we’ll update the page about the godaweful, the bad, and the ugly or maybe about the pilsen artwark latter today.this page was described to me by one reader this weekend as cute and petty. nothing we can do about the petty, but the cute will change shortly.thanks to heidi and jennifer for couch space. we’re going to give brian and tom thanks for purina computer chow. and thanks to tim newberg for the lift.tim wood call your dogs, they miss you…
who are these guys and why are they smiling?
Archive for September, 2002
people ask me what i believe in: this is what i beleive in. or something similar. would love to do this at the whale saterday. any takers?
ran into squarehead walter today. he’s living in evanston. ran into chris hasselrot (sic?) of all people, he’s living in willmette. got so weird running into people i hadn’t seen in forever that i had to go ind a hole to hide in.
I really need a seiko thumboard for this thing…
art walk manana. come, get your feet wet in class warfare. (or at least to hear jerry do his polyanna routine about the concentration of real estate ownership saving pilsen)
damn. having a real pain tying to pop mail. dunno if it’s the server or isp.
having waked one end of ilsen to the other a lot more recently then polyanna & havin paid more attntion to signs and prices, i can tell you he’s right. no speculators. no condos. the neghbohood is safe for years to come. hell i dunno anyone who has been run out of town by the prices.and no one has been defrauded lied to or evictd by the two pi lars.
everything isfine. nothing to look at here, move along.
Continue reading ‘all thumbs’

sure beats actually writing something.
elvis costello, sells out and spreads your butt cheeks for microsoft. read about it here.
friday begins the 32 annual pilsen artwalk,
or open house,
or Podmajerkoff annual nose browning and ass suckoff,
or the lookit those wack gringos turkeyshoot,
or chicago art distortion festival of rental real estate values,
or theomigod i hope i make some money on this pageant,
or the you gotta call me an artist now celebration,
or the neighborhood polarization festival.
or whatever you want to call it.
friday, sat, and sunday.
bring your checkbooks and buy buy buy,
or stand in your garret and bye bye bye…
this year there will be alternate shows by unsanctioned artists, those who either don’t rent form the pods or who were forbidden from showing by them. and a host of activeties centered around the whale, 2025 s. halsted, such as a dj and snacks friday, wear festive clothing for the gala saterday with a massive party and dj. sunday will of course be an open meeting of the ever so secret order of the lamprey.
fight the power boys and girls.
not that it really matters, but it will be fun.
went to lamprey tonight. three and a half hour ordeal on busses and trains. (why so long you ask? well i’m coming in from the burbs, so there are actual posted scheduals, updated monthly for hte busses. if i have to wait an hour plus after the posted time, i count it as travel time. i don’t count time i waited untill the posted time, which today for instance would have added 15 minutes to the travel time.) good food though: lots of pastas. good adjudication, great job nolan! (next time bring my towel ![]()
Continue reading ‘lifes little pleasures’
nothing more restfull then a night of software updating and looking at baby pictures with lonnnie, eno and eric.
every little melodrama begets real drama.
in two weeks we start killing things.