Gastronomic Cocoa Puffs
The Oak Park Abbey features this dessert for its monthly dinner:
Dessert: Carrot Cake
Carrot Cake Ice Cream | Cocoa Puffs | Orange Carrot Caramel
I find the Cocoa Puffs in the dessert entree quite intriguing. As a kid I was cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. I doubt Cocoa Puffs made the list of the most healthy 150 foods. [...]
Chi Chi Feng Shui
The thirteen story building Sertus wants to build has shown Oak Park that it has no way to stop developers from building ill-omened, unlucky projects. In the current environment, developers can build any bodeful edifice, jinxed office complex, or cursed condo they want.
Ill-Boding Triskaideca
Sertus Capital Partners LLC intends to develop the corner of Lake and Forest in Oak Park with a building of thirteen stories, which leads me to ask the question, “What in God’s holy bejeesus is going on at Sertus?†Of all the numbers in the universe from zero to infinity, they chose, as the [...]
Residence Evil
In his One View piece in the Wednesday Journal, Paul Hamer believes Oak Park should look to Hinsdale, the so-called “teardown capital†as a model for downtown Oak Park. I find this a curious choice. Hinsdale and Oak Park seem incongruous, like pro and con, topsy and turvy or vice and versa.
Shunning Sidewalk Snow-Clearing Slackers
The snow shoveling ordinance the village passed seems to have really fired up the ire of some p.o.’d Oak Parker (POOPERS). In retrospect, perhaps the village should have tried another method besides the coercive power of law to persuade people to clear the snow from the sidewalks. Perhaps it should have considered the traditional, old-timey [...]
Coup d’ Chief
We are in the midst of a close election for the open seats on the village board of Oak Park. How do I know it’s close?
I didn’t have time to conduct any scientific polls so I did the next best thing. I flipped a coin with heads meaning a tight race and tails meaning [...]
Holy Astronappycrap!
Over two weeks have passed since Florida authorities charged astronaut Lisa Nowak with battery and the attempted kidnapping and murder of fellow astronaut Capt. Coleen Shipman. Nowak considered Shipman a rival for the affection of another astronaut, but she denies she tried to kill Shipman, saying she drove from Texas to Florida just to talk [...]
Rev. Ted Homo No Mo’?
The Reverend Ted Haggard has announced he wants to leave Colorado and move to Iowa or Missouri. A board member of his former church said, “He needs to get somewhere he can get the wound healed.”
If Rev. Ted wants healing, he should move to Oak Park, Illinois not Iowa or Missouri.
For those who don’t know [...]
Shiny + Object = Death Ray
According to the crime report in the Wednesday Journal,
A man in his 20s, who had been thrown out of the White Hen Pantry, 7991 Lake St., the night of Jan. 26 for trying to steal candy, came back later and pointed a “shiny object” at the front window just before it broke.
When I read this, [...]
The Noblest Consultant of them All
Trustee Galen Gockel says William Shakespeare is his personal consultant on development. During a recent board meeting, he orated some lines from Julius Caeser to justify his vote on opening Marion Street to traffic.
Some might disagree with using poet-playwrights as development consultants. They don’t know anything about zoning variance, setbacks, mixed use development, R2, C1 [...]