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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Idea: Organic Bile
Someone should start a website called Organic Bile that catches all of the women who appear on the cover of Organic Style Magazine eating at McDonalds, driving Humvess, and other off-brand things.
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Backpackit Golden Ticket
So anyway today I got a Golden Ticket to preview Backpackit. Basically, it provides just the right amount of structure to normally unstructured (notes in your email account; somewhere) or overly structured (things in your company’s sales/ CRM tool, after drilling through nine screens to get a phone number) information. Brilliant. More review to come.
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Seen From Afar on the Blue Line
Circa 5:40 PM, Wednesday, April 13, 2005 He moved through the train like a mouse doused in Tabasco might travel through a snake—-the skin of the train-people bulged and parted for him, with scrunched faces. He had the floppy style of a late-middle aged businessmanwho had gotten drunk all afternoon and was now trying to…
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Papal Choice SMS Notification Signup
It’s been widely reported that the Vatican used SMS to notify journalists of the Pope’s death. But what about the rest of us? It’s just not that interesting that the Vatican sent a message out to the people they were going to tell anyway just a few minutes later. The interesting thing would be if…
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Horse Open Mic
Horse Open Mic Originally uploaded by juggernautco. I teach poetry in classrooms here and again. One engagement I keep every year is to do a Found Poetry session to the kids at Mrs. Duckhorn’s class at Queen of Angels School in Chicago. The kids sent thank you notes. This one combines my presentation…