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You’re not that cool, WXRT

Posted on November 2, 2011

You don’t realize how lame Chicagoland radio is until you travel around the country. It’s really pathetic that this major city has such crappy radio. To say WXRT is the best in the city is like saying it’s the cleanest toilet at a Speedway gas station. Out of touch? Tired, old? It’s like they don’t know what’s cool to play anymore. Here’s an example: More than likely, when you hear an INXS song on ‘xrt it’s going to be the tired “Devil Inside” or “Suicide Blonde.”  How about digging a little deeper into the catalogue with “Original Sin” or “Kiss the Dirt” ??? And I really believe I hear the same Pink Floyd/Led Zeppelin songs over and over. ‘xrt ain’t much more than a…

Region Rats, Regionnaires, Hoosiers or Asshats?

Posted on October 18, 2011

Lots of riff around the region about what to call it’s  fine citizens. You mostly hear it in the media, and maybe some wank dive bar in Hammond. “Region Rats” is the most popular moniker. I won’t get into the history of that. You can look it up. It supposedly has good connotations, but a rat is a rat. I think Region Rats I think smelly, puss-faced politicians. Or “The Departed” comes to mind, when Jackie-boy tells Leon he “smells a rat.”   Now apparently some wank wants to oust Region Rat and replace it with Regionnaire. Yea, I’m not the first to say it sounds like a serious affliction. Meh on that. “Hoosiers” I suppose, is too state wide. This is a suburb…

Haunted house ‘butcher’ reports being groped by visitor – Post-Tribune

Posted on October 12, 2011

Haunted house ‘butcher’ reports being groped by visitor – Post-Tribune. Uh-oh. It’s Haunted House time, which means groping season is on. In this story, a 14-year-old boy acting in this Porter Haunted House had some strange man (with a purse!) run his  hand down his chest before clutching his crotch. And check out what the attraction’s (I’ll say there was an attraction!) owner said about it: ‘accidental contact between spectators and workers is an unfortunate part of the nature of the business.’ Yikes! Does what happened sound accidental? Hmmm….who do you think does more groping? The visitors to these haunted houses or the ‘actors’ ??? I went on a date once to a haunted house and she groped the shanks out of me in…