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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Dearborn Grocers
In the early-mid 80s I worked at the Walgreens at Halsted & Diversey as a stock boy/ cashier person. One of the things I had to do was let “the Dearborn guy” in the back when he came to deliver our food order a couple times a week. Dearborn was a wholesale grocer– we’d get…
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Charles Simic is our new Poet Laureate, and that’s a good thing
Charles Simic was named our new Poet Laureate today, and I cheer. I haven’t been able to stand any of the previous ones in my lifetime, despite their dutiful nods to performance poetry. They’re hacks, in the main. Simic is the real deal. Here’s a snip of the NYT story: Mr. Simic, speaking by telephone…
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Regular users contribute mightily to CTA Alerts
I first conceived CTA Alerts, the wireless notification utility for service interruptions on the Chicago Transit Authority, as a rider-to-rider service in the absence of good top-down communication from the CTA. Since we started, however, the CTA itself has been the top poster of information, and all of it is quality stuff. Tonight, however, highlights…
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Saint Francis of Assisi/Our Lady of the Angels Parish
Saint Francis of Assisi/Our Lady of the Angels Parish, originally uploaded by juggernautco. I started a new website project for Saint Francis of Assisi/Our Lady of the Angels Parish, a parish on the West Side of Chicago that is the remaining amalgam of 5 parishes, the other 4 having been closed by the Archdiocese over…
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I Work at EveryBlock
As of this morning, I work at EveryBlock, a Web site that aggregates an unprecedented depth of local news and information in select cities. I am insanely excited about it.