The Chicago Tribune and a Weird Week
Last week a gangsta rap video about side hugs blew up and went viral. A bunch of huge blogs wrote about it. I don’t think I invented the term “side hug” but because I wrote about it in April 2008, put it on the cover of the Stuff Christians Like book and made buttons that say “I heart side hugs” people naturally assumed I was the mastermind beyond the video. I wasn’t. As one hate mail I received pointed out, I am “about as gangsta as a pocket watch.” (More on that later)
In the midst of all that, the Chicago Tribune called and interviewed me about side hugs. (I’m like some sort of side hug Jane Goodall.) The reporter was great and it was a blast talking with him.
