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Rules of the Road
NORTH CENTRAL- I travel light. My messenger bag slung over my shoulder, and against my back, wind in my face, and the sheer exhilaration of biking through the burrows of this fine city.
Not today, though. I was almost killed today by a thirty-something business women who weighed no more than one hundred pounds. Her car [...]
Ain’t that a Peach?
CHICAGO-The night started out just like any other, complete with confusing comments from men with lack of teeth and a love of the High Life at the local liquor store. When one of the homely fellows asked the cashier if I looked, “fiiiiiine” in my ID picture, for the first time in my life, I [...]
Shut up and Blog About it
LOGAN SQUARE- I had a conversation with a fellow writer about the existence of Blogs the other day. She contested they are necessary outlets for average people to get certain above average assertions across on a larger stage. Yeah, okay. I told her I saw her point, and appreciated her insight. We were at a [...]
Portishead Shoots from the Hip
The infamous Portishead has finally shown up on the radar again with their recent release ‘Third’ on Mercury Records. It’s been a little over ten years since the U.K. trio has dropped anything new at all down to their extremely loyal (( and at times almost cultish )) fan base. I have to be honest, [...]
Fun with Fiction
LOGAN SQUARE- If we’re afraid to venture out of our carefully crafted personal buffer zones, what can we possibly learn about ourselves? It’s this perpetual oxymoron that stifles conversation and guts us of our affirmed assertiveness to vocalize our beliefs. Though most people will say they stand behind certain systematic ideals, few could absolutely justify [...]
Even Sting calls The Police
LOGAN SQUARE- Before our young souls became the jaded faces of malcontent twenty-somethings drifting aimlessly between dead-end jobs, we actually listened to The Police. Without a shred of tagging this statement with a shred of underlying irony, I would be the first to declare they were amazing.
I’m presently listening to the track “King of Pain,” [...]
Filler Conversation
WICKER PARK- It’s rarely my belief that people are completely genuine conversationalists. There have been several thousands long-winded articles written on this well-known phenomenon. You can only imagine how many blogs have been centered on the same premise. While it would be morbidly hypocritical for me to insinuate otherwise, this is something I’m comfortable getting [...]
Call the Karma Police
GRANT PARK- A number of friends have recently inquired as to what my thoughts were about attending the recently passed Lollapalooza Music Festival in Grant Park. On paper, it sounded like a great way to spend a weekend. Sure, tickets were $205 for a full-weekend pass, but we’re talking about Radiohead. Yes, several other high [...]