Category Archives: Chicago
02
July
Written by Caprica.
Posted in: Chicago, Entertainment, Johnny Depp, celebrities, interview, odd, quotes
Tagged with Christian Bale, Dillinger, film, Johnny Depp, Paramount Theatre, Public Enemies
Johnny Depp won’t be watching his new film, Public Enemies, which has its national premiere this Fourth of July weekend. The actor freely admits that he has difficulty watching himself on-screen. He says in fact that his two children have viewed more of his films than he has with the kids having watched the “Pirates [...]
18
November
Written by Caprica.
Posted in: Chicago, The 44th President, me, news, photo
Tagged with Barack Obama, obama, obama personal threats, obama secret service, obama threats, personal threats, Politics News, President Obama, presidents-elect obama
President-elect Obama talks on his cell phone… WASHINGTON — Threats against a new president historically spike right after an election, but from Maine to Idaho law enforcement officials are seeing more against Barack Obama than ever before. The Secret Service would not comment or provide the number of cases they are investigating. But since the [...]
24
May
Written by Caprica.
Posted in: Chicago, family, photo
Tagged with Chicago, coffee break, family, favourite spot, flowers, happiness, Holiday/s, Northwest suburbs, Pansies, peak, photo, relax, summer
What to do with them? From what I can gather many people are not venturing far as it is a party holiday that’s coming about as early as it comes–ever. Some folks don’t even celebrate unless you call gardening or DIY “celebrating.” Spouse has to go to work 2 of the three days so bummer [...]
Photobucket Scores! with new features that have come out over the last 30 days!*** Like: The integration between Photobucket and FotoFlexer includes editing features customized and designed specifically for the Photobucket community such as: Basic image editing – Photos can be re-sized, rotated, flipped, cropped, duplicated and corrected with red-eye reduction. Color effect options – [...]
21
February
Written by Caprica.
Posted in: Chicago, Fashion, family
Tagged with Barack Obama, biography, Chicago, ebony, family, Fashion, magazine, michelle obama, motherhood, news, newsweek, parenthood, pearls, political, profile, under pressure, verbal gaffe
EDIT! Michelle, Viewed– in this blog~ 06.26.08 Though we receive both Newsweek and Time magazines in the mail as well as the Chicago Tribune, I rarely read any of them. Instead, I get my news and feature stories from an eclectic mix of sources on the Internet. Today though I noticed a cover story on [...]
Graphic by Harvard Gazette Why do we look the way we do? When did we first evolve the features that we have? Why are we still able to do all the different things we do? And, finally, why do we fall ill in the way that we do? Drawing on genetic research and his experience [...]
02
February
Written by Caprica.
Posted in: Chicago, family, photography, weather
Tagged with annoyances, Chicago, chicago suburbs, dog, family, Northwest suburbs, photography, weather, winter snow
I’d rather try to photo blog winter than talk about it. You understand. I have a new photo install–”Yapb” and I have no idea–yet–how it works. I thought I did but…/Edit: I give. I have still not found a photo editor that works, seamlessly, more or less. It appears I have yet another steep learning [...]