So many of its tunes remain classics — the back-porch country of "Hotel Yorba," the frenetic garage-punk of "Fell in Love With a Girl," and, of course, the lovely "We're Going to Be Friends." The arguable pinnacle, though, is the vulnerable "The Same Boy You've Alwa...
The next day was a Sunday. Jack was in his garage cutting some 1x3 lumber to make a cabinet. He had 28 pieces to cut at exactly the same width. As he was measuring out the width, Erika asked, "Is there a distance you'd like me to mark?" Getting used to Erika's helpful intrusio...
We’ve actually been trying to launch this reno project for the last six months. The floor boards have been waiting in the garage for us to find someway of magically caterpulting the old piano out the front door. In the end, it turned out to be a classic case of “divide and conque...
Like last month, a handful of books were found at garage sales, which cost next to nothing. This month also featured some rather fortuitous finds as I was able to find George R.R. Martin’s A Dance With Dragons and James Patterson’s Beach Road for mere pocket change. There was another...
I noticed only a very, very, few buildings that deviated from this, and the ones that come to mind were the building for operating the water buffalo cart rides, and a garage or two for small vans/buses that drive people around the island. Just outside the water buffalo establishment were...
One of the things Mama was really looking forward to for 2020 was the 2nd Garage Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art. Given that she had had to wait three years since the last one for it, I think she can be forgiven a slight internal scream of frustration when it was cancelled last su...
While I have not been traveling far afield in person this year, the pandemic has given me time and motivation to travel another way: by excavating the archaeological layers in my garage. The whole known world is in my garage—or at least, the world I have known since I became a profess...
t know what flavor it was. She led me off in one direction only turning around when I told her I didn’t need to go to the hospital. We retraced our steps and travelled beyond our starting point. Once we crossed the correct skybridge, and spotted the “parking garage that way” sign...
Today, as you walk to Maxwell Street, the market is long gone, replaced with brick pavers, restaurants, bars, UIC offices, and a parking garage. Statues that seem frozen in time dot the sidewalk, mourning the loss of what once was: a lady holding a bag of groceries on a bench, a ma...
But we’ve been doing some porch front or garage deliveries for some friends (gotta keep that social distancing up!) I know it’s silly… but it makes me so ridiculously happy to share! Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it. Julia Child Loading......