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

Nov 22, 2024

David Himmel

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

Nov 22, 2024

David Himmel

How do you want to be defined? By one action? By some opinion that could evolve? By a mistake, regrettable only with hindsight? Or by the sum of your parts? Okay, do that for other people. Start the trend.

Nov 22, 2024

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BUGHOUSE!

Dec 16, 2024

It’s BACK! Chicago’s most entertaining debate show—Six debaters, three topics, the art of the dialectic!

Five bucks at the door (Cash or Venmo)

Haymarket Pub & Brewery, 737 W. Randolph (the corner of Randolph & Halsted)

Dec 16, 2024

ARCHIVE OF ARTICLES

Don Hall 5/13/24 Don Hall 5/13/24

I Believe… [Haircut Reboot]

...that a haircut is a low rent reboot of the self.

Elizabeth Harper 5/12/24 Elizabeth Harper 5/12/24

The Worst Mother in the World

David Himmel 5/10/24 David Himmel 5/10/24

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

At this point, liberals and Jews who still blindly stand behind Benjamin Netanyahu are as baffling to me as MAGA acolytes.

Don Hall 5/8/24 Don Hall 5/8/24

Is Seinfeld On to Something or Is He Just an Old Man Barking at the Kids in His Yard?

The thing Seinfeld seems to miss is that without those factions telling us all what to say and think, there is no need for the subversive comic.

Don Hall 5/7/24 Don Hall 5/7/24

[Redux] Body Shaming Confession

I have been guilty of body shaming, too.

Don Hall 5/6/24 Don Hall 5/6/24

I Believe… [Old Age]

...that old age as a concept has little to do with the slowing of the body and far more to do with the decay of curiosity.

Don Hall 5/4/24 Don Hall 5/4/24

Anti-War or Anti-Bored?

…most protests are performative cosplay, or mass meet-ups of the angry, the radical, the lonely or the misinformed.

David Himmel 5/3/24 David Himmel 5/3/24

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

If you ever want to see the Circle of Life play out in real time, head over to the DMV. You’ve got 16-year-old kids getting their first driver’s licenses. So excited, so nervous. With their parents, so proud and terrified. And then you have old folks likely getting their last driver’s licenses. Not excited, not nervous. And without anyone with them because all their friends and family are dead.

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.

Don Hall 4/30/24 Don Hall 4/30/24

The Beggars Who Choose

So, given my time constraints of rebooting my life in the big city, Hinge.

Don Hall 4/29/24 Don Hall 4/29/24

I Believe… [Mullets]

...that a mullet on a man is silly but a mullet on a woman is an aggressive statement of independence and empowerment in the shadow of the patriarchy.

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 4/26/24 David Himmel 4/26/24

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

The universe will always operate with balance. America will always tip the scales.

Elizabeth Harper 4/25/24 Elizabeth Harper 4/25/24

[Archived] Highlights from My Love Life

My first high school steady
was a computer geek.
I read sci-fi novels
and corrected his college essay.
We tried bondage and anal.
I'm lucky his interest in me
wasn't confined to the cranial.

Don Hall 4/23/24 Don Hall 4/23/24

[Repost] On Becoming Addicted to Misery and The Quest for Psychological Safety

“I’m being mugged” became “I was just mugged” which transformed into “I survived being mugged” to “Did I ever tell you about the time I was mugged?”

Don Hall 4/22/24 Don Hall 4/22/24

I Believe… [The Flipside of Grit]

...that, if grit and industry is something you respect, you have to hand it to thieves who steal catalytic converters because at least they aren’t sitting on the sidewalk with a cup.

David Himmel 4/19/24 David Himmel 4/19/24

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

They finally found me. I received a Jury Summons. Was told to bring something to read. Finally, a place where I can confidently read Mein Kampf in public.

Don Hall 4/15/24 Don Hall 4/15/24

I Believe… [Take a Walk]

...that a long walk in a neighborhood you’ve done a million things in is both a reminder of times gone by and a call for something new on old ground.

David Himmel 4/12/24 David Himmel 4/12/24

Notes from the Post-it Wall | Week of April 7, 2024

I remember being so happy when the Oklahoma City bombing happened. Finally, something on the news that wasn’t OJ. I’ve been chasing that high ever since.

Don Hall 4/10/24 Don Hall 4/10/24

Searching for Harry Callahan

Donald Trump is the 21st Century version of Harry Callahan—borderline racist, brutal in tactics, rogue against the system, sarcastic, and a direct response to a counterculture/pop culture shift that leaves generations in flux.