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Skelly Bonestein

OPINION: I’m a 12 Foot Skeleton That’s Been Left Out All Year — and NOW I’m Expected To Do My Job?!

In a season full of spooky spectaculars and scary delights, it can be easy to lose sight of the unsung heroes of Halloween.

Lamp Ricky

OPINION: I’m A Badboy Firefly and I’m Back With A Vengeance

NORTH PARK – You’ve probably noticed that me and my boys are back in town.

Barry 'The Brood' XIX

OPINION: A Cicada Weighs In — “I’m Really Going to Miss Our Time Together”

WHEN SWEET SUMMER COMES TO A CLOSE I’M GOING TO BE SO SAD TO BID FAREWELL TO YOU. THIS SEASON HAS BEEN ONE FOR THE BOOKS, TRULY.

Matthew Andrew Ryan-Williams

How Come Everyone Wants to Talk About The Air and Water Show but Not My One Man Show At The Annoyance?

I can’t help but feel like I’m being deliberately upstaged by the ear piercing screech of engines overhead.

Stu Denham - Chicago Style Columnist

I May Be Drenched In Sweat, But I’ll Die If I Can’t Wear a Jean Jacket In September

Every day in September I’m not armored up with my trusty blue, I feel a little part of me wither away. No, no, it’s NOT that I’ve lost a quarter of my body weight in water, it’s a spiritual connection. I hope you can understand.

Natalie Losse - Film Critic

Choice Is An Illusion: Inside The Matrix Resurrections’ Allegory for My Debilitating IBS

In The Matrix Resurrections, Lana Wachowski ascends beyond the easy-going, carefree lives of trans people and explores the adversity and heartbreak of my irregular shitting.

MORTALAX THE DREAD-UNDEAD OVERLORD

It’s Time To Return the 12-Foot Jumbo Skeletons Where They Belong: My Lair

Horrifying and deadly all of them may be, but they’re also my creations/thralls/employees, and we depend on each other. So, while I don’t like to be the bad guy (I love it), I have to ask you to return them.

Helen Gremple - Former Mother

My Three Kids Were Also Eaten By A Skunk But You Don’t See Me Making A Whole To-Do About It

For months now, coverage of Monty and Rose, the Piping Plovers who nest at Montrose Beach, has been seemingly inescapable.

Craven Barnacle

Meet Craven Barnacle: The Mayor of Marina City

Most people don’t make it all the way to the top of these towers. But you have made it, so I must introduce myself. That is the rule!