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Ghost Signs!

Friday, March 18, 2011

Ghost signs found on Dempster and Bronx Ave. in Skokie. I’m sure many, many photographers have snapped shots of these already, but I finally got around to doing it yesterday. Love the old alphabet phone numbers! And most of you young ankle-biters probably have no idea what Green Stamps were.

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The Goddamned Batmorality and Batemperance Society

Thursday, March 3, 2011

This morning I was helping Nate get dressed, and I suited him up in one of his two or three Batman shirts. It looks like a Dick Giordano Batman, courageously going forth to fight the bad guys with Gotham City as a backdrop. I noted that the shirt had a caption: Me: (Pointing at each […]

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Halloween Sleeping

Saturday, February 19, 2011
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Six Magnificent Classical-Music-Composing Bastards (You’ve Probably Never Heard Of)

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Note: If you’re wondering why it looks like a Cracked magazine article, it’s because I pitched it to them first. by Dan Kelly Unless your parents favored tweed suits with elbow patches and made you practice arpeggios eight hours a day, it’s likely your most memorable classical music experience happened when Hans Gruber’s goons cracked […]

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Prithee, Attend to My Plea! We Are in Dire Need of Assis… Thunk! Ugh…

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

The world’s most inefficient warning sign? By the time you finish reading it, a nine-inch icicle might be lodged in your skull.

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“Morbid and creepifying I got no problem with…”

Friday, January 28, 2011

One should always take a few disturbing photos of oneself, just for the sake of honesty.

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Daddy Reads Too Much

Friday, January 21, 2011

Whenever Nate cleans up at home, he sings a song that he learned at school. I think it’s based on this one: It’s time to clean up, clean up Everybody do your share Clean up, clean up Soon the mess will not be there Since he’s three he hasn’t quite gotten all the words, so […]

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Phil Donahue, Old Soldier

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Found near Pioneer Court on Michigan Ave.

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Slant

Saturday, January 15, 2011

I was out driving today. While heading west  down Touhy I came to an intersection where the northbound traffic was coming up over a slight hill at a pitched angle. It had the bizarre effect of making the turning vehicles appear at 45° angles and elongated in my peripheral vision. Again, another strange instance of […]

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Kadinsky

Friday, January 14, 2011

The strangest thing happened today. I visited the Borders bookstore on State and Randolph. While walking around I saw a sales clerk, but for a few moments he wasn’t identifiable as… anything. I looked at him and literally could not register what he was. I recognized a humanoid shape, but it was as if he’d […]

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