Friday, September 9, 2011
When Superheroes Get Old...I love these. SOURCE****Man, This Stuff Pisses Me Off!The Madison Capital Times reports that in the latest development in the controversy over the state's new Vote…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:12AMThursday, September 8, 2011
SCENE:A young pregnant woman gets on the city bus. The bus is packed with every seat taken and the aisles filling up. This woman, mind you, is P-R-E-G-N-A-N-T - she looks like sh…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:05AMWednesday, September 7, 2011
...that I just drove twenty hours in the past four days and my brain is mush.With that said, I believe that I LOVE my family more than you can know - they're like the cast of a Matt Groening…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 04:11AMTuesday, September 6, 2011
KEYES: What about hospitals that provide abortion? Would you like to see the money stripped away from them, for instance? KING: Maybe. I’d want to look at the case. I think it’s imm…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 04:05AMMonday, September 5, 2011
Last week, as I finished my twelve-hour day of work for $3.15 per hour, I severely twisted my ankle on the factory floor and was shit out of luck because there was no worker's compensation a…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 04:32AMSaturday, September 3, 2011
My first car was a Canary Yellow 1951 Chevy Deluxe. I was 16 years old and my mom cosigned so I could own it. This was in the early 1980s when all my friends (the ones who had graduated from…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 05:08AMFriday, September 2, 2011
A Coupla Updates on DH1) The WBEZ Off-Air Series that I co-produce is HOT! Buy tickets and dig our geeky badassness.2) I just finished my self-imposed two-month theater blackout (not d…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 04:09AMThursday, September 1, 2011
A man threw a fistful of coins at a Portillo's manager in Naperville because he was angry that he waited too long for his burger. Michael A. Ramirez, 54, went through the drive-thru and orde…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 04:11AMWednesday, August 31, 2011
...that, as a general rule of thumb, a 3:00PM appointment out in Joliet should not be unapologetically extended past 6:00PM without my foot going firmly in your ass......that if God has to u…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 04:02AMTuesday, August 30, 2011
Tiny FascistsWritten by an Ensemble of Grown Up Eagle ScoutsDirected by Mick NapierPresented by the Annoyance Theater Disclosure: I was comp'd in for the show and used to beat up Boy Scouts …
SOURCE: Don Hall at 04:21AMMonday, August 29, 2011
A Nebraska girl born with no arms and legs has blamed unfair scoring after she failed to make her school’s cheerleading squad three years in a row. Julia Sullivan, 16, has complained …
SOURCE: Don Hall at 04:08AMSaturday, August 27, 2011
I don't know......somehow I am now compelled... ...to either go buy shit from Walmart... ...or pray that fucking clown never comes to my house...
SOURCE: Don Hall at 05:09AMFriday, August 26, 2011
Art Nouveau Superheroes and SupervillainsSOURCESOURCE****TV KILLS! Move Over Tobacco!!Dear fellow television addicts viewers: We've received awful news. Researchers in Austra…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 04:16AMThursday, August 25, 2011
From 2001 to 2007, the economy endured “the slowest rate of jobs growth on record since World War II, and just one-fifth the pace of the 1990s.”SOURCE Dear Dumbasses…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 04:16AMWednesday, August 24, 2011
...that seeing friends get married fills me with conflicting emotions - like watching someone try on a Mesh Shirt. It didn't fit me so well but I sure hope they look good in it......th…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 04:16AMTuesday, August 23, 2011
Sitting on the greenway just on the edge of the North End of Boston at the end of my ten day vacation from the World I Know, I'm overcome with a sense of both calm and dread. Watching child…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 04:12AMMonday, August 22, 2011
Advocacy is a political process by an individual or group which normally aims to influence public-policy and resource allocation decisions within political, economic, and social systems and …
SOURCE: Don Hall at 05:13AMFriday, August 19, 2011
****And No One Said This Was a Steaming Bunch of Horseshit?The first time she was raped, school officials told her she was lying. They even demanded she write and hand-deliver an apology let…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:12AMThursday, August 18, 2011
Waking up at 5AM and deciding to go back to sleep.Setting the day's agenda based on the needs of the day rather than the calendar and a set of To Do Items.Smelling the faint mixture of sea s…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:13AMWednesday, August 17, 2011
…that, among the best parts of vacationing, which includes some quiet, some new experiences, some excellent dining, is the absence of enslavement to the clock.…that, if you’re paying a…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 05:10AMTuesday, August 16, 2011
When I decided to move to Portage Park earlier this past Spring, I realized that I had to too much shit to take with me. Sure, there were the big things (a queen-sized bed my mother bought f…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 05:07AMMonday, August 15, 2011
Our man in Brooklyn, Matthew Freeman, suggests that things are just slow in the bloggity blog world so he throws out some provocative questions for us to blog about. Given that I am current…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:12AMSaturday, August 13, 2011
This is important, gang. Lives hang in the balance.Read below and decide what you would do if it was yourself or a family member - convicted of crimes, incarcerated, and then - like Ri…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 07:08AMFriday, August 12, 2011
Check it out!The Art of the Political: Can the Stage Be More Than Entertainment? Sunday, October 9 at 7:00pm Victory Gardens Biograph Theater (2433 N. Lincoln Avenue)Presenting a showca…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 03:17PMLooking for a Prize to Get Me??I want one of these!!****Hmmmm...Who is Paying for Rural America? I Am!!!SOME American states receive more in federal spending than they pay in federal t…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:07AMThursday, August 11, 2011
The first time I began to question the Christian view of the world came when I was eight or nine years old. My stepfather's mother was big on VBS - Vacation Bible School - and, while m…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:04AMWednesday, August 10, 2011
...that my grandfather told me once that his experience during the Great Depression was that people in his economic straits helped each other out during the grim periods. Open your eye…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:02AMTuesday, August 9, 2011
This weekend, I was asked to present a discussion at the Theatre Wit/League of Chicago Theatres Chicago Theatre Anti-Conference.Here are some excerpts of my presentation.The discussion was p…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:34AMMonday, August 8, 2011
"I can see both sides of the issue.""The Democrats are just as bad as the Republicans.""I'm undecided."What a load of weak ass shit.American politics are defined by the extremes and decided …
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:09AMSaturday, August 6, 2011
H/T to Cynthia CastiglioniFollowing up a bit on the "Who Needs a Theater" post (and discussion tomorrow at Theatre Wit), the idea that art has to be housed in a specific traditional setting …
SOURCE: Don Hall at 07:11AM 
