Waukegan

Our 1000th visitor was from Waukegan.

I can't imagine going to Waukegan. I'm a Ray Bradbury fan--it was The Martian Chronicles that inspired me to become a writer--and no city could live up to his nostalgic depictions of Waukegan.

Of course, he's been living in L.A. more or less since he was 13. You didn't think the significance of rain in Something Wicked This Way Comes was a coincidence, did you?