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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Bill Knott, Great Poet
I studied poetry at UIC and the professor Paul Caroll loved Bill Knott. He shared that love of this poet with me, and I am grateful.
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Pinpointing Chicago’s Italian-American Community
Just got this on CTA Alerts: Jul 09 5:51PM Fr: CTA_HQ Due to the World Cup Soccer Celebration, #90 Harlem buses are being temporarily rerouted at Addison and Harlem. Update: here’s the Sun-Times coverage.
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The Nipple of Zidane
Like most sane people, I don’t really care about soccer. The World Cup has been pretty interesting to follow, though, in a "what-happened-today" kind of way, not a "holy crap what time’s the game on" kind of way. Yahoo!, as usual, is using technology to do cool things and drive the interest of humans. Their…
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Bush Has Birthday Dinner with Richard M. Daley, Mayor
Presidential Helicopter, originally uploaded by juggernautco. Here’s his helicopter flying from O’Hare. Here’s a story about the din-din.
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Man Getting Arrested at Accident Scene, Fourth of July
I like to take videos while driving by accident scenes. I’m not into gore or blood & guts, early Andy Warol-style, but more the workaday fender benders that greatly affect the traffic of a region. There’s always so much interesting tension and display– a "scene"– that is worth capturing. Yesterday we were going to a…