From the Chicago Reader — Hot Type: TweedleJay and TweedleRick

Longtime friend of Desipio, TJ Brown sent me this link to a Chicago Reader story about the tensions between Sun-Times columnists Jay Mariotti and Rick Telander. The article leaves out Mariotti’s doughnut fetish and Telander’s addiction to one sentence...

I get the damndest mail

I love e-mail. Every message could be anything. A job offer. Your girlfriend sending you naked pictures of herself. Your ex-girlfriend sending you naked photos of yourself. But mostly I get two things. A) Spam and lots of it, and B) funny messages from intrepid...

Daily Dose: No Looking Back

In 1998 Edward Burns made the third of his so-called Long Island trilogy. Following up on the very funny The Brothers McMullen, and the pretty good She’s The One, he made the movie No Looking Back. It starred him, Lauren Holly, Jon Bon Jovi (seriously), Gwyneth...

Daily Dose: Hold on to your butts–the game is afoot

Bet you didn’t think I could use butt and foot in the same headline. Well, you’d be wrong. Hey, I didn’t say it was a good one… Because we’re Cubs fans, we don’t think of things like this. But take a step back away from our...

Daily Dose: Shifting gears

Honestly, we’re all a little confused here. Not just because Karry is holed up on the roof of the Desipio Tower lobbing empty bottles of Cold Duck at us. It’s August and both Chicago baseball teams are within spitting distance of a playoff spot. Normally,...