Author: DXO

  • Eileen O’Neill Burke for State’s Attorney

    Eileen O’Neill Burke for State’s Attorney

    For weeks now, I’ve been working on behalf of Eileen O’Neill Burke for Cook County State’s Attorney, and I wanted to share more broadly my thinking on this important race. I was a 2-time voter and supporter of Kim Foxx, our current Cook County State’s Attorney, and I think she has done a great job.…

  • In light of inclemency

    Since the Daytona 500 is postponed until tomorrow, and in honor of the 23rd anniversary of the death of Dale Earnhardt Sr, here’s a verse essay I wrote the day after he died. BALTHUS AND EARNHARDT ARE DEAD Death is weird in a pop culture world. It is the ultimate moment of individuality–even if surrounded…

  • Vote “yes” to Bring Chicago Home

    Bring Chicago Home is a binding referendum on the March 2024 ballot where voters get to decide whether to authorize Chicago city council members to restructure the Real Estate Transfer Tax (RETT), a one-time tax on properties when they are sold to create a substantial and legally dedicated revenue stream to provide permanent affordable housing…

  • Our Boilerplate

    In December 1994, I published an eight-part verse essay called, “Boilerplate: Koreshians, Potential Rioters, and Bureaucratic Complicity in American Self-Destruction”, subtitled, “Being a List of 8 Ways in Which the Dead at Waco are a Lot Like the Rest of Us”. Here’s more info on the book we published, with a snip: Boilerplate was first published…

  • Tate Modern, London, October 2019

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