Author Archives: Nik Bronder

2nd Annual Santa Pub Tour.

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For those of you who don’t know every year on the Friday before Christmas Santa goes on a bender one last time.  This night of drinking has turned into the  Annual Santa Pub Tour.  This year’s tour was a huge success.  Unlike last year, we managed to stick to our tight schedule and hit all of the stops by 2am.  Thanks to all those who came out and to everyone of my little helpers.  As you can see in the photographs below the costumes are getting better every year.


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* Info on last years Santa Pub Tour can be found here.

** The rest of the photographs from last night can be found on Flickr.

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A good time was had by all.

Patrick J. Fitzgerald: Supercop.

For those keeping score at home here’s Supercop Patrick J. Fitzgerald’s record:

  • Governors:  2-0
  • Vice President’s Chief of Staff: 1-0
  • Reporters: 5-0
  • Canadian Media Moguls: 1-0
  • Mafia Bosses:  1-0
  • Terrorist Masterminds: 1-0
  • Chicago City Clerk: 1-0
  • Real Estate Tycoon: 1-0

That’s 12-0.  In other words he’s a 9 on the Badass Scale.

* NY Times Profile here.

World Mulls Piracy Strategy.

I have to admit that I’m kind of at the end of the line when it comes to these god damn pirates.  It’s not that complicated, we’ve been down this road before.  The marines even wrote a theme song about it once.  We basically need to send a boat full of marines to Somali, let said marines destroy their own boat to demonstrate their seriousness and then basically fight the pirates in hand-to-hand combat.  Of course there will be casualties but this blatant disregard for international law is getting to be pretty absurd.  I know, I know… it’s a vast body of water we’re talking about.  Well, so is the Atlantic and that didn’t stop Robert Maynard from tracking down Edward Teach in 1718.

This has to end.

Let’s just hope the Vikings don’t start raiding Europe again.