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Author Archives: Mr. Dan Kelly

Chicago writer interested in many things.

For My Next Trick, I Will Fight Crime with This Photograph of a Gun

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

I certainly won’t say that Molly Norris should have censored herself (especially considering the dweeby innocuousness of her own cartoon), and that she needed to placate the world’s fundamentalist freaks. That just lends ammo those who think honoring other religions’ points of etiquette is the same as mailing plutonium to bin Laden. No, this is […]

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Dream 1

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Last night I dreamed that my dad, a lawyer who specializes in real estate, was working on a deal for Steve Albini. The Albini part was odd, but what stuck out for me was that Dad, who’s had a number of medical problems these past few years and isn’t as physically quick as he used […]

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Record

Friday, September 10, 2010

Back in the 80s, the Boorum and Pease record book was my choice of journals. I think I picked up my first one because my Mom and Dad, being Eisenhower era folks, used them for keeping track of finances, expenses, and so on. They served their purpose, though the paper was only slightly thicker than onion […]

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Dreary Fear

Thursday, September 9, 2010

I used to cram in a post or two a day, and turn out an article a month. I don’t blame parenthood entirely, because things used to be much looser in other areas of my life. I used to fear being crammed into a box. Now it’s obvious that there’s an organized campaign to stuff […]

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Daley: He Did Stuff

Thursday, September 9, 2010

I can’t decide if this unsigned op-ed is damning Daley with faint praise or simply damning him. Best line: Mr. Daley is a mayor who gets an idea in his head and makes it happen… Yeah, he did that all right.

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Every Journal I’ve Kept Since 1986

Saturday, September 4, 2010

Not including blogs. I think there’s a literary journal (book reviews) floating around the basement somewhere too. I also, briefly, kept one during the months leading up to my son’s birth and a few months after. They’re consistent (daily) from about 1995 on, I think. If I’ve met you face-to-face or through zines sometime in […]

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Carbide and Carbon Building

Friday, September 3, 2010
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They Conspired to Cover-Up the Financial Abuse, etc.

Tuesday, August 31, 2010
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Sementics

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Masturbation is the first refuge of the hack. If your life isn’t sexually adventurous enough, throw your readers a knuckleball with a description of your character, or yourself, making the scene with a magazine. It’s not the last sexual taboo, but it remains a personal and private one that retains the ability to shock, or, […]

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Friends, They Are Jewels Pt. 1 West Lafayette, IN

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

From LiveJournal April 3, 2010 Mike, Nate, and I took a five-day trip down to the upper south this past week, our main destination Louisville, KY. Fortunately, Mike is a history teacher, I’m a devotee of obscure Americana, and  we both hold a special affection for Eisenhower-era road-tripping. The Midwest (aka the flyover zone to […]

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