MY RECENT POSTS
- NATO, Nurses & Sundaes
May 19, 2012 12:03PM - Chicago NATO Clowns, Couch &
Cyber Attack
May 17, 2012 10:26AM - Studs Terkel's 100 Birthday
May 16, 2012 07:51PM - At NATO Chicago's First
Protest
May 14, 2012 06:01PM - Writing for Free
May 07, 2012 10:29PM
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NATO, Nurses & Sundaes
At the giant United Nurses Rally on a sparkling warm spring afternoon, next to the Picasso sculpture in the middle of downtown Chicago, "Patti" made sure to thank some cops.
As NATO related scenes fan out from the downtown area into Chicago neighborhoods, the arrest count is 12 people and one couch. Then there are the clowns.
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In the checkout line of The Crafty Beaver Home Improvement Store… Read full post »
Studs Terkel's 100 Birthday
May 16th is the 100th anniversery of the birth of Studs Terkel.
And Studs?
He's still here . . . . .
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Reposted from 2008.
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This man IS Chica… Read full post »
The protestor gave me a look. Rolled his eyes. Kept walking.
We were in the lobby of the giant complex in downtown Chicago that ho… Read full post »
Biff and his new wife Blythe in the Starbucks line. If he turned around and saw me, he’d bring up the “writing for free” thing. Because that’s what he always does. So I put my head down and try not to breathe.
It doesn't work.
Pete Seeger Turns 93
A Mary Todd Lincoln Mystery
You shake your head no and tell me paintings don’t talk?
Ask an artist. Paintings talk, of course they do; you just have to be listening extra hard… Read full post »
Chicago Welcomes NATO?
Full dress military. American soldiers. Armed with beanbag guns. Come Monday, they will begin patrolling the streets of a designated “Red Zone” that encompasses a large chunk of downtown Chicago.
Wait. “Bean Bag guns?” Did someone really say &ldqu… Read full post »
Raspberry Pi. A World Changer
How did I not know about something this world changing? Raspberry Pi. A computer the size of a credit card. Cost? $25.00. Or $35.00. Take your pick. Either way, for the moment you can only get one. The demand is just too big. Exactly how large that/… Read full post »
Levon Helm ---That First Time
Levon Helm died today. He was 71.
And everything just seems to end so soon.
You can read the chronology of his life elsewhere. It’s a story worth… Read full post »
Michael pulled the news up on his phone while he was… Read full post »
Sex Ed Field Trip
The picture is the parking lot out front of “The
Pleasure Chest.”
When “The Pleasure Chest” moved their Chicago store to our neighborhood a few years ago, the brigades of young mothers pushing $1,000 strollers were not amused.
Then there were th… Read full post »
Nanci Koschman's Foolish Heart
The facts… Read full post »
Grace in the Skies
Picture her in the cockpit of the twin engine Cessna, six miles out from the sunset you see here. Door County Wisconsin. She is 80 years old. Her husband, piloting the plane, is 81. He suffers a medical emergency. He’s unconscious. And this 80 year old… Read full post »
General Grant & the Women
In the recently released “Grant’s Final Victory,” Charles Flood tells the com
… Read full post »Yo Yo Ma & Renee Fleming Drop By
Lakeview High School. Chicago, IL
There was about to be a moment. One of those tiny moments one never forgets.
I was out for a head-clearing walk after spending some hours producing some unusually muddy writing. Thinking about how I really didn’t need
… Read full post »Those Dirty People
On a warm, windy March afternoon, Keisha is wrestling an overstuffed laundry bag almost as big as she is down to the bus stop on Chicago Avenue. It’s Sunday. Reduced
… Read full post »No G8 Summit For Chicago!
Welcome Back "The Chicagoan!"
Last time? It was a magazine. This time? Right now? It’s more like a cultural fountain, bubbling over with the waters of innovation in a way that could quench anybody’s artistic thirst.
The resurrection of the long forgotten “Chicagoan.” This time,… Read full post »
Hemingway's House For Sale
David Axelrod Makes a Decision
David Axelrod had a decision to make. I watched him think it over.
The Chief Political Strategist of the President of the United States was on the elevator in the old Prudential Building overlooking beautiful Millennium Park in Chicago, coming down from the securi… Read full post »
Beneath Political Corruption
The common thread running… Read full post »
"Three and a Half Virgins" A Review
“My name is Jimmy Hendricks and I’m a recovering idiot.”
As the central character in John Blumenthal’s Three and a Half Virgins, Jimmy introduces himself to others he encounters by anticipating the obvious: “Jimmy Hendricks. No relatio… Read full post »
Easy Racism
He and I were having an after work beer at a bar with a dirty red door on the lower level of… Read full post »
The Myth of Good Hard Work
Do good hard work and you will find a job.
It's a myth. Perhaps the most destructive unemployment myth of all. A myth like a snake. Silently slithering through the sewer tunnels that run beneath the crumbling towers of a once grand and proud American Dream.
Corrosive at it’s core be
… Read full post »Chicago Guy's Favorites
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