Author: DXO
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Lee Godie Vase
Here’s a pic of my favorite piece of art: a framed painting by Lee Godie, a legendary Chicago folk artist who used to seel her stuff outside the Art Institute. Here’s text from Carl Hammer’s site, where there is also a ton more images: In 1968, a French Impressionist artist appeared on the stairway of…
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What I Learned on LaSalle Street
1/ Dress Barn is making a big bet on tweed this Spring2/ Icarus is still flying way too close to the sun
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Iraq Government Calls for an End to Mosque Raids
By JOHN F. BURNS Published: May 17, 2005 BAGHDAD, Iraq, May 16 – In a gesture calculated to ease tensions with Iraq’s dispossessed Sunni Arab minority, the new Shiite majority government announced Monday that it had ordered the army to stop raiding mosques, arresting clerics and “terrifying worshipers.”
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Iranian Envoy in Iraq for Talks, as Rebels Battle U.S. Gunships
By JOHN F. BURNSand TERENCE NEILAN Published: May 17, 2005 BAGHDAD, Iraq, May 17 – American troops backed by helicopter gunships clashed with insurgents in the northern city of Mosul today, as Iran’s foreign minister arrived in Baghdad for talks that he has said will tackle a number of issues, including closing out unfinished business…
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Daydream Cemetary
So I went on a business trip to LA last week and I sat in on a sort of side meeting that I didn’t have to lead and didn’t really have anything to do with. I had a mix of things going on: the mild disorientation of a cross-country fly-in trip, the new-to-me topography of…