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. [...]
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 [...]
I awoke this morning to a story on the ol’ NYT discussing the Federal Trade Commission taking on those Free Credit Report guys (you know, the ones who pump out those annoyingly catchy commercials that you hate yourself for singing all day). Turns out that The Man is looking into the idea that maybe these [...]
Oct 15th, 2009
I might be the only person in Chicago to offer this likely-contrary opinion, but on this Thursday, a week after “Couples Retreat” has exploded onto popular culture like the wannabe “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” shitbomb* that it is, I present this thought to the Universe:
Vince Vaughn creeps me out.
At one point, I will grant you, he [...]