December 2010
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Gylne Tider - Let It Be →
September 2009
35 posts
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What Went Wrong? →
Keeping this short as my keyboard’s messing up, low on batteries. Actually got a lot done by handwriting, not typing. I had a bunch of photos I wanted scanned, and was able to…
Cheap Seats →
Tomorrow the Cubs come back to Wrigley Field for the end of the season. Two things my dad will watch, the Cubs and the Weather Channel. Better than some people who…
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63rd Street Skins of Buildings →
I don’t even know what they sell in the building with the Indian standing guard on the rooftop at the NW corner of 63rd & Pulaski. The eye care…
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The Rest of The Roll →
Mind you, this roll was developed a few days before the next, which has the great photos of 63rd Street. The photos go all the way back…
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Sit With Me, Spit With Me →
Before I go back to photos from 63rd, I have a few more from the so-called ‘Black Helicopter’ roll. Whenever I’m done having lunch with Greg, or if…
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Cemetery Melodrama & Tony's Car →
New batch of photos, most from 63rd Street. This time around, between Pulaski and Kedzie. I’ll get to a few of those during the week, but I am posting shots of the car…
Sunday Night Studs, Stags, and, ah, Shafts →
Just clearing out some of the S’s in my Pulp Fiction folder. Not much else to say here…
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Aladdin Ruins →
I’m currently involved with a project called HOLLOWPOINT, with John Kewley, my co-writer on @JOYMOTEL. Set in 1965 LA and Chicago, I have to dredge up some period photos for…
Yes, That Was Me With the Dharma Initiative... →
It’s late and there’s much more narrative I could add about my trip home and a chance meeting with an old friend as I was within steps of crossing the street to Sheffield…
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Do Not Attempt To Adjust Your Television... →
…we control your surroundings. Or however the theme from Outer Limits went. Yesterday I went downtown to have lunch with Greg and talk about LOST, as he and Darcie have…
Fullerton Beach →
A week or so I rambled a bit on how hard it is to hang around the Loop at night, that was the night Twilight Tales was at the Fullerton Beach bistro, and…
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Fragments of September 11th, 2001 →
Grace was asking about the memorial this morning for the first time. Abstract questions, like, did they catch the guys that did it (I don’t believe she knows that planes were…
Unmarked Helicopters →
They are still flying overhead late at night, but nowhere near the frequency of a week ago last Thursday. Its not to…
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Coolest Photo Ever →
From Rich Chwedyk, a scene from PSYCHO during the screening in Grant Park last month. Screw my fiftieth birthday, I freaking love this!
Days Gone Bye Bye →
Might as well get this crap over. I turn into Half Century Man in about fifteen minutes. I have nothing really to say, other than the amount of…
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The Exploding Clown →
I’m not afraid of the Mothman. Nor a girl with a tail on top of her buttocks. Clowns, maybe. But some of you know this already. So bear with me. Well, a few…
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Holy Cross Hospital, 68th & California →
The Dream Where The Guys Has His Forearms Eaten... →
I don’t have photo that relates to this post, about the dream last night. So I’ll just put up this shot I took at the bus stop awhile back. I just found the color of…
Again With the Four Sticks →
I feel so bad for my astronomer buddy Louis, he was sucked into the four sticks by accident. It was the ubernet equivalent of someone walking up to a group and asking, hey, watcha…
What Goes On Here? →
Man, I’ve had that thing from The Onion for months, its all shiny because I taped it onto a postcard but scanned it at the last minute. I’m also having trouble understanding…
City After Dark →
Should have saved more early evening shots that I took in the 90s, but what’s done is done. The bottom two from Google Images, the last a shot of Lake Michigan. Its…
August 2009
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Do the four legged fox trot again →
That was the title of a nice little spam, I just had to save because of it’s sheer poetry. But first, the real world. You’ll find the crazy little wordage afterwards. Its like…
Still Another Place I Shouldn't Be at 1:15 AM →
I figure, if I’m gonna take the dirt nap, might as well get a few photos. I’m actually at Roosevelt and…some alley, I don’t know the name. I’d seen that building…
When Whitney Regains Consciousness →
Pancakes to The Bone →
This place is over by the bus terminal at 78th & Western. Odd slogan, there. The place I miss used to be at the other side of the terminal, maybe 79th & Claremont. Little Miss…
To The Right Of My Monitor →
Just in case anyone was wondering.
But Do They Still Play Organ Music? →
A few more photos at the bottom taken right on 69th Street. In my old neighborhood, 85th & Pulaski, there were quite a few business fronts with that…
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Advertising, Then & Now →
Well, I’m as up to date as can be on any photos I wanted to put on the blog instead of Flickr. Tomorrow, I’ll run the huge set of old Lithuanian taverns near Holy…
The Woman With The Cognac-Lidded Eyes & Hitler on... →
Lithuanian Plaza is not what it used to be. Between 68th and 70th, it runs from Marquette Park to Western, not that far at all. One…
The Last of The 16th Street Bridge →
A few more shots from the reverse end, this time looking north and east from near the Cermak Bridge. I talked to those geese, sat right up there on the rocks with them. Gave me something…
Thoughts, Please? →
Personally, I think the damn house is scarier than anything else…
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Bill's New Olds 88 →
A few weeks ago, we went out to Brookfield for my dad’s old partner, Bill Christopher’s 70th birthday. He and his wife Joan had lived at 44th & Lawler in…