Ms. Smarty Pants Know It All

Tonight, I’m going to the Opening Night Gala of the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival. The boyfriend has a short that will be playing next Saturday morning at 9:30 AM. To find out more information about that session, go to this schedule page, scroll down to November 1, and click on Magic and Make-believe.

His short is called Lullaby. They even used a capture from it as the promo image. How cool is that?!

I usually try to avoid anything with the word “gala” in its name but seeing as how he’s now eligible for an Academy Award nomination, I’m pretty excited to go.

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As a Chicagoan, what should I watch tonight? Cubs versus Dodgers in game 2 or Biden versus Palin in the VP debate?

Which is going to be less horrifying?

I semi-watched game 1 in a group that had a non-sports fan. She didn’t understand the complete disaster of the grand slam. She didn’t understand the reasons for the gloom and doom when it was just the first game. She didn’t understand what getting swept last year would have anything to do with this year.

This non-sports fan though, she is pulling for the Democrats. I explained that the Cubs are like the Democratic Party. It doesn’t matter if they are ahead. In your guts, you just know they are going to screw it up somehow. You don’t know what the mistake is going to be or when it is coming, but you know that it is coming. They may eventually win at the end, but there’s no way they are going to let you have that victory without a lot of anguish, nail biting, and murderous/suicidal thoughts.

And there’s a good chance that they’ll blow it just because that’s who they are.

It’s sad to say that she finally understood more about the Cubs and Cub fans through that comparison.

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On Monday, Creative Loafing, the company that owns the Chicago Reader, filed for bankruptcy. In Chicago, if you want information about the non-mainstream cultural events, you turn to the Reader. The newspaper is even free! Are we seriously going to be left with only the Red Eye?

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