April 2011
1 post
Climbing Into Adulthood
I have lived my life as one long series of escalating procrastinations. I used to say that by the time I got out of high school I would have figured out what I wanted to do with my life. As graduation neared, I started to realize how badly I had misjudged matters and instead predicted that I would have things firmly in hand once I had gotten a little bit of college under my belt. Once my...
May 2009
2 posts
I want this to be the world's first "Live Blog of...
- He leads off with “Paradise by the Dashboard Light.” Bold choice.
- So he’s wearing the classic frilly tuxedo, but it just looks wrong. Mr. Aday has not aged well. It’s not that he’s obese - in fact he’s probably a little lighter than he was in the 70’s. But Meat Loaf’s aging is unprecedented in that advanced age has made him uglier at a...
My Chicago Trip in Terms of Late-80’s/Early-90’s...
Standing Tall
I open the shades of our room in the Rosemont Hotel Intercontinental to see a disturbingly flat yet stunningly beautiful view of the Chicago River. As per pre-arranged mandate, the theme song to “Perfect Strangers” blasts out of the speaker that houses my wife’s iPod. My wife is strangely unwilling to follow me out the window to walk along the ledge in the face of blistering winds...
April 2009
1 post
