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Category Archives: chicago
Eyeful
Monday, September 27, 2010
I can’t believe it took me this long to see the damn thing. Kindly hipster strangers took the picture for me, though I have to wonder why composition is so hard for some folks (the eye is cut off on top). I mimed “turn it on its side” to them, but they didn’t get it. […]
Generations
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Standing in front of an elevator in the Tribune Tower that my grandpa might have run as an operator during the 1930s and 40s.
Pooped
Monday, September 20, 2010
So, I stepped in some dog shit at lunchtime today. It wasn’t the first time, and it won’t be the last, sadly, I’m sure. After a trip to the bathroom I was able to pick out (with a plastic knife) all but the most embedded crumbs of dog grumpy from my shoe’s waffle. What kills […]
Jesus House Walks
Friday, September 17, 2010
Last week’s house walk was a success. I worked at St. John’s Church as a docent and gofer Saturday morning and afternoon, switching between explaining the Christian symbology topping the lancets on the Advent Window, and setting up canopies, tables, and chairs for the beans and brats feast the church laid out for all visitors. […]
Daley: He Did Stuff
Thursday, September 9, 2010
I can’t decide if this unsigned op-ed is damning Daley with faint praise or simply damning him. Best line: Mr. Daley is a mayor who gets an idea in his head and makes it happen… Yeah, he did that all right.
“And as He Folded the Paper, He Would Caress and Palpitate It to Orgasm…”
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Eyugggh. I don’t know what’s worse: Zell’s blinkered, cost-cutting measures (right though he is about the inevitability of electronic papers, he’s only doing this because he can shave off a few more dollars and tie in with the iPad rather than imagining the democratic and artistic possibilities of all-electronic dissemination) or the inevitable batch of […]