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A MAN, WOMAN, AND three little kids -- two boys and a girl -- enter the 57th St. Metra shelter where I'm waiting for a southbound train...

"EVERYBODY'S INSANE with loneliness, but that’s OK. After a while you realize that’s part of the edge.” (One Chicago-to-NYC trans...

THE CHICAGO READER's Steve Bogira comments on a New Yorker essay, "In Defense of the Suburbs." (Reminding me of a similar es...

WHET MOSER ON THE H-WORD ("hipster") in Chicago magazine.  My response:  First: Wow. That Harry Raab/Gibson video is a t...

AND NOW I'VE GOT nothing but smoking, bloody stumps where my hands used to be.  Thanks, Perry Como.  

From the Chicago Reader : FEMALE BARNEY RUBBLE WANTED I am looking for someone who is just like Barney Rubble, with female body parts....

THE DOUKHOBORS, OR “spirit wrestlers,” were a semi-mystical Christian sect founded in the late 18 th century in Russia . (They later emigr...

These were my sister's kittens.

IT JUST OCCURRED to me that despite the recent passage of the ten-year anniversary, I have never shared the story in writing. That is, the ...

I RECENTLY SAW "Prophetess" Bambi McMillion's evango-mercial for the first time on local cable TV and was--well, the only wo...

IS WHY THE OTHER four cities cities under its grip (Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens & Staten) consent to being satellites/colonies of Manhattan....

THE LOCAL SHOPPER I picked up somewhere near the Tennessee-Alabama border covers towns or "places" including: Bible Hill , Bla...

SO THE OTHER NIGHT I was watching " The Soup " with Joel McHale, who kinda reminded me of Craig Kilborn. So I sez "hey where...

SOME FOLKS HAVE A PROBLEM, apparently , with the fact that young white hipsters are such a large portion of retro soul act Sharon Jones a...

IN AN OLDER POST I shared why I was peeved with contemporary rhythm and snooze . In that post I blamed Sean P. "Puffy Pops/Diddly Squat...

IF YOU HAVEN'T HEARD, there's this fascinating new nature show called " Jersey Shore ." It's quite educational. ...

Again?

GREEN IS ALL THE RAGE. With mounting fears of global warming and the heightened popularity of planet-friendly products, even the biggest com...

JUST FOUND THIS while Ixquicking (that's my new term for Googling) "Faux New Urbanism." In a misguided attempt to inject so...

WAS I A FAN of Michael Jackson? For a child of the late '70s and '80s -- and an African-American to boot -- that's like ...