Jeremy

Guare's Six Degrees of Separation is one of my favorite films of all time; and, yesterday, I popped in the DVD as I was folding laundry. Anyway, I happened to look up and, to my surprise, the face of one the main character's over-privileged drama-queen college-aged kids suddenly had a different meaning to me: It was JJ Abrams (circa 1993), current creator/producer of Lost and Cloverfield, as well writer/producer/director of the upcoming 'Star Trek (2009)'. These are all his scenes in the movie… Continue

This is a local Chicago (not-for-profit) indie documentary about a protest in Chicago I was a part of. Click here for video. It's a playlist, so just click on each part in sequence. In 2003, I was especially active in Chicago's progressive movement, and I wear it like a badge of honor that I helped shut down Lakeshore. Oh...and the really cool part? My manager at the time (a right… Continue

Jack's back in the Mill. I haven't gotten around to reading it all yet, but it has something to do with cheerios, piss and a butterfly playing with a baby duck.

John McCain’s campaign is floundering and desperate. He is bankrupt both financially and intellectually. And nothing illustrates this more than his pathetic attempts at media manipulation. Rather than present his policies and personal attributes to convince the electorate to vote for him, McCain has opted to beg for more attention from the press, and hope that might work. Much of the time that Barack Obama has been overseas, McCain has been complaining that he is being ignored. He is whining th… Continue

Bush has dug this country into a hole. A supermassive black hole. And we're right at the bottom. That applies to the financial system (broken), the economy (broken), the middle classes (broken), the trust in government as a solution to problems (broken), the military (broken), Western values (broken), the trust of the world (broken), the willingness to see America lead (broken). However, electing Obama does not magically repair any of that. It simply starts the process of merely dealing with al… Continue