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Lifelong Bears Fan. Bears memories: watching my father scream at Bobby Douglas through the TV. Sharing my golf clubs with Walter Payton in Lincoln Park during a break of him filming a United Way Commercial. The agony of the '85 Bears losing to Miami. The revelry of seeing the Bears dominate New England in the Super Bowl!
First off, let me apologize. I’m sorry I didn’t finish out the year last year with a final post on the NFC Championship Game. I wasn’t able to write up my post after the NFC game last season for…Read More
What I’ve always wondered about the Mad Scientist was: what did he think about his creation once he animated him? It’s easy to understand that in the beginning the Mad Scientist’s obsessive quest…Read More
The legend of the Mad Scientist doesn’t end well for the Mad Scientist (nor for his re-animated creation for that matter). But you have to ask yourself: how does a Mad Scientist with a larger-than-life…Read More
What are the laws of nature to a Mad Scientist? They are simply elements to be manipulated, to be stretched and stressed and examined through conflict. A “peer” to our Mad Scientist once said that…Read More
The legend of the Mad Scientist and his monster goes like this: Mad Scientist brings to life a once inanimate “creation”. Mad Scientist uses the monstrous being to horrify and ravage the local town.…Read More
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His voice hoarse from screaming “It’s alive”, his lungs failing him after dancing his happy dance,…Read More
It moves! It half-lumbers, half-shuffles off the table. After all of this careful work, after intensely…Read More
To the commoner’s eye, there is the mistaken belief that the Mad Scientist’s world is a world of…Read More
After all the long work, after all the tweaks and settings, the Mad Scientist reaches a point where…Read More
Sometimes, the simplistic is sublime. The Mad Scientist strives so diligently, so tirelessly every day…Read More
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. But…Read More
Life can be hard for a Mad Scientist – all this energy and intelligence bursting from his cranium.…Read More
That’s the problem with Mad Scientists. When you first meet one, you think “Oh, he’s just quirky!”…Read More
The difference between a “Mad” Scientist and a regular scientist is that a regular scientist uses…Read More
25 years later, when I think back to my college days, there are two important events that remain seared…Read More
You know the scene in the Mad Scientist’s laboratory: the thunderous rainstorm booms outside while…Read More
If Mad Scientists could have alter-egos, then the Bears’ offensive game plan against the Lions…Read More
I WANT to believe the Bears will have a good season, but unfortunately, I am afraid we’re going…Read More
“Bobby Douglass, Throw the DAMN Ball!”
This was my father, watching a small black and white TV,…Read More