…or they are cracking up at this. This is the actual Saturday paper from Chicago’s Red Eye, the Entertainment Tonight/Extra/ A Current Affair version of a real newspaper, apparently aimed at my age group by the Chicago Tribune.
Did anyone mention that this could…I don’t know…come off as homosexual innuendo?
Or am I reading too much [...]

I saw the Silver Apples on Saturday at the Empty Bottle. Oddly, the place wasn’t that packed. You’d think that people would jump at the very rare opportunity to see the man that was responsible for the foundation for electronica, new wave and industrial music, but I guess others had tickets to the [...]

Man cycles home after being shot in spineAugust 25, 2007FROM STNG WIRE REPORTS
A shooting on the South Side Friday night left a 32-year-old man in critical condition.The man got off his bicycle in the 6300 block of South Mozart Street about 5:40 p.m. and began a discussion with three other people, according to police News [...]

Generally, if it’s snowing, you’d think that it was cold. That’s what is in our mindset: Snow=mittens, scarves, wooly caps, hot chocolate, roaring fires, etc. Perhaps it’s only the Christmas industry run amuck, or perhaps it’s in our collective unconscious mind, all of us that hail ethnically from colder climates.
But it isn’t [...]

I’m finally about ready to go to bed. I’ve been sitting here at this demon machine, slowly trading my soul for the possibility of another laugh, or another tear (generally more of the latter). My roommate has let the kitten out, and she’s sitting in my lap, mewing and looking generally cute. [...]

So it’s Thursday. I’m planning on heading out to Quenchers tonight, around 10:30 (after I get off of work) for Live Band Karaoke. For those of you who are somehow unaware, Live Band Karaoke isn’t really the same thing as karaoke (it gets capitalized, for one thing).
Here’s the deal. There’s a band. [...]