Elizabeth Harper 8/13/24 Elizabeth Harper 8/13/24

Kinkster Pride—Elizabeth Borrows a Book from the Library

Young children do not care about and are not interested in the sex lives of adults.

Don Hall 8/12/24 Don Hall 8/12/24

I Believe…[Unsafe]

..that anyone not in a dark alley or the home of a known serial killer who claims the feel unsafe probably are best off becoming agoraphobic and staying inside.

David Himmel 8/9/24 David Himmel 8/9/24

Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of August 5, 2024

My favorite kind of art is Art of the Possible.

David Himmel 8/6/24 David Himmel 8/6/24

A Tumor in April

April and Ben met again years later. She was leaving an office building; he was boarding a train. They swooned and dated. But something was different.

Don Hall 8/5/24 Don Hall 8/5/24

I Believe…[Desperation]

...that the need to be liked (including the hormonally charged desire for ‘followers’) makes you the eighth grade boy at the middle school dance in line to impress the one girl who just got a training bra.

David Himmel 8/2/24 David Himmel 8/2/24

Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of July 28, 2024

What makes it so hard to believe our kids are as old as they are is not because we don’t understand how calendars work. It’s because we get reminders from Time Hop and Facebook Memories, so it literally is just yesterday we saw them as infants. Social media fucks us in every hole in every way.

Don Hall 8/1/24 Don Hall 8/1/24

For the Love of Cheese

As far as I am concerned, cheese is perhaps God’s greatest creation with respect to water and fermentation. I, frankly, love cheese. If stranded on a desert island, I’d choose an endless supply of Brie over the tools to make fire or access to pornography. It is both my joy and debilitating weakness.

David Himmel 7/31/24 David Himmel 7/31/24

Drunk & Jaundiced

He showed up drunk. The stumbling, the slurring, the hitting on the bartender in a perverted, nonsensical way aside He looked good. His hair had thinned. His belly had grown. But there was a New Wave Confidence appeal to him.

Don Hall 7/30/24 Don Hall 7/30/24

What Do You See?

Don Hall 7/29/24 Don Hall 7/29/24

I Believe…[The Means is the Point]

...that anyone who espouses the idea that "the end justifies the means" has forgotten that this same philosophy was used to support everything from slavery to the Holocaust to the IMF practicing "shock doctrine" economic devastation. The "means" defines the character of the end, not the other way around.

Wayne Lerner 7/27/24 Wayne Lerner 7/27/24

THE MANAGEMENT COUNCIL

Once the merger is announced, I’ll resign and ask them to do the same. They won’t suspect the truth.

David Himmel 7/26/24 David Himmel 7/26/24

Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of July 21, 2024

I just learned that Andrew Dice Clay is Jewish and not Italian. And now my life is different. I don’t know how yet, but I know the future ain’t what it used to be.

David Himmel 7/25/24 David Himmel 7/25/24

At the Intersection of Love & Hate

MAGAites are like ants. You see one or two and it’s not such a big deal. But when you see an army of them, it can feel a bit scary.

Don Hall 7/24/24 Don Hall 7/24/24

The Tectonic Rift Threatening to Subsume Us All

Now, the partisan divide, for those of you fortunate enough to be living in a prepper bunker or perhaps ensconced in a Wi-Fi dead zone, refers to the ever-widening chasm between the two major political parties in the United States.

Don Hall 7/22/24 Don Hall 7/22/24

I Believe… [Institutional Trust]

...that the absence of trust in basic societal authority is a tear in the fabric of society which makes it more essential that those in authority reach for a place of unimpeachability and transparency. Trust is lost by those with the power to abuse the contract.

David Himmel 7/19/24 David Himmel 7/19/24

Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of July 14, 2024

One really good way to get angry at all of your exes is to officiate a really beautiful wedding for two people in their forties.

David Himmel 7/17/24 David Himmel 7/17/24

The Smug City Snob with Nothing to Show but Three Tattoos

Through the winding hellish passage from city to the Western Suburbs
I realize I must not be depressed enough.
With time to kill, I pull into a Wheaton Chilis for a drink.And there it is. The Feeling.
That empty feeling of mediocrity and directionless arrival in a place that could be anywhere
Where the people could be anyone
Where everyone is no one.

Don Hall 7/16/24 Don Hall 7/16/24

Indispensable as Air

Don Hall 7/15/24 Don Hall 7/15/24

I Believe… [Boiled Egg]

...that, in terms of portability, nutrition, and flavor a boiled egg is perhaps the perfect breakfast item.

Don Hall 7/13/24 Don Hall 7/13/24

A Push from the Thin [A Reminder]

Dylan encouraged us (through his fog and haze of liquor) to 'Rage, rage against the dying of the light" and we interpret the light as our corporeal mortality.