David Himmel 8/28/24 David Himmel 8/28/24

For Love of Inanimate Objects

I’m a curator of stuff. A collector of evidence. I struggle to throw anything out because so many things are artifacts that map out my life’s journey. Each relic has a story about a moment that informs the person. In the most egotistical way possible, I’m preserving my legacy. Shaping it, really. Creating my own Presidential Library for a guy who will likely never be president. (Likely… This mid-life crisis I’m in has endless possibilities.)

David Himmel 8/23/24 David Himmel 8/23/24

Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of August 18, 2024

Considering how the DNC disrupted and shut down so much of Chicago, I’m left with this realization: Democracy is the greatest obstacle to progress.

David Himmel 8/20/24 David Himmel 8/20/24

While the Rest of You Slept

A prayer. Asking for the things I can no longer influence. Recognizing what I don’t and never will control.

David Himmel 8/16/24 David Himmel 8/16/24

Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of August 11, 2024

I don’t like bibliophiles. They’re right up there with vegans, Swifties, and born again Christians, and Disney Adults. Calm down. All of you. Your one-dimensional personality sucks.

David Himmel 8/15/24 David Himmel 8/15/24

A Rare Moment of Ease and Simplicity

Let me first tell you how much I hate running errands. It’s not due to laziness. Because I’m a guy who thrives off of immediate gratification.

David Himmel 8/9/24 David Himmel 8/9/24

Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of August 5, 2024

My favorite kind of art is Art of the Possible.

David Himmel 8/6/24 David Himmel 8/6/24

A Tumor in April

April and Ben met again years later. She was leaving an office building; he was boarding a train. They swooned and dated. But something was different.

David Himmel 8/2/24 David Himmel 8/2/24

Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of July 28, 2024

What makes it so hard to believe our kids are as old as they are is not because we don’t understand how calendars work. It’s because we get reminders from Time Hop and Facebook Memories, so it literally is just yesterday we saw them as infants. Social media fucks us in every hole in every way.

David Himmel 7/31/24 David Himmel 7/31/24

Drunk & Jaundiced

He showed up drunk. The stumbling, the slurring, the hitting on the bartender in a perverted, nonsensical way aside He looked good. His hair had thinned. His belly had grown. But there was a New Wave Confidence appeal to him.

David Himmel 7/26/24 David Himmel 7/26/24

Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of July 21, 2024

I just learned that Andrew Dice Clay is Jewish and not Italian. And now my life is different. I don’t know how yet, but I know the future ain’t what it used to be.

David Himmel 7/25/24 David Himmel 7/25/24

At the Intersection of Love & Hate

MAGAites are like ants. You see one or two and it’s not such a big deal. But when you see an army of them, it can feel a bit scary.

David Himmel 7/19/24 David Himmel 7/19/24

Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of July 14, 2024

One really good way to get angry at all of your exes is to officiate a really beautiful wedding for two people in their forties.

David Himmel 7/17/24 David Himmel 7/17/24

The Smug City Snob with Nothing to Show but Three Tattoos

Through the winding hellish passage from city to the Western Suburbs
I realize I must not be depressed enough.
With time to kill, I pull into a Wheaton Chilis for a drink.And there it is. The Feeling.
That empty feeling of mediocrity and directionless arrival in a place that could be anywhere
Where the people could be anyone
Where everyone is no one.

David Himmel 6/17/24 David Himmel 6/17/24

A Desperate Display of Nothingness

Your near-dead heart is running at a million miles an hour

Desperately trying to keep your head from collapsing in on itself.

Trying to prove you are valuable, interesting, worth the hassle.

David Himmel 5/21/24 David Himmel 5/21/24

When an Ex Reaches Out (REDUX)

I was contacted by an ex the other day via email. Not an ex-girlfriend. Those remain, thankfully, quiet, likely steeped in their own lives thinking of me only by accident when their children or partner annoy them.

David Himmel 5/2/24 David Himmel 5/2/24

The Pristine City Clerk Worker [Revisited]

No one likes having to go to the Office of the Chicago City Clerk. Not even those who get paid for being there. The desk workers on the first floor in the City Clerk’s office are of the same ilk as DMV workers.

David Himmel 4/27/24 David Himmel 4/27/24

[Reminder] My Ascent to Greatness Will Not Be Compromised by the Likes of You

When I was twenty, I went to work for a captain of industry. A titan really.

David Himmel 3/22/24 David Himmel 3/22/24

Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of March 17, 2024

The thing about sucking the life out of someone is that it is often the result of your life being sucked from you. Just an ouroboros of suck. And that’s the saddest version of a fair and balanced relationship.