Jimmy Legs

There's no place for a street fighting man

May 29, 2007 – 12:54 pm

Here's something to waste some time during your workday: Google Maps has added a 'Street View' feature that allows you to see a 360-degree panorama of your location. Granted, they haven't mapped out the most important areas of the city yet (namely, in front of my house), but I'm sure they're working on it. Oddly, […]

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You can look but you better not touch

May 25, 2007 – 9:12 am

Cuttin Headz, originally uploaded by Jimmy Legs. I was feeling gross yesterday but I was planning on going to work anyway until Jeannie talked me out of it. As lazy as I can be, I still have trouble making that decision to call in sick, mostly because I'm still not used to the notion of […]

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Just the holes that we live in

May 23, 2007 – 10:57 am

One of the more consistent requests I get through this site is information about the fence post spikes I used to erect a fence in my back yard. Well, it was the back yard at the last place I lived, in Clinton Hill. People write me every so often to ask where I procured the […]

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Whoever said that elephants were stronger than mules

May 21, 2007 – 12:52 pm

Cort "Electric Guitar", originally uploaded by Jimmy Legs. In 1990 I bought my first electric guitar with proceeds from my job at Pier One Imports. I'm not sure how I found out about the pawn shop, I think my friend lived near it and had clued me in. It was over the city line in […]

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Gonna die some day and I hope I beat you to it

May 18, 2007 – 2:35 pm

Tonight it looks like I'm going to see Babe the Blue Ox at Magnetic Field. I can't tell if it's gonna be crowded or what. Does anybody remember them? They haven't played a show in over 3 years, and I haven't seen them in 6. But they used to play my college town in the […]

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