This is probably the best street art I’ve seen in a while. I wish I could pair it with a circa 1997 midi file of “Man on the Run,” but alas, the internet has not been so kind to me today. Oh well.
Archive for the ‘Urbanal’ Category
Blago on the Blogo!
Posted in PopRox, Urbanal on June 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I think my Granddad would be good friends with my landlord.
Posted in Gramma's Handbag, Urbanal, tagged dog, landlord, silly on December 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This is not the most amusing piece of e-correspondence I’ve received from my elderly landlords, but it’s a good example of Their Ways. A posting for a vacancy in my building stated dogs are not permitted; my lease says they are allowed with written permission. I wrote asking for clarity as I may at some [...]
Ruins of Man
Posted in Gramma's Handbag, Urbanal, tagged apocalypse, Chernobyl, Edgewater Medical Center, New Orleans, photography on August 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This morning Mr. Uggs had a link to this set on Flickr. I don’t have the same Chicago roots or nostalgia levels as my fellow preroggers, but I do love a good abandoned building. According to the photographer:
Edgewater Hospital was founded in 1929 and most of the current buildings were constructions in the [...]
Nevermind
Posted in Urbanal, tagged heroin chic, kurt cobain, neo-grunge on August 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I was in L.A. last week and we hit up the Fairfax flea market. In addition to seeing Agynes Deyn, the new unofficial face of converse (a title previously owned by the likes of Karen O), I overheard probably the dumbest conversation of the entire week — a week that included a road trip through [...]
The Adventures of Amazing Girl and Whimpster
Posted in Urbanal, tagged am I really spending my time on this?, amazing girl, flak, hipster, whimpster on August 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
One of my favorite things about Gmail involves Gchat status updates. Earlier this week, two former interns from a former workplace (who I am pretty sure are friends in real life) had oddly complimentary updates, each featuring a hipster stereotype. As our good friend M3rb0t pointed out to us earlier this week, hipsters seem to [...]
I’m a big fat weepy baby.
Posted in Urbanal, tagged batman, chicago porch disasters, gyros, intern bitches, jesus christ's holy colon, Kanye, leather and capes, my dad is a lawyer, washington dc, winona ryder on July 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I miss Chicago. Waah. It’s all I talk about. Waah. Sympathize with me, especially considering that before I moved I just wanted to leave because it’s too cold. POOR ME.
THE FOLLOWING THINGS MAKE ME HOMESICK:
Things that don’t make me homesick:
Work
Public Transit
Abraham Lincoln
The entire month of February
Middlechild
Already flying south for the winter
Posted in Urbanal, tagged Chicago, geese, migration, walking on July 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been walking to work once or twice a week lately, which is a great change of pace for me. Instead of taking 20 minutes to bike to the office, it takes me an hour to walk three miles at a leisurely pace. It gives me time to reflect on the day, plan out what [...]
WEED WORF
Posted in Urbanal, tagged awesome, logan square, onion, weed worf, wheatpaste on July 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Here’s some awesome wheatpaste from the Logan Square area:
Things I love about it:
It is an AIRBRUSHED wheatpaste, which means someone used expensive machinery to make it.
Someone put it on the front of an Onion newspaper-box, which means they definitely know their audience.
The clever redefinition of the prime directive.
Someone, perhaps a true TNG fan, put a [...]
Memorial Day Find
Posted in Urbanal, tagged old post office, washington dc on May 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One of my favorite things about DC is the architecture. If you just ignore the bureaucracy-made-manifest late 20th century federal office buildings it’s like they’re not even there. On previous trips to the Mall, I had noticed the Old Post Office on Pennsylvania. Apparently it became obsolete almost immediately after it was [...]
Do they have lemonade in the clink?
Posted in Tubular, Urbanal, Zombie Sex, tagged chef r boy kells, piss on you, r kelly on May 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you are from Chicago and you aren’t fascinated with R. Kelly, then you haven’t been listening to enough WGCI. Seriously. The man has allegedly been sleazing his way into the beds of young protegés and fans and even his agent’s teenage daughter since long before I was too old to be his jail bait, [...]
