Book 11 of the year: a rare case of thinking the movie was better. Book isn't bad, just not as fleshed out as the film.

Book 10 of 2026: a fun little change of type of crime from his usual "methdealers and white supremacist criminals" that still remains quite bleak!

Hawk Harrelson wasn't the worst Chicago baseball announcer in my lifetime. That was Ron Santo.

Iggy is the first cat I've seen happily use his catio since I started here.

I think one of the best things ever written was when Ernest Hemmingway said "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing."

I'm pretty sure I didn't know what the 25th Amendment was until the past few years. Pretty cool.

Well the weather will at least be nicer in two weeks.

I'm watching the original Manchurian Candidate and it is absurd that Frank Sinatra was a sex symbol.

Hard Boiled is an Easter movie.

Please don't get massacred.

Eric Byrnes turned into Kid Rock?

RZA couldn't make it, but getting to see Kid With the Golden Arm in 35mm AND get empanadas afterwards was a pretty great start to a Saturday!

Scenes that immediately precede chaos.

Scott Podsednik is going to show up and tell him his relics are false.

My favorite player as a little kid and a complete knucklehead (compliment). Thrilled for him.

Honestly wild it took this long for the Sox to retire Ozzie's 13.

Really appreciating how much this season of the Pitt is showing that all doctors can be prickly assholes and not just surgeons.

Annual tradition of Good Friday surgeries being performed to Jesus Christ Superstar: accomplished.

Meet Iggy, 24 lbs of adoptable ham.

Yous guys wanna see a massive cat?

Good new movie haul in the mail today!

I went to outer space once. It was fine.

One of the former deans at my vet school used to smoke cigarettes with monkeys and chimps in the 1950s and it was one of the coolest pictures I've ever seen.

Collin stealing the joke I made at the bar.

We have a cat named Frieza at work today and I'm walking around doing the worst Frieza impression of all time to no response because my colleagues are uncultured.

Cape Fear is a great story and I have no clue how you turn it into a 10 episode series.

new liver, same eagle

Book 9 of 2026: really fun read about a show I remember watching every week as a child and the folks behind it.

It's C2E2 day!

I think it's pretty damn neat that Illinois ended Iowa's season today. Feels real good!

He had to leave Chicago because there can only be one of us.

"Did I get it?"

Fuckin magical.

CORRECT!

Gonna be really tired tomorrow and I'm not even mad about it!

Bruce Pearl should have to contribute from inside a portapotty in the middle of a hot parking lot.

I like doing my little TV spots on WGN because it lets me fulfill my childhood dream of being just as important/regionally recognizable as Mr. Food. That guy rocked.

This is when WCW repackaged Alex Wright as Berlyn.

Roland doesn't understand storms and is currently making his weird concerned bird noise at the tree branches swaying outside.

This is basically the ending of A Canticle for Leibowitz.

Looks like choosing the Illini surgery cap over the Sox one was the right call today.

Lucky here is spay/neuter number 1,000 of the year!

Lincoln Square Hide & Seek Champ of 2026.

My main issue with Pete Crow-Armstrong is that he looks like Powder and it scares me.

My vet school had an injured zebra goal my first year out there and you had to wear a zebra print snuggie to get near it so it could nurse. It was adorable and ridiculous.

I hope the dude I saw wearing a Diarrhea Planet t-shirt in Barcelona knows and is as excited about this as I am.

Book 8 of 2026: Manibus, oh, date lilïa plenis!

Resplendent.

It rains dust and ash every time it rains in Illinois now because of these ongoing fires. It's pretty damn bad!

At least people who become cops might actually be doing it because they believe in helping their communities. If you join ICE, you're just evil. Full stop.