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- “Tom---Just left the
Grammy show feeling like I
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some sort of
musica…”
February 12, 2012 11:08PM - “That was fun!”
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both a teacher and an artist
is so
clear. This is a
towering…”
February 12, 2012 10:55PM - “Paulie---ix nay on the
uth tre!
Fusun---I
wish!”
February 12, 2012 06:45PM - “designator--this
travelight guy gets out of
hand sometimes.
That shot was
taken I…”
February 12, 2012 03:56PM
Chicago Guy's Links
Job Search Myth #1: Job search is rational. Like a math problem.
Better resume + training + interview = job. The whole job search industry rests on that myth. If you are looking for work, you know this myth.
And connecting people with jobs will never happen until… Read full post »
WFMT might look like a radio
station. But when Bernie and Rita Jacobs put the station on the air
60 years ago today, what they were really doing was starting a
conversation. One you will not hear anywhere
else.
To say WFMT is a radio station… Read full post »
Test the actual soil underlying Chicago City Hall.
No one would be surprised if trace elements of ethical lapses were somehow ingrained in the earth.
It’s been that way since the first Indian standing watch one dark night on the shores of the Big… Read full post »
Walk into the warmth of Bookman’s Alley on a cold, snowy day. Pull the door shut behind you. Breathe in the musty smell of literature across the centuries. Look around. Could that white bearded fellow down the aisle really be Charles Dickens?
Located at 1712 North Sherman in… Read full post »
Could it work? Virtual politicians. Every politician shadowed by an on-line counterpart? Virtual politicians translating talking points into truth?
Sharing what’s said behind closed doors? Or at least what they imagine is being said.
During the 2011 Chicago Mayoral Camp… Read full post »
The thing has got to be worth some money. After all, it was in a museum. So someone will buy it. Right?
These are tough times. I should sell the thing. It’s spring. Time to clean house. Time to… Read full post »
He was the nation’s oldest bluesman. Still playing. News of Pinetop Perkins passing on at age 97 drifted into Chicago last night with a cold, grey spring rain. And if you listened real hard to the clouds you could hear that piano. That boogie-woogie beat. They call
… Read full post »
Perhaps you’ve paged through a New Yorker or Atlantic and seen the poems of Christian Wiman. But chances are you’ve never seen him do a reading.
Last night, while a light snow whispered over the commercial bustle of
… Read full post »
The Congress Theater.
When Chuck Berry, 84, collapsed from unknown causes on stage Saturday night in Chicago, the concert venue was not some glitzy down town tourist trap.
Berry slumped over his keyboards at the Congress Theater. A 2,900 seat, faded
… Read full post »
Every Sunday afternoon, the 16 foot white panel truck with “VETERANS HELPING VETERANS” painted on the side, rolls up Chicago’s grandest boulevard, Michigan Avenue, and comes to a stop just outside a building where some of the world’s greatest music gets played.
When your hero dies, it’s as if the very shape of the earth has now changed. Ripples of heavy heart pain stab your soul, you walk down the street and you stumble for no reason, and the timing of the seasons goes awry. Spring could
… Read full post » 
I could do Thanksgiving alone. Lots of people do that.
Hanging up the phone, I could barely remember why she cancelled. Something about “needing space.” But I was already getting ready to be a frozen turkey dinner tough guy. Remembering, from experience,
… Read full post »
It was in the men’s locker room at the East Bank club in Chicago that the guy with the big ears asked me the question.
I had no business being in that locker room. If W-2 forms had to be flashed to get into this East Bank Club… Read full post »
I was 8 years old. Dr. King still had about three more years of work to do before he’d be shot on the balcony of a motel in Memphis. Gun shots that would set angry fires blazing and police sirens wailing pain in almost every big city in America and… Read full post »
5 minutes ago, the IOC slammed Chicago to the mat with a first round elimination from the bid to host the 2016 Olympics.
We lost.
The sputtering, half baked, shoddy journalistic shreiks of "Why?" will come. America is still fighting 2 wars. We've yet to make back all the fri… Read full post »
The Charlie Manson look alike on the right? He was my first.
The guy on the left with the happening ripped jeans---that's me. Long before kids in New York were paying top dollar for that look
When the picture was taken; it hadn't started yet.
He likes to tell the… Read full post »
What song was in Buddy Holly’s head when his plane hit the ground?
He had to have been cold. Bitter cold. He was from Lubbock Texas. And there he was chartering this tiny 4 seat Beech Craft plane in the middle of a blinding snowstorm, outside of Clear… Read full post »
“And you are? . . . . .” asked the first of what looked like many receptionists standing guard on the outer reaches of the Oval Office of President Barack Obama.
It was raining hard in Washington DC. I didn’t have a power broker raincoat, so my only good
(Repost from October 2008)
Malia Obama probably wasn’t sure if her Dad would make it home from work to watch her soccer game this past Friday night.
He’s been pretty busy lately.
But her Mom and her little sister would be there.
The flow of… Read full post »
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Just before the sun rose over the Lake I heard,”Roger, you better come downstairs. You've got to see this."
Maria was standing at the kitchen window, looking out into the back yard.
I figured it would… Read full post »
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