Jan 21st, 2010
I’ve officially set the DVR to record all the upcoming “Worst Cooks In America” shows from the Food Network, a channel I have mostly been ignoring for the past three years of my life. This is a major step and I commend FN for finally coming up with a concept that doesn’t just rehash recipes [...]
Jan 18th, 2010
A decade ago, I was a wee lad just entering the age where you throw social gatherings in order to injest massive amounts of alcohol. As one might expect of a group of very-early-20s gentlemen, we were not the most tidy individuals on the face of the planet.
Put plainly, we were filthy. We were men [...]
Jan 14th, 2010
So, we’re going to Vegas.
It is a decent indication of my current mindset that I didn’t immediately set out to recreate any portion of the Hunter Thompson “Vegas book,” as he called it. I will not be getting locked into a serious drug collection, nor will I be deferring to the tendency is to push [...]
Today’s release of an Esquire article featuring Ravenswood’s favorite citizen, Rod Blagojevich, has everyone talking because race makes people freak out in this country like nothing else. And we’ll probably be talking about it all week – or until Blago says something else with foot firmly ensconced in mouth.
But it’s what we’re not talking about [...]
Before we begin, do I have to explain the whole full-body screening thing to anyone? Yes? Over there, in the back, with your hand raised? You haven’t heard? Fine. We’ll give you a cliffs notes. A couple weeks ago some guy did something bad on an airplane and almost blew it up and now we [...]
I was 20 years old when I watched an old man die in a fire.
Right in the heart of downtown Naperville, Illinois, I stood on a street corner just a block from my house as flames licked out of windows, and a dozen fellow neighbors huddled around each other. Firefighters were noticeably doing nothing to [...]