Walking out of an eye exam today, I had to ask myself, how is this going to work after the fall? I imagined all the paperwork behind the ordering and restocking of contact lenses and eyeglass frames, the association that got together to decide the things a person needs to know to be certified as […]

Atmosphere is releasing their latest studio album, When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold, next week. I’m not going to rave about them, but this is the music I grew up with, and as Slug’s rhymes have matured, so have I. It’s interesting to have been listening to one group for 10 […]

Today, I…
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…rode through half the city.
It was 70 degrees and the sun was working extra hard to shine its light on all the little people of the city, resulting in sunburn on my arms, face and neck. My trip took me from Rogers Park, through Lawndale, down to Little Village, into Pilsen, over to […]

I used to cringe when someone would bring up that cute little anecdote about Thoreau’s night in prison after he refused to pay his taxes in opposition to war and slavery. I’d try to hold my tongue, but more often than not would slip into a diatribe against this sort of logic. Sure taxes fund […]

It was a lot more innocent than in this picture. He was telling a story about an old restaurant job and how people would always grab his butt. And then he demonstrated on my female coworker. It wasn’t aggressive or predatory, he just cupped her cheek to enhance his story.
He walked away and I said, […]

Here I go again.
If blogs were women, I would be a chronic dater. The psychological profile is simple: a man who searches externally for that sense of wholeness which can be born only within, a man who identifies with external objects to conceive a stable, permanent sense of self. My writing has served not just […]