I’ve no writing to promote this week, but if you have any ideas for feature stories I could pitch to the paper, let’s hear it.
Trifectas for the Delusional

Have you ever noticed how celebrity deaths always happen in threes . . . and twos and sevens and ones and fours. It’s almost as if they’re random [...]

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 [...]

SHG head coach Ken Leonard congratulates his team after they defeated Lemont during the IHSA 6A football championship game Saturday, Nov. 29, 2008 in Champaign. Ted Schurter/The State Journal-Register.
Congratulations to the Cyclones. Three titles in the last four years.  I had to watch on TV this time because Tammy went to a wedding so I [...]

SHG’s Blake Pranger smashes into Providence’s Tim Hanrahan Saturday, Nov. 22, 2008 during the 6A semifinal football game in New Lenox. Ted Schurter/The State Journal-Register
First of all, this is just a great picture by the SJ-R’s Ted Schurter. You can almost feel and hear the collision. In an age where everyone can snap high-quality pictures [...]

No Joy in Cubville
Although a Cardinal fan by nature, I took no joy in the Cubs’ spectacular flame-out. If I were a gambler, I would have bet good money that this was the year Cub fans have been waiting for.

What I look forward to now is hearing from all of those baseball pundits who picked [...]