Chicago - Feb. 14, 2020

Must-See TV
Army Of Darkness
ElRey
5 p.m.
A discount-store employee is time-warped to a medieval castle, where he is the foretold savior who can dispel the evil there. Unfortunately, he screws up and releases an army of skeletons. (tvguide.com)

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Tribune: 51/37
Sun-Times: Ferro/McKinney
Weather Channel: 44/41
Ntl Weather Service: 54/43
BWM*: 82/12

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Liberties will be taken.

Do We Sudoku?
No, but we do do moose stuff, and that can be anything you want it to be. Except Sudoku.

Losing Lottery Numbers
8, 25, 39

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I am open and receptive to new avenues of income. (louisehay.com)

Ellie
Knowing that a person may be unwittingly in danger of an assault imposes a moral duty to warn them.

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The [Thursday] Papers

By Steve Rhodes

Lucy Parsons Labs is suing Rahm Emanuel to jar loose the city's Amazon HQ2 bid.

Amazon Suit by freddymartinez9 on Scribd

Matt Topic is the attorney doing the suing on behalf of the Parsons Labs. Topic was also the attorney who won the release of the Laquan McDonald video, among other FOIA fights. Assignment Desk: a Topic profile is due.

New on today's Beachwood . . .

FBG Duck: Life On The Low End
Tooka, Keef and Ida B. Wells.

TV Violence, 1976
Did Kojak cause a rape?

Oscar Gamble Was More Than The Game's Greatest Afro
He could flat out hit.

Illinois Senate Passes Crosscheck Bill
A step closer to removing voter data from the hands of fucked-up Kansans.

Meet The Deplorables
Undercover in Trump America.

Flu Season Exacerbates America's IV Bag Shortage
What say you, Deerfield-based Baxter?

On This Day In The Beachwood . . .

In 2016: Riding The Dog, Part 1: Midnight Bus To Markham.

In 2017: White Christians Are Killing Us.

In 2017: Poem [The Beachwood Inn Has Collapsed!]

I have been to lots of other bars
and acted perfectly disgraceful
and collapsed here and there but not like this
oh Beachwood we love you get up

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ChicagoTube

He Probably Likes This Song For Reasons Quite Unsimiliar To Ours.

This song is a super-popular cover choice - just check YouTube! I thought we once did a post of some of the best/oddest covers, but I couldn't find it. So maybe we didn't. If we didn't, we should. Anybody?

BeachBook

The Problem With The Reader's New 'Executive Editor.' (See the comments, too.)

TweetWood
A sampling.

Among other problems with this piece: it's missing the Dave McKinney affair. https://t.co/vWLATr6HIs via @cjr
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) February 1, 2018

NYT follow-up: "Mr. Roeper bought at least 25,000 followers from Devumi, according to records reviewed by The Times."
— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) February 1, 2018

To reiterate: