My photo was in the paper, featured in an article about bike commuting in Chicago. I was part of the queue lined up outside Working Bikes, the local used-bike co-op, last Wednesday.
Except I’m the guy sitting on the ground, stuffing my face with White Castle.
Oh well.
Monthly Archives: June 2008
Fame
15-Jun-08True Story, pt. 87
13-Jun-08She took me to a show to see a musician she knew from her college days in Nashville, an acoustic singer-songwriter I had never heard of. Doors opened at 6.30 and it was 95F outside, so by the time he took the stage, the crushing hordes of undergrads and high schoolers were too much for [...]
Cradle of Civilization
05-Jun-08One of rooms in the British Museum contains a series of reliefs originally carved into the walls of a palace by the Akkadians, or Assyrians, or something equally ancient and Mesopotamian. They depict a lion hunt, what the guidebook describes as the ’sport of kings’, where a bunch of guys in chariots chase starved wild [...]
