View Full Album I’m often amused, tickled, etc about things I come across while walking around Chicago, IL. This is a collection of pics I’ve too-long kept hidden on the private Facebook.

My wife Daria is a brilliant and multitalented theater-type directing her first full-length play this fall, the world premiere of Martyna Majok's "Mouse in a Jar" at Red Tape Theatre in Chicago. She and the playwright are blogging about the … Continue reading

This is insane: the album is dead, long live the app. Who exactly wants to interface with their music collection via app? The app browsing/selection process is easily the clunkiest, most frustrating element of the iPhone/iTouch/iTunes interface, and I’d be … Continue reading

From the Times UK: Take the music industry. You come closer to spelling out where it’s going to go. A: Music’s already there. We don’t have to guess about what the future of music is; we can already see it. … Continue reading

There's been plenty of bad ideas recently on how to save the newspaper industry: forcing Google to stop driving traffic to newspaper sites, for example. But here is an idea so insane as to tempt disbelief: an argument in favor … Continue reading

I don't intend to add to the cacophony of responses about the thoroughly sad life and death of Michael Jackson; instead to the cacophony over people's reactions to the death. I've seen three major pillars of responses on the social … Continue reading