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16 Jul 2008 0744H

We don’t work like farmers anymore…

So why do we continue to eat like we are? Just a thought. I am actually more comfortable not eating in the morning (or eating something very light) and having a light lunch of soup or a salad. It’s weird, but it’s taken me a while to figure out.
Also I am noting that my favorite [...]

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02 Jul 2008 0631H

Cabrini gate tragedy, gun control, and Hizzoner

Mary Mitchell speaks truth to power:
“What Cabrini-Green residents out [sic] to be outraged about is that a black developer, Cullen Davis, who hails from a family with long-standing ties to the Daley administration has made a hefty profit from the renovation of dilapidated CHA housing, apparently by taking some shortcuts.
“And why is that? Perhaps because [...]

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25 Jun 2008 0710H

Falling up to the sky

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24 Jun 2008 1849H

A lack of imagination

This is very sad, because I now want to see this exhibit. It sounds like a really interesting exploration about terrain, about imagining ourselves, imagining the place we live in, about the stories we tell ourselves and others about faith, nationhood, home, exile, origins, legacies, myths and realities.
It is sad because to even discuss [...]

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22 Jun 2008 1903H

About these Fukudome t-shirts. . .

Update: Mike Doughty was in town to play a few gigs, and he stopped by Wrigleyville, where, since they obviously caught his eye, he took a few snaps of the racist t-shirts.
1) Um, no, they really are racist. Slanty eyes and accent humor? Racist. Particularly white supremacist actually: there’s a whole century-old history of [...]

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19 Jun 2008 2142H

Something the seasoned road warrior would know

Old Jack Burton would say, “Fly outta Midway.“

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30 May 2008 1652H

Lahmacun Battle!

Greek and Kurdish friends, forgive me. Down at the annual Chicago Turkish Festival in Daley Plaza, which ends tomorrow, there is the lahmacun of Cousins’ and the lahmacun of Turquoise. Turquoise is victorious. Both pale before the might of Larsa’s.
Also while praising Larsa’s I might also say that their kababs also kick ass. It’s [...]

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29 May 2008 2200H

The irony is

practically no one in Chicago, not the Mayor, not City Council, cares or listens to what happens on the South Side, where there are few if any jobs and services, no groceries, no shopping malls, no corporate parks, there is a dearth of everything, including hope and justice. But no dearth of fiery voices blazing [...]

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28 May 2008 0800H

Secret of riding the Red Line

I have discovered, by observing the daily flows of people, that typically, on a northbound train, the first two cars are full of type A and slightly less type A people who must be at the front of the line, but this quickly falls off for the third, fourth, and fifth cars. So if you [...]

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28 Apr 2008 1920H

Whoa

This morning on my way to work was intercepted on my way to the South entrance/exit of the Red Line Chinatown stop by Joanie Lum, now on CBS 2 Chicago, who is married to a very, very distant cousin of mine, like 9 generations out. Just wanted to say hi, but, no, had to get [...]

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