I think that from the title of my blog it's pretty obvious what this one is about.

So about a month ago, even though we were in the final week of a historic presidential election that included a senator from Illinois, the only Chicagoan that most people had on their minds was 7-year old Julian King.

Heard of him?

Julian King is the nephew of Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson. 

She won the best supporting Oscar a couple of years ago for her role in "Dreamgirls."  I never saw the film, but apparently she stole the show from Beyonce, the star of the movie and the person the film was somewhat designed for.  She first made her name on "American Idol," and was just recently in the "Sex and the City" movie.

After she struck it big, she tried to get her mother to move into a nicer neighborhood.  Her family had lived in the Southside of  Chicago for years.  Her mother refused to move though, due to a neighborhood loyalty that I think a lot of people feel when they have lived somewhere for a long time.  So although Jennifer moved up, her mother remained there, along with the rest of Jennifer's family, including her nephew, Julian King.  It would be the worst decision her mother ever possibly made.

Jennifer Hudson IDs nephew's body

You know, you hear a lot of fucked up stories in the news, and you wonder sometimes if you've become hardened to grim news.  Add in the uncertainty of the economy, and most people really have too much on their plate to be concerned with someone else's tragedy right now.  But I think this really touched a lot of people.  Julian King was an innocent 7-year old boy who had never harmed anyone.

And some monster takes his life.  How do you make sense of that?

The whole story really bummed me out.  I'm usually a pretty pessimistic person, but I just kept thinking and hoping to myself that something good would come out of this.  There had to be some silver lining to this dark cloud, something that could inspire people to feel good again.

I FOUND IT!!!!!

What do the flu vaccination and Julian King have in common?

A couple of shots is all it takes.

RIMSHOT!