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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Trip to Fantagraphics
Earlier this month I went to Seattle for some meetings, and I finally got to fulfill my pilgrimage to Fantagraphics, 1201 South Vale Street, and got some awesome stuff, including a bunch of posters from artists I had never seen before. My poster collection is naturally pretty Chicago–focused, so it was cool to add some…
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Jury Duty Poem
Cook County Criminal Courts Building, 2650 S. California When the time comes, near nine-thirty, the streets swell with nervous jurors testing cross-walks, and natty lawyers in full stride, and the tense families of the accused. And they do this daily. Imagine going to work every day where more than half the people have never been…
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Here’s Why the New York Times is Better than Everybody Else
I know I'm a couple days late on this, but I wanted to point to this remarkable news article from Thomas Fuller and Seth Mullens of the New York Times the other day: Thai General Linked to Protests in Shot in Head During Interview BANGKOK — A renegade major general who allied himself with the…
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No Thank You, Rahm Emanuel.
So Rahm Emanuel thinks he's next in line as Mayor of the City of Chicago. I want to go on record as saying "No thank you, sir". Respectfully, no. No, but thank you for your interest. When the current Mayor of the City of Chicago leaves office, the time will have long since come for…
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Hatch Shell in Crisp Early Spring, Boston
Hatch Shell in Crisp Early Spring, originally uploaded by juggernautco. Spring always wins. Ice Losing at Charles River Basin, originally uploaded by juggernautco. See complete set here.