tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post3683971445567989297..comments2024-03-29T05:29:08.934-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/29/24: The Chicago Sun-Times, open for business at 30 N. RacineNeil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-39337542754843862072017-11-20T22:55:22.778-06:002017-11-20T22:55:22.778-06:00Me. I would have picked the cards for a few favori...Me. I would have picked the cards for a few favorite titles ( no more than half a dozen) and kept those cards framed...maybe in a custom frame on top the cabinet. Dumped the rest. I'm sentimental but not a hoarder. Anniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16831580101168618303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-83856282628755220282017-11-20T21:27:09.856-06:002017-11-20T21:27:09.856-06:00I vote to keep it.I vote to keep it.Magehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17333086721654817750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-70852285614897377332017-11-20T20:59:34.022-06:002017-11-20T20:59:34.022-06:00I'll swing past the dynamic multiplatform syne...I'll swing past the dynamic multiplatform synergistic storytelling system and pick you up. Tony Galatihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11944671504245191140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-21881573614069811572017-11-20T16:41:28.846-06:002017-11-20T16:41:28.846-06:00I have a ton of 78's too. thought of convertin...I have a ton of 78's too. thought of converting them to CD's, but as long as my old turntable holds up, what's the point?<br /><br />One guesses the "countless hours of work of untold librarians" embalmed in the cards has long since been digitalized. Making Neil's final gesture less heartless than it seems.<br /><br />Talk about the inevitable demise of newsprint brings to mind the explanation Neil once coined to explain the concept of home newspaper delivery to the cyberized young: "Sort of a website they fold over and through at houses." What a wonderful thing is metaphor. <br /><br />Tom Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09641357239788323783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-20433679489048120512017-11-20T11:08:37.307-06:002017-11-20T11:08:37.307-06:00As I read your column today about the Sun-Times mo...As I read your column today about the Sun-Times move to new offices, I was having breakfast with my wife and listening to a vinyl album on my turntable. I love this morning ritual and today you were an enjoyable part of it. Next week I retire, so you can guess my age.<br /><br />Perhaps younger generations have not picked up the newspaper habit, at least yet. But notice the resurgence of interest in vinyl LPs and the return of turntables. People have rediscovered the tactile pleasures of having black spinning disks and the insider appeal of reading album cover liner notes.<br /><br />What is needed to spark a renewed interest in newsprint? It might be a few well-placed comments by younger opinion-leaders on the joys of reading a daily paper. For instance, what if Chance the Rapper was quoted in the media as saying, “I love getting an old-school newspaper that I can hold in my hands every day. It’s like hanging out at the corner of the world to get a daily dose of knowledge, which is power.”<br /><br />Newspapers, like broadcast TV, may never be the same behemoths of popular culture they once were. But I wouldn’t underestimate the inherent magic of scanning fields print and feeling the fresh slap of headlines, all with the reassurance that you have survived another day to read about it in your home. Besides that, you can’t wrap fish in pixels.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01041699650436212666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-9503639441395364302017-11-20T09:17:16.249-06:002017-11-20T09:17:16.249-06:00That it will. But I'll get there. Somehow.That it will. But I'll get there. Somehow.Neil Steinberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-5636603580558137532017-11-20T09:00:26.105-06:002017-11-20T09:00:26.105-06:00I love your positive outlook on life, Neil. Very h...I love your positive outlook on life, Neil. Very healthy. I will point out one thing, though; it's going to be a bit of a slog through the slop getting to Harry Carry's this winter. Tony Galatihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11944671504245191140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-69052303771121212162017-11-20T08:38:04.743-06:002017-11-20T08:38:04.743-06:00"Almost ethical." Love it. I'm goi..."Almost ethical." Love it. I'm going to try to insert the phrase into as many conversations as I can. It can mean so many things. Neil used it to foreshadow and excuse his decision to dump the cards, thus destroying the work of "countless hours...of untold librarians." But since none of those librarians was in any way harmed by the destruction, the decision was not in the realm of ethics (however close it might have come to its borders), but rather in the kingdom of sentiment. I, who can weep over maudlin moanings of my teenage self, could not have destroyed the cards. Neil is among those happy few who do not make big investments in useless sentimentality. However, the phrase need not be limited to Neil's usage. One can immediately grasp its utility in discussing politics, particularly our local politics, to describe some convoluted quid pro quo actions salted with social benefits. And going to the top of the stairs, perhaps some of POTUS's tweets could be described as "almost ethical." And some not.<br /><br />johntatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10088632798195131329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-76895415730754003512017-11-20T07:51:03.658-06:002017-11-20T07:51:03.658-06:00Odd thought but I still remember the first time I ...Odd thought but I still remember the first time I went to the library and wanted to look for a book in the card catalog and was completely puzzled that it wasn't there. I asked the librarian, "Where is the catalog?" It was so strange to me.Fredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02892229657147137472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-73580419507512730872017-11-20T06:43:35.009-06:002017-11-20T06:43:35.009-06:00Ive worked at the Dirksen federal building for nea...Ive worked at the Dirksen federal building for nearly 25 years. a lot of what we did at first was construct enormous banks of bookcases in the judges chambers and offices for the seemingly endless volumes needed to decipher case law. the last few years we've been removing them. at first to storage . then to the dumpster along with the books . mountains of books ." the times they are a changin" BDFMEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06829632906445535928noreply@blogger.com