Year: 2013
Should Teachers Be Afraid of Small Children?
A 61-year-old teacher in Ohio is suing her school district because the district is making her teach younger students instead of high school students. The teacher says she needs to teach high school students because […]
I have seen the future and it scares the bejaysus out of me
They said it couldn’t be done. I doubted it. There’s no way George Lucas can make any more of a monumental, catastrophic cock-up to the already, forever tainted Star Wars prequels, they said. I doubted […]
HumorOutcasts Radio – Interview with Amber Norrgard and Scott Morgan
This week I had the privilege of interviewing writers Amber Norrgard and Scott Morgan who are combining their talents with other poets and writers for a wonderful cause. The collaborative effort called Four Paws will […]
A New Show For These Challenging Times
The problem with reality competition shows (as I see it) is twofold: they’re too damn serious and there’s far too little audience participation. For example, take the show Top Chef. What do you (the viewer) […]
Words that Wake Me in the Middle of the Night
I like words. You might think that’s obvious since I’m a writer, but words like me too, because they come to me at all hours of the day and night. They visit me in the […]
Overanalyzing
Jill Y loves reading her magazines. Not a day goes by without the sun rising and the sun going down. Every day and every night she makes me do relationship quizzes that are designed to […]
Is not liking HBO’s ‘Girls’ considered a hate crime?
Sunday night, I watched as Lena Dunham won not one, but two, Golden Globes for her work on the divisive HBO hit “Girls,” including Best Actress TV Series – Comedy/Musical and Best TV Series – […]
Heads Up at O’Hare
Officals at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport stopped a shipment of human heads. Apparently, the 18 heads, minus their bodies, had traveled to Italy as part of a medical research program and were returning to Chicago for […]