1,000 Words: Election Edition
Tag: Vol. 37 No. 18
Issue of Jan. 24 – 30, 2008
If he wants to take a bird home with him tonight, it’s none of your business
“I did not have sexual relations with that parrot.”
It’s a gusher!
What’s the point of There Will Be Blood? Stanley Kubrick ought to know.
Are you gonna take the RPM Challenge?
Seeking Chicago people who are making an album next month
You Shoot: The body, the blood, the machine
You Shoot: The body, the blood, the machine
Wandering with Golden Rule Jones
Local lit blogger Golden Rule Jones blogs about a marvelous Swiss writer.
Requiem for Bobby Fischer
Reflections on the death of Bobby Fischer, another chess genius driven to a tragic death.
After I get sick I just get sad
A moving piece about Seeley Avenue in Ford Heights, abandoned to foreclosures.
Commonplace links
Commonplace links: “Cali Rivera makes cowbells, timbales and other percussion instruments in his small shop in the Bronx. Forty-five years ago he started out with a dream to make the perfect cowbell.”
It is very unpleasant outside right now
So the world will know how crappy the weather was tonight.
That’s the spirit
Most candidates sound optimistic about their chances of winning. Not would-be state rep Phillip Jackson.