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St Louis VS Chicago - The St Patrick's Day Brawl
From Arch Observer, 5 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
I can imagine the laughter our readers from the North are holding back right now. It's true, Chicago is well know for it's Irish community. There are still whole neighborhoods (Beverly) that cater to the Irish family and traditions. The St Patrick's Day celebrations that originate in Chicago are taken so seriously the city famously dyes the Chicago River green. (Yes, that's pretty cool, but work with me here - they're laughing at you right now) As far as American cities tied to St Patty's goes,...
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The Daily Grind
From Arch Observer, 5 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
The commute to work... I'm going to guess it's the worst part of your day, but that's because I also assume you don't work for the DMV or live with Kathy Griffin. In posts of yore I've mentioned the St Louis traffic "sitch." Yeah, it's still non-existent. But get this - Since then, it's gotten better by an entire Interstate. An Interstate 64 to be exact.While St Louisans still call this stretch of concrete by it's original name (Highway 40), they didn't call it anything but bulldozer food for...
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The New New Old Rock House
From Arch Observer, 6 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Something amazing is happening in St Louis. Within the past few months we've gone from a city that many of the hottest bands seemingly avoid at all costs, to an unfettered hotbed of scheduled live shows. Now before you start checking TicketMaster for that Color Me Badd reunion tour you've been pining for, let's set some guidelines on what constitutes a "hot" band. First of all, I must like them. I mean, if I didn't this would be the worlds second most boring post right after this actual post....
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EMERGENCY POST!
From Arch Observer, 6 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep. This is an emergency post from the Arch Observer emergency weird beard shaving broadcasting system. This is, in fact, a real emergency. In the event there wasn't one you'd wonder why they make this drag on and then before it's finally over do one more long, loud beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep. Luckily, as I said before, this is a real emergency and since I've never heard what a real one sounds like, I'll just assume a dude comes on and says, "Look, we're all...
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Missouri Mails You Things
From Arch Observer, 7 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
This isn't one of those fun, care-free, sterilized for your protection type posts you're used to from Arch Observer. No, this one poison-tipped. How does one poison-tip a blog post' Dip a corner of the computer you're typing on in whatever large vat of poison you have lying around the house. What's the point' I don't really know. It seemed very vindictive at the time. I wouldn't recommend trying it though. All it did was make it so I can't type the "^" symbol (the real symbol I can't use was...
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A Day With Metro St Louis *Slash* I Rode A Bus!
From Arch Observer, 7 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Full disclosure: I actually have ridden a bus. The title to this wasn't supposed to throw you off, but I can see how it could. Quite the contrary, busses and I have a long and heated history going all the way back to 1st grade. That was the year I saw a 12 year old boy hit a 10 year old girl in the head with a lunch box. Keep in mind this was 1983 and lunch boxes were built like cars and weighed 7 pounds. I mean, seriously... Did the 80's not have the best built lunch boxes of any decade' Why...
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How Do You Wake Up A Sleeping City' Yelp!
From Arch Observer, 7 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
It's not like I'm constantly thinking about how St Louis can improve, but I do think about it a lot. Case in point: As you know, one of the most important discussions you can have at work (besides the validity of Mark Wahlberg as an "actor") is what is everyone having for lunch. During a one those deep discussions last week a co-worker was wondering what he can get in the downtown vicinity fast. Then it hit me. I sat back in my seat in complete and utter shock. My jaw figuratively fell to the...
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A Year In St Louis... (Plus My Top Five Moments)
From Arch Observer, 8 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
So, I guess I can't call myself "the new guy" anymore, can I' This Saturday it'll have been a year since I packed up the rental truck and made the long trek down to St Louis from Chicago on January 2nd. In anticipation of the move, I started ArchObserver.com on December 18th 2008 with this post, so I suppose the One year anniversary of the blog has already past. It's so funny looking back at that post because it reminds me of just how much of a crazy thing it was to move here on such short...
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This Water Is Delicious. Seriously, Try Some Of This Water... Right'!?!
From Arch Observer, 8 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Seeing that this is the shortest day of the year I couldn't find a reason for not making this the longest article title of the year. Actually, I just making that up. I've been looking for a fake reason to make a long title like that and this is as good a fake reason as any. Oh, and look at that - less than a week since I wrote a post. My non-shaving plan is working out splendidly. I probably wouldn't have chosen today as a great day to write, but my beard is itchy.Man oh man, is St Louis proud...
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The Weirdest Beard In All Of St Louis
From Arch Observer, 8 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Hey, have you ever had one of those 2 months where you consistently find yourself not blogging' For someone who enjoys it as much as me, I can say, with relative certainty, that it's not something I want to go through again. To prevent this from ever happening again I figured, from now on, I better implement some repercussions.Thinking of self-inflicted punishment is no easy task. I don't want to do anything that can do physical or psychological harm. Unfortunately, that takes up most forms of...
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