February 2008 /

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• 02.20.08 /

  Nothing to say… partial eclipse of the moon

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  Crossposted from my photoblog, because it’s too cool to risk someone missing.

  




• 02.12.08 /

  Cold Town, Winter in the City

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  I complain a lot about the winters here, but at least to go with all the chill there is a fair amount of snow. I remember, while growing up west of Cleveland, watching the weather report, bitterly jealous about the many inches of lake effect snow being dropped on the east-side ‘burbs and the school closings that accompanied them. Although I can only look backwards now, and can only try to recall what those child’s eyes saw, it seems like there were only a few times each winter when any snow to speak of fell. Chicago has more than enough snowfall to make up for it, and grumpy as I can be about it, it turns the mid-day loop into a fairyland. Today I went home over lunch to take care of the dogs; although I didn’t bring a camera, here is a shot I took last week that approximates the scene pretty well:

  Today we had fat flakes swirling around, sometimes even up the faces of buildings. As I rode the train past the Washington/Wells brown line stop, I saw a guy loading a QBert arcade machine into a building in the middle of a snow devil. I never saw anything like that in Toledo.




• 02.07.08 /

  Look, over there!

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  I started a photoblog.




• 02.05.08 /

  Go Ahead, Throw Your Vote Away!

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  or Why I Just Voted for John Edwards.

  Yes, I know that John Edwards officially withdrew his candidacy last week. And yes, I did vote a straight slate of Obama’s electors after my symbolic Edwards vote. I like him a lot better than the bought-and-paid for HRC, but there are lots of things about both of the remaining candidates that don’t appeal to me. I voted for Edwards because…

  Change Matters

  Hillary seems to me like more of the same, and I don’t think that Obama’s conciliatory kumbaya is going to make things happen. Edwards understands that we need to stand up to conservatives, not suck up to them.

  Class Matters

  And the only candidate talking about class in America right now is John Edwards.

  Iraq Matters

  Not only does Hillary support the slowest withdrawal of any candidate, she has yet to admit that her vote on AUMF was a mistake.

  Reproductive Rights Matter

  When Obama had a chance to vote “no” on a bill banning dilation and extraction (the so-called “partial-birth abortion,” he merely voted present. A woman’s sovereignty over her own body is not a chit to be spent in political maneuvering.

  Competence Matters

  Both of the front-runners voted to confirm Condoleeza Rice for Secretary of State, 3 years after her tenure as NSA was marred by the September 11 attacks. This is neither explicable nor excusable.

  What will your vote tell people about what matters to you?




• 02.03.08 /

  Concert Season!

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  For whatever reason, there has been a serious lull in the number of interesting concerts around these parts lately; Kristy and I haven’t seen a band since Shonen Knife in December! Even February doesn’t look great, but we’ve got some really exciting shows coming up in March. In fact, it seems like some kind of milestone that we’re seeing one every single week of the month.

  On the 7th, we have tickets to see The Gutter Twins, the latest gig of Afghan Whigs mastermind Greg Dulli; the 14th we’ll be returning to our old stomping grounds to see The Magnetic Fields at the Old Town School of Folk Music; then the 20th we see indie-dance newcomers Justice at the Riviera, before wrapping things up with Boredoms on the 26th. Holy crap!

  Plus, I’ve got tickets for a really exciting show in May–A Silver Mt. Zion is actually touring, and they’re playing the Logan Square Auditorium, which is a venue Kristy and I both really like.

  Of course, different venues are friendly or unfriendly to varying degrees about concert photography. I doubt I’ll be able to get my Nikon anywhere near the Riviera or Metro shows (so I’ll only have point-and-shoot pics of Gutter Twins and Justice) but many of the others are at seemingly more relaxed locations. I hope to have good shots of them.

  More things continue to happen that need blogged about, but this topic suggested itself to me, so…

  Update: Kristy reminds me that our tickets to see an orchestral rendition of music from Final Fantasy also falls in March, on the 1st.  Woot!

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