Four Eyes for Talent

Now that we live in the foretold 15-minutes-of-fame future, we’ve realized fame just isn’t enough. The real trick today is sustaining and monetizing that fame, lest you end up penniless and unworthy of all but the lowest levels of talk and/or game shows. Reality TV is the fast track to nowhere, the only famous politicians … Continue reading →

Carlyle, or How the Other Half Relaxes

Julie was in town on an especially warm fall afternoon. Warm fall afternoons hold a certain novelty for people from Chicago, where summer often burns straight into the bleakness winter. Fall comprises a month of gray sky, hateful wind, sleet and roughly three hours of long-shadowed perfection. Meanwhile, records were being broken all November in … Continue reading →