Sorry for the delay on links, folks! Article now formatted in the way it was intended to be presented!   Have a great 4th!

Here is a link to Laurence’s blog.  His writing is at least as good as his food.  http://www.thislittlepiggy.us/

“There are no to finer words in the english language than “encased meats” my friend.“

Part 2 will run Monday, and Part 3 will run Tuesday. Enjoy your holiday weekend!

nicely done Mr. Johnson.

Thanks for writing this- I hadn’t heard about it at all yet.  I’m looking forward to the upcoming parts.

...faith in humanity restored. Thanks E.

Some question about what this matter says about our local population. Although I am not exactly part of the “CHIEF Yesterday-Today-Forever” Crowd, I am familiar with them and understand how they think. They would perceive the backwardized spelling of Fighting Illini as Incredibly Offensive, since many of them would …

Whatever - I’m white and yer just a person to me. All I’m seeing here is an outlet for some seriously demented passion. Who cares, he got busted and served, move on. We’re just people these days - this shits gotta get old sometime…

One could argue that Nepermann was exercising 1st amendment rights and that the destruction of the display was “protected speech”, not merely vandalism.  One could even abstract Nepermann’s actions as a form of “art”. To me, the whole thing has the nature of a conflict of ideas and values, …

When it comes to racism, you politically correct popinjays are the worst kind of racists. The two robots in question are not even black in colour. They may speak like hiphop stars and ‘don’t do much reading’, but how do their personalities refer to black people? I am sure …

Nicely written, but - wow, that bottom photo!

oooo.  thanks, i was not aware of this.  v. good to know.

I have three adult sons and was a young man myself once. We all did stupid things and didn’t get caught. But unless you are a young man of color, those who advocate for the lesser charge are missing a huge point. How many young men of color get …

If the campus setting deters you from Evo Cafe, you can also get bubble tea at Xinh Xinh Cafe (a Vietnamese restaurant near Urbana’s Schnucks grocery store).  They serve a variety of other drinks from southeast Asia.

Mike - I purely speculated that he might be fucked for life, if Rietz did the thing that seems to be the most rational: charge him to fit the crime with a felony for stealing and damaging a work of art, and doing it with intent to further damage …

You’re welcome, S. Potter! After spending a couple hours with Jesse and Abby last weekend, I was like, “Wow. This just makes sense (even though other media sources have painted a different picture).“

Anxious to read parts 2 & 3.

Good column, and good luck with this initiative. I have a hard enough time getting drivers to pay attention to me on a bike, and I’m moving faster, sometimes blinking, and typically at their eye level. Plus I’m sometimes wearing funning looking, tight clothing.

I typically fly out of Chicago for convenience and environmental reasons.  Since any flight I would take from Willard tends to stop in Chicago, it’s more efficient to take the train or carpool to Chicago.  Plus, I have heard several accounts of a flight delay from Willard to Chicago …

Sorry for the delay on links, folks! Article now formatted in the way it was intended to be presented!   Have a great 4th!

Here is a link to Laurence’s blog.  His writing is at least as good as his food.  http://www.thislittlepiggy.us/

“There are no to finer words in the english language than “encased meats” my friend.“

Part 2 will run Monday, and Part 3 will run Tuesday. Enjoy your holiday weekend!

nicely done Mr. Johnson.

Thanks for writing this- I hadn’t heard about it at all yet.  I’m looking forward to the upcoming parts.

...faith in humanity restored. Thanks E.

Some question about what this matter says about our local population. Although I am not exactly part of the “CHIEF Yesterday-Today-Forever” Crowd, I am familiar with them and understand how they think. They would perceive the backwardized spelling of Fighting Illini as Incredibly Offensive, since many of them would …

Whatever - I’m white and yer just a person to me. All I’m seeing here is an outlet for some seriously demented passion. Who cares, he got busted and served, move on. We’re just people these days - this shits gotta get old sometime…

One could argue that Nepermann was exercising 1st amendment rights and that the destruction of the display was “protected speech”, not merely vandalism.  One could even abstract Nepermann’s actions as a form of “art”. To me, the whole thing has the nature of a conflict of ideas and values, …

When it comes to racism, you politically correct popinjays are the worst kind of racists. The two robots in question are not even black in colour. They may speak like hiphop stars and ‘don’t do much reading’, but how do their personalities refer to black people? I am sure …

Nicely written, but - wow, that bottom photo!

oooo.  thanks, i was not aware of this.  v. good to know.

I have three adult sons and was a young man myself once. We all did stupid things and didn’t get caught. But unless you are a young man of color, those who advocate for the lesser charge are missing a huge point. How many young men of color get …

If the campus setting deters you from Evo Cafe, you can also get bubble tea at Xinh Xinh Cafe (a Vietnamese restaurant near Urbana’s Schnucks grocery store).  They serve a variety of other drinks from southeast Asia.

Mike - I purely speculated that he might be fucked for life, if Rietz did the thing that seems to be the most rational: charge him to fit the crime with a felony for stealing and damaging a work of art, and doing it with intent to further damage …

You’re welcome, S. Potter! After spending a couple hours with Jesse and Abby last weekend, I was like, “Wow. This just makes sense (even though other media sources have painted a different picture).“

Anxious to read parts 2 & 3.

Good column, and good luck with this initiative. I have a hard enough time getting drivers to pay attention to me on a bike, and I’m moving faster, sometimes blinking, and typically at their eye level. Plus I’m sometimes wearing funning looking, tight clothing.

I typically fly out of Chicago for convenience and environmental reasons.  Since any flight I would take from Willard tends to stop in Chicago, it’s more efficient to take the train or carpool to Chicago.  Plus, I have heard several accounts of a flight delay from Willard to Chicago …