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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Some Thoughts on Poetry + Technology
Last night I read along with Catherine Halley and Stephanie Plenner at Notes from the Mainframe. The event was hosted by the Guild Complex at FreeGeek Chicago. Here’s some stuff: I was super-stoked to finally get over to FreeGeek. I love everything they do and I love how they do it– as a community. And they don’t…
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In Praise of Amiri Baraka
Amiri Baraka, one of the most important American poets of the last century, died today in New Jersey. By nearly all accounts, including his obituary, Amiri Baraka was a difficult person. But I loved his words, and his crankiness, and the beauty with which he stitched them together. Notwithstanding— or because of— the fact that…
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Evidence of Ascension in America, Even When Only Half of Us Are Looking
I listen to Fox News on my Sirius XM radio while driving to and fro from Winfield. I consider it something of an intelligence-gathering mission from the fact-based world, the one where we seek out the truth and take steps to understand it. I also seek to understand the roughly half of my country that…
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My Newspaper Collection
I have a collection of 110 newspapers, and today I took some time to organize and document them. Here’s the complete list, with date, headline, newspaper, topic, and provenance.
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Lincoln Marsh at Christmas
On Sunday I went into Lincoln Marsh. The sun was bright and there was a light cover of crisp snow. I knew that cover would be soon gone when the sun got to wherever it could in the sky, so I figured I better get in there. I liked the snow-table aspect of the signage: