tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62858992025-06-07T19:55:25.511-05:00Your One-Way Ticket to MidnightChuck Sudohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17429500972425403304noreply@blogger.comBlogger567125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6285899.post-17206178552712878532025-06-07T08:32:00.049-05:002025-06-07T15:33:49.886-05:00

Hey, all! It's been a while and damn if the place doesn't look and feel dated. Yesterday, Friday, June 6, was my birthday. I only celebrate the milestone birthdays, although I have taken my birthday week off from work in recent years as a present to myself. I also stay away as much as I can from the socials because the last thing I want to do on my birthday is wait for birthday

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Goddamn, it's dusty around here these days.That's my own fault, really. Between continuing to stay gainfully employed in journalism, watching the country slide into fascism, white knuckling through existence because we elected a complete and utter moron as president, and seeing the havoc that man and his cadre of confident mediocre white people can wreak in just four short years, I've been

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I’m not sure what I want to express at the start of this new solar rotation. I certainly didn’t expect to celebrate my 51st birthday under quarantine and curfew, with protests in the streets and a lazy, cowardly dullard in the White House prattling on about sending American troops against the people he swore to protect three-and-a-half years ago. But life comes at you fast. And we aren’t

Chuck Sudohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17429500972425403304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6285899.post-42395217027046264212019-06-07T09:25:00.000-05:002019-06-07T09:27:15.194-05:00

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Chuck Sudohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17429500972425403304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6285899.post-76839116198474493582018-04-28T17:23:00.000-05:002018-04-28T17:23:09.855-05:00

With Art Shay at an exhibit of his photography in River North, January 2014. <!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>

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I was vacationing in Nashville last month when I received an email from Jeremy Owens, the charming and immensely talented producer of the storytelling series, You're Being Ridiculous, inviting me to read at his most recent group of shows with the theme, "light bulb." (Tickets are still available for the Dec. 2 at Uncommon Ground Edgewater.) I was well into a draft about a different subject&

Chuck Sudohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17429500972425403304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6285899.post-27363927423965302832017-01-20T08:00:00.000-06:002017-01-20T10:07:45.818-06:00

Like many of you, my emotions since Election Night have ranged from seething anger at people I believe to be rational thinkers who voted for Donald Trump—a toxic man who huffed and puffed and bluffed his way through a noxious election campaign to be elected president—to despondency over the damage this man, his Cabinet picks and a Republican-controlled Congress will inflict on our nation and

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It's fitting that it's rainy and overcast on this most unusual of Election Days. This presidential campaign has been long and bitter, and exposed rifts in American society that cannot be ignored and have no simple solutions. One of our presidential candidates is counting on voters seeking the simple solution—"I alone can fix it"—to carry him to the White House. But democracy, especially

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I wear a 1972 White Sox replica ballcap these days, and my personal baseball allegiance lies with the Pale Hose. But it wasn’t always that way. I grew up root, root rooting for the Cubbies, my love of the ballclub passed down from my mother, who learned to love the team from her family. Mom would take my brother and me to Wrigley Field whenever the opportunity arose, or let one of my

Chuck Sudohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17429500972425403304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6285899.post-35742702292488771892016-01-15T09:39:00.001-06:002016-01-15T09:41:50.463-06:00

Happy New Year, everyone! I got out of the 2016 blocks strong, but need to remember this isn't a sprint. This week has been dominated by loss and celebration, as tributes poured out to those who passed like David Bowie, Amiri Baraka, Lois Weisberg, and Alan Rickman. All of these folks left their fingerprints on local and wold culture in their own way. My friend Scott Smith and his wickedly

Chuck Sudohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17429500972425403304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6285899.post-88536292242297395272015-12-31T11:25:00.001-06:002015-12-31T11:25:10.144-06:00

I used to half-joke that I considered every day I lived past 21 to be a miracle, given the circumstances surrounding my childhood. I’m a quarter century past that high water mark now and long stopped referring to my adulthood as the exception to the rule. Since today is New Year’s Eve, the conditions are ideal for some added reflection. A few months ago, I would have written that 2015

Chuck Sudohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17429500972425403304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6285899.post-44084699812470205722015-12-09T15:41:00.000-06:002015-12-09T16:03:55.775-06:00

Teachers at Healy Elementary in Bridgeport receive support from motorists during the 2012 Chicago teachers strike. <!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 9]>

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Filmed Entertainment, the parent company of the Columbia House Record and Tape Club, filed for bankruptcy Monday. I owe my nascent music development to taking full advantage of Columbia House's "any 13 records for a penny" promotion and I'm sure I and scores of other kids put our parents' credit rating at risk by not reading the fine print. Following is a story I wrote a few years back I

Chuck Sudohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17429500972425403304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6285899.post-75440185438861470662015-08-09T13:55:00.002-05:002015-08-09T14:07:19.821-05:00

The illustration above summarizes how I've been feeling lately. Recent months have brought about a ton of change professionally and personally; most of it has been painful but hopefully for the better. Some mornings it's a chore to answer the alarm. Others I'm up before sunrise seizing the day. I've been seeing a therapist for over a year and a half and, after some initial reluctance,

Chuck Sudohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17429500972425403304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6285899.post-29573487557087065102015-04-17T09:51:00.001-05:002015-04-17T09:56:14.585-05:00

The Chicago skyline, as viewed from Rainbow Beach, March 2015. Good Morning from the wunnerful Bridgeport area, where I smell like an impulsive trip to Lem's BBQ after an evening of storytelling in Morgan Park. I was one of five invited to kick off a new live lit series called "The Frunchroom" organized by the Beverly Area Arts Alliance and my good friend Scott Smith and the place was

Chuck Sudohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17429500972425403304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6285899.post-82258824550503271682015-03-11T15:25:00.003-05:002015-03-11T18:30:00.981-05:00

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Three months ago I remembered I have health insurance and could visit a doctor about a rash I had on my chest that needed attention, without it affecting my bank accounts or credit rating. So I found a physician through my health insurance referral who made up in efficiency what she lacked in bedside manner. (Seeing as how infrequent my doctor appointments were over the years, part of me

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Well it's been a while, hasn't it. Four-and-a-half-years can be a lifetime online. The last time I frequented this dusty corner of the Web, Facebook and Twitter weren't as ubiquitous as they are today, I had just turned 40, and I was on a mission to finally and definitively make my mark as a writer. (To be honest that goal started five years prior after a weekend of drunkenly celebrating my

Chuck Sudohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17429500972425403304noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6285899.post-21779274266436719952009-09-21T11:10:00.001-05:002009-09-21T11:10:13.651-05:00

My Pumpkin, originally uploaded by bridgeportseasoning.Yesterday I dragged Kevin, our political writer from Chicagoist, down to St. Anne, Illinois, just east of Kankakee. I had reserved seats for the Local Beet's farm dinner at Genesis Growers, an organic farm in St. Anne.Even with the rain that came down, it was a wonderful time. I was glad for a change that I didn't have 3G service down there (

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Skyline at Night, originally uploaded by bridgeportseasoning.is why I love living in this city. the view of the skyline from Shedd Aquarium at night is something to behold, even when you're taking a photo of it with an iphone.

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