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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An Appreciation of Susan Sontag
I just read the most amazing appreciation of Susan Sontag from William Drentel: For more than twenty-five years I was her son’s close friend, her occasional companion for dinner or a movie, and a fellow reader and book collector. I was never among her closest of friends. But I was her graphic designer. Read this.
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MARLENE SCHAMS, 45
Remarkable. Marlene Schams was born in an elevator in a hospital in Columbus, Ohio. “That’s why she had her ups and downs all these years,” quipped her father, Donald Schams. Ms. Schams, 45, a single mother and longtime Rogers Park resident who fought hard to give her son better opportunities, died Thursday, Dec. 23, at…
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Good Will Toward My President
I did not vote for him. I do not like him. I cried when he won. I wish him a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, because we all depend on him for a significant portion of exactly that, our new year. God help us all.
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Hugh McIntyre Was A Librarian
In my effort to publish more posts to this site, and to move past the cleverism of my early link-laden style, I am going to start simply placing links to (and archival copies of the text of) the obituaries of notable people. The obituaries that I have learned much from. The obituaries of people who…
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Business Trip Night Landing in Cloudy Winter Weather
From the plane I get a low,brief peek of suburban light formations. I confessI like rough landings, bursting from tight thick clouds fast,rocking and barreling toward the runway. I know I’m alive, over a wet, moving city.12/10/2004 Fri