It’s the end of the year, and what a year it’s been. It has been full and fast. I recently saw an article marking the first anniversary of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination and it struck me as strange that it happened a year ago already. It doesn’t seem quite that long ago, and I reflected upon where I was a year ago and just how much has happened, to ( Read more... )

A reliable source tells me that today is the first day of Hanukkah (actually, that source is my calendar at work so maybe it isn’t quite so reliable). Let’s see if I can crank out eight Mind Bullets® in honor of extending that oil just a little longer…

*Saw Milk last night. Sean Penn is amazing in it. There are a few weird things about the movie.  ( Read more... )

Hey, I had to do something to grab your attention. Especially you Facebook folks with hundreds of friends and thousands of things in your News Feed. It was either that or tell you about this friend of mine who’s a Nigerian Prince who needs a little help getting his money back ( Read more... )

As you may or may not have realized, this is the last full work week of 2008. Accordingly, this is also the time of year when everyone starts disconnecting from the work vibe for the year and thinking merry thoughts elsewhere. Or so I hear. (I do hear things. Maybe they’re voices in my head, but I hear them.) In honor of this yearly tradition, ( Read more... )

How does this guy keep getting women?  "Tell me about your last relationship."  "Oh, she disappeared. And the one before that died in the bathtub."  "Oooh, that's hot.  Let's get married."

Smarter guys have better sperm?

Here's some of that Amos Lee I promised you...

"Arms of a Woman"

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And my favorite, "Won't Let Me Go"

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I used to work for this guy.  Not directly, obviously.  And technically I was an attorney to the Board of Education and not Chicago Public Schools proper, but anyway...

Have you ever been just dumbfounded by the weird turn things take sometimes? I guess it’s all part of the fun of waking up each day. And it’s great material for stories. Love those stories. Here’s some stories distilled in Mind Bullet® format…

*3 in 30: Holiday is in the books. We had another great crowd on Friday. I’m not sure if it was a full ( Read more... )

It’s December 12th, which for some reason begs again the question for me: just when do the Twelve Days of Christmas start? Are they consecutive? And why twelve? Can anyone really take a dozen days of mirth like that without overdosing?

*Tonight is the last night of 3 in 30: Holiday. Plus we have what they call in the DVD industry, bonus features.  ( Read more... )