

My Goodness My Spinach
If you don't get this joke, you need to spend more time in weird antique stores or dive bars. One of my favorite memories from when TMo...


Broccolean Back
The months of February through May are an intensely irritating time for Chicagoans. The weather is typically, in a word, shit, but every...


Curry On My Wayward Son
TOMORROW IS HALLOWEEN. Also known as my second-favorite day of the year (tied with my birthday -- the Fourth of July is untouchable in...


Souper Troopers
Even though it was randomly 80 degrees in Chicago today (which is pretty classic crazy Chicago weather, truthfully) I'm ready to be on my...


Souped Up
If you know me at all, you know my feelings on souped-up vehicles which is to say: I view them with crushing scorn accompanied by an...


U-G-L-Y You Ain't Got No Alibi
Not all food is pretty. More specifically, not all GOOD food is pretty. Examples like three-bean chili, almost any form of stew and...


Orzo I'm Told: A Strongly Worded Letter to My Immune System
This is a really bad pun, I know. It's what I call a "Dad pun" -- corny enough your dad could have made it (mine especially...love you...


The Doctor Is In
Hello all you miserable people. Are you clutching your stomachs in pain? Breaking wind like New York cabdrivers: shamelessly and with...


Bean There, Done That
My boyfriend Tommy was in College Park this weekend for the first time since our sophomore year of college. This unhappy statistic is due...


Sunday Fronday
Sunday is unquestionably the second-worst day of the week. First prize obviously goes to that bastard Monday but Sunday might actually be...