Tuesday, April 10, 2012
White Americans feel they are more discriminated against than blacks, a new study reveals. Sociologists from Harvard and Tufts universities asked 209 white and 208 black men and women t…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:01AMMonday, April 9, 2012
George Zimmerman has been preparing for a Grand Jury indictment by adding another lawyer, Hal Uhrig, to his defense team. In an attempt to draw sympathy from his detractors Uhrig is using an…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 01:18PMA month after DCA Theater announced the companies that would make up its fall 2012 season at the Storefront Theater in the Gallery 37 Center for the Arts, those same companies have been info…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:12AMSaturday, April 7, 2012
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.-- Ernest HemingwayI think the worst mistake one can make in life is underestimating people.There is a sense of secure…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 07:09AMFriday, April 6, 2012
****Just a RecommendationIf you move in a hurry, I'd suggest that you A) spend two weeks on a mattress in your friend's lower level with nothing but clothes with you, then B) when you get in…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:13AMThursday, April 5, 2012
George W. BushOffice of George W. BushP.O. Box 259000Dallas, TX 75225-9000USANo email availableDear President Bush,How are you? I really haven't heard much from or about you since you …
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:09AMWednesday, April 4, 2012
...that the act of claiming a space as your own has a power over your sense of well being that cannot be underestimated....that "victim status" is a losing hand; it hands the keys to equity …
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:08AMTuesday, April 3, 2012
I was having a conversation with a friend the other night.It seems her father hates Obama so much that he would vote for a cartoon character (which given the GOP choices this election, isn't…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 01:16PMMonday, April 2, 2012
OK. I know you're all already sick of reading about my continuing struggles with monogamous domesticity. If you know me personally and hang with me regularly, you're fucking sick to death h…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 02:01PMSaturday night, I participated in the 43rd Annual Liars Competition. It was comprised of ten storytellers telling bald faced lies and being judged on the quality of the lie. Here is the qu…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:11AMSaturday, March 31, 2012
The substance of stuff is that which we endow it with. The substance of people in our lives is the same.Packing things up to move - away, on, out - is it's own strange ritual that involves …
SOURCE: Don Hall at 07:08AMFriday, March 30, 2012
Dwelling on the GoodIn past split ups in my romantic life, my tendency has been to victimize myself and sit in my juices remembering all of the fights and misunderstandings, feeling injured …
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:13AMThursday, March 29, 2012
Associate Justice Antonin ScaliaSupreme Court of the United StatesOne First Street N.E.Washington, DC 20543Dear Justice Scalia,I've heard you say it before and you were quoted at a speech yo…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:08AMWednesday, March 28, 2012
...that, among the things I value in life, autonomy is the thing I value most. Maybe that's why I suck at long-term relationships......that anyone who reserves their outrage at decepti…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:01AMTuesday, March 27, 2012
As reactionary Americans, we tend to jump on the obvious thing in front of us as a source of outrage and miss the point entirely.For example, prior to the G8 being pulled out of Chicago, May…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:13AMMonday, March 26, 2012
Rick?I'm pretty sure you understand bullshit from truth because you need a fucking bib to prevent the vomitous cascade of manure that spews forth from your gaping maw from staining your tie.…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 02:11PMI can't listen to the jazz albums of The Maynard Ferguson Big Band without finding the music to be a little creepy. This should not be the case. The music that Ferguson - a trumpeting hero…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:09AMThursday, March 22, 2012
I'm going to suspend the blogging until next Monday.Lots going on - check out "Nothing to See Here" for updates on live appearances.Gots to give the brain a break.She and I just didn't work …
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:12AMWednesday, March 21, 2012
...that, once in a while, the best method toward reframing your present tense and seeing your future through a fresh perspective is to make a drastic but overdue change. The new scenery and…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:08AMTuesday, March 20, 2012
SometimesYou have to walk awayFrom love, from comfort, from securityFrom disappointment, from disapproval, from obligationFrom soft snores and cable tv and warmth and want SometimesYou …
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:09AMMonday, March 19, 2012
Before we get in too deep, before we hop up on the High Horse of Righteous Indignation, before we hoist the Monster on the kindling and light the bonfire, let's acknowledge something so simp…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:19AMSaturday, March 17, 2012
OK.I'm pretty much all Irish. Not culturally speaking. Culturally speaking, I'm sort White Trash/Midwestern/Squeaking Out Some Middle Class Eventually Generic American White…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 07:08AMFriday, March 16, 2012
H/T to David Fink via Facebook********Quote of the WeekWe say we want a revolution... Of course, what we say doesn't matter so much. What we do is what matters, and we have far more inf…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:15AMThursday, March 15, 2012
Today is the seventh anniversary of this blog.2,285 blog posts, thoughts, essays, stories and reactions.Approximately 40,000 page views per month (with 15,000 of them unique visitors) for a …
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:00AMWednesday, March 14, 2012
...that the best thing about humanity is our ability to tell each stories. Without that, we're just a bunch of fucking animals hellbent on destroying each other for the property we claim to…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:09AMTuesday, March 13, 2012
From On the RoadGreat Chicago glowed red before our eyes. We were suddenly on Madison Street among hordes of hobos, some of them sprawled out on the street with their feet on the curb, hundr…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:04AMMonday, March 12, 2012
There's a lot of talk going around about being more civil. In the body politic, things have always been passionate and often filled with rancor but the inability to separate the fight from …
SOURCE: Don Hall at 02:19PMThe City has far too many rooms and the party spills out, sprawling to every corner. Noisy. There is a sense of chaos in the air but the atmosphere is somehow controlled. Conservative. The …
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:12AMSaturday, March 10, 2012
In 1999, I directed my then girlfriend (who became my ex-wife in 2005) and Matt Kaye in an improvised tour de force unlike anything I had seen before and unlike anything I've seen since.A co…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 07:08AMFriday, March 9, 2012
****Hmmmmm....I'm just hitting that 46th year and, all of a sudden, I'm reading story after story of white dudes in their 40's croaking. I mean, a LOT of them - from 42 - 48 - dropping…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:23AMThursday, March 8, 2012
Rush [email protected] Rush,Man! What a brouhaha over a bit of satire, huh? And now you're losing all those sponsors? Jeesh - no one has a sense of humor anymore, huh?One of…
SOURCE: Don Hall at 06:14AM 
