This article by the Chicago Reader is awesome! It almost makes me pardon their superficial one-sided canning of the 2016 Olympics bid. Also, I directed a play that went up in the Trumbullplex.
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“Here’s the part I find odd. Now, the government didn’t ask any of those Wall Street C.E.O.s to quit. Isn’t that kind of a double standard? I mean, if you build Cadillacs, you’re screwed. But if your chauffeur drives a Cadillac, you’re O.K.
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I think that for many of us the lyrics to Soothe by the Smashing Pumpkins represents the possibility, if not the ideal, of what we can realistically hope for when it comes to dealing with ugly situations in the past and present.
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– LINK OF THE WEEK –
New York Times: Micheline Maynard.
– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
Other than your own, which country on your continent (for Australia and New Zealand, consider Oceania) most intrigues you?
In the last week, I have noticed how cold and snowy it got again! Snow, as a surprise… a sure sign that it’s almost spring.
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Yesterday: Oog.
– QUOTE OF THE WEEK –
“If we are all in agreement on the decision – then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about.”
Last week was a week of highs and lows; most of the lows involved my cold, which kept going away and coming back. For all I know it might still be doing that.
Saturday to Sunday feature a nightlong struggle between Winter and Spring; Winter ultimately won (at least for the moment).
So not too long ago I finally sat down and watched the direct-to-DVD Dragonlance movie that has so many fans bleating and bleeding not that long ago. It really sucked.
Dragonlance is the greatest paradox of the early TSR novels, because it satisfied many definitions of kitsch while also exhibiting the traits of a complex and nuanced artistic work.
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I know that week is probably just one among many for the U.S. and for the world, but the news has been rough for me personally on a number of fronts:
Chicago’s greatest parade will be shutting down after 50 years.
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