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November 27 will bring the opening of the silliness that is the Christkindlmarket in Chicago.
For information about the event see this listing
Besides my enthusiasm for candied nuts and Glühwein, the best thing about the Christkindlmarket in Chicago is WATCHING PEOPLE EAT. It is always hilarious. The desperate attempts to fit whole sausauges into mouths, to [...]

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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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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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On August 24 I fell off my bike, as one does when they are a novice at these sorts of things…
I tore out a rather large chunk of skin from my hand.
Here is a photo from August 25. Feral.
I then used these crazy sticky skin healing bandage things, apparently they’re called “Johnson & Johnson First [...]

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I found out about CHIRP: Chicago Independent Radio Project at the recent Wicker Park Festival, ostensibly because I went up to their table to grab a freebie bottle opener. But any independent radio action is worth knowing about, so I’m finding out a little more:
Chirp is planning to launch an online radio station this fall, [...]

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Oh how the mighty have fallen.
After climbing up on my moral-highground-environmentalist-dead-keen-recycler-pedestal to write about recycling in Chicago (see one of my recycling articles here) and about the changes to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s recycling contractor (see that article here) … I now find myself committing a cardinal sin of anti-recycling badness.
You [...]

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Strange times this lunchtime. I was waiting in line at Under 55 (that’s the underground food hall of 55 E. Monroe St, Chicago - which is a regular haunt for downtown 9 to 5-ers in the Loop, and occasionally an ill-fitting assortment of SAIC students buying sushi… ) in any case, I was waiting [...]

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Some guy from Utah called Eric Salsbery takes badly executed photographs of automobile logos - and puts them on his blog. I never paid much attention to automobile logos, but there I’m sure they are ripe for iconological study, if such things haven’t already been written. Firstly: there is the predominance of the streamlined art [...]

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I spotted a less obtuse but equally damning instance of what I will call Birth Control Misplacement.

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No doubt these clerks must treat sellers with the tenderness reserved for people balancing on the ledges of 20-story buildings.

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