Mugged {Along the divide}
November 10, 2008
A few weeks ago I got mugged. Most upsetting was that it occurred right outside my front door.
I got a new job recently and with it a new phone. I’ve never had a fancy phone like this before – and so while waiting for a cab I was checking email and texts and using my time for work before I’d even gotten there. A man came up to me and I presumed he was going into my building, but instead he came right up inside my space and grabbed my IPhone out of my hands with both his hands. Read the rest of this entry »
Manky Space
July 31, 2008
Everyday I walk under a viaduct. In the winter it was bad – a glacial landscape, frozen and treacherous, water frozen into icicles resembling giant stalactites. Now that it’s summer the wet-dog smell of Chicago in the heat permeates. Mysterious fluids ooze from corroding concrete. Infrastructural breakdown is all around.
