hey. been a while. how you doin'? I am basic... cally addicted to coffee. boom got 'em.  In case you missed it, I'm posting over on a different blog right now. Talking about my experiences making this thing I'm working on, maybe you've heard me talking about it a couple of posts ago. It's called Socializing Simulator and BOY OH BOY...

"Life sucks and then we die."  Those are some words my pastor imparted to me, years ago. And they've stuck with me ever since. He was right, after all. Life does suck. And then we do die. But, in the meantime, there's pour over coffee from Fairgrounds.  Also, in the meantime, there's work to be done.  Speaking of work I've...

 Sip of Hope is a coffee house in Logan Square that advocates for mental health.  As stated on their website (https://sipofhope.com/),      “Sip of Hope is the world’s first coffee shop where 100% of the proceeds support proactive suicide prevention and mental health education. Sip of Hope is the perfect space for breaking the...

*uses comic and video game pictures despite only discussing the movie Scott Pilgrim vs The World is about Scott Pilgrim a mild-mannered Canadian bassist who’s just looking for love in this crazy world. It’s also about Ramona Flowers, an American fem fatale with a shrouded past and at least seven evil ex-lovers (and those are just the ones out for...

I didn’t see The Last Jedi until four months after the film came out, which I guess is a crime on my part because how can you be a geek and not see THE NEW STARS WARS NIKKI. LIKE FRICK MATE, WHAT’S NEXT? YOU GOING TO TELL ME YOU DIDN’T READ THE HARRY POTTER BOOKS, ONLY WATCHED THE MOVIES? FAKE. FRICKIN. FAN. Calm down there hoss, let me speak. So,...

It’s 80 degrees in Chicago and I’ve got the day off. That can only mean one thing. It’s time to take the top down.  At 8 in the morning it’s still chilly outside, but that’s not a good enough excuse not to enjoy my youth. So I’m out to find a place to focus, cruising, living life, blasting some alternative rock trash whe-OH FRICK BASTILLE...

Photography - Faith O'Leary Prose - Nikki Macahon The Dress I used to think professionals wore dresses to compromise. They wrote to survive, they didn’t enjoy it. Professionals write articles, manuals, essays, and all other things that bored them to death. Their work was taken from them and rewritten by someone else who didn’t respect...