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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Buzzsaw
Funny how the sweep of decades can pulse through a ruined life, and be punctuated so poetically at the end. L. Patrick Gray III, Who Led the F.B.I. During Watergate, died yesterday. Just one month after the exposure of Deep Throat. Just a short time after he broke his years of quiet margin-writing. He was…
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Thank You, Judith Miller
Judith Miller went to jail today. “If journalists cannot be trusted to guarantee confidentiality, then journalists cannot function and there cannot be a free press,” she read from a statement as she stood before Judge Hogan. “The right of civil disobedience is based on personal conscience, it is fundamental to our system and it is…
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City Ice Cream
I live in the middle of Chicago. I have always been a city person. I was born in the Northview Heights housing project in Pittsburgh and it is a point of pride to me that I have never lived in a suburb. I like this picture because it was taken in the street and it…
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Wide Right Turn Got FlickrBlogged.
Some people think that the central glory of Flickr is the Superstar Image. I like that stuff, too. But I love the obsessive nature of image-making that Flickr nurtures. Last night Heather of the FlickrBlog posted about a goofball set of truck images that is 127 photos strong. She also linked to a set that…
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Tigger and Piglet Are Dead
Usually obituary-related items end up over here at /obits/, (can’t say GoogObits anymore), but this one is pretty odd and needs to be here filed under "Um". I’ve long been fascinated by the concept of who dies on the same day. Today we have a doozy. The obituaries of Paul Winchell, 82, TV Host and…