Feb 24th, 2010
Preface: Yes, I am blithering a tremendous amount about Vegas. Yes, I will stop soon. I just need to get it out of my system and then we’ll be fine. I’m detoxing in 3 new inches of Chicago snow and you will forgive me my mental vacations back to the desert, won’t you? Thank you. [...]
Feb 18th, 2010
While the title implies some sort of graduate level thesis or in-depth study, 5 days of hazy observation of the Vegas landscape leaves me more than qualified to drop about a thousands words worth of science about capitalistic theory, gambling and sex, its effects on its surroundings and other things that sound terribly, terribly smart. [...]
Feb 15th, 2010
You may (but likely didn’t) notice the radio silence coming from Camp Moi over the past ten days or so. This is because we were living the decadent life in beautiful Las Vegas, and I was terrified that if I tweeted anything about it we would be summarily robbed by social media burglars. I’m sure [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Dec 14th, 2009
I’ve been writing for a long time now. I might have mentioned this somewhere else, but when I was about 11 years old, I wrote my first book of short stories. Okay, so they were all about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and none of them exactly had what we’ll call “accurate punctuation” or “coherent [...]