Happy 4th of July 2009!

Here's the scene from the roof of my house this July 4, 2009. Happy Independence Day to all!

Godzilla!!!

My friend Phil from Los Angeles was back in Chicago (he's from here) for the "G-Fest," which is a tribute to all things Godzilla. So I went with him to see "Monsters Attack," which is three monsters helping to fight off Godzilla. If you're a Godzilla enthusiast, the monsters were Mothra, Baragon and Ghidorah. It was really great to see it on a big screen (miniatures getting destroyed and all!).

The film was shown at the historic Pickwick Theatre in Park Ridge, Ill.



About a 150 people lined up, all form of geek imaginable (age, race, size, shape, male--99%).



Phil (left) and another Godzilla fan show off their T-shirts.



Here I snuck a flash of Godzilla emerging from the water and tourists running for their lives.

Pride Parade 2009

Well this year's Pride Parade has come and gone, but the memories! Asians and Friends float, "I'm a Queen, Get Me Outta Here!" Got a lot of media coverage. We're about 25 minutes in on the Channel 7 telecast and about two minutes and twenty seconds into the Fox broadcast.
Then of course, there's my interview on the "tail end" of Fausto's interview below.



Plus some photos!

Kwik Truck

This is a truck stop sign from the convenience-store chain I visited in Wisconsin. Which way is up?

Milwaukee Night

Last week, I had the opportunity to visit my friend Mark in Milwaukee. Here's Mark and the view from my hotel.

Atlanta Farmhouse

Here's more pictures from the Atlanta History Museum. They had a real farm transplanted onto the museum grounds. It's the Tullie Smith Farm, complete with animal barn, corn field and slave cabin.

Here's the farmhouse, and the people there are actually visiting from Chicago too!



There were real sheep here.



Crops.




This is the back of the farmhouse.



This is a depiction of a slave house.

Atlanta Historic Museum

While in Atlanta last week for work, I was able to break away and see the Atlanta Historic Museum. I took a lot of photos and I thought I'd share a few.

Here's the outside of the main building.



This was from their urbanization of Atlanta exhibit. I think it's an engine of some kind.



What is this? I have no Klu.



Their Gone With the Wind exhibit should have been bigger.



Does this ring a bell? Not sure where this is from, but it's pretty.



More historic Atlanta images to come ...

Roving Reporter Me!

Looking through the photos from my last convenience-store assignment in North Carolina, I saw the photographer got me doing my TV interview of the chain's executive. Fun, behind-the-camera stuff.