COMMENTS:
– What can I say, what can I say, about yesterday? I worked until about 1:45. I got home a little before 3. I took a nap. I rode down to Hyde Park for grueling work on scavhunt. And I got up today, and here I am.
It’s been awhile since I’ve updated links, and here are a couple that I am seriously remiss for holding out from:
Coral at Coral Rocks is yet another amazing person I’ve met through Sam Perkins-Harbin (I believe he commands the market with a cardinal link in roughly 37% of such transactions) who is in absolute command of one of the most poised syntheses of sponteneity, taste, and occasionally painful candor.
… Read the restLinks: Coral and Pedro. Methodology. Read More »
COMMENTS:
– I got home a little late from work yesterday. The only really useful thing I did was finally buy Tori Amos’ The Beekeeper (released in February), and sleep a lot. But, then, I needed a lot of sleep.
On April 18th, I reported on a public housing debacle involving the Flint Housing Commission and HUD. The Housing Commission issued a number of housing vouchers beyond the federal funding provided by HUD. As a result, many tenants signed leases they now cannot pay, and will shortly be evicted.
… Read the rest215 families, Part II: City Politics, and Potential Solutions Read More »
COMMENTS:
– Weather: It will be getting cool and damp to day. Expect it. Enjoy it.
CHICAGO NEIGHBORHOOD OF THE DAY
Irving Park.
WORD OF THE DAY
Nascent.
NEWS OF THE DAY
The San Francisco Chronicle: Noted activist for war victims killed in car bomb attack.
“Describe a dream.”
This was submitted by Amber:
… Read the restI’ve had to wait on this one, until I had a dream I could remember
well enough to describe. Well, I had one last night…and it might
even qualify as a nightmare.
Oneidine: Amber’s Dream Read More »
15 DAYS to SCAV HUNT
from the 18th annual Hunt:
… Read the restItem #130. There’s only one force in the universe strong enough to brighten the moods of a whole convention-load of goths (640 N. Dearborn St. 11:00 PM on Thursday, incidentally) the CARE BEAR STARE!
15 DAYS to the UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO’S 19th annual SCAVENGER HUNT Read More »
Not quite the dare my mom posed, but close enough after she made me potato salad.
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No organization involved in the recent retraction of housing vouchers by the Flint Housing Commission has escaped untarnished. Unfortunately, this extends to coverage of the event by the Flint Journal.
… Read the restLetter to the Editor of the Flint Journal #14 Read More »
COMMENTS:
– Yesterday. Work was stressful, but I made it home around five, worked on the website for awhile. Sam came home and we walked out to the lighthouse on the Hollywood Street beach. A storm seemed to be trembling in the air, and the lake’s waves dissolved into little ripples.