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Archive for September 2010

it is tons of fun to anger our children

Nora was monologuing/pretending out loud while she drew various fantasy creatures at her art table, and although I was mostly tuned out I heard her say something about the DEATH BRINGER. Me: The DEATH BRINGER? Who’s that? Nora: A monster. He BRINGS DEATH. Me: Usually he brings death. But this time he brought his homemade […]

mayor no more

Mayor Daley will not be running again and it has thrown Chicago into a bit of a tizzy. I have a theory that even people who didn’t agree with Mayor Daley voted for him anyway because he was the mayor. When you’re mayor for so long, you’re just the mayor. There might be other people […]

change the channel once in a while

Yesterday I was disappointed by not one but two transit loonies. The first one was on the subway, he had long gray dreadlocks and remarkably dirty jeans, and he was yelling about how women should stay absolutely silent and never speak, it’s in the Bible. Maybe it is, hell if I know, there certainly are […]