Level World Articles and Reviews

Every strong, quality relationship, from time to time, is beset with arguments. So it was last night with one of my closest relationships. I had a fight with my TiVo. I know, I know. Everyone who knows me knows that I usually have nothing but praise for my TiVo. We’re such a great couple. How [...]

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Leaving for Las Vegas for the weekend with some friends. I haven’t really traveled much this year at all, and while this is just a quick trip, I’m looking forward to it. I’m told that what happens there stays there, but I might just spill some details on here next week. Have a good weekend, [...]

Continue Reading If one more person says “Vegas, baby” to me…

Saved! is released on DVD tomorrow. Seek out (rent, buy, whatever) this outstanding film and encourage Hollywood to produce more gems like this one. Plot Outline: When a girl (Jena Malone) attending a Baptist high school becomes pregnant, she finds herself ostracized and demonized, as all of her former friends turn on her.

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So in the past couple weeks several people have emailed me links to articles about Cereality, a new “cereal bar” that will soon be arriving in Chicago. The concept? Three to four bucks gets you one of over 30 types of cereal served in a wi-fi enabled environment by pajama-clad employees. It’s sounds like a [...]

Continue Reading (milk + grain products) * yuppies = starbucks-like success (?)

Did I actually once say that I thought that I wouldn’t buy World of Warcraft? Call me a fool. Please. As you might have guessed I fell utterly, deeply in love with the World of Warcraft. Any time not spent researching (generally in the wee hours of the morning) was spent exploring and leveling in [...]

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I had breakfast this morning with my friend Paolo from Milan Italy. Paolo teaches screen writing and the business of television in Milan and we had a wonderful conversation about the state of television both here in America and over in Europe. What was perhaps even more interesting, however, was to discuss the state of [...]

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So I guess we still don’t have a president. I was watching the election result last night and it occurred to me that they are unique in that they are simultaneously thrilling and quite boring at the same time. Anyway, I’m ready for this all to be over.

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I stumbled on some interesting information about the number of doctors in various countries, what shocked me most was the releative low number of doctors in the UK to similar sized developed countries. If you look at the image below you can see the UK has significantly fewer doctors than France or Germany which are [...]

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Well it’s flu season again and time for the vulnerable in society which are the young and old to consider having their annual flu shot. Did you know over 90% of people who die from flu each year are aged under 65! With 90% of those dieing from flu being young and the flu shot [...]

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My friend Mike has several friends in Chicago’s improv comedy scene and she and I have been talking about going to see some of her friends’ shows for months. Well last night we finally got around to it. I went with her and some other friends to two shows. We went to pHamily, an improv [...]

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