January 2009
14 posts
32ndNotes
I’ve got a friend who’s a painter. He’s in his early 30’s, and lives a pretty classic big-city bohemian life – working odd jobs at framing shops or art installations, selling a painting every now and then when he’s been inspired enough to create. He lives simply, shares a two-bedroom apartment in the far north side of the city – a part of the city cheap enough to accommodate other artists, a few...
A couple pictures (taken from my horrible camera phone, as I’m camera-less these days) and a couple links:
“Fortified Bench”
“Why You Gotta Be All Up On My Grill”
Links:
The NYTimes did a series of short articles on the different places Barack Obama has lived.
New York in the 80’s really was like a Sonic Youth song
Chicago is so incredibly fucked-up...
Back To Helsinki
Not sure if you knew this, but Chicago is one of the greatest cities in the world. The tribune just posted a bunch of pics from the various winter storms, and I’ve picked out some of the best ones to share. All of these are copyright Chicago Tribune.
The calm before the storm…
and then…
and it gets more urban
So this morning I was making my customary fruit + granola + yogurt profait when I realized how much better it would be with vanilla instead of plain yogurt. But I had a full tub of plain yogurt - was I supposed to just throw it away?
Then a thought came to me - I put a teaspoon of sugar, and two teaspoons of vanilla extract in there. Ba-da-bing ba-da boom - done.
i don't give much of a shit about football
i never wach football, but i put aside the whole night tonight to watch the big football team from my home state in the collegiate championship game. it was a really good game actually… but i have now been reminded that the world is unjust.
my state (oklahoma) just lost the fucking championship - and the other state’s (flordia) quarterback has ‘john 3:16’ painted under his...
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don’t have time to write now.