There was ZaZa
There had to be some head-scratching going on among regular readers of “The Chicago Reader” back in the day when gems like this began appearing in the classifieds in 1974:
“ZaZa? Well, everybody needs something to believe in — for me, she’s more reliable than a Buick.” Urethra Franklin
“We…
Another Summer Becomes Another Memory
It was another really weird summer although this one was a teensy weensy bit less weird than last summer. This year we managed to do some summer stuff including getting out to a Brooklyn Cyclones’ minor league baseball game at Coney Island and a trip up to Vermont to see…
My marketing hat doesn’t fit very well, but I’ll still slap it on
Do I have to? You know, promote? Sell? Market? Please, don’t make me do it!! …
But the important stuff is still important. Right?
I did a classic spit take as I passed this window on 8th Avenue last week. There are so many really messed up things about this display that I almost don’t know where to start. Almost.
THE ICONIC FLAWLESS FACE
Really? I have some questions for anyone who aspires to…
But getting really, really uncomfortable won’t
Every year since 1990, certain types of people put themselves through the ordeal of going to Burning Man. They may come back all starry-eyed and burbling about how their lives have been transformed, but here’s what they’re usually not talking about except amongst themselves. How incredibly uncomfortable the experience can…
History and The Beatles will only get you so far
Gore Vidal told me — and everyone who read the book (I forget which one, I’ve read many) — how Winston Churchill revved up the powerful propaganda engine during and after The Good War to reinvent little old England as a storied and magnificent land. …
Giving notice by email and never setting foot in the place again
I never burned a bridge as thoroughly as the one I torched upon walking out of a job in the financial district in New York. There wasn’t so much as a pile of cinders left after I gave notice that I was leaving that job immediately via email. I didn’t…
Shafted once again for doing the right thing at the right time.
What gives? I’m seeing state after state in This Great Country of Ours ponying up lotteries and other goodies to bribe the millions of unvaccinated people to step up and do the right thing.
HUH?!
Many states including Delaware, Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, and California (California?) have set up lotteries with…
Dollars that are diminishing at an alarming rate
I act as if my days will go on forever. And yet, I probably check my bank balance twice daily just to keep an eye on the evaporating bit of savings I’m living on now that the government’s kicked me and 9,000,000 other people to the curb.
Remember me? I’m…
More of what my camera sees that I miss
Like any hick just off the bus from Ohio, I walk around the city gazing up in amazement. Would you just look at all those windows? Every one of those windows has a room behind it. And who knows what’s going on in all those rooms behind all those windows…
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