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Everyone loves Bonnie Hunt, right? So much she should have her own talk show?

A stroller is "a child's wheelchair?" WTF? This is why we sold our condo and refuse to go co-op.

Today you can check out the Nature Center at night. You can see "raccoons, opossums, skunks, and even a flying squirrel." How about a talking moose?

Remember how The Reader used to run BobWatch so you didn't have to read Bob Greene's column. We wish they would start something like that up for Steve Johnson. Jeebis.

"eat me" by Joseph Palmer.

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"[Ed] Burke swung into action after fielding a complaint from Moran's father, who lives out of town."

Sounds like that stroller pushing mom has a rich daddy!

Cubs going to the playoffs!

What a surprise! Playoff envy Benjy not around to post about the Cubs. The 'Sports section' of Chicagoist is a jokeist these days.

Um, yes. Bonnie Hunt should have a talk show. Tyra Banks? "Doctor" Phil? Oprah? Most definitely. My cynicism escapes me. I think Bonnie Hunt is funny, interesting and-most definitely-easy on the eyes. Were there not a gaggle of morons less deserving to justify her being given a shot I would still find her a good choice.
If we can push for a Chicago Olympics we should be able to get behind an intelligent local in her talk-show bid. I'm just saying; I would watch.

I agree about Bonnie Hunt. If you remember, when she had her own TV show, she played the host of a morning talk show in Chicago. It was great!

Yeah, Ferdy, not only has bonnie hunt already played the part on a sitcom, which to my recollection wasn't very funny, but seemed pretty talk-show accurate -- BUT, isn't Janet Davies doing a poor-man's version of Bonnie Hunt's Talk Show Host character anyways, just in a more creepy way.


On the stroller story, I liked the mom's not-so-veiled threat of a lawsuit/city inspection/EPA raid: "The service elevator is the elevator they use to bring garbage down. It's got lead paint, asbestos and everything else coming down that elevator"

This is apropos of not much, but yesterday I saw a couple walking down Grand. The woman was pushing a baby stroller. In the stroller was an adult bulldog, sitting up like a baby would. I suppressed the urge to say, "Oh what a lovely baby!"

Seriously, guys, where is the Cubs post? THEY MADE THE PLAYOFFS.

I guess it's not as important as Lollapalooza, huh?

Bud, didn't the Cubs make the playoffs after I posted this?

Bud: Yes, the Cubs made the playoffs.

Too bad much of Chicago is reacting as though they won the World Series already.

Doesn't this city know anything yet about dashed hopes?

"While waiting for the City Council to pass the ordinance, her husband has been forced to dismantle the stroller and spend 15 or 20 minutes assembling it downstairs each time the family leaves the building.

"If my husband is not here, I can't go anywhere. What am I going to do -- leave the baby by herself?" she said."

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Um, how about disassemble it yourself? It's not rocket science.

And why does a 5-year old need a stroller?

"Remember how The Reader used to run BobWatch so you didn't have to read Bob Greene's column. We wish they would start something like that up for Steve Johnson. Jeebis."

Uhh... I hate to tell you this, but that whooshing sound is the joke going over your head.

Better luck next time.

-- SCAM

OK, I think neither strollers nor wheelchairs should be relegated to second class status, but I also don't think a five year old should be in a stroller in the first place. If a child that age can't walk, then the stroller IS a wheelchair.

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