April 2012
4 posts
The one-armed boy on a vintage red bicycle. 6:43pm
A few years ago, I had about twelve bicycles that I wanted to purge and distribute into Wicker, Logan, Uki, Bucktown…I placed a handful of them on CL and they all sold really quickly. One of the bicycles, a red vintage Puch with a coaster brake on it with huge riser bars from the seventies built like a tank, was the last one I posted. It was heavy but crazy stable and I listed it as...
March 2012
5 posts
Behavioral biometrics over rice and beans
Fiction:
On the table are six smartphones and three tablets: a 4s, two Galaxy II’s, a blackberry bold 9930, some janky palm pre rooted, an evo 4g, a new ipad, a transformer prime, and a samsung tab 10.1. Four of us are arguing over keystroke dynamics, the perks of facial recognition, the downside of behavioral patterns (facial, iris, hand geometry, fingerprint cadences) on security...
February 2012
3 posts
A 990 dollar pillow that i'd like to try
Sitting on a bench off Lake Michigan south of North Beach and watching a 75 year old man play chess against a little teenager with a bright neon yellow backpack on. Why good players give so much love to their bishops I don’t understand. Cross generational. Being that I haven’t won a game of chess in a few years, my comments hold zero weight. As a clumsy seque, 740 million pilllows were...
Four wrinkles, three folds
My eighteen year old self is sitting in front of me on the other couch with his little nerd smally to his side. I don’t remember rockin such an ugly sweater but the lanky is the same, scratching pencil notes in Hobbes’ Leviathan same, janky lefty handwriting same, self-consciousness on how level the acculturation rides same. Sadly he has no idea what the Rodeo swap market is, what its...
January 2012
9 posts
Prosthetics outreach, imaginariums, and Louboutins
Advocates getting people legs and arms and hands. Very positive
Work spaces for artists and writers with giant bookshelves (The oracle club via NYC). Maybe that would work here in Chicago. *Look into it*
Should a company be able to trademark a color? No
Names I should know more about:
-Ellsworth Kelly and his abstract spaces
-Craig Finn (What’s his writing process?)
-Wendy Whelan and...
December 2011
5 posts
Stanley=1, Spotify=0
Midweek FU’s:
“This Spotify client has been patched to disable advertisements (banners/audio) completely.”
(Finally found it from some little hacker’s server in Portugal)
Treat.
Yo.
Self.
“NO ONE IS FUCKING WITH ME! i cry to remind myself i am human and still capable...”
– J.R.
Residuals from a former shelter
For the past year and a half have rented my condo out to a Frenchman, a Brit, a Chinaman, and a little Indian woman. Have spent the past hour opening cabinets, closets, drawers, looking on shelves. The following are things which have been left by these random tenants:
A vintage bureau
A vaccuum (sp?) cleaner
Three cases of imported beer
A green sock with a hole in it
A book on “Sex in...
Decisions on dual misery
Better to be on bicycle, freezing cold and shivering? Or on a bus, crammed with people, which stops every ten feet to pick more people up?
The ten involved
The rake, the siren, the ideal lover, the dandy, the natural, the coquette, the charmer, the charismatic (how is this individual different from the charmer you should be asking yourself), the star, and the anti-seducer.
There are 18 victims who will round out Winter.
November 2011
12 posts
In the absence of a therapist
-There’s an Irish bare fist fight (Zoe Strauss taking photos, what?) taking place.
-An Ellsworth Kelly piece of wood is stretched out and water is falling on it (though people keep looking the other way cause Cillian Murphy. “Have you looked at his fuckin’ eyes, Stanley?”
-An African-American man is screaming because his entire family can’t understand why he...
“People used to look out on the playground and say that the boys were playing...”
– Carol Gilligan, In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s Development
Construction: Sunday dialectical
When I was 21, I was driving cross-country from NYC to Los Angeles with a dear childhood friend of mine. I had just finished college and had just gotten rejected from an MFA program in Washington DC. We were driving at the beginning of the two week drive and a sign for Niagara Falls popped up and we both looked at each other. About a half mile later, the sign came up again and my friend slouched...
Childish Gambino →
Why my landlord is awesome
An email from him this morning:
“There’s an interesting thing that I just noticed for the first time about the 3 Ginkgo Biloba trees in the front. The middle one is a female. This is EXTREMELY rare; the trees are “dioecious,” which means that the species exists as male and female plants. But, the males are normally the only ones that are planted; usually propagated by...
October 2011
7 posts
Sight unseen trade and barter with a Riot Grrl: An...
Your mother’s one minute glance inventory via sms of your things left over:
Hula Hoop
Half built fixie with purple crankset
Straightening iron
Cup of salt water in the corner of the room
Macbook that won’t sleep with your abandoned etsy site
Box of old hot topic clothes and Sleater-Kinney cds
La Perla lingerie (top, bottom, slip)
Cart of old books by Virginia Woolf, Henry...
Need to buy tickets for the holidays: LA, NYC,...
Sunday is quiet. Proper. I need to go on a Costco run.
September 2011
20 posts
“Find an organizational scheme for your notes and materials; keep up with it (if...”
– Maryn McKenna
“You can never read your own book with the innocent anticipation that comes with...”
– Margaret Atwood
“(The) Resistance knows that the longer we noodle around “getting...”
– S.P.
“I always find that my daydreams are better in collaboration”
– J.G.