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Monday, November 30, 2009
Pirate Radio: The Best Movie of the Year?

It took me shamefully long to blog about this awesome film. As an avid classic rock fan, Pirate Radio hit all the right notes for me. The very minimal plot line – a bunch of music fanatics struggling against the government – holds up with interesting subplots that never bore, but honestly, who could resist [...]

Wednesday, November 25, 2009
The Lightbox + jQuery Problem

As I was designing this personal website on the WordPress engine, I decided to use the famous Lightbox to display my Portfolio page. I had used it for other sites before (not on the plugin basis) but to my dismay, it failed to work. I then installed the Lightbox 2 Plugin for WordPress, thinking that [...]

Monday, November 2, 2009
Mariscos El Veneno

Mariscos El Veneno is a Mexican seafood restaurant in Chicago’s Ukranian Village that will change your life. From what I understand, the name translates to something like “poison seafood,” and it may sound like a bad Mexican seafood joke, but the food here is nothing but spectacular. I have gone to this place maybe three [...]