I walked into the library and right by the checkout desk was a somewhat odd sight. A heavyset woman wearing sunglasses, sitting on one of those electric scooters built like a chair that you see on late night cable commercials and holding a white cane.
“Nah,” I thought to myself. ”That can’t possibly be what it looks like.”
I [...]

Spuds MacKenzie is alive and well, albeit nude, guarding a fancy pants watch and jewelry store in Chicago.
Heading off to the store, I turned the corner and was startled to see Spuds MacKenzie, beloved mascot of crappy American beer from my youth, staring at me. While Spuds wasn’t up to his usual standards of fine dress, [...]

I have seen the death of printed newspapers and magazines.
It all started with a full bladder. Seeking relief I headed towards the men’s room. As I approached it, I noticed the odd sight of a gentleman ahead of me approaching the same chamber with a laptop in his hands, screen up.
Entering right behind him, I saw him [...]

Yes, Sarah Palin had a vice presidential debate? The real winner: she just couldn’t stop saying his name.

The corporate need for a Watchmen 2 has been brewing ever since the movie trailer hit and the book sales went into the stratosphere. Our friend, Rich Johnston, was talking about the near inevitability of a sequel and how you’d be hard pressed to get anyone to believe that the issue hasn’t become a personal matter [...]

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 [...]

As it turns out, Bill Clinton suddenly wants to be an ambassador. Can GW help him out?

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]