Some Chicago Boyz know each other from student days at the University of Chicago. Others are Chicago boys in spirit. The blog name is also intended as a good-humored gesture of admiration for distinguished Chicago School economists and fellow travelers.
At first I thought that this person, Hank Johnson, may have some sort of mental disease as he was wrestling with the relatively simple terms in the beginning of the video. Unfortunately, it looks like I may be dead wrong – I think he is simply dumb as a box of dead crabs. Any wonder why Congress is reviled, hated and mocked?
Zooey Deschanel has a kind of classic Thirties, Old Hollywood, comedic actress vibe – that is still, somehow, very modern….
This is a sweet video and song.
Recently I went to the dog show at McCormick place in Chicago. I highly recommend it – a lot of fun, especially if you bring kids. The fun isn’t the judging or the agility contests (which are cool) but involves walking around looking at all the breeds as they are being groomed.
Many of the dogs were in curlers of some sort as they prepared for the show but this one seemed particularly sad.
These two cracked me up – it was the “before and after” as the dogs prepared for the show. You wouldn’t believe the attention and effort that the owners lavished on these animals.
Here is a movie I made with all of my photos. If you can’t see the movie a link is here.
If you are interested in some wholesome family fun I highly recommend going to the IKC Dog Show at McCormick place in Chicago this weekend. Here is a link to the site.
The fun part about the show isn’t the judging or the events, it is the fact that you can walk around and see all of the dogs being groomed and prepped by their owners before the show. It isn’t every day that you see 5-10 of every type of dog breed imaginable in fine form. Here is a you tube video I made last year at the 2009 show (I had a song to it but they stripped it out so the video is silent; if I actually knew much of anything about dogs I could narrate it).
Cross posted at LITGM