The End of the World
April 13, 2008

The end of the world is near.  It is a quiet Sunday, and I have filled in the void created by an undelivered Sun Times with added devotion to the minutiae in the New York Times’ marriage announcements.  (There is a lovely NYT Sunday column extolling the warm Midwest virtue of Roger Ebert, but as my Sun Times is in delivery limbo, I cannot scan it for Answer Man or any such wisdom. And I cannot scratch off my bingo numbers to see if I have won $25,000.  At this point, I would feel guilty taking money from such an a financially ailing entity,...

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Friday
May 9, 2008

Buzz and I survived our lunch with Bill Kurtis and we will recount all of the details on Friday morning. I must say that even though I have been making fun of Tallgrass Beef mercilessly (albeit good-naturedly), I found it to be quite tasty. Of course, Charlie Trotter getting his mitts on it can’t hurt. We actually ended up at Charlie’s house for lunch. Everyone at the book signing went to Charlie’s, not just Buzz and I. We all took a trolley from the restaurant. As you can imagine, Charlie has a very nice pad. I was working on a Vegas trip with him. He’s got a new restaurant in The Venetian...

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Miss Friday's Show? Brendan reports live from the R. Kelly trial

5:49 - From now on Brendan's going to have to start carrying a weapon. He has to do that thing where he pulls up his coat and there's a gun in his waistband. We could also get him a fake satellite dish to put on the top of his mom's Seabring. We could probably spray paint the top of a Weber grill silver and mount it to a broom handle.

You can find a complete play-by-play in the Show Log