The City Museum of St Louis is not a museum in the traditional sense of the word and it has almost nothing to do with cities in general or St. Louis in specific. What it is, is a huge junkyard play-house. When you first enter it, the building looks like the home of an eccentric [...]
Over the past month, since beginning work as a reporter for Extra Newspaper I have written a number of travel articles. These articles are in a section called Vámonos (“Let’s go” in English) and I am currently the only writer for that section. So far, I have written an article every week for the last [...]
Dear Reader,
There is no more tiresome blog post than the apology for a long layoff so I will be brief. Been a long time, but I loved this content and the people who followed this website too much to kill it in the year since I last wrote or recorded anything for it.
Josh Locks is the coach of the boys sophmore baseball team and a teacher at Whitney Young High school. In the wake of Chicago Public Schools considering cutting all Sophmore sports for boys and girl across the city I caught up with Josh to get his take on the situation and ask what could be [...]
I was out of work a long time. Not totally out of work, I always had a little work but I was most of the way out of work most of the time. This makes me either a good person to talk to about finding a job or a horrible one. If I am a [...]
I have started accomplishing the goals on my list, but I am going about it in all wrong order. Last week, I got a job (with these fine people). An honest to goodness full time non-freelance job. I got the job by working for free (with these fine people) but that is tomorrow’s post. This [...]
Sean Montgomery, Doctor of Nueroscience, is fasinated by biofeedback (the body’s external manifestation of thought, feeling, and status). [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Your body is constantly communicating with the outside world. Sean’s “Fashion Devices” take these communication (sweaty palms, heartbeats, and neural impulses) and makes a visual representation of them on hats, [...]
Wrote this post on December 28th, but didn’t have the gall to put it up. Then I saw my blog buddy Josh Hanagarne’s post on goals for 2009 and the success he has had with his list. So I decided, what the hell. Also, I am hoping the added pressure of putting this list in [...]
If you live in Illinois, today is the deadline to register to vote in the primaries. If you live in Illinois and want to vote but don’t want to go to some horrible bureaucratic hellhole simply print of the form you can get here and send it in today. Voting in primaries is especially important [...]
I recently gave a friend some advice that I realized I wasn’t following myself. I suggested that he start a writer’s journal. I used to keep one when I was in a creative writing class in high school. I liked it and it was helpful at the time, so I told him he ought to [...]
