Personal posts
Posts on architecture, obsessions, photography, poems, visits to art exhibits, essays, family, and or things about me organized under art, home, and work.
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Nature Near Krazy Kaplans
Nature Near Krazy Kaplans, originally uploaded by juggernautco. Nature is everywhere. This is nature near the Krazy Kaplans Fireworks store off of I-80 in Indiana near Cline Boulevard South. Stunning birches and light green pond. Complete set here.
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Toward a Better CTA Tweet
Guest post by Dan O’Neil. In September of last year I launched CTA Tweet along with Harper Reed. When I wrote about the system on the CTA Tattler, I warned that it might be lame. That lameness definitely came to pass, and over the last few weeks I’ve made some changes that I think make…
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Danger and Opportunity in Transparency
Here in June 2009, the word “transparency” has some real legs. It’s tossed around so often that I’d have to say it is in the running for word of the year. The problem is that it may up being a lot of storm, signifying nothing. Just might end up like 1993’s information superhighway that life…
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An Appreciation of Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson is dead in Los Angeles at age 50. He was an odd, tortured man who was often accused of having inappropriate relationships with children. It is very likely that he was a criminal who got away with some of the worst crimes our culture has to offer. I have not come to bury…
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On The Same Day: From the Anus to the Heart in Los Angeles
“On the Same Day” is a series of poems I write for people whose obituaries appear on the same day in the New York Times.