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Panic Button Mondays asks: where’d you get those shoes?

Every time I push the panic button, this shows up.

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Joe

This is part of the monumental sculpture Joe, by Richard Serra, these days on view in a small private museum in St. Louis.  Before I saw this piece, I really disliked Richard Serra’s work.  It just made me angry in … Continue reading

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Wordless Wednesday: Flowering at last, Logan Square

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Panic Button Monday is heading down the tubes

Every time I push the panic button, this shows up.

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Dear paint companies: what?

I am going through one of my periodic obsessions with house paint colors.  I am visiting hardware stores and collecting paint cards and comparing them and then going to other hardware stores for more variations, and sometimes for samples that … Continue reading

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Wordless Wednesday: In the Rotunda, Ilinois State Capitol building, Springfield

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WWSD?

Here at 9591 Iris we are all of a sudden in a lather about Carl Sandburg. People remember Sandburg – when they remember him at all, or can tell him apart from Robert Frost – as a sweet, faded old … Continue reading

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No, Panic Button Monday did not get your message

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Wordless Wednesday: Scrub a Dub Laundromat, Chicago

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Solar energy: Panic Button Monday’s Earth Day primer

Every time I push the panic button, this shows up.

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