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Monthly Archives: November 2012
Just an everyday thing
Here is something I look at every working day – the edge of the El platform. The composite material is the surface of the Clark and Lake Blue Line stop, near my office. The blue is the skidproof edge of … Continue reading
See it now
Here is another beautiful paste-up being seen here and there around Chicago. I found this piece at the corner of Lake and Ashland, slapped up on a supporting leg of the Green Line (noisiest train in Chicago). I love the … Continue reading
Panic Button Monday says ignore that business on my scalp; just focus on my moist, come-hither lips
Every time I push the panic button, this shows up.
Cut, copy, paste
Chicago is having a pasteup moment. This picture captures three of the pasteup images most common right now in my neighborhood – Hipster Guy, Office Monkey, and Doof with Tongue, on the wall surrounding the El tracks at Milwaukee Avenue … Continue reading
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Tagged Avondale, Bloomingdale Trail, Chicago, Funk & Jive, Logan Square, Milwaukee Avenue, Pasteups, Via Verso
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It’s beginning to look a lot like toeshoes
Today we are at O’Hare airport for the third time in a week, part of the well-oiled 9591 Iris family pickup and delivery service. Holiday decorations have been going up at the airport for a while now, and at the … Continue reading
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Tagged being a dancer, Chicago dance, holiday decorations, holiday tree, Joffrey ballet, O'Hare Airport
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Rushing to Thanksgiving
Tomorrow is about giving thanks, but today is about rushing to the place where you can do that. Here we all are, dashing about in turmoil, our thoughts on the future. Maybe you are in transit right now. Maybe everyone … Continue reading
Panic button Monday’s Disney princesses ask: excuse me, have you seen our girl?
Every time I push the panic button, this shows up.
Rather than housework
I don’t know why we thought it would be cold and rainy. This morning turned out to be beautiful. Instead of doing 10,000 things around the house to prep for Thanksgiving, we threw on our coats and went down to … Continue reading
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Tagged Chicago lakefront, fishhook pier, Montrose Harbor, November weather, Thanksgiving
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An evening at O’Hare
This evening we went out to O’Hare Airport to pick up my sister, who was coming back from a really swell vacation in the Northwest. O’Hare on a Saturday night is fairly bipolar: at once a bright, effective, ordinary machine … Continue reading
So Chicago to me
9591 iris has favorite places, and this is one of the most favorite: Federal Plaza in Chicago. This picture was taken from an office on the second floor of the Marquette Building. To the left is the Everett Dirksen Courthouse; … Continue reading
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