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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Stick on the Other Foot
I am not a violent man, but there is little that warms my heart more than to see common people in dress shirts beating riot-geared government troops with sticks. It is good to see power retreat. Healthy, like crocuses bursting from dusty leaves, to see turnover here and again.
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J. J. Jameson Arrested
A fixture in the Chicago Poetry scene for over a decade, a guy I spent a lot of time with at Puddin’ Head Books in the early 90s, an author who signed a copy of his book to my as-yet-to-be-born first son when it was published, was arrested yesterday. Poetic Justice Served To Fugitive On…
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How I Feel Today
Like a trillion unconscious crocuses, aching against a trillion soily pressure points, winning the war of Spring.
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New Look at Mies
The Chicago Sun-Times has a piece about the temporary de-obstruction of the IBM Building while the old Sun-Times building has been razed and before the Trumpalicious Tower is raised. Here’s an excerpt: The IBM building at 330 N. Wabash has been there for decades, but never before have we seen famed architect Mies Van Der…
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Daley Center Chicago: HVAC for the Weary
I’ve always been attuned to HVAC– Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning— in architecture. the design of a building’s HVAC system can make or break its success, but it seems that too few architects pay much attention to it. Very often you’ll walk into a place that blasts you with hot stale air as soon as…