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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Let’s Retire “Piece”
I am relatively done with hearing people (usually people who are demonstrating, talking about, and attempting to sell "enterprise software") use the word, "piece". "Oh, you mean docket managment? That’s the ‘docket-love’ piece. Reports? Yes, they’re done in the reporting piece. The on-button piece? yes, that’s extra." Let’s retire piece.
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Bill Knott Kicks Ass
The first time I seriously studied poetry was in college at UIC, circa 1988. My first poetry workshop was with Paul Carroll. When I signed up for the class, I didn’t know who he was, but I quickly found out that he was the editor of Big Table, which made Young American Poets, my favorite…
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How I Use: Craigslist and Flickr for Yard Sale
Dirt Devil, originally uploaded by juggernautco. Yesterday Deirdre and I had a yard sale over at her house. We made about $165 and got rid of a lot of stuff. We used Craigslist to post about the yard sale, to put in smaller, more targeted posts about specific items, and also to advertise a free…
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Why I Don’t Like City Parents
Not to take part in conversations with easy nodding and folded, breezy arms with other parents on sidewalks in front of real estate. That’s not my tribe. I am weirder, and not comfortable there, as it seems like an attempt at fake depth. I much prefer real shallowness, with the understanding of temporal built in.
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Naked Economist
A few years ago, when I was stressing over my inability to publish my third book, Economics, I took a continuing education class at the Graham School of General Studies called, oddly enough, Economics. I just wanted to get out of the house and engage with some people, and that’s exactly what I got out…