Every goddamn day: 12/11/25

      Nobody calls — well, scams, and automatic pharmacy reminders. That's about it. Rarely a real person. Emails too are mostly pellets...

"Praying hands,"  by    Albrecht Dürer (Albertina Museum, Vienna) .             Readers write to me all the time, sometimes sharin...

Barbara Kruger, The Art Institute      Rey was just doing his job — cleaning up a yard in Rogers Park one morning at the end of October — wh...

      Tuesday morning, after our walk, I went up our driveway to toss Kitty's morning contribution into the trash can by the garage and ...

  Ian Barford      We legacy media skew old. The grizzled goat in front of me, picking up press tickets at the Steppenwolf Theatre on Sunday...

      Talk about eerie synchronicity. I dug this up last August and set it aside ... for reasons I can't recall. Looking for something t...

     If the phrase "object permanence" doesn't mean anything to you, then you probably haven't spent much time lately spra...