By wmcwalletmaker
At the North/Clybourn stop on the Red Line.
What up, CTA?
Posted on November 19, 2012
QT: On The 36th Day Before The 12 Days Of Christmas
By Zay N. Smith
News Headline: “Walmart kicking off Christmas shopping earlier than ever.”
News Headline: “Target is the latest retailer planning to open Thanksgiving.”
News Headline: “Nordstrom not decorating for Christmas until after Thanksgiving.”
Is it possible to have a department store chain as a hero?
Yes. It is.
Posted on November 19, 2012
Willow Springs: Gangsters, Gamblers & Ghosts
By ChiTown View
Willow Springs is a small town located between Archer Ave. & the Des Plaines River. It is about 20 miles southwest of downtown Chicago. If you drive down the main drag Archer Ave. these days you find a quiet town without much to slow you down. But it is a town with a past. One that includes a mayor who ruled the town for thirty five years and chief of police disposing of bodies for his mobster friends.
Posted on November 16, 2012
QT: Much Adieu About Nothing
By Zay N. Smith
News Headline: “Mitt Romney blames loss on Obama ‘gifts’ to blacks, Hispanics, young voters.”
Romney’s campaign autobiography No Apology is now ranked 601,550th on the Amazon best-seller list, for those keeping track.
Posted on November 16, 2012
This Week in Pizza
By PizzaTV
PizzaTV gives a shout-out to Uno Chicago Grill’s work with Services for the UnderServed.
Posted on November 15, 2012
QT: Move Along, Nothing To See Here . . .
By Zay N. Smith
Asteroid 2012 VJ38 was discovered yesterday.
It is passing between Earth and the moon as you read this.
But think nothing of it.
Posted on November 14, 2012
Circus Trip
The Inspector General Weighs In
The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus wraps up its run in Rosemont tonight but it’s not exactly leaving town, it’s just moving to the big arena on the West Side where it will remain until November 25th.
“Shaolin Kung Fu Warriors, charging Cossack riders, magnificent Asian elephants and fierce lions and tigers are all part of the two-and-a-half-hour spectacle leading up to the frenzied Globe of Steel finale and an appearance by the elusive golden fire-breathing dragon,” Philip Potempa writes for the Northwest Indiana Times.
It’s not all fun and games, though. The city’s inspector general found the city’s regulations regarding treatment of circus animals within its borders severely lacking.
Posted on November 13, 2012
QT: While Those Who Served Stand and Wait . . .
By Zay N. Smith
President Obama at Veterans Day ceremonies:
“Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.”
This is how the words sound while military veterans wait an average of eight months– sometimes much more–to be processed for disability and other benefits.
To be fair, Obama can cite reasons why the delays continue.
These include blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. . . .
Posted on November 12, 2012
QT: Unfinished Business
By Zay N. Smith
+ Rush Limbaugh the day before election day:
“All of my thinking says Romney big.”
+ Rush Limbaugh as the polls were about to close::
“I could be proven tonight to be so wrong and so all wet that nobody should be listening to me.”
So your duty is clear, Dittoheads.
You do follow directions, don’t you?
Posted on November 9, 2012
The Greatest Election Night Speech Ever
All Of Them, At Once
Performed at the Election Night That Rocks program, which can be seen in its entirety here.
The players: Ted Dayton, Jared Grant, Michael Lavallee and Natalie Matheson, each from Columbia College Chicago’s Theater Department.
Written by Stephanie Shaw.
Recorded by Chicago Access Network Television (CAN TV).
Posted on November 8, 2012