Impossible to work

Avant/Chicago has a well thought out post regarding the Printers’ Ball fiasco. This is much more interesting than either CJ Laity’s two cents or Chuck Sudo’s Chicagoist post. There is apparently also a thread about the Printers’ Ball over at lumpen, but you’ll have to be registered to check it out.
And of course, if […]

You know, I watched a fair amount of baseball this season. And during the season, Detroit really seemed unstoppable. But apparently I was wrong, as all 5 games of the World Series including a throwing error on the part of a Tigers pitcher. I mean, wow, Detroit sucks, who knew? TSK said to me before […]

The other week I was listening to XRT’s The Eclectic Company. The special guest was Beck Hansen who brought along two songs from the Tropicália movement. The first one was Gilberto Gil’s Dois mil e um (2001 for the Portugese-impaired) which was followed by Os Mutantes‘ take on Bat Macumba (which was eventually changed to […]

After a long and protracted illness (laziness), I have returned. Why? Because yesterday I saw a Punch and Judy Show (and a short play by Rachilde) in someone’s living room. It was a wee preview of what Xwing is going to be doing in the spring. I won’t say anymore, just stay on the lookout […]

I just got a message from my friend Paul, who is a photographer. He’s over in Lebanon right now, has been for a while. One of his photos is on the front page of the NYTimes today. As long as it’s still Wednesday the 19th, you can see a shrunk version of the front page […]

So I follow my page hits, like everyone else. Usually it’s just people who know my URL and type it in on occasion (thanks to all of you who read this blog). But recently, I’ve been noticing people hitting my site by googling I feel so crazy. Incidentally, Impossible to Work is the top ranked […]

I love my puppy. I love dogs in general. I like to think that people are more or less good. But having a cute puppy sucks. “Why?” you may ask. Because people are constantly stopping me and asking if they can play with my dog. Sometimes this is great, like when I’m just taking the […]

A week or so ago Siara and Brad got married. Siara has been an important fixture in my life since my junior year of high school. While Brad has only been around for the past year or two, he has also become one of the more important people in my life.
The two of them came […]

Dear Canadian,
Thank you for googling “Ridiculous Prime.” I don’t know why you would google such a random thing, nor what you were looking for, but I’m pretty confident you didn’t find it here. I apologize for having nothing for you that was appropriately ridiculous for you. However, I am relatively sure that most posts here […]

I’ve safely returned to Oklahoma. There’s a bit of road tar stuck to my car, but all in all, I’m in good shape. There was a microburst on Tuesday morning (that’s basically the opposite of a tornado) which turned a midtown neighborhood into a disaster area. Multiple houses razed. Multiple cars crushed.The ferris wheel at […]

I spent yesterday in Hyde Park with Kath going to the Renaissance Society, the Seminary Co-Op”a1a”, and a reading by Lyn Hejinian presented by Poem Present at the U of C. After the reading, everybody went up to the tea room on the second floor of the SSRB to hob nob with the poet.
The show […]

I helped out with a Bookmaking Field Trip at 826CHI yesterday. The students from Washington Irving School (one class of 7th graders) were great. They all really got into making a story and illustrating it. After everybody had finished making their books (including illustrating the front cover) each story was read (I think that 5 […]

So I was on the phone with Jen from Anti Gravity Surprise earlier and she mentioned that she read my quote in this week’s New City. Intrigued, I promptly went and found the article. Sure enough, there I was. Not once, but twice. It’s a good piece written by a fresh faced cute little guy […]

I am excited about this weekend’s LinkUp Performances at Links Hall. This round of artists: Ayako Kato, Margaret Morris, and Brian Torrey Scott & Mary Walling Blackburn (who I believe was involved in Links Hall’s Driveby Performance series last fall) have some good work to show for the creative time they’ve had these past few […]

While poking through everything I’ve ever written that I still have in order to find a name for this blog, I came across a journal that I kept in the 5th grade. I remember making it, in particular the abstract marker drawing on the cover. I also remember thinking that it was going to be […]