and now like sauron's one ring the bartman ball has meet its proper fate. let's go cubbbies. tickets go on sale tomorrow, here's to getting some seats in the bleachers.

now this is something you don't read every day. two guesses what this newly engaged couple were doing in the car when they were pulled over for driving erratically.

very interesting afternoon. after going to the gym stopped by jewel to do some grocery shopping and just missed being in the middle of a robbery at the tcf bank. apparently robberies at banks inside grocery stores are getting to be pretty common in chicago -- as if i need another reason to only shop at trader joes!

well the slowest train line in the city just got slower. its seems there was a fire over the weekend and now the chicago brown line is going to be delayed. cta warns that trains will now be every six minutes at rush hour. but those that commute daily know that a train every six minutes during rush hour would be an improvement! maybe i got spoiled all those years living near the red line but there is nothing slower than a brown line train to the loop. i foresee this fire excuse will just make them go from turtle's pace to snail's pace. i'm not bitching, but i just love starting off my week like this.

cue the handel's messiah for the hallelujah chorus. greg maddux just signed with the cubbies!

A-Rod in yankee pinstripes. well who else can pay a guy $112 million? the yankees. my condolences to all of you bo'sox fans. my wife doesn't follow baseball that much so tried to put the impact of this trade in terms she could understand:

me - "imagine if the bulls back in the phil jackson/jordan days suddenly traded for shaquille o'neal."


sarah - "that'd be a really good team."


me - "you understand."


crossing my fingers that my cubs rein in maddux.

well i have now officially seen all of the best picture nominees. just finished lost in translation this weekend, and we saw mystic river last week. some reviews and oscar prognosticating will be up here in a few days. . .

super bowl sunday and we had: ads for erectile dysfunction, an ad featuring a monkey propositioning a woman, a flatulent horse, a man wearing a kilt venting his crotch on the street, a car ad where the unspoken punchline is �holy shit�.

oh, and lest we forget a halftime show with janet jackson�s right breast. but in its infinite wisdom cbs feels moveon.org�s ad about the deficit is not appropriate to air during the super bowl. either i�m crazy or i must be smoking all the pot those anti-drug advocacy ads were warning me about.