It’s Wednesday. The big news all day was how Hillary Clinton was going to withdraw her nomination during the role call vote and make Barak Obama’s nomination for president unanimous. And there’s rampant speculation on how happily or unhappily she’s going along with it. (From Wednesday’s Sun-Times: “New York Rep. Carolyn Maloney prefaced her introduction of [...]
Entries from August 2008
Now That’s What I Call Counter-Programming
August 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Tags: Humor · Political Humor
Bill Clinton Asks G.W. Bush For Help
August 24th, 2008 · No Comments
As it turns out, Bill Clinton suddenly wants to be an ambassador. Can GW help him out?
Tags: Cartoons · Humor · Political Humor · The Clinton Chronicles
Attack of the Oompa-Loompa Busboys
August 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
When last we left this particular escapade, myself and two aging club kids had just bribed our way into one of Chicago’s allegedly hotter nightclubs, despite a really silly excuse for an entrance line.
I’ll say this for the place: that may have been the biggest lead bouncer I’ve ever seen. I’d put him at 6′8″, over [...]
Tags: Humor
The Bottom of the Comics Bestseller List is Higher (Too Bad About the Mid-List)
August 20th, 2008 · No Comments
You may have heard the news that comic book sales were slightly down in July and the there’s been a slightly downward trend in these things. What you likely haven’t heard is the bottom of the sales charts is way up in July.
When Diamond issues its sales list and ICV2 does its estimates, there are 300 [...]
Tags: Biz · Comics · Eclectica
Blagojevich’s New Job
August 17th, 2008 · No Comments
You’ve heard that CBS is reviving the classic police procedural “Hawaii Five-O.” Now rumors are coming out of Springfield that Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich will be leaving office to star as Chris McGarrett, son of the orignal Five-O’s Steve McGarrett and giving a Blago a chance to follow the path of his coif-idol, Jack Lord.
Tags: Cartoons · Humor · Political Humor
Ben Gordon Tells the Bulls Where They Can Go
August 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Going to Europe makes sense for Ben Gordon. I don’t just say that because it’s become so fashionable for restricted free agents to take themselves out of the market in a year when there’s little salary cap space open, either.
As ESPN reported early this morning, Ben Gordon proclaimed that he’d played his last game as a [...]
Tags: Sports
Cleveland, Milwaukee & Oklahoma City Trade Spare Parts – LeBron Gets a Point Guard, Skiles Gets a Loving Reunion
August 13th, 2008 · No Comments
The Cavaliers improved their starting line-up in a three-team trade also involving the Milwaukee Bucks and Oklahoma City Carpetbaggers (formerly Seattle Sonics).
The net result is the Cav’s end up with point guard Mo Williams. Oklahoma City gets small forward Desmond Mason and power forward/center (and expiring contract) Joe Smith. The Bucks get point guard Luke Ridnour, combo [...]
Tags: Sports
The Tropic Thunder (movie) Review
August 11th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Tropic Thunder has a ridiculous amount of star power attached to it. Sure, you’ve seen trailers with Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey, Jr. Thing is, Nick Nolte, Matthew McConaughey and Tom Cruise each show up in supporting roles. Yes, I said Tom Cruise, but we’ll get back to him in a bit. You’ve also got Steve Coogan [...]
Tags: Eclectica · Film and Television
The Phoniest Nightclub Line in Chicago
August 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Recently, I was detoured by a couple of semi-reformed club kids to one of Chicago’s allegedly hotter and trendier clubs. Fortunately, Paris Hilton was not in attendance that night, but there was plenty else to find unintentionally funny.
We started out in The Line. The Chicago market really doesn’t tolerate much over 3 places with the New York-style [...]
Tags: Humor
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (movie) Review / AKA The Mummy 3
August 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment
They sure picked the wrong year to release a new Mummy movie. Don’t get me wrong, I liked the film, but you figure the summer already has seen two stellar action movies in The Dark Knight and Iron Man, a new Indiana Jones movie (and the Mummy series has always been, in a sense, Indiana Jones [...]
Tags: Eclectica · Film and Television