In case you didn’t notice, Crains Chicago Business reports that Chicago’s unemployment numbers are rising. While the jobs outlook nationwide is improving, Chicago jobs continue to disappear. This is actually good news for Geektastic, as our main demographic is bored, under-employed office monkeys. Here’s to another year of being bored and under-employed!
Today’s Sun Times has a brief AP article about “metro-blogs,” blogs with a local focus. They mention Gapers Block, Gothamist, Chicagoist, LA-ist, NewYorkish, and Metroblogging. ::sigh::
Listen up, people. Geektastic will not rest until we are recognized by mainstream media. We hate to get all whiny on you, but PAY ATTENTION TO US. Are you listening, Richard Roeper? We are dead serious here. We will continue our Jan-Brady-Style ranting until we get some coverage. Go ahead and write about how much we suck, but for the love of all that is good in Chicago, PAY ATTENTION TO GEEKTASTIC.
Over and out.
We found this article in the Economist (YES, we sometimes read the Economist) about the politics of tokenism, and why the Republican’s choice of Alan Keyes for Senate is such a bad idea. We were going to post a link to it anyway, because we totally agree with the fact that Alan Keyes is a nut job.
But then we read this: “But it goes down particularly badly in the meat-and-potatoes mid-west, where people expect politicians to solve real problems—as the Daleys have done so spectacularly in Chicago, perhaps America’s best-run city…”
Woah. Do you hear that New York? Want to improve your city? Try bribery and cronyism. It worked for the Daleys; it can work for you too! Geektastic has a hunch that there may be a city contract in the works for The Economist. Maybe they could push that Wrigley Field paperwork through…
More info: Ex-Gov Jim Thompson does NOT endorse Keyes. Ouch.
Rachelle B., editor of Geektastic’s favorite arch-enemy blog, Chicagoist, was mentioned in Richard Roeper’s Sun Times column today because she posted some pictures of a Twista video shoot. Roeper also calls Pat Benetar’s “Love is a Battlefield” video “hopelessly outdated,” leading us to conclude that Roeper just doesn’t have the good taste required to be a reader of Geektastic. Maybe we’ll start lobbying Roger Ebert for a little shout-out in his Movie Answer Man column…
So the Vegans are anti tree-killing now. AnimalConcerns.org has a volunteer job listing under the “veganism” category for activists to attend the Wizard World Chicago comic book convention and try to recruit people for a “greening the comics industry” campaign. OK, vegans… if we can’t use animal products, and we can’t use tree products, what the hell are we supposed to print our comic books on? This leads us to believe that the “Greening the Comics Industry” people will not be happy until there is nothing left to print comics on. Although Geektastic is not actually opposed to the idea of eliminating comic books, we can’t volunteer for this activity because wizards give us hives.
So the Vegans are anti tree-killing now. AnimalConcerns.org has a volunteer job listing under the “veganism” category for activists to attend the Wizard World Chicago comic book convention and try to recruit people for a “greening the comics industry” campaign. OK, vegans… if we can’t use animal products, and we can’t use tree products, what the hell are we supposed to print our comic books on? This leads us to believe that the “Greening the Comics Industry” people will not be happy until there is nothing left to print comics on. Although Geektastic is not actually opposed to the idea of eliminating comic books, we can’t volunteer for this activity because wizards give us hives.
By now, you’ve probably heard that a tour bus for Dave Matthew’s Band has been accused of dumping human waste into the Chicago River, hitting a boat full of tourists. The bus driver denies the charge, and the police have not filed any charges. We think it’s pretty obvious who the culprit is… A face-full of human waste seems to point directly at R Kelly.
Low Culture gives a run-down of possible Republican candidates for Illinois’ senate race who turned down offers to run. They include Shannen Doherty, Richard Jewell, and Libertyville native Dave Eggers. Quote:
Dave Eggers, noted autobiographer and meta-novelist, who withdrew from consideration after being told that his high school classmate Vince Vaughn could not be appointed by a hypothetical Sen. Eggers to a position in his office, due to Mr. Vaughn’s noted tendency to smooth talk the pants off thirty-something-aged female lobbyists, which would of course compromise the ethical integrity of an Eggers administration, which would be An Act of Extreme and Utter Contempt for the Hallowed Halls of Congress, and These Are Things Which We Do Not Do, for They Are Not Honorable, and I Have Been Orphaned
Funny, but since Geektastic is becoming an expert on Chicago-area celebrities, we feel that we should point out to the boys at Low Culture that Eggers went to Libertyville H.S. and Vaughn went to Lake Forest. We’re anal retentive nerds that way.
Jobless recovery got you down? Take comfort in the fact that Chicago is bucking at least one national trend… Syphilis infection. While nationwide Syphilis infections have risen in almost every major US city, Chicago’s numbers are down 24% compared to last year, and 25% from 2002.
The Sun Times reports that a boat full of tourists was hit with raw sewage on Sunday while passing under the Kinzie Street bridge. So gross. Apparently, two tour buses were driving over the bridge and released their sewage into the river. Geektastic hopes the owners of the buses are found and an appropriate punishment given. Isn’t the Chicago River gross enough without human waste being dumped into it?
