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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Tower Records Fall Down Go Boom
So it seems that Tower Records is pretty much over. In the early-mid 90s I dealt with Tower Records alot in the context of selling them my books and starting the Firecracker Alternative Book Awards along with my book distributor, Koen Books. Tower was just getting into selling books in a big way and Koen…
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Google Reader Beats Bloglines: The King is Finally Dethroned
So I was going to write a post about how Google Reader, after three years, finally convinced me to move from Bloglines for my RSS reader. I went through Rojo, but got annoyed with the inelegant way it handles sources with tons of posts, NYT Reader, which I like but just never bought into the…
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More Misunderstanding YouTube
Here’s a rant about Mark Cuban’s anti-YouTubism that misses the point. There’s one thing wrong here: no micropayments. The problem with YouTube is not that they distribute copyrighted content. It’s that they think they are the only ones who should get paid for distributing copyrighted content. God bless mustang67 for uploading the Beatles clip. I…
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Most Complicated “Simple Special” Ever
Most Complicated "Simple Special" Ever, originally uploaded by juggernautco. This is a table topper at the Old Orchard Shopping Center in Skokie. Here are the conditions for this "Simple Special": 1. basic haircut only2. no shampoo service3. limited finish4. select styles5. only tuesday, wednesday, or thursday6. must make an appointment7. offer expires after november 308.…
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Why I’m Voting for Tony Peraica for Cook County Board President
Tonight I called up the Tom Roeser show (Political Shootout on WLS 890 AM) and got on the air as the last caller. Here’s basically what I said: Then Tom Roeser asked if I was Peraica’s brother-in-law. They laughed. Then I got cut off somewhere after I said that it was “time for a change”…