Here Comes Johnny Yen Again...

The Talking Heads came out of the same seminal New York punk scene that spawned Patti Smith, Television, Blondie, the Ramones and a bunch of...

Twenty-Two years ago today, a twenty-seven-year-old American guy named Ben Linder was murdered by Contras, Nicaraguan counterrevolutionaries...

A few weeks ago, my co-worker/friend Sarah made the very valid complaint that this was going to be one of those Chicago winters where it wen...

Yesterday morning, I ran to my school to drop off the paper that confirms that I accepted my slot in their nursing program. When I handed th...

My regular readers may have noticed that I haven't been blogging as much lately. Part of it is a busy schedule, but part of it was lack ...

June of 2006 was not a good month for me. My father was diagnosed with cancer-- a huge tumor in his abdomen that the doctor feared had ente...

When I was in high school, there was a girl named Sue Buchanan who was in various classes I had for four years. She was extremely quiet, and...

Just to explain things to Norm Coleman... As per Minnesota state law, three judges were appointed to review the results of the Senatorial el...