Don Hall 3/13/22 Don Hall 3/13/22

Things Discovered Upon Quitting That Cushy Gig

The easy road is to accept that age is a prison. You become obsolete over time. Just resign yourself to that obsolescence and retire to a corner, whittling stick figures and rocking in that chair. I've never been one to take the easy path and I'm starting now.

David Himmel 3/12/22 David Himmel 3/12/22

The David Himmel Method for Getting Over Breakups

You’re going to be okay. You’re worth more than your broken heart has you believing. You’ll live to love again. Or you’ll live. And that’s enough. Because you are enough. Be it for yourself or someone else. Someone who won’t leave you in a puddle of misery the next time around. And if they do, you’ll be ready for it.

David Himmel 3/11/22 David Himmel 3/11/22

Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of March 6, 2022

There’s a cop who lives down the street from us. They fly a Blue Line American flag. This week, they swapped it out for a green American flag with one of the stripes replaced with four leaf clovers with the Ireland flag colors in them. So, not only does this officer of the law degrade the American flag by flying ones with manipulated colors, they’ve incorporated another country’s flag into our own. Patriotism is strange. But what should I expect from an Irish Chicago cop?

Wayne Lerner 3/10/22 Wayne Lerner 3/10/22

Evolution?

“I’m not happy with you two. You guys missed the target altogether! What you put together will soon destroy itself and now we have to start all over someplace else.”

Don Hall 3/9/22 Don Hall 3/9/22

You Don't Mess Around with Jim (after COVID and he has a gun now)

And you don't take a completely irrational population, after spending a few years in lockdown in fear of an invisible virus and prone to yelling at each other for either wearing or not wearing a cloth mask in a Sbarro, and give them unfettered access to the largest arsenal of personal weapons in history. It's just dumb. It's dangerous. It's catastrophic.

Joe Mallon 3/8/22 Joe Mallon 3/8/22

Darkness

“You alright?” asks the cop.

I try again. It’s harder and harder to breath. My chest.

“I can’t breathe. My sternum. It’s bursting out of my chest.” I lean on his car.

“Whoa there, fella, I just got it washed.”

“Please. Help me.”

The cop laughs. “Looks like you’re dying.” He stretches his arms back with a yawn, then straightens his hat. “Time for me go.”

“No.” Another gasp.

Don Hall 3/7/22 Don Hall 3/7/22

I Believe... [Rushin' Cancellations]

...that cancelling Russian food, Russian television show, Russian dressing, rushin’ around in traffic is a sign that Americans are a bit too dense to enter any European wars anytime soon.

David Himmel 3/4/22 David Himmel 3/4/22

Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of February 27, 2022

One of the Oath Keepers pleaded guilty to sedition. Could be going to jail for the better part of a decade. Boy, those antifa folks sure are committed to the mission.

Don Hall 3/2/22 Don Hall 3/2/22

Seven Things Learned from Taylor Sheridan's '1883'

1883 is the tale of the Dutton ancestors traveling along the Oregon Trail (just like the early video game most of us GenXers played on ancient home computers) on the way to Montana to settle the Yellowstone/Dutton ranch. Featuring Sam Elliot, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, and Isabel May, I gained an appreciation for Sheridan's work (he is the sole writer of every episode) and just finished it last night.

Don Hall 3/1/22 Don Hall 3/1/22

[From the Archives] America is Not the Amityville Horror or Poltergeist House

The house that is the United States, if it were an actual house, has plenty of flakey hemoglobin on the grounds.

Don Hall 2/28/22 Don Hall 2/28/22

I Believe... [Taiwanese Anxiety Disorder]

I believe... that the most nervous government on the globe right now is Taiwan.

Joe Janes 2/23/22 Joe Janes 2/23/22

Eggplant Toothpaste - Thoughts from Miles Tangine, Thought Leader

I’m not just a thought leader, I’m a thought breeder!

David Himmel 2/23/22 David Himmel 2/23/22

The Forgotten Woman in the Gold, Oval Frame

The woman stood in a gold, oval frame. The frame hung above the small desk in my grandparents’ bedroom for at least since I was born. This was the desk where my grandmother, Nonny, wrote notes and cards and checks. The desk where she kept things like pens and stationary and correspondence and a few important documents.

Don Hall 2/21/22 Don Hall 2/21/22

I Believe... [Nevada—Dumb But Fun]

...that Nevada has a worse record in education than Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi which supports the conclusion that only the dumbest people gamble on the regular. We do have lots of booze and exposed boobs, so there’s a plus side, right?

Don Hall 2/20/22 Don Hall 2/20/22

I Like to Watch | Inventing Anna (2022)

Why did any of these people believe in her bullshit?

Because she didn't care if you liked her. Unlike everyone else among our affirmation-addicted bunch of apes, the Anna Delvey of Shondaland didn't give two shits what you thought of her or even if you bought her bullshit.

Wayne Lerner 2/19/22 Wayne Lerner 2/19/22

The Shabbos Goy

I was a Shabbos goy.

A Jewish Shabbos goy.

David Himmel 2/18/22 David Himmel 2/18/22

Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of February 13, 2022

I read a comic book to my son the other night at bedtime that I wrote. I haven’t read it since it was published six years ago. It’s not very good. Too wordy. When we finished it, the kid said, “I like that story.” He has terrible taste but is very kind.

Guest User 2/17/22 Guest User 2/17/22

Fin-Domme Diary - A Poem

If some clean-room elevator connected floors are

Getting treated like a meat market anyhow,

Then why shouldn’t this old steam engine bellwether

Deserve to be on retainer and on premises?

Don Hall 2/15/22 Don Hall 2/15/22

When the World is On Fire, Who Can Laugh About Anything?

What I miss most is the opportunity to just throw down and fucking laugh like an idiot about, well, anything.

Thank god for Jackass. I appreciate the not-so-gentle reminder.

Don Hall 2/14/22 Don Hall 2/14/22

I Believe... [Legitimate Political Discourse, My Ass]

...that justifying disruptive protests, riots, and looting as ‘legitimate political discourse’ cuts both ways and is horseshit regardless of which side claims it.