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I saw the Mattress Bunny in Logan Square.

What is it? Well, Lucia Fabio and Robert Andrew Mueller decided to make a 9 foot tall rabbit, constructed from mattresses.
Here is their blog about it.
The work is being exhibited in a Logan Square shop window (formerly Grace’s Furniture) as part of a project by Lynn Stevens, The [...]

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Just thought I’d share this link with the SAIC community - it’s a website memorial to Ben Schaafsma, who co-founded INCUBATE, and studied at SAIC in the Masters of Arts Administration and Policy program. He died on Thursday October 23, 2008. Last night a memorial gathering was held at INCUBATE to celebrate Ben’s life and [...]

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THE ECONOMIC CRISIS & YOU
Panel Discussion Tues Oct 28 6:30  pm
SAIC Columbus Bldg Auditorium
sponsored by the Student Activists and F Newsmagazine
Panelists Include:
Duke Reiter (SAIC President)
Sarah Peters (Prof. of Liberal Arts)
Robyn Coffey (BFA Student & Editor of F Newsmagazine)
Lia Rousset and Amber Ginsburg (MFA Students & collaborators in the
siteWARE project “Urbs in Horto”)
Nina Pagano, BFA Student
Join [...]

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Black Walnut Gallery presents Slated for Demolition, a one night only event investigating Chicago’s forgotten structures and institutions and people - November 1, 2008, 7 to 11 p.m.
The lower level of 212 N. Aberdeen St exhibits a collection of black and white photos of Chicago’s homeless community (potentially problematic in its objectification, perhaps?) and the [...]

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Professor Michael Golec
“Don’t let me drive home, I get intoxicated by my own words … I crack myself up. Stay tuned for my blog: ‘Odd Linguistic Formations.’ Ha … that’s another good band name.”
Professor David Getsy
“We all have a tendency to encrust our sentences with the barnacles of everything that we’ve read.”

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Last night Tom Wolfe spoke at the Winter Garden in the Chicago Public Library, in conversation with journalist Carol Marin. The interview was recorded for television, and for the CPL’s audio-visual archives. The event was associated with the fact that Wolfe’s The Right Stuff has been selected as the Fall book for the “one [...]

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NEW YORKER SPOILER ALERT
Last night David Sedaris spoke at the Auditorium Theater in Chicago, to a packed audience. He read recent stories, diary entries, unpublished work, and a little George Saunders. It goes without saying that the event was bittersweet and frankly, hilarious… and it would be a disservice to Sedaris to recount his wonderful [...]

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Just watching the McCain-Obama Town Hall debate at this moment…
and it occurs to me… if McCain is so gung-ho about nuclear power (and he is, he’s so madly enthusiastic about it - build those plants, build heaps of ‘em, they’re safe!)  … doesn’t that present a bit of a national security issue, because McCain is [...]

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Two days ago, when getting out of the shower, I remembered how to make weird duck-quacking noises with the side of my mouth. This is pretty exciting because I haven’t been able to make these quacking sounds for about 20 years (and I’m 25) and suddenly I know how to do it again.
Does anyone have [...]

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Oh drool…
The Great Chicago Book Sale
Today and tomorrow is the University of Chicago Press’ first public book sale in over twenty years.
The sale will run from 9 to 5 at the International House’s Assembly Hall on the University of Chicago
campus (1414 E. 59th St)
Over 10,000 bookswill be available … priced at only five dollars each…

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Jesse officially promises to avoid screenshots for at least the next 20 blog posts.

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A work colleague sent me this Chicago Tribune link, an old one, from 2006, it’s a Getty picture of a giant rabbit and its breeder. I love this picture so much, I’ve now made it my mission to copy and paste it everywhere. Since I’m probably facing copyright issues, I’ve uploaded the image IN CONTEXT [...]

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If library-related anythings make your eyes close, click away, far away. Otherwise, if databases and inter-library loans get you all excited, here is my gripe for the day: Why is the Flaxman Library’s iShare server lways interminably slow, to the point of “timing-out” every 3rd time I try to order a book or renew my [...]

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Nice little drinking game for tonight, found by K.S.You can download these cards here

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