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• Commented on Eddie Izzard Bares It All
  Saw him last Saturday in Indy. 2nd row. It's not a huge departure from his earlier stuff -- except he's not in drag (blue jeans, chartreuse striped shirt, and gray jacket with tails). Still, very funny....
• Commented on The Friday Flashback: The Blizzard of '79
  I love those old-school CTA trains, the ones with the bars across the lower-third to prevent kids like me from putting their hands about the window. I remember losing my leg, running over the piles of snow in the front...
• Commented on Chicagoist Wayback Machine: The CTA Budget Crisis
  And those "bargain basement" mortgage rates that she references? Around 11.75% in April of 1980. They would reach 13.75% by summer....