Sonic 4. Summer 2010.

As manysome of you may know, Groupon is a pretty kickin' rad company centered here in Chicago. Their premise is simple; they get deal offers from businesses, and if enough people give their credit card info as a pledge to buy that offer, then that deal becomes good, their credit cards are charged, and everybody walks away happy. These deals cover all sorts of awesome things, like having a monkey for a week, skydiving, or even one-year membership at a world-renowned museum that I may or may not (hint: may is closer) be affiliated with in some manner.

So why am I talking about Groupon now? Hit the jump to find out!

Yup, the Nintendo Wii will have a purpose other than collecting dust or using it as a "personal back massager". According to Netflix's site, sometime in spring, you will be able to download the service on your Wii. The service itself is still $8.99 but no word on the e-street if the download will be free or not.

Listening to the Studio 360 podcast I've come to think of host Kurt Andersen as mighty knowledgeable and following him on Twitter has only reinforced that. Still, I was a little doubtful when I saw this tweet yesterday:

"Just saw Happy Tears (out 2/19). Stars Parker Posey, Demi Moore, Rip Torn & Ellen Barkin. The worst movie I have ever seen in a theater."

I quickly replied that I had seen Boxing Helena in the theater and that would be hard to beat. He responded, "I swear this is worse."

I checked out the trailer. It didn't seem great, but it didn't seem like the worst thing ever. At this time it's scoring 60% on the Tomatometer although that's only based on 5 reviews, two of which don't seem to be about this film.

Most of us won't have a chance to judge Happy Tears until later this month, but it made me wonder what other people's worst movies are. As I told Kurt, my answer is Boxing Helena, an experience made worse by the fact that I was really looking forward to seeing it.

So, how about you, what's the worst movie you've seen in the theater?

After yesterday's arbitration decision between the CTA and the union it looks like the February 7th's schedule changes are on track to begin. Tracy wrote a great article about it in this mornings RedEye.

On Thursday, October 22, 2009 I was at home working on a project for a client, a fairly simple day, nothing out of the ordinary. Then my phone rang around 3pm, and not recognizing the number I didn't answer.  I always screen my calls in case it might be someone I don't want to speak with, lol. A minute later, phone rings again, it's my sister, but the voice on the other end is not hers. The reason I remember October 22 and that it was a Thursday, and the phone rang at 3pm, and that I was wearing my gap jeans that I bought in Alexandria, VA, and a brown tank top from Target with my favorite pull over fitted print hoodie from a NYC boutique, and a brown PUMA baseball hat and my Micheal Kors sneakers is because that minute was the beginning of a horribly unforeseen and the most devastating event in my life.

(via @nferno)

Cross-posted to my personal blog, Knightly Musings.

Who would've thunk it, our little Red Cube is now newsworthy!

In the interests of full disclosure, I freelance for NBC Chicago. While writing up an article about the end of the Art Institute's Cube Campaign, I took the opportunity to include my own experiences with Cube #412.

Fortunately, the editor found the story postworthy and even included a picture of @CisforConnie handing the Cube off to me. (A gallery of other photos with Cube #412 is also featured.)

Best of all, the picture was spotlighted on NBC Chicago's front page for a good chunk of the day yesterday.

Woo Hoo! The RedEye Royalty are taking over the media slowly but surely. Look out radio waves, we're coming for you next.

The iPod XL a.k.a. the iPad.