Monday, November 7, 2011
It was a random conversation. I could have easily avoided it. But in my stated desire to mix it up with strangers, to have conversations with people whom I would likely never have conversa…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:05AMSaturday, November 5, 2011
Seven Billion People.Seven. Billion.Holy Shit, right?As I sit here in the heart of one of the biggest cities in the world and contemplate the very idea of that number of human beings - of al…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 07:13AMFriday, November 4, 2011
OK. I Think We've Gone Too Far On This Women Going Thru Pain to Be Attractive Thing...This is just creepy and wrong...SOURCEDon't mistake me. I like to look at a pretty woman, on…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:13AMThursday, November 3, 2011
Not long ago, on NPR, I heard part of an interview with Derrick Bell (a long-standing civil-rights advocate and legal scholar, as well as the first tenured black professor at Harvard Law Sch…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:12AMWednesday, November 2, 2011
h/t to the Brilliant Coya Paz...are upset that someone set them up with someone unattractive while actually being that unattractive someone. It's like a Mobius Strip of Non-Attraction …
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:12AMTuesday, November 1, 2011
“I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.”~ Robert Kennedy
SOURCE: Don Hall at 02:12PMWantWritten by Zayd DohrnDirected by Kimberly SeniorPresented as one of three new playsby Steppenwolf Theatre's First LookLast Thursday was my first look at Steppenstein's First Look program…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:11AMMonday, October 31, 2011
I kind of love this rant."I'm a non-Christian. Just like most Christians." - Bill Maher
SOURCE: Don Hall at 01:53PMDiscovery is that "Eureka!" moment that Archimedes writ in stone as he solved a problem. He needed to find out if a king's crown was 100% gold but knew that the oddly shaped object could no…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:11AMSaturday, October 29, 2011
Ah.Halloween.I wrote about my lack of enthusiasm for this "holiday" years ago.In my burgeoning Old Man phase, I'm slowly realizing that, on the whole, I really find Halloween to be wholly ob…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 07:08AMFriday, October 28, 2011
Apparently I Look Like...I've been blessed/cursed with surprisingly average looks. This is good from an acting standpoint - it's easier to grow some facial hair or change my haircut an…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:13AMThursday, October 27, 2011
March, 1999The Matrix blew minds, South Park made a movie, The Sopranos begin their epic journey (remember the duck?), there were still VHS tapes used, and the introduction of the iPod was s…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:11AMWednesday, October 26, 2011
...openly disparage the business practices of Apple and Google while writing their Blogger Blogs on their MacBook Airs....are strident and apathetic; courageous and complacent....spend more …
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:09AMTuesday, October 25, 2011
"There is only black and white. That's it. There's no grey. Black or white." - Brandon HantzI'm a big fan of Survivor. All of it. The very concept of it fascina…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:07AMMonday, October 24, 2011
This is just excellent...
SOURCE: Don Hall at 02:28PMBaudelaire in a BoxEpisode 3Death and Other ExcitementsCantastorias designed, illustrated, and operated by Dave BuchenSongs written by Chris SchoenPresented by Theater OobleckDisclosure: I p…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:05AMSaturday, October 22, 2011
The truth is that this President has done a good job in what has been one of the most difficult periods of modern history. He saved the economy from ruin (until the Tea Party took over Congr…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 07:09AMFriday, October 21, 2011
****One More Thing About Steve Jobs...The legacy of Steve Jobs is not about the cool toys. Certainly, the cool toys had to exist for there to be a legacy at all but their existence is …
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:12AMThursday, October 20, 2011
One of the devices to keep things interactive at The Moth is the slips of paper that encourage audience members to submit "tweets" (which I'm pretty sure just means "Write something in a sen…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:11AMWednesday, October 19, 2011
(H/T to the work of Coya Paz)...blame the victims for rape, poverty, and racism then claim victim status when they are subjected to the same. If HE trips over the rock, it's because HE…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:10AMTuesday, October 18, 2011
When I turned eighteen years old in 1984, I was suddenly imbued with the power to vote in this country's presidential election. And, much to my lasting discomfort, I voted for Ronald R…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 02:13PMMonday, October 17, 2011
The story is well-known by those of us who grew up without TeleTubbies or Barney -An Emperor who cares for nothing but his appearance and attire hires two tailors who promise him the finest …
SOURCE: Don Hall at 02:12PMAnd this is why it's important to continue the democratization of communication.Cell phone videos, YouTube, Vimeo, iMovie - these tools allow us to shine light on what was once a hidden secr…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:08AMSaturday, October 15, 2011
I was fully prepared to wait the whole day to get my iPhone 4S.I was prepared to be disappointed and wait in line only to have the Apple store sell out before I got mine.The sensible part of…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 07:13AMFriday, October 14, 2011
****Well Lookee Here!Last month, I performed my first story at The Moth (in their second Chicago location over at Haymarket Pub on Randolph). Apparently, I wasn't supposed to record it…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:11AMThursday, October 13, 2011
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Jeesh!The Grand Old Party cannot get a break!First, the absolute destruction of the dying idea of Trickle Down Economics (turns out if you give the Wealthy tax breaks, they keep the money in…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 02:15PM(Disclosure: I've been doing "I Believes..." for about four years now - how much shit can I believe!!?? - so I'm going to, inspired entirely by the work of Coya Paz, start doing this for awh…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:09AMTuesday, October 11, 2011
As things continue to get heated up in the Class War (not the fake one against the Rich but the actual one that as been waging since before the Civil War), the realities of whether or not ou…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 02:12PM 
