It was in the men’s locker room at the East Bank club in Chicago that the guy with the big ears asked me the question. I had no business being in that locker room. If W-2 forms had to be flashed to get into this East Bank Club today, I might be able to sneak […]
Back when we thought everything was possible because we had already made all our mistakes, Jill Clayburgh jumped off the movie screen and — in the sticky floor popcorn darkness of the Village Theater on Clark Street in Chicago, landed in the empty seat next to mine. Nodding at the tub of popcorn in my […]
BEER: The two guys in the picture were the candidates for Senator from Illinois. Last night they met over beers in Chicago’s most celebrated dive bar The Billy Goat Tavern—conveniently located below Michigan Avenue and within blocks of every media outlet in the city. The guy in the Black Hawks cap lost. If he had […]
Bob Dylan and Jerry Garcia explaining why John Boener might or might not be Muslim. . .I’m just not sure. . . .
When Sheila Simon was a little girl, her Dad used to take all the kids out on election day and plant a tree. That way, no matter what happened in the election, something good would come from the day. Sheila’s Dad was the legendary United States Senator Paul Simon. A man who looked like an […]
Heroin cost goes down as election nears.
Steve Goodman Post Office
Dylan Thomas Birthday
Rahm Emanuel creating jobs program with substance.
A Chilean couple re-united.