stuffed face, with pizza
the pizza tournament has been talked about for years (mostly by this guy), but often drooled over (mostly by me). the notion was to eat a sh*t-ton of pie in one day to uncover chi’s best pizza (because we obviously don’t have an answer to that yet). in december, that dream became reality. mostly. the […]
where’s waldo?
trying to find me during my two week stint in chi this summer? i’ll try to keep this post updated with all the many and various things i’ll be doing while back home. hope to see you soon. thursday, july 1 $5 pizzas @ cleo’s on chicago ave. friday, july 2 family dinner in n-ville […]
change of address
i haven’t figured out how/if one can post simultaneously to two different wordpress blogs, so in the meantime, you should check out bark (http://thebarking.com/), where i’ll be posting every friday. but many other, more talented, people write there, too. so just do it every day. it can be like a little crack habit that’s actually […]
battle of titans
the new york times (and others) reported today that google threatened to depart china after being the victim of a cyber attack. google also said something something about the nation’s efforts to limit free speech on the web as being a factor in their decision. which is basically a move to score points as a […]
things i currently have a “ban” on
parade magazine: for publishing a front page story on benazir bhutto – more than a week after she was assassinated – without making any reference to the fact that she was dead.1 subway: initially for an indescribably annoying radio ad campaign set to the tune of “knick knack paddy whack” doing things i wouldn’t normally […]
hey chicago – wake the f*ck up.
fellow citizens, this is what’s been happening in your my our city – just this past week: chicago cops covered for an off-duty officer who drunkenly ran over a kid and killed him – the second such incident for cpd in a f*cking month. and even then, “da mare” didn’t seem half as upset as […]
begging for it
in things that i think about while riding my bike to work (part II), there’s this. have you ever in your life seen a billboard that was more blatantly asking to be defaced? yet somehow, those no-talent #ssclowns are still helming the ship at one of chi’s most popular radio stations. with a hat tip […]
an open letter to mr. vedder
dear ed, how are you? it’s been so long since we last spoke. it’s also been a while since you put out a record with the old band, huh? i guess that’s why you decided to re-release ten with all the bells and whistles – still gotta pay the mortgage, right? oh, don’t get yourself […]
the only time i prefer laundry to beer
so, the other day i was riding around on my bike, and upon spotting a cr#ppy beer delivery truck with a cr#ppy beer slogan on it, this occurred to me: with a hat tip to jessica hagy, who does this much better.
