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accidently clicked in the wrong place when correcting the white balance.

Goose Island.
[ www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/529.html ]

in the afternoon light

One of these days I’m going to browse their selection of guitars. I’m feeling the urge to get an acoustic guitar.

There are many, many variants of bridge houses in Chicago. One day I’ll make a more comprehensive photo collection of them.

Kinzie and Canal

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Weese

At least the definition of what art is, and isn’t, is flexible.

West Loop

kids playing football on Randolph Street

I guess teh Division Street Bridge is not as sexy as Millennium Park, and thus it is allowed to decay, decay and decay. Won’t have any Olympic events on the North Branch of the Chicago River, so what does it matter?

Let’s hope nothing collapses.

decaying wall, West Loop

useful to remember next time anyone fulminates that Obama should do this or that.

from the New York Times:
graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/flash/politics/20081104_EL…

I’ve already heard some rumbles about Obama having to be a centrist-right winger to succeed, and it is laughable advice/analysis. Obama ran the campaign he ran with a liberal platform (universal health care, tax reform, “spread the wealth”, end war in Iraq), and obviously his message resonated with the country.

Well, most of the country anyway.

West Loop

autumnal sunlight is so beautiful

West Loop. Amused by the font.

Milwaukee, that is. Looked to be part of a wedding photography shoot

Scan (ca. 1995, hence the truncated image) of a John Fahey album cover, fountain pen ink stains (don’t ask), and all.

John_Fahey was a God!

Phil McGraw, apparently.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_McGraw

or in contemporary parlance, Joe Lieberman

The LaRouche loonies at the Thompson Center
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