I’m just learning to blog again, so bear with me. I’m like a heartbroken child who’s forgotten how to love but desperately wants to believe in something again. I’m also going to try and use fewer commas because I know how much you hate that,
This photograph, by Thomas James Salsman, accompanied a story I wrote [...]

Self Endorsements
My column last week was my first ever to be syndicated. Although I’m proud of this piece, apologies must be extended to the people of Norwood, Mass, who were assaulted with this.
Were I ambitious, I would take the signature line from this column (Today, I will wear my underpants backwards!) and turn it into [...]

Take Our Beer, Please

Qik-n-EZ is advertising a special for lovers of imitation, beer-like beverages. Coors Light is selling 18-packs for $10.99 with, get this, a $7 mail-in rebate offer. Not accounting for the devaluation of the dollar in the time it takes for the rebate check to arrive, that comes to $3.99 per 18-pack or [...]

Yes, it’s that time of year again. This Saturday is National Record Store Day, a "celebration of the unique culture surrounding over 700 independently owned record stores in the USA, and hundreds of similar stores internationally."

So why not head on down to Recycled Records where WQNA will be broadcasting live and I believe there’ll [...]

My cousin found these pictures of my grandparents and had them restored.
Andy and Francis Corcoran owned the Mecca, a tavern located at 2001 N. 11th Street, just off Peoria Road. Today, the building is home to Dude’s Saloon. I don’t know Dude, nor have I visited his saloon, but I doubt his bartenders wear [...]