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This is from Danielle Albert, sharing the Pedway secret:

“pedway secret…
I was a little reluctant to share this information with you…
but I decided to be kind to my saic neighbor and share the wealth…
I have recently discovered how to walk to Columbus Drive via the amazing Chicago Pedway…
Here is how you do it:
Enter either through Macy’s [...]

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Famous people are funny at election time. I just got this email from Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor. Since the last time I got genuinely excited about Nine Inch Nails I was a black-nail-polish donning teen, I’m not sure this will effect my (already cast) vote. But I’m sharing the love anyhow. The wording is [...]

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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 He read recent stories, diary entries, unpublished work, and a little George Saunders.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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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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This is a bit cheeky, but I’m going to give it a go to see what happens.
When I was in a park yesterday, having lunch in the Loop, I overheard a conversation between a group of young women (who may or may not have been SAIC students), and one girl was complaining quite audibly about [...]

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Monotonix provides a plentitude of fruit for every man and his digital camera

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Here is a website that has been set up to help coordinate relief efforts for Gulf Coast residents affected by Hurricane Gustav.
Also, I just received this update from the non-profit group Common Ground about current conditions:
9/1 - 2:00 pm CST
Despite water sloshing over the west side of the Industrial Canal wall, the Corps of [...]

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On August 5 we ran a short post with links related to the late Brendan Scanlon (aka Solve), Chicago street artist who was murdered on June 14, 2008. I mentioned in the post that the shrine to Solve — on the side of a building at Grand Avenue at Milwaukee Avenue — had been torn [...]

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The United States might be staring down the seasonal gauntlet of a mighty freezing winter for 2008-2009, but it’s not TECHNICALLY the Farmers’ fault.
Or is it?
After all, there’s nothing wrong with shooting the messenger.
The Farmers’ Almanac has predicted a particularly chilly one coming right around the corner:
LEWISTON, Maine - People worried about the high cost [...]

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Two parents overheard on the 12th floor of the Sullivan Center:
Father: “…. It’s scary!”
Mother: “Well, Tom, at some point we just have to realize - they’re people too.

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The next print issue of F Newsmagazine is due out in the beginning of September.
Ok, I’m not going to give too much away … but it’s going to be quite an entertaining issue, especially for new students to SAIC.
As the annual DISORIENTATION orientation issue, it will include everything from

An interview with the new President of [...]

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In 2002, in my freshman year of college, I wrote a particularly tasteless list of “People Who Ought to be Dead by Now” which was a vague reference to Christopher Isherwood’s nonsense poems “People One Ought to Know.” My list was published in a limited edition zine called The Little Fish, and notwithstanding the print-run [...]

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On June 24, 2008, all members of SAIC were sent a rather peculiar “Security Alert” email from SAIC Campus Security.
We would have posted a comment on this email at the time, in late June, but the blog was having technical issues. So here it is now.
To All SAIC Faculty, Staff and Students
SAIC SECURITY ALERT
Sexual Forcible [...]

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We’ve had an interesting discussion behind the scenes of Untitled, regarding blog comments. Our policy towards comments is fairly open, which is why we, in the end, went ahead and published a comment on our post New President: First Thoughts. But we did so a little reluctantly, because the comment evidenced a pretty clear example [...]

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