Tonight I spend the evening in Wicker Park at these excellent events: The Sheathens perform as part of Estrojam 2004! Tuesday, Sept. 21 6:30 p.m. at Filter 1585 N. Milwaukee Ave. (north/damen/milwaukee) And then I'm going to see - Nice Peter Tuesday, Sept. 21 11:00...
CNN on the Emmy Awards last night: In a mild surprise, James Spader of "The Practice" won best actor in a drama, defeating "The Sopranos' " James Gandolfini and "Without a Trace's" Anthony La Paglia, who were considered the category's favorites. Spader's character is...
In his retirement, my father (an almost-68-years-old, 5'6", quiet Mexican American man) has developed the tradition that every autumn he takes a trip to a part of the world he has never visited (my mother doesn't like to travel. Like me!). He chooses the country in...
I was officially "discharged" from my last job, which means fired. It's okay. It's happened before, it might happen again (why not?). Here's how I've been doing. Discharged I curl myself around laziness twirling my time through sunny days and sleeping in celebrating...
(See yesterday's post for the Garrison Keillor piece I'm responding to.) So maybe Election Day comes and we've done our absolute best and the worst happens anyway: Bush gets a second term. Maybe (as Garrison Keillor says in his article below), the concentration of...
The following was written by Garrison Keillor of "The Prairie Home Companion." It appeared in the August 26, 2004 issue of In These Times. We're Not in Lake Wobegon Anymore August 26, 2004 Something has gone seriously haywire with the Republican Party. Once, it was...
The following text is from the Third Wave website. I'm just passing along the information. Third Wave Scholarships Know of any young women of color (30 and under) activists, cultural workers, artists, etc. who are in school either part time/full time who want to apply...
Does anyone remember a Simpson's episode in which Homer is out of work and is sitting around watching tv all day, and he watches a channel called "The Unemployment Channel" or the "Channel for the Unemployed" or something like that? Homer watches it announce, "Coming...
My last day at my job was Friday and yesterday was a holiday, so I count today as my first official day of unemployment. My first priority was applying for unemployment benefits at the office in Evanston. There's some scale that determines how much you get based on...
And now for today's blog discovery: Big Fat Deal is totally cool. The blogger calls herself "Piegirl" and states on her homepage: "So what's the Big Fat Deal? Well, at the risk of getting all mission-statementy, I think it's important to call attention to issues of...
big bucks work sucks in flux (the boss) nitpicks this chick's best tricks day long job wrong I'm gone.
Okay, here’s the deal: I’m leaving my comfortable secretary job this Friday and plan to spend this fall figuring out what I want to do to earn a living and then getting a job doing that, AND spending a lot more time on my music. The Alice-in-Wonderland, catch-22 part...
I'm not trying to be nice or generous. Why would I do THAT? I'm just telling the truth: I really do like helping people move. Lifting and carrying, especially up and down stairs, is a great workout: it works my arms, my legs, my back, everything. It's muscle...
I had a great time last night performing at Uncommon Ground Cafe. Neal Alger and I did one set to an audience of fans AND people who had no idea who I was and just stayed because they liked the music. I had a lot of fun. If anyone would like a CD recording of the...
(This post references an article by Rick Perlstein that appeared in the Village Voice on August 24th, "Get Mad. Act Out. Re-elect George Bush") Okay, back to the controversial stuff (and to bait my friend, Lon). Here's what I'm currently thinking about protestors at...