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Fire Escape's Joe Hanson just finished
taping a reality television show for a certain
unnamed broadcast network. (He's under
a non-disclosure contract stronger than
Rosie O'Donnell's B.O., but word on the
street is that it's being put together for a
network whose name rhymes with
Gubblepoo Lee....) Before he left for L.A.,
we hooked him up with some Fire Escape
shirts, and shot two photos:

one if the taping went well...

...and another in case it didn't.

5406us emeritus J. Carl Sousa,
back in the States for the Christmas
holiday, swung through Chicago for
post-production meetings on his latest
film (working titles: The Interpretive
Synthesis, or The Synthetic
Interpretation, or Wild Lengthy Ways
to Haunt Pierrot's Ataraxia, or
something like that...).

Sousa with his cinematographer
and producer, in what seems to
be the first ever photo of all three
in which nobody's trying to kill
anyone else.

Mexico's Maddie McLeester
stopped by for a game of Sorry!
that lasted far too long, going
from kitsch-fun to plain old lame,
just like this website.