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VelocityWong

  1. @RogerWCheng Roger! Thanks for the shout-out in your Groupon piece! 7:12 AM Jun 1st via Twitter for Android in reply to RogerWCheng
  2. @cokehat It's not even that much stuff but they wrapped it in like 20 lbs of tissue paper and put it in a huge box! No la puedo levantar. 4:24 PM May 31st via Twitter for Android in reply to cokehat
  3. @LoftyWong The kicker is that it's his birthday. Oops! Good thing we're going to a nice dinner after this. 4:22 PM May 31st via Twitter for Android in reply to LoftyWong
  4. Stranded at Crate & Barrel with a bag I can't lift, didn't think it'd be so heavy. Waiting for @nevalalee to rescue me. Feeling dumb. 4:16 PM May 31st via Twitter for Android
  5. @salkken Too bad! But you should come to Lit Fest on Saturday and poke around the book stalls. More fun than listening to me prattle on! 2:37 PM May 31st via TweetDeck in reply to salkken
  6. Come heckle @nevalalee and me at the Printers Row Lit Fest on June 10! (We're both speaking, but on different panels.) printersrowlitfest2012.eventbrite.com 8:44 AM May 31st via TweetDeck
  7. Coming out of Twitter hibernation to recommend "Jiro Dreams of Sushi," now playing at the Siskel Center. Especially if you like sushi. 8:50 AM May 30th via TweetDeck
  8. @whet I'd also like him to address why there were only strawberry shortcake bars left when I stumbled upon the ice cream freezer yesterday. 12:32 PM May 21st via TweetDeck in reply to whet
  9. @beckyyerak @ChiConfidential FYI today's lunch was chili, Italian beef sandwiches and the return of the really good salad bar. 12:05 PM May 21st via TweetDeck in reply to beckyyerak
  10. Today I talked to local businesses in the Loop + sat in on a meeting w/ the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. Quite the NATO spectrum. 4:23 PM May 18th via TweetDeck
  11. My week in errant celeb sightings so far: Aubrey Plaza at SFO on Sunday, Jesse-Eisenberg-as-Zuckerberg in the Tribune cafeteria just now. 10:01 AM May 16th via TweetDeck
  12. @nevalalee Since his role in the Jobs biopic would just involve not answering emails, that should be pretty easy, right? 9:52 AM May 16th via TweetDeck in reply to nevalalee
  13. @nevalalee Would Sorkin play himself? That would be crazy. Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich. 9:45 AM May 16th via TweetDeck in reply to nevalalee
  14. With a Sorkin-penned Jobs biopic in the works, maybe @nevalalee's dream of seeing Zach Quinto play Jobs will come true! avclub.com/articles/aaron… 9:06 AM May 16th via TweetDeck
  15. Bay Area friends: If you're free tomorrow, come say hi to @nevalalee and me at the Hayward Area Historical Society! haywardareahistory.org/events/view/12… 3:30 PM May 8th via TweetDeck
  16. @startupstella He is quite good at making babies! Those Affleck-Garner kids are so darn cute. 1:09 PM May 8th via TweetDeck in reply to startupstella
  17. Argo trailer looks pretty slick. Philip Baker Hall! Bryan Cranston! John Goodman! Ben Affleck with floppy hair! gawker.com/5908635/the-fi… 1:05 PM May 8th via TweetDeck
  18. @BellyCard Thanks for keeping me in the loop on your news! 9:06 AM May 8th via TweetDeck in reply to BellyCard
  19. First-rate puns in the comments! MT @TheAvClub Elijah Wood to star in "Speed at a piano," bc that's where we're at now. avc.lu/IY528u 2:06 PM May 2nd via TweetDeck
  20. @CouponTradePR You can email me at wawong@tribune.com. 1:36 PM May 1st via TweetDeck in reply to CouponTradePR