December 2011

Overheard in the newsroom

Published December 27, 2011 by Heather

The newsroom is a pretty crazy place, and journalists are just a little bit loopy sometimes. Here are a few of the more entertaining things…

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Published December 17, 2011 by Heather

Outside Tribune Tower is an enormous statue of Marilyn Monroe. She straddles a giant replica of a subway grate, bent over, head thrown back in…

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Published December 15, 2011 by Heather

If you haven’t seen XKCD’s take on Christmas music, you should go look at it now. It’s an amusing, and all-too-true, chart of when the…

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Published December 13, 2011 by Heather

Journalism is one of those things that requires a lot of fine-line walking. You look at your own biases so carefully that you almost become…

Published December 9, 2011 by Heather

“25, feels like 16,” I texted my best friend Sarah. “I thought you were talking about ages, not temperatures :-p” was the response. I’d never…

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Published December 5, 2011 by Heather

Anyone who knows me well knows that sports are something I enjoy about as much as woolen underpants. I don’t understand most sports’ rules, I…

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Published December 3, 2011 by Heather

All the many strange and difficult-to-explain things that I do can be summed up rather neatly: I am a maker of things. It’s a very…