My Dream JunkYard

I was having a conversation the other day with my mother, of all people, and we were talking about the influence of gangster rap music on impressionable youth, of all topics, and my thought on the subject was that I didn’t have a problem with gangster rap itself (even though the music tends to be [...]

I Think I Broke My Wishbone

I talk a lot about choices and decisions in my blog, mainly because I struggle a lot in both areas.  I’m an extremely analytical person, who is prone to spending long hours poring over the details of a decision, stretching out potential ramifications years into the future (if I choose to do this, then my [...]

A Wonderful Monday Morning…Pre-Coffee Even

So, it’s Monday morning again, either the first day of the week or the second (depending on how you categorize that crazy anomaly Sunday), and I’ve spent the morning since six AM sitting on my parent’s veranda watching my two sisters and my mother gather around the coffee maker, each watching each drip of the black [...]

RATS OF DIM: An Interview with Self-Deprecating “Author” and Professional “Contortionist” MJ Greenwald [Part 1 of 3]

Yes, welcome.  My name is, of course, Michael Greenwald, and last Tuesday, I sat down in a ratty, cramped, cluttered, window-less, decaying-feet-smelling office at 606 Michigan Avenue in Chicago with the relatively unknown author, MJ Greenwald, for an interview.  While he drank bourbon at ten o’clock in the morning (“beer before ten is my rule”), [...]

RATS OF DIM: An Interview with Self-Deprecating “Author” and Professional “Contortionist” MJ Greenwald [Part 2 of 3]

Well, Michael Greenwald’s interview with infamed writer MJ Greenwald was so interesting and long–more long than interesting–we had to divide it up into three parts.  Here’s part II… Michael:  So, what are you working on? MJ:  People care about that? Michael:  Probably not, but what the hell, I’m doing the questioning.  Pour me a little more [...]

Turning, Turning 30

So, yesterday was my birthday (that’s right, folks, and anyone who didn’t wish me a Happy Birthday on Facebook or Myspace, you’ve been subsequently deleted!) and I turned thirty years old (nifty title, right).  Many people asked me the obvious question of how it feels to turn thirty. Well, here’s my answer. My first decade, [...]

America: A New Hope

Perception is everything.  For the last eight years, the rest of the world has looked at America as a ignorant, stubborn cowboy.  Now, we are all professors.  Group-think dominates the cultures of the world, yet this idea doesn’t encapsulate America.  The interesting facet of America is our complexity.  We have some of the grandest mountain ranges [...]

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