David Himmel 10/1/21 David Himmel 10/1/21

Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of September 26, 2021

Beware: We are in the Nesting Season. The Season of Nostalgia. Embrace it or be consumed by your darkest depressions. And know that no amount of convincing yourself that Sweater Weather means anything other than the northern hemisphere is preparing to die for a few months.

Joe Janes 9/30/21 Joe Janes 9/30/21

La Fin du Monde Cafe & Denial

The whole dish has been marinated in crude oil from a leaking pipeline.

Don Hall 9/30/21 Don Hall 9/30/21

The Regret Soup of Temper Lost and Reason Found

You'll discover that losing your temper is just that—a loss.

Wayne Lerner 9/28/21 Wayne Lerner 9/28/21

Keeping The Faith

Blind adherence to tradition does not help one make new friends. Faith in the goodness of people may stem that tide.

Don Hall 9/27/21 Don Hall 9/27/21

I Believe... [Suppress Those Emotions, Men]

I believe... that, in light of a certain demographic of men unleashing their rage and butt-hurt, perhaps the advice for men to unpack their feelings rather than suppress them was not particularly well thought out. By all means, dudes, suppress those emotions and shut the fuck up.

Guest User 9/26/21 Guest User 9/26/21

Red Brick Door - A Fiction

A yellow jail issue scrub shirt, her hands, the deft fingers lithe with clean short nails, were cuffed in front- my mind recalled a christ-like figure.

Don Hall 9/25/21 Don Hall 9/25/21

A Society of Wannabe Vigilantes

Vigilantism is often about the attempt to establish power.

David Himmel 9/24/21 David Himmel 9/24/21

Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of September 19, 2021

Perhaps our obsession with missing and dead white girls is because they often go missing and are killed by white men and we just love looking at ourselves even at our worst. We’re self-obsessed. We are American Psychos.

Don Hall 9/23/21 Don Hall 9/23/21

Have I Lost My Mind or Has Age Finally Taken Over?

It's an inevitability. Get two or more men of a certain age—say between 45 and 60 years old—and they will find their conversational way into complaints about getting older.

From the obvious How Is It That I Can No longer Eat as Many Carbs to the I Hurt My Back Sitting in a Fucking Chair Yesterday it is the point in life when the slow decay of the body comes as a bit of a surprise.

Joe Janes 9/22/21 Joe Janes 9/22/21

I CAN’T HEAR YOU WE’RE BREAKING UP!

I was leaving a decent relationship with really bad internet for a bad relationship with really decent internet.

Don Hall 9/22/21 Don Hall 9/22/21

When Activism and Progressive Ideas Become Little More Than Fashion

Activism is getting fashionable rather than effective.

Jenni Thurston 9/21/21 Jenni Thurston 9/21/21

The Old Lady's Warning

She’s knocking.

Don Hall 9/20/21 Don Hall 9/20/21

I Believe... [Wear That Dress, Girl!]

...that few things scream effective activism than attending an event costing $30,000 a ticket wearing a dress that cost $45,000 with an anti-capitalist message stitched into it. Like going to a Raiders game with a hat that says “Concussions and Wife Beating are Bad” or a fundraiser for the Catholic Church in an alter boy costume.

David Himmel 9/17/21 David Himmel 9/17/21

Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of September 12, 2021

I like to think that when our society crumbles and future humans or alien scavengers dig our civilization out of the dirt, they’ll look at the Met Gala and laugh at our absurd level of indulgence the way we look and laugh at ancient Rome.

Guest User 9/14/21 Guest User 9/14/21

One Act by a Dead Man

Amy: I’m sorry if I sent mixed signals, but I’m not attracted to you. You’re wasting your time and your feelings.

Peter: Feeling things isn’t a waste. Why must you continually divert all power to shields?

Amy: I’ve been hurt, so I protect myself. Isn’t that my right? The psychic in New York told me that I’ve probably been abused in several past lives, not just in this one…

Peter: I thought the psychic in Bucharest told you that?

Don Hall 9/13/21 Don Hall 9/13/21

I Believe... [Solid Marital Numbers]

...that when seven years of marriage feels like seven weeks of of unrelenting awesomeness, the third time was definitely charmed.

Guest User 9/12/21 Guest User 9/12/21

Innocence Ends in Avondale - A Chicago Story

That’s it. That word, it pulls up like a tub stopper in her, letting all the old dirty waters drain out. It upsets her deep in her gut where she buries her heart. The Elston house feels disgusting, suddenly, as if she’s been swallowed by a beast. Doomed to dwell in a place where “utopia” is the exact furthest thing from reality.

Don Hall 9/11/21 Don Hall 9/11/21

I Like to Watch | Worth (Netflix)

I'll confess. I've never shed a single tear over the attacks on September 11, 2001.

David Himmel 9/10/21 David Himmel 9/10/21

Notes from the Post-it Wall | 5 Years Married Edition

Take nothing personal. Your spouse loves you more than most other people in the world. Be comfortable with that. They also hate you more than most people in the world. Be comfortable with that, too.

Contributing Writer 9/9/21 Contributing Writer 9/9/21

We Killed Jason Todd

In 1988 my friends and I killed a kid.

He was just a boy really. We had help it wasn’t just me and my pals. there were adults involved, lots of them. I mean we were young we were just thirteen and really couldn’t comprehend the ramification of our actions, the adults knew what they were doing. I’m painting it to sound way more sinister than it was, and in today’s society, wouldn’t trend on Twitter but maybe in the ’80s, it was probably considered quite ominous.