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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Knitted Trees, Logan Square, Thanksgiving 2006
On Thanksgiving Day last year, Dee and I went out for a balmy walk with the kids to Logan Square (the square itself, which is round). We came across an apparent art installation– a grove of trees swathed in knitted cozies. Naturally, I took pictures.Chicagoist has a story on the artists. They are Knitta, Please…
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NBA Uses Google Calendar?
NBA Uses Google Calendar?, originally uploaded by juggernautco. A search for “Chicago” yields a ton of sports results. Unless it’s automated or advertising…
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The Real War on Terror
Very quietly, the Bush Administration seems to be carrying out a pretty decent war on terror in Africa. It includes our friends the Ethiopians beating back the creeps in Somalia and then, apparently, us getting some licks in, too: Breaking News from ABCNEWS.com:A U.S. AC-130 GUNSHIP CARRIED OUT A STRIKE AGAINST HIGH VALUE ALQAEDA TARGETS…
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No Surge, No.
If there’s anything we learned from the execution of Saddam Hussein, it’s that we are not at war. The Sunnis and the Shiites of Iraq really don’t care about us– they’re after each other, with vengeance. All we are is expensive collateral damage. Why try to win a war you’re not even fighting. I say…
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Walk in Humboldt Park, New Year’s Day, 2007
Humboldt Park Formal Garden, originally uploaded by juggernautco. Today we took a long walk in Humboldt Park. I had been to the Formal Garden with Dee before, and driven through there many times, but never took the time to really stroll the joint. It was stunning and plain. Jarringly different and no big deal. One…