Since today’s Earth Day, I decided to take the el to buy cat food. OK, to be honest, I just didn’t feel like driving, and it’s such a gorgeous day out and my ankle was fine enough to walk the 4 blocks to the el stop and back.

As for taking the el on a regular basis, well, we’ll see. I was just annoyed that my old fare card expired. There was at least $10 on it, too!

See more progress on: start taking public transportation again

According to Second City Cop, Da
Mayor, that droning, motley-minded nut-
hook, hath proclaimeth Thursday nigh,
be “Speaketh Like Shakespeare Day.”
And, pray tell, why wouldst we doeth this?

So you like House, do you? Then you’d recognize the title of this post. Me, I used to watch House reruns and some new episodes until I realized that the entire show is procedural, with some of House’s personal life sprinkled in. If they could have made it more of a balance, like Bones, then it would’ve held my interest longer. Still, I like the idea of an iconoclastic doctor.

What I like even more is how the TV show is helping raise money for the National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI), an organization that raises awareness for the mentally ill, being bipolar myself and all.

If you don’t think the T-shirt’s as cool as I do, then at least check out the site and add the widget to your blog. Too bad the damn graphic wouldn’t fit in my sidebar.

First of all, what’s all this crap about changing the name of the Sears Tower to the “Willis Tower” or whatever the fuck the new owners want to change it to? Pfft. That’s like renaming Wrigley Field, know what I’m saying?

And get this — the other day Brian and I had lunch in The Neighborhood, where a quarter gets you an hour at a parking meter. Imagine our surprise when we discovered that now, an hour costs 4 quarters! WTF. It’s even more expensive in other neighborhoods. Christ. Apparently, Da Mayor leased the meters to some company for the next 75 years. You read right: 75 years, and I’m not shitting you. Oh, but get this — parking ticket fines still go to the City!

I’m not even going to go into how bad the streets are with some serious potholes from this past winter, and that it seems like nothing’s being done about them. Or any time soon, at least. Bad enough the City took forever plowing the snow.

You know what’s happening to this City? I’ll tell you what’s happening: it’s going to be the end of the Daley Dynasty, that’s what.

I can’t frickin’ stand these stupid Christmas Hallmark specials and other holiday specials that mean my shows are canceled that week! But what’s worse are the incredibly repetitive and obnoxious holiday sales ads whose jingles I can’t get out of my head. Two-day sale? Um, hello? That commercial for Carson’s two-day sale was last week. It’s been way more than two days since that sale ended. Oh, wait! Let’s just recycle the commercial for this week’s one-day sale with 50% off for seniors.