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  Serious Red Coat    Originally uploaded by juggernautco. With matching purse and white hair. Seen in downtown Chicago near Daley Center.

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…

So today I was driving home down California Avenue in Chicago. Suddenly I see a slew of dark-clothed, ponytailed, geeky-looking people streaming north. Dozens of them walking in clumps. Army coats, corduroys, and nice facial hair. Almost all of them are men. They look like extras out of Clerks. My mind is racing. Is there…

In today’s NYT, we’ve got a deeper story about Witchita’s BTK Killer, who was finally caught last week. Couple lessons: 1. It’s the sticklers, the true believers, and the inflexibly “correct” that we have to worry about: “He looked for absolutely everything, and he must have enforced every rule there ever was – just because…

Dunkin Donuts coffee is the second best coffee ever. When I’m in the mood for coffee (not an espresso drink from Starbuck), I go to Dunkin Donuts. The best thing about them is their overuse of sugar. If you say "extra large coffee, cream & sugar" to a Dunkin Donuts employee, they get a catatonic…