Life in the Femtocelebrity Spotlight

The truth with aliases.

For anyone interested, I was recently interviewed as part of this story in Crain's Chicago Business ("Rahm Emanuel, social media boost campaign humor in Chicago mayoral race") by star-reporter and all-around good sport, Shia Kapos (cartoonified above.)

Seeing as it was a formal occasion and Crain's is a respectable business publication with a national audience, I shaved my legs right up to my sternum and only said "fuck" once.

Here's a snip:

Other cities have transitions every four to six years. They know how to do it. We don't. There's a level of panic at the highest levels of government. Add that to the fact that we're in Chicago, the president's backyard, and that one of the candidates is a close personal friend, and it's a circus stuck inside of an opera inside of a blockbuster movie.

The rest is available here.

I'm in your head now, Rahm!

Remember, Every Age

Had a "Daily Show".

Because over the long and bloody history of the human race, our vices never change anything except their clothes, their machines and their processing speeds.

I take no small measure of comfort in that.