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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How to act during war
The University of Chicago Press has a couple new books that are of interest to Iraq-based soldiers: Instructions for American Servicemen in Iraq during World War II and The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual. The World War II book reminded me of a book I found in the stacks when I was a student…
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Portage Theater > The Battleship Potemkin
Portage Theater > Battle, originally uploaded by juggernautco. Went to go see The Battleship Potemkin with Deirdre last Friday. It was really something else to see a classic silent movie with live orchestra accompaniment. Stunning to think that the movie was made in 1925. A gigantic cast of people– not actors, but people. The Odessa…
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Chicago Mural in McDonalds – Wabash & Adams
Chicago Mural in McDonalds – Wabash & Adams, originally uploaded by juggernautco. This mural can’t be beat. It’s an idiosyncratic, stuck-in-amber take on Chicago icons. I can’t figure out the exact year it was made– the presence of both former Mayor Eugene Sawyer (late 80s) and former slugger Sammy Sosa (not iconic until 1997ish) throws…
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Brothers
Brothers, originally uploaded by juggernautco. My children.
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Winfield Mounds Through the Seasons
My kids and I often go to the Winfield Mounds, a small little nature preserve. Here’s more from the DuPage County Forest Preserve website: Winfield Mounds Forest Preserve once was the home to various pre-historic Native Americans who dwelled along the West Branch of the DuPage River. They lived a simple hunter-gatherer lifestyle, made possible…