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Dear Santa,
Can we push Christmas back a few more weeks? Or possibly just cancel it this year? I’ve got no money and no time to go shopping. No holiday spirit. No good will for all men. I don’t even want to part with the few pennies I have in my pocket to silence those bell-ringers. [...]

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Today from 11 a.m.-4 a.m., O’Shea’s, Flanagan’s and Brendan’s are donating 100 percent of their food, drink and gift card proceeds to Nadus, a local non-profit advocacy group for Sudan.
“At Nadus Films, we believe love demands justice,” the press release states. “Sudan has suffered Africa’s longest running civil war. The war is over. Nadus is [...]

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It’s Party Like A Rockstar day. What? You didn’t know that? Well, I kinda just made it up. But it sounds fun, doesn’t it?
Anyway, those who wish to participate should come hang at Phoenix Hill Tavern tonight for the Velcro Pygmies show. If you’ve never seen them, you are missing out on a fine night [...]

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Not sure if this is the result of the actual migraine I got at 5:45 this morning or the drugs I took to combat it:
There’s an alley we walk through between where we park and the LEO headquarters. It’s between Third and Fourth streets. While we were walking by today, we noticed a decent-sized hole [...]

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Regulators … mount up!