I sent this in e-mail format to one of the WXRT DJs (who will give me an honest answer), but I wanted to share this with my readers. “I went to the Marshall Crenshaw show on Friday night, which was an XRT show, but no one from the station attended (in an official capacity), nor […]

[Read more →]

I spent six days, from September 11th through 16th in Toronto for the Toronto International Film Festival. It was my ninth festival and second straight one without the wife and kids. Last year, the Indignant Wife was pregnant with The Indignant Youngest Daughter and couldn’t travel. This year, it was just too much to bring […]

[Read more →]

Here in Chicago, money talks and no one has more of it that Oprah Winfrey. My distaste for her and anything that smacks of her is well evidenced (see next article) but she is inconveniencing millions of Chicagoans by getting the city to block Michigan Avenue downtown for almost two full days. Yes, one of […]

[Read more →]

My close friends know that this was a post that was going to happen one day, because I have hated Ms. Winfrey long before she became a multi-billionaire, empathic figure extraordinaire, beneficent do-gooder, and reigning demi-goddess. When I was working at Wrigley Field as an Andy Frain usher, I was supervisor during the 1984 National […]

[Read more →]

Reality TV celebrity Jon Gosselin said that he despises his estranged wife Kate on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” He went on Kate verbally abused him and beat him down during their marriage. Yep. All you have to do is watch one of the shows and she just browbeat the man on national television. Just watching […]

[Read more →]

One has to ask if San Diego Chargers’ All Pro linebacker Shawne Merriman, suspended for 4 games last season for testing positive for performance enhancing drugs is still “juiced.” Merriman was arrested over the weekend for reportedly choking and restraining girlfriend/reality TV star Tila Tequila. Ms. Tequila (real name Tila Nguyen), who first came to […]

[Read more →]

I hate when people take an announcement and turn it into the worst possible scenario. From Presidential elections to casting of people in certain roles, people verbally, and bloggers like myself leap to conclusions in expecting the worst. But I am jumping on the doom and gloom bandwagon when it comes to Walt Disney Co.’s […]

[Read more →]