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Calm Blue Ocean, Calm Blue Ocean
April 25, 2005
work work work work
I’ve done nothing today but work work. I’ve been sitting in front of this computer for I don’t know how long now, taking breaks mostly for food or a few brief intermissions of TV. Finally, after getting all my coding and wiring done – I switch the paths around in my files and upload to …
April 24, 2005
Bad People
by Robert Bly A man told me once that all the bad peopleWere needed. Maybe not all, but your fingernailsYou need; they are really claws, and we knowClaws. The sharks—what about them?They make other fish swim faster. The hard-faced menIn black coats who chase you for hoursIn dreams—that’s the only way to get youTo the …
April 23, 2005
Good and Bad
Not sure why I chose this poem tonight (below). Maybe it’s from watching Sin City earlier, and a comment Justin made about how clear-cut things are in noir films, how people are very clearly right or wrong. In the case of the characters in Sin City though, there are some incredibly Machiavellian paths to that …
April 23, 2005
Semi Work Day
Partly due to our meeting yesterday and partly due to it just being the start of busy season in the radio industry… today was sort of a work day. I tried focusing some this afternoon, but failed miserably. Puttered around, but couldn’t really focus on work work. Got a call from Justin, and he and …
April 23, 2005
Emmis Interactive Meeting
Drove out to Barrington to Rey’s house, where all of us got together for a big day-long meeting. First and foremost, it was great to see everyone again, in person, in one place. Ever since we all started working from home, our meetings have primarily been either via IM or the phone. We ordered some …
April 22, 2005
Venturing Outside
After a pretty severe hermetic stint, I ventured out today to Justin’s place and hung out a while in the backyard (despite it being a bit cold). Chatted a long while out here, in a lazy sort of way (hence this picture). Howard joined us for a few drinks (we switched from beer to Johnny …
April 21, 2005
Smelling the Snow
by David Citino I’ve heard it saidthere are those on suchclose terms with nightthey can smell the very light. Not only does the moon,they say, give off a scentnothing like the sun’s,but old moon smells sweeter than slivered new.Monks of old claimed sintook the breath away, whileGod was wild onion, lilac, pine. I know a …
April 20, 2005
Post-Virgin
After hanging around the site a while, Steph and I headed up Fullerton, taking a stroll down Damen towards home. Along the way, I took a few photos, but my heart really wasn’t into them. I mean – how do you follow up images of the Virgin Mary for god’s sake? I guess this is …
April 19, 2005
Our Lady of the Kennedy Expressway
Along Fullterton, looking in on where people have gathered. From here, it only looks like a handful of folks on the street. Steph, standing near some street vendors who have set up shop nearby. Walking closer, we started to realize how many people were actually crowded around the wall. View from the back of the …
April 19, 2005
Searching for the Virgin Mary
I tracked down Steph during lunch, and she seemed interested in going to search with me. Once 5:30PM rolled around, I swung by her place and the two of us set off to see if we could track down the Mother of God. Of course, en route I stopped to take pictures of silly things …
April 19, 2005
Backstory
Yesterday, I was talking on the phone with Justin for a while, and we hit a wide range of topics: an internet site where people can hunt animals using a mouse, choosing the new pope, and the Virgin Mary appearing under the Kennedy Expressway. Fast forward to this morning, when I receive an email from …
April 19, 2005
Losses
by Kay Ryan Most losses add something—a new socket or silence,a gap in a personalarchipelago of islands. We have that differenceto visit—itselfa going-on of sorts. But there are other lossesso far beyond reportthat they leave holes in holes only like the ends of thelong and lonely livesof castawaysthought dead but not.
April 18, 2005
