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Obama's Crib

Saw this today in The Mission in San Francisco.

Junior Gigolo

This kid was walking with a large family on Milwaukee (off-camera) and seemed more relaxed with his shirt off. He's going to be popular with the ladies.

Chicago Theater

Salvation Disaster

The Salvation Army toy department after a hurricane.

Pure-fection

This is crazy.

The War Tour

this little tag was sitting on my bike after seeing a movie dowtown. bike parking ticket?!? ha, dios bendiga, no it's only an invitation to a downtown "Bike Tour of Chicago War Profiteers." Awesome! fuck the war profiteers! (ahem, BOEING) July 3 at 6 pm in Daley Plaza. blog address and an email were on the back. Let me know if you want to go

Heart Wall

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Somewhere near Grand/Milwaukee. Kind of Banksyesque, no?

St. Louis Alexanderplatz

St. Louis 4th Ward is one of the city's roughest (a cop once stopped a friend and I there + asked "what are you doing here?" like we were crazy to even walk around). It also has some of the city's most distinctive architecture, so I always like going back. Like a beautiful brick water tower, and this looming white doric column, which stands at the center of a breakneck, European-style turn-around ("tourne-à-gauche" to the French) -- as far as I know, the only in St. Louis. Right of way there is a joke, and it's all you can do to navigate the little plaza without crashing into the column...like a little taste of Berlin or Paris right in the Midwest! It's an adventure.

Wendy's

My friend doja and a local at the Wendy's of Pontiac, IL.

A fine selection

Beef Street Advertisement

What's with the ribs sticking out? Are those supposed to make you hungry?

Lucha Libre

Kinky and stylish: the Lucha Libre/soccer wear bus in Little Village.

Car Wash

Thanks to the kids everyone got a free wash today at 18th and Paulina

The Walls are Alive

Walking by, I almost got ensnared by a green, sinuous appendage

Snow in June

This is crazy. There are apparently so many dried up dandelions (?) in Lakeview that they carpeted a whole block with fuzzy white seedlings. Maybe you had to be there.

Heavy Trash

I have nothing profound to say about this scrap dump in the middle of town, except that it's f'ugly but maybe oddly beautiful up close?

Police Auction

Ok, this is not a terribly interesting photo, but the experience behind it was. Chicago, like most major cities, holds police auctions every few weeks to sell off stolen or reclaimed goods. I went there looking for a bike, and ended up getting a pretty sweet mountain bike for $120, which was definitely on the high end. Tons of decent bikes went for $40-50. They also auctioned off various electronics and jewelery. I think repossessed/stolen cars get their own auction. The interesting part is seeing the rando people who show up; there's a small contingent of regulars, professional resellers who probably pick up half the items. The rest are all kinds of people--students, parents, bike collectors--who have heard about the auction through ads or word of mouth. It's a good time.

Most Depressing Ad Ever

Every time I see this advert, I want to die. A young South Asian woman is riding alone in a cab late at night. What is on her mind at this romantic hour? A scene from tonight's production of "Pygmalion"? Hillary's chances in the primary? The next date with a lover? No, says Sprint. the industrious Sunita dreams in pie charts and stock prices. She is returning from a late night of number crunching at the office. 70 hours of her week already belong to a consulting firm or investment bank. But why stop there? If only she had a Sprint wireless card, she could squeeze some more productivity out of those last remaining hours and serve the shareholders. Wonderful, thank you, Sprint.

Indiana Jones

Where are America's black movie heroes? Obama?