Don Hall

House Manager of Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!, Events Director at WBEZ, host of The Moth Chicago, and intentionally angry blogger.

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Getting Up the Eighth Time

Failure is Harder Than the Inspirational Memes Indicate

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Why (or Why Not) Me?

When disaster strikes — an earthquake to a fire to a broken heart of a flat tire — the common response is to ask, out loud and to the…

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YOLO, My Ass

1973: A snot nosed kid with a single mom terrorizes his third grade teacher routinely. After testing, the counselor tells his mother he…

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We Are the Engines of Destruction

I see people everywhere.

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Random Ideas About Life

In the grand scheme of things, I have little to nothing figured out.

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