When I was younger and had to clean my room I would fold my arms and blink like Jeannie hoping my room would be cleaned through genie-like magic. When that didn’t work, I’d try the…
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Captain Crank and the mean reds
I’ve missed most of the Olympics. When I tell people this they are surprised. I just say that I keep forgetting about them, but that’s not the truth. The truth is I am in current…
Fuck off, Buzzfeed
Generally, I am a big, big fan of Buzzfeed, but they’ve pissed me off twice this week. First, they called Olympic Gold Medalist Stephanie Brown-Trafton a giantess for being 6’4″ and some two-hundred pounds. That…
Old Chicago in EP would like to buy a vowel
It was hard to enjoy my lunch under the specter of this misspelling. Oh no, I couldn’t enjoy my lunch because it was frigid degrees below zero in there. It was so cold that my…
Spaghettio storage facility
Max is sitting on the floor in the little cubby between the La-Z-Grrl and the couch. He is play his DS. I am not sure why he’s sitting there because sometimes I don’t like to…
Eight years of I Will Dare
Last night between making Ethan Canin nervous and telling him not to make a shitty Web site, we talked a bit about blogging and I Will Dare. “How long have you been writing it?” he…