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Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Strange interlude 2008: The house without bling

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      This post-surgery recuperation is taking longer than I expected. Two full weeks now. Apologies. It's frustrating for me too. B...
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Monday, January 13, 2020

Chicagopedia: ketchup

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Memphis, by William Eggleston (Metropolitan Museum of Art)       A newspaper is a universe, or should be. A sky filled with all sorts o...
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Sunday, January 12, 2020

The I'm from Chicago Polka (for piano)

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     Maybe Al Capone did us a favor.       Chicagoans wince at having their international reputation tied to a 1920s gangster, still, ...
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Saturday, January 11, 2020

Nature red (and pink and blue) in tooth and claw

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Casper     We have  three  houseguests over winter break. Two East Coast law students, in deep rest mode, at least when not reading s...
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Friday, January 10, 2020

Strange Interlude, 2008: Return to sender

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     Well, I did something Thursday that I have not yet done in 2020: put on pants. Which is my subtle way of saying the recuperation proc...
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Thursday, January 9, 2020

Two royals decline to obstinately infest the stage

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     "Even the most pleasurable of imaginable occupations," the great James Thurber once wrote, "that of batting basebal...
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Wednesday, January 8, 2020

Strange Interlude, 2003: The Art Institute of Chicago, Undocumented Industrial Polluter

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           I haven't been on the editorial board for 14 years. And while I generally don't miss it—too many meeting about some mono...
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