Getting ready to head out to New York City this evening. It was a decision to give myself a birthday gift this year (29) in order to have final mass on the last leg of my 20's. People are always saying, "It's not a big deal, really." "30 was the best year of my life." "It's just a year." While these things are all true, and thank you to those who ( Read more... )

As much as I love the holidays, I also acknowledge that the holidays also bring out the very worst in me. For the last 2 days I have been fuming under a big black cloud of frustration. I’ve been combative and irritable, not my normal traits. I actually have been trying to engage my sister into minor spats in which my finale goes something like this ( Read more... )

“You are selfish and ruthless ( Read more... )

Social life, what is it good for, now that I've found Netflix and Peapod home delivery?With the season of good will, and Noel coming upon us, I realize a couple of things ( Read more... )

I remember the first time I was taken to a strip club. It was1997, I was 19 years old. It was around lunch time and I had a 2-hour block of time open before my next class; Film & Aesthetics. As usual, I had rounded the corner of the student union to pop a squat and smoke some cigarettes at the “Zoo”. It was the entrance way into the student union ( Read more... )

On my way home from work I was in my car driving down lower Wacker drive, which is a quasi underground roadway system beneath downtown and on top of the Chicago River, when flipping through the radio stations to come upon the song, "The Night Chicago Died" by Paper Lace. I love this song. This is the kind of song you hear and all you want to do is ( Read more... )

If I die, here's how it all gets divied out ( Read more... )

Hello Short Film Lover ( Read more... )

When someone you've been seeing for a while says to you, "I'd like to have an open relationship", what does that mean to you ( Read more... )

I was just given some Halloween candy. Here is what I was given: 1 Smartee, 1 Whopper & 2 Dum-Dums (Rootbeer and Bubble Gum flavored). Obviously they don’t think very highly of me. You know someone likes you a lot if they give you a Snickers bar or their Reese’s Cups. But if someone really likes you, they give their eternal soul, or so I am told ( Read more... )