Don Hall 8/23/22 Don Hall 8/23/22

The Coming Downfall of Pocket Technology and the Saving of Humanity

We are addicted. We are exactly where they want us.

Don Hall 8/22/22 Don Hall 8/22/22

I Believe... [Tantrum Protocol]

...that yelling over someone because you either want to make your point or because you want to shout down someone else trying to make a point is the behavior of the kind of kid I want to beat in public.

Don Hall 8/21/22 Don Hall 8/21/22

The Rise and Fall of Boutique Causes

"You can get a pair of slippers or you can carpet the world."

David Himmel 8/20/22 David Himmel 8/20/22

Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of August 14, 2022

The older kid is heading off to pre-k in Chicago Public Schools next week. So here we are… I’m handing off my child to one of the most dysfunctional government organizations in our dumb nation. I can’t help but feel like a terrible parent.

Don Hall 8/18/22 Don Hall 8/18/22

Muscling Past the Pain to Get to the Other Side

Muscling through the pain has a price. The pain finds a way to express itself like the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park find a way to terrorize Jeff Goldblum.

Joe Janes 8/17/22 Joe Janes 8/17/22

The GOP Goes Nuclear Family

The father will only leave his family for a younger bride if the current wife becomes terminally ill or old.

David Himmel 8/17/22 David Himmel 8/17/22

A Green Bottle Fly Takes Stock of His Life

This yard is fantastic. There’s never a shortage of poo. Piles of poo everywhere. Look! There’s one! And another over there! And another! Oh, boy, how long has this one been here? Poo doesn’t go rotten does it? Nah, of course not!

David Himmel 8/16/22 David Himmel 8/16/22

Meet Me, The Narcissist

According to the Webster’s definition, I don’t think I’m a narcissist. I’m full of more self-loathing and honesty than I am any exaggerations of my self-importance. I mean, I want to be important. Of course, I want to matter to people and the world. I wouldn’t be opposed to breaking the internet with news of my demise, should that day come. But I don’t think I have an excessive admiration or infatuation with myself. I do think I have value and talent and other things that make prevent me from being a total waste of flesh and drain on society, but those feelings are tempered. But I do hold grudges and I wanted to dig a little deeper into this

And here’s where I’ve landed. I’m a hypocrite.

Don Hall 8/15/22 Don Hall 8/15/22

I Believe... [Tug of War]

...that progress is not a sprint. It isn’t a marathon. It’s a tug of war and it is gained in inches.

Gabriel Cassidy 8/13/22 Gabriel Cassidy 8/13/22

Solitary Vacation: What I've Learned About Myself (Or the Virtues of Self-hatred)

My behavior while alone is beyond concerning. I have discovered that, when not pressured by some authority figure, I have a tendency to dwell in a state of almost unacceptable laziness.

David Himmel 8/12/22 David Himmel 8/12/22

Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of August 7, 2022

My backyard is home to very depressed worms. I keep finding sun-dried worm corpses on my walkway. And not even after a hard rain—as they might be flooded to the topsoil. It’s like they just have had enough of being a worm living underground and wriggle to the surface for that long-elusive moment of warmth before being cooked to death.

Don Hall 8/11/22 Don Hall 8/11/22

The Archeology of a Life

"It is only with greatest care that memory can be kept from becoming a prison or a gallows." — The Orville

Don Hall 8/9/22 Don Hall 8/9/22

The Absence of Joy and Resilience

When your joy comes from joining the beatdown of another human being, it's a dirty kind of glee. If the pain of others gets you off, you're a bully and a stain on the rest of us. If you live by that particular sword, you'll die by the same sword. You suffer from an absence of joy and resilience.

Don Hall 8/8/22 Don Hall 8/8/22

I Believe... [Who I Am]

...that I’m the Christopher Columbus of dairy—I discover bricks of cheese, claim them as my own, subjugate the slices, and conquer them.

Guest User 8/6/22 Guest User 8/6/22

Lilacs And Eucalyptus - A Poem

Climbing into the new

years on the far side of

The numbering millennia

now feels all

tears-verses-orgasms.

David Himmel 8/5/22 David Himmel 8/5/22

Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of July 31, 2022

Letting your feelings guide you is a wonderful way to parent and a terrible way to influence other adults.

Gabriel Cassidy 8/4/22 Gabriel Cassidy 8/4/22

I Often Wonder

A year prior to my acquaintance with E, I had fallen in love with a girl whom I will refer to as J. She was a goddess and the first woman in our school to develop breasts–the primary source of my friends’ envy when I eventually began dating her.