Monthly Archives: September 2006

Check out Section 2 in this week’s Chicago Reader, which features no fewer than four restaurant reviews by yours truly!

legalmoose can sympathize. Today is the the last business day of the fiscal year of the Federal Government, which means that every single slacker who has not spent all their budget money is calling us today in order to do … Continue reading →

Poor Andy. Work has been ragging on his sanity all week long, and then last night he had two nightmares and barely slept. But we had cheesy tacos for dinner.

I guess Proust has got me thinking; or else, perhaps what I’ve been thinking got me to finally read Proust. But for a long time, years maybe, I have for some reason had this intense desire to have a friend … Continue reading →

I was just offered the film/TV blogger position at chicagoist. I accepted. EDIT: Lest anyone get too excited, this is an unpaid position, so alas I ain’t quittin’ my day job. Not quite yet anyway.

This has to be some kind of record. The film festvial schedule came out yesterday, Andy and I pored over it, discussed, chose the four films we want to see and settled on which screenings to attend. And tomorrow I … Continue reading →

Presidential Thunderdome: Bush vs. Roosevelt

Last night I finished reading Volume I of the Proust. Only five more left to go!

Tower Crashing Down?

Wow, I just got my first-ever post on chicagoist I’m trying out for their Film/TV bloggist position. Cross your fingers. (P.S. Plus, in the entry I think I coined a new word: SigOth. Will it catch on?)