Recent Entries

• Reaching for the Curtains

  September 9, 2013

  Six years ago today, I moved to Chicago. It seemed like there were a lot of us moving here then. We had a lot to take in and a lot to figure out on our own; I guess I never thought this through as far as I've gotten. The dull realization, the thousand-yard stare, of knowing…

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• Aaron Swartz Probably Left Open Diary Years Ago

  July 26, 2013

  I wonder how long it will take the Labor gallery's project of printing out the entire Internet in Mexico City to receive Open Diary submissions.

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• Migrant Writers

  July 22, 2013

  It's been interesting to see how and where people move their thoughts in the last year or two. Some of the tortoises are moving things from Xanga to LiveJournal or here; others here to LiveJournal or ProseBox; most have already given up and moved to Facebook where reality supposedly lies; still o...

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• The Lungs You Are Breathing From

  June 28, 2013

  Conflated scenes from the past few weeks: I'm on a bus and maybe it's after dark or maybe the sun is just setting as it does in longer summer days, and as soon as I board there's a guy turning around telling two obnoxious Northwestern kids to literally "shut the fuck up." I didn't know&...

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• Unlocker

  May 10, 2013

  I'll do it someday. Wyckoff Heights? Ha. When you find this, you'll thought I'd forgotten. Not sure why it is that I don't mention work (or anything) in more explicit terms nowadays, but I go back through entries over the past year and a half and I can sometimes barely make out what they mean.&he...

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• Proof Enough to Know We Were There

  May 9, 2013

  I walked into work and it was early May; I walked out and it was late October. The only way I'm sure the sun exists is when it pierces the blinds to wake me up at dawn. Exactly the hour, I can't remember - hints of mead, almonds, pencil eraser, coffee grounds, pork, and old…

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• Kobayashi of the Hands

  May 1, 2013

  Regarding the guy wearing the throwback Nuggets jersey on May Day. Asia, a coworker not from Asia: he is wearing the ugliest fucking jersey Me: Haven't seen it. AB: oh my god it is the worst you have to really love the nuggets because it should be set on fire Å: They were a weird…

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• I’m a Lover

  April 19, 2013

  Since I'm starting to see a worryingly thinning herd posting on the front page every time I log in here (no offense, everyone I've been quietly following for months), I thought I'd just preface the 500+ word encomium I have coming tomorrow afternoon somewhere else when I wake up sober and actuall...

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• Total Midnight

  April 6, 2013

  The can of pest control sits beside me imposingly and I haven't used it in a few hours, but as much as I feel for ants, it's a real killing moon when I get back into the bathroom back room trying to figure out where they all came from. Linings of the bathtub, edges of…

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