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Silent Summer 2012

The Silent Film Society of Chicago just announced its lineup for their summer film festival, one of our favorite events of the season. The festival runs on Friday nights from July 20 through August 24 at the Portage Theater in Chicago. This year will bring us some comedy from Harold Lloyd, some action from Douglas …

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Revere Eight

This is the Revere Eight 8mm movie camera my dad used since the 1950s to capture our family events. It’s because of this that all my childhood memories look like The Wonder Years. He gave me this camera a few years ago, and I hope to one day get it working again.

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Cinco de Mayo

With Cinco de Mayo coming up this weekend, it was time to make my Margarita Cake again. And once again, it was a huge hit with my family and coworkers. Here’s a link to my previous post about the cake. This year, I managed to find an orange cake mix (very popular this time of …

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Random Banana

Becca’s sophomore year is heading towards the conclusion, so of course, she’s been working diligently in class while prepping for finals. And playing “Draw Something.” So when she sent me a very colorful expression of how she felt her time could be better spent (the word “bored” figured into it) I responded with a photo …

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